{Emeli Sandé (Photo by Simon Emmett)} Forget the Song of Summer competition. At this point in the season, you're probably tiring of most of...
The electronic dance duo Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI) released the first of three videos taking a look into the duo’s...
This morning, as we were doing our usual tech browsing to find something that piqued our interest, we came across something that not only got...
As part of its summer-long “Totally ’80s Awesome” series, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents a screening of Jonathan Demme’s celebrated 1984 concert film...
This is the first single from the album “All the Hidden Places,” to be released on September 18. Follow @metroweekly
One of contemporary jazz’s leading figures, gay saxophonist Dave Koz performs Wolf Trap in support of 2010’s Hello Tomorrow. The set includes Koz’s cover of...
You can’t fault Todd Solondz for trying. You can’t even fault him for failing. But what you can fault him for is not having the...
China’s most famous international artist — the designer of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium built for the 2008 Olympics — is the subject of two exhibits...
Having got her start in bars and coffeehouses in the D.C. area in the early ’80s, Mary Chapin Carpenter is a “Hometown Girl” par excellence....
''When I was young I started by doing Bette Midler impressions,'' Michele Balan says. ''I was a female female impersonator.'' But Balan, it turns out,...
Two years ago, the Oakland-based straight neo-soul singer Goapele headlined the Capital Pride Women’s Pride Concert. Now, the noted human rights activist, whose name means...
''I THINK I'D PREFER IF YOU DIDN'T know anything special about me,'' Matt Alber sings at the start of his latest album Constant Crows. ''Yes,...
''If people are in Olympics withdrawal and they want to follow up on a bit of the history,'' says James Ring Adams, ''this is a...
''To me, it's one of the finest series of American paintings made during the 20th century,'' says the Corcoran's Philip Brookman, referring to the late...
Genre-mashups aren't exactly a new thing in video games. Developers, just as movie directors and novelists do, will cheerfully borrow any idea that injects new...