Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • High Note

    By on November 16, 2005

    Could Madonna's latest studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, be her swansong to music-making? It's hard to imagine, and she also hasn't said as...

  • Cashing In

    By on November 16, 2005

    The problem with Walk the Line, the new biopic opening on Friday about the life of country music legend Johnny Cash, isn't Joaquin Phoenix --...

  • Time Again

    By on November 9, 2005

    Cyndi Lauper scored her first hit with ''Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,'' but only the faithful would have predicted then that she would still be...

  • Back to the Future

    By on November 9, 2005

    The expectations are as high as a towering Manhattan skyscraper. After such successful local productions of Take Me Out and The Dazzle, the area premiere...

  • Marine Life

    By on November 9, 2005

    I've never been a big fan of war movies. (For that matter, I've never been a big fan of war.) But as a genre, they...

  • Rainbow's End

    By on November 9, 2005

    You can't blame Alex Sanchez for having mixed feelings as he promotes the final novel in his gay teen trilogy, Rainbow Road. His books have...

  • Gaul Fodder

    By on November 2, 2005

    The self-referential, Charlie Kaufman-esque twist to The Dying Gaul, opening Friday at Landmark's E Street Cinema, is the somewhat astounding fact that the movie was...

  • Powerhouse

    By on November 2, 2005

    You know the songs. You've heard the story. But nothing will prepare you for the astounding power of this full operatic production of Gershwin's modern...

  • Tab Browsing

    By on November 2, 2005

    A memoir, by its very definition, is self-serving. Writing ''your'' story can serve as therapy, disclosure, dutiful revelation, apology, even revenge. To some extent, Tab...

  • A La Mode

    By on November 2, 2005

    Damn, damn, damn! Is there anything worse than being let down again, done in by too much hype? Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan, after...

  • Time Travel

    By on October 26, 2005

    Dolly Parton is a consummate marketer of contemporary music, and one of its most cutting-edge. She combined country-pop a decade before country-pop was cool, and...

  • The Odd Coupling

    By on October 26, 2005

    We're auspicious allies -- indomitable Americans and Brits. We boast the same language, a shared history, and even gaze through the same looking glass at...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 26, 2005

    Abel HALLELUJAH FOR ALEGRIA... The dance compilation you've waited all year to buy is finally available, DJ Abel Aguilera's two-disc Alegria Musica. If this set's...

  • Country Courage

    By on October 26, 2005

    Congratulate Charlize Theron. She's got the Hollywood game figured out. And she's playing it like a pro, mixing the glamorous roles with the serious. You...

  • Sondheim Time

    By on October 26, 2005

    The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington is meeting history head-on with a journey through nearly 50 years of Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's work....