Capital Radio 12-1-25: At December’s Door
Reaching the last month of a fraught year brings deeper meaning to the Hag’s “If We Make It Through December,” which brought another dozen and a half songs about the…
Monday TV: Rooms Emptied by School Shootings
Reporter and photographer Steve Hartman and Lou Bopp find a way to honor the victims of school shootings by photographing the bedrooms they left behind in the documentary “All the Empty…
Sunday TV: John Legend on New ‘Words + Music’
The Audacity podcast “Words + Music” (MGM+, 9 p.m.), in which artists talk about their creative process, finds its way to television in a new series created by some of…
Saturday TV: 24th Annual Americana Honors
Actor, performer and music fan John C. Reilly, above, hosts the 24th Annual Americana Honors, presented by “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings), held at the Ryman…
Saturday TV: ‘Left Handed Girl’ on Netflix
From Taiwan comes its Oscar entry for international feature, “Left-Handed Girl” (Netflix, streaming), about a single mother and her two daughters who move to Taipei to open a noodle stand…
Thursday TV: Parades and All That Jazz
At 99, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC, 8:30 a.m.) only seems bigger than ever (certainly it’s a big deal for the network, for whom it is the biggest annual…
Wednesday TV: ‘Stranger Things’ Roll Back In
“Stranger Things” (Netflix, 3 p.m.) returns for its fifth and final season and what’s strange is how big all these kids have gotten. It’s been five years since season one,…
Tuesday TV: ‘Frontline’ Report from Ukraine
The Oscar-winning team behind the documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” comes up with another wartime report from Ukraine, “2,000 Meters to Andriivka.” The film, on “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check…
Capital Radio 11-24-25: Part Two of Dylan’s Epic
News of the death of Jimmy Cliff today at 81 brought a couple of his best-known songs to the top of today’s Capital Radio, followed by a nod to Gary…
Monday TV: Bringing Back the Buffalo
Lily Gladstone narrates and co-produces “Bring Them Home” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) about a determined group of Blackfoot people intent on re-establishing a wild buffalo herd on ancestral…