Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Mess No More

    By on September 2, 2009

    Let’s see, the last time we got a good dose of Whitney Houston was four years ago, when she appeared as a caricature on Bravo’s...

  • Ball Bearings

    By on September 2, 2009

    Schlemiel, schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated. We’re going to do it....While many who troop to see Mike Judge’s Extract might be too young to remember the opening...

  • Thrill Out

    By on September 2, 2009

    During Kings Dominion's annual Gay and Lesbian Night, Tom Yates is generally too busy tending to the park's entrance to enjoy the rides. ''They usually...

  • Classical Gas

    By on August 26, 2009

    Did you know Sandra Bernhard is a ''classically trained singer?'' We didn't either, but it says so right there in the press release for her...

  • Golden Girl

    By on August 19, 2009

    Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...

  • Numbed by Nazis

    By on August 19, 2009

    One hundred and forty minutes is an awful lot of foreplay for a 10-minute payoff. Yet that’s what Quentin Tarantino is requiring of audiences who...

  • Qomedy Tonight!

    By on August 19, 2009

    Poppy Champlin was frustrated. As a lesbian stand-up comic she was landing the right kinds of gigs -- Dinah Shore Classic, Rosie O'Donnell's cruises --...

  • Poppy Champlin Confidential

    By on August 19, 2009

    What’s on your nightstand?I got a book, water, my phone, my sucky-suck things for in the middle of the night because I have acid reflux....

  • Alienation

    By on August 12, 2009

    Some stories hinge on a dramatic juncture in human history. Some are guided by a need to delve into the intricacies of relationships and emotions....

  • Amped Indigo

    By on August 12, 2009

    Amy Ray says she’s more of the rocker in the Indigo Girls. “Yeah, definitely. I mean, Emily can play an electric guitar like crazy,...

  • Signature Moment

    By on August 5, 2009

    Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...

  • Cook's Country

    By on August 5, 2009

    If there’s a secret ingredient, you can bet it’s butter. Butter makes everything better. And there is absolutely no substitute for it in cooking. Using...

  • Sensitive Singers

    By on August 5, 2009

    Over two and a half years ago, Duncan Sheik produced the debut album from gay pop singer Chris Garneau. Music for Tourists was released one...

  • Purring Along

    By on July 29, 2009

    James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead was one of the first plays to address gay themes. But it was originally a flop on Broadway,...

  • Fairy Dust

    By on July 29, 2009

    “The story is, like all Gilbert and Sullivan, very silly,” says Jill Strachan, executive director of the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, of Iolanthe. “Some...