Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Nice Piaf

    By on March 25, 2009

    Jil Aigrot Jil Aigrot has become known for singing as Edith Piaf. So perfect is her Piaf, she was tapped to voice the singing portions...

  • Broadway Bebe

    By on March 25, 2009

    A few years ago, Bebe Neuwirth created an uproarious caricature of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter on Al Franken's Air America radio show. ''I think she...

  • Troubled Pathway

    By on March 18, 2009

    One of the toughest lessons to teach a beginning visual artist is the understanding that every piece they create will not be a finished work...

  • God Damned

    By on March 18, 2009

    Alas, where to begin? There are but two ways of looking at director Ethan McSweeny's interpretation of Euripides' Ion: It is either a masterpiece of...

  • Alphabet Soup

    By on March 18, 2009

    Jeff Buhrman knows his gay ABCs -- knows them well. And he'll help the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington recite them at everything gAy to...

  • Male Bonding

    By on March 18, 2009

    It's springtime again -- season of love, hope, budding bromance. That's no typo, gang -- bromance is the new romance. It's all about the dude...

  • SONiA's Splash

    By on March 11, 2009

    Sonia Rutstein was as disheartened as every other gay person by the passage last fall of California's Propositon 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative. ''We move...

  • Wanted Woman

    By on March 11, 2009

    Some four and a half years ago, the original American Idol vowed in song to ''take a risk, take a chance, make a change and...

  • Garden Party

    By on March 11, 2009

    Let's get this out of the way right off the top. Yes, Miss Pixie's Backroom Palace is the storeroom of the fantastic Miss Pixie's ''furnishings...

  • Limited Horizon

    By on March 4, 2009

    Several songs on U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon (), clock in at over five minutes, featuring long instrumental passages. It's as if...

  • Perfect Reception

    By on March 4, 2009

    There are some individuals who can make your life exponentially easier if you consistently remind yourself how much power they wield. Waiters. Restaurant hosts. Bartenders...

  • Identity Crisis

    By on March 4, 2009

    Let me make myself perfectly clear: Watchmen isn't your ordinary comic-book superhero movie. It's an extraordinary comic-book superhero movie. Cast of 'The Watchmen' The long-awaited,...

  • Up from Down Under

    By on February 25, 2009

    Missy Higgins became a pop star in her native Australia with her first hit, the piano-churned ''Scar.'' Five years later, she's finally starting to catch...

  • Creature Feature

    By on February 25, 2009

    Montreal-based musicians Jean-Phi Goncalves and Betty Bonifassi each had their own careers going before they teamed up to experiment as Beast. Among other things, Goncalves...

  • Hounds of Love

    By on February 25, 2009

    In his somewhat overlong, overdone comic-poignant The Dog in the Manger, now at The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Spanish Renaissance playwright Lope de Vega...