Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Fluff for Fans

    By on May 27, 2010

    Dear Sex and the City fans: Cheers! Everything you could have possibly wanted in a sequel to the first film, as a continuation of the...

  • Pride Matchmaker

    By on May 27, 2010

    Need a date for Pride? Kim Rosenberg to the rescue. ''We're partnering with Capital Pride to kick off Pride for singles,'' says Rosenberg, president of...

  • Ophelia Outing

    By on May 27, 2010

    It is perhaps especially true for opera that there is a reason that some are not often staged. In the case of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet,...

  • Naked Talent

    By on May 19, 2010

    There are two ways that this can go. This review could spend a lot of time framing Ganymede Arts' new production of the musical review...

  • Cutting Edge

    By on May 19, 2010

    ''You wanted a hit, but maybe we don't do hits. I try and try, it ends up feeling kind of wrong,'' James Murphy sings matter-of-factly...

  • Big-Screen Crime

    By on May 14, 2010

    Robin Hood and Little John walkin' through the forest … oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly what a bore! A great deal of nostalgia will be felt for...

  • Feast and Famine

    By on May 12, 2010

    There is something about Hadar Galron's Mikveh that seems familiar. This would not seem so strange were it not for the fact that Theater J's...

  • Explosive Finale

    By on May 12, 2010

    One of the more traditional ways of celebrating an event of particular significance is with a champagne toast -- a fleet of slender flute glasses...

  • Whistling Dixie

    By on May 12, 2010

    Ever wonder what the Dixie Chicks would sound like without lead singer Natalie Maines? Well, now we know: Sheryl Crow. Crow is actually nowhere to...

  • Reassembled Lives

    By on May 12, 2010

    ''As a child growing up in Missouri I would play in old, abandoned Victorian homes,'' says Mike Weber. ''I think that's where my fascination started...

  • Young Bucks

    By on May 5, 2010

    There is nothing rotten – though there are some slightly malodorous bits – in Folger Theatre's state of Denmark. Folger's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet...

  • Icelandic Surprise

    By on May 5, 2010

    How is the singer-songwriter Jon Thor ''Jónsi'' Birgisson similar to the Icelandic volcano that shut down air traffic in Europe for days on end last...

  • Iron Fortified

    By on May 5, 2010

    When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) takes the stage at an Expo at the beginning of Iron Man 2, he does so in a manner...

  • Drive Time

    By on April 29, 2010

    In the moments before an accident, some people relate the experience of having their entire life flash before their eyes. But that has always seemed...

  • Marital Bliss

    By on April 29, 2010

    Truth be told, most comic operas are funnier in theory than in reality. The buffo, over-rouged in a teetering wig, capers about the stage and,...