Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Video Flashback

    ''I'm loving seeing the mix in the crowd we get,'' says Nikolas Groshans. ''The people are from all different backgrounds, they're different sexes, they're different...

  • Role Model

    By day, Sajdah Golde is a field organizer with the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Vote for Equality initiative, canvassing neighborhoods that voted for California's...

  • Art and Artifice

    Could it be time for a Candy Darling revival? It's been 37 years since her death due to leukemia -- and the Andy Warhol-associated starlet's...

  • Bird Watching

    Right now, a play about gay penguins -- and more broadly, gay marriage -- is playing at a small, relatively new theater in Fairfax County....

  • Oklahomo

    ''I think being in the Midwest, people don't expect it to be quite like that, but in Tulsa there's just a lot of support,'' says...

  • Team Work

    As general manager for the past 14 years, Joey Oldaker, known as Joey-O, helped shape many memories of the club originally known as Badlands. But...

  • Thanks for the Memories

    What do you remember about Badlands and Apex? ''When I started at Badlands in 1993 there were two walled-in alcoves where the main bars [off...

  • Rock Out

    I know what you're thinking. A jukebox musical with cheesy rock and noisy hair metal from the '80s? Starring Constantine Maroulis, an American Idol also-ran...

  • Sizzlin' Good Stuff

    The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...

  • Koz Celebre

    A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...

  • Wedding Singer

    ''I put together this program before ,'' says Steven Blier, ''but now that it has, the program has a different meaning...

  • Queer as Folk

    Guitarist Anne McCue's first live performance was at a pool party in her native Sydney, Australia. ''We were so shy,'' she says of her first...

  • Hiding the Bacon

    ''We have very loyal football fans, and there was just about a rumble,'' says Doug Schantz, owner of Nellie's Sports Bar. Schantz is referring to...

  • Beyoncé Blunders

    ''My persuasion can build a nation,'' Beyoncé sings on ''Run The World (Girls),'' the first single from her new album, 4. She's speaking in broad...

  • Required Viewing

    ''The real difference between last year and this year,'' says Scott Kenison, founding chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, ''is that this...