Tuesday TV: Wall Street Bombs Again
Wall Street has had its ups and downs in recent weeks, but not so down as Sept. 16, 1920, when hundreds of pounds of dynamite on a horse-drawn cart exploded…
Monday TV: Nuclear Poisoning of St. Louis
The deserts of New Mexico are most associated with the first nuclear bombs, but the uranium for them was processed in St. Louis — and 47,000 tons of nuclear waste…
Sunday TV: Headachy ‘Here and Now’
Alan Ball’s best series to date, “Six Feet Under,”presented the intricacies of a complicated family that also ran a funeral power. He followed that with the extreme vampire drama “True…
Theatre Review: LBJ’s ‘The Great Society’
It will take biographer Robert Caro five volumes to complete his portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson, so it’s no surprise that there’s a second LBJ play from Robert Schenkkan. His…
Saturday TV: The Life of Eric Clapton
As big a rock star that he became, Eric Clapton remained a reserved personality. So a lot of what is revealed in the terrific bio film “Eric Clapton: Life in…
Friday TV: Olympics Opening Ceremony
Bob Costas is gone, Matt Lauer long gone, but Katie Couric is back on her old network to co-host the XXIII Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (NBC, 8 p.m.) from…
Thursday TV: Winter Games Start Early
The Opening Ceremony isn’t until Friday, but there are already a slew of Olympic events happening from Pyeongchang with Figure Skating (NBC, 8 p.m.) in prime time for three and a…
Wednesday TV: ‘Celebrity Big Brother’
The Olympics still don’t open for a couple of days, but counter-programming is already here. And when NBC goes high, ABC (with next week's "Bachelor Winter Games") and CBS go…
Two of The Posies at The Hamilton
For a band celebrating its 30th anniversary of making music, The Posies initial tour of 2018 is pretty austere, features only founding singer songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow on…
Tuesday TV: The Earlier ‘Gilded Age’
The one percent were doing pretty well 120 years ago in the United States as well. According to the sobering look back “The Gilded Age” on “American Experience” (PBS, 9…