Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Round House grows a beard — James Beard, that is.

    By on October 31, 2012

    Nick Olcott portrays James Beard, who brought fine cooking and a jolly personality to the small screen in 1946 — long before Julia Child, Emeril...

  • Four Legs Good

    By on October 31, 2012

    In this age in which every successful fantasy or adventure novel has been – or will be – fully ''realized'' via computer generation, there is...

  • Dirty Truth

    By on October 31, 2012

    Right now there's a freestanding toilet in a remote section of the third-floor stage at Studio Theatre. There's also a lot of dirt on the...

  • Lover's Return

    By on October 31, 2012

    ''The ladies love me,'' Alice Smith says after being asked about gay fans. And why is that? ''It's because I'm sexy,'' the singer-songwriter says with...

  • Pop Love

    By on October 31, 2012

    It's funny how freeing coming out can be. Though Mika only officially came out as gay a few months ago, after he had already completed...

  • Horse Play

    By on October 25, 2012

    {Warhorse (Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg)} Christopher Mai is a dancer by training, and has done some previous work with puppets. But for his latest role?...

  • Unfilmable

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer,...

  • The Partying Dead

    By on October 25, 2012

    If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress...

  • Vampire Barre

    By on October 25, 2012

    ''It's been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet,'' jokes Michael Pink. ''It comes back and back again because it sells out....

  • Seasonal Scares

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's a perfect time to read The First Male, the fifth novel from local gay author Lee Hayes, that time is now. Published in...

  • Almost Like Clockwork

    By on October 18, 2012

    Anthony Burgess came to loathe so intensely the one piece of literature he's best known for, a few years before he died he created a...

  • Dishonor Above All

    By on October 18, 2012

    In a world dominated by tightly scripted first-person shooters, rigidly focused platformers and set-piece sandbox games, boundaries are a frequent occurrence and annoyance for the...

  • Babs Is Back

    By on October 18, 2012

    Barbra Streisand sounds as great and glorious as she did in her heyday on her new offering, Release Me. Of course, that's because most of...

  • Rose Colored

    By on October 18, 2012

    ''I always say I'm the president of the Bette Midler Changed My Life Club,'' jokes Amanda McBroom, who early in her career wrote ''The Rose.''...

  • Funny Mann

    By on October 18, 2012

    For the record, Aimee Mann doesn't do windows. That's despite what you may have seen on Portlandia. In the IFC sketch comedy show, the rocker...