Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Boiling Over

    Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...

  • Velvet Touch

    It's turning out to be a banner year for Will Gartshore. Last week, the actor nabbed two Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor...

  • Special Delivery

    Painful memory: the cast of Midwives (Photo by Stan Barouh) At a home in Northeast Kingdom, Vt., in the early 1980s, a ferocious winter storm...

  • Unpretty in Pink

    February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...

  • Nightmare Pursuit

    Remember when you were growing up and trying to fall asleep at night as weird and wispy shadows crept across your bedroom walls? With one...

  • Cracked

    Summer of 2003 changed everything for Lucas Zarwell. The forensic scientist was satisfying his creative side, assembling a one-time variety show with Cherry Red's avant-garde...

  • London Calling

    To a natural-born cynic like myself, the pre-release hype for Woody Allen's latest -- Match Point -- was almost too much to bear. Virtually every...

  • The Weinstein Touch

    Advertisement Transamerica The Weinstein Company is off to a solid start. Founded by brothers Harvey and Bob, who were recently ousted from their posts-on-high at...

  • Alt-Rock Idol

    Canadian Jason Collett is being touted as one of the best singer-songwriters currently recording. And one listen to his sophomore U.S. album, Idols of Exile,...

  • Sweet Satisfaction

    There is a joy that comes with discovering a piece of theater so brilliant and so gratifying that you leave your seat intoxicated. That's a...

  • Soundwaves

    DANCING WITH THE OLYMPICS... This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday, but with the Rolling Stones strutting around instead of Janet Jackson showing off, a dance-pop...

  • Sister Christian

    Fred Rogers would be proud. The whimsy and wonder channeled through his King Friday and haggy Lady Elaine of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood comes teeming to...

  • Soundwaves

    ERASURE GOES COUNTRY... Erasure lead singer Andy Bell released his debut solo album Electric Blue last summer, and the first single is just now near...

  • Comic Abroad

    In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks is approached by the U.S. government to find out what makes Muslims laugh. He...

  • Personal Commentary

    It's been 10 years since singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik struck it big with ''Barely Breathing,'' the inescapable radio staple from his self-titled debut, and his only...