Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Broadway Rhapsody

    By on November 30, 2005

    Thanks in no small part to the success of 2002's Chicago, the movie musical genre is back in business. Case in point: The Tony Award-winning...

  • Full House

    By on November 30, 2005

    It isn't so much Eartha Kitt's sultry version of ''Lazy Afternoon'' that should have inspired S.M. Shephard-Massat to pen Starving, but the aching lyrics of...

  • Cashing In

    By on November 16, 2005

    The problem with Walk the Line, the new biopic opening on Friday about the life of country music legend Johnny Cash, isn't Joaquin Phoenix --...

  • High Note

    By on November 16, 2005

    Could Madonna's latest studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, be her swansong to music-making? It's hard to imagine, and she also hasn't said as...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 16, 2005

    EURYTHMICS REIGN AGAIN... Annie Lennox is back, and in a way that's so much more than just a sweet dream, though it's that too. So,...

  • Queen Bee

    By on November 16, 2005

    She's the delicious demon of a character everyone loves to hate, most especially gay men. Think Tori Spelling as Sally Bowles, Norma Desmond as Holly...

  • Rainbow's End

    By on November 9, 2005

    You can't blame Alex Sanchez for having mixed feelings as he promotes the final novel in his gay teen trilogy, Rainbow Road. His books have...

  • Marine Life

    By on November 9, 2005

    I've never been a big fan of war movies. (For that matter, I've never been a big fan of war.) But as a genre, they...

  • Time Again

    By on November 9, 2005

    Cyndi Lauper scored her first hit with ''Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,'' but only the faithful would have predicted then that she would still be...

  • Back to the Future

    By on November 9, 2005

    The expectations are as high as a towering Manhattan skyscraper. After such successful local productions of Take Me Out and The Dazzle, the area premiere...

  • Tab Browsing

    By on November 2, 2005

    A memoir, by its very definition, is self-serving. Writing ''your'' story can serve as therapy, disclosure, dutiful revelation, apology, even revenge. To some extent, Tab...

  • Powerhouse

    By on November 2, 2005

    You know the songs. You've heard the story. But nothing will prepare you for the astounding power of this full operatic production of Gershwin's modern...

  • Gaul Fodder

    By on November 2, 2005

    The self-referential, Charlie Kaufman-esque twist to The Dying Gaul, opening Friday at Landmark's E Street Cinema, is the somewhat astounding fact that the movie was...

  • A La Mode

    By on November 2, 2005

    Damn, damn, damn! Is there anything worse than being let down again, done in by too much hype? Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan, after...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 26, 2005

    Abel HALLELUJAH FOR ALEGRIA... The dance compilation you've waited all year to buy is finally available, DJ Abel Aguilera's two-disc Alegria Musica. If this set's...