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Goings On About Town: This Week • In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many New York City venues are closed. Here’s a selection of culture to be found around town, as well as online and streaming.

Tables for Two: Edys Grocer • 136 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn

Comment: Real News

Dept. of Values: Whats a Life Worth?

Legacies: Exhuming Zappa

Social Contract Dept.: Civics 101

The Firm: Outer Satellite

Brave New World Dept.: The Back Office • Virtual assistants will organize your work. Will they disrupt the workforce?

Shouts & Murmurs: Raised by Wolves

Letter from Los Angeles: A Lonely Occupation • The homeless people guarding empty houses in a broken real-estate market.

A Reporter at Large: Solomon’s Dilemma • When one parent leaves a Hasidic community, what happens to the kids?

Comic Strip: A Cheery Story

Poem: Winter Song for One Who Suffers

Portfolio: Vital Vessels • More than a billion vaccine doses have to be shipped to an anxious world. A legacy glassmaker has a solution.

Fiction: Dietrologia

Poem: Little Spy in My Bedroom

Books: Original Gangsters • The making of the New York Mob.

Books: Briefly Noted

A Critic at Large: Inside Story • Henry Adams excavated the past and anticipated the future.

Musical Events: Première Content • Orchestras “reimagine” their seasons with online events.

On Television: Public Life • Political and personal scandals in “Roadkill” and “I Hate Suzie.”

The Current Cinema: Hard Road to Travel • “Nomadland.”

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