Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Lacking Magic

    By on April 13, 2005

    My advice to anyone who joined the ticket-purchasing frenzy when they saw the words ''magic'' and ''flute'' in the same sentence as Washington National Opera...

  • Sinfully Delicious

    By on April 13, 2005

    It should come as no surprise that Robert Rodriguez's production company is called Troublemaker Studios. The director, whose bracing, electrifying style of filmmaking appears to...

  • Yukking It Up

    By on April 13, 2005

    Arguably, nobody needs a good laugh these days as much as the gay community. Help is on the way. As part of its ongoing ''Laugh...

  • Face Value

    By on April 6, 2005

    At first glance, Jeanette L. Buck's There Are No Strangers is nothing more than a lengthy account of a harrowing and violent personal ordeal. Told...

  • Folk Rockers

    By on April 6, 2005

    To look at Eric Himan, you expect his music to be hard-charging punk-rock, maybe even heavy metal. After all, he's got ''inked arms that out-sleeve...

  • Artistic Scribe

    By on April 6, 2005

    The minute Jon Robin Baitz mentions that he recently finished penning an episode of Alias, the interviewer's mind comes to a screeching halt. He stops...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 6, 2005

    P. DIDDY CRASHES THE PARTY... Two weeks ago, Miami hosted the annual Winter Music Conference, the dance music equivalent to the film industry's Sundance. The...

  • Learning Experience

    By on March 30, 2005

    When Eytan Fox was an Israeli teenager, he went to Germany as part of a folk dancing troupe. He and his friends were all anxious...

  • Simply Magical

    By on March 30, 2005

    It's easy to mistake Big River for just another fluff musical based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After all, its jazzy ragtime...

  • Operatic Wonder

    By on March 30, 2005

    As we all know, Joan of Arc died hard and Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans is for a different sort of die-hard -- the operatic kind....

  • Animal Husbandry

    By on March 30, 2005

    If Edward Albee's goal as a playwright is to expose the lies that organize our everyday lives, then he succeeds brilliantly with The Goat or,...

  • Rock Steady

    By on March 30, 2005

    Named after a song from post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd. -- and not after the British radio station -- Radio 4 is far from the...

  • Almost Famous

    By on March 23, 2005

    We call it ''fine art '' because it requires fine skill. Who possesses the skill, exactly how much ability they possess, and how they intend...

  • Water Torture

    By on March 23, 2005

    This week's multi-million dollar question: Does evil ever really give up the ghost and slink away quietly into the night? If you're living in the...

  • Embattled Bots

    By on March 16, 2005

    Why does virtually every recent American-made animated feature film -- particularly those of the computer-generated kind (for hand-drawn, you must look to Japan or the...