Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Chamber Pop

    By on March 12, 2008

    After years of fronting New Zealand alternative rock band Betchadupa, 24-year-old singer-songwriter Liam Finn has struck out on his own and fully embraced his musical...

  • Sweet Licks

    By on March 12, 2008

    Kaki King says celebrated producer Malcolm Burn gave her the following instruction as they began work on Dreaming of Revenge (): ''If someone can't be...

  • Making History

    By on March 12, 2008

    Born in 1945 to a father who was a German immigrant baker and a mother who was an African-American cleaning woman, Frederick August Kittel would...

  • Bitch Session

    By on March 12, 2008

    Don't let her name scare you. The Brooklyn-based performer, who has forever written off her birth name in exchange for ''Bitch,'' is actually quite pleasant....

  • Raiding Spielberg

    By on March 5, 2008

    In 1982, three 12-year-olds living in Mississippi embarked on a movie-making mission: To recreate Raiders of the Lost Ark, scene by scene. Armed with a...

  • Pig Sty

    By on March 5, 2008

    Sometimes a story about a girl born with a pig's face is just that: a story about a girl born with a pig's face. And...

  • Illusions of Grandeur

    By on March 5, 2008

    This is not a Penn & Teller magic show. Instead, the Emmy-award winning Teller -- the silent partner in that world-renowned magic enterprise -- has...

  • Reynolds Rap

    By on March 5, 2008

    ''There is no more Hollywood,'' bemoans screen legend Debbie Reynolds. ''It's a sign on a hill but there are no more studios, no more heads...

  • Malfunctioning

    By on March 5, 2008

    To study Janet Jackson's new album, Discipline, is an exercise in bafflement. The album features the best music Jackson has released in nearly a decade,...

  • Finding Joy in Fairfax

    By on February 27, 2008

    Conventional wisdom holds that suburbanites must venture downtown for world-class entertainment. But from Olney to Alexandria, non-District denizens have repeatedly shown that artistic merit knows...

  • Bathing Beaus

    By on February 27, 2008

    Alan Ball is the celebrated writer behind Six Feet Under and American Beauty. But for local gay director Serge Seiden of the Studio Theatre, it...

  • Soul Salvation

    By on February 27, 2008

    Who will save your soul? Long before Alaskan waif Jewel yodeled the question to her audiences, George Bernard Shaw's very non-waiflike Major Barbara was issuing...

  • Striking Gold

    By on February 20, 2008

    Try as you might, you can't taste or smell Goldfrapp just listening to the British duo's music. You can't literally touch it, either. But even...

  • Choosing Oscar

    By on February 20, 2008

    Phew! We can all breathe a big, collective sigh of relief now that the writers' strike has come to an end. It means -- yes!...

  • Wondrous Winds

    By on February 20, 2008

    Get up close and personal with small ensembles, consisting of quartets and quintets, of the D.C. Different Drummers during its upcoming concert, Intimate Winds: Beautiful...