Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Carried Away

    Season five of American Idol, everyone's favorite karaoke-fest, may be well underway, but fourth season champion Carrie Underwood isn't ready to give up the limelight....

  • Rebel Yell

    Fiddle no more: MacIssac Ashley MacIsaac is known as a rebellious musical traditionalist, as oxymoronic as that sounds. A native of Nova Scotia, MacIsaac is...

  • It's Showtime!

    ''We're presenting four different styles, four different composers, four different eras,'' says Jeff Buhrman, artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. ''It's...

  • Soundwaves

    ''PRECIOUS'' PAIN, ''SUFFER WELL''... Depeche Mode is preparing to release the third single from last year's Playing the Angel. Yes, the third single. Maybe you,...

  • Play Time

    Harry Potter has nothing on Haroun Khalifa. Even though the scholarly little wizard sets off on epic adventures soaring with myth and illusion, Salman Rushdie's...

  • Urban Blockage

    Almost every major movie star has an archetype they can comfortably fall back on when needed. This not only serves to appease their most ardent...

  • James Town

    Etta James knows how to cover other people's songs. She's had a lot of practice, after all. For years she's been a regular presence on...

  • Sex in the City

    Just after the film begins to roll in Gay Sex in the 70s, director Joseph Lovett tells the photographer he's preparing to interview that the...

  • Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!

    This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...

  • Webb of Truth

    ''It just so happens that my two most recent credits both happened to be gay men,'' says Jeremy Webb of his TV work. ''[Law &...

  • Whip It Good

    Alison Goldfrapp has a true-to-life surname that reminds you of a sweet, icy concoction you drink for a jolt of energy. And so does the...

  • Possessive Behavior

    They could be anywhere in the world conjuring up their unique blend of pantomime and dance, music and emotion. Yet Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, that...

  • Soundwaves

    DANCE MUSIC'S LEADING ''LIGHT''... She's been a leading lady in dance music almost without let-up since busting onto the scene 12 years ago. But 2006...

  • Mamet's Girls

    That Kate Eastwood Norris. You can't help but fall for her adorable little chuckle and wry, impish grin. She's a sprite of the stage. And...

  • Meditative Orbit

    Almost a decade has passed since Ray of Light shined over the music industry. Since then, Madonna and William Orbit, her Ray of Light producer,...