• MusicalWork Review The Handsome Family: Wilderness

    The veteran Americana-gothic duo spins tales of mystery and imagination on its ninth album.

    May 14, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Richard Briers, British actor of The Good Life

    He was 79.

    February 20, 2013 | 5:50pm -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) "Shada"

    The great lost Douglas Adams story has found many ways to come back to life. Here are  two of them.

    February 17, 2013 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Caves Of Androzani”

    The Fifth Doctor gets a terrific but very dark swan song in this story of corruption and war on a mining world.

    February 3, 2013 | 10:00am -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Bernard Horsfall, British character actor of Doctor Who and On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    He was 82.

    January 30, 2013 | 12:00pm -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Warriors’ Gate”

    Marooned between two universes, the Doctor's companion Romana comes to a crossroads.

    January 20, 2013 | 10:00am -

  • Book Review Stephen Baxter: Doctor Who: The Wheel Of Ice

    The Doctor Who book series flashes back to 1969 with a novel by a well-established hard-SF author.

    January 14, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Ambassadors Of Death”

    Impossible astronauts threaten the Third Doctor in season seven's weakest (but still worthwhile) story.

    January 6, 2013 | 10:00am -

  • "You've met my grandfather. Now meet my mother's sister."

    TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Planet Of Giants”

    The First Doctor finds big trouble when a TARDIS malfunction leaves him and his companions shrunk to the size of one inch high.

    December 9, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Deadly Assassin”

    You can't go home again, or maybe shouldn't—the Doctor returns to Gallifrey and winds up on trial for assassinating the president.

    October 28, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Three Doctors”

    The gang’s all here: The Doctor’s three selves are brought together to face off against an antimatter being with a grudge.

    October 14, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Romans”

    The Doctor gives Nero the idea to fiddle while Rome burns.

    September 30, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Seeds Of Doom”

    Alien seedpods threaten a revolution of plants against the animal kingdom. Can the Doctor weed it out in time?

    September 16, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Ghost Light”

    A mysterious Victorian mansion holds deadly and horrific secrets, in Doctor Who's murkiest story ever.

    August 19, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Remembrance Of The Daleks”

    Lurking Daleks and a deadly trap await the Doctor when he returns to the time and place where Doctor Who first started.

    August 5, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Mary Tamm, Doctor Who's Romana

     She was 62.

    July 27, 2012 | 11:48am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Black Orchid”

    The Doctor plays cricket and gets mixed up in a murder mystery in this unexpectedly non-science-fictional story.

    July 22, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Revelation Of The Daleks”

    Davros returns to make the bodies of dead humans into new Daleks—and food.

    July 8, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Book Review Gareth Roberts: Shada

    A frequent modern Doctor Who writer turned a lost show arc by the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy into a novel, with admirable but mixed results.

    June 25, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Ribos Operation”

    The Doctor begins the search for the Key To Time by interrupting a con artist out to sell a planet he doesn't actually own.

    June 24, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Caroline John, Doctor Who's Liz Shaw

     She was 71.

    June 21, 2012 | 5:40pm -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Resurrection Of The Daleks”

    A potentially compelling story about a Dalek civil war gets bogged down in pointless subplots and grim violence.

    June 10, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Interview Walker Kong

    If the Twin Cities has an answer to the literate, charmingly tuneful pop songcraft of Belle And Sebastian or the Kinks songs that populate Wes Anderson movie soundtracks, it’s surely Walker Kong.

    June 1, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The Claws Of Axos”

    A cancer-like alien menace threatens to suck Earth dry—but the real problem might be that the Doctor is willing to let them get away with it.

    May 27, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Interview Dylan Hicks

    He talked to The A.V. Club about writing his novel, returning to songwriting, and crossing the line between truth and fiction.

    May 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “Destiny Of The Daleks”

    Mad-scientist villain Davros makes an unnecessary return, pushing the Daleks to the margins of their own story.

    May 13, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Interview Saltee

    On paper, the idea of combining cello, beatboxing, and guitar seems like an improbable mix, and maybe even a recipe for gimmicky disaster. But Saltee does it, and makes magic instead of a mockery.

    May 8, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • TV Club : Doctor Who (Classic) “The War Machines”

    The Terminator arrives 20 years early when evil supercomputer WOTAN decides it can rule Earth better than the humans who created it.

    April 29, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Interview The Pines

    Benson Ramsey and David Huckfelt talked to The A.V. Club about the beauty and hope behind sad songs, how they keep their musical partnership going long distance, and their Iowa connection. 

    April 20, 2012 | 12:00am -