Playlist 6-6-14
It's not as easy to draw up a D-Day playlist as it looks but we took a stab at it, aided mightily by Nat King Cole's jaunty song "D-Day," presented…
Friday TV: More Juicy ‘Orange’
I've just lately been binge-finishing the first season of "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) and mostly been wondering why I've been delaying this gratification so long. The Jenji Kohan…
The Veep of My Street
For the annual Hobart Street Porch Fest this weekend in D.C., I did some research on the guy for whom the block was named nearly 100 years ago and found…
Thursday TV: NBA Finals Primetime Tipoff
It's been a long time coming, but tonight marks the start of the NBA Finals with Miami at San Antonio (ABC, 9 p.m.). It also marks the move of the…
A Little Walking Around Theatre
After being told I couldn’t even get in the door at the Spooky Action Theatre until my cell phone was shut off, I thought: They are really cracking down on…
Wednesday TV: Kristen Bell Returns to Host CMT Awards for Third Time
Country continues its march to mainstream, from the newly launched Rolling Stone Country to the 2014 CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8 p.m.) whose host for the third year is out…
Monday TV: Making Nobodies Famous
Making nobodies into stars is what reality TV has been about. Tonight, it gets more specific, in the new show "Famous in 12" (The CW, 8 p.m.) in which five…
Action Heats Up on ’24’
Cutting a season of "24" down to 12 episodes seems to have done something to its velocity, urgency and the amount of action it packs into each week’s show. This…
Monday TV: A Hard Day’s Half Century
The 50th anniversary of the British Invasion is marked by Turner Classic Movies with a restored version of the Beatles' classic "A Hard Day's Night" (8 p.m.), the film that…
‘Veep’ Goes to the Debates
"Veep" is one of the few serialized series that doesn’t need to hit everyone over the head with what’s happened previously before starting every episode. Like Selina Meyer, it just…