Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Happy Accident

    Imagine this: you're shaving your legs in a bathtub. You slip and fall. Somehow, during the slip, the razor meets your wrists. There's blood everywhere,...

  • Diva Dude

    What happens when a dedicated scene idolizes female vocal pyrotechnics a tad too much? In today's gay club scene, you could say Jason Walker is...

  • American Values

    If you polled the typical Woolly Mammoth audience you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't agree that: 1) American Christian missionaries who go to...

  • Compulsive Obsession

    When is an obsession a good thing? When it's in the hands of a genius like Beethoven. Or, in the case of 33 Variations, when...

  • Living Testament

    Talking to Bruce Ward about his play, Lazarus Syndrome, is like navigating a minefield -- albeit one in which you long to step on the...

  • Barbed Wire

    All's fair in love and war. And for playwright Noel Coward, that extends to marriage and laughter. Verbal warfare abounds in Coward's classic, Private Lives,...

  • Super Duper

    Since the early '80s, the high school male coming-of-age comedy has become almost as much a rite of passage as the actual event itself. Each...

  • Hey Hey So So

    It's a corny enough album title, but you'll certainly be laughing within seconds as Hey Hey My My Yo Yo opens. After two measures of...

  • Silent Weapon

    Some shows are almost impossible to review. This isn't because they are bad plays. In fact, those are actually the easiest to work with. There...

  • Soundwaves

    From YouTubeAnnie Lennox: Little Bird ANNIE LENNOX'S 'MASS' APPEAL... Annie Lennox will finally return this fall after a four-year absence. This time out, Lennox has...

  • Graceland

    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...

  • Star Bust

    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

    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...

  • Out of Date

    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...

  • Saving Grace

    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...