Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Dancing Duality

    By on October 8, 2008

    Economic turmoil. War. Chaos and totalitarianism. You think things are bad now? Let the In Series and the Washington Ballet transport you back to a...

  • Bloodbath

    By on October 1, 2008

    Contrary to what the old wives tale would want you to believe, cats do not actually have nine lives. A visit to Google quickly reveals...

  • Lovelorn Lads

    By on October 1, 2008

    Rich Morel has remixed and played Soft Complex's music at Blowoff. And yet the independent D.C. band remains relatively unknown among gays. ''We typically play...

  • Happy Phase

    By on October 1, 2008

    Ani DiFranco takes a cheap shot as her new album, Red Letter Year, opens. ''And representing the white race, a man with a monkey for...

  • Deep Throat

    By on September 24, 2008

    Choke, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, may be tough to swallow, but if you can get it down, it's really worth it. As...

  • She Males

    By on September 24, 2008

    To borrow from Victor/Victoria, Shakespeare Theatre Company's Juliet is a man, pretending to be a woman.... Oh. Wait. That's it. No need to borrow from...

  • Passion Play

    By on September 24, 2008

    With the Jumbotron extravaganza barely behind us, one must wonder, just a little, why the WNO did not chose this production of Bizet's The Pearl...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 24, 2008

    WHO DO U LOVE... Are you ready? One of gay clubland's favorite singers is returning with new material this fall. Well, yes, Whitney Houston may...

  • Ball Bearing

    By on September 17, 2008

    ''It's a lot easier to get stuff made for TV than it is for movies,'' says Alan Ball. And he should know: The screenwriter of...

  • Flying High

    By on September 17, 2008

    Oh, the drama. A would be king takes to a stage dressed in the pageantry of ancient Rome to greet his throngs of loyal followers....

  • Stage Presence

    By on September 17, 2008

    Though one cannot but envy the idea of seeing an opera with beer, hotdogs and vast commodes on tap, it is also somewhat hard to...

  • Feminine Imposition

    By on September 17, 2008

    There are only three groups who should willingly sit through The Women: females who nightly juggle TMZ.com, Haagen Dazs and Lifetime while wrapped in a...

  • Visiting Hours

    By on September 17, 2008

    In David Mamet's play Squirrels, the character Arthur describes the act of storytelling as going ''From nothing to nothing.... 'Nothing.' Rising action. Climax. Falling action....

  • Men Uplifting

    By on September 17, 2008

    Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...

  • Bundle of Grief

    By on September 17, 2008

    For the first few months of her pregnancy, Andrea Askowitz didn't know what was wrong. ''I just felt really anxious and angry and just not...