Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Vive la Chomet!

    By on February 4, 2004

    French animator Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville is one of those movies that so thoroughly envelopes you in its own world, so thoroughly commands...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Body Language

    By on February 4, 2004

    Like fellow gay icon Madonna, Kylie Minogue is a master of reinvention, borrowing heavily from the latest trends in an ongoing quest to stay musically...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...