The Zombies Come Alive at Birchmere
Half a century ago this summer, the Zombies were in Abbey Road studio, working on an album that would both break up the band and bring them back together decades…
Tuesday TV: Photographing Every Species
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has a big ambition: to document every species on the planet in a project he calls the Photo Ark. Each is shot, if possible, in…
Rock Review: NRBQ Sustains at Amp
It was a shock six years ago when the newest incarnation of NRBQ was actually something that had been touring as the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet. Adams had…
Monday TV: ‘Presenting Princess Shaw’
Here is an internet story for our time: A woman in New Orleans posts videos singing a cappella for fun in her spare time and goes nowhere. Someone she doesn’t…
Sunday TV: Winter is Here
The anticipation is super-high for the return of “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.) for its seventh season, which can be seen as the first half of its final season.…
Saturday TV: Pretend It’s Christmas
Hallmark takes a bold jump by filling up a sweltering summer week with its huge backlog of Christmas movies and including a new one tonight. Brooke Nevin and Patrick Duffy…
Friday TV: Mixed ‘Friends from College’
Sometimes even bad shows are interesting to watch. Such is the case with the new “Friends from College” (Netflix, streaming) which is about some old Harvard friends who have married…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
A story about Ai Weiwei finally getting to see his "Trace," depicting political prisoners, at the Hirshhorn. A feature about the new season of "Playing House" on USA. Describing how one Matthew…
Thursday TV: Who’s ‘Hooten & the Lady’?
An eight-episode summer English import goes the Indiana Jones route. “Hooten & the Lady” (The CW, 9 p.m.) stars Michael Lands as an American adventurer who runs into a British…
Wednesday TV: More Cringe Comedy
The familiar comic face of Andrea Savage, most recently seen as President Laura Montez on “Veep,” writes and stars in the comedy “I’m Sorry” (truTV, 10 and 10:30 p.m.) that…