Culture

“Extreme Couponing” Wednesday 9 & 9:30pm, TLC My couponing skills extend to getting 50 cents off the fancier box of macaroni and cheese. But there are people who take couponing […]

What were you doing when we called? I was napping with my daughter and trying to get her to go to sleep by singing her songs. The last one was […]

“Body of Proof” Tuesday 10pm, ABC Dana Delaney is much missed on “Desperate Housewives,” but you can’t blame the magnetic ginger for wanting a show of her own. In this […]

A young man, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, awakens abruptly on a Chicago-bound commuter train. He’s not sure how he got here, or why the pretty stranger across from him, played by Michelle Monaghan, is acting so familiar and calling him by someone else’s name.

What are you working on right now? I’m working on new material for a piece that I’m going to do to the Persian drumming of Djamshid Chemirani. Over the past […]

This Illusionist has all the elements of a Tati movie: the nearly wordless austerity, the wistful piquancy, the affectionate and meticulous attention to the details of a landscape that overwhelms the characters that populate it.

“Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen” Tuesday 10pm, SyFy Marcel Vigneron was the breakout star of the controversial second season of Bravo’s cooking competition, “Top Chef.” The cocky, crazily-coiffed “molecular gastronomist” (a fancy […]

What were you doing when we called? I’ve been making a children’s book about Charlottesville with a friend of mine. One of the things I’m drawing is the Downtown Mall. […]

“Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump” Tuesday 10:30pm, Comedy Central The worst-coiffed man in America is still somehow culturally relevant—and a hell of a lot wealthier than you or me—so […]

Another Year revolves around an ostensibly happy married couple of late middle age, and several of the ostensibly unhappy people they know.