Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Thriller Night

    Not everyone likes to dress up for Halloween. Some people dress up enough already the rest of the year. But you certainly get more chances...

  • The Great Septime

    Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...

  • Review: CSS and MEN at the 9:30 Club

    At the end of its concert at the 9:30 Club on Monday night, Oct. 24, the Brazilian dance-rock band CSS gave a Beastie Boys-esque rap-chant,...

  • Privileged Information

    Sometimes, Anthony Dortch Jr.'s parents just don't understand. ''My parents look at my artwork,'' he says, ''and sometimes go, 'Why? Why not just make some...

  • War and Witchcraft

    As Arms and The Man opens, Amy Quiggins flutters across the stage playing Raina Petkoff as if she were Barbie come to life. She's giddy...

  • Longhorns

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (3 out of 5) Friday, 10/21/2011, 7:15 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Lisner Auditorium "ALL GUYS GO...

  • Sweet Revenge from la Suite Noire

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Thursday, 10/20/2011, 5:00 PM Shorts presentation, $12 at West End Cinema French with English subtitles ...

  • Blue Decade

    ''Basically, they were playing all of the wrong music,'' Mark Rutstein says about Cobalt when he became the dance club's manager three years ago. ''They...

  • Religious Enrichment

    Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...

  • The People Sing

    ''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...

  • Photos of Angie / Bullied

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Tuesday, 10/18/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $5 at West End Cinema JUSTICE WAS SERVED...

  • An enchanted evening at the NSO

    Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...

  • We Were Here

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 11:00 AM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre DAVID WEISSMAN...

  • Bashment

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 6:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Atlas Center for the Performing...

  • Lesbian Central

    Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...