Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Existential Fodder

    By on October 19, 2005

    In the beginning there is a woman. She is carrying a bottle filled with sand from some distant shore tied to some legendary land. As...

  • All Fogged Up

    By on October 19, 2005

    It's not every day I ask for help from readers -- but if any of you happened to catch the remake of The Fog last...

  • Spirited Songs

    By on October 12, 2005

    It's a daring move for any performer to record a tribute album, much less an album of songs associated with an icon as beloved as...

  • Desperate Housewife

    By on October 12, 2005

    At the heart of Marie Ndiaye's Hilda stirs a cold and raw bitterness that pierces the air, the kind of astringent breeze that punctures your...

  • Art With Heart

    By on October 12, 2005

        From tsunamis to earthquakes, hurricanes to mudslides, the past year has been rough. Those in a position to donate may feel tapped out....

  • Acoustic Evolution

    By on October 5, 2005

    Nickel Creek's adventurous third release, Why Should the Fire Die?, finds the precocious trio evolving as artists and exploring a much broader sound. With roots...

  • Quirky Pop

    By on October 5, 2005

    Death Cab for Cutie may or may not be the ''it'' alt-rock band of the moment -- and there are at least a dozen vying...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 5, 2005

    Garbage DON'T THROW OUT GARBAGE YET... Don't put Garbage in the pop trash heap just yet. A Sept. 23 post to the band's Web site...

  • Bosom Buddies

    By on October 5, 2005

    It has all of the gilded trappings of classic musical theater comedy. There's the handsome, zany twosome stuck in the middle of their own harebrained...

  • Resurrected Renegades

    By on October 5, 2005

    It's pretty much a given that everyone dying to see Serenity saw it this past weekend. As it stands, the film only racked up $10...

  • High Anxiety

    By on September 28, 2005

    In Flightplan, Jodie Foster -- her face taut with anxiety, her aqua eyes clear, alert, fueled by purpose -- plays a mother whose six-year-old daughter...

  • Electric Bell

    By on September 28, 2005

    ''It's something that I've been wanting to do for a while,'' Andy Bell says of his debut solo record. Electric Blue comes exactly two decades...

  • Toni's Lib

    By on September 28, 2005

    Toni Braxton explains in the liner notes that she was nervous and full of doubt as she made her new album Libra, her first since...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 28, 2005

    Junior Senior D-D-D-DON'T STOP DAFFY DANES... It's official: Those daffy Danes Junior Senior have a new album in the works. And actually it's already for...

  • Three's a Crowd

    By on September 28, 2005

    Never look a gift horse in the mouth, or so the saying goes. Oh, well. In celebration of the Washington National Opera's 50th anniversary and...