Metro Weekly

Features

  • Readings and Lectures

    BORDERS BOOKSTORES Various locations www.borders.com · Eugene Drucker -- The Savior (9/15, Tyson's Corner) · Michael Korda -- Ike: An American Hero (9/18, 18th &...

  • Horse Sense

    When she began her career as a racetrack veterinarian in the late 1980s, Linda Molesworth was something of a novelty at Maryland racetracks. As a...

  • Saddle Up

    If you've never been to a rodeo before, you might not know what ''Calf Roping,'' ''Chute Dogging'' or ''Goat Dressing'' are. But if the country-western...

  • Dance

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Margaret Jenkins Dance Company - A Slipping Glimpse -- Dancers from India's...

  • Maryland Hot Spot

    The 2007 Chesapeake Pride Festival was hot. Not ''mid-Atlantic summer social calendar'' hot, but simply hot. Really, really hot. And humid. But that didn't stop...

  • In Phase

    The recent juggernaut of alternative offerings in the nation's capital -- from Art in Heat to the Fringe Festival -- shows no sign of stopping....

  • Harnessing Sexual Energy

    While music moves people in primal ways, there is, arguably, nothing more primal than a person's sex drive. The organizers of Phase Fest are acknowledging...

  • Katastrophe

    THERE WEREN'T TOO many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe. The 27-year-old native of the...

  • K. Love the Infinite

    IT'S NOT JUST about the music, says Kaye Love, the 27-year-old lesbian rapper who performs as K. Love the Infinite.''I feel like I have a...

  • Alex Voegele

    FOR THE LONGEST time, Alex Voegele had no idea she could sing. It was only after her post-high school indie band, for which Voegele played...

  • Odd Girl Out

    DESPITE THE FACT that she's the drummer, Bethany Petr from Odd Girl Out wrote all of the songs on the band's debut album, Hurry Up...

  • Nicky Click

    AN ELECTRO-DANCE party featuring computerized and synthesized beats, vocals and top '40 music, is how Nicky Click describes her sound. Nicky Click The 27-year-old native...

  • Citizen Nick

    With a foundation built on journalism and baseball, Nicholas F. Benton's start in life was nothing if not all-American. At 7, he got the scoop...

  • The Bears Are Coming

    Chris Wilkins didn't really plan on becoming a bear -- much less the president of the D.C. Bear Club. '''Accidentally' is the word for it,''...

  • 2007 Bear Invasion

    With three days of events, the D.C. Bear Invasion has a lot in store. Registration is open on the Web at www.bearinvasion.com for $110 --...