Tuesday TV: Weird, Younger Sitcoms
A lot of the family comedies on TV are those involving single people who hang around together as allies. The latest is "Weird Loners" (Fox, 9:30 p.m.) in which four…
Monday TV: Battling Dread Cancer
The disease has touched most American lives and is just growing, a lot of people needs Home Care Assistance if they suffer cancer. But Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee wondered just what…
Sunday TV: Killing Scientology, Jesus
It's hard to believe that the big, paranoid, litigious cult started by L. Ron Hubbard will survive Alex Gibney's clear-eyed, eye-opening and damning documentary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison…
Saturday TV: Slime, Jonas, Kids’ Choice
Nick Jonas, who first visited the event in 2006 with his brothers, returns to host The 2015 Kids' Choice Awards (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.) as host and performer of the 28th…
Playlist 3-27-15
An unusual show began with the only band named after a "Tom Terrific" villain, and lurched eventually into a little Jonathan Richman set, an unplanned concentration of Del Shannon, some…
Friday TV: Saving Girls from Prostitution
Not to be confused with the terrible 2003 sci-fi movie of the same name, Kim Longinotto's "Dreamcatcher" (Showtime, 9 p.m.) follows the work of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former Chicago prostitute…
Thursday TV: YouTube Family Gets Show
They looked like a manufactured family in their overdone family videos that began with "Xmas Jammies" in 2013 and expanded into a full time job, doing music parodies for just…
Theater Review: ‘Laugh’ at Studio
The title of Beth Henley’s new play sounds like an order; at least a nudge. "Laugh" is her effort to move away from her more serious works from the stage…
Review: Pointless Theater’s ‘Dr. Caligari’
There could hardly be a more reverent salute to a great, twisted film than The Pointless Theater’s well-wrought “Doctor Caligari” which brings the influential German expressionist film to life with…
Expecting ‘Big Time in Hollywood, Fla.’
Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf were just a couple of friends making funny little films on YouTube until they got this idea. “We were doing these just horrible, horrible things…