Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • Torso Envy

    By on January 28, 2004

    If movies were air, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton would qualify as helium. Not that one expects substance from romantic comedies, but Robert Luketic's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 28, 2004

    QUEER ā€œCULTUREā€ GUY SINGS... We never knew Jai Rodriguez had it in him. Oh sure, he's the Culture Guy, but yogurt has more active culture...

  • Outing the Ex

    By on January 28, 2004

    ''It would be really easy for me to blast the ex-gay ministry hard, '' says Peterson Toscano of his one-man show Doin' Time in the...

  • Golden Age

    By on January 28, 2004

    Why did Shakespeare name his play Henry IV, Part 1 after the King when the entire play revolves around the actions, deeds, and ultimately the...

  • Girls on Film

    By on January 21, 2004

    Despite its rather lame attempts to position itself as the gay and lesbian network of note, Showtime has managed the unexpected. From the network that...

  • Puppy Love

    By on January 21, 2004

    Ā Ā Ā Ā  ''I was born on the wrong end of the leash, '' bemoans Spot, the blue-furred canine protagonist of Disney's Teacher's Pet. ''I'm a dog...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 21, 2004

    Tribal Pleasures AY, GAY TRIBAL PAPISā€¦ The publicist sent out what was in effect an all-points bulletin: ā€œBoth Angel C and T-Pro are gay and...

  • Little Boy Lost

    By on January 21, 2004

    Poor Malcolm. When we first meet the sweet, fresh-faced fifteen-year-old, he is quietly waiting for his father to return. From where, no one knows. All...

  • The Woman Beneath

    By on January 14, 2004

    Talk about your extreme makeovers. Charlize Theron's alarming transformation into prostitute-turned-serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster is so remarkably convincing, you almost forget you're watching...

  • Canon Fodder

    By on January 14, 2004

    The Broadway musical has sometimes been called the only uniquely American contribution to world theatre. Much of the credit for this development belongs to the...

  • Four Play

    By on January 14, 2004

    Christopher Shinn knows how to paint a story. While some playwrights love to wax poetic and lose their characters in long-winded speeches drenched in flowery...

  • Folk Lure

    By on January 7, 2004

    A few years ago, Tim Burton strayed into disappointing simian-minded territory with a fumble-fingered remake of Planet of the Apes. He must have learned his...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 7, 2004

    BETWEEN HIP-HOP AND COLDPLAYā€¦ Hip-hop has dominated the pop charts for years now, but until just recently it existed mostly in a vacuum, where only...

  • The Best and Worst Films of 2003

    By on December 24, 2003

    1. LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING -- Peter Jackson's finale to the J.R.R. Tolkien classic was everything it needed to be: epic,...