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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.

Goings On About Town: Television

Tables for Two: Yellow Rose • 102 Third Ave.

Comment: Special Elections

Wheeling and Dealing Dept.: Tell Me the Odds

Georgia Postcard: Newly Eligible

Dept. of Earworms: Nineteen Words

Arts and Crafts Dept.: Not Just Any Kids

Onward and Upward With the Arts: Story Time • Cartoon Saloon offers a different vision for children’s entertainment.

Shouts & Murmurs: Your Monthly Horoscope

Annals of Medicine: A Healing Virus? • As antibiotics fail us, an experimental therapy is making a comeback.

A Reporter at Large: Murder in Malta • Corruption consumed a journalist’s work, then claimed her life.

Poem: The Bats

Profiles: Radical Alienation • Arthur Jafa left an art world he found too white. Years later, he made a triumphant return.

Fiction: Our Lady of the Quarry

Poem: April

Performance: Stomping the Blues • August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is reimagined for the screen.

A Critic at Large: In Another Life • Making sense of who we might have been.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Clean Hands • In Raqqa, U.S. bombs killed many Syrians. No Americans died. Is this moral?

The Art World: The Fix We’re In • Drawing through the pandemic.

Pop Music: Whims • Paul McCartney’s surprisingly playful pandemic album.

On Television: Street Scenes • John Wilson’s Martian’s-eye view of the habits of Homo sapiens.

The Current Cinema: Under the Influence • “Another Round” and “The Prom.”

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