Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Heavy Pet

    By on June 21, 2006

    After mainstream success 20 years ago, the Pet Shop Boys remain one of Europe's most successful pop duos. On this side of the Atlantic, Neil...

  • Soundwaves

    By on June 21, 2006

    AND THIS YEAR'S SUMMER ANTHEM IS... Now that the season has officially begun, it's time to consider contenders for Song of Summer 2006. At this...

  • Bad Omen

    By on June 14, 2006

    When I was a moviegoing teenager, two movies scared the devil out of me: The Exorcist and The Omen -- the first for its unrelenting,...

  • Groovy Kinda Love

    By on June 14, 2006

    Summer is here in a glowing orange crush of sun, surf, and... Shakespeare? That's right, Michael Kahn blends the Beatles with the Bard in a...

  • Surface Story

    By on June 14, 2006

    Sex sells. And when it comes to memoirs, so do drugs, prostitution and pornography. When those words – along with a large, naked photo of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on June 14, 2006

    Aviance AVIANCE ATTACK... It's that time of year when you just may be at your gay-proudest. Maybe you're so confident and comfortable you're even starting...

  • Sound Basis

    By on June 7, 2006

    What's the first thing to comes to mind when you think of ''gay music''? Maybe the sound of a gay men's chorus, or the pounding...

  • Broken

    By on June 7, 2006

    Early in The Break-Up, Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) asks her boyfriend, Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn), to help with the dishes after a dinner party. Absorbed...

  • An Unflinching Line

    By on June 7, 2006

    During an interview on the public radio program Studio 360, Daniel Clowes, known (at least to some) as the creator of Ghost World and Ice...

  • Heart of Dixie

    By on June 7, 2006

    ''Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I'm not sure I could.'' Thus begins ''Not Ready to Make Nice,'' the defiant first single from the Dixie Chicks' new...

  • Killer Instincts

    By on June 7, 2006

    Call it parallel reality, call it a bizarro universe, call it whatever you'd like, but no one calls the shots better than Stephen Sondheim holding...

  • Mutant Fortified

    By on May 31, 2006

    McKellen as 'Magneto' (3rd from left) and Janssen as 'Phoenix' (far right) X-Men: The Last Stand, the third installment in the ultra-popular movie series based...

  • Civil Service

    By on May 31, 2006

    When Julia Nixon wails out a note, time stands still. It isn't enough that her Caroline Thibodeaux is able to convey world-weary pain through all...

  • Raising the Dead

    By on May 24, 2006

    The Pale Blue Eye Your first reaction upon hearing that Louis Bayard, author of the very successful Mr. Timothy (where he raised the literary spirit...

  • Adult Drown

    By on May 17, 2006

    Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...