Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • ''Porcelain''

    By on April 28, 2004

    It's hard to believe that Porcelain is Chay Yew's first play. The 1992 London Fringe Award winner for Best Production, Porcelain marks a brave, startling...

  • Brooklyn Brouhaha

    By on April 21, 2004

    Red-checkered tablecloths, bottles of wine, oil and vinegar, fistfuls of pasta, big hair, bigger passion, short skirts and thick gold chains. This is Joe Banno's...

  • Common Sense

    By on April 21, 2004

    Abigail Garner is preaching to the choir. A columnist and GLBT activist, Garner works primarily with gay families, so unsurprisingly her new book, Families Like...

  • Pulp Friction

    By on April 21, 2004

    ''There are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard, '' says Bill (David Carradine) to The Bride (Uma Thurman) during the philosophical calm...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 21, 2004

    Anastacia ANASTACIA'S ALLEGED USE OF SCIENCE… Singer Anastacia has been far more successful in Europe than in her native America, where few know of her...

  • All Soaped Up

    By on April 21, 2004

    As television critics ponder their post-mortems for the 2003-04 season, much attention will be paid to this year's crop of guilty pleasures. Whether it's the...

  • Lovely Ladies

    By on April 14, 2004

    What if we could somehow rearrange and sort through the private history of our families, reorganizing and reshaping the personal, intimate lives of our parents?...

  • Damita So-So

    By on April 14, 2004

    Janet Jackson got spooked by Madonna. Or so it seems. Madonna, you'll recall, yanked her sure-to-provoke-conversation antiwar video for ''American Life '' a year ago,...

  • Royal Ball

    By on April 14, 2004

    First performed in 1817, Gioacchino Rossini's La Cenerentola, a comical take on the Cinderella fairy tale, has been recast by the Washington National Opera as...

  • Quest for Fame

    By on April 7, 2004

    ''I started out as a queer comic -- still am. But then I started doing one-person shows. And they got attention and it raised my...

  • Shlock Art

    By on April 7, 2004

    What do we learn while watching Games People Play: New York, director James Ronald Whitney's ''reality series pilot '' cum feature film? That fame whores...

  • Garden Variety

    By on April 7, 2004

    In the beginning, there was Stephen Schwartz. In the 1970s he created the bright and bubbly musicals Pippin and Godspell. In the 1990s he wrote...

  • Demon Seed

    By on April 7, 2004

    One could easily argue that Ron Perlman's most memorable performances are those in which he's encased under heavy duty, extra-special effects makeup. For proof, witness...

  • Pin-Up Pop

    By on April 7, 2004

    Pop musicland is a desert. It's nearly barren of openly gay male solo stars. Ari Gold is one of at least two gay pin-up boys...

  • Merry Mourning

    By on March 31, 2004

    William Finn has known some pretty eclectic characters in his lifetime, and the prominent composer/lyricist writes about their lives -- not the circumstances of their...