Metro Weekly

Features

  • Readings: Authors, Writers, Politicians and Personalities

    BORDERS BOOKSTORES Various locationswww.borders.com Judy Shepard -- The Meaning of Matthew (9/19, 18th & L Streets NW) E. Lynn Harris Tribute Tour -- Fellow authors...

  • Classical Music: Symphonies, Operas, and other Concerts

    BACH SINFONIA Evelyn Glennie: Music Center at Strathmore Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center Montgomery CollegeGeorgia Avenue and East-West HighwaySilver Spring301-362-6525www.bachsinfonia.org The Story of the...

  • Here in the Real World

    When word came that the nation's capital would become a part of the real world – make that The Real World – it was only...

  • Boy Talk

    ''West End Girls.'' ''It's A Sin.'' ''Always On My Mind.'' ''Go West.'' ''New York City Boy.''Quickly approaching 30 years of musical partnership, Neil Tennant and...

  • The Kids Are All Right

    It's been about six months since Andrew Barnett was appointed executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League -- though he's been filling the...

  • Meet the Press

    It should come as no surprise that one chapter of Kerry Eleveld's life contains a stint as an amateur stand-up comic. Her keen wit, sharp...

  • For Goodness Sykes

    Wanda Sykes is power-walking. At least that's what I think she's doing. I hear birds chirping in the background, and once during our conversation she...

  • Breaking Out the Bid

    All the Gay Games buzz these days might have you counting down to Cologne -- Opening Ceremony July 31, 2010 -- just a tick away...

  • Go Team!

    Few metaphors speak as loudly as sports metaphors. Reach for the goal! Fight to the finish line! There’s no “I” in “team”! So it’s perhaps...

  • Citizen Legislator

    Bob Summersgill From childhood, when his father took him to Cape Canaveral to watch the last manned moon launch in 1972, to college when he...

  • Hitting Out

    Every sport has its hallowed grounds and those few athletes who have the good fortune and great talent to compete on them. In tennis, few...

  • Wide Awake

    ''Spring Awakening'' at the Kennedy Center Spring can really hang you up the most. It was in the spring of 1989 that Sen. Jesse Helms...

  • The Naked Truth

    There are 10 naked men hanging at The DC Center. They are all covering their genitals, part of ''Member,'' a photo exhibit by Baltimore photographer...

  • Principles and Pragmatism

    IT IS SOMETIMES DONE with baby steps, other times with great leaps, and every so often it's done in circles. Still, advocates and enemies alike...

  • Love, Bal'mer Style

    Crowd of Pride partiers at Charles and Eager Streets in Baltimore ''We need more love in the world,'' Amber shouted from Baltimore Pride's main stage...