Capital Radio 8-25-25: EC Turns 71; Tweedy 58
Yes, Elvis Costello turned 71; Jeff Tweedy was 58. So there were was big birthday tributes to both. We also had salutations for jazz man Wayne Shorter, Belle and Sebastian…
Sunday TV: The 40th Stellar Gospel Awards
BeBe & CeCe Winans host the 40th Stellar Gospel Music Awards (BET, 8 p.m.) from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. They’ll perform, as will Adia, William Murphy, Dottie Peoples,…
Saturday TV: Here Comes College Football
College football begins its annual onslaught, with primetime network offerings of LSU at Clemson (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and New Mexico at Michigan (NBC, 7:30 p.m.). The rest of the long…
Friday TV: Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night
Tugan Sokhiev takes up the baton for his first Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert, the annual event from Schönbrunn Palace. Opera’s Piotr Beczala performs arias from “Carmen” and “Turandot,” joined…
Thursday TV: A Murder Club for This Very Day
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie star in Chris Columbus’ adaptation of Richard Osman’s novel, “The Thursday Murder Club” (Netflix, streaming), about four retirees who solve cold…
Wednesday TV: Joan Crawford All Day on TCM
Joan Crawford is star all day on Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars with “Rain” (6 a.m.), “Sadie McKee” (8 a.m.), “Susan and God” (10 a.m.), “A Woman’s Face”…
Tuesday TV: ‘Clearing the Air: The War on Smog’
Los Angeles was leading the way in 1943, too, when the city was suddenly blackened with smog and took a decades-long effort to help clean up the air, leaning to…
Monday TV: ‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ on ‘POV’
A family is forced by circumstances to go from living free in the Norwegian wilderness to adapting to modern society in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s documentary “A New Kind of Wilderness,”…
Sunday TV: ‘Marlow Murder Club’ Returns
Another tiny British town has enough crime to warrant investigations from the police and, in the case of “The Marlow Murder Club” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), some amateur…
Saturday TV: College Football Season Starts
College football kicks and quickly fills up primetime network TV. That means off with Fresno State at Kansas (Fox, 6:30 p.m.), North Carolina Central at Southern (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and…