Capital Radio 3-31-25: Secret Messages on Signal
Supposedly secret messages illegally sent through a commercial texting platform (and carelessly also sent to a journalist) remains the talk of D.C. and was the subject of half of Capital…
Monday TV: Guy Ritchie’s New ‘MobLand’
The new series “MobLand” (Showtime, 8 p.m.), in part from director Guy Ritchie, concerns a London crime family battling with another clan. Tom Hardy plays a fixer hired to protect…
Sunday TV: ‘Call the Midwife’ Back for Season 14
“Call the Midwife” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), which, when it began in 2012, was about British midwives in 1957, now opens its 14th season tonight in 1970. CNN…
Saturday TV: Mikey Madison Hosts a New ‘SNL’
Mikey Madison, Oscar winner from “Anora,” returns to television when she hosts a new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) with musical guest Morgen Wallen. (Her last big TV role…
The Vigilante Movie Returns: ‘Shooting Heroin’
The vigilante film was at its heights as a genre a half century ago with ugly crowd-pleasers like the Charles Bronson franchise “Death Wish.” But it can be traced back…
Friday TV: Jeffrey Goldberg Holds Court
The highest profile journalist this week — for writing about being on an unsecured chat thread about a U.S. military attack — gets to tell his story once more in…
Thursday TV: Baseball Finally Starts Again
Play ball! The new baseball season finally begins today with games that include Milwaukee at Yankees (ESPN, 3 p.m.) and Detroit at Dodgers (ESPN, 7 p.m.). The NCAA men’s basketball…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Studio’ Skewers Hollywood
The constant missteps of Hollywood has made it a reliable target for spoofing, most recently on HBO’s “The Franchise.” But rarely has there been a satire so sharp as “The…
Tuesday TV: The Long Road to the Disabilities Act
Before there’s the chance for it to be abolished with an exectutive order, here’s a look at the Lon fight for accessibility that resulted in the 1990 Americans with Disabilities…
Capital Radio 3-24-25: Carol Kaye’s 90th & More
A wealth of birthdays meant big sets for two D.C.-bred R&B giants, Billy Stewart and Don Covay, salutes to three (!) German rock figures, and a wide array of others,…