Metro Weekly

Features

  • Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction

    By on November 17, 2004

    Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...

  • Brother Bears

    By on November 10, 2004

    With cold weather quickly taking hold and banishing any lingering thoughts of summer, it's becoming the time of year when nature prepares for the coming...

  • Community Kitchen

    By on November 3, 2004

    Food & Friends started from scratch in 1988, when the Rev. Carla Gorrell decided that she wanted to help nourish Washingtonians suffering from AIDS-related illnesses....

  • Chef's Best

    By on November 3, 2004

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Local Leverage

    By on October 27, 2004

    By so many measures, the 2004 presidential race is unprecedented. The George W. Bush vs. John Kerry slugfest is breaking records with money spent and...

  • Executive Director, The Sequel

    By on October 20, 2004

    As crowds of filmgoers enjoy Reel Affirmations, the 14th annual installment of Washington's GLBT film festival, they may be unaware that changes are afoot. Carlos...

  • Raising the Bar

    By on October 20, 2004

    Every state in the nation has an attorney general serving as top lawyer. So do American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and...

  • Reel Affirmations 14

    By on October 13, 2004

    Here's a look at more than 100 films and videos during the 2004 presentation of Reel Affirmations film festival, from October 14-23 Previous...

  • Dropping the GOP

    By on October 6, 2004

    In the summer of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in a small town in Kansas. No one knew then that Roosevelt -- who left...

  • Rock the House

    By on September 29, 2004

    The organizers of the WEDRock benefit concert wanted to raise support for one of this year's most explosive issues, same-sex marriage. But they didn't want...

  • Film Preview

    By on September 15, 2004

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS WIMBLEDON -- If tennis mixed with love is your preferred tea, then this romance set amid England's prestigious ball-batting event, starring Paul Bettany...

  • Art Museum and Gallery Preview

    By on September 15, 2004

    ANACOSTIA MUSEUM & CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 1901 Fort Pl. SE 202-287-3306 www.anacostia.si.edu Selected Works By William H. Smith -- From the...

  • Dance Preview

    By on September 15, 2004

    CLARICE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company -- Songs of My Life links a series of...

  • Classical and Choral Music Preview

    By on September 15, 2004

    D.C.'S DIFFERENT DRUMMERS 202-269-4868 www.dcdd.org Tunes that go Bump in the Night -- A Halloween concert presented by D.C.'s Different Drummers Symphonic Band, complete with...

  • Pop Music Preview

    By on September 15, 2004

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS TEARS FOR FEARS: Like so many other long-ago hitmaking Britpop bands, have regrouped this year for the first time in 15 years. Would...