Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tickets on Sale Tomorrow for Justin Timberlake at Verizon Center

    This is shaping up to be the biggest week yet for Justin Timberlake, whose turn as a Hollywood leading man comes Friday, Oct. 4, with...

  • NSO Launches Season with Grandeur of Saint-Saens

    Tonight Christoph Eschenbach kicks off the new season of the National Symphony Orchestra with a bang, bringing in superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and gay rising...

  • E Street Cinema to Spice up Your Life Tonight

    Every weekend, Landmark’s E Street Cinema screens a cult classic as part of its Midnight Madness screening series — most famously The Rocky Horror Picture...

  • Hillwood’s 12th Annual Gay Day Set for Tomorrow

    Any day can be a good gay day to take in the riches of upper Northwest D.C.’s Hillwood Estate and Museums, the well-preserved mansion and...

  • Pop Art

    Jose Ortiz never forgot an experience he had over a decade ago at New York's Queens Museum of Art. ''You follow all the rules and...

  • A View of Rome

    Remember John Waters's A Dirty Shame? ''I was the 'splosher,''' says Susan Rome, who played Messy Melinda. ''I was the person who derived sexual satisfaction...

  • Spotlight on Spinella

    Stephen Spinella boldly thanked his male lover in 1993 when he won a Tony Award for Best Actor. ''There was a little squeaky-squeaky about that,...

  • Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2013: The Highlights

    “You are absolutely the best crowd we’ve ever had,” Aino Jawo of Icona Pop told the crowd assembled at ths past Saturday’s Virgin Mobile FreeFest...

  • National Theatre tonight screens the campy classic The Women

    Tonight, the National Theatre kicks off its two-months-long free Monday night screening series “Joan Crawford: Hollywood Star” with George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women. Metro...

  • Dakshina’s Indian Arts Festival Kicks off Tonight

    Tonight, Sept. 20, is the launch of Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company’s 10th Annual Fall Festival of Indian Arts at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman...