The Week in Entertainment

Live: Cheryl Wheeler, at the Ram's Head in Annapolis. Not only does she write wonderful songs and sing them in a gorgeous voice, but she's funny. I loved the counter-"Gandhi Buddha" (And when the winter morning dawns all white and blue I'll tell you how it was when you get up at two. I must have have been Hitler or Satan or someone like that, I must have brought death and destruction everywhere I went...). The stories were great, the songs better. Some of my favorites and some I hadn't heard. She does a great concert.

DVD: Think Fast, Mr Moto; I'd never seen any of these, and this one wasn't a bad little mystery flick. I watched three more - Thank You, Mr Moto; Mr Moto Takes a Chance, and Mr. Moto's Gamble, which is the one that started out as a Chan and doesn't really match the others, with their espionage and foreign locations.

TV: House - Hadley's going to Thailand? (Or someplace, anyway.) God, I hope so. And this is probably the quintessential House quote: "Better a murder than a misdiagnosis." Nova's look at the latest Hubble repair mission - very good. Flash Forward - I can forgive a show one music-video montage, but two? On the other hand, it's interesting how we're starting to see that some of them might not be going to come true... Modern Family - still good. Not hilarious, but quite enjoyable. The Mentalist - an improvement over last week. I have to admit I loved seeing Cho with that shotgun. Numb3rs - Larry is taking longer to leave than Hadley, but that's okay because I like Larry. And I don't mind that he's not going very far away. Nice murder problem this time, too. Psych - what a great mid-season finale. I loved so much about it, and most of all that we saw how Henry's slightly psychotic child-raising techniques actually came in handy.

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