Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Out of Time

    By on May 17, 2006

    ''Forgive me, but I don't follow.'' So says Mary, one of Eric Overmyer's three time-traveling dames in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning,...

  • 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...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 17, 2006

    Belmares ALEGRIA BY ANOTHER NAME... Roland Belmares has spun for party promoter and former DC resident Ric Sena before, at Sena's Alegria in New York,...

  • Italian Delight

    By on May 17, 2006

    Captivating: Borodina(Photo by Karin Cooper) Bubbly buoyancy brings the Washington National Opera season to a close in a nicely-conceived high-energy production of Rossini's L'Italiana in...

  • Mission Forgettable

    By on May 10, 2006

    Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...

  • Titus on the Potomac

    By on May 10, 2006

    Take a beautiful sunset as seen from the Kennedy Center balcony, add a warm wind off the Potomac, throw in a glass of bubbly, and...

  • Captive Audience

    By on May 10, 2006

    Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman, an Englishman and an American are kidnapped and tossed together in a dark and dirty...