Metro Weekly

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  • Out of Time

    By on May 17, 2006

    ''Forgive me, but I don't follow.'' So says Mary, one of Eric Overmyer's three time-traveling dames in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 17, 2006

    Belmares ALEGRIA BY ANOTHER NAME... Roland Belmares has spun for party promoter and former DC resident Ric Sena before, at Sena's Alegria in New York,...

  • Titus on the Potomac

    By on May 10, 2006

    Take a beautiful sunset as seen from the Kennedy Center balcony, add a warm wind off the Potomac, throw in a glass of bubbly, and...

  • Mission Forgettable

    By on May 10, 2006

    Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...

  • Captive Audience

    By on May 10, 2006

    Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman, an Englishman and an American are kidnapped and tossed together in a dark and dirty...

  • Unmasked

    By on May 3, 2006

    In his 1997 biography of Truman Capote, the eccentric, gay author whose literary works are regarded as among the best America has to offer, George...

  • Punky Brew

    By on May 3, 2006

    ''For all my life,'' Ariel Aparicio sings in a raspy voice, ''I wanted to be in a cool as fuck band.'' He's now fulfilled that...

  • Sand Pebbles

    By on May 3, 2006

    In case you've never studied women's history and you're not entirely sure who George Sand was, don't count on getting a thorough lesson from MetroStage's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 3, 2006

    REPLAY RIHANNA... Last summer, Rihanna, a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados, had a hit with ''Pon de Replay.'' It's not hard to understand...

  • Community Theatre

    By on April 26, 2006

    Joel Markowitz likes to tell the story about the night he repeatedly shushed a stranger in a darkened theater. When the lights came up, the...

  • Command Performance

    By on April 26, 2006

    The Mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas was Frida Kahlo's extramarital lover for some five years. That fact helped Vargas gain wide recognition and it has...

  • Parallel Lives

    By on April 26, 2006

    In a country clouded by indifference and terminally ill with apathy, it takes a political gadfly of a playwright like Tony Kushner (Angels in America,...

  • Propulsive Pop

    By on April 26, 2006

    With the Scissor Sisters taking its sweet time producing a second album, what are fans and followers of the half-gay and all-glammy disco-rock band to...

  • Bourne Different

    By on April 19, 2006

    ''It's known wrongly as the all-male Swan Lake,'' says British choreographer Matthew Bourne of his inventive reinvention of a classical dance staple that, a decade...

  • Hard Satire

    By on April 19, 2006

    Satire in the movies. On the one hand, it can be sharp, biting, memorably dark. On the other hand, it can be crass, base, instantly...