Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Dry Plains Drifter

    By on March 15, 2006

    The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...

  • Urban Blockage

    By on March 8, 2006

    Almost every major movie star has an archetype they can comfortably fall back on when needed. This not only serves to appease their most ardent...

  • James Town

    By on March 8, 2006

    Etta James knows how to cover other people's songs. She's had a lot of practice, after all. For years she's been a regular presence on...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 8, 2006

    ''PRECIOUS'' PAIN, ''SUFFER WELL''... Depeche Mode is preparing to release the third single from last year's Playing the Angel. Yes, the third single. Maybe you,...

  • Play Time

    By on March 8, 2006

    Harry Potter has nothing on Haroun Khalifa. Even though the scholarly little wizard sets off on epic adventures soaring with myth and illusion, Salman Rushdie's...

  • Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!

    By on March 1, 2006

    This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...

  • Sex in the City

    By on March 1, 2006

    Just after the film begins to roll in Gay Sex in the 70s, director Joseph Lovett tells the photographer he's preparing to interview that the...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 1, 2006

    DANCE MUSIC'S LEADING ''LIGHT''... She's been a leading lady in dance music almost without let-up since busting onto the scene 12 years ago. But 2006...

  • Whip It Good

    By on March 1, 2006

    Alison Goldfrapp has a true-to-life surname that reminds you of a sweet, icy concoction you drink for a jolt of energy. And so does the...

  • Webb of Truth

    By on March 1, 2006

    ''It just so happens that my two most recent credits both happened to be gay men,'' says Jeremy Webb of his TV work. ''[Law &...

  • Possessive Behavior

    By on March 1, 2006

    They could be anywhere in the world conjuring up their unique blend of pantomime and dance, music and emotion. Yet Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, that...

  • Mamet's Girls

    By on February 22, 2006

    That Kate Eastwood Norris. You can't help but fall for her adorable little chuckle and wry, impish grin. She's a sprite of the stage. And...

  • Boiling Over

    By on February 22, 2006

    Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...

  • Meditative Orbit

    By on February 22, 2006

    Almost a decade has passed since Ray of Light shined over the music industry. Since then, Madonna and William Orbit, her Ray of Light producer,...

  • Special Delivery

    By on February 15, 2006

    Painful memory: the cast of Midwives (Photo by Stan Barouh) At a home in Northeast Kingdom, Vt., in the early 1980s, a ferocious winter storm...