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Baltimore Symphony Extends Director’s Contract

Marin Alsop.Matt Roth for The New York Times Marin Alsop.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced on Tuesday that Marin Alsop, the orchestra’s music director since 2007, has signed a new contract that will keep her on the ensemble’s podium until 2021. Ms. Alsop, 56, is also the music director of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, which upgraded her title from principal conductor this month.

During her tenure so far, Ms. Alsop has been credited with starting several programs that extend the orchestra’s mission in Baltimore, including OrchKids, a youth orchestra that, like the Venezuelan El Sistema, which inspired it, offers music lessons, tutoring and meals at no cost to the 600 children who participate in it. She also started Rusty Musicians, a program in which adult amateur musicians work prepare performances with Baltimore Symphony players.

She has also helped improve the orchestra’s box office performance. According to the orchestra, in the season before Ms. Alsop took the ensemble’s reins, the orchestra was selling, on average, 58 percent of its seats at the  Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and 77 percent of its seats at the Music Center at Strathmore. Last season, ticket sales had risen to 70 perecent at Meyerhoff and 80 percent at Strathmore.

Earlier this month, Ms. Alsop sprained her wrist while in São Paulo to conduct her other ensemble, and was forced to bow out of the engagement. Laura Farmer, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore Symphony said that “everything is going well with the recovery, and Marin is due to resume her full conducting schedule very soon.” That schedule includes two BBC Proms concerts in London. She will be the first woman to lead the Last Night at the Proms, the celebratory conclusion of that important summer series.



MoMA’s ‘Rain Room’ Will Stay Open Late on Sunday

Sunday is the last day to see “Rain Room,” that field of falling water digitally programmed to create a carefully choreographed downpour, using motion detectors to create a dry path for viewers. To accommodate as many people as possible, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to extend its hours â€" just on Sunday, and just that room â€" keeping it open until midnight, rather than 5:30. Since it opened May 12th on a vacant lot to the West of MoMA on 54th Street, “Rain Room’’ has attracted about 65,000 visitors, some of whom have waited in line for up to nine hours.



Jay Z’s ‘Magna Carta’ Holds at No. 1

Jay Z at Yankee Stadium on Friday.Lucas Jackson/Reuters Jay Z at Yankee Stadium on Friday.

As overall album sales continued to slide slide, the rap tycoon Jay Z remained on top of the Billboard 200 chart for a second week with “Magna Carta … Holy Grail,” (Roc Nation) selling 129,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Jay Z has sold 657,000 albums in two weeks, though that number does not include about 1 million copies Samsung bought to give away to its cellphone owners in a marketing deal some people in the music industry see as a blueprint for the future.

Sara Bareilles came in second in sales with the debut of her new album “The Blessed Unrest” (Epic), which only moved 68,000 copies, nearly 20,000 fewer than her last release in its first week. “Kidz Bop 24,” the gimmicky children’s compilation of pop hits, was third with 62,000 in sales.

The rapper Ace Hood scored his best week of sales yet with the release of “Trials & Tribulations” (Cash Money/Republic) which entered the chart at No. 4. The next two albums have been in the Top 10 for some time: Florida Georgia Line’s country album “Here’s to the Good Times” (Republic Nashville) was No. 5, while Imagine Dragon’s arena rock set “Night Visions” (Interscope Records) was No. 6.

Jay Z’s protege J. Cole, whose debut “Born Sinner” (Roc Nation) topped the chart two weeks ago, slid to No. 7, and the eighth slot belonged to the soundtrack from the Disney Channel’s “Teen Beach Movie,” which aired on July 19 and won a big audience.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Justin Timberlake’s juggernaut “The 20/20 Experience,” (RCA) which has sold 2 million copies in 18 weeks, and a new album from Cody Simpson called “Surfers Paradise,” (Atlantic) which sold a little over 24,000 copies in its first week.

Overall album sales are anemic compared to last year, reflecting a decade-long shift in consumers’ spending habits toward singles, as well as the long-term effect of pirated music downloads and free music on legal streaming sites like YouTube and Spotify.

Album sales in this past chart week, which ended July 21, added up to 4.7 million units, down 6 percent compared with the same week last year and 12 percent compared with two years ago. For the whole year, album sales now stand at 156.5 million, down 6 percent from the same period last year.

On the Hot 100 singles chart, Robin Thicke continued his reign at the top, with “Blurred Lines.” The song has been powered by heavy airplay on pop radio and more than 340,000 digital downloads.

The runner-up in the Top 10 was Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop,” which has been doing well on streaming services. Imagine Dragons “Radioactive,” one of the few rock songs with staying power on the Hot 100 chart, was No. 3, while topping the Hot Rock Songs chart. Daft Punk’s disco song “Get Lucky” slid to No. 4, but remained strong on charts of radio play and dance music.

Next, at No. 5, came Bruno Mars with his new hit “Treasure,” which continued to pick up steam on pop radio. The next five songs in the Top 10, in order, were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Can’t Hold Us,” Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise,” Jay Z’s “Holy Grail,” and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When I’m Gone).”



A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’

Not since “The Shining” has family life off the grid seemed as terrifying as it does in “Pilgrim’s Wilderness,” by Tom Kizzia, but this time the chills come from nonfiction. Mr. Kizzia tells the story of Robert Hale, a Texan who went on to call himself Papa Pilgrim as the patriarch of 15 children. Pilgrim eventually landed in Alaska on protected land, where several local allies adopted him as a heroic pioneer-antagonist of the National Park Service. Others bristled at Pilgrim’s self-styled messianism, and all the while his children suffered greatly under his rule. In a recent e-mail interview, Mr. Kizzia discussed whether he ever felt in danger while reporting the book, the keys that helped him unlock the full story and more. Below are edited xcerpts from the conversation:

Q.

What do you think kick-started Hale’s movement into full-blown eccentricity? Was there one moment that ordained the rest?

A.

I couldn’t find an isolated “Rosebud” incident in his childhood. Hale himself said it was the suspicious death by shotgun of his teenage bride, the daughter of Texas politician John Connally, that started him on the “pilgrim” road leading finally to Alaska. But even before that, in the way he pried Kathleen Connally away from her family, you could see the charisma and narcissism that led him eventually to believe he was a messenger of God, helped along perhaps by copious amounts of LSD.

Q.

Were you reluctant to dig deeper into this story, given Hale’s personality? Did you ever feel in danger?

A.

When I rode on horseback out to their wilderness homestead to spend the night, I didn’t ask every in-your-face question about his family that occurred to me. Was I scared? I told myself it was because I wanted him to be relaxed and keep talking for my newspaper story. I didn’t know about his violent side at that point â€" no one outside the family did. Later, after he got mad about my digging into his past, my wife was worried that our cabin near where the Pilgrim family lived might spontaneously combust.

Q.

When you began writing the book, did you already know about some of his darkest actions, or did you discover more along the way? And how did you approach writing some of the more graphic and disturbing scenes?

A.

I knew about the whipping and the rapes, but not in the harrowing detail I would get from the investigative files. What I didn’t appreciate until later was the psychological torture â€" Papa Pilgrim’s ability to use the wrath of God to mold his children’s minds, absent any movies, books, friends or outside influences.

I believe in the power of restraint when writing emotionally difficult scenes. Also, because it was pretty much all they heard when they were growing up, the kids had this euphemistic King James Bible quality in the language they used to describe their plight, which I wanted to make use of.

Q.

What was the most unlikely source of help you got in piecing together the story for the book?

A.

Probably when Papa himself, sitting in his wilderness cabin, handed me the key to unlocking his past. He told me he didn’t trust journalists because of the lies a reporter once wrote about his father. I got his father’s name and went searching on the Internet when I got back to town. It turned out the reporter was Seymour Hersh, the reporting was in his book about the Kennedy years, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” and suddenly I was tumbling down a rabbit hole into Hale’s Texas history.

Late in the book-writing process, Elishaba, the eldest daughter, decided to come forward and tell me her story in great detail. That changed the book; put her more toward the center, where she belonged, the tomboy hunter and guardian of her siblings, her father’s main victim and adversary.

Q.

How do “inholders” come to own land inside national parks? Is that something that happens all over the country?

A.

Usually there were people on the land before the national parks came along, even across the American West. In general, the government has tried to move them out â€" peremptorily, in the case of many Native Americans, or gradually, with buyouts or eminent domain. In the Alaska lands act of 1980, Congress took a new approach. The rural wilderness lifestyle would be preserved along with the landscape, especially the subsistence hunting and fishing of Native Alaskans. The choice was part idealism and part political compromise.

Tom KizziaDon Pitcher Tom Kizzia
Q.

On a purely philosophical level, do you sympathize with any of the arguments embraced by landowners who took Hale’s side early on?

A.

I do. We’re all inholders in nature, when you think about it. Alaska is an extreme metaphor for the idea of trying to live in balance with the world around us. But America has never been very good at harmonizing with wilderness. The frontier was always churning, advancing. So our literature is full of nostalgia for the generation that came before, when the land was a little wilder.

Q.

Have some of Hale’s early, fervent defenders apologized to you personally?

A.

Heck, no. They think I should have come down even harder on the park rangers. I think some of them may have apologized to the children, for not seeing through to the reality beneath the pious pioneer facade.

Q.

Hale ranted against the government, but he also took advantage of dividends from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Did he ever try to square these things? How self-aware did he seem to you?

A.

Alaska draws huge amounts of money from a federal government that we bash constantly for being oppressive. It’s not a contradiction that Alaskans in general choose to spend much time contemplating. On another level, Papa seems to have spent huge amounts of time trying to square the contradictions in his spiritual and family life. I suspect that’s what the heavily underlined and annotated Bibles were all about. When he was finally dragged into court and the judge asked his occupation, he said, “I’m a father.”

Q.

Are you still in touch with any of the people in the book?

A.

Almost all of them. The Hale family are recovering but have pulled back, somewhat, with publication of the book. A few of the older siblings sense how their story of escape and resilience can be helpful to other victims of abuse. It’s hard to imagine anyone being more isolated and cut off, physically and psychologically, than Elishaba and her sisters and brothers.



New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’

Alex Goley and Eryn Murman in Lynne Robinson Alex Goley and Eryn Murman in “Standby.”

Sartre said hell is other people. Somehow limbo sounds even worse: It’s other people â€" in an airport terminal.

That is the central existential tenet of “Standby,” a heavy-handed musical about the afterlife running at the New York Musical Theater Festival.

Five recent suicide victims find themselves trapped in an interminable air terminal, where a St. Peter figure (a charismatic, if not totally necessary, Dwelvan David) reminds them that suicide is the worst of all the -cides, homi- and geno- included. The recently deceased at first appear to be strangers, only to realize their lives were actually intertwined in a sort of tortured theatrical version of Chutes and Ladders.They must decide among themselves who gets to leave supernatural “standby” and claim the two remaining boarding passes for a flight to heaven; those not chosen will of course jet somewhere a bit more tropical.

If this premise sounds overly literal, just wait: On their ballad-heavy journey to their final destination, the five must first sort through their “baggage.” And yes, by baggage I mean actual duffel bags, briefcases and purses, filled with tokens from their troubled pasts.

The show, aided by a competent cast and six-person band, badly wants to be insightful and uplifting but struggles under the weight of its own conceit. Alfred Solis wrote the book and lyrics with Mark-Eugene Garcia; Amy Baer and Keith Robinson were the composers.

Characters heave musical confession after musical confession at the audience, content to bathe us in their bathos even as they ignore the show’s flimsy and often inconsistent logic.

“Standby” continues through July 28 at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater, 480 West 42nd Street, Clinton; (212) 352-3101, nymf.org.



New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’

Alex Goley and Eryn Murman in Lynne Robinson Alex Goley and Eryn Murman in “Standby.”

Sartre said hell is other people. Somehow limbo sounds even worse: It’s other people â€" in an airport terminal.

That is the central existential tenet of “Standby,” a heavy-handed musical about the afterlife running at the New York Musical Theater Festival.

Five recent suicide victims find themselves trapped in an interminable air terminal, where a St. Peter figure (a charismatic, if not totally necessary, Dwelvan David) reminds them that suicide is the worst of all the -cides, homi- and geno- included. The recently deceased at first appear to be strangers, only to realize their lives were actually intertwined in a sort of tortured theatrical version of Chutes and Ladders.They must decide among themselves who gets to leave supernatural “standby” and claim the two remaining boarding passes for a flight to heaven; those not chosen will of course jet somewhere a bit more tropical.

If this premise sounds overly literal, just wait: On their ballad-heavy journey to their final destination, the five must first sort through their “baggage.” And yes, by baggage I mean actual duffel bags, briefcases and purses, filled with tokens from their troubled pasts.

The show, aided by a competent cast and six-person band, badly wants to be insightful and uplifting but struggles under the weight of its own conceit. Alfred Solis wrote the book and lyrics with Mark-Eugene Garcia; Amy Baer and Keith Robinson were the composers.

Characters heave musical confession after musical confession at the audience, content to bathe us in their bathos even as they ignore the show’s flimsy and often inconsistent logic.

“Standby” continues through July 28 at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater, 480 West 42nd Street, Clinton; (212) 352-3101, nymf.org.



Alex Gibney Documentary on Lance Armstrong Is Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics

Lance Armstrong was stripped of seven Tour de France titles following his admissions of doping.Nicolas Bouvy/European Pressphoto Agency Lance Armstrong was stripped of seven Tour de France titles following his admissions of doping.

Oprah Winfrey had her crack at Lance Armstrong, and now it’s Alex Gibney’s turn. On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Classics said it would release a new documentary by Mr. Gibney, the Academy Award-winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side,” that will tell the story of the disgraced former cycling champion. Lest there be any ambiguity about this film’s disposition toward its subject, it is titled “The Armstrong Lie.”

Sony Pictures Classics said in a news release that Mr. Gibney spent four years following Mr. Armstrong, starting in 2009,  as he returned from retirement and unsuccessfully pursued another Tour de France title. “Unexpectedly,” the release said, “Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates and an investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.” The film project that “began as the chronicle of a comeback became an examination into the anatomy of a lie.”

No release date was immediately announced for “The Armstrong Lie,” which will include Mr. Armstrong as well as former teammates and doctors.



July 24: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Albanese

De Blasio

Lhota

Liu

Quinn

Salgado

Thompson

Group event


John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

2:30 p.m.
Meets privately with representatives from Housing First!, an affordable housing advocacy group, at the Bank of America building in Midtown.

6 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

10:30 a.m.
Holds a news conference repeating his call for Anthony D. Weiner to withdraw his candidacy for mayor, on the steps of City Hall.

1:30 p.m.
Greets voters at the Bedford Avenue subway station, in Williamsburg.

7:15 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the 181st Street subway station, on St. Nicholas Avenue.

12 p.m.
Announces in a news conference the endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, whose ranks are thought to include as many as 120,000 New York families, outside City Hall.

5 p.m.
Attends a rally for Long Island College Hospital and Interfaith Hospitals, both in danger of closing their doors, at Broadway and Park Place in Lower Manhattan.

5:30 p.m.
Four days after spending the night with a host family at the city-owned Lincoln Houses, testifies at an N.Y.C. Housing Authory plan hearing, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.

6 p.m.
Attends the annual picnic for Three Parks Independent Democrats, an Upper West Side club whose support has been crucial to the comptroller’s mayoral race since it was first to endorse him publicly in May after a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two of his associates for campaign improprieties, at the Pool Lawns in Central Park.

7:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

8:15 a.m.
Much as his rival Bill de Blasio did a week ago, Mr. Lhota meets with the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, a group formed to promote business interests below Canal Street, at their offices on Broadway.

6 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

7:30 p.m.
Greets voters at the Feast of St. Theresa, on St. Theresa Avenue in the Bronx.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

10 a.m.
Holds a news conference to highlight proposals to improve public transit by installing countdown clocks outside of subway stations and introducing Spanish-language announcements, outside of the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall subway station.

10:45 a.m.
Attends ribbon-cutting ceremony for new Fairway Market in Chelsea, with City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, on Sixth Avenue.

12:30 p.m.
Curtainraiser with press to discuss agenda and legislation likely to move at City Council’s coming regular meeting, at City Hall.

1 p.m.
Presides over the City Council’s Stated Meeting, in which the Council is expected to vote on a package of nine bills aimed at preparing the city for future storms and the granting of a special permit. The much-debated permit would allow Madison Square Garden to operate for 10 more years at its current location before it may have to make way for a redeveloped Penn Station, far less time than the garden â€" and its list of boosters that includes Spike Lee and the former Knicks great Walt Frazier â€" had been hoping for when the current 50-year special permit expires. Meeting will also commemorate this week’s 10th anniversary of the assasination of former City Councilman Jesse E. Davis, shot inside the City Council’s own chambers by a political rival, all at City Hall.

6:30 p.m.
Four days after spending the night with a host family at the city-owned Lincoln Houses, testifies at an N.Y.C. Housing Authory plan hearing, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the 110th Street subway station on Lenox Avenue.

8:30 a.m.
Joins representatives of Transit Workers Union Local 100, which endorsed him, in a rally calling for “safe, affordable, accessible and reliable transportation for all New Yorkers,” at M.T.A. headquarters on Madison Avenue.

7 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

5:30 p.m.
Four days after spending the night with a host family at the city-owned Lincoln Houses, testifies at an N.Y.C. Housing Authory plan hearing, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.

6:45 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters with his wife, Lorraine, at the 71st Street-Forest Hills subway station on Queens Boulevard.

1:15 p.m.
Meets privately with representatives from Housing First!, an affordable housing advocacy group, at the Bank of America building in Midtown.

5:30 p.m.
Attends an N.Y.C. Housing Authority plan hearing, at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

George T. McDonald
Republican

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

4 p.m.
Attends ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly opened Vivaldi Restaurant, at a spot managed by the city’s parks department that has seen three restaurants fail in four years, in Bayside, Queens.

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral forum on education, health care and affordable housing, hosted by Lehman College, Bronx Community College, the League of Women Voters of N.Y.C. and Rock the Vote, in the Gould Memorial Library Auditorum at Bronx Community College.

Readers with information about events involving the mayoral candidates are invited to send details and suggestions for coverage to cowan@nytimes.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @cowannyt.



Another Brooklyn Neighborhood Acronym

Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.Jabin Botsford/The New York Times Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Dear Diary:

I was sitting the other day in the ever-growing, ever more beautiful Brooklyn Bridge Park. I was near Old Dock Street and the warehouses there, at the point of the pie-wedge-shaped area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, Dumbo to my right hand.

I wonder, as it is completed there near Jane’s Carousel now, why we cannot have Bambi to sit beside Dumbo.

You know, Bambi: “Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge Interspace.”

I long for Jiminy Cricket.

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Another Brooklyn Neighborhood Acronym

Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.Jabin Botsford/The New York Times Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Dear Diary:

I was sitting the other day in the ever-growing, ever more beautiful Brooklyn Bridge Park. I was near Old Dock Street and the warehouses there, at the point of the pie-wedge-shaped area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, Dumbo to my right hand.

I wonder, as it is completed there near Jane’s Carousel now, why we cannot have Bambi to sit beside Dumbo.

You know, Bambi: “Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge Interspace.”

I long for Jiminy Cricket.

Read all recent entries and our updated submissions guidelines. Reach us via e-mail diary@nytimes.com or follow @NYTMetro on Twitter using the hashtag #MetDiary.



New York Today: Impact of Weiner’s Disclosures

Anthony D. Weiner, a Democratic candidate for mayor, and his wife Human Abedin appeared at a packed news conference on Tuesday where he acknowledged exchanging sexually explicit images and messages after he resigned from  Congress. Michael Appleton for The New York Times Anthony D. Weiner, a Democratic candidate for mayor, and his wife Human Abedin appeared at a packed news conference on Tuesday where he acknowledged exchanging sexually explicit images and messages after he resigned from  Congress.

Mayoral candidates are scheduling various events for Wednesday, but it seems clear that all anyone will want to discuss are new revelations about Anthony D. Weiner’s raunchy online conversations.

Bill De Blasio is speaking at a Bronx forum. Bill Thompson is campaigning at subway stops in Harlem.

The day, though, will most likely be dominated by the fallout from Mr. Weiner’s news conference on Tuesday, where he and his wife, Huma Abedin, acknowledged that he had continued to have sexually explicit conversations with women he met online after he resigned from Congress.

Already, some of his rivals have demanded that he drop out of the race.

What to watch for: Will other candidates, including one of the frontrunners, Christine C. Quinn, join that call on Wednesday? Or will they sidestep questions about Mr. Weiner and see whether a public backlash builds?

The editorial pages of The New York Times and The Daily News said he should abandon the race. The New York Post was also harshly critical.

And where is the candidate at the center of it all? Mr. Weiner is testifying at a hearing on public housing in Manhattan and speaking at a mayoral forum in the Bronx.

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COMING UP TODAY

- An anatomical specimen made of an actual human and a horse â€" preserved with plastic polymer â€" from the exhibit “Body Worlds,” will be on display in Times Square for only one day. [Free]

- Dancers splash through the fountain and cavort in the courtyard outside Lincoln Center at 6 p.m. [Free]

- “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt” opens at the Brooklyn Museum. [Free]

- Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City hosts an outdoor screening of “In Another Country,” by the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo at 7 p.m. [Free]

- Watch “Argo” on Pier 36 in Hudson River Park. 8:30 p.m. [Free]

-Admission is free on Wednesday at the Bronx Zoo. Take a peek at the future home of the Komodos.

- There’s a family capoeira class in Inwood Hill Park at 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. [Free]

- Subway musicians perform at the third annual N.Y.C. Busker Ball at Spike Hill in Williamsburg at 7 p.m. [Free]

- Sovereign Bank, which has over 75 branches in the city and on Long Island, announces that it will change its name to Santander on October 17. In 2009 it was acquired by the Santander Group.

IN THE NEWS

- Keron Thomas, who took an A-train on a joyride as a teen, died. He was 37. [Pix 11]

- A Queens woman threw out a fridge, forgetting she stashed $5,000 in the freezer. She got the money back. [New York Daily News]

- More than 1,000 CitiBike users had their personal information exposed because of a glitch. [Gothamist]

- An apartment fire in Hamilton Heights displaced 150 people. It was sparked by an air conditioner, officials said. [DNA Info]

- Some people wait years for an apartment in public housing while others jump the line. [New York Times]

- It’s been nine months since Sandy… and the storks are working overtime. [CBS]

- A tenant turned a rent-stabilized NoLiTa apartment into a bed and breakfast, landlord says. [PIX 11]

AND FINALLY…

A repatriation ceremony will be held on Wednesday at the United States Attorney’s Office in Manhattan â€" for two antique books. They are being returned to the National Library of Sweden. They were stolen in the 1990s, and had been owned by Swedish royalty. They contain early depictions of America’s interior by explorers.

Michaelle Bond and Michael Barbaro contributed reporting.

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