Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Spank Rock’s new video

    By on August 1, 2011

    This video from Spank Rock’s forthcoming album, “Everyone is Boring & Everyone is a Fucking Liar,” to be released on Sept. 27 on Bad Blood...

  • Oklahoma! Back at Arena!

    By on July 30, 2011

    After snagging four Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding Musical, Arena Stage revives the show that christened its new Mead Center complex last fall and now...

  • Drinking up the history of the Martini

    By on July 30, 2011

    The Red Palace offers the first in a series of cocktail classes with a look at the creation and development of the American martini. But...

  • Western Encounters

    By on July 29, 2011

    Let's get something out of the way: Cowboys & Aliens is not an attempt to turn camp into cash. The movie's got plenty of the...

  • Dolly Parton comes to Wolf Trap

    By on July 29, 2011

    Some people refer to her as the Queen of Country, and that’s all well and good. In fact, Dolly Parton is one of the savviest...

  • Southern Comfort

    By on July 27, 2011

    Welcome back to the Chinquapin Parish of Steel Magnolias. Nothing's changed in this neck of the woods in Louisiana since the last time you were...

  • Courting Controversy

    By on July 27, 2011

    Gino Tassara has learned the hard way: A gay play can be a tough sell. ''I was thinking it would be very easy to produce...

  • Tickets go on sale Friday for Mary J. Blige’s Fillmore Silver Spring Concert

    By on July 27, 2011

    Tickets go on sale Friday, July 29, at 10 a.m. for Mary J. Blige, who will open Silver Spring’s newest venue, the Live Nation-owned Fillmore...

  • Brian Stokes Mitchell performs with the NSO at Wolf Trap

    By on July 27, 2011

    Marvin Hamlisch leads Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell and the NSO at Wolf Trap in a performance of classic showtunes, including South Pacific, Carousel and...

  • Jessica 6

    By on July 24, 2011

    Comprised of former members of the mixed-gender, mixed-sexuality band Hercules and Love Affair, Jessica 6 offers a similarly infectious blend of disco, soul and R&B...

  • Sia at the 9:30 Club

    By on July 23, 2011

    Bisexual Australian Sia Furler first came to attention in 2005 for her hauntingly beautiful, pleading ballad “Breathe Me,” which dramatically closed out HBO’s Six Feet...

  • Birds of a Feather

    By on July 23, 2011

    The Hub Theatre presents the world-premiere production of gay humor writer Marc Acito’s Birds of a Feather, an inspiring story about families and the bird-brained...

  • Project Nim: Planet of the Ape

    By on July 23, 2011

    Director James Marsh and the Oscar-winning team behind the documentary Man on Wire offer Project Nim, the story of a chimpanzee who became the focus...

  • Steel Magnolias at the Keegan

    By on July 22, 2011

    Somebody ought to bake a giant Armadillo cake and present it to Keegan Theatre for deciding to close its 2011 season with Robert Harling’s Steel...

  • Long View Gallery’s Refresh

    By on July 22, 2011

    Long View Gallery’s Refresh: New Works by Some of Long View’s Best offers new works by Mike Weber, Scott Brooks, Tony Savoie, Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, Anne...