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  • Provincetown Bear Week: Planning for Foraging and Fur Trapping

    By on July 13, 2013

    It’s an overwhelming list of activities: BigMuscleBears at Paramount, Furball at the Boatslip, Bearracuda at Purgatory, Blowoff at the Boatslip, Fag Bash at Governor Bradford,...

  • Songs of Summer 2013 Sampler

    By on July 12, 2013

    Just in time for your weekend, Metro Weekly has assembled a Spotify playlist of the leading contenders as Song of Summer 2013. That is, at...

  • Duplex Diner Celebrates 15 Years Tonight

    By on July 12, 2013

    Over the past 15 years, D.C.’s restaurant scene has grown by leaps and bounds — in number, in quality, in variety. The bar scene has...

  • Fortune Feimster at Arlington Drafthouse This Weekend

    By on July 11, 2013

    Is it as fun working for comedian Chelsea Handler as it would appear? “Oh for sure,” Fortune Feimster tells Metro Weekly. “We’re all lucky because...

  • Art Party

    By on July 11, 2013

    When Mikey Torres decided to start a queer-focused, performance-based party, he didn't want to just copy what he liked about Town's holiday-Sunday party, WTF, or...

  • Alien Visitation

    By on July 11, 2013

    Right now, Washington is awash with tourists. They're trying to take in too much in too little time, and will end up getting at least...

  • The fun. Activist

    By on July 11, 2013

    ''It's all fun. and gay 'til someone loses their rights.'' The phrase comes from a T-shirt sold by the rock band fun. on its website...

  • Amusing Klymaxx

    By on July 11, 2013

    Back in the mid-'90s Bette Midler took inspiration from Bernadette Cooper for her popular Diva Las Vegas revue. ''They love me, they hate me, but...

  • Call Girl

    By on July 11, 2013

    Carly Rae Jepsen is responsible for the song of summer 2012. Maybe you remember it, the one with the unforgettable music video in which, as...

  • Scientific Songwriter

    By on July 11, 2013

    ''A lot of the stuff that they're making fun of is actually things that I like about Portland,'' says Chris Pureka, referring to the IFC...

  • Good Fortune

    By on July 6, 2013

    ''I'm trying to make it good fortune and not bad fortune,'' Emily Fortune Feimster teases about the family name that she uses as her first...

  • Righteous Return

    By on July 3, 2013

    ''I grew up in Texas, I grew up scared for my life at times,'' says Joshua Vogelsong. ''I've had my life threatened, I've been beaten...

  • Catch John Grant Tonight at U-Hall

    By on June 28, 2013

    Sinead O’Connor cries out the lyrics right alongside John Grant on Grant’s aching song “Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore?” The song is about exactly...

  • Don’t Miss The (Show) Boat on Two Classics

    By on June 28, 2013

    Got a hankering for a classic musical? It’s pretty easy to get a fix around this theater-loving town. Generally there’s at least one classic being...

  • Hints from Arvind: Wolf Trap’s Future

    By on June 28, 2013

    Maybe this weekend you’re headed to Wolf Trap to take in the National Symphony Orchestra’s multimedia show Frozen Planet in Concert. Or R&B great Anita...