Metro Weekly

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Vixens and Vampires

    By on September 28, 2005

    Attending Blake Robison's new production of Camille at Round House Theatre is like accepting an invitation to a particularly exquisite dinner party. The table is...

  • All My Sons

    By on September 21, 2005

    Few playwrights possess the ability to stimulate, provoke and bewilder an audience as well as British firebrand Caryl Churchill. Her plays are muddy, mutable forces...

  • Vocal Prowess

    By on September 21, 2005

    A rarely-staged tale of political and emotional rebellion, I Vespri Siciliani should be an operatic tour de force. Verdi takes us to one emotional crescendo...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 21, 2005

    Lauper SHE BOPS, WE BOP AGAIN... Would you believe Cyndi Lauper has only had one No. 1 club hit? Of course you know which one:...

  • Fab Babs

    By on September 21, 2005

    Barbra Streisand working with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees -- the serious Streisand paired with glib Gibb sounded like a recipe for pop music...

  • Imitation of Life

    By on September 14, 2005

    You may have heard by now that it's a play about many things. It's a play about Christians depicting the enduring passion play and the...

  • Random Happening

    By on September 14, 2005

    It may not be fair to her, but Juliet's debut album Random Order in all likelihood serves as a window into how Madonna's next album...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 14, 2005

    MCLACHLAN'S LINGERING AFTERGLOW... Now two years old, Sarah McLachlan's ''World On Fire'' takes on new meaning in a post-Hurricane Katrina world, when so many of...

  • Love and Marriage

    By on September 7, 2005

    Jess Goldstein must have a thing for leather. His stylized visions of Iago and Othello as two Italian studs bedecked in long, shiny leather jackets...

  • Fresh Fruit

    By on September 7, 2005

    I think I'm in love with Peter Paddington. And not just because he reminds me of the overweight, under-popular, 13-year-old me. Pitiful, loveable and innocently...