Metro Weekly

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  • Rising Star

    By on January 9, 2008

    Life has changed for local singer-songwriter Tom Goss since he appeared suggestively nude on the cover of his debut album Naked Without in 2006. The...

  • Retrograde

    By on January 9, 2008

    Before there was Amy Winehouse, there was Sharon Jones. In fact, Winehouse plays the mistress to Ms. Jones. That Mr. Jones Winehouse sings about in...

  • Fairly Perfect

    By on January 2, 2008

    Fair? Hardly. This Lady is fabulous. From the first note to the last, My Fair Lady, now in the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a...

  • 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...

  • Pop Maestros

    By on December 26, 2007

    In today's multi-media world, an album is only one measure of impact, especially in today's pop music scene. Compelling concerts, videos, remixes, covers, cross-promotions --...

  • Mature Mary

    By on December 26, 2007

    The most surprising thing about Mary J. Blige's new album, Growing Pains (), isn't that she still gets angry -- and corporeal. She is human...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...