Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Fresh Fruit

    By on September 7, 2005

    I think I'm in love with Peter Paddington. And not just because he reminds me of the overweight, under-popular, 13-year-old me. Pitiful, loveable and innocently...

  • History's Lessons

    By on August 31, 2005

    When Moisés Kaufman cobbled together all of the manuscripts, poems, witness testimony, biographical accounts and fictional literature that culminates in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials...

  • Disenchantment

    By on August 31, 2005

    In the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, Terry Gilliam bellyaches about the poor quality of today's movies, in the process singling out Steven Spielberg and...

  • Merry Melody

    By on August 31, 2005

    In 2002, nearly every major entertainment magazine singled out the Norwegian duo Röyksopp as a dance/electronica band to watch, producers of what so many hailed...

  • Peters Principle

    By on August 24, 2005

    In 1996 Bernadette Peters made her solo concert debut in New York City. Peters, 48 at the time, was well more than two decades into...

  • Wondrous Woman

    By on August 24, 2005

    Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter. Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the...

  • Pee Town

    By on August 24, 2005

    Let's get this out of the way right up front: Urinetown is not what you think it is. Despite whatever tawdry, profane images your mind...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 17, 2005

    KNAPP'S ''SOAKIN WET'' REPRISE... Just last weekend, many D.C. dance denizens got soaking wet playing in the rain and the thundershowers in New York. The...

  • Manipulations

    By on August 17, 2005

    ''La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.'' Before Dorothy Parker, there was Pierre Choderlos de LaClos, and his 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses...

  • Haunted Mansion

    By on August 17, 2005

    Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 10, 2005

    Avenue D ''D'' STANDS FOR ''SLUT''... Enough with all those preening and posing girly-girl dance divas who sing slutty songs you can tell they don't...

  • Youthful Exuberance

    By on August 10, 2005

    ''These words are my own,'' Natasha Bedingfield declares at the start of her debut album Unwritten. And the words Bedingfield claims? None other than the...

  • Birch Society

    By on August 10, 2005

    Move over Univision, BET, and Lifetime Television for Women -- we have arrived. While American entertainment has long had gay flavor, the dawn of here!...

  • Superteen Spirit

    By on August 3, 2005

    ''The kids who get bitten by a radioactive spider or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day,''...

  • Royally Wronged

    By on August 3, 2005

    For many ancient cultures and aboriginal tribes, worshipping the sun as a sovereign deity was as natural to life as eating grain and breathing in...