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Goings On About Town: This Week • As New York City venues reopen, it’s advisable to confirm in advance the requirements for in-person attendance.
Goings On About Town: Celebrating the Holidays
Goings On About Town: Television
Tables for Two: Soothr • 204 E. 13th St.
Comment: Reputation Laundering
Stranger Than Fiction: Space Guardians
Grownup in the Room: Cheerful Shade
Dept. of Relics: Commune
Wagner Files: Endurance Test
Letter from Morocco: Only Disconnect • Wealthy travellers are paying people to dump them in the middle of nowhere.
Shouts & Murmurs: Succession, Jr.
Dept. of Archeology: Pompeii’s Hidden Layer • New excavations expose how ordinary residents slept, shopped, and snacked.
The Sporting Scene: Finding a Way Up • After decades of dominance, Tommy Caldwell still seeks new ascents.
Poem: May to December
Annals of Design: The Garden of Forking Paths • How the world’s foremost maze-maker leads people astray.
Sketchbook by Roz Chast and Emily Flake: A New York City Field
Fiction: The Hollow
Poem: Built to Wait
Books: What the Stone Said • How Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered.
Books: The Good Fight • The costs of sentimentalizing the Second World War.
Books: Briefly Noted
Pop Music: Takebacks • Taylor Swift reclaims control of her work.
The Theatre: Notorious • President killers and Princess Diana find musical immortality.
On Television: Ladies’ Night • Season 5 of “Insecure,” on HBO.
The Current Cinema: All in the Family • “The Power of the Dog” and “King Richard.”
CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST
Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A challenging puzzle.