Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Taking Action

    By on January 17, 2007

    As the performing arts community saw its ranks decimated by HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and '90s, artists and activists sprang into action to combat the...

  • Uncomfortably Numbing

    By on January 10, 2007

    This is how it goes: You're riding the Metro and sitting in the window seat. Suddenly you hear people yelling. You turn and see a...

  • Flower Power

    By on January 10, 2007

    It happens every year, especially during the fall. An onslaught of good and great music causes other releases to get lost in the shuffle. Before...

  • Star Bright

    By on January 3, 2007

    It's all about the song. So potent is its power -- and so much more powerful in the hands of the artist who sings it...

  • Musical Comedy

    By on December 27, 2006

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and, sometimes, a play is just a play (or just a musical). This is not meant to sound...

  • Uberdull

    By on December 20, 2006

    Sometimes in show business, it's good to have a gimmick to generate interest in your product. The gimmick deployed by Steven Soderbergh for The Good...

  • Temporary Reprieve

    By on December 20, 2006

    Temp (noun): a temporary employee, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency. Odyssey (noun): a long and eventful or adventurous journey. From...

  • Hollaback Gwen

    By on December 13, 2006

    ''I heard that you were talking shit and you didn't think that I would hear it.'' Gwen Stefani came out swinging, swaggering and stomping on...

  • Bling Bang

    By on December 13, 2006

    ''In America, it's bling bling. Out here it's bling bang,'' says diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) to American journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), of...

  • Seasonal Sounds

    By on December 13, 2006

    Though Mother Nature has yet to conjure a winter wonderland in the capital, D.C.'s Different Drummers (DCDD) have the soundtrack at the ready with ''Winter...

  • Soundwaves

    By on December 6, 2006

    DJ PODCAST PIONEERS... Let's say you were dancing recently, and you went crazy over a song you never heard before. Unfortunately, you don't remember the...

  • Beautiful Balloon

    By on December 6, 2006

    Gregory Douglass seems to have a real fear of falling -- especially falling in and out of love. On his new album, Up & Away,...

  • Good and Gay

    By on December 6, 2006

    She Loves Me is a gay old time: It's light, funny and has a happy ending. In other words, it's perfect for the holidays. It's...

  • Boys on Film

    By on December 6, 2006

    What The History Boys is about, exactly, is open to some interpretation. A theater enthusiast might simply offer that, during its Broadway run this year,...

  • New Traditions

    By on November 29, 2006

    As a self-described Scrooge, I always applied that label to myself without actually knowing the full story of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol: A...