| 11 mil see 'Walking Dead' midseason-wrap premiere Dec 4th 2012, 00:52 Nearly 11 million people watched the mid-season finale of AMC's "The Walking Dead" at 9 p.m. Sunday night – about 60 percent more people than had tuned in to same, last year. AMC's zombie-drama -- the most watched ad-supported drama series in basic cable history – is also, as of its midseason break, TV's second most watched program of the fall among 18-49 year olds advertisers prefer, behind only NBC's Sunday football. Read full article >>   |  | 'She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories,' by Ron Hansen Dec 3rd 2012, 23:30 Ron Hansen, best known for his historical novels and tours de force of obsession, including "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Mariette in Ecstasy" and "Hitler's Niece," has collected 19 stories in "She Loves Me Not," a book graced with an enticing title and a retro black-and-white cover photograph of a young couple necking — both of which are misleading. The selections, which include seven stories from his 1989 book, "Nebraska," show off Hansen's range, but readers should be warned that although "The Last Picture Show" sensibility evoked by the jacket isn't entirely inaccurate, there are no steamy relationship dramas to be found between these covers. Read full article >>   | | Wayne Wonder, 'My Way' album review Dec 3rd 2012, 21:11 If you've heard of Wayne Wonder and are operating under the belief that he's a one-hit wonder, you are mistaken. In 2003, the pioneering reggae singer gained international attention for his Grammy-nominated album "No Holding Back," featuring the monster single "No Letting Go," on which he made better use of the gently staccato, hand-clapping "Diwali riddim" than any other artist who used the wildly popular beat that year. But the 40-year old Jamaican had a career for decades before that moment in the worldwide spotlight, and, based on his new album, "My Way," it's feasible that his career will extend for decades. Read full article >>   | | 'Homeland' episode 2.10: 'Broken Hearts' Dec 3rd 2012, 21:10 As Carrie tracks Brody, Ned Martel will be tracking their every move in weekly recaps of Showtime's Emmy Award-winning series "Homeland." Check back each Monday morning to join the conversation on one of TV's best nailbiters. Read full article >>   | | At Phillips, Hermitage Piano Trio does Russian tragedy proud Dec 3rd 2012, 19:14 They were squeezing chairs into every last inch of the Music Room at the Phillips Collection on Sunday, and little wonder: Three of Russia's most spectacular young soloists had teamed up for an afternoon of mostly-Russian music, and it promised to be an extraordinary afternoon, steeped in the kind of magnificent tragedy that Russians do best. And, in fact, it was: From the first hushed notes of Rachmaninoff's "Trio élégiaque," No. 1, to the almost ecstatic despair of Tchaikovsky's Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, the Hermitage Piano Trio turned in a performance of such power and sweeping passion it left you nearly out of breath. Read full article >>   | | Ke$ha, 'Warrior' album review Dec 3rd 2012, 18:45 While everybody else was paying attention to Rihanna, would-be one hit wonder Ke$ha was quietly turning herself into a pop savant, probably by dousing herself in Cool Whip and rolling around in a pile of glitter, Hefty bags and Katy Perry castoff beats. Read full article >>   | | Brad Pitt: Why his latest movie fizzled at the box office Dec 3rd 2012, 18:28 Brad Pitt did not have a good weekend at the box office. As a matter of fact, he had one of the worst ones in his two-decade career. As noted in today's morning mix, "Killing Them Softly" — a gangster picture that re-teamed Pitt with his "Assassination of Jesse James" director Andrew Dominik — opened in seventh place with $7 million. That's less money than the debuts of "Seven Years in Tibet," "Meet Joe Black" and "The Mexican" generated, without even adjusting for inflation. Read full article >>   | | Dog & Pony DC's 'A Killing Game': Killing you softly, and smartly Dec 3rd 2012, 18:28 At its zaniest moments, "A Killing Game" is like that point at a kid's birthday blowout when the parents get out the silly string and let the sugar-saturated 7-year-olds run wild. The 7-year-olds in this case are otherwise rational-seeming playgoers in their 20s through 60s, seated around the perimeter of a stage in the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. On cue from one of the actors of the interactive theater company Dog & Pony DC, the audience members grab hold of plastic bottles and rolls of masking tape from a cart and begin squirting sanitizer, spraying water and affixing lengths of tape to the walls and chairs. Read full article >>   | | Pianist Piotr Anderszewski makes Shriver Hall debut Dec 3rd 2012, 17:29 Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski is on a U.S. tour this month, making his first return to the Washington area since a recital at the National Gallery of Art in 2006. For his debut at Shriver Hall in Baltimore, where he played Sunday evening, the program paired two of the composers whose music he has recorded to critical acclaim, Bach and Schumann. Anderszewski is not a fastidious fine-tuner of sound at the keyboard, but he used a broad palette of articulation and voicing to put his mark on some familiar pieces. Read full article >>   | | RIP, JEFF MILLAR: 'Tank McNamara' co-creator Bill Hinds memorializes his good friend's 'bewildered' sense of humor [UPDATED] Dec 3rd 2012, 16:41 IF YOU WERE a sports cartoonist, as I was in the '90s, "Tank McNamara" was required reading. For 38 years, the award-winning strip helped define what sports satire was in the daily newspaper. On Friday, the writer of that Universal Uclick comic, Jeff Millar, died at age 70, after a four-year fight with biliary cancer, according to his longtime employer, the Houston Chronicle. Read full article >>   | | Mario Lopez gets married; Chris Brown returns to Twitter Dec 3rd 2012, 14:19 A morning mix of entertainment headlines... Mario Lopez — a.k.a A.C. Slater of "Saved by the Bell" a.k.a co-host of "The X Factor" — married longtime girlfriend Courtney Mazza on Saturday in Mexico. It was Mazza's first marriage and Lopez's second, since his two-week marriage to Ali Landry apparently counts as a marriage. Naturally, the ceremony was recorded so it can air as a TLC special. (Us Weekly) Read full article >>   | | 'Walking Dead' midseason finale: Dissecting the motives of the Governor, Michonne and Andrea Dec 3rd 2012, 13:10 A weekly analysis of (some of) the gory details in the latest episode of "The Walking Dead." As always, spoilers ahead. This week's episode of "The Walking Dead" — the season-three midseason finale — began by introducing us to Tyrese (Chad Coleman, a.k.a. Cutty from "The Wire"), a favorite from the comic and an upstanding African-American male who already may have uttered more dialogue than T-Dog did during his entire two-seasons-plus on the show. (Progress!) The episode ended by finally reuniting Daryl and Merle Dixon in a setting in which the brothers probably never imagined themselves reconnecting: during a pseudo-gladiator fight emceed by a one-eyed small-town dictator. Read full article >>   | |
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