Laurie Metcalf

We are presently in a golden age of television. It would be nearly impossible for one person to sort through all of the television at our fingertips and decide what is or isn’t the best. This is where the Emmy Awards come in.

With this week’s picks, the Arts & Entertainment staff presents local attractions designed to keep you from getting bored.

With the general consensus that there were no major snubs in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, category predictions become all the more interesting.

By continuing to break the institutional silence surrounding sexual violence and believing survivors, we’ll retain film as our source of light in 2018.

“Lady Bird” is an accomplishment — no line, no look is wasted, if not made vital. It’s also the first film for which Greta Gerwig is solely credited as both writer and director.