Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 'Basics' Instinct

    By on August 23, 2006

    Christina Aguilera brags, boasts and blusters her way through her new album, Back to Basics. Nothing surprising about that. She's told us before, and she...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 23, 2006

    BAD ENGLISH... To this day it still gets club play. Kim English's eight-year-old bombastic hit ''Unspeakable Joy'' still appeals to gays, as do many of...

  • 'Cirkus' Circus

    By on August 23, 2006

    Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...

  • Plain Snakes

    By on August 23, 2006

    In Snakes on a Plane, Samuel L. Jackson stars as FBI agent Neville Flynn, a man who must contend with, as you must know by...

  • Hero Worship

    By on August 16, 2006

    World Trade Center is likely the one summer release you least want to see. It is, after all, a brutal reminder of the horrifying events...

  • Higher Love

    By on August 16, 2006

    Just so you know, there's nothing even remotely Catholic about Phoebe Rusch's 3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian. Whatever sanctimonious religious icons the play's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 16, 2006

    Chus and Ceballos C&C's TASTEFUL TRIBAL... Chus Estaban and Pablo Ceballos, the Spanish powerhouse house duo Chus & Ceballos, have essentially made a dare to...

  • Hard Feelings

    By on August 16, 2006

    Generally, when a novel throws characters at readers in quantities not easily digested, it's time to settle in for either an epic war story or...

  • Down Under

    By on August 9, 2006

    I'm always up for a good scare at the movies. But it seems, more and more, today's so-called scary movies aren't up to the task...

  • Vocal Discord

    By on August 9, 2006

    It's the most amazing thing: DJ Roger Sanchez can sing like Gene Simmons and Beyoncé. Heck, even Ciara. Don't believe it? Well, just listen to...

  • Humor Most Foul

    By on August 2, 2006

    Recently, I've been on a Woody Allen retrospect kick. My Netflix queue is overflowing with his past works, back when they were funny (Bananas), back...

  • Star Gazing

    By on August 2, 2006

    Paris, 1904. Albert Einstein walks into the Lapin Agile hoping to see his sweetheart, whom he has planned to meet at the Bar Rouge at...

  • Name-Drop Pop

    By on August 2, 2006

    Throwbacks: the Giants Chances are any new pop band you discover will sound like a slight modification of those that came before it. Chances are...

  • Splish Splash

    By on July 26, 2006

    I'm feeling a little sorry for M. Night Shyamalan right about now. Slam-dunking his movies seems to have become an Olympic sport for critics. In...

  • Silky Smooth

    By on July 26, 2006

    He doesn't look much like the Duke, with his coarse dreads pushed back and an empty buttonhole crying on his shoulder. But make no mistake...