Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Strike Zone

    By on October 13, 2004

    Richard Morel partners in a local legendary dance music producing/songwriting duo, records with his five-piece band for a highly regarded dance music label, and creates...

  • Red-Letter Day

    By on October 6, 2004

    Green Day drops the faggot word bomb -- ''Maybe I am the faggot America, I'm not a part of a redneck agenda '' -- early...

  • Fin Rot

    By on October 6, 2004

    ''Is Shark Tale a sequel to Finding Nemo?'' a friend inquired after learning I'd seen the movie. ''No,'' I replied, ''it's a rip-off.'' At least...

  • Star Wars

    By on October 6, 2004

    ''I am her father, '' booms the familiar sub-bass voice that immediately conjures up sci-fi scenes teeming with Jedi fighters. ''Ethel's her mummy, and I'm...

  • Hello, Gorgeous!

    By on October 6, 2004

    Back when Steven Brinberg was in high school, his father confronted him with something he'd found in the boy's bedroom. ''This tape of Barbra Streisand...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 6, 2004

    VOTE NOW FOR FAVORITE DJ… One is focused on America, the other worldwide, though with a clear European bias. But no matter: Tiesto is likely...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 29, 2004

    EVERYBODY DANCE NOW… Martha Wash, the Two Tons of Fun/Weather Girls woman (and Sylvester's “Mighty Real” backup singer) with certainly one of the most booming...

  • Heart of the Matter

    By on September 29, 2004

    Near the end of the gay marriage documentary Tying the Knot, an Oklahoman farmer named Sam sits outside the home he's fighting desperately to keep...

  • Dead Heads

    By on September 29, 2004

    It's not every day you get a zombie film crossed with a romantic British comedy. And that's probably a good thing. Because in the wrong...

  • Teacher's Pet

    By on September 29, 2004

    Jefferson Mays is going to die. The innocent seventeen year-old has been convicted of murder in 1948 rural Louisiana and now he must pay the...

  • Naval Maneuvers

    By on September 29, 2004

    Rum, buggery and the lash sail into the Washington National Opera with Francesca Zambello's production of Benjamin Britten's sea-going epic Billy Budd. Alas, if only...

  • Virtual Reality

    By on September 22, 2004

    At the beginning of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the ''Hindenburg III'' ceremoniously and gracefully docks atop the Empire State Building. This gorgeous,...

  • Wonder Women

    By on September 22, 2004

    David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize-nominated M. Butterfly is, by all reasonable measures, a perfect play. The playwright brilliantly, poetically entwines his story of wants versus...

  • Viva La Revolution!

    By on September 22, 2004

    In staging Umberto Giordano's twisted tale of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier, Polish director Mariusz Trelinski pulls off an amazingly ambitious and yet always dramatically...

  • Fantasyland

    By on September 22, 2004

    When Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov sends a letter, he doesn't have to walk it to the nearest mailbox down the street, or even search for a...