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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; as ever, it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements.

Tables for Two: Challahpalooza

Comment: Cheneyism

Closeup Dept.: Food Story

Mouths of Babes: Slam Dunk

Legacies: Egg Cream Dreams

Making Do Dept.: Dancing With Myself

Letter from England: A Giant Mystery • Is an enormous chalk outline of a naked man an ancient image—or a modern joke?

Sketchbook: Sketchbook by Peter Kuper • A multitude of cicadas emerge from hibernation every seventeen years. Scientists say Brood X, this year’s class, may be the largest hatching seen since its last cycle, in 2004. As temperatures rise, trillions of insects flood the sky—you might hear them.

Shouts & Murmurs: The Heartful Home

American Chronicles: It’s Just Too Much • Has burnout become the human condition?

The Sporting Scene: Blood on the Tracks • Horse racing’s deadly reckoning.

Poem: Under Limestone

Profiles: Hot Topic • Listening to Wendy Williams’s kitchen-table talk.

Fiction: The Party

Poem: In the Cloud

Books: Art Made Flesh • The life of Francis Bacon.

Books: Briefly Noted

On Television: Odyssey • “The Underground Railroad,” on Amazon Prime.

The Theatre: Optical Illusions • Echoes of trauma in “Zoetrope” and “The Forbidden City.”

The Art World: A Trip to the Fair • Frieze returns to New York.

The Current Cinema: Feeling the Heat • “The Dry” and “The Perfect Candidate.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.