Fair Enough Play: Yessica Yu – “Quiz Lady”

We all know someone who would be great at one of those money-winning shows- but never gets the gumption to go and win the actual money. Yessica Yu’s “Quiz Lady” is about someone just like that, Anne Yum (played by Awkwafina). Anne grew up watching a “Jeopardy”-like show called “Can’t Stop the Quiz,” which offered …

Spare Change August 20

Netflix's "Painkiller" is a little TOO entertaining in depicting how Richard Sackler and Purdue Pharma turned Oxycontin into the totally legal, doctor-approved drug behind America's opioid epidemic. (As the miniseries puts it, Oxy is basically "heroin in a pretty pill.") As Sackler, Matthew Broderick is a little too whimsical, a greedy Willy Wonka masterminding the …

They Can, Though: Calmatic -“White Men Can’t Jump”

1992's “White Men Can’t Jump” is no revered cinematic masterpiece, but it's remembered fondly by all who saw it. Woody! Wesley! Rosie! But a Hulu remake? WHY? “White people and black people can be friends, it’s all good." Is that such an ancient myth that it needs to be retold for new generations? I wondered …