Friday TV: 46th NAACP Image Awards
The 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards (TV One, 9 p.m.) are farmed out to cable, which can be bad for the image. The recognition of achievements in TV, movies, music…
Theatre Review: ‘The Widow Lincoln’
Humans have a regrettable instinct oftentimes to avoid a recent widow – what can one say to the grieiving? How to act? This apparently worked against both Mary Todd Lincoln…
Thursday TV: ‘Allegience’ Looks Familiar
It seemed at first that "The Americans" was silly; rechilling a Cold War story that seemed more "Boris & Natasha" than something contemporary. But as that Reagan-era series got better,…
Wednesday TV: ‘Fresh Off the Boat’
An unexpectedly fresh and funny new comedy that generally stays off the stereotypes while its central issue is cultural assimilation, "Fresh Off the Boat" (ABC, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.) works…
Theatre Review: ‘Bessie’s Blues’
Bessie Smith is having something of a moment in 2015, 121 years after her birth. The celebrated “Empress of the Blues” is not only the subject of a big HBO…
Tuesday TV: Reality Battle with Paint Cans
Graffiti art has come a long way over the decades, from urban vandalism to gallery-worthy expression and city sanctioned murals. Now it even has a reality show. "Street Art Throwdown" (Oxygen, 9…
Monday TV: ‘Folye’ Returns Online
He reigned for years on public television, and though PBS seems more packed than usual with British drama, the only way to see the final three episodes of 1940s intelligence…
Sunday TV: Deflated Already
The excesses of Super Bowl XLIX (NBC, 6:30 p.m.) go well beyond the game between New England and Seattle in Glendale, Ariz. The pre game hubbub starts at noon. Idena…
Saturday TV: Mel Brooks Alone
At 88, he's amassed an awful lot of stories to tell, so in his special "Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen" (HBO, 9 p.m.) from the Geffen Playhouse in Los…
Playlist 1-30-15
A cold night in the studio warmed with a big set for Buddy Holly, who died 56 years ago this week. It fit in fine with some new music by…