Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • The X Spot

    By on March 26, 2008

    She'll be 40 in just two months, but Kylie Minogue still can't stop reliving her first time. ''The DJ's got me feeling like I did...

  • Hi Tech

    By on March 26, 2008

    Should you attend any of this weekend's performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, you will upon entry be handed an iPod Shuffle. You don't...

  • Twisted Sister

    By on March 19, 2008

    There are a lot of surprises in store for readers of Christopher Rice's new novel, Blind Fall, not the least of which is that it's...

  • White Hot

    By on March 19, 2008

    Once again, Woolly Mammoth courageously enters the realm of black-white relations, this time via up-and-coming playwright David Adjmi's new play Stunning. Much like The Unmentionables,...

  • Web Singer

    By on March 19, 2008

    Apparently, cherry blossoms weren't enough. It seems everyone wants his own festival. The Kennedy Center is spending the month of March cozying up with August...

  • Good Stuff

    By on March 19, 2008

    Can an aging band find new relevance -- or at least renewed appeal -- after a 16-year absence from the recording studio? Unlikely, no matter...

  • The Damned

    By on March 19, 2008

    In a recent metro-area school production of Don Quixote, parents were shocked and dismayed when teenage members of the audience greeted a fellow classmate's performance...

  • Heist Times

    By on March 12, 2008

    The only people who might be disappointed by The Bank Job are those hoping for a car chase-filled, shoot 'em up, high-energy heist movie. If...

  • Making History

    By on March 12, 2008

    Born in 1945 to a father who was a German immigrant baker and a mother who was an African-American cleaning woman, Frederick August Kittel would...

  • Bitch Session

    By on March 12, 2008

    Don't let her name scare you. The Brooklyn-based performer, who has forever written off her birth name in exchange for ''Bitch,'' is actually quite pleasant....

  • Sweet Licks

    By on March 12, 2008

    Kaki King says celebrated producer Malcolm Burn gave her the following instruction as they began work on Dreaming of Revenge (): ''If someone can't be...

  • Chamber Pop

    By on March 12, 2008

    After years of fronting New Zealand alternative rock band Betchadupa, 24-year-old singer-songwriter Liam Finn has struck out on his own and fully embraced his musical...

  • Malfunctioning

    By on March 5, 2008

    To study Janet Jackson's new album, Discipline, is an exercise in bafflement. The album features the best music Jackson has released in nearly a decade,...

  • Reynolds Rap

    By on March 5, 2008

    ''There is no more Hollywood,'' bemoans screen legend Debbie Reynolds. ''It's a sign on a hill but there are no more studios, no more heads...

  • Pig Sty

    By on March 5, 2008

    Sometimes a story about a girl born with a pig's face is just that: a story about a girl born with a pig's face. And...