Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Scott G. Brooks

    Scott G. Brooks ''Royally Ducked'' 36'' x 48'' oil on canvas 2007 Broken Eggs. Downtrodden fairy tale figures. Princesses, fairies, carnival sideshows. Amputated stumps. Wide-set...

  • Capital Pride 2007

    Yes, that was Mayor Adrian M. Fenty marching and throwing bead necklaces at the Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9. Fenty joined hundreds of...

  • Shipwrecked

    There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...

  • Web Head

    The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...

  • Unburied Treasure

    Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...

  • Monsters and Mayhem

    Wake up, moviegoing America! Right before your eyes last weekend came an original: a witty, exceedingly well-crafted tribute to the exploitation flicks of the '70s,...

  • No Secrets

    After opening night of Sherry Glaser's one-person hit Family Secrets in New York, in 1993, her father bought out the entire theater for the next...

  • Scene Stealer

    I don't want to be premature about this, but it seems Joseph Gordon-Levitt has completely conquered the ''Curse of the T.V. Sitcom Child Actor.'' Many...

  • Cybill Rights

    How can you not love Cybill Shepherd? From her stunning on-screen debut as the sexually manipulative Jacy Farrow in 1971's The Last Picture Show to...

  • Return to Oz

    For the past dozen or so Sundays, Steven Scott Mazzola has journeyed into the Land of Oz. It's a trip that has evolved, deepened and...

  • Cherry Smash

    ''Ten minutes into the play, the audience leans forward and they never lean back. In 30 years of doing theater, I've never seen a play...

  • Law Breaking

    Breaking and Entering is an adult film with adult themes, an adult pace and adult sensibilities. It's awash in a sea of adultness. And why...

  • People Eater

    It's a pretty sure bet that if you name your kid Hannibal, he'll grow up to be a serial killer. But what kind of serial...

  • Classical Twist

    ''The first designer who started doing clothes for me was Gianni Versace,'' recalls concert pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. ''That was the late '80s and it was...

  • Cutting Edge

    Matthew Bourne doesn't mind if you mistake Edward Scissorhands, his dance adaptation of the 1990 Tim Burton film, for a musical. ''You can forgive people...