Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Chromeo at the 9:30 Club

    Loftily touted as “the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture,” Chromeo, the Montreal-based duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 is fresh...

  • Deadmau5 at the 9:30 Club

    One of dance/electronica’s fastest-rising stars — and also one of its most baffling — Canada’s Joel Zimmerman only started spinning and recording as DeadMau5 (“dead...

  • 18th & U Duplex Diner Turns 12 Years Old

    Perched on the border of the Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle neighborhoods, Eric Hirshfield’s 18th & U Duplex Diner has long served as a lively...

  • Baltimore Aerial Festival

    In-Flight Theater presents the second annual Baltimore Aerial Festival in “Graffiti Alley,” which is dedicated to the vibrant art of urban graffiti. Twenty aerial artists...

  • The Next Reflex Dance Collective at Dance Place

    “Electro Shutdown & The Pea” is a dance piece set within a nightclub and begins upon your arrival. Entering the theater, you will find the...

  • BSO’s Broadway Melodies

    Randall Craig Fleischer leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Broadway performers Doug LaBrecque (Show Boat) and Patricia Phillips (The Phantom of the Opera) in a...

  • Reading Silk at The Torpedo Factory

    Reading Silk: A Living Sculpture features an installation with hundreds of small, silk leaf-shaped forms by live silkworms with the collaborative efforts of local students...

  • Robert Ryman at The Phillips Collection

    Coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Robert Ryman: Variations & Improvisations presents Ryman’s ongoing examination of painting, including the effects of light and shadow and...

  • American Idols Live!

    The top 10 finalists from the ninth season of the hit reality show American Idolcelebrate their fame while it lasts, led by winner Lee DeWyze...

  • Coverboy Q [video]

      Last Friday, July 16, in the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Yusef Najafi sat down with Nicky and Rod, two of...

  • Drive-By Truckers at the 9:30 Club

    Patterson Hood creates rock albums with friends under the band name Drive-By Truckers. The albums are fashioned like low-budget films, filled with carefully told, fiercely...

  • Level 42 at The Birchmere

    The British pop band Level 42, who scored hits in the ’80s with “Something About You,” “Lessons in Love” and “Running in the Family” are...

  • Yves Klein at The Hirshhorn

    This is the first American retrospective of the influential French artist Yves Klein, whose talents span from composing to photo-conceptualizing to performance art to judo...

  • Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum

    Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain focuses on three women designers pivotal in transforming Britain from a country devastated by World War II...

  • Melissa Etheridge at Strathmore

    Melissa Etheridge is touring in support of her 10th studio album, Fearless Love. The newly separated famous lesbian mother of four and cancer survivor told...