Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Acts of Bravery

    By on January 30, 2008

    Over at Woolly Mammoth, sisters are doing it for themselves. The risk-taking downtown theater company has literally packed the house with two one-woman shows. Nilaja...

  • Ship of Dreams

    By on January 23, 2008

    In an age when so many writers of plays (and prose, for that matter) doom their characters to nausea-inducing sincerity or overcooked irreverence in the...

  • Exorcizing Demons

    By on January 23, 2008

    Singer-songwriter Nicole Reynolds had her heart broken recently, and as history has shown, heartbreak can be a powerful artistic muse. Reynolds translated her tumultuous experience...

  • Rampage

    By on January 23, 2008

    Ya gotta have a gimmick. Well, these days in the horror-film genre you do, if you want to cut through the movie marketing clutter and...

  • Bowled Over

    By on January 23, 2008

    Doug Bowles may not be the only gay conductor in town, but in the genre of swing and big-band music, he's pretty sure he's one...

  • Young Bucks

    By on January 23, 2008

    In just a few months, Rent will take its final Broadway bows. The rock remix of Puccini's opera drove some to camp out for days...

  • Farm Fresh

    By on January 16, 2008

    There was a time when Nicole Reynolds didn't know she could sing. The 24-year-old native of Pittsburgh worked behind the scenes of the music industry,...

  • Buzz Down Under

    By on January 16, 2008

    In the summer of 2005, HBO's Six Feet Under ended on a haunting note, with its characters' deaths foretold in a montage that un-spooled to...

  • Creep Show

    By on January 16, 2008

    As the mysterious caller asked the isolated teenager: Do you like scary movies? If you do, then you've probably already seen everything that takes place...

  • Sound and Fury

    By on January 9, 2008

    There are those in the theater who will tell you that their ultimate goal is to transport the audience. They will say the greatest success...

  • 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...

  • 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...