Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • A Friend Indeed

    By on June 20, 2007

    Hello, old friend. If you're a fan of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, it's impossible to pick up his new book, Michael Tolliver...

  • Banal Bunch

    By on June 20, 2007

    Well... it's better than the first one. Faint praise, indeed, but it's really the best you can say for the second installment of the Fantastic...

  • Summer Splash

    By on June 20, 2007

    Saturday, June 23 may go down as the ''day'' the Hillwood Gardens ''rocked'' when Pillow Talk screens on the Lunar Lawn of this sprawling estate...

  • Rainbow Rock

    By on June 13, 2007

    Cyndi Lauper's 21-year-old classic pop hit ''True Colors'' is already something of a gay anthem. Now it's set to become even more -- a signature...

  • Blood Bath

    By on June 13, 2007

    Blood and guts and gore. Oh my! Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II delivers everything that you would expect from the sequel to the 2005 original:...

  • Hazy Memories

    By on June 13, 2007

    Those were the days: Ice cream cones cost 12 cents, going to the movies was the time to neck with your girlfriend, and an older...

  • Gay 'Bash'

    By on June 13, 2007

    America was a new country, with just 33 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, when Susanna Cox was condemned to hang for...

  • Past Present

    By on June 6, 2007

    It's not automatic, but Ultra Naté sure made it look that way at first. She just picks up right where she left off half a...

  • Soundwaves

    By on June 6, 2007

    LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD... It's closing in on a year since ''The Real Thing'' became Rachel Panay's third Billboard Club Play Chart top ten hit....

  • Cutting Crew

    By on June 6, 2007

    Two films -- one a big budget Hollywood production with a massive marketing campaign, one an indie making its way around smaller theaters. One movie...

  • Over The Rainbow

    By on May 30, 2007

    ''This is the first 'gay' album I've ever released,'' jazz musician Dave Koz says about his new album, At The Movies, a tribute to movie...

  • To Be or Not To Be

    By on May 30, 2007

    It says so much about Tom Stoppard that he can write such a fun, irreverent and wit-packed play as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and...

  • Gay and Yiddish

    By on May 30, 2007

    ''For me to sing a standard Yiddish love song would kind of ring false. Pretending that I'm some straight loverboy -- it just doesn't work...

  • Shipwrecked

    By on May 30, 2007

    There is a terrifically clever moment in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the third and unlikely final installment in the box-office blockbusting series,...

  • Popera

    By on May 23, 2007

    Rufus Wainwright poses a loaded question as his new album begins: ''Do I disappoint you?'' On the rambunctious song of that title, he is rhetorically...