Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Do the Electric Guest puzzle! Stream Jenny!

    By on May 25, 2012

    Successfully put all the pieces into place on the “puzzle” at the Electric Guest website and you’ll get some exclusive streams — a pleasantly strummed...

  • Kylie Minogue wants you to dance on her new “Time Bomb” [video]

    By on May 25, 2012

    Kylie Minogue released the video for “Time Bomb,” her latest dance music single.  The Australian singer and actress turns 44 on May 28, and she...

  • Double Serving

    By on May 24, 2012

    At one point in the middle of the complicated hijinks of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's The Servant of Two Masters, Truffaldino, the servant in question,...

  • Retro Grooves: Electric Guest

    By on May 23, 2012

    There's a new R&B-flavored electronic rock band on the scene, and there's a reason listening to Electric Guest's debut album will remind you of contemporary...

  • Heated Verbiage

    By on May 23, 2012

    There is power in words. D.C.'s Regie Cabico knows that. Just read a few lines of his poem ''Love Letter from Andrew Cunanan.'' I have...

  • Black Out

    By on May 23, 2012

    Men in Black III shouldn't have happened. That's not to say that it was a particularly bad idea – it doesn't even approach the terrible...

  • Maps and Mythology

    By on May 23, 2012

    The specter of AIDS haunts Steven Dietz's Lonely Planet – and yet the disease is never mentioned by name. But it is AIDS causing the...

  • Gay Skate: Xanadu

    By on May 23, 2012

    ''It appeals to more than just the gay audience, but for some reason it appeals to our sensibility the most,'' says Matthew Gardiner. In fact,...

  • All Skate

    By on May 23, 2012

    Leg warmers, roller disco, an Aussie pop star cavorting on the big screen as a muse from Greek mythology…. Gee, the '80s got off to...

  • Joel Stein reads from Man Made at Sixth & I Synagogue

    By on May 19, 2012

    Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity explores the absurdities of modern masculinity from Time columnist Joel Stein. The funny and poignant book was provoked...

  • Schemekel at the Washington Jewish Music Festival

    By on May 19, 2012

    Now in its 13th year, the Washington Jewish Music Festival winds down with at least one concert of definite LGBT appeal tomorrow, Sunday, May 20,...

  • A Little Bloated

    By on May 18, 2012

    How does a family endure? Studio Theatre 2ndStage's The Big Meal is entirely preoccupied with that question, and curiously, its answer is found in an...

  • Bull's Eye

    By on May 18, 2012

    Let's get one thing out of the way: Bernie is about much more than a real-life murder. ''What you're fixin' to see is a true...

  • Donna Summer’s everlasting dance

    By on May 17, 2012

    When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...

  • Beautiful Dreamers

    By on May 17, 2012

    If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...