Metro Weekly

Clublife

  • The Joey-O Spot

    If Joey Oldaker -- better known as Joey-O -- wasn't born to be a DJ, it's at least something that he aspired to from an...

  • Sin City

    ''I just love Sin,'' Sin Morera says. ''I mean, when you meet me, I look like sin. I just have that edgy, badass...

  • Tools of the Trade

    Brent Everett Josh Vaughn For anyone with a taste for gay-male erotica -- and this likely means you -- Cobalt Nightclub is definitely the place...

  • Classic Dance

    Six years ago, Bobby T would have laughed if you told him he'd one day be a DJ. At the time he didn't even like...

  • Feeling Nellie

    Really, what better name could there be for a gay sports bar than ''Nellie's''? You can thank Douglas Schantz's great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, the eponymous inspirations...

  • 35's a Charm

    A jukebox instead of a DJ -- at a dance club? ''I'm serious as a heart attack,'' says Chuck Bowers about Baltimore's Hippo when it...

  • High Jinx

    ''It's about being wacky and theatrical and bizarre, coming up with really irreverent, potty-mouth humor,'' says Shea Van Horn, referring to his preferred style of...

  • Hear 'Em Roar

    ''Come out and dance with us. Come out and dance with Men,'' JD Samson says, a bit playfully. Samson, a lesbian, is definitely not a...

  • Retro Fit

    Don't ask him to explain it. Jason Royce just knows it's for real. ''They all know Rick Astley, and they all know Donna Summer,'' says...

  • Suddenly Susan

    When DJ Susan Morabito plays Apex next Friday, March 30, you won't hear a certain diva on an endless loop shout ''Throw your hands up...

  • Tainted Infamy

    All Karl Jones asks for is a little dance music diversity. ''When I first moved to D.C. six years ago, there really was nothing,'' he...

  • Musical Flexibility

    ''Movin' Up'' may have a religious provenance with its powerful chorus delivered by a church-reared belter, but God had nothing to do with DJ Mike...

  • Mixing It Up

    While it may have been a simple and ''silly'' thing when he made a short video to audition as DJ for the daytime talker Ellen,...

  • Fur Fever

    Fur may be named for the now-verboten warming garments once made in the nightclub's warehouse space, but these days it generates heat as one of...

  • Beats and Buzz

    It may have taken some time, but the buzz on DJ Tony Ruiz is finally booming as big as his beats. Ruiz is Pittsburgh's most...