Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Fueling Station

    Jacob Pring and Charger Stone photographed by Julian Vankim Need to refuel? This Sunday, May 1, take an exit to Adams Morgan for D.C.'s first-ever...

  • Big Bad Bass

    Matt Boehler photographed at Wolf Trap by Todd Franson ''There's nothing more gay than opera!'' exclaims opera singer Matt Boehler. ''We have fabulous divas wearing...

  • The Omega Man

    Once upon a time, at a jam-packed gay bar known as the Frat House, there was a rush on Rush. ''We actually stopped selling liquor...

  • Express Yourself

    The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...

  • Preacher of Love

    It must be nice to be Tom Goss's husband. After all, the good-looking Goss, with his sweet tenor voice, is hopelessly devoted to the man....

  • Knock on Wood

    You might call Michelle Peterson-Albandoz a dumpster diver for art. The Chicago resident trolls for wood in ''dumpsters and back alleys and stuff'' to create...

  • Mighty Kylie

    Kylie Minogue is coming back for more. The international superstar only properly toured North America for the first time two years ago, more than two...

  • Gurls Gone Wild

    Ashliana Rowe's mother helped her daughter choose a stage name -- to use in performing burlesque. ''I actually emailed my mom,'' says Rowe. '''Mom, I...

  • Taking Liberty

    It's a small world, after all. No, there are no animated dolls serenading you about global peace and world unity in a trip around Ford's...

  • Pop Seduction

    Britney Spears just wants to fuck. Is that so wrong? All throughout Femme Fatale, her new seventh studio set, Spears talks about getting it on...

  • Queer Ear

    Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...

  • Mobile Drinks

    Want a happy hour drink at a non-happy hour time of day? There's an app for that. ''BarTab is an app that allows users to...

  • Lights Up

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • Short Rounds

    Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...

  • Cherry Blast!

    ''I'm really glad Cherry stepped out and got Oscar G, somebody a little bit different as far as the gay circuit goes,'' says Alyson Calagna....