Friday TV: Hair Band ‘Dirt’ from the Crüe
There are way more pop and R&B bio movies out there. But if you’re doing one about a rock band, Mötley Crüe might be an unusual choice. “The Dirt” (Netflix,…
Thursday TV: Let the Madness Begin
Brackets ready? March Madness begins in earnest with Louisville vs. Minnesota (CBS, noon), LSU vs. Yale (truTV, 12:30 p.m.), Auburn vs. New Mexico State (TNT, 1:20 p.m.), Florida State vs.…
Todd Snider at the Birchmere
Todd Snider walks on stage in goofy hat, trusty guitar, barefoot but also with his equally raggedy dog, Cowboy Jim, who promptly lies down and listens to these songs and…
Wednesday TV: Arquette is At It Again
Patricia Arquette, who won awards for one portrayal of one real-life, frumpy middle-aged woman with criminal tendencies in the limited series “Escape at Dannemora,” now plays another one in the…
Tuesday TV: Questions in a Contraption
Rob Lowe hosts a fussy new quiz show, “Mental Samurai” (Fox, 9 p.m.), in which contestants are pitched the easiest questions in the world while riding on some sort of…
Flesh Eaters’ Ace Lineup at Union Stage
The poet and writer Chris Desjardins created the Flesh Eaters in the heyday of L.A. punk scene of the late 1970s, enlisting many of his friends to be among the…
Monday TV: Inventing a Fraud
One of the fastest growing firms in Silicon Valley was something called Theranos, created by a dynamic young entrepreneur named Elizabeth Holmes. Nobody questioned her premise that inserting your finger…
Sunday TV: ‘Billions’ Returns, ‘Tricky Dick’
The sharp series “Billions” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) begins its fourth season with an odd alliance between two who had been nemeses for the past three, Damian Lewis’ Bobby Axelrod and…
Saturday TV: A Drop of Cirque du Soleil
“Imagined by Cirque du Soleil - One Night for One Drop” (CBS, 8 p.m.) brings a little circus to your Saturday night. The annual event is usually held each year…
A Couple Takes the Gershwin Prize
It was the 10th Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, but winners Emilio and Gloria Estefan represent two firsts — the first married couple to be so honored,…