Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • Tattooed Troubadour

    Egos were checked at the January ''Hope for Haiti'' concert telethon, with none of the performers identified by name. It was a small gesture of...

  • San Francisco Beat

    Jamie J. Sanchez remembers when he first wanted to become a club DJ. He was all of 17 -- a minor with major dreams. ''I...

  • Hippo in Wonderland

    Last fall for Halloween, Bella Stassi's brother Roy dressed as the Mad Hatter. ''He designed his entire costume by himself, made it all by hand,''...

  • The Joy of Sax

    Joshua Redman had no intention of becoming a world-renowned, award-winning jazz musician. ''I didn't go to undergraduate for music – I was going to go...

  • Winter Escape

    Tired of snow and freezing temperatures? You could wait a month for spring. Better yet, head south in a few weeks for winter's best fun-in-the-sun...

  • Tegan & Sara

    Tegan and Sara Quin actually look like twins on the cover of Sainthood. ''For years we rejected this twin image, people always trying to twin...

  • Download These

    ''Superstar'' (2000) From the album: This Business of ArtThis was one of the Quin twin's first songs, and to this day the club banger isn't...

  • Pigskin Fever

    This Sunday, you can wear your football finest to your favorite video watering hole, be it Colts blue and white or Saints black and gold....

  • Dark Disco

    ''I don't want to be ignored, oh god!'' Tom Smith cries at one point on Editors' new In This Light And On This Evening. With...

  • True Spirit

    ''There are pieces of what being gay is about that aren't really being discussed,'' says singer-songwriter Matt Alber. ''Being gay, I see things in a...

  • Hollywood Medley

    They don't make film music like they used to. So says Bill Conti. ''It's very difficult as the years go by, how they make a...

  • Raw Bar

    Shea van Horn is giving it to us raw. “Basically what we’re trying to recreate is the dance scene in Cruising,” says...

  • Divine Miss M

    On a visit to the charmingly scrappy MetroStage in Alexandria right now, you might not find God, but you will find the next best thing....

  • The Director's Wife

    When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...

  • Di$po$able Pop

    If you have an ''s'' in your name, have you ever thought to replace it with a dollar sign? And really, why stop there? You...