Thursday TV: Congressman Cao
With the new year already marred by another ugly partisan showdown, the timely “Mr. Cao Goes to Washington” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) shines a light on a man…
Remembering Patti Page, 1927-2013
She gets a bad rap in the history of rock 'n' roll. Her "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" is often cited as the kind of music in…
Wednesday TV: ‘The Hour’ Finale, Multi ‘Mobbed’
The second season of “The Hour” (BBC America, 9 p.m.) gets extra credit for keeping us entertained with well-paced, gripping, beautifully looking period drama at a time when most TV…
New Year’s Day TV: The Jewish Influence on Broadway Musicals
What sounds at first like an exceedingly semetic way of looking at the Great White Way, a new examination on “Great Performances” (PBS, 9:30 p.m., check local listings) titled “Broadway…
Starting 2013 With a Whimper
Does New Year’s Eve just get inherently less interesting as one gets older? It was never much more exciting to see a calendar turn than to see the odometer turn…
Considering ‘Women Who Rock’
The “Women Who Rock” exhibit is in its final week at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The exhibit, organized by the Rock and Roll…
New Year’s Eve TV: Dick Clark Lives
Dick Clark is among those who died this year, but he's very much alive on the last day of the year in two of the biggest shows celebrating the changing…
Sunday TV: No Holiday for the Midwife
Holidays are a big thing in the UK -- not just a time for reruns, as they seem to be around here. So long after the finale of the first…
Saturday TV: A Glimpse Into the Cave
The cave of Chauvet-Pontd’Arc in Southern France, where 30,000 year old cave drawings were found by archeologists in 1994, is the subject of Werner Herzog’s acclaimed documentary, “Cave of Forgotten…
Friday TV: Behind the Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey began his dance troupe with the idea of reviving the work decades earlier of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. He did so by creating a distinctly modern ballet…