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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: Milu • 333 Park Avenue South

Comment: The Final Days

On Capitol Hill: “Ma’am, We’ve Got to Go”

A Proud Boy Speaks: Cretin Hop

Dispatch: Mob Rule in the Capitol

Georgia Postcard: The Run-Ons

The Waves: Solstice Surfathon

Letter from Colorado: Bad Influencer • Trolling the great outdoors.

Personal History: The Hard Crowd • Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco.

The Control of Nature: Life Hacks • New gene-editing techniques could be used to revive species. Or do them in.

Profiles: Structure and Flow • How El Anatsui broke the seal on contemporary art.

Poem: The Cricket

Fiction: Blushes

Poem: what the angels eat

Books: Starting Fresh • The value of learning to do things you’ll never do well.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Dispossessions • Human history and the hunger for land.

A Critic at Large: We Work • Labor without end.

Musical Events: Road Trip • David Hockney’s “Wagner Drive.”

The Theatre: On Book • The restlessly inventive plays of Adrienne Kennedy.

The Current Cinema: Aftermaths • “Pieces of a Woman” and “Some Kind of Heaven.”

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