‘Justified’ Comes to An End
It was a consistently strong, generally underrated series, with fine acting and the kind of crisp writing that strove to stay close to its Elmore Leonard origins. But to stay…
Also on Tuesday: Online Space Comedy
From "Freaks and Geeks" co-creator Paul Feig comes the eight-episode space comedy "Other Space" (Yahoo, streaming) featuring Joel Jodgson and Trace Beaulieu from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" as well as…
Azar Nafisi on the U.S.-Iran Deal
I had the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" on the line. Azar Nafisi was about to receive the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate in the Humanities and Public Service from…
Theatre Review: ‘The Margins’ at Molotov
In 1972 a parapsychologist in Toronto tried an strange experiment — get a bunch of people together to make up a fictional historical character and then try to conjure him…
Monday TV: Two Views of Lincoln’s Demise
There will be a number of documentaries this week marking the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination. Two are tonight. The reenactments in "Lincoln's Last Day" (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.) tends to…
Sunday TV: An HBO Onslaught
Another Sunday means another way with way too many offerings to watch in one night. The big news tonight is the fifth season return of "Game of Thrones" (HBO, 9…
Saturday TV: New Girls and Polka Kings
Transgender lives have been reflected more and more on TV, none more so than the new series "New Girls on the Block" (Discovery Life, 10 p.m.) about transgender women in…
Playlist 4-10-15
Got in a bit late today (but nobody complained). Inspired by a new documentary on Elvis Costello, that included his songwriting with Paul McCartney, I played a set of some…
Friday TV: Declan and the Daredevil
He's been a key supporting player in a number of Showtime's growing number of documentary and concert films, most recently on "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued." Now the prolific…
The High Speed Helen Hayes Awards
To counterbalance the echoey chaos of last year, with the Helen Hayes Awards seemed to have been swallowed up by the party it was having at the National Building Museum,…