The Triumph of ‘The Beach’
The last official beach day of the summer is also the last day for "The Beach," the terrifically popular installation at the National Building Museum by Snarkitecture, which I'm so…
Sunday TV: Not Sherlock But His Author
The franchise that "Masterpiece" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) might have that's more valuable than the soon-to-end "Downton Abbey" is its "Sherlock." But with Benedict Cumberbatch out doing "Hamlet"…
Saturday TV: Howery’s First Special
He's got a big name comedian behind him and a hit summer TV show ("The Carmichael Show") in which he appears. So it's probably a good time for his first…
Playlist 9-4-15
The start of the season's last three day weekend inevitably means a collision of both working songs for Labor Day and a batch of anthems celebrating the last moments of…
Perlman, Delany in Amazon’s ‘Hand of God’
"Hand of God" (Amazon Prime, streaming) the latest online drama from the home of "Transparent," starts crazily, with a powerful judge, played by Ron Perlman, found naked in a public…
Also on Friday: Stars of Guitar, Racket
The biggest audience Jimi Hendrix ever played was at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival, before 500,000 in one of the last big rock festivals of the era. In a trio…
Thursday TV: Suddenly, College Football
College football arrives in a crush with a more than a half dozen games -- all on a Thursday night! They include North Carolina at South Carolina (ESPN, 6 p.m.),…
Odd Definitions of Celebrity, Dancing
When he and two buddies subdued a gunman on a Paris train less than three weeks ago, the very furthest thing from the mind of Oregon national Guardsman Alek Skarlatos…
Wednesday TV: Robot Tries Finale Again
Because no mass shooting occurred on camera yesterday -- as it did last week at this time -- the first season finale of "Mr. Robot" (USA, 10 p.m.) will show…
Tuesday TV: The Queen in Her Own Words
They might have profiled everybody already on “American Masters” — even people who weren’t American. So now here’s another angle on the public television biography with “In Their Own Words”…