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The New York-centric movie world—of independent, director-centered, director-inspired filmmaking—bears the mark of Peter Bogdanovich’s genius, @tnyfrontrow writes.http://nyer.cm/uWk8qYx 

New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, is walking a thin line on COVID. “He wants to show action and responsiveness in a city where case numbers are skyrocketing . . . and schools, restaurants, and other workplaces are struggling to stay open,” @ericlach writes.http://nyer.cm/PWj0X7Y 

Meg Bernhard writes about one family’s struggle to transport a casket during the pandemic: “What was already a fraught process has become even more convoluted in the COVID-19 era.”http://nyer.cm/DXXmf3q 

When Lin-Manuel Miranda first saw the musical “Tick, Tick . . . BOOM!,” “it felt like a message in a bottle just for me,” he says. “I went back and saw it three times.”http://nyer.cm/sfHY5cZ 

By the closing number of a scaled-back production of David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” the whole audience was on its feet. “It was an anti-Broadway evening,” @IAmRichBenjamin writes, “an unapologetic display of solidarity and trust amid a cloud of anxiety.”http://nyer.cm/WgaGsTJ 

“Having negative stereotypes of other groups is, like it or not, a rather normal vice,” the philosopher Avishai Margalit said. “But when the stereotypes become an obsession, and they are repeated again and again by someone, this is something else.”http://nyer.cm/aHrDcaV 

It’s unlikely that many people would profess to trust Aaron Rodgers’s thoughts about vaccination simply because he can thread a football through a vanishingly small window into a falling receiver’s hands. And yet celebrity has given him a megaphone.http://nyer.cm/ZXoIq5k 

The records that resonated with @jiggyraps in 2021 were “eccentric, often sardonic in tone, and even a bit haunting.” See his 30 favorites here.http://nyer.cm/LnlZZ32 

Researchers began studying ketamine as a treatment for depression, and, in 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health concluded that a single intravenous dose of ketamine had rapid antidepressant effects.http://nyer.cm/yo1AZxk 

The beloved restaurant Casa Adela, on the Lower East Side, has survived development incursions, the death of its founder, and two years of a pandemic. Can it survive a rent dispute with its neighbors?http://nyer.cm/4UXBGCb 

“Next thing Darren knew, he was brandishing a plunger and yelling at the rat, hoping to scare it back down the toilet.” Fiction by Adam Levin.http://nyer.cm/rCJUhNe 

“When my daughter proposed watching ‘The Breakfast Club’ together, I had hesitated, not knowing how she would react,” Molly Ringwald wrote, in 2018. “But I hadn’t anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling to me.”http://nyer.cm/lN8Vkd8 

The chef Jeremy Salamon’s grandmothers provide inspiration for impeccable pastries and exceptionally thoughtful dishes at Agi's Counter, a breakfast-and-lunch spot in Crown Heights.http://nyer.cm/FjJfG5Z 

“Someone else would read it and be like, ‘Oh, this is fantasy!’ ” the sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor said, of her attempts to write nonfiction. “And I’m like, ‘No it’s not.’ I was writing what I was seeing.”http://nyer.cm/kqvP92p 

Throughout 2017 and 2018, the artist behind the “Fearless Girl” sculpture sold replicas for prices ranging from $250,000 to $6,650. In 2019, the asset-management company that sponsored it filed a lawsuit against her.http://nyer.cm/0NOtzSL 

“Paulina, the gardener’s daughter, cares about flowers doomed to die. If I bring her a bouquet, she frees it from the ribbons and gently places it in the hospice of a vase.” A poem by Tadeusz Dąbrowski.http://nyer.cm/sYFAoih 

“It doesn’t make sense that estate sales should thrive. But they do,” @Lfeidel writes, about the fragile and persistent estate-sale industry.http://nyer.cm/2Rjgf3u 

The tension at this phase of the pandemic, @benwallacewells writes, is between a present in which the number of deaths remains intolerably high and a likely, but not certain, near future in which the emergency has retreated, even if the disease remains.http://nyer.cm/orZrUBi 

“The warmth was in the melodies, the humor, the observation, the possibility”: revisit @asarahlarson’s 2016 essay on loving David Bowie, who was born on this day in 1947.http://nyer.cm/3HYeImG 

A few dating combinations with the same cumulative effect as having one male romantic partner, from @tnyshouts.http://nyer.cm/Z0KA9Z4