Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Uplifted: Pilobolus

    Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking...

  • Iimay Ho

    Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew...

  • The 2012 Next Generation Awards

    As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...

  • Think Pink

    The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force produces the famed Winter Party Festival in Miami, with the tagline ''party with a purpose.'' But why should...

  • Soul-Stirring

    Most actors don't make their stage debut at the Kennedy Center. But then the 15 women in the Theater Lab's My Soul, Look Back and...

  • Taking a Drag in Arlington

    You won't see drag queens in swimsuits at the Miss Gay Arlington pageant. ''There are several queens who God blessed with an extremely good body,...

  • Hayes Honors Gays

    The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday, April 23, at the Warner Theatre, opened with ''Hello'' from last year's Broadway sensation The Book of...

  • Cylindrical Cinema

    Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...

  • Nightclubbing

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • Mercy McKay

    ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based...

  • Broadway Rock

    Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...

  • Dining Out for Life 2012

    Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an...

  • To Serve, with Love

    ''I collect them like baseball cards – I know all their names, I know their styles,'' teases Sonya Boring. She's talking about drag queens. ''I'm...

  • Latin Romance

    ''I really enjoy this and it would have never happened if Placido had not invited me to his program.'' Of course, Placido Domingo would have...

  • Concert Review: At the 9:30 Club the Ting Tings say shut up, go

    Last night, April 12, Katie White unceremoniously took to the 9:30 Club stage after the house lights had dimmed. Wearing a ball cap low on...