Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Orbiting Aristocrats

    If I never see another human body explode, it'll be too soon -- and it's all Neill Blomkamp's fault. The South African filmmaker made his...

  • Laverne Cox Rocks

    They say a lady never reveals her age. It's a rule Laverne Cox lives by. ''I don't discuss my age,'' she says playfully, ''except to...

  • Mick Jagger turns 70: 12 essential tracks

    Mick Jagger has just turned 70. We are now at the point where legendary rock bands and artists are touring and recording at an age...

  • ‘Janis Joplin,’ From Arena Stage to Broadway

    All together now: Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on, and take it! Take another little piece of One Night with Janis Joplin, now...

  • Madonna from worst to first: ranking her 12 albums

    We recently noted the 30th anniversary of Madonna’s self-titled debut and, with over a year having passed since her most recent studio album “MDNA,” the...

  • Ultra’s Altar

    Electronic/dance music, or EDM, is a singles-driven genre, so you don't expect EDM artists to produce albums as regularly as you do those in other...

  • Blood Feud

    Flying back to the U.S. with her Danish wife in July, Mary Coble was welcomed – albeit politely – with some institutional homophobia. So many...

  • Modern Marriage

    ''It's a musical I never thought I'd end up directing, that's for sure,'' says Jack Marshall of I Do! I Do! ''I actually avoided seeing...

  • Madonna’s self-titled debut, 30 years later

    Thirty years ago this week an album was released that would end up changing the course of pop music forever.  It would have been impossible...

  • Icona Pop to Return to Area with Stop at Virgin FreeFest

    This year’s Capital Pride headlining duo Icona Pop are on a tear, striking while the iron — aka that little ditty called “I Love It”...

  • Hear Queer

    {Cheyenne Jackson (Photo by Karl Simone)} THE PAST COUPLE YEARS, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN able to turn on the radio without hearing the soaring work of...

  • ''To Do List'' Scores

    The To Do List isn't perfect. It moves in fits and starts, slipping in and out of rhythm in clumsy, amateurish ways. It's wildly enthusiastic,...

  • Hooking Up: The Musical

    Last year Eric Tipler spent a weekend in New York City. While there he took in a Broadway musical, but otherwise spent most of his...

  • Station Master

    On the morning of Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant was shot in the back by a police officer. He was neither armed nor dangerous. He...

  • Mayer Hawthorne’s sexy new album “Where Does This Door Go”

    California-based singer/songwriter and talented multi-instrumentalist is back today with his 4th album, β€œWhere Does This Door Go.”  It’s a smooth collection of R&B flavored pop...