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- Thursday,April 17,2008
Don't forget to tune in to the Late Show with David Letterman tonight to see The Black Keys perform "I Got Mine" off their new album, Attack & Release. The Late Show starts at 11:30 PM ET.
Journal Topics: TelevisionWednesday,April 16,2008Tune in to the Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow night to catch The Black Keys perform a song off their new album, Attack & Release. The band will be at NYC's Other Music Saturday to spin an hourlong guest-DJ set in store as part of Record Store Day. There will also be all sorts of prizes and special deals throughout the day.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionSunday,March 30,2008The Bravo! Canada network's award-winning series Live at the Rehearsal Hall will feature k.d. lang and her band in concert performing songs from Watershed and favorites from throughout her career. The show will debut tomorrow night, April 1. Past episodes of the series have featured a broad array of artists, including Beck, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, and Philip Glass.
Journal Topics: On TourTelevisionThursday,March 27,2008The US leg of k.d. lang's Watershed tour ended earlier this week with two shows at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, but today offers two chances to catch k.d. on TV.
Tune in to Live with Regis & Kelly this morning for an encore broadcast of k.d.'s recent performance on the show. And tonight, k.d. and the band will perform live on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Journal Topics: TelevisionWednesday,January 30,2008The cast of HBO's The Wire has pitched in to support the Ella Thompson Fund, established by Thompson, a West Baltimore community leader, and the series's creators David Simon and Edward Burns to provide recreation programs to inner-city kids, and the Baltimore Museum of Industry, with a special auction on EBay. More than 60 items, including autographed Wire merchandise, DVDs, and soundtracks, as well as customized, limited-edition hoodies designed by Jeff Staple Studios, are available for bidding.
Journal Topics: TelevisionSaturday,December 22,2007"Spellbinding" says CBS Sunday Morning's film critic David Edelstein of Tim Burton's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "Sondheim, our greatest living theatrical composer and lyricist," Edelstein says, "has never been so deliciously served."
Journal Topics: FilmReviewsTelevisionThursday,December 20,2007The Christian Science Monitor recommends HBO's The Wire as a Pick of the Week, calling the show "a profoundly thoughtful meditation on the modern American city, its institutions, and the underclass." The New York Times concurs, calling it a "sublime epic of urban realism." Season Five doesn't get underway for another couple weeks, so in the mean time, both papers suggest catching up with Season Four, out now on DVD.
Journal Topics: ReviewsTelevisionWednesday,December 19,2007The fifth and final season of The Wire debuts January 6 on HBO, with the series' first-ever soundtracks due out on Nonesuch two days later, so now is the perfect time to tune in to The Wire Odyssey, tonight on HBO, and catch up on the previous four seasons of the Peabody Award–winning show. The half-hour retrospective takes a look back at the show Slate magazine has said is "surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America."
Journal Topics: TelevisionSunday,December 16,2007Filmmaker/provocateur John Waters has famously depicted his hometown of Baltimore on the big screen throughout his career. It's perhaps no wonder then that he admits to being a big fan of the Baltimore-based show The Wire. He tells the Toronto Star: "I'm addicted to The Wire on HBO. Not only is it set in Baltimore, but it's like reading a great novel."
Journal Topics: TelevisionThursday,December 13,2007Featured on today's Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio, is Felicia "Snoop" Pearson from HBO's The Wire. She's written a new memoir, Grace After Midnight, about overcoming an incredible set of odds and turning her life around. Publisher's Weekly has called hers "a powerful story of someone trying to find her way in a dark world ... Pearson's narrative is spare, even poetic, rendering traumatic moments all the more powerful."
Journal Topics: RadioTelevisionWednesday,December 12,2007HBO's The Wire has been nominated for Best Dramatic Series by the Writers Guild of America, as well as Best Episodic Drama for the episode "Final Grades," the season finale from the show's fourth season, now out on DVD. The WGA Awards will be handed out February 9 in Los Angeles and New York.
Journal Topics: TelevisionTuesday,December 11,2007In a season already notable for next week's broadcast of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, starring Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone, PBS's Great Performances 2007–2008 season will include a February 20, 2008, airing of the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company. The series will air a performance from the 2006–2007 production of Company, directed by John Doyle, which earned a host of awards, including the Tony for Best Revival; the cast recording, a Nonesuch release, was recently nominated for a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.
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