F2 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2013 LIVING SUNDAY LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | LEXGO.COM TV PICKS ARTY FACTS BEST For the week of Feb. 24-March 2 A user’s guide for culture vultures BETS Don’t miss: Music alliance workshop Entertain these options ‘The Ben Show’ designed for working artists for your week The Ben Show is an amusing series that finds The Lexington Area Music Alliance is having its latest LAMArama, Fest continues funny man and Lexington native Ben Hoffman a day of workshops and events geared toward aspiring and working toward a new personal goal in each professional musicians, on Saturday at Natasha’s Bistro & Bar. with Romanian, episode. First up: He tries to start a band. The event is designed to help musicians navigate the business Hoffman, 38, son of Phillip and Nancy Hoffman, and artistic sides of being a working artist, such as a discussion of is not the only member of his family in show band marketing. The event will feature Heath Eric of the duo Heath Israeli films business. His brother Scott is a multiinstrumentalist and Molly, and Danny Williams of the Barry Mando Project. The 2013 One World Film and lyricist for the band Scissor Sisters. Both of them will perform at an evening showcase starting at 8 at Festival continues Sunday with The Ben Show mixes Hoffman’s efforts to achieve Natasha’s along with Pulse, winner of the Lexington Music Academy’s Tales From The Golden Age, his goals with sketches and guests awkwardly Battle of the Bands. Romania (2009), comic and reading introductions. The March 28 episode, Ben The workshops are free. The showcase is $5. Natasha’s is at bizarre tales inspired by the Goes Home, features Hoffman in the Lexington area 112 Esplanade. For more information, go to Lamalex.org or contact propaganda machine of the Donald Mason at (859) 797-9292 or [email protected]. interviewing fellow Kentucky celebrity Brian Littrell Ceausescu dictatorship. Show of Backstreet Boys. Prior to Hoffman The Ben Show, time is 2 p.m. at the Central hosted the news satire show infoMania on Current Latest book by bell hooks wins poetry award Library Theater, 140 East Main TV. 10 p.m. Thursday, Comedy Central. Berea writer bell hooks, a Street. Hopkinsville native and former Berea Other bets Thursday’s film is Footnote, IAN WHITE College professor, has won the Black Israel (2009) , about a rivalry The Ben Show Sunday: Irreverent Family Guy goofball Seth Lexington native Ben Hoffman of Caucus of the American Library between eccentric father and MacFarlane makes his Oscars-hosting debut as Association’s best poetry award for son professors who have dedi- Hollywood holds its annual orgy of self-indulgence, by Bill Goodman featuring a panel of severe- Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place. cated their lives to their work the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Lincoln leads weather experts. 10 p.m., KET. The University Press of Kentucky in Talmudic studies. The movie book by hooks, which is the pen the field of celebrated films with 12 nominations, Tuesday: Makers: Women Who Make America is an will be shown at 7 p.m. at The but keep an eye on . As for the telecast, name of Gloria Jean Watkins, 60, Argo excellent, ambitious three-hour documentary that Kentucky Theatre, 214 East producers are promising plenty of star power and reflects on growing up in Appalachia chronicles the advancement of women during the Main Street. glitzy production numbers. We just want them to and issues such as the environment past 50 years. Among those featured are Hillary The festival features free promise to finish on time. 8:30 p.m. Sunday, ABC. and the marginalization of poor Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, screenings of films from around people in the region. Sunday: Lena Dunham is gracing the covers of Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. 8 p.m., KET. the world through March 14. Go At Berea, hooks was a magazines everywhere, but her character on Girls Tuesday: Red-hot Sherlock hunk Benedict to Oneworldfilmfestival.org for still leads a much less glamorous life. In this ep, distinguished professor in residence Cumberbatch headlines Parade’s End, a sweeping, of Appalachian studies at the Loyal more info. she makes a road trip with Jessa (Jemima Kirke) five-part miniseries that serves up a juicy love to meet her pal’s very odd father and his new-age Jones Appalachian Center. She still lives in Berea. Country great Strait’s triangle among the ruins of World War I. Rebecca The award will be presented June 30 in Chicago. girlfriend. 9 p.m., HBO. Hall and Adelaide Clemens also star. 9 p.m., HBO. last time at Rupp? Sunday: Now that the evil Governor (David Tuesday: Someone at CBS clearly thinks we Last-minute string-band swap at ‘WoodSongs’ Country stars George Morrissey) has declared war on The Walking Dead, just can’t get enough cop shows, so here comes WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour will be swapping one classic Strait and Martina McBride we’re eager to see whether Rick (Andrew Lincoln) another one: Golden Boy charts the rise of a young, string band for another at Monday’s taping at the Lyric Theatre and will perform at Rupp Arena on can get his head back in the game and rally the ambitious New York police commissioner (Theo Cultural Arts Center. Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Strait troops. 9 p.m., AMC. James). Also, murders happen. 10 p.m., CBS. Due to an illness within the band, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme says it’s his farewell tour. Tickets Monday: On Bones, the usually by-the-book Wednesday: Battle for the Elephants is a National Out is postponing. But look at who the replacement is: Doyle Lawson are $71.50 to $91.50 at 1-800- Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is now thinking outside Geographic documentary that examines the brutal and Quicksilver, the very ensemble whose early alumni members 745-300 or Ticketmaster.com . the box, thanks to the influence of an eccentric slaughter of African elephants for their tusks — a formed IIIrd Tyme Out . intern (Brian Klugman). But she might be taking practice largely fueled by China’s demand for ivory. The multistylistic northeastern pop troupe Lake Street Dive also ‘Divine Hybrids’ exhibit things too far when she seriously considers the 9 p.m., KET. will perform on Monday’s bill. opens at Transy possibility of time travel. 8 p.m., Fox. Wednesday: Duck Dynasty is a bona fide cable hit. The Lyric is at Third Street and Elm Tree Lane. For reservations, Divine Hybrids: Syncretic Monday: The next Education Matters, “Innovations Season 3 kicks off with an episode that has our call (859) 252-8888. Visions of Sexuality & the In Student-Directed Learning,” explores how bearded quack pack going on a camping trip and Sacred opens Monday at Kentucky schools are using innovative strategies awaiting the dawn of duck season. 10 p.m., A&E. Bunbury Musical Festival will include some fun. Transylvania University’s to put technology into the hands of students, give The Bunbury Music Festival has announced the lineup for its Morlan Gallery. The exhibit, students more control over their educations, and Friday: In the delightfully absurd Season 3 finale of Portlandia, the city plunges into a blackout crisis second edition, July 12 to 14 at Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove in featuring the works of Claudia encourage teachers to become learners themselves. downtown Cincinnati. Headliners are Grammy darlings fun. on July Dominguez, Gabriela Jiménez, 9 p.m., KET. after the mayor’s office fails to pay the electric bill. 10 p.m., IFC. 12, MGMT on July 13 and The National on July 14. Diane Kahlo, Robert Morgan Monday: Spring can be a dangerous season for Also on the bill are Walk the Moon, Tegan and Sara, Cake, Twenty and Ebony G. Patterson, will Saturday: Blackboard Wars is a documentary the Bluegrass State, with higher potential for One Pilots, Belle and Sebastian, and Yo La Tengo. be on view through March series that chronicles the energized effort to revive tornadoes, severe storms, lightning and flooding, The festival overall features more than 80 bands across six 22. An opening reception for a New Orleans high school that has been tarnished as Kentuckians experienced last spring. To stages. Tickets are $55 a day or $110 for a three-day pass. They are the artists will be 5 to 8 p.m. help viewers educate themselves about proper by academic failure and a culture of violence. 9 on sale at Bunburyfestival.com/tickets. p.m., OWN. Thursday . 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