All posts by Doug Rule
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Artisphere Turns 3 with 1,000 Andy Warhols
Tonight is the night to don a black turtleneck and silver wig and head over to Arlington’s Artisphere for its “Night of 1,000 Andys Dance...
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Nothing Passé about National Coming Out Day
In last week’s Metro Weekly cover story, Dan Savage, the Savage Love sex columnist and It Gets Better Project co-founder, discussed coming out. This founding...
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Returning to Laramie
Two weeks ago, the cover of Metro Weekly featured Scott Suchman's dramatic and incredibly evocative photo of actors portraying participants at a candlelight vigil for...
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VelocityDC Shines Light on Local Dance Scene
No one refers to Washington as a capital, or even a hotbed, of dance. But a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Homecoming Dance
{Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...
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Bear Crazed
Michael Ian Hodges, you might say, was going berserk. ''They don't have to bring in these higher-priced DJs and party promoters,'' Hodges says, referring to...
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Pipe Dreams
Go figure. The young celebrity musician behind the biggest and loudest musical instrument is himself relatively brash and audacious. Moreover, Cameron Carpenter, the international concert...
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Boo! Spooky Movie Time at AFI Silver
Now that the weather is starting to turn cold and dreary, and each night is coming a little earlier, you might be itching for that...
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Baltimore’s Visionary Art Museum Takes on Technology
Maybe the weirdest, wildest museum you’ll ever visit, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum opens its 19th original thematic yearlong exhibition this weekend. Human, Soul &...
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Cher Plans to ‘Kill’ It at Verizon Center Next Year
The incomparable Cher has announced her “I’m Not Dead Yet Tour” — oops, I mean the “Dressed to Kill Tour.” Which comes after her “Farewell Tour”...
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Bearded Birthday
''I do see people, I guess, being more beard-positive,'' David Brown says with a laugh. ''I think people kind of understand what the term 'otter'...
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Lady in the Limelight
''I would torture my family with made-up arias and stuff, and sing around the house,'' Sutton Foster says of her childhood days in Georgia and...
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Chamber Soul
Marques Toliver got his start in the music business by busking, playing violin on the streets in St. Augustine, Fla. These days you're more likely...
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Savage Intent
A decade ago Dan Savage irreverently propagated the term ''santorum'' as ''the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of...
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Actors Delight
Sometimes it's the sheer audacity of an actor that draws you to a particular play. In Eric Coble's new work The Velocity of Autumn, now...
