Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Different Strokes

    By on September 13, 2006

    It's hard to believe that folk-pop mainstays the Indigo Girls have been recording together for twenty years, but then again, who can imagine a summer...

  • Winter's Tale

    By on September 13, 2006

    If Adam Rapp were to compose a suicide note, he may as well point to his script for Red Light Winter and call it a...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 13, 2006

    KASKADE'S NEW ULTRA OUTLOOK... It's a herky-jerky hip-hop-inflected pop track, and it would delight any admirer of Justin Timberlake, both the closet case and the...

  • Think Pink

    By on September 13, 2006

    Pink Martini is hard to pin down, with its lush sound combining a cocktail aesthetic, classical talent and world beats. Thomas Lauderdale, front man for...

  • Sister Act

    By on September 6, 2006

    Meg and Dia Frampton are not lesbian sisters. But they may make you think of lesbian sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn, leaders of the five-piece...

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    By on September 6, 2006

    More than one hundred years after Henrik Ibsen penned An Enemy of the People as a tirade against censorship, his message still seems uncannily relevant....

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 6, 2006

    LOCAL DJ DOES GOOD, GOES NATIONAL... DJ Rob Harris regularly spins throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and in and around New York. On that front, Harris...

  • Ray of Light

    By on August 30, 2006

    The last few weeks of August are beyond miserable. At least where moviegoing is concerned. Every so often, however, a ray of sunshine peeps through...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 23, 2006

    BAD ENGLISH... To this day it still gets club play. Kim English's eight-year-old bombastic hit ''Unspeakable Joy'' still appeals to gays, as do many of...

  • Plain Snakes

    By on August 23, 2006

    In Snakes on a Plane, Samuel L. Jackson stars as FBI agent Neville Flynn, a man who must contend with, as you must know by...

  • 'Cirkus' Circus

    By on August 23, 2006

    Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...

  • 'Basics' Instinct

    By on August 23, 2006

    Christina Aguilera brags, boasts and blusters her way through her new album, Back to Basics. Nothing surprising about that. She's told us before, and she...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 16, 2006

    Chus and Ceballos C&C's TASTEFUL TRIBAL... Chus Estaban and Pablo Ceballos, the Spanish powerhouse house duo Chus & Ceballos, have essentially made a dare to...

  • Hard Feelings

    By on August 16, 2006

    Generally, when a novel throws characters at readers in quantities not easily digested, it's time to settle in for either an epic war story or...

  • Hero Worship

    By on August 16, 2006

    World Trade Center is likely the one summer release you least want to see. It is, after all, a brutal reminder of the horrifying events...