Metro Weekly

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  • Auntie Establishment

    By on August 21, 2002

         The performance hall in my hometown is smaller than I remember it, but most things back there are. It's been at least 10 years...

  • Wet-n-Wild

    By on August 14, 2002

    Washington Wetskins      Take some basketball, mix in dashes of soccer and football, then flood the playing field with water until it's too deep to...

  • Future Tense

    By on July 24, 2002

    Photos by Michael Wichita and Jonathan Padget We consider ourselves a pretty modern, no nonsense society when it comes to forward-thinking. Low-tar cigarettes, tap lights,...

  • Renegades Rugby

    By on July 24, 2002

    Washington Renegades (Photo by Michael Wichita) Just watching a Washington Renegades rugby practice from the sidelines, one starts to feel gripped by the passion on...

  • And The Wiener Is…

    By on July 3, 2002

    This Independence Day is certain to be one heavier on tradition than usual. You know -- as American as apple pie, mom, hot dogs, blah-blah-blah.......

  • And I Love Him

    By on July 3, 2002

         When my friends and I were in the ninth grade, the bass player for the band Duran Duran announced plans to get married. There...

  • Greetings

    By on May 4, 1994

    IMAGINE LOSING ONE'S CHILD. That's how the staff of Michael's Entertainment Weekly felt when, on April 11, 1994, the announcement came down from above that...