Metro Weekly

Features

  • Making the Point

    Washington is a college town. It may not be the first thing people think of, but with American University, Catholic University, Gallaudet University, George Washington...

  • At Home in the Old Dominion

    There comes a moment when you realize you're doing something right. For Virginia State Del. Adam Ebbin (D), the moment came near the end of...

  • Reaching the Summit

    In December 2003, a handful of leaders from the GLBT African-American community banded together to challenge support from African American religious and civil rights leaders...

  • Dance Preview

    Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Bebe Miller Dance Company -- The World Premiere of Landing/Place, utilizing motion...

  • Film Preview

    Opening dates are tentative. Subject to change at a studio's whim. After all, look what happened to It's Pat.... SEPTEMBER JUST LIKE HEAVEN -- Reese...

  • Pop Music Preview

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS, responsible for one of summer's biggest hits (''Don't Cha''), are out to prove they're no one-trick kitties. And while the...

  • Stage Preview

    ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 202-319-7227 www.atwdc.org Boston Marriage -- David Mamet writes a comedy of manners from the turn of the century with lesbians Claire...

  • Classical Music Preview

    Bach Sinfonia 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org Daniel Abraham Fall Concert -- Georg Frideric Handel's Alexander's Feast, featuring British soprano Amanda Balestrieri, tenor Scot Cameron, bass-baritone Phillip Collister...

  • 2005 Fall Arts Preview

    As summer wanes, the days are getting shorter and the temperatures are getting cooler. And, as regularly as the turning of the leaves, D.C.'s arts...

  • Art Gallery Preview

    Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 1050 Independence Ave., SW 202-633-1000 www.asia.si.edu Gold: The Asian Touch -- The influence of gold in Asian art, this exhibit contains...

  • Books Preview

    September Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Knopf; $16) is the trade paper debut of this decades-encompassing collection of the famed gay...

  • Rodeo 101

    Think of the National Mall as the wide-open plain, Remington's as the local honky-tonk, and summer tourists as cattle. To make the illusion complete, some...

  • Atlantic Stampede Dance Schedule

    FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Line-dance lesson 11:40 p.m. in the Columbia Ballroom Two-step lesson 12:50 a.m. in the Columbia Ballroom SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 Square-dance lesson 1:45...

  • DeBoldly Going

    Susan Hester calls Kathleen DeBold ''Mautner's Miracle.'' ''She thinks about the Mautner Project in every waking hour,'' marvels Hester, the lesbian health organization's founding executive...

  • Community Building

    Much of metropolitan Washington's community is from elsewhere. Michael Sessa, raised in a thoroughly Italian-American neighborhood in Boston's Revere suburb is no exception. Traces of...