Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 'Basics' Instinct

    By on August 23, 2006

    Christina Aguilera brags, boasts and blusters her way through her new album, Back to Basics. Nothing surprising about that. She's told us before, and she...

  • 'Cirkus' Circus

    By on August 23, 2006

    Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 23, 2006

    BAD ENGLISH... To this day it still gets club play. Kim English's eight-year-old bombastic hit ''Unspeakable Joy'' still appeals to gays, as do many of...

  • Plain Snakes

    By on August 23, 2006

    In Snakes on a Plane, Samuel L. Jackson stars as FBI agent Neville Flynn, a man who must contend with, as you must know by...

  • Hard Feelings

    By on August 16, 2006

    Generally, when a novel throws characters at readers in quantities not easily digested, it's time to settle in for either an epic war story or...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 16, 2006

    Chus and Ceballos C&C's TASTEFUL TRIBAL... Chus Estaban and Pablo Ceballos, the Spanish powerhouse house duo Chus & Ceballos, have essentially made a dare to...

  • Higher Love

    By on August 16, 2006

    Just so you know, there's nothing even remotely Catholic about Phoebe Rusch's 3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian. Whatever sanctimonious religious icons the play's...

  • Hero Worship

    By on August 16, 2006

    World Trade Center is likely the one summer release you least want to see. It is, after all, a brutal reminder of the horrifying events...

  • Vocal Discord

    By on August 9, 2006

    It's the most amazing thing: DJ Roger Sanchez can sing like Gene Simmons and Beyoncé. Heck, even Ciara. Don't believe it? Well, just listen to...

  • Down Under

    By on August 9, 2006

    I'm always up for a good scare at the movies. But it seems, more and more, today's so-called scary movies aren't up to the task...

  • Name-Drop Pop

    By on August 2, 2006

    Throwbacks: the Giants Chances are any new pop band you discover will sound like a slight modification of those that came before it. Chances are...

  • Star Gazing

    By on August 2, 2006

    Paris, 1904. Albert Einstein walks into the Lapin Agile hoping to see his sweetheart, whom he has planned to meet at the Bar Rouge at...

  • Humor Most Foul

    By on August 2, 2006

    Recently, I've been on a Woody Allen retrospect kick. My Netflix queue is overflowing with his past works, back when they were funny (Bananas), back...

  • What Comes Around

    By on July 26, 2006

    For those of us who fell in love with our best friends growing up, Michael Thomas Ford's Full Circle appears to be a dream come...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 26, 2006

    Jackson WHAT ABOUT THAT, WHAT ABOUT THAT... Janet Jackson's new album, due Sept. 26, will be reflective of the music she's created over the past...