Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Sunday Arias

    ''By nature, cabaret is an evening of song, of stories, of fun in an intimate space, where there's a direct connection with the audience,'' says...

  • Review: Justin Utley

    Justin Utley is still on a mission. The former Mormon missionary, later a pop star in the church's own Utah-based entertainment industry, may no longer...

  • Gay by Association

    Michael Ian Black once made out with Bradley Cooper. ''He wasn't yet People's Sexiest Man Alive,'' Black says. ''Had I known he would be that,...

  • Hooray for Hollywood

    Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...

  • Otter Season

    Once thought to be an endangered species, otters are now so prevalent in D.C. that, like deer, a hunting season has sprung up. Of course,...

  • Reagon's Rites

    Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...

  • Arts Hub

    Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...

  • Concert Review: Zola Jesus

    ''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...

  • Review: Blood Wedding

    Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...

  • Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

    In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...

  • Estelle Shines Anew

    ''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...

  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...

  • Frida's Photos

    Sometimes it pays to be a sister city. Right now in Arlington, for instance, you can see a collection of Frida Kahlo's photographs, never before...

  • Review: Josephine Tonight

    There aren't a lot of musicals to see around town over the next month. But even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro...

  • Sex Appeal

    {Glitterlust (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Glitterlust photographed by Julian Vankim at Velvet Lounge, Thursday, Feb. 9 ''We almost broke up,'' says Mikey Torres, referring to...