All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Auld Lang Syne
For 10 year's ends in a row, starting in 1992 and ending in 2001, I and others on staff at the gay newspaper where I...
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2002 in Pictures
Over 350 photos are featured in this week's printed edition of Metro Weekly. Click on the links below to view photos from our many events...
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Shore to Please
On the halfshell: Redmond as Luther Billis. Photo credit: Scott Suchman For all the familiarity such a hit-laden musical theatre warhorse brings with it, Arena...
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Unlawfully Wed
Right now, there's a country filled with gay Christian couples thanking God that their prayers have been answered. Right now, there's a Bible Belt packed...
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Family Ties
It's that time of year again -- the ho-ho-holidays, the spend-yourself-silly countdown to December 25. I'm a sucker for a shopping mall any day of...
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Robb Keffer
Photography by Jeff Code “I love Samurai Jack and Powerpuff Girls. I’m not such a big fan of Space Ghost, but I watch it anyway....
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Garrett Hurd
Photography by Jeff Code “Gee, I sound like the most boring person in the entire world,” Garrett Hurd thought as he made his way through...
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Ornamental
In August, you complained that the stores were breaking out their Christmas consumables way too early, but here we are two weeks from the big...
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Winter Blunderland
An off-the-wall, casual approach to tried-and-true Shakespearean comedy can certainly work wonders. I still feel a surge of giddy delight whenever I recall last season's...
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Frustrating and Timid
Scena Theatre introduces Washington audiences to the controversial 1996 British play Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill, and the company comes frustratingly close to an...
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Grounded Lyricism
Edward Sanchez's new play Icarus strives to be a lyrical, surreal meditation on dreams and beauty, fueled by the tale of a physically disabled young...
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Magnificent Music
I don't see how the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. could have made a more musically rewarding and emotionally uplifting contribution to the December...
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Disconnecting the Dot
It was only a matter of time before Dot Allison succumbed to 21st century cynicism. 1999's hyperemotional Afterglow was almost quaint in its sincerity, proving...
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Well Drawn
Damon Gough's determination to be too awkward for fame has finally turned him into a celebrity. Even hiding behind the cryptic pseudonym Badly Drawn Boy...
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Campus Radicals, Past and Present
This is where I came out as a brainy dyke teen in Birkenstock sandals, fountain pen dripping with feminist ink: Washington, D.C. in 1980, on...
