Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Irish Charms

    By on March 24, 2004

    Amnesiacs, magpies, and crazy people -- one magpie for sorrow, two magpies for mirth.... How does that nursery rhyme go? Magpies are but one of...

  • Merce Cunningham: Dance Master

    By on March 24, 2004

    ''I'm not interested in the idea of retiring. That doesn't attract me at all. '' Dance fans, you can breathe a sigh of relief. At...

  • Resurrection

    By on March 24, 2004

    It's been almost two decades since I last watched George Romero's 1978 cult classic Dawn of the Dead, a pinnacle achievement for both the hit-and-miss...

  • Queer Makeover

    By on March 17, 2004

    In the everyday struggle between style and substance, the best-hoped-for outcome is a mutually reinforced middle ground. But reaching that middle ground is no easy...

  • Expected Pleasures

    By on March 17, 2004

    You won't find many surprises in the Indigo Girls' latest outing, but with folk-pop this accomplished that's not a bad thing If it ain't broke,...

  • Vacuum Vibes

    By on March 17, 2004

    Electronic music usually makes you want to hit a dance floor. But give Arthur Loves Plastic a spin, and it may sway you to sweep....

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 17, 2004

    DANCE MUSIC'S MOST POPULAR...Washington's own Deep Dish was voted most popular DJ last week at the biggest annual confab of danceheads this side of the...

  • True Colors

    By on March 17, 2004

    Few words in the English language possess the inherent, unwieldy power to incite black Americans with such intense divisiveness and fervor as two simple, unassuming...

  • Missionary Positions

    By on March 17, 2004

    C. Jay Cox's Latter Days is a powerhouse that grabs your heart and wrenches and wrenches away. Who knew that Cox, author of Sweet Home...

  • Swan Dive

    By on March 10, 2004

    It's a universal truth, widely accepted, that inside every gay man is a blonde, neon-wearing, glitter-adorned, Justin Timberlake-loving teenaged girl. It's why movies like Jawbreaker...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 10, 2004

    DAMMIT JANET: AN UPDATE… How long can this go on? Not a week goes by without another attack against Janet Jackson in response to l'affair...

  • Humor Us

    By on March 10, 2004

    Gay is funny. And he'd better be, seeing that he's the host of 14th Street's big gay comedy night. D.B. Gay is among a burgeoning...

  • Hide and Seek

    By on March 10, 2004

    Before August 1998, before President Clinton ordered the United States to retaliate against a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by bombing the city of Kabul, and before the...

  • Unhappy Together

    By on March 10, 2004

    It's fitting that Todd Phillips has been tapped to direct a spoof of The Six Million Dollar Man. Fitting because Phillips appears intent on mooring...

  • Flash in the Plan

    By on March 3, 2004

    The brilliance of Saturday Night Live sketches is that they're short. The writers conceive of something funny, milk it for all it's worth and wrap...