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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: Podcasts

Tables for Two: State of the Bagel

Comment: Ladies and Gentlemen

Berkshire County Postcard: Name Game

Year’s Best: Tough Cookie

The Pictures: Harlem Time Travel

Sketchpad: What Did You Accomplish in Line for a COVID Test?

Profiles: Extraordinary Alien • The otherworldly comedy of Julio Torres.

Sketchbook: Life Drawing

Shouts & Murmurs: How to Survive Christmas with Your Toxic Family

Personal History: Some Notes on Funniness • Going for the laughs.

Comic Strip: A Cartoonist’s Life

Poem: Greetings, Friends!

Sketchbook: The Museum of Purgatory

Sketchbook: Pandemic Paper Doll

Portfolio: The Funnies • Here are some gags about how we lived in 2020, to one day help explain your toilet-paper-hoarding habits to your grandchildren.

Sketchbook: Junban

Fiction: Acting Class

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Stay-at-Home Fun

Books: Hot-Ice-Cream Dreams • The marvellously mixed-up masters of early animated cartoons.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Extravagant Creatures • Leonora Carrington’s matriarchal Surrealism.

Pop Music: Drink It In • How Morgan Wallen became the most wanted man in country music.

On Television: The Young Ones • Season 4 of “Big Mouth,” on Netflix.

The Art World: What Are Artists For? • The Constructivists, at MOMA.

The Theatre: The Saint in the Closet • A one-man musical about Mother Teresa.

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