Returning to 1960s Laurel Canyon
Jakob Dylan grew up amid his own small-town musical crossroads — Woodstock — but the subject of his new documentary is the one that flourished on the other side of…
Jason Isbell Saves Nashville
For a place that calls itself Music City, Nashville can be pretty lacking. The town’s central musical gathering place, Broadway is a compendium of increasingly generic day-drinking bars with incongruous…
Tuesday TV: Asperger’s On the Road
Four young comedians on the spectrum are now also on the road in the documentary series “On Tour with Asperger’s Are Us” (HBO, 8 p.m.). Underwritten by the Duplass Brothers…
Monday TV: How Queen Met Lambert
Something about an Oscar-winning bio pic, combined with a new lead singer who is graduate of one of your marquee adds up to the rare occasion when a rock documentary…
Sunday TV: ‘Red Line,’ Wall Fight
Noah Wylie stars in the new limited series “The Red Line” (CBS, 8 p.m.), set in Chicago and meant to depict divisions worsens by the shooting death of a black…
Commerce Edges Art at Rock Hall
The tug of war between art and commerce is clear in the 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (HBO, 8 p.m.) that’s become a big annual concert…
Also Saturday: Dual White House Dinners
Once, it was the most reliable spot for political humor each year. But nowadays, political humor overflows late night every night of the week. And the 2019 White House Correspondents…
Friday TV: Uma Thurman in ‘Chambers’
Sivan Alyra Rose stars as a young woman who seems completely changed by her heart transplant in the new horror series “Chambers” (Netflix, streaming). Set in Arizona, the ten-episode first…
Thursday TV: ‘Gotham’ Gets to Batman
Since Bruce Wayne was so young when “Gotham” (Fox, 8 p.m.) began five years ago, you’d think they’d never gt to the point where he becomes Batman. So for the…
Wednesday TV: All Tied Up in New York
Brendan Scannell stars as a New Yorker and would-be comedian who looks up an old friend (Zoe Levin) who has since gotten into the business of bondage services in the…