Capital Radio 4-8-24: Eclipse Music in Totality
It’s not often one can react in real time to an event being simultaneously celebrated nationwide. But our regularly scheduled Monday afternoon edition of Capital Radio coincided nicely with the…
Monday TV: Elton John Gets the Gershwin Prize
The sheer appeal and wide influence their music can be seen in the wide-ranging top-name artists who come to pay tribute and perform their songs on the special “Elton John…
Also on Monday: Dealing With Parkinson’s
“Matter of Mind: My Parkinsons,” from directors Laura Green and Anna Moot-Levin, focuses on three people from Anchorage to Brooklyn who are all facing a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease —…
Sunday TV: The Last ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
After 12 seasons and 119 episodes over 24 years, Larry David’s singular comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO, 10 p.m.) bids farewell. But not in a sentimental way. “No Lessons Learned”…
Saturday TV: Finally, Here’s the Final Four
The marquee event of march Madness occurs several days into April, with the men’s NCAA basketball Final Four of NC State vs. Purdue (TBS, 6 p.m.) and Alabama vs. UConn…
Friday TV: The Undoing of Prince Andrew
Like “She Said,” the journalism movie that showed how Harvey Weinstein was taken down, the new film “Scoop” (Netflix, streaming) takes an equally serious look at how Prince Andrew’s disastrous BBC…
Thursday TV: Another Mr. ‘Ripley’
Tom Ripley, the charming con man, may have been best known from the 1999 film “The Talented Mr. Ripley” with Matt Damon and Jude Law. But novelist Patricia Highsmith wrote…
Wednesday TV: From Canada, ‘Sight Unseen’
The latest procedural import from Canada concerns a legally blind detective who hires a professional seeing-eye guide who is also an agoraphobe, so has to give assistance through an app…
Tuesday TV: How Caesar Became a Dictator
The fall of ancient Rome’s democracy, which occurred in 16 years, is tracked in the new historical miniseries “Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local…
Capital Radio 4-1-24: April and All Its Fools
The new month brings songs of April, from Deep Purple to Simon & Garfunkel. Then April Fool’s Day songs from Patti Smith to Rufus Wainwright. Then all manner of songs…