Live Video: Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan and Others on the End of ‘Breaking Bad’

On Tuesday, the cast and creator of the acclaimed AMC drama “Breaking Bad” will discuss the show and its coming conclusion with Dave Itzkoff, a culture reporter for The Times. The event, part of the Times Talks series, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Live video will stream here.

Those expected to attend Tuesday’s panel discussion include the show’s star, Bryan Cranston, as well as Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, R. J. Mitte, Bob Odenkirk and the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan. The final eight-episode run of “Breaking Bad” will begin on AMC on Aug. 11.

At Toronto Festival, a Lineup to Make You Scream

Toronto International Film Festival A scene from “The Green Inferno,” directed by Eli Roth.

In September, the Toronto International Film Festival will be celebrating a quarter century of gore, ghouls and goo, also known as the Midnight Madness section, and the programmers have come up with a lineup of suitable fare for the anniversary.

Eli Roth is back in to the director’s chair with “The Green Inferno,” about a group of humanitarian college students kidnapped by cannibals in the Amazon jungle. Mr. Roth’s directorial feature, “Cabin Fever,” was featured in  Midnight Madness  in 2002.

Another  program alumnus, the Japanese director Hitoshi Matsumoto, returns  with “R100,” about a man who joins a mysterious club with a yearlong membership that has only one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. Other titles pay tribute to Chinese vampire movies (Juno Mak’s “Rigor Mortis”), involve paranormal activities (Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus”), or traffic in dead cheerleaders (“All Cheerleaders Die” from Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson).

The section runs each night of the festival, which begins Sept. 5.

Reeve Carney Hangs Up His Spider-Man Tights

Chad Batka for The New York Times Reeve Carney, with a cluster of Spideys, on 42nd Street in 2011.

After almost three years, Reeve Carney will be Spider-Man no more. The producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” announced on Tuesday that Mr. Carney would hang up his blue and red superhero tights. His final performance is to be on Sept. 15.

Playing the dual role of Peter Parker and Spider-Man, Mr. Carney has been the star of “Spider-Man” since the beginning, from the injury-prone early previews in November 2010 through its rise to one of the top-grossing shows on Broadway.

The producers also announced that two open casting calls â€" one in Los Angeles (Aug. 12) and one in New York (Aug. 19) â€" would be conducted to find a new actor for the role. The calls will also be used to find a future Mary Jane, who is now being played by Rebecca Faulkenberry.

Trumpet Festival Announces Its 11th Season

Marcus Belgrave.

The Festival of New Trumpet Music has announced its 11th annual season, to be held in Manhattan and Brooklyn from Sept. 10 through Oct. 2. This year’s theme is “Music for Small, Medium and Massive: Premieres, Fanfares and Remembrance.”

Upholding the “massive” part of that slogan is the New York premiere of a composition by the composer Henry Brant. The piece, “Flight Over a Global Map for 52 Trumpets,” will be performed at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, in a concert that will also feature the premiere of John Zorn’s “Antiphonal Fanfare for the Great Hall,” for six trumpets; and a tribute to the visionary trumpeter-conductor Butch Morris, who died this year.

Another concert at Roulette, on Sept. 10, will feature two works commissioned by the festival: “Octet for Brass and Violin,” by the experimental classical composer Christian Wolff, and a piece by the trumpeter Roy Campbell, for his Akhenaten Large Ensemble.

One of the festival’s board members, Jeremy Pelt, has organized a series at Smoke Jazz and Supper Club featuring a clutch of up-and-coming trumpeters, including Bria Skonberg, Josh Evans and Vitaly Golovnev. And Dave Douglas, the festival’s founder and director, will perform at St. Peter’s Church on Sept. 23, with a band that includes the saxophonist Jon Irabagon and the vocalist Heather Masse.

Receiving the festival’s award of recognition this year is Marcus Belgrave, a one-man jazz institution in Detroit, both as a trumpeter and an educator. Mr. Belgrave, 77, will close the festival on Oct. 1 and 2 at the Jazz Standard, with a group featuring three accomplished former students: the pianist Geri Allen, the bassist Marion Hayden and the drummer Kassa Overall.

For more information, including a full schedule of performances, visit fontmusic.org.

July 30: 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

Carrión

De Blasio

Lhota

Liu

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

8:30 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

11 a.m.
Accepts endorsements from the singer Harry Belafonte and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, at the corner of Centre Street and Park Row in Lower Manhattan.

3:30 p.m.
Greets voters with his wife, Chirlane, at the Fairway Market in Chelsea.

5:30 p.m.
Addresses the 504 Democratic Club, a political club that works for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the political and social spheres, at its mayoral candidate screening at the 1199SEIU Auditorium in Midtown.

6:50 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

7:45 p.m.
Attends the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s weekly Brooklyn rally, with his wife, Chirlane, at King Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

9 p.m.
Attends the Brooklyn Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, which will take the pulse of voters who are 36 or under, at the Sackett in Park Slope.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the Dyckman Street subway station, in Washington Heights.

8:30 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

10:30 a.m.
Meets privately with the Partnership for New York City’s Entrepreneurs Council, at the WeWork co-working offices in west SoHo.

12 p.m.
Visits the Chinese Merchants’ Association on Mott Street in Chinatown.

6:45 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

7:15 p.m.
Attends the Manhattan Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, which will take the pulse of voters who are under 36, at the Playwright on West 35th Street in Manhattan.

8:30 p.m.
Swings over to Queens for a similar event at the Queens County Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, going on at the Ravens Head Public House in Astoria.

9:15 p.m.
Ends his day with a similar event at the Brooklyn Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, going on at the Sackett in Park Slope.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

8:45 a.m.
Meets privately with the Partnership for New York City’s Entrepreneurs Council, at the WeWork co-working offices in west SoHo [ap].

11 a.m.
Meets privately with the Catholic Community Relations Council, at its offices in east Midtown.

7:15 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

9 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

11 a.m.
Attends the Interfaith Clergy Leadership Breakfast, at the Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn.

6 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

7 p.m.
Addresses the 504 Democratic Club, a political club that works for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the political and social spheres, at its mayoral candidate screening at the 1199SEIU Auditorium in Midtown.

7:45 p.m.
Attends the Manhattan Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, which will take the pulse of voters who are under 36, at the Playwright in Midtown.

9 p.m.
Swings over to Queens for a similar event at the Queens County Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, going on at the Ravens Head Public House in Astoria.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

5 p.m.
Addresses the 504 Democratic Club, a political club that works for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the political and social spheres, at its mayoral candidate screening at the 1199SEIU Auditorium in Midtown.

8:15 p.m.
Addresses the City Island Civic Association meeting, at the City Island Community Center.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

8:30 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

10:30 a.m.
Visits with merchants and small-business owners along St. Nicholas Avenue, in Upper Manhattan.

6 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Classic Rock Night at the Juniper Valley Park Concert Series, on 80th Street in Queens.

8:15 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

9 p.m.
Attends the Staten Island Young Democrats’ Straw Poll, which will take the pulse of voters who are under 36, on Staten Island.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

8:30 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small businesses, hosted by Bodegueros and Korean Grocers at La Marina restaurant in Upper Manhattan.

3:30 p.m.
Consults privately on the city’s master transportation plan with Sam Schwartz, a transportation engineer known to many as “Gridlock Sam” because he is credited with coining the term “gridlock” while working under Mayor John Lindsay, at the campaign headquarters on West 30th Street.

6:30 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers College.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

8:30 a.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum on small business, at La Marina restaurant on Dyckman Street in Manhattan.

5:30 p.m.
Addresses the 504 Democratic Club, a political club that works for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the political and social spheres, at its mayoral candidate screening at the 1199SEIU Auditorium in Midtown.

6 p.m.
Participates in a mayoral candidates’ forum, moderated by WNYC’s Kurt Andersen and Leonard Lopate, on the future of education and the arts, at the Cowin Center at Columbia’s Teachers 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.

Missing Stradivarius Violin Recovered in Britain

Music lovers and insurance adjustors alike are surely breathing sighs of relief following the recovery of a valuable Stradivarius violin that has been recovered in Britain more than two years after it was stolen from a musician in London. BBC News reported that the violin, three centuries old and valued at £1.2 million (about $1.8 million), had been found following a 2010 incident in which it was stolen from the violinist Min-Jin Kym while she was at a sandwich shop in North London.

Ms. Kym told the BBC that the violin “had been the instrument I had been playing on since I was a teenager” and “a huge part of my identity for many years.” Its loss, she said, “was devastating,” but its recovery brought “an incredible feeling of elation.”

“I’m still feeling the butterflies in my stomach,” she added.

The police told the BBC that the violin had been found in the Midlands, in central Britain, but would not offer further details because of an ongoing investigation. Though the violin was recovered with some minor damage, two of its bows, one valued at £62,000 (about $95,000) and another at over £5,000 (about $7,650) had not been found.

In Performance: ‘Avenue Q’

“Avenue Q,” the racy, stereotype-tweaking “Sesame Street”-style musical about humans and puppets coming of age, turns 10 on Wednesday. The show, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty, originally opened off Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in March 2003. Five months later it opened on Broadway at the Golden Theater, and went on to receive three Tony Awards, including an upset win for best musical over “Wicked.” In this video, Sala Iwamatsu, who plays Christmas Eve, a Japanese-born therapist who speaks with an exaggerated accent, offers advice to Kate Monster (played by the puppeteer Veronica J. Kuehn) about her love life in the nmber “The More You Ruv Someone.” The show is playing Off Broadway at New World Stages, where it moved in 2009.

Recent videos in this series include Rory O’Malley singing a number from the musical “Nobody Loves You” at Second Stage Theater, and Christopher Denham in a scene from Steven Levenson’s new drama “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,” at the Roundabout Theater Company’s Laura Pels Theater.

A Pickup at the Library

Dear Diary:

On a recent Saturday, my sister and I were sitting at a table on the New York Public Library plaza on 42nd Street. A gentleman approached my sister from behind and pointed to her gray hair and then pointed to his own gray hair.

He came forward and repeated this gesture twice more as he faced me, smiling and indicating that he and my sister obviously had something in common.

She ignored him, but it was clearly a new “senior pickup” approach.

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New York Today: Live Music, Live Voters

Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times Christine C. Quinn campaigning outside a Brooklyn concert on Monday.

The subway platform meet-and-greet has long been de rigueur for political candidates.

But this summer, there’s another spot for pressing the flesh: the outdoor concert.

Last night, it seemed like nearly every candidate for citywide public office attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series gospel night in Brooklyn.

Bill de Blasio and Sal Albanese, to take two mayoral candidates, campaigned at five outdoor concerts apiece in July. Indie rock. R&B. Mariachi.

Voters are less harried at a gig than on their commute, candidates say.

But there’s a fine line.

“Folks would rather listen to Stevie Wonder than a candidate for comptroller,” said Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for Eliot Spitzer, who hit back-to-back concerts on Sunday and Monday, “We get that.”

WEATHER

It will be a gorgeous day, with a high of 84 sparkling degrees. Leave your umbrella at home and enjoy. Click for current forecast.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit Subways are O.K. Click for the latest status.

- Roads Traffic is mostly O.K.  Click for the latest status.

- Alternate side parking is in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

- The city will complete its scheduled mosquito control for the year to combat West Nile virus, spraying in Queens at 8:30 p.m. and at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Click for affected areas.

- Jury deliberations continue in a lawsuit brought by a group of sex offenders against former Gov. George E. Pataki and other former state officials. The plaintiffs say they were wrongly institutionalized after completing their sentences.

- The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital series comes to Harlem with arias and duets by three up-and-coming Met artists. Jackie Robinson Park, from 7 to 8 p.m. [Free]

- Watch the film “Strictly Ballroom” on Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at sunset. [Free]

- Take a kayaking lesson and paddle the gentle waters of Jamaica Bay, at Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn. 5 p.m to 7:30 p.m. [Free]

- Goonies never say die! See the cult classic movie on the garage roof deck of the Bronx Terminal Market at 8:30 p.m. [Free]

- Listen to East African jams in Washington Square Park at 8 p.m. [Free]

- The Queens Symphony Orchestra celebrates Verdi’s bicentennial on the Great Lawn at St. John’s University on Utopia Parkway in Jamaica at 7 PM. [Free]

- “The Central Park Five,” a documentary about a miscarriage of justice, screens at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, at Second Avenue and East 47th Street, at 8:30 p.m. [Free]

- Bach and friends will resound through Central Park in tonight’s installment of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series, featuring the adventurous orchestra the Knights. [Free]

IN THE NEWS

- About a third of the city’s renters spend half or more of their income on rent, according to a New York University report. [Gothamist]

- A new class of firefighter recruits was sworn in Monday, the Fire Department’s most ethnically diverse group yet. [NY 1]

- Thieves fled empty-handed after the backhoe they used to break into a bank in Queens could not crack an A.T.M. [Daily News]

- A Bronx cemetery has interns. [New York Times]

- The majority of Democratic voters seems to have had enough of Anthony D. Weiner, a poll found. [New York Times]

AND FINALLY

Nearly 200 readers weighed in by e-mail, comments and Twitter on Monday to help name a piglet rescued last week from the streets of Queens.

Wilbur, Houdini and Carnitas Danger were among the suggestions.

Meet Winston.

“Pigs treat us as equals,” was part of a quotation attributed to Winston S. Churchill that inspired Ellen Balfour from Long Island.

Farm Sanctuary, the rescue organization, chose the name.

“Napoleon” was a close second. That name, suggested by Elizabeth Emmons from Manhattan, came from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” in which the pigs rule.

Michaelle Bond, E.C. Gogolak and Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.

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