Metro Weekly

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  • Growing Pains

    By on February 9, 2005

    At first glance, Kimberly Levaco is a normal 16-year-old girl with a precocious mind and a flair for the melodramatic. But look a little closer...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 2, 2005

    DANCE SPOTLIGHT ON D.C.… Could 2005 be the year D.C.'s dance community gains greater recognition? Well, let's do our part to push it. The community's...

  • Pop Pleasures

    By on February 2, 2005

    Erasure created a classic pop song almost the minute the duo launched. ''Oh L'Amour '' was the third single from the pioneering synth-pop duo's 1985...

  • Stage Haze

    By on February 2, 2005

    As the reigning queen of psychological stage haze, Caryl Churchill doesn't apologize for the lack of explanation or analytical epilogue in her work. It's a...

  • Opera Queen

    By on January 26, 2005

    ''I fell in love with opera when I was 13, when I first heard the voice of Maria Callas,'' says John Pascoe. ''I heard her...

  • Hard Lessons

    By on January 26, 2005

    In Good Company is an agreeable comedy that might have been overlooked altogether if not for Topher Grace's pitch-perfect performance as a 26-year-old corporate upstart...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 26, 2005

    2004'S TOP DANCE ACT.... Billboard's bestselling album in 2004 from a dance/electronic artist was not brought to us by a lesbian sex act. Despite half...

  • Blood Simple

    By on January 26, 2005

    Alfred de Musset lives. Though the French romantic never saw his epic Lorenzaccio presented upon the stage during his lifetime, European audiences are familiar with...

  • Dire Straights

    By on January 19, 2005

    Let's get one thing straight: a lot of men are not. But those who fervently claim they are, would never -- I repeat, never pretend...

  • Sucker Punch

    By on January 12, 2005

    If you're planning to produce a bleak, dispiriting tale of bitter realities in post-Soviet Russia that bears the title Black Milk, perhaps you ought to...

  • Second Chances

    By on January 12, 2005

    ''Will I ever be normal?'' The question is put to a psychologist by Walter, a 45-year-old man recently released from a dozen years spent in...

  • The Best and Worst Films of 2004

    By on January 5, 2005

    The year 2004 was both an encouraging and discouraging one for movies. On the bright side, we had several films that put the script ahead...

  • Solo Style

    By on January 5, 2005

    Pop on top: Stefani Is Gwen Stefani the new Madonna or the new Cyndi Lauper? The question arises on the occasion of Stefani's marvelous debut...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 5, 2005

    DIVAS TO DANCE IN 2005... The coming year looks to be shaping up -- if you can believe it, and dare we jinx it --...

  • Artfully Threaded

    By on December 22, 2004

    ''It's the first time I've designed this period,'' says costume designer Fabio Toblini on Ford's Theatre's holiday mainstay, A Christmas Carol. ''I did Victorian shows...