Metro Weekly

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  • Light Touch

    By on February 12, 2003

    America's ''Romantic Piano Sensation'' stays true to placid form on his latest release Pianist-composer Jim Brickman is at his best when he keeps it simple...

  • Made in the Shade

    By on February 5, 2003

    A romantic musical finds new life at Signature, while Arena Stage gives Thornton Wilder a posthumous premiere Weatherman: Bogart with ensemble (Photo by Carol Pratt...

  • Hello, Carol!

    By on February 5, 2003

    Skipper as Channing. Richard Skipper left his hometown of Conway, S.C., right out of high school in 1979 with his sights set on a dream:...

  • Italian Ham

    By on February 5, 2003

    A tedious, unimaginative thriller, The Recruit is about as tricky a trained seal on its deathbed Ham I Am: Pacino with Farrell. Is anyone else...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 5, 2003

    LIFE IN PLASTIC... Maybe you remember the warning label affixed to Aqua's 1997 debut album Aquarium (MCA), noting that the Danish quartet's biggest hit, ''Barbie...

  • Broad Comedy

    By on January 29, 2003

    From Jacobean London to contemporary L.A., wild women wreak havoc and leave laughter in their wake The Newlywed Game: Robichaux and van Griethuysen (Photo by...

  • Hot Moves

    By on January 29, 2003

    Fans of flamenco are flocking to Lisner Auditorium for the third annual Flamenco Festival, sure to quench a thirst for the intensely rhythmic and passionate...

  • Death Trip

    By on January 29, 2003

    Outrageous deaths and buckets of blood leave you laughing, not screaming, at Final Destination 2 Death comes a-calling:Cook and Larter There's a fine line between...

  • Spy Game

    By on January 29, 2003

    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is punctuated by visual wit and robust performances that veer toward camp My so-called undercover life:Clooney and Rockwell Who knew...

  • Free and Clear

    By on January 29, 2003

    Freedman's piano and voice sound like soulmates in duet -- as long as you can overlook the clichƩ-imprisoned lyrics. If an album's quality could be...

  • Feast Your Ears

    By on January 22, 2003

    A gorgeous mix of jaunty ballads and emotive instrumentals, Feast of Wire is the polar opposite of a shampoo commercial Country music's insurrection into pop...

  • Night Flight

    By on January 22, 2003

    Twelfth Night glows with an alternative-styled sexiness, while Last Seder is a skillful exploration of family dynamics in disarray. Playing for laughs: Marshall and Twyford....

  • Jack's Back

    By on January 22, 2003

    A little too low key for its own good, About Schmidt amounts to much less than the sum of its parts. ''I don't know whether...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 22, 2003

    RUSSIAN GIRLS IN LOVE... It might be, as every music critic writing about them has skeptically suggested, just a gimmick that the Russian teenagers in...

  • Soup's On

    By on January 15, 2003

    Taking Stock: Ani DiFranco The annual Queerstock music festival is predicated on a radical idea -- that the fight for liberation is useless if you...