Metro Weekly

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  • Undesirable

    By on May 19, 2004

    For better or for worse, Tennessee Williams penned characters who give such credit to stereotype and light caricature that they have become a part of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 12, 2004

    A DJ'S NO SPIN ZONE… Dance music makers are a competitive lot, since there are a great number of them, chasing after the same fame...

  • Handsomely Revived

    By on May 12, 2004

    Aficionados will be intrigued to hear that the Washington National Opera continues this year's season with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic La Traviata based...

  • Monster Hash

    By on May 12, 2004

    It must have seemed like a good idea to someone, somewhere, in some altered state: Combine Universal's three biggest movie monster properties -- Dracula, Frankenstein...

  • Brotherly Love

    By on May 12, 2004

    No matter how you look at it, Passing the Love of Women is not, at heart, a gay play. Sure, the two central characters are...

  • 2004 Helen Hayes Awards

    By on May 12, 2004

    ''Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I'm Joy Zinoman. '' Oh, but it wasn't. For the second year in a row, Rick Hammerly crashed the 20th...

  • In the Navy

    By on May 12, 2004

    Photo: National Archivesand Records Administration ''Most of the good stuff is in Greenbelt, '' says Evan Bachner. Of course, he's talking about the collection of...

  • Maternal Gratitude

    By on May 5, 2004

    ''My feeling personally has always been that when dealing with an the black community, they're not going to go for...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 5, 2004

    FILL ME UP WITH GAS… Can music make you hungry? Some of it sure can give you gas. Haru, a New York-based Japanese restaurant chain,...

  • Defanged

    By on May 5, 2004

    When a movie carries a title like Mean Girls, one has every right to expect a satirical maliciousness to underscore its events. But apart from...

  • Basic Instinct

    By on May 5, 2004

    They aren't called ''blind '' dates for nothing. The multiple glimpses in every available mirror and window reflection, the clumsy, awkward exchanges, the uncomfortable silences...

  • ''Porcelain''

    By on April 28, 2004

    It's hard to believe that Porcelain is Chay Yew's first play. The 1992 London Fringe Award winner for Best Production, Porcelain marks a brave, startling...

  • A Perfect Tenn

    By on April 28, 2004

    Michael Kahn and Tennessee Williams: what a pair. The two theatre magnates converge in holy matrimony in Five by Tenn, the Shakespeare Theatre production of...

  • Tennessee Pride

    By on April 28, 2004

    ''I'm getting to do plays about behavior and character, '' says director Michael Kahn of his work on Five by Tenn. ''Five different moods, five...

  • Future Shock

    By on April 28, 2004

    America, meet your new cinema sweetheart: Jennifer Garner. With her lush, broad radiant smile, delicately chiseled features, and extremely magnetic personality, Garner seems poised to...