Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Mark Bittman at Sixth & I Synagogue

    New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman offers The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living, recipes relying mostly on fruits, vegetables and...

  • The Wiz at Center Stage

    Ease on down the road with Dorothy and her friends in The Wiz, a funked-up adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz featuring...

  • Esperanza Spalding at the Lincoln Theatre

    Following two performances at the White House and a sold-out appearance at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, this bassist and vocalist returns to D.C. with...

  • Nature/Data at Industry Gallery

    Nature/Data is the first solo U.S. exhibition for New York-based Italian designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino, with works executed in plywood, metal, carbon fiber...

  • Girl in a Coma at The Black Cat

    As a lesbian trio from Texas, sisters Phanie and Nina Diaz with Jenn Alva — aka Girl in a Coma create noisy music inspired by...

  • Drake at D.A.R.

    This charming, cute Canadian hip-hopper Drake is one of the genre’s newest stars, part of the Lil Wayne family. His debut album Thank Me Later...

  • A Chorus Line at Shenandoah Conservatory

    Shenandoah Conservatory Performances opens its season with the Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line, exploring the life of 17 dancers on their journey through an...

  • Dakshina’s Art of Peace Sitar Concert

    The Art of Peace Sitar concert featuring Alif Laila (pictured) is an annual concert commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and his contributions to peace. Saturday, Oct....

  • Geckos at the National Geographic Museum

    Geckos: Tails to Toepads features more than 15 species of live geckos from all over the world. Through a series of computer and tactile interactives...

  • Altar Boyz at Dominion Stage

    A robust spoof about an all-boy contemporary Christian singing group, Atlar Boyz, with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and book...

  • Waiting for Superman at Landmark’s E Street Cinema

    From the director of An Inconvenient Truth comes another film about America wasting a natural resource: the next generation. In Waiting for Superman, public schools...

  • The Social Network

    It’s so meta that The Social Network has a Facebook fan page. Aaron Sorkin adapts Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book, The Accidental Billionaires, about the founding...

  • Pink Flamingos at Landmark’s E Street Cinema

    Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics, including, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show —...

  • Justin Nozuka at The State

    Born in New York, bred in Canada, the 21-year-old, part-Japanese R&B singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka writes playfully complex lyrics atypical of the norm, and he turned...

  • Beethoven’s No. 9 at the NSO

    In his first concerts of the regular season, the NSO’s new director Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, one of classical music’s most-heralded compositions....