Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Returning to Laramie

    Two weeks ago, the cover of Metro Weekly featured Scott Suchman's dramatic and incredibly evocative photo of actors portraying participants at a candlelight vigil for...

  • VelocityDC Shines Light on Local Dance Scene

    No one refers to Washington as a capital, or even a hotbed, of dance. But a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...

  • Homecoming Dance

    {Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...

  • Bear Crazed

    Michael Ian Hodges, you might say, was going berserk. ''They don't have to bring in these higher-priced DJs and party promoters,'' Hodges says, referring to...

  • Pipe Dreams

    Go figure. The young celebrity musician behind the biggest and loudest musical instrument is himself relatively brash and audacious. Moreover, Cameron Carpenter, the international concert...

  • Boo! Spooky Movie Time at AFI Silver

    Now that the weather is starting to turn cold and dreary, and each night is coming a little earlier, you might be itching for that...

  • Baltimore’s Visionary Art Museum Takes on Technology

    Maybe the weirdest, wildest museum you’ll ever visit, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum opens its 19th original thematic yearlong exhibition this weekend. Human, Soul &...

  • Cher Plans to ‘Kill’ It at Verizon Center Next Year

    The incomparable Cher has announced her “I’m Not Dead Yet Tour” — oops, I mean the “Dressed to Kill Tour.” Which comes after her “Farewell Tour”...

  • Bearded Birthday

    ''I do see people, I guess, being more beard-positive,'' David Brown says with a laugh. ''I think people kind of understand what the term 'otter'...

  • Lady in the Limelight

    ''I would torture my family with made-up arias and stuff, and sing around the house,'' Sutton Foster says of her childhood days in Georgia and...

  • Chamber Soul

    Marques Toliver got his start in the music business by busking, playing violin on the streets in St. Augustine, Fla. These days you're more likely...

  • Savage Intent

    A decade ago Dan Savage irreverently propagated the term ''santorum'' as ''the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of...

  • Actors Delight

    Sometimes it's the sheer audacity of an actor that draws you to a particular play. In Eric Coble's new work The Velocity of Autumn, now...

  • Tickets on Sale Tomorrow for Justin Timberlake at Verizon Center

    This is shaping up to be the biggest week yet for Justin Timberlake, whose turn as a Hollywood leading man comes Friday, Oct. 4, with...

  • NSO Launches Season with Grandeur of Saint-Saens

    Tonight Christoph Eschenbach kicks off the new season of the National Symphony Orchestra with a bang, bringing in superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and gay rising...