Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Soaring Angels

    By on December 3, 2003

    The sheer scope and monumentality of HBO's Angels in America will surprise few. That the production triumphs and gives new legitimacy to television as a...

  • Santa Claws

    By on December 3, 2003

    Holiday movies are designed, by and large, to spread good cheer, to make us all warm and glowy inside, to make us feel charitable toward...

  • Ménage à Trois

    By on December 3, 2003

    Once upon a time, in a land very, very near, Queen Molly Smith decided to dip her royal toes into the immense pool of American...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 19, 2003

    BEMOANING MTV… This week we thought we had good news to share with those who've ever bemoaned the lack of outlets to see dance music...

  • Political Pop

    By on November 19, 2003

    ''Dance-y, garage-y electronic feminist pop. '' That's how Johanna Fateman describes Le Tigre, a lesbian band bent on creating happy electronica for a politically progressive...

  • Babs or Bette

    By on November 19, 2003

    Barbra Streisand poses bestride a film camera in a newly released Annie Liebowitz photo. But the noted filmmaker hasn't made a new movie. Instead, Streisand's...

  • Amazing Adventure

    By on November 19, 2003

    It's been ages since I witnessed an audience applaud a movie. But the Sunday matinee crowd gathered at Master and Commander: The Far Side of...

  • Utterly Shawful

    By on November 19, 2003

    You know that promising moment when you think you've solved a Rubik's Cube, that annoyingly enigmatic toy straight out of the pocket-protector weird science of...

  • To Die For

    By on November 12, 2003

    If you see one opera this season, make it the Washington Opera's production of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure. There are very few occasions when you...

  • Skinned Alive

    By on November 12, 2003

    After just three episodes, Fox cancelled its most promising new show of the fall season. Skin, which made its debut during a very popular World...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 12, 2003

    DJ VANS WITH FANS... D.C.'s own Deep Dish is the 10th best DJ act in a new poll of the world's best DJs. The duo...

  • Roman Holiday

    By on November 12, 2003

    It is the best of Sondheim, it is the worst of Sondheim. It is the first Sondheim, it is the quite possibly the last Sondheim....

  • Sweet Dream

    By on November 12, 2003

    If you've silently longed for an ideal production of Shakespeare's classic A Midsummer Night's Dream, wait no more. The Shakespeare Theatre and director Mark Lamos...

  • Laugh-A-Minute

    By on November 12, 2003

    ''I do a lot of stuff about being a gay mom and my relationship and my kids, '' says comedian Judy Gold. ''But, of course,...

  • Whole Hearted

    By on November 12, 2003

    On the cover of A Hole in the Heart, a woman stares at a snowy mountain ahead, her facing looking simple and dumbstruck by the...