Metro Weekly

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  • Attention Shoppers!

    By on February 11, 2009

    Sometimes a movie is like an ice-cream cone. It's all sweet and sugary goodness, but there's nothing packed into the cone so it cracks and...

  • Something Wicked

    By on February 11, 2009

    Pauline Anson-Dross of Wicked Jezabel (Photo by Todd Franson ) Pauline Anson-Dross is ready for Cupid this year. ''Oh yeah, we're feeling the love...

  • Express Yourself

    By on February 11, 2009

    It's not always easy being gay, in the real world or the virtual. But while progress in the everyday world of work, society and relationships...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 11, 2009

    Tracy Young D.C.'S YOUNG VALENTINE... Last fall, DJ Tracy Young spun in her hometown of Washington for the first time in way too many years,...

  • Flamenco Power

    By on February 4, 2009

    Miguel Marin helped start the Flamenco Festival in 2000. ''The idea from the beginning was to have a date with Spain,'' the festival's director says...

  • Chilly Willy

    By on February 4, 2009

    The year was 1990. Madonna, decked out in her finest Marie Antoinette drag, hit the stage of the MTV Awards and made a song that...

  • Hopelessly Undevoted

    By on February 4, 2009

    Here are the facts of life according to He's Just Not That Into You: Women are pathetic and hopeless in love; the only way to...

  • Frame by Frame

    By on February 4, 2009

    Scene from 'Coraline' In this day and age of CGI-assisted animation, you have to admire the stubborn tenacity (or is that outright insanity?) of those...

  • Music Man

    By on January 28, 2009

    Mark Morris Dance (Photo by Gene Schiavone) As Gene Kelly belts out in Singin' in the Rain, ''Gotta dance!'' Mark Morris does too, but his...

  • Pruned Orchard

    By on January 28, 2009

    Despite a somewhat charged undercurrent, a plethora of highly-choreographed visuals, and some interesting and solid performances, Washington Shakespeare Company's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...

  • Out for Blood

    By on January 28, 2009

    Liam Neeson: 'Taken' If you're going to run off to Paris and get kidnapped, you had better hope that your dad is a former secret...

  • Choral Milestone

    By on January 21, 2009

    What comes to mind when you think of human warmth? That's the question Robert Convery asked members of the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington...

  • Memorable Tune

    By on January 21, 2009

    Tommy Tune Jan. 1, 2009, officially marked Tommy Tune's 50th year in show business. And the lanky, improbably tall dancer-choreographer is commemorating the occasion by...

  • Comic Relief

    By on January 21, 2009

    When the phrase ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is uttered it is almost assured that most will leap to an image of Audrey Hepburn peering into the...

  • Enigmatic Pop

    By on January 21, 2009

    Antony Hegarty has a voice you won't forget - and a presence you just might not remember. More than probably any other singer-songwriter you've ever...