Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Smooth Operator

    By on October 18, 2006

    Pairing a fragile, Billie Holiday-like voice with spare, country-tinged arrangements à la Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux is a prime purveyor of lazy Sunday jazz for...

  • Shining Blue

    By on October 18, 2006

    Adapting a Toni Morrison novel to any other medium is at the very least a Herculean task. Most notably, Oprah Winfrey tried turning the author's...

  • Anger Management

    By on October 11, 2006

    Given the explosion of courtroom dramas on television over the past decade, it might seem unnecessary to go to the Kennedy Center to watch another...

  • The Naked Now

    By on October 11, 2006

    ''I am good at being naked.'' In the nonstop cascade of language that makes up Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, this single line forms...

  • Killer Queen

    By on October 4, 2006

    In The Queen, Helen Mirren, portraying Queen Elizabeth II, gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career. She vanishes completely into the...

  • Oh, Henry

    By on October 4, 2006

    It's good, but it's not great. We're not talking, of course, about the timeless music from Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe or the original George...

  • Force of Nature

    By on October 4, 2006

    Arena Stage's new production of Cabaret is a force of nature -- a thunderstorm that starts as the rumble of gin-fueled laughter and ends with...

  • Ball Breaker

    By on October 4, 2006

    Do you find it sexy for a man to hurl, smash or crack mirrored disco balls? It may sound sacrilegious to gay culture, but there's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 4, 2006

    GEORGE MICHAEL'S POTTY MUSIC... Oh no, not again. According to the Associated Press, late last Saturday night George Michael was found in London slumped over...

  • Revenge of the Nerd

    By on September 27, 2006

    Watching Jon Heder in School for Scoundrels, one can't help but wonder what will happen to the 29-year-old's career once he outgrows his geekiness and...

  • Destiny's Child

    By on September 27, 2006

    From the first glimpse of the diminutive Owen Meany, a boy with oversized ears and screaming blond hair, we know he's more than a little...

  • Fish Tale

    By on September 27, 2006

    The end of childhood is a rite of passage to be delayed and then mourned. It's the moment when we no longer view the world...

  • A Cut Below

    By on September 27, 2006

    Jake Shears isn't joking when he sings ''I Don't Feel Like Dancin','' on the first single from the Scissor Sisters' sophomore album. Sure, the song...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 27, 2006

    FERGIE TAKES ON TINA... Stacy Ferguson has had an effect on the Black Eyed Peas something akin to crystal meth. Before Fergie, the Peas were...

  • 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...