Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Kazim Ali at The DC Center

    A novelist and a translator and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Kazim Ali will focus a discussion at the DC Center on his poetry, reading...

  • Under the covers with Johnson and Goss

    Popular local folk troubadour Tom Goss performs with Jeffrey Johnson, aka drag queen Super Agent Galactica. The duo’s show is billed as “Under the Covers...

  • Women’s Shorts

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Oh Yes, It's ... Ladies' Nite Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (5 out of 5) Tuesday, 10/18/2011, 7:00 PM Shorts presentation, $12 at...

  • Hanson at The State

    Oklahoma’s Hanson brothers are still around, 14 years after their one and only true pop hit. Chances are, it’s a little ditty you still hear...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 6 – Shorts galore!

    All three of today’s showings are at the conveniently located West End, so why not end your workday by starting your RA viewing day at...

  • An Horse at Red Palace

    Not only does the Australian duo An Horse sound like a punkier version of Tegan & Sara. Lesbian singer and guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer...

  • A Bright New Boise at Woolly

    In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 5 – Mary Lou!

    Today’s offerings include the Critic Picked Mary Lou (from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox), the documentary Our Lips Are Sealed, So Hard to Forget and...

  • Signature’s Music in the Movies

    Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...

  • Tomboy

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (4 out of 5) Sunday, 10/16/2011, 5:30 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Navy Memorial Heritage Center French wit

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4

    A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...

  • Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club

    This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...

  • Duran Duran at D.A.R.

    Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...

  • The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...

  • Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Randy Shulman Rating: (3 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre SOMEWHERE NEAR SATURN'S furthest...