Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Flash in the Plan

    By on March 3, 2004

    The brilliance of Saturday Night Live sketches is that they're short. The writers conceive of something funny, milk it for all it's worth and wrap...

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    By on February 25, 2004

    It's 1911. Seth and Bertha Holly (Randall Shepperd and Lynn Chavis) run a modest boarding house in Pittsburgh where guests stay as long as they...

  • Language Barrier

    By on February 25, 2004

    The second act of Melissa James Gibson's opens with Babette (Susan Lynskey) discussing her novel with her agent. ''It's about 20th century screams, ''...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 25, 2004

    THE HALL OF FAME DANCE… The battle of disco divadom seems to be breaking out all over again. This time the question seems to be...

  • Holiday Road

    By on February 25, 2004

    In order to fully enjoy Eurotrip, you need to be willing to completely shut off your mind and relax as you soak for ninety minutes...

  • The Name of Life

    By on February 18, 2004

    It's tempting to present Name All The Animals, the new memoir by Alison Smith, as a series of suggestive clichés. Imagine Catholic schoolgirls in plaid...

  • Blemished Brecht

    By on February 18, 2004

         Galy Gay is having an identity crisis. Once a sweet, docile family man and dutiful dock worker, he suddenly finds himself among an unlikely...

  • Independent Woman

    By on February 18, 2004

    ''I am an all powerful Amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl, '' declares Ani DiFranco on Educated Guess. With this intimate and intense disc,...

  • Melissa Lite

    By on February 18, 2004

    Melissa Etheridge sings about her rapturous love for her new wife on Lucky, and on the album's best track exposes characteristic vulnerability as she asks...

  • History's Witness

    By on February 11, 2004

    Looking Over the President's Shoulder, a one-man show about the first African-American chief butler at the White House, brims with ironies. From 1931 to 1953,...

  • Iron Jawed Angels

    By on February 11, 2004

    The history geek in me beamed with nerdy delight when I learned HBO was making a movie about Alice Paul, feminist hero and resident bad-ass...

  • Hair Cuttery

    By on February 11, 2004

    There are great haircuts. There are terrible haircuts. And then there are those haircuts that are so profoundly mediocre that they go virtually unnoticed. Those...

  • Giving Voice

    By on February 4, 2004

    Members of the LGCW in rehearsal. (Photo by Todd Franson) ''One of our guiding principles is that every voice matters. And that's very true in...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 4, 2004

    NASTY GIRL FUMBLE… Oh, Janet. You despicable, deplorable, lowlife you, how you defamed our pop culture by almost but not really baring your nipple. On...

  • Winter's Wonders

    By on February 4, 2004

    Baby, it's cold outside. And inside. Especially in Pine City, Minnesota, the fictional town where playwright Craig Wright loves to frame his eccentric, involved stories...