Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Dragonette Fire

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''We get to do a lot of gay parties or gay events,'' beams Martina Sorbara, singer for the electro-pop band Dragonette. ''I don't know why,...

  • Fully Exposed

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''Here I am, look at me,'' says local actor MaryBeth Wise. ''I'm proud to be who I am.'' Technically, Wise is speaking for the many...

  • Midlife Melody

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''I would certainly welcome a midlife crisis,'' deadpans Bob Mould, ''because that would probably get me a shiny car and a couple new tricks.'' Instead,...

  • Bob Mould Strikes Letterman Gold

    By on September 4, 2012

    “Never too old to contain my rage,” Bob Mould sings on the title track to his blistering, bewitching new album Silver Age, out today. He’s...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    By on September 2, 2012

    Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its new season with a bang, recruiting one of the best singing actresses around, Natascia Diaz, to reprise the role she played...

  • All About Eve

    By on September 1, 2012

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre takes advantage of a “Marilyn Monroe Retrospective” film series to screen this 1950 Bette Davis classic, which has had...

  • Maryland Renaissance Festival

    By on September 1, 2012

    As summer winds down, thoughts naturally turn to jousting, feasting, crafts, theater, music and merriment. Ah yes, the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival, now in its...

  • Bootleg Beauty

    By on August 30, 2012

    Eight years ago, director John Hillcoat and artist Nick Cave made a brilliant movie called The Proposition. Set amid a battle between a gang of...

  • Hollywood ''Bra-mance''

    By on August 30, 2012

    What's a gay man doing directing the female equivalent of a bromance? ''I don't speak for all gay men when I say this,'' says For...

  • Temperamental Movement

    By on August 30, 2012

    ''When it ran Off-Broadway, to attempt to sell tickets, they started saying Mad Men meets Milk,'' Michael Stebbins of Rep Stage says about The...

  • Fun at the Whorehouse

    By on August 30, 2012

    How does the song go? ''Just lots of good will, and maybe one small thrill, but there's nothing dirty going on.'' {Best Little Whorehouse in...

  • The Hello Girl

    By on August 30, 2012

    Those of a certain age might recall that Marsha Mason was married to playwright Neil Simon. Before Simon, however, there was Gary Campbell. ''He was...

  • Strike a Pose, Not a Chord

    By on August 29, 2012

    Nobody wants to see a 54-year-old stripper. You might think Madonna didn't get that memo based on her performance in her latest road show, ''The...

  • Band of Horses premieres new video: “Knock Knock”

    By on August 25, 2012

    I’m a big fan of Band of Horses, so I was actually thrilled to find the premiere of their latest video over at NPR.org. The...

  • Brad Paisley, tonight at Jiffy Lube Live

    By on August 25, 2012

    Country pretty boy Brad Paisley is such a charmer, he almost turned Chely Wright straight. The story goes that a decade before Wright came out,...