Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Pop Love

    It's funny how freeing coming out can be. Though Mika only officially came out as gay a few months ago, after he had already completed...

  • Rooms with an Election View

    Next Tuesday night, Nov. 6, promises to offer plenty of live drama and entertainment, especially in this political city. And this town's LGBT and LGBT-friendly...

  • Horse Play

    {Warhorse (Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg)} Christopher Mai is a dancer by training, and has done some previous work with puppets. But for his latest role?...

  • The Partying Dead

    If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress...

  • Vampire Barre

    ''It's been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet,'' jokes Michael Pink. ''It comes back and back again because it sells out....

  • Fashion Fetish

    It may take place the Saturday before Halloween, but the costume party at L'Enfant Café near Adams Morgan is ''not full-on costume,'' explains Chord Bezerra....

  • Your Guide to Halloween Nightlife in D.C.

    UPDATE: The 17th Street High Heel Race has been rescheduled. The new date is Thursday, November 1, from 6-9 p.m; on 17th Street NW between P...

  • Good Humor Honor

    Last night, Kristen Chenoweth and Lily Tomlin led the honors at the Kennedy Center for Hollywood's preeminent cute and clever comic, Ellen DeGeneres. The occasion...

  • Almost Like Clockwork

    Anthony Burgess came to loathe so intensely the one piece of literature he's best known for, a few years before he died he created a...

  • Babs Is Back

    Barbra Streisand sounds as great and glorious as she did in her heyday on her new offering, Release Me. Of course, that's because most of...

  • Rose Colored

    ''I always say I'm the president of the Bette Midler Changed My Life Club,'' jokes Amanda McBroom, who early in her career wrote ''The Rose.''...

  • Funny Mann

    For the record, Aimee Mann doesn't do windows. That's despite what you may have seen on Portlandia. In the IFC sketch comedy show, the rocker...

  • Ghost Story

    Catherine Aselford and her colleagues occasionally hear eerie, unidentifiable sounds while working out of Old Town Alexandria's Athenaeum. No one's sure who, or what, exactly...

  • Hail to the Chefs

    Want to know the percentage of D.C. chefs supporting marriage equality? Among those chefs food writer David Hagedorn asked to be part of Chefs for...

  • Nina's Legacy

    Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...