“Shark Week”Tuesday-Saturday 9pm, Discovery Channel Sometimes I feel like it’s always “Shark Week” on Discovery Channel. But that’s not a bad thing—once you start watching these oddly graceful killing machines it’s tough to stop. The programming for this 20th edition of “Shark Week” includes “Perfect Predators” (Wednesday), which examines how sharks evolved into 400 very […]
Art Upstairs “Restless Colors,” ceramics, drawings and paintings by Liliana Italiano, 6-9pm. BozArt Gallery “Associate Member Art Show,” works by various artists, 6-9pm. Café Cubano “The Sea,” oil paintings on canvas and board by Glen Baugley, 6-8pm. Cassis “Suggested Routes,” prints by Jessie Katz, 5-7pm. Fellini’s #9 “Birds and Landscapes,” photographs by Jack Wilson, 5:30-7pm. […]
"Damages”Tuesday 10pm, FX After a season-long guest stint on FX’s “The Shield” a few years back, Glenn Close has been given her own series by the wannabe HBO network. While starring in meaty TV dramas is a good career move for some big-screen actresses (like “The Closer”’s Kyra Sedgwick), Close just seems too classy for […]
1408 (PG-13, 94 minutes) Somebody found another unadapted Stephen King short story. By law they’ve all got to be made into movies before his death, so here we go again. John Cusack plays an author who specializes in debunking claims of the paranormal. To those ends, he checks into the infamously haunted Dolphin Hotel, whose […]
Ray Smith keeps a straight face without so much as a struggle as he says, "I'm not good at singing in front of people." Smith—a member of the
1408 (PG-13, 94 minutes) Somebody found another unadapted Stephen King short story. By law they’ve all got to be made into movies before his death, so here we go again. John Cusack plays an author who specializes in debunking claims of the paranormal. To those ends, he checks into the infamously haunted Dolphin Hotel, whose […]
“Mad Men”Thursday 10pm, AMC Now here’s a cool idea for a series: a period piece set on Madison Avenue in the 1960s that follows the high-stress, debauched lives of the world’s leading ad execs. Seriously, that sounds fascinating. This AMC original series was created by “Sopranos” writer Matthew Weiner and features a cast of little-knowns, […]