Arts + Entertainment
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Catch John Grant Tonight at U-Hall
Sinead O’Connor cries out the lyrics right alongside John Grant on Grant’s aching song “Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore?” The song is about exactly...
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Don’t Miss The (Show) Boat on Two Classics
Got a hankering for a classic musical? It’s pretty easy to get a fix around this theater-loving town. Generally there’s at least one classic being...
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Hints from Arvind: Wolf Trap’s Future
Maybe this weekend you’re headed to Wolf Trap to take in the National Symphony Orchestra’s multimedia show Frozen Planet in Concert. Or R&B great Anita...
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Macklemore Raises Up Gay Rights in Hip-Hop
Is there a hot new pop act more gay friendly than Macklemore & Ryan Lewis? At the least the Seattle hip-hop duo has definitely given...
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R&B Singer Puff Johnson Succumbs to Cancer
Puff Johnson, best known for R&B hits “All Over Your Face,” “Over and Over” (from the film “The First Wives’ Club”) and “Forever More” succumbed...
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A Single Man
Boy, do people really get hung up about getting hitched. It wasn't that long ago when gay people were effectively immune from a lot of...
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Shakespeare as Summer Sizzler
This is not hyperbole: Much Ado About Nothing reflects Joss Whedon's skill as a director as much as it celebrates Shakespeare's timeless words. (Blasphemy, you...
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George Michael’s 10 Chart Toppers
Well, another week, another iconic pop star reaches a milestone birthday. Only days after Cyndi Lauper turned 60, fellow 80s megastar George Michael reaches the...
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”Crossover Kids” examines lives of transgender children and teens
“I would much rather have a good relationship with the daughter that I have, than a poor relationship with a son that doesn’t really exist.”...
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The Lost Patrol’s campy new “See You In Hell” video
Earlier this month we wrote about the stellar new album by The Lost Patrol, “Driven.” The NYC-area band has just premiered their new video for...
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Casey Stratton’s soaring, beautiful “Sea Into Sky”
Casey Stratton is a prodigious talent who didn’t allow being lost in the major-label shuffle to derail his career. Released by Sony Records in 2004,...
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Cyndi Lauper turns 60: A Career Overview
Pop icon Cyndi Lauper turned 60 years old on Saturday, and hopefully she celebrated in style, coming off her triumph at the Tony’s with her...
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Invigorated E3
E3 2013 was big, brash and bursting with content. And, as Metro Weekly’s inaugural conference, it couldn’t have been better. We were on the show floor...
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Don't Miss the Boat
Deep into Act 1 of Anything Goes, two listless gossipmongers groan that there's nobody famous aboard this voyage of the cruise ship the S.S. American....
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Haunting Electronica
Last year Sinead O'Connor released a cover version of a John Grant song. But that was only the start of O'Connor singing Grant's praises. O'Connor...
