DAVID BIANCULLI

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ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

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Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2021
Jan
5
 
 
To savor Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist – which starts its second season Tuesday – you must buy into one tiny little premise. OK, it's actually a huge premise...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
5
 
 
We hear a lot about "the American dream" – especially when a pandemic might sideswipe it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
3
 
 
For Jimmy Carter – the sweet-faced, soft-voiced peanut farmer – many images come to mind. Few of them involve long-haired rockers with wailing guitars – until now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
31
 
 
For good and bad, PBS keeps surprising us. We don't expect it to be involved with New Year's Eve, a holiday that includes confetti, inebriation, and silly hats. Arbor Day is more its style...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
The three lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder continue to fascinate us...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
21
 
 
A musicality ripples through the movie Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Some of that, you would expect. The film is about a blues recording session in 1920s Chicago... But that's just part of it....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
20
 
 
I'm starting to be OK with Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
17
 
 
For most authors, Hollywood wonders if any of their stories should be filmed. For Stephen King, it's a different matter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
16
 
 
Over the next few days, viewers can celebrate one of the great figures in American music...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
10
 
 
Carrie Underwood's new Christmas special is the ultimate in sleek simplicity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Mike Hughes

Mike Hughes remembers watching a TV show in which a man simply played records. He thinks TV is much better now. With Gannett News Service, his television stories went to 100 newspapers; with TV America, they go to considerably fewer, but he still seems happy. Read more at www.mikehughes.tv 
 
 
 
 

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