Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Life Choice

    By on September 27, 2006

    It's a brave move to stage Sophie's Choice as an opera, considering the popular culture stature of both William Styron's original novel and 1982's star-filled...

  • Sonic Enjoyment

    By on September 20, 2006

    It launches with a feverish 40-second bang of orchestra and chorus, but Crazy Itch Radio's ''Intro'' track only hints at the all-out aural assault yet...

  • The Tiers Have Eyes

    By on September 20, 2006

    It's always a good sign when audience members exclaim both ''Hideous!'' and ''Wonderful!'' as the lights come up at intermission. It means something has stirred...

  • Dear Mr. President

    By on September 20, 2006

    In early 2004, President Bush was steadfastly employing his bully pulpit to promote a constitutional amendment prohibiting the possibility of same-sex couples from marrying. It...

  • It's Alive!

    By on September 20, 2006

    Of all the classic horror stories, from dark and gothic to gruesome and bizarre, perhaps no one tale has survived more incarnations than Mary Shelley's...

  • Unsolved Misery

    By on September 20, 2006

    Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer. Dante Ferretti, production designer. Mark Isham, composer. Hilary Swank, actress. These are not film industry names normally associated with cinematic belly flops....

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 20, 2006

    BEST OF MOBY'S SCHTICK... ''I kind of wanted it to sound like ABBA meets the Pet Shop Boys.'' Can you imagine Moby creating such delightful...

  • Think Pink

    By on September 13, 2006

    Pink Martini is hard to pin down, with its lush sound combining a cocktail aesthetic, classical talent and world beats. Thomas Lauderdale, front man for...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 13, 2006

    KASKADE'S NEW ULTRA OUTLOOK... It's a herky-jerky hip-hop-inflected pop track, and it would delight any admirer of Justin Timberlake, both the closet case and the...

  • Different Strokes

    By on September 13, 2006

    It's hard to believe that folk-pop mainstays the Indigo Girls have been recording together for twenty years, but then again, who can imagine a summer...

  • Winter's Tale

    By on September 13, 2006

    If Adam Rapp were to compose a suicide note, he may as well point to his script for Red Light Winter and call it a...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 6, 2006

    LOCAL DJ DOES GOOD, GOES NATIONAL... DJ Rob Harris regularly spins throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and in and around New York. On that front, Harris...

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    By on September 6, 2006

    More than one hundred years after Henrik Ibsen penned An Enemy of the People as a tirade against censorship, his message still seems uncannily relevant....

  • Sister Act

    By on September 6, 2006

    Meg and Dia Frampton are not lesbian sisters. But they may make you think of lesbian sisters Tegan and Sara Quinn, leaders of the five-piece...

  • Ray of Light

    By on August 30, 2006

    The last few weeks of August are beyond miserable. At least where moviegoing is concerned. Every so often, however, a ray of sunshine peeps through...