Metro Weekly

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  • 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,...

  • Scatter Pop

    By on November 29, 2006

    It is the best of albums, it is the worst of albums. With apologies to Charles Dickens, never before has there been a more polarizing...

  • Destiny's Child

    By on November 29, 2006

    An adoring, profanity-laced love note to the fans who helped push Jack Black up the stairway to fame, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny...

  • 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...

  • Stage Fright

    By on November 29, 2006

    There are any number of ways to have an enjoyable evening when attending Legends! at The National Theatre. You can walk down memory lane, reading...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 29, 2006

    Mika FREDDIE MERCURY'S SPAWN: MIKA... George Michael. Robbie Williams. Elton John. Scissor Sisters. Up-and-coming pop sensation Mika channels those four contemporary artists, among many others....

  • Memory Lane

    By on November 29, 2006

    Moms and memories take center stage this year as part of the musical reminiscing on past holidays that makes up the 26th annual holiday concert...

  • With Feeling

    By on November 22, 2006

    Andrew Hudson's life has always revolved around art. The native of Birmingham, England, who ended up in Washington in 1965, has painted, studied, taught and...