Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Religious Enrichment

    Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...

  • The People Sing

    ''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...

  • Under the covers with Johnson and Goss

    Popular local folk troubadour Tom Goss performs with Jeffrey Johnson, aka drag queen Super Agent Galactica. The duo’s show is billed as “Under the Covers...

  • Hanson at The State

    Oklahoma’s Hanson brothers are still around, 14 years after their one and only true pop hit. Chances are, it’s a little ditty you still hear...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 6 – Shorts galore!

    All three of today’s showings are at the conveniently located West End, so why not end your workday by starting your RA viewing day at...

  • An Horse at Red Palace

    Not only does the Australian duo An Horse sound like a punkier version of Tegan & Sara. Lesbian singer and guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer...

  • A Bright New Boise at Woolly

    In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 5 – Mary Lou!

    Today’s offerings include the Critic Picked Mary Lou (from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox), the documentary Our Lips Are Sealed, So Hard to Forget and...

  • Signature’s Music in the Movies

    Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4

    A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...

  • Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club

    This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...

  • Duran Duran at D.A.R.

    Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...

  • The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...

  • An enchanted evening at the NSO

    Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 3

    Metro Weekly’s cadre of critics awarded a whopping six Critic’s Picks on this busy day of film showings for the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian...