Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Peters Principle

    By on August 24, 2005

    In 1996 Bernadette Peters made her solo concert debut in New York City. Peters, 48 at the time, was well more than two decades into...

  • Manipulations

    By on August 17, 2005

    ''La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.'' Before Dorothy Parker, there was Pierre Choderlos de LaClos, and his 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses...

  • Haunted Mansion

    By on August 17, 2005

    Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 17, 2005

    KNAPP'S ''SOAKIN WET'' REPRISE... Just last weekend, many D.C. dance denizens got soaking wet playing in the rain and the thundershowers in New York. The...

  • Youthful Exuberance

    By on August 10, 2005

    ''These words are my own,'' Natasha Bedingfield declares at the start of her debut album Unwritten. And the words Bedingfield claims? None other than the...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 10, 2005

    Avenue D ''D'' STANDS FOR ''SLUT''... Enough with all those preening and posing girly-girl dance divas who sing slutty songs you can tell they don't...

  • Birch Society

    By on August 10, 2005

    Move over Univision, BET, and Lifetime Television for Women -- we have arrived. While American entertainment has long had gay flavor, the dawn of here!...

  • 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...

  • Superteen Spirit

    By on August 3, 2005

    ''The kids who get bitten by a radioactive spider or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day,''...

  • 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 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...