Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Game Show

    By on November 12, 2008

    Two adages come to mind after seeing Slumdog Millionaire: ''Don't judge a book by its cover,'' and, ''Not everything you need to know can be...

  • Lady Killer

    By on November 5, 2008

    Despite the fevered grace renowned soprano Renee Fleming brings to the conflicted femme fatale of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, this is one opera that requires more...

  • Think Pink

    By on November 5, 2008

    ''I guess I just lost my husband,'' sings Alecia Moore, better known as the pop star Pink, at the top of the first song on...

  • Personal Best

    By on November 5, 2008

    In 2003, Will Gartshore crafted a cabaret at Signature Theatre entitled Finding Home, which examined his previously rootless existence between New York and Washington along...

  • Money Shot

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pornography in the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry and director Kevin Smith is apparently trying to tap some of that revenue stream with...

  • Rebel Yell

    By on October 29, 2008

    There was a time when the best parts of movies happened off-screen. The passionate kiss before the scene faded to black. The brilliant plan hatched...

  • Cabaret Pearl

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pearl Bailey died 18 years ago, but her irrepressible spirit has been reincarnated in the body of Roz White -- and Washington is all the...

  • Let It Bleed

    By on October 29, 2008

    Scary movies, spooky stories, chilling tales -- Halloween is a time to settle in for a good fright that comes from a horror movie or...

  • Review | Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom

    By on October 22, 2008

    Just as things reach a feverish, high-pitched frenzy in Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, you pray Mary J. Blige will pop up to tell everyone,...

  • Magnum Opus

    By on October 22, 2008

    The title of Richard Morel's third artist album is a metaphor for a loss of innocence, and also for a time when huge, irrevocable changes...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 22, 2008

    MADONNA'S NEW MARRIAGE... Maybe Madonna will finally come back to D.C. with her next tour, since George W. Bush will no longer be president --...

  • Passage to India

    By on October 22, 2008

    Aniruddhan Vasudevan started dancing when he was 6 years old. Twenty years later, it's become a vocation. ''My family is very interested in the arts,...

  • Wartime Zeroes

    By on October 22, 2008

    You would hardly need to fall into the ''news junkie'' category to be aware of how ugly the presidential campaign has gotten. Even a recent...

  • Bush Whacked

    By on October 15, 2008

    is Oliver Stone's answer to the George W. Bush administration -- and actually the Bush dynasty as a whole, since Bush 1 makes a series...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 15, 2008

    OBAMA POP... The pop stars are coming out loud, proud and in droves for Barack Obama. Of course, that's not really news. It'd be news...