Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Magnum Opus

    By on May 19, 2004

    It's been years since we've heard from him, but Armand Van Helden wastes no time reasserting himself. That he has managed to do it almost...

  • Legendary Ladies

    By on May 19, 2004

    ''It's not a huge evening, '' says A. Cornelius Baker of ''A Celebration of Life, '' the Whitman-Walker Clinic's eleventh annual Spring gala. ''It's not...

  • Grecian Formula

    By on May 19, 2004

    ''May the gods be with you, '' says Trojan King Priam (Peter O'Toole) to his eldest son Hector (Eric Bana), as the young, handsome, extremely...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 19, 2004

    DONNA SUMMER REVIVAL?… Will Jennifer Hudson and La Toya London -- and Fantasia Barrino too, if the worst happens -- get recording contracts after the...

  • In the Navy

    By on May 12, 2004

    Photo: National Archivesand Records Administration ''Most of the good stuff is in Greenbelt, '' says Evan Bachner. Of course, he's talking about the collection of...

  • 2004 Helen Hayes Awards

    By on May 12, 2004

    ''Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I'm Joy Zinoman. '' Oh, but it wasn't. For the second year in a row, Rick Hammerly crashed the 20th...

  • Brotherly Love

    By on May 12, 2004

    No matter how you look at it, Passing the Love of Women is not, at heart, a gay play. Sure, the two central characters are...

  • Monster Hash

    By on May 12, 2004

    It must have seemed like a good idea to someone, somewhere, in some altered state: Combine Universal's three biggest movie monster properties -- Dracula, Frankenstein...

  • Handsomely Revived

    By on May 12, 2004

    Aficionados will be intrigued to hear that the Washington National Opera continues this year's season with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic La Traviata based...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 12, 2004

    A DJ'S NO SPIN ZONE… Dance music makers are a competitive lot, since there are a great number of them, chasing after the same fame...

  • Defanged

    By on May 5, 2004

    When a movie carries a title like Mean Girls, one has every right to expect a satirical maliciousness to underscore its events. But apart from...

  • Basic Instinct

    By on May 5, 2004

    They aren't called ''blind '' dates for nothing. The multiple glimpses in every available mirror and window reflection, the clumsy, awkward exchanges, the uncomfortable silences...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 5, 2004

    FILL ME UP WITH GAS… Can music make you hungry? Some of it sure can give you gas. Haru, a New York-based Japanese restaurant chain,...

  • Maternal Gratitude

    By on May 5, 2004

    ''My feeling personally has always been that when dealing with an the black community, they're not going to go for...

  • Future Shock

    By on April 28, 2004

    America, meet your new cinema sweetheart: Jennifer Garner. With her lush, broad radiant smile, delicately chiseled features, and extremely magnetic personality, Garner seems poised to...