TV & Media
May 19, 2017
Oppo Sonica wireless speaker.

Sound Advice: Making correction in voice app doesn't take a lot of discussion

Movies
May 19, 2017
Steve Martin and Martin Short performed.

Steve Martin and Martin Short team up in Mpls. as two amigos going for laughs

Review: The actors, comics and pals made for a hilarious evening of shtick and song.
May 18, 2017
Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes, troubled Fox News founder, dies at 77

Roger Ailes, the ousted chief of Fox News who built the network into a conservative empire and became a kingmaker for the Republican Party before being pushed out last summer, died Thursday.
TV & Media
May 18, 2017
"Harry Styles" by Harry Styles

New album review: A solo Harry Styles goes old-school troubadour

TV & Media
May 18, 2017

TV picks for May 19: 'Becoming Bond,' Megan Mullally, James Beard, Miley Cyrus

TV & Media
May 18, 2017
Kyle MacLachlan, as Special Agent Dale Cooper, is one of the “Twin Peaks” favorites who’ll return for a new season that begins Su

How Minnesota writer Mark Frost teamed with David Lynch to resurrect 'Twin Peaks'

Agent Dale Cooper is back in "Twin Peaks," but he wouldn't be there without Minnesotan Mark Frost leading the way with longtime partner David Lynch.
TV & Media
May 18, 2017

'Twin Peaks' co-creator Mark Frost almost ended up doing 'Fargo'

Celebrities
May 17, 2017
Jerry Holt • jerry.holt@startribune.com
Maria Bamford cracked up at Sunday’s University of Minnesota graduation ceremony with John Colem

Comedian Maria Bamford gives $10K fee from her U keynote to students

After giving her fee for the commencement address to two lucky students, the Duluth-raised comic handed out personal advice in a smaller session.
TV & Media
May 17, 2017
April 11, 1976 Charlie Brown (second from right) is a star and Snoopy (far left) is a ham of a dogged director, while Lucy and Linus are more or less

TV picks for May 18: 'Decline and Fall,' Charles Schulz, 'Scandal'

TV & Media
May 17, 2017
Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro in “The Wizard of Lies.”

As con man Bernie Madoff, Robert De Niro makes another offer you can't refuse

Robert De Niro has played so many creeps that you wouldn't think a bookish investment adviser would end up being one of his most bone-chilling characters.
Music
May 16, 2017

Minneapolis' Jesse Larson voted into the finale on NBC's 'The Voice'

Viewers gave him a last-minute "save" as the final finalist for next week.
Celebrities
May 16, 2017
FILE - In this May 12, 2017 file photo, David Letterman speaks during a news conference in Indianapolis. Letterman’s job was to make people lau

David Letterman named recipient of Mark Twain Prize

Celebrities
May 16, 2017
FILE - In this April 3, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse i

Bill Cosby says he won't testify at June trial

TV & Media
May 16, 2017

TV picks for May 17: 'Anne With an E,' 'Downward Dog,' 'I Am Heath Ledger'

TV & Media
May 16, 2017
"Scream Queens" was canceled by Fox.

Parents Television Council gloats over demise of 'Real O'Neals,' 'Scream Queens'

The Parents Television Council took a bit of a victory lap on Tuesday over the cancellations of "primetime programs that were routinely filled with sex, violence, and profanity, yet were marketed by the networks as appropriate for children."
Celebrities
May 16, 2017
Janelle Pierzina, a native of Grand Rapids, Minn., was on the CBS show "Big Brother" for three seasons.

Minnesota star of 'Big Brother' makes leap from reality TV to Edina Realty

Janelle Pierzina takes the skills she honed in the "Big Brother" house and uses them to sell homes.
TV & Media
May 15, 2017

TV talk-show highlights May 16

TV & Media
May 15, 2017
Shia LaBeouf, center, Josh Flitter, center right are shown in this undated promotional still from the film "The Greatest Game Ever Played." The Walt D

TV picks for May 16: 'American Epic,' Bill Paxton, 'Born This Way'

TV & Media
May 14, 2017
Harry Styles performs on NBC's "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

TV picks for May 15: Erin Lee Carr, 'Year Million,' Harry Styles

TV & Media
May 14, 2017

TV Q&A: Character actor turned an accident into an asset

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