Metro Weekly

Life + Leisure

  • Gears

    Mitsubishi strikes me as a bit of an odd car company, with some exceptionally strong entries for both performance (the go-go Lancer) and style (the...

  • Good Hair Days

    Whether you like it up or down, there are some things your hair just won't do. CVS and Rite Aid may offer aisles of products,...

  • Season's Cleanings

    While springtime may be the busiest season for airing out the homestead, some people have been working since fall. Namely, Junk in the Trunk, a...

  • Eastward Ho

    A vast range of influences from various countries, cultures and religions are lumped into what people call ''Eastern Art.'' And unless you know what to...

  • No Tops Allowed

    The sun shines brightly in the blue sky, the air has warmed and the trees are once more green. Now is not the time to...

  • Get Cooking!

    The day will come when you'll want to know what to do with that rutabaga. Whether you're new to the possibilities of your home kitchen...

  • Blu Clues

    Sony learned something in the 1980s when its Beta format lost the videocassette wars to rival VHS. Namely, always bring a bazooka to a knife...

  • Kosher for Passover

    Jewish food -- especially that which is served during Passover -- all too often gets a bum rap. Take gefilte fish, for example. It's essentially...

  • Eco-Friendly

    Everybody's going green. Some cities - though not D.C. - went dark last weekend for ''Earth Hour'' to inspire people to turn their lights off...

  • Gaydar Detector

    We have our gay music, gay design, gay movies and gay clothing -- all suitably fabulous, of course. We have gay houses, gay neighborhoods and...

  • The DP Files

    Tax season began more than a month ago for those with all the pertinent documents gathered, tax forms filled out and duplicated, taxes paid or...

  • Gears

    As a younger, more inexperienced man, I often dismissed Volkswagens as a collection of odd bugs and rabbits, with a hippie van tossed in for...

  • Coffee Clatch

    Need a caffeine fix? We have a variety of solutions, be they automated or a twist on the old-fashioned. No matter which one you choose,...

  • The Palette of Life

    Finding her Capitol Hill row house was a dream come true for Santa Lia Jones. Literally. A native Washingtonian, Jones grew up on the southeast...

  • Time Flies

    An authentic clock, one of the oldest human inventions, is meant to make noise. The word ''clock '' is derived from the Celtic words clagan...