Richard Milford had four wives, plenty of enemies, and a remarkable talent for making people want him dead. Nafissa Thompson-Spires turns his murder into a wickedly funny mystery where everyone has a story.
Billy Crystal lost the home he’d lived in for 46 years, then lost his best friend, Rob Reiner. His new Broadway show, 860, is how he’s working through both.
A doting grandmother runs the drug trade in a small Maine town, and when her daughter turns up dead, she doesn’t grieve quietly. Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars Babs Dionne is a grandmother, a proud Franco-American, and the...
You may not know Frances Perkins’ name, but your 40-hour workweek, minimum wage, and Social Security certainly do. Learn more in a brand-new edition of Drunk History!
I went looking for an authentic Philly dive bar and somehow ended up in what felt like a labor dispute, an insurance scam, and the opening scene of a true crime documentary. Paddy's Pub: two stars, obviously.
The cameras may have been rolling, but the best part happened between the lines. Behind the scenes with Barack Obama and Larry David, the jokes got looser, the improv got sharper, and even Larry couldn’t keep a straight...
A 63-year-old woman enrolls in culinary school to win back her husband, and the life waiting for her might be better than the one she’s trying to save.
Rachel Khong’s My Dear You comes in weird and stays weird, with stories about race, love, ghosts, sex dolls, God, and the general inconvenience of being human. Not every story lands, but even the misses are strange...
Tia Carrere could always sing, but her breakout performance in Wayne's World (Ballroom Blitz, anyone?) put her on the map. Does she still have the chops? Check out her performance with the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band.
Angel came to Los Angeles to brood, fight vampires, and apparently make some wildly questionable hiring decisions. Rewatching the 1999 pilot now is equal parts nostalgia, chaos, and “girl, please do not go into that...
The once-forgotten Greenwich Village duo returns with long songs, strange harmonies, absolutely no interest in brevity, and one surprisingly beautiful moon.
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