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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: Dame • 85 MacDougal St.

Comment: Fear Itself

Test Drive Dept.: Cocoon

Dept. of Invention: In My Room

Dept. of Guts: Sewage Studies

Going Going Dept.: Under the Hood

Annals of History: Civil Wars • In a country riven by racial politics, three women fight for a more perfect union.

Shouts & Murmurs: Waiting for To-Go

Personal History: Bad Dream • On waking up in America.

A Reporter at Large: The Storm • In the weeks before the assault on the Capitol, the President and his supporters kept stoking paranoia and rage.

Poem: Last Words

Fiction: A Challenge You Have Overcome

Poem: To Be Young

Books: Swinging on a Star • Have signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life been found already?

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: The Air in Here • The many ways the world breathes together.

Books: Top of the World • How not to see the Himalaya.

Pop Music: Sound Design • The obsessive beat-making of Madlib.

On Television: Still Here • “Pretend It’s a City,” on Netflix.

The Current Cinema: Surveillance • “MLK/FBI” and “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.”

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