Opera Review: ‘After Life / Josephine’
What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers? They sing. Or at least that’s what happened to a couple of singular women at the beginning of…
Tuesday TV: ‘Black Girls Rock’ Again
A new “Black Girls Rock” (BET, Centric, 8 p.m.), recorded last week in Newark, honors Rhianna, Gladys Knight, Shonda Rhimes, Dana Gurira, Amanda Stenberg and Black Lives Matter organizers Patrisse…
Monday TV: All About Mapplethorpe
“Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” (HBO, 9 p.m.) takes its title from Sen. Jesse Helms admonitions in his effort to ban the work in the 80s. IT’s endured, and the…
Review: Theological Meeting of Minds
One of the funnier political bits of the season was one Bill Maher did last fall on “The King Trump Bible,” reinterpreting the text using the pithy phrases of crude…
Sunday TV: Morgan Freeman Finds God
He played God a couple of times in the movies, but he never mentions that as he hosts a new series “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman” (National Geographic…
Saturday TV: Finally, the Final Four
Long before all your brackets collapsed, here’s the night you were looking for all those weeks ago: The Final Four, which isn’t on broadcast TV for some reason, but an…
Playlist, 4-1-16
An April Fool's Day edition of the radio show actually found a few songs about the day, but many more about fools in general and one about April. Started with…
Friday TV: Laugh Track at ‘The Ranch’
The way it opens, you don’t know if the new star-packed series “The Ranch” (Netflix, streaming) is a modern stab at the Western, a 21st century “Big Valley.” The tense…