Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Active Duty

    By on August 3, 2005

    If gay men love a man in uniform, Rich Merritt could be their poster boy. In 1998, he was the closeted Marine on the cover...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 3, 2005

    VAN HELDEN'S COMING CRUNK ROCK... If you haven't noticed, the guitars are surging in dance music, strumming out the new big thing: dance rock. Next...

  • Rock Club

    By on August 3, 2005

    On his new album Body of Song, Bob Mould bares himself in nearly every way but the physical, to such an extent it will give...

  • Royally Wronged

    By on August 3, 2005

    For many ancient cultures and aboriginal tribes, worshipping the sun as a sovereign deity was as natural to life as eating grain and breathing in...

  • Foul Ball

    By on July 27, 2005

    First the good news: Michael Ritchie's wonderful, utterly un-PC 1976 little league romp, Bad News Bears, is available on DVD. Now the bad: Richard Linklater's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 27, 2005

    MEOW MIX... Did they take too long? Months after ''Don't Cha'' started dominating every DJ's peak-hour set list, A&M Records has now finally released the...

  • Follicle Follies

    By on July 27, 2005

    Big Fun, Hon: The cast of Hairspray If big, bright, near-burlesque, singing, dancing, toe-tapping, knee-slapping, hair-hopping, infectiously giddy Broadway musicals aren't your thing, then steer...

  • Pop Stop

    By on July 27, 2005

    Erin McKeown and Leslie Feist don't share a voice, though you'd be forgiven for thinking so while listening to their latest albums. Both singer-songwriters have...

  • Candy Corn

    By on July 20, 2005

    No everlasting gobstopper here: Depp confers with Roy I've heard from friends and readers that I was far too hard on Batman Begins. Perhaps, but...

  • A Perfect Mess

    By on July 20, 2005

    For the record, it really doesn't matter if you don't speak Portuguese -- you'll still understand the gist of Matilde's jokes in The Clean House,...

  • Chef's Best

    By on July 20, 2005

    Missy Elliott isn't a chef, but she plays one on her new CD. Comparing music to food is one of the more overused clichés around...

  • Fantastic Flop

    By on July 13, 2005

    The Fantastic Four ain't. Bet you saw that train coming a mile away. But this train wreck of a superhero movie is very much a...

  • Circular Logic

    By on July 13, 2005

    On paper, Bertolt Brecht's plays don't always settle well. Generally his works read like a gravelly stew simmered with tough hunks of meat and not...

  • Twin Peaks

    By on July 13, 2005

    Another indie-rock act might rebel at being lumped with and compared to Avril Lavigne or Ashlee Simpson. But not Tegan and Sara. ''We're like, 'Oh...

  • Martian Law

    By on July 6, 2005

    ''Take care of our kids,'' Mary Ann Ferrier says, somewhat warily, to ex-husband Ray as she drops them off before heading up to Boston for...