First Aid Kit Come Fighting
The strongest anthem for the #MeToo movement was written and released by a couple of Swedish sisters in their mid-20s, months before Harvey Weinstein revelations in the New York Times…
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…