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The Mandalorian :: The Foundling
The latest episode of The Mandalorian is called 'The Foundling' and seems to be about multiple things, although in fairly obvious ways -- in many ways it’s almost the most simply written episode in a while, with the only real ...
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Shout Sister Shout! makes a joyful noise at Washington DC’s Ford’s Theatre
Anyone familiar with music history, particularly the advent of the rock era, is sure to know that Elvis Presley is the King of Rock and Roll. What a lot of people don't know is that Elvis' musical style was not ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #139 :: March 22•28
The last full week of March is jam-packed with new films, with a quite that were noteworthy and popular. 1933 produced a film that put three Barrymore siblings together for the first and only time, and 1943 transported Holmes & ...
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Ted Lasso :: (I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea
The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called '(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea' and introduces a new major character for the show, adding to its already huge ensemble. It all starts with a funny line about wondering what ...
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TV by the Decade :: March 19•25
Several decades this week had new series premieres, but the most successful of them were about cops and medicine. 1973 had a long-running scripted, Emmy winning police drama, while 1993 had an even longer-running unscripted series that ran for nearly ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves
Not sure how this episode could be any more basic ... and it was actually about two rhythms shy of flat-lining. A loooot of recycled plot points being revisited here. A lot. Kwan fainted in the OR with Katherine, Schmidt, ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #138 :: March 15•21
As we hit the middle of March, quite a few new films were released across the decades, some hits, some misses, but there is one undeniable classic in the bunch from 1963. Other noteworthy films throughout the years include one ...
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The Mandalorian :: The Convert
The most recent episode of The Mandalorian is called 'The Convert' and might refer to a few things: one of Bo-Katan with the cultists, one with our old buddy Dr. Pershing with the New Republic, and one mayhaps with the ...
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Jagged Little Pill, at DC’s National Theatre, misses its own point
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, an album just a few birthdays away from the dreaded 3-0, is a record whose themes of anger, angst, sexuality and growing up, spoke to millions of people.I was never one of those people. The ...
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Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird lands at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
Harper Lee's first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was first published in 1960 and its themes of racial injustice, gender roles and sexual abuse have made it required reading for middle and high school students across the land (well, perhaps ...
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Ted Lasso :: Smells Like Mean Spirit
The season premiere of Ted Lasso is called 'Smells Like Mean Spirit' and essentially continues from where we left off in the last season finale, with Nate working for the now Rupert-owned West Ham, Sam starting a new restaurant, and ...
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TV by the Decade :: March 12•18
Only three decades this week saw the premiere of new TV series, with 2013 having seven and only one of those was a scripted series that outlasted all of the reality shows. Another debut was a news program that is ...
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