Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Otter Season

    Once thought to be an endangered species, otters are now so prevalent in D.C. that, like deer, a hunting season has sprung up. Of course,...

  • Reagon's Rites

    Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...

  • Arts Hub

    Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...

  • Concert Review: Zola Jesus

    ''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...

  • Review: Blood Wedding

    Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...

  • Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

    In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...

  • Estelle Shines Anew

    ''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...

  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...

  • Frida's Photos

    Sometimes it pays to be a sister city. Right now in Arlington, for instance, you can see a collection of Frida Kahlo's photographs, never before...

  • Review: Josephine Tonight

    There aren't a lot of musicals to see around town over the next month. But even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro...

  • Sex Appeal

    {Glitterlust (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Glitterlust photographed by Julian Vankim at Velvet Lounge, Thursday, Feb. 9 ''We almost broke up,'' says Mikey Torres, referring to...

  • Review: Wanda Sykes at Strathmore

    “Here he is!” Wanda Sykes said in a nelly voice as she swished across the stage at Strathmore last Friday night. The popular lesbian comedian...

  • Fabulous Baker Boy

    ''My grandmother was a Cotton Club showgirl and knew Josephine Baker,'' Maurice Hines says, referring to the famous Prohibition-era Harlem nightclub. ''My brother Gregory and...

  • Mother Complex

    Michael Lluberes's mother refuses to see his new show. ''She heard the title,'' he laughs, ''and she is not making an appearance.'' Technically, the show's...

  • Love, Actually

    As a result of the play Next Fall, Chris Dinolfo came out to his dad. ''I actually came out to my dad and my stepmom...