Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Intimate Encounters

    By on December 12, 2007

    At first glance, Atonement appears to be your garden variety Merchant Ivory-style epic. It begins in the 1935 English countryside, all glowy and green and...

  • Christmas Candie

    By on December 12, 2007

    When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...

  • Christmas Sneer

    By on December 12, 2007

    It's safe to say that I'm the Scrooge in any holiday gathering. (Hey, it's better than being Tiny Tim.) Christmas spirit -- limited. Holiday cheer...

  • Holy Hate

    By on December 5, 2007

    Plan to get up extra early this Sunday, Dec. 9, and head over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival to catch a one-time screening of...

  • Dust Off

    By on December 5, 2007

    Great expectations can lead to great disappointments. As a fan of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series, I eagerly awaited the theatrical release of the...

  • Drag Queen Instincts

    By on December 5, 2007

    Never mind her new album's title. Celine Dion doesn't know from chances. Oh sure, she strays a little from her Titanic-sized sentimental journeys. She rocks...

  • Soundwaves

    By on December 5, 2007

    Gifts to dance by... Looking for the perfect gift for your dance-music lover -- or even just yourself? Happy Holidays are here. Joe Bermudez Mainstream...

  • Holiday Witticism

    By on December 5, 2007

    Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...

  • Buried Treasure

    By on December 5, 2007

    Somewhere along the journey the Hispaniola lost its way. And, unfortunately, the storied ship from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is not the only thing...

  • Teen Tales

    By on December 5, 2007

    Alex Sanchez, the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age,...

  • Courtside Drama

    By on November 28, 2007

    For some, the sexier elements of the work of William Shakespeare were not fully evident until film director Baz Luhrman set his attention to the...

  • Scrooging Around

    By on November 28, 2007

    If you are searching for the essential holiday theater ticket for the Aunt Bee in your life, look no further than Arena's premiere of Christmas...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 14, 2007

    GOLDFRAPP'S' NEW OH LA LA'S... Goldfrapp is one of those slow-boil, boiling-under bands: gaining new admirers all the time, not all at once, still below...

  • Songs of Hope

    By on November 14, 2007

    They haven't forgotten Jesus. But don't expect Jason & deMarco to sing songs about praising the lord, either. At least not on Friday, Nov. 30,...

  • Red Carpet Reflex

    By on November 14, 2007

    It's not clear how much of Madonna's next album will feature work from Tim ''Timbaland'' Mosley and Justin Timberlake, or whether Timbaland's protégé Nate ''Danja''...