Altogether ooky
"Phenomenon"Wednesday 8pm, NBC Let’s just call this new reality show "America’s Next Top Magician." Legendary mentalist Uri Gellar and current Hollywood magic boy Criss Angel (of "Mindfreak" and allegedly boffing […]
Fantasy island
Fantasy Festival was started in Key West, Florida, from a conversation between friends in 1978.
Edumacational
"Down in the Old Belt: Voices from the Tobacco South"Tuesday 9pm, WHTJ This locally produced documentary tells the stories of Virginia tobacco farmers. Tobacco obviously has a long, complicated history […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
3:10 to Yuma (R, 117 minutes) Russell Crowe and Christian Bale replace Glenn Ford and Van Heflin in this remake of the highly regarded 1957 western. Crowe is the outlaw […]
Making faces [with video]
“How does the show look?” asks the man in the crisply ironed shirt and smart specs standing behind yours truly, Curtain Calls —or, as he occasionally thinks of himself in anagram, “I Cull Art Cans.”
Ch-ch-ch-changes
“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”Thursday 10pm, USA NBC’s new season is suspiciously light in its “Law & Order” shows, as the once-flourishing procedural fran-chise has been reduced to only one […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
3:10 to Yuma (R, 117 minutes) Russell Crowe and Christian Bale replace Glenn Ford and Van Heflin in this remake of the highly regarded 1957 western. Crowe is the outlaw […]