It’s that time again! Detroit Restaurant Week returns Friday, April 19, and runs through Sunday, April 28. Nineteen of Detroit’s finest restaurants will...
Granted, it’s summer and the channel always brings out the original scripted programming from July to September; still, the lineup is the strongest it’s...
THE WORLD of “Mad Men.” Pictured (from left) are characters Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse), Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), Roger Sterling (John Slattery) and Don Draper (Jon Hamm). – Photo by Frank Ockenfels 3 Whenever I watch a single frame of AMC's "Mad Men," I am immediately reminded of jazz orchestration. You know, the kind that Ellington built his reputation on. Sure, there's plenty of improvisation in works like "Ko-Ko," "Caravan," and others, but by and large, the core of Ellington's music is in what he wrote (as in music notation) and how he used the subtlties of each instrument to convey larger, moving ideas.
As HBO bid farewell to its brand-building classics such as "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "Sex and the City" and "Six Feet Under," Showtime slowly began lining up its own roster of "must see" programming.
