Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Graceland

    By on August 15, 2007

    Next week I take my umpteenth trip to Provincetown. Why do I keep going back? Because there is something warm and comforting about returning to...

  • Out of Date

    By on August 8, 2007

    Thelma Houston had one big hit, ''Don't Leave Me This Way.'' The song is not only one of the disco era's biggest and best, it's...

  • Star Bust

    By on August 8, 2007

    So many stars, so little shine. Stardust seems like it should have a lot of glimmer. It boasts a surprisingly strong cast -- Michelle Pfeiffer,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 8, 2007

    New Order with Bernard Sumner (center left) and Peter Hook (center right) NEW (OUT OF) ORDER... ''My lawyers told me to shut up till we...

  • Saving Grace

    By on August 1, 2007

    Mandy Moore intuitively understands why you probably don't think of her as much of a pop musician. She doesn't think of herself as much of...

  • Bourne Again

    By on August 1, 2007

    Damn, another dropped call: Damon Jason Bourne is back -- and this time he's meaner, leaner and cheesier than ever before. The third, and potentially...

  • Fairy Tale

    By on August 1, 2007

    Oh, to be young again! That's the sentiment driving Robert Rodi's new comic novel, When You Were Me (). Jack Ackerly is 53. He spent...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 1, 2007

    LADY DAY AIN'T MOMMA NIGHT... Billie Holiday has never been part of the diva dynasty that still holds court on gay dance floors. Even at...

  • Homer's Odyssey

    By on July 25, 2007

    Cast of 'The Simpsons Movie' WOO-HOO! With super-duper hype and hullaballoo, The Simpsons Movie finally arrives in theaters and lands with... a big comic BANG!...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 25, 2007

    SECOND CHANCE TO D-D-D-DANCE... Junior Senior is coming back-back jack-jack! Yes, we're talking those same silly, stuttering Scandinavians who four years ago made ''everybody feel...

  • Cute Sister Act

    By on July 25, 2007

    ''Remember when I was so strange and likeable?'' ''Remember when I was sweet and unexplainable?'' Actually, identical twins Tegan and Sara Quinn are still so...

  • Transcendental Rock

    By on July 25, 2007

    ''I remember being as a dyke or a bitch for liking loud, aggressive music,'' says Lucas Silveira, about his days as a teenage metal...

  • Power Spray

    By on July 18, 2007

    When sporting have a buzz cut, what need do you have for Hairspray? So I missed both John Waters' 1988 original movie starring Ricki Lake...

  • Naked Ambition

    By on July 18, 2007

    Jose Carrasquillo's interpretation of Macbeth at the Washington Shakespeare Company, a production where the full cast is nude for the entirety of the play, has...

  • Kid Stuff

    By on July 11, 2007

    My inner child is one happy camper. It's like I woke up to find that today is the first day of summer, and my birthday,...