Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Ripped Apart

    By on January 5, 2011

    Blue Valentine is the love story antidote for all the romantic comedies that flood movie theaters every year. It's a look at what comes after...

  • Cause Célèbre!

    By on January 5, 2011

    ''We were just thrilled about decision that gay marriage would be legal,'' says Judy Gilbert Levey, co-president of the Foundry Gallery. ''We...

  • Frontiers, Journey Tribute band at The State Theatre

    By on January 5, 2011

    Now that Glee has helped revive interest in the ’80s arena rockers, Virginia’s State Theatre invites tribute band Frontiers to conjure up that bygone era...

  • Magic at the Washington Stage Guild

    By on January 5, 2011

    The Washington Stage Guild presents the first U.S. production in decades of British essayist and mystery writer G.K. Chesterton’s witty fairy-tale of a comedy Magic....

  • Anne Midgette at Politics and Prose

    By on January 3, 2011

    My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music is the story of pianist Leon Fleisher, written with the esteemed Washington Post classical music...

  • The Black Cat’s Drink and a Movie Series

    By on January 1, 2011

    The Black Cat offers a free series this week, with a double-feature cult film and specialty drink special each night. “Drink Away The Shame” kicks...

  • Trombone Shorty at the 9:30 Club

    By on December 31, 2010

    Troy “Trombone Short” Andrews and his bandmates from the Crescent City merge rock, funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul, or what he calls “supafunkrock.” His latest...

  • Strathmore’s Salute to Vienna

    By on December 30, 2010

    Inspired by Vienna’s world-famous Neujahrskonzert concert, Strathmore hosts an afternoon of famous Strauss waltzes, polkas and operatta excerpts on New Year’s Day. Guido Mancusi conducts...

  • New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center

    By on December 30, 2010

    Usher in the New Year with a dazzling concert at The Kennedy Center. Now in its 16th year, the concert features members of the National...

  • Monty Alexander at Blues Alley

    By on December 30, 2010

    The legendary pianist Monty Alexander fuses American jazz and his Jamaican roots in a four decades-long career including work with everyone from Frank Sinatra to...

  • The Best Stage of 2010

    By on December 29, 2010

    From H Street to Columbia Heights to that new vast temple to the drama gods on the waterfront, D.C.'s theater scene is bright and varied...

  • Funny Ladies

    By on December 29, 2010

    ''You don't hear as many legitimate conversations about foreign policy in Chicago as you do ,'' says Brooke Breit of Chicago's Second City. You...

  • The Year in Music

    By on December 29, 2010

    Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...

  • Best & Worst Films of 2010

    By on December 29, 2010

    You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the films of 2010. Hopefully you skipped the bad...

  • The Roots, tonight at the 9:30 Club

    By on December 28, 2010

    What the Philadelphia hip-hop ensemble The Roots lacks in mainstream popular recognition they more than make up for in influence. Combining jazz and soul elements,...