Arts

Like so much Christmas crap in the drugstore on the day after Halloween, the summer movie season comes on too early and too strong.

 “The Choice” Thursday 9pm, Fox This show takes the giant spinning chairs and blind audition aspects from that similarly named NBC hit, but instead of people singing their hearts out, it’s a bunch of desperate girls trying to convince D-list celebrities to like them. Each episode will feature four male “celebrities” whittling down a crowd […]

David Lowery wears many musical hats. He’s best known as the front man of Cracker—the popular alt-rock outfit that hit it big back in the early ‘90s with the platinum-selling album Kerosene Hat. But Lowery’s reach in the business is much greater than Cracker’s ubiquitous radio hits like “Low” and “Get Off This.” Before Cracker, he founded […]

Steve Martin will be pickin’ and the audience will be grinnin’ when he takes the Pavilion stage Saturday alongside the Steep Canyon Rangers. (Publicity Photo) After years of creative success in TV, film, theater, and print, Steve Martin has found a meaningful, and somewhat unlikely, new home in the world of bluegrass music. His dedication […]

The tale of how Admiral General Aladeen became President Prime Minister Admiral General Aladeen is not one for the ages. As told by The Dictator,

 “Dogs in the City” Wednesday 8pm, CBS In the movie Scrooged, a television exec demands that Bill Murray’s character start developing programming for cats and dogs, because studies showed that one day household pets would become steady TV viewers. The future is apparently now. “Dogs in the City” is a new documentary series intended for […]

Luther Dickinson (Photo by Brad Hodge) Luther Dickinson is best known as an electric guitar hero, whether he’s shredding hill country blues licks with his own North Mississippi Allstars or delivering gritty solos as lead axe man for the Black Crowes. Earlier this month, the Delta native decided to reveal his acoustic side in a […]

  An A-list of golden year actors including (from left) Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, and Bill Nighy round out the cast of the counter-blockbuster, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. (Fox Searchlight) Upon arrival at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, its first guests cannot conceal their disappointment. “You Photoshopped it!” one says, aghast at how shabby […]

“So You Think You Can Dance” Thursday 8pm, Fox Here’s the good news: America’s most artistically exciting dance competition is back. The bad news: due to the show’s ratings descent, it has been cut down to just one episode per week. So once we get to the live voting rounds, there will be no elimination show; […]

If you attended University of Virginia drama department’s production of Romeo and Juliet you saw something truly beautiful—and I don’t mean a tender rendition of Shakespeare’s most famous tragic love story.