Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Soundwaves

    By on December 26, 2007

    GIVING ULTRA IN 2008... It's only days away now, and the excitement is palpable. The year 2008 holds oodles of promise for pop music in...

  • Movie Heaven (and Hell)

    By on December 26, 2007

    Tim's Best Good movies make you cry, or laugh, or jump out of your seat in fear. Sometimes they just make you think. What makes...

  • Friend of Judy

    By on December 19, 2007

    It's been said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's the case, then Rufus Wainwright's live double-disc recording Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie...

  • Daredevils

    By on December 19, 2007

    Attending a performance of the Washington Shakespeare Company feels a little like getting admitted to a very hip club. Like the hole-in-the-wall bar that always...

  • Human Remains

    By on December 19, 2007

    Sweeney Todd It all seems so familiar. The first few notes are reminiscent of a tune you've heard before. Then Edward Scissorhands appears -- he's...

  • Christmas Candie

    By on December 12, 2007

    When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...

  • Christmas Sneer

    By on December 12, 2007

    It's safe to say that I'm the Scrooge in any holiday gathering. (Hey, it's better than being Tiny Tim.) Christmas spirit -- limited. Holiday cheer...

  • Tangled Kite

    By on December 12, 2007

    I'm not someone who cries easily. So when I do, and when I feel like it's because of some heavy-handed movie making, I get a...

  • Intimate Encounters

    By on December 12, 2007

    At first glance, Atonement appears to be your garden variety Merchant Ivory-style epic. It begins in the 1935 English countryside, all glowy and green and...

  • Holy Hate

    By on December 5, 2007

    Plan to get up extra early this Sunday, Dec. 9, and head over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival to catch a one-time screening of...

  • Dust Off

    By on December 5, 2007

    Great expectations can lead to great disappointments. As a fan of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series, I eagerly awaited the theatrical release of the...

  • Drag Queen Instincts

    By on December 5, 2007

    Never mind her new album's title. Celine Dion doesn't know from chances. Oh sure, she strays a little from her Titanic-sized sentimental journeys. She rocks...

  • Soundwaves

    By on December 5, 2007

    Gifts to dance by... Looking for the perfect gift for your dance-music lover -- or even just yourself? Happy Holidays are here. Joe Bermudez Mainstream...

  • Teen Tales

    By on December 5, 2007

    Alex Sanchez, the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age,...

  • Holiday Witticism

    By on December 5, 2007

    Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...