Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Diva Dude

    By on September 5, 2007

    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...

  • Living Testament

    By on September 5, 2007

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

  • Compulsive Obsession

    By on September 5, 2007

    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...

  • American Values

    By on September 5, 2007

    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...

  • Barbed Wire

    By on August 29, 2007

    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,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 22, 2007

    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...

  • Hey Hey So So

    By on August 22, 2007

    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

    By on August 22, 2007

    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...

  • Super Duper

    By on August 22, 2007

    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...

  • Graceland

    By on August 15, 2007

    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...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 8, 2007

    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  • Out of Date

    By on August 8, 2007

    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...

  • Star Bust

    By on August 8, 2007

    So many stars, so little shine. Stardust seems like it should have a lot of glimmer. It boasts a surprisingly strong cast -- Michelle Pfeiffer,...

  • Fairy Tale

    By on August 1, 2007

    Oh, to be young again! That's the sentiment driving Robert Rodi's new comic novel, When You Were Me (). Jack Ackerly is 53. He spent...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 1, 2007

    LADY DAY AIN'T MOMMA NIGHT... Billie Holiday has never been part of the diva dynasty that still holds court on gay dance floors. Even at...