November 10, 2013

MUSIC: LA Philharmonic, November 10 (Britten/Tovey/Shostakovich)

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Bramwell Tovey, conductor Alison Balsom, trumpet The program: Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Tovey: Songs o...
November 05, 2013

BOOKS: Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan (2013)

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Over the course of a single weekend, we follow the lives of several high school boys who make up a cross-section of what it is to be a young...
October 20, 2013

MUSIC: LA Philharmonic, October 20

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Anssi Karttunen, cello women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale The program: Debussy: Nocturnes Lindberg:...

TV: Reign (Thu 9, CW)

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It's 1557, and 15-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Adelaide Kane), is being shipped off to the French court to prepare for her e...
October 17, 2013

BOOKS: Talking Hands, Margalit Fox (2007)

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Imagine a group of children raised in isolation, whose caretakers do not speak to them, and who have no access to any spoken language. What ...
October 13, 2013

TV: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (Thu 8, ABC)

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland is a sort of spinoff from Once Upon a Time , but only just barely; it's a spinoff of concept, rather tha...
October 11, 2013

TV: The Tomorrow People (Wed 9, CW)

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As long as teenagers feel powerless and put upon, there will be a market for stories about powerful teenagers, which explains why The Tomorr...
October 08, 2013

BOOKS: Three Graves Full, Jamie Mason (2013)

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Jason Getty is not a man who grabs life by the horns and lives with gusto; he is a man who watches as life happens to him. He has had precis...
October 05, 2013

TV: The Millers (Thu 8:30, CBS)

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Do you remember this song from about 20 years back? "Justified and Ancient" was a disposable piece of dance music featuring g...

TV: Sean Saves the World (Thu 9, NBC)

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Thursday night seems to be this year's designated night for returning comic TV stars -- Michael J. Fox and Robin Williams premiered last...

TV: Super Fun Night (Wed 9:30, ABC)

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Super Fun Night is an uneven mix of socializing-pals comedy and workplace comedy, created and written by Rebel Wilson, who also stars. She...
September 30, 2013

TV: Betrayal (Sun 10, ABC)

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Melodramatic soap opera about a love triangle complicated by a murder trial. Sara (Hannah Ware) is a photographer who meets Jack (Stuart T...
September 27, 2013

TV: The Crazy Ones (Thu 9, CBS)

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Robin Williams returns to weekly TV after 30 years, but his shtick hasn't changed much. In The Crazy Ones , Williams is Simon Roberts,...

TV: The Michael J. Fox Show (Thu 9:30, NBC)

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Michael J. Fox plays a character much like himself in his return to a starring TV role. Mike Henry used to be the popular news anchor in New...
September 25, 2013

TV: Lucky 7 (Tue 10, ABC)

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Every year during pilot season, I try to watch at least the first episode of all the new shows. But I'm not a total masochist; I allow m...

TV: The Blacklist (Mon 10, NBC)

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James Spader stars as Raymond "Red" Reddington, an international criminal whose only loyalty is "to the highest bidder;"...

TV: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Tue 8, ABC)

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Corporate shilling and excessive capitalization be damned: I'm just going to call the show SHIELD and be done with it. The action pic...

TV: Hostages (Mon 10, CBS)

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Hostages wants desperately to be 24 when it grows up, but it's never going to get there. It's a hopeless muddle, filled with embar...

TV: Mom (Mon 9:30, CBS)

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Mom can't quite make up its mind, at least in the pilot, what kind of sitcom it wants to be. There's a wacky workplace sitcom about...

BOOKS: Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg (2013)

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Rafe has been openly gay since he was in the eighth grade. And in Boulder, Colorado, it really hasn't been a big deal. His parents are a...