Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Punk Doll

    Amanda Palmer is nothing if not unpredictable. Amanda Palmer ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,''...

  • Gift of Gab

    ''Tonight I'm recording – ahem – a holiday CD,'' Kathy Griffin says at the top of her new recorded set, Suckin' It For The Holidays....

  • Open Your Art

    The 16th Annual Art for Life art auction and exhibit benefiting Whitman-Walker Clinic marks the fifth time local gay artist Bill Mould is participating in...

  • Brute Force

    The folks at The Keegan Theater have brought Of Mice and Men, that bane of high school sophomores everywhere, to the stage of their new...

  • Ol' Blue Eyes

    ''She's the one who really encouraged us to get married,'' says singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, referring to his ''close friend'' Judith ''Judge Judy'' Sheindlin. Judge Judy...

  • Perpetual Motion

    It's often smaller companies who try for the kind of experimental staging that defies the usual juxtaposition between audience and players. In last season's Small...

  • Classic Fare

    Go ahead. You know you're dying to do it. ''STEEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!'' Kennedy Center seats for Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by film icon...

  • Parting Glances

    Even in his final days, Michael Jackson's crotch grabs were awkward and excessive. And the man came across as a bit creepy and gangly –...

  • Earned Wings

    ''The sort of plays we produce,'' says Forum Theatre artistic director Michael Dove, ''are incredibly theatrical. plays that ask really big questions, that tackle...

  • Pop Circus

    When Mika first emerged on the pop scene a couple years ago with Life In Cartoon Motion you could hear echoes of many of his...

  • Masterpieces

    Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and...

  • The Atwood Anomaly

    For the novice, mention of Canadian author Margaret Atwood likely conjures thoughts of The Handmaid's Tale, her 1985 novel of an America at war with...

  • Sky Queen

    She's global. She's glam. She's Pam Ann. And while her comedic Pam Ann persona is sky-bound, you're more likely to have encountered Caroline Reid on...

  • Freak Show

    As the vampire-version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Willow liked to say, ''Bored now.'' Maybe that's not completely true for every minute of Cirque du...

  • Creative Transfusion

    With their original blend of high-impact dance, crystal-clear storytelling and keen sense of what entertains, it's hard to imagine being disappointed by anything generated by...