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Jonathan Braylock, James III, Shawtane Bowen, Jerah Milligan, Caroline Martin, Keisha Zollar, Monique Moses and Raymond Cordova on "Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show" (Lara Solanki/Netflix)

The best sketch comedy for stress relief

Ashlie D. Stevens
A young woman sings and plays her guitar in a pub. (Getty Images)

How musicians have moved to online gigs

Ashlie D. Stevens
Kate McKinnon on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

"SNL" sans audience? Honestly, it works

Melanie McFarland

Inside the Beatles’ breakup

Tim Riley - The Conversation
Selah and the Spades (Amazon)

In "Selah," black kids run their world

Priscilla Ward
Sheltering In Place with Classic Albums (Getty Images/Salon)

George Harrison's 1970 solo album, today

Kenneth Womack
Alicia Silverstone in "Bad Therapy" (Gravitas Ventures)

Alicia Silverstone: I like weird things

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones in "#blackAF" (Netflix)

"#blackAF" is "Black-ish" but meaner

Melanie McFarland
"Vinyl Nation" (Gilman Hall Pictures)

Watch "Vinyl Nation" on Record Store Day

Hanh Nguyen
"What We Do in the Shadows" (Russ Martin/FX)

"Shadows" is our quarantine house pick

Melanie McFarland
Shailene Woodley in "Endings, Beginnings" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

"Passion will always lead you"

Gary M. Kramer
Brian Dennehy at opening night for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (Globe / MediaPunch /IPX)

Actor Brian Dennehy dead at 81

Jon Blistein - Rolling Stone
Cate Blanchett in "Mrs. America" (Fx)

Cate Blanchett shines in "Mrs. America"

Melanie McFarland
Megan Stott in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

"Little Fires" heats up before finale

Hanh Nguyen
Innocence Files (Netflix)

"Doubt can be important" to find justice

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller (Kristen Finn/Simon & Schuster)

Lulu Miller's weird, unclassifiable book

Hanh Nguyen
"Broken" by Don Winslow (William Morrow)

Coronavirus is a metaphor for Trump pain

Chauncey DeVega
Sonja Farak in "How to Fix a Drug Scandal" (Netflix)

"Drug Scandal": I would have done it

Ashlie D. Stevens
Brooklynn Prince in "Home Before Dark" (AppleTV+)

"We're so used to underestimating girls"

Melanie McFarland
"Bedlam" (Upper East Films / PBS)

How we criminalize mental illness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever in "Run" (Ken Woroner/HBO)

HBO's "Run" gathers speed with each turn

Melanie McFarland
Open bible in church (Getty/coldsnowstorm)

Coronavirus and Easter

Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Joel Thiessen - The Conversation
Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri in "Killing Eve" (Des Willie/BBCA)

"Killing Eve" is back, with consequences

Ashlie D. Stevens
The Kim Family (Woo-sik Choi, Kang-ho Song, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park) in Parasite. (Courtesy of NEON + CJ Entertainment)

The best movies to stream in April

Hanh Nguyen
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