Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • One-Stop Shop

    Cobalt's 30 Degrees lounge has new stain-resistant white leather furniture. ''Once you do something nice, and your customers realize you've done something nice, they respect...

  • Aged to Perfection

    ''I was kind of the black sheep of the family -- they didn't think I could do anything,'' says Annie Kaylor. ''And here I made...

  • Mid-Atlantic Inauguration

    Next month's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend -- including the 25th annual Mr. MAL Contest -- is guaranteed to be the wildest in recent memory, occurring just...

  • Bathhouse Blues

    If you were to record an album at a gay sex club, what kind of music would it be? Dance music seems obvious -- it's...

  • Tube Talk

    Let the games begin -- and not just football. This weekend, specifically this Friday, is traditionally the kickoff to the best deals you'll find on...

  • Life Songs

    After a recent dress rehearsal with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, director Joe Bello was feeling emotional. ''They actually moved me to tears on the...

  • Musically Gifted

    Hilary Duff just released a Best Of collection. Sure, the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire is only 21. Only five years and some eight hits into...

  • Destiny's Adults

    It sounds like a joke, right? And not an especially good one. But Beyonce isn't kidding. She really has adopted a laughably bad alter ego...

  • Exposure to Art

    Local artist Frank Muzzy is literally exposing himself for this year's Art for Life, the annual Whitman-Walker Clinic art auction benefit. A noted painter of...

  • Stuck On You

    Maybe, before you came out of the closet, you got a tattoo to signify your eternal love for Heather, your date to the prom. Maybe...

  • Everybody Dance

    Tony Moran's partner of nine years died last May. ''Dealing with that while others were watching was difficult,'' says Moran, an acclaimed dance music producer...

  • Think Pink

    ''I guess I just lost my husband,'' sings Alecia Moore, better known as the pop star Pink, at the top of the first song on...

  • The Mind of Morel

    Never mind the down economy. In a different kind of bear market - and in pop music in general - Richard Morel is having a...

  • Cabaret Pearl

    Pearl Bailey died 18 years ago, but her irrepressible spirit has been reincarnated in the body of Roz White -- and Washington is all the...

  • Dolls

    Reel Affirmations 2008 Pusinsky Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Thursday, 10/23/2008, 7:00 PM Feature presentation, $10 at 6th & I Synagogue Czech with English subtitles