Remembering Paul Kantner, 1941-2016
My indelible image of Paul Kantner, the bespectacled, bookish co-pilot behind rock's psychedelic Jefferson Airplane, who died Thursday at 74, was not in the footage from Woodstock or Altamont or…
Thursday TV: Laughing at the Apocalypse
Things are wide open enough on broadcast TV today to even accommodate something as odd as "You, Me and the Apocalypse" (NBC, 8 p.m.) an internationally-made kind of adventure/comedy thing…
Wednesday TV: The Dawn of Flubber
Turner Classic Movies' month-long Wednesday night salute to Fred MacMurray concludes with the 1961 "The Absent Minded Professor" (8 p.m.), in which a substance called Flubber is invented. The film,…
New ‘Outsiders’: Hillbilly Militia
At a time when an armed group of yahoos have taken over government property in Utah and refuse to give it up, here's a timely new series about a similar…
Also on Tuesday: More Mining Trouble
Speaking of mining, some in hill country talk about a government "War on coal" these days, but 100 years ago there was a different war in West Virginia -- for…
Report from Blizzard Central
Two feet of snow is a lot. But it seems in my long life I've seen a few snowstorms like that. After a day of unexpected beauty, when nature makes…
Monday TV: Three New Shows
Tom Ellis has made a specialty of portraying a devilish rogue, whose gets by on charm and loos alone. He did in the short-lived cable show "Rush" and does so…
After 13 Year Absence, ‘The X-Files’
There is a palpable sense of dread in the performances of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as they are reunited, inevitably and seemingly against their will, in a latter day…
Also on Sunday: Unaired Bowie Profile
Sometimes, the profiles they work on for “60 Minutes” (CBS, 8 p.m.) go unfinished or get shelved. A 2003 profile of David Bowie, for example, never made it on air until…
Saturday TV: Chelsea Does Netflix
"Chelsea Does..." (Netflix, streaming) is a series of four documentaries in which comedian and former talk show host Chelsea Handler investigates various topics haphazardly, and sometimes only so she can…