Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Brass Ring

    By on March 29, 2006

    If you haven't yet tired of the rampant pandering to the American myth present in every daily experience from the selling of cars to the...

  • Rabble Rousing

    By on March 22, 2006

    V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...

  • Honky Tonk

    By on March 22, 2006

    ''I gotta get drunk, I just can't stay sober. There's a lot of good people in town, who like to see me holler, see me...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 22, 2006

    SONIA BOMBS THE DANCE FLOOR... Even in remixed form, it's not often that you hear a folk song on the dance floor. And it's almost...

  • Naked Launch

    By on March 15, 2006

    How you respond to Failure to Launch depends on a number of factors: Your mood at the time of theater entry. Your general disposition toward...

  • It's Showtime!

    By on March 15, 2006

    ''We're presenting four different styles, four different composers, four different eras,'' says Jeff Buhrman, artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. ''It's...

  • Dry Plains Drifter

    By on March 15, 2006

    The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...

  • Rebel Yell

    By on March 15, 2006

    Fiddle no more: MacIssac Ashley MacIsaac is known as a rebellious musical traditionalist, as oxymoronic as that sounds. A native of Nova Scotia, MacIsaac is...

  • Carried Away

    By on March 15, 2006

    Season five of American Idol, everyone's favorite karaoke-fest, may be well underway, but fourth season champion Carrie Underwood isn't ready to give up the limelight....

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 15, 2006

    Deep Dish DANCE AWARDS GO DEEP... Previous Grammy winner Deep Dish failed to grab a Grammy this year, but the International Dance Music Awards is...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 8, 2006

    ''PRECIOUS'' PAIN, ''SUFFER WELL''... Depeche Mode is preparing to release the third single from last year's Playing the Angel. Yes, the third single. Maybe you,...

  • Urban Blockage

    By on March 8, 2006

    Almost every major movie star has an archetype they can comfortably fall back on when needed. This not only serves to appease their most ardent...

  • Play Time

    By on March 8, 2006

    Harry Potter has nothing on Haroun Khalifa. Even though the scholarly little wizard sets off on epic adventures soaring with myth and illusion, Salman Rushdie's...

  • James Town

    By on March 8, 2006

    Etta James knows how to cover other people's songs. She's had a lot of practice, after all. For years she's been a regular presence on...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 1, 2006

    DANCE MUSIC'S LEADING ''LIGHT''... She's been a leading lady in dance music almost without let-up since busting onto the scene 12 years ago. But 2006...