Turkey Update: Safe in the Caves
For any of those who may concerned about our time in Istanbul during its unrest, first reported here and now migrated to the Washington Post, I'm happy to say we've…
Our Trip to Istanbul So Far
The way it had had been reported on TV, you'd think the tear gas would be evident from the moment we stepped off the plane in Istanbul. But things seemed…
Playing a Live Score to ‘West Side Story’
It's been a popular thing for a decade or more for orchestras to sub in scores live for silent movies. A little more unusual is presenting live soundtracks to talkies.…
Our Regular Coverage is on Hiatus
TV shows can do it; TV columns can do it too. The daily blog of largely daily television highlights that I've been writing every day for maybe a decade takes…
Wednesday TV: Guys Choice Awards, ‘Roughness’
Do guys really need their own awards show? They get one anyway in the 2013 Guys Choice Awards (Spike 9 p.m.), where categories include Most Dangerous Man, Best Lincoln, The Original…
‘Killing’ Attire
A friend writes: "'The Killing' seems re-invigorated. Lead actress once again puts on the same sweater from the last 2 whole seasons as she's drawn back into the new investigation,…
Tuesday TV: Getting ‘Twisted’ After ‘Liars’
ABC Family is throwing out some interesting premises anyway. Pregnant teens, a couple of moms as foster parents and now a kid who killed his aunt as a child now…
A Different John on ‘Daily Show’
The swooping opening credits still said "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the announcer said it too. And in the computer crawl that is part of the set, Jon Stewart's…
Monday TV: The Pussy Riot Story
Russia never really got performance art. Nor did they ever understand punk music. So when the radical young women in an artists' collective called Pussy Riot pulled on their day-glo…