Young Sheldon What’s happening on TV tonight: ‘Gotham’ series finale, and moreThe Washington Post - By Sarah Polus(All times Eastern.) The Big Bang Theory (CBS at 8) Koothrappali is concerned with how people will view his newest research paper. Marvel's Cloak and Dagger (Freeform at 8) Tandy struggles to continue
Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid world is brought to the stage in the engrossing ‘Ink’The Washington Post - By Peter MarksNEW YORK — Our British cousins, God love ’em, can’t seem to get enough of journalism in the footlights. Over the years, there have been newspaper plays on London stages both great (David Hare and Howard
Violin Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlightsThe Washington Post - By Charles T. DowneyBelarusian-born violinist Yevgeny Kutik made his Kennedy Center debut Tuesday night, presented in the Terrace Theater by Washington Performing Arts. The performance revealed an artist with considerable
Breast Feeding Parents are drowning in advice. An economist looks at the data — and says we can all relax.The Washington Post - By Jenny RogersAt my son’s 6-week-old checkup, I was given a wonderful gift by our pediatrician. She waved away my (many) frantic questions about swaddling, nursing and formula and said all she cared about were vaccines
Claude Monet Was Monet a radical modernist or a bourgeois homebody? Or both?The Washington Post - Art and architecture criticSAN FRANCISCO — When we think of late Monet, the grand old man in his garden at Giverny, there are two facts that seem to structure everything: He was having problems with his eyesight, and he was single-mindedly
Hamlet The Night King is the true hero of ‘Game of Thrones,’ so maybe we should all be rooting for himThe Washington Post - By Travis M. AndrewsThis is a defense of the Night King. This is an article explaining why the Night King not only should win the Iron Throne, but also why he may be morally superior to everyone in “Game of Thrones,” including
Britney Spears Britney Spears assures fans ‘all is well’ amid rumors she’s being held against her willThe Washington Post - By Lindsey BeverThe pervasive Britney Spears rumor — that she's being held against her will at a mental health institution — and the related campaign to “save” her prompted the pop singer to reassure her fans that “all
Sibling rivalry fuels the delicious thriller ‘The Better Sister’The Washington Post - By Richard LipezReaders of “The Better Sister,” Alafair Burke’s wonderfully twisty new thriller should get ready to be led down the garden path to a conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicist might have be
Shipwrecks Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic?The Washington Post - By Michael DirdaOn April 25, 1719 — precisely 300 years ago — the London publisher William Taylor issued what has since become one of the most famous books in the world. Its original title page read “The Life and Strange
The Avengers 3 actors who played Iron Man’s dad, 2 Captain America sidekicks and $18.6 billion at the box office: Marvel by the numbersThe Washington Post - By Michael Cavna, David BetancourtHollywood had never seen anything like it: an interconnected movie franchise that absolutely dominates the box-office landscape. Yet when you drill down and study the numbers, you can further appreciate
Lizzo How Lizzo went from underground phenom to rising pop starThe Washington Post - By Bethonie ButlerEven if you’ve never heard of Lizzo, you’ve probably at least heard Lizzo. Around this time last year, the singer, who also raps and plays the flute (we’ll get back to that in a minute), established a
Boise, ID Tonight’s best TV: ‘Boise Boys’ returns for Season 2 on HGTV, and moreThe Washington Post - By Sarah Polus(All times Eastern.) Empire (Fox at 8) Damon shows up uninvited, attempting to bring down Cookie. Riverdale (CW at 8) Jughead and crew try to find Jellybean when she goes missing. Jane the Virgin (CW 9)
If you loved the movie ‘Tootsie,’ then you’ll be delighted with the new Broadway showThe Washington Post - By Peter MarksNEW YORK — What is that unaccustomed sound erupting all around me in the dark in the Marquis Theatre? Could it be . . . laughter? Why, yes, those are honest-to-God squeals and squalls of delight I’m hearing,
Jeopardy ‘Jeopardy!’ winner James Holzhauer keeps dominating. Does it matter if he broke the game?The Washington Post - By Emily YahrOn April 4, Alex Trebek kicked off “Jeopardy!” with some practical advice for the contestants: “You have to be bright. You have to be fast. And you have to feel comfortable with the categories if you to
Lizzo The Netflix rom-com ‘Someone Great’ is good. But the soundtrack is even better.The Washington Post - By Sonia RaoThe morning after her longtime boyfriend dumps her, Jenny Young, the main character of the Netflix movie “Someone Great,” dances around her kitchen with a friend while sipping bourbon through a plastic
Two opera companies animate a 17th-century work to confront #MeToo head-onThe Washington Post - By Anne MidgetteOver and over, we debate whether and how art from the distant past is relevant, yet the issue isn’t the old work at all. It’s how we interact with it today. We may update it. We may try to vacuum-pack
Mystery Novel Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art.The Washington Post - By Maureen CorriganLinda Fairstein has been rightly celebrated by many as a feminist icon. For more than 25 years, she was head of the largely male sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where she involved
Abraham Lincoln Was Abraham Lincoln gay?The Washington Post - By Carol MemmottThere’s pillow talk in “Courting Mr. Lincoln,” Louis Bayard’s speculative-history novel, but it doesn’t take place between the man who would become a U.S. president and his wife, Mary Todd. These imagined
Three inspiring books for young readers, from preschool to high schoolThe Washington Post - By Kathie Meizner, Abby McGanney Nolan, Mary Quattlebaum‘Gittel’s Journey’ Leslie Newman’s “Gittel’s Journey” (Abrams, ages 4 to 8) — based on the true stories of her grandmother and a family friend — is a gentle, moving look at a child’s experience of leaving
The Avengers Which major characters are most likely to die in ‘Avengers: Endgame’?The Washington Post - By Michael Cavna, David BetancourtPeter Dinklage knows a thing or two about geek fandoms becoming emotionally invested in which characters live or die in a finale. As the resourceful Tyrion Lannister, he has striven to survive on HBO’s
The Voice Winning ‘The Voice’ changed Cassadee Pope’s life. Six years later, her career is still evolving.The Washington Post - By Emily YahrCassadee Pope was recently performing a song at the Bluebird Cafe — the small venue made famous by ABC’s “Nashville” — when she abruptly stopped singing. She couldn’t remember how the second verse started.
Jon Snow Everyone on ‘Game of Thrones’ says the crypts are safe. So everybody there will die, right?The Washington Post - By Travis M. AndrewsHow do you know something isn’t safe on “Game of Thrones”? When the show assures you that it is “safe” more often than Bill Withers repeats “lovely day” on “Lovely Day.” With that in mind, the crypts won’t
NBC Tonight’s TV listings: ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ season finale, and moreThe Washington Post - By Sarah Polus(All times Eastern.) The Bold Type (Freeform at 8) Kat decides to volunteer for her councilman’s opponent while Jane prepares to have her eggs extracted. MasterChef Junior (Fox at 8) The Kidz Bop crew
Book Reviews ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division 2’ is a fun place to visit but you won’t want to live thereThe Washington Post - By Christopher ByrdTom Clancy’s The Division 2 Developed by: Massive Entertainment Published by: Ubisoft Available on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One “C’mon bullets, I need you!” says the NPC crouched behind cover frantically
Celebrity News Trump says FBI and Justice Department will review the Jussie Smollett caseThe Washington Post - By Deanna Paul, Antonio OlivoPresident Trump suggested early Thursday that two federal agencies will look into Cook County prosecutors’ decision to dismiss the false-reporting case against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett. “FBI & DOJ
These DIY experiments on YouTube might inspire you to give science a tryThe Washington Post - By Nia DecailleLet’s face it, people still think science is inaccessible. According to a recent Pew study, half of American adults think that students don’t go into STEM — science, technology, engineering and math —
Play button These DIY experiments on YouTube might inspire you to give science a tryThe Washington Post - By Nia DecailleLet’s face it, people still think science is inaccessible. According to a recent Pew study, half of American adults think that students don’t go into STEM — science, technology, engineering and math —
Washington D.C. Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ will launch national tour at Kennedy Center; ‘Hamilton’ returnsThe Washington Post - By Peter MarksAaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — a prodigious Broadway hit this season — will begin a two-year national tour with a launch at the Kennedy Center in August 2020, the show’s producers
Style Invitational Week 1325: Stand up and jeer — jokes for the WHCA dinnerThe Washington Post - By Pat Myers(Click here to skip down to the creative reviews for everyday products) New contest for Week 1325: Stand up and jeer “Of course, Trump isn’t here. . . . I would drag him here myself, but it turns out president
