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After the Wedding, the Bus

Victor Kerlow

Dear Diary:

It was the warmest day of the year and we’re waiting for the altar.

One, two, five couples pass our number. “When is it our turn?” the groom inquires. No one has the documents, it seems. They’ve found a way to the bottom of the stack.

“Do you take this woman… “; “Do you take this man… ?” “Yes.” “Yes.”

We’re handed bags of seed as we leave the City Clerk’s office on Worth Street. The bride and the groom revolve onto the street to a hail of cheers and edibles â€" for the birds after we’re long gone.

The party continues across town as we hail cabs; the clock ticks down. The kitchen closes at 3:30 â€" waiting past 3 just for us. Its 3:07 without a free cab in sight. We cross the street to meet an elderly gentleman with walker in hand and sweat on the brow: “I’ve waited here for 10 minutes; the next cab is mine!”

The groom’s sister-in-law notices the M22 stopping in front of us. She and I think for a split second â€" the bus on their wedding day, and we think it’s going crosstown. She runs to ask the driver if he’s stopping on Chambers. He is and she yells, “Everyone on the bus!”

Some of us have cards, some do not; some have never taken the bus before. We escape the heat and the wait for a cab and, happily, if quizzically, head west.

The bus is mostly empty but for a few tourists, some children and their caretakers. We take our seats. The bride throws her bouquet.

We leave to the well-wishes of our bus driver, run a few blocks and make our reservation.

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The Ad Campaign: Thompson Counterattacks

First aired: August 25, 2013
Produced by: The Campaign Group
for: William C. Thompson Jr.

William C. Thompson Jr., a Democratic candidate for mayor, spent much of the previous week arguing that Bill de Blasio, one of his rivals, was stretching the truth in his latest ad, which claims that Mr. de Blasio would be “the only candidate to end a stop-and-frisk era that targets minorities.” On Sunday, Mr. Thompson intensified the debate by attacking Mr. de Blasio directly in his own 30-second television advertisement, called “Lived It.” The ad marks the first time that a Democratic candidate has gone after a rival in a television ad, and comes just over two weeks before a primary vote that appears to be a tight race among Mr. Thompson, Mr. de Blasio and Christine C. Quinn.

Fact-Check
0:01
“Bill de Blasio’s ad lies about my position on stop-and-frisk.”

Mr. Thompson is correct to say that Mr. de Blasio’s original ad stretches the truth when the words “Only de Blasio Will End Stop-and-Frisk Targeting of Minorities” appear on screen. But Mr. de Blasio’s ad doesn’t mention Mr. Thompson, or any other candidate, by name, making the claim that Mr. de Blasio lied about Mr. Thompson debatable.

Scorecard

The ad, without saying so directly, brings race to the fore, as Mr. Thompson, who is the only African-American candidate, and Mr. de Blasio, whose wife is African-American, vie for the support of black voters. Mr. de Blasio’s advertising has featured his biracial son, Dante, and has emphasized his sharp criticism of stop-and-frisk tactics, but in this new ad, Mr. Thompson claims the issue as his own, saying, “I’ve lived it.”

And as someone who can never seem to put to rest the notion that he lacks the passion of his rivals, Mr. Thompson comes across as tougher and more forceful here, especially when he closes the spot with “That’s the truth.”


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The Ad Campaign: Lhota Brings In a Big Gun

First aired: August 25, 2013
Produced by: Wilson Grand
for: Joseph J. Lhota

Joseph J. Lhota jumped into the Republican race for mayor with the support of his former boss, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and now, a little more than two weeks before Primary Day, he is deploying Mr. Giuliani in a new 30-second advertisement, titled “Wrongly Attacked.” The ad is a response to a new attack ad by his major opponent in the Republican primary, the billionaire John A. Catsimatidis.

Fact-Check
0:11
“Joe’s opponent’s negative attacks are false, they’re desperate, and they’re just plain wrong.”

Mr. Giuliani says the attacks on Mr. Lhota are false; in fact, the critique of Mr. Lhota by Mr. Catsimatidis had some elements of truth. Mr. Lhota did sign off on higher subway fares and bridge tolls at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as Mr. Catsimatidis charged, but the increases, intended to close a budget gap, had been planned before he took over the agency. Mr. Lhota did once refer to some police officers as “mall cops,” but he was speaking specifically about officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A third claim, that Mr. Lhota “created” a job for himself, is false; Mr. Lhota was nominated to the position by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

0:20
“By my side in our most difficult time.”

When Mr. Giuliani says that Mr. Lhota was “by my side in our most difficult time,” he is referring to Sept. 11, 2001, when Mr. Lhota was his deputy mayor for operations and raced to the World Trade Center to assist the rescue effort after the terror attacks. Mr. Lhota was also Mr. Giuliani’s finance commissioner, oversaw the city budget and negotiated with government-employee unions.

Scorecard

For Mr. Lhota, it was always a question of when, not if, Mr. Giuliani would campaign by his side. Mr. Lhota remains the front-runner and the establishment favorite, but the appearance of the former mayor at this stage in the race suggests that the financial resources and aggressive campaign tactics of Mr. Catsimatidis are proving tough to ignore. Mr. Giuliani remains a divisive figure for many New Yorkers, but he is a familiar face for the small group of core Republicans expected to vote in that party’s primary on Sept. 10; this advertisement could turn some votes in Mr. Lhota’s favor.


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‘Lee Daniels\' The Butler\' Keeps Top Spot at Box Office

Forest Whitaker in Anne Marie Fox/Weinstein Company Forest Whitaker in “Lee Daniels' The Butler.”

Three new movies quietly â€" very quietly â€" arrived in theaters over the weekend as the summer blockbuster season ebbed toward its end and previously released films continued to perform well.

“Lee Daniels' The Butler” (the Weinstein Company) was the No. 1 film in North America for the second weekend in a row, taking in an estimated $17 million, for a new total of $52.3 million, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. “We're the Millers” (Warner Brothers) motored along in second place, selling about $13.5 million in tickets, for a strong three-week total of $91.7 million.

Among the newcomers, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (Sony Pictures Entertainment) fared the best, taking in about $9.3 million, for a total of $14.1 million since opening on Wednesday; it was independently financed for about $60 million. Fourth place went to “The World's End” (Focus Features), with ticket sales of about $8.9 million. Not to be confused with “This Is the End” from June, “The World's End” concludes Edgar Wright's trilogy of British comedies and cost between $20 million and $30 million to make. “Planes” (Disney) was fifth, taking in an estimated $8.6 million, for a three-week total of $59.6 million. The new micro-budgeted horror film “You're Next” (Lionsgate) couldn't crack the top five, taking in a feeble $7.1 million.



Aziz Ansari Signs to Write a Book on Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor who plays the crass but endearing Tom Haverford on “Parks and Recreation,” has struck a deal to write his first book, an examination of modern romance, his publisher said last week. The Penguin Press acquired the book, described as an “investigation” into what Mr. Ansari calls “an entirely new era for singles, in which the basic issues facing a single person- whom we meet, how we meet them, and what happens next â€" have been radically altered by new technologies.”

Scott Moyers, the publisher of the Penguin Press, said in a statement, “This will be a funny book that also shines a bright light on a whole new landscape, which incidentally concerns the future makeup of the species.” The book is tentatively scheduled for release in September 2015.



Sign-Language Interpreter Uses Newfound Fame to Advocate for the Deaf

Lydia Callis leads a sign language tour for hearing-impaired visitors at the main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Ms. Callis gained fame providing sign language interpretation for news conferences given by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the days after Hurricane Sandy.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times Lydia Callis leads a sign language tour for hearing-impaired visitors at the main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Ms. Callis gained fame providing sign language interpretation for news conferences given by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the days after Hurricane Sandy.

For a week or so around the end of October, Lydia Callis seemed to be everywhere: On television, standing just to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s right as he, then she, urged New Yorkers to stay indoors while they waited out Hurricane Sandy. On Twitter, where admirers gushed that they could watch her “for hours.” And on “Saturday Night Live” â€" in caricature form, anyway â€" in a skit even Mr. Bloomberg could not resist mentioning.

Less visible these days, but no less busy, Ms. Callis now wants to capitalize on the unexpected fame she gained as a sign-language interpreter to improve the state of services for the deaf and hard of hearing in New York, which she calls surprisingly dismal for a city with a significant deaf population and a large number of interpreters.

The first fruit of her efforts has been modest: she now leads a regular series of deaf- and hard-of-hearing-oriented tours at the New York Public Library’s flagship building on Fifth Avenue, which has begun to offer more deaf-oriented events and to hire interpreters for other events. And she has been meeting with officials at other institutions to get them to recognize what she says is the hearing world’s lack of awareness about the needs of the deaf â€" an ignorance that was underscored recently when deaf customers of Starbucks accused the coffee chain in a lawsuit of discriminating against them at two of its Manhattan locations.

With her gesticulations, wide eyes and endlessly elastic facial expressions, Ms. Callis rose to fame during Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath as millions of New Yorkers tuned in to the emergency briefings that were broadcast on what seemed like every channel.

She was called hypnotic, mesmerizing and full of “pizazz.” But she said the attention paid to her showed how little most people understand the deaf population and American Sign Language, which often depends on facial expressions and animated gestures to lend emphasis and emotion to communication.

“I was like, when is it over? Seriously, when is this going to die down? Wow, people just really don’t know much about the deaf community,” she said, recalling the time her fiancé traveled to Italy and found her notoriety had spread to perhaps the most gestural people on earth. But her celebrity also meant access to the institutions she felt had the most to learn.

There were 800,000 people with hearing disabilities in New York City in 2012, according to Victor Calise, the commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities. While several well-known facilities in the city are deaf-accessible, including Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, the mayor’s office often receives requests for better accommodations at outdoor city festivals, in theaters and in taxis, Mr. Calise said.

He said the city had fielded several inquiries from other cities about Ms. Callis’s consistent presence at Mr. Bloomberg’s side after Hurricane Sandy.

“People with deafness, the hard of hearing, are a forgotten disability because you don’t see it,” Mr. Calise said. With ambassadors like Ms. Callis, “people see it, and it’s a little bit more front and center,” he added.

Ms. Callis was born into a deaf family, and signing was her first language; not until she began preschool did she begin to adopt English. She grew up interpreting for her mother and three deaf siblings, but decided to become an interpreter only eight years ago. To that end, Ms. Callis founded an interpreting company of her own, LC Interpreting Services, and also freelances through other agencies.

Brigid Cahalan, who oversees outreach services at the library, said the initial tours received enough interest that she decided to offer them regularly this past spring. The library also plans to offer more events dedicated to the deaf, like a series of talks with deaf authors, and to provide more interpreting and closed-captioning at other events.

When she looked for interpreters for the tours, she was surprised and pleased to see that Ms. Callis had signed up for every single slot.

“Obviously, there was an eagerness here, so I was happy,” Ms. Cahalan added.

Eagerness may be an understatement, though Ms. Callis said her efforts have been stymied so far by the twin roadblocks of budget difficulties and indifference.

Advocates for the deaf have long struggled with a lack of awareness about deafness, said Jeffrey Wax, the director of the emotional health program at the Center for Hearing and Communication. Getting interpreters can be costly and time-consuming, he said, and it can be hard to gauge how often an interpreter will be needed, leading many institutions to engage interpreters on an ad hoc basis instead of hiring one full time.

Ms. Callis says American Sign Language is often mistakenly characterized as a foreign language. It is, she said, merely an alternate way of communicating. But it is also not an exact simulation of English; in part because the deaf do not hear inflections, ambient conversation and noise, idioms and jokes are often different in sign language.

Though many found her interpreting style during Mr. Bloomberg’s news conferences amusingly exaggerated, Ms. Callis said that she was simply reflecting the gravity of Mr. Bloomberg’s delivery.

“People truly have a hard time wrapping their heads around it, and that’s when the deaf community suffers,” she said, leaning forward and opening her eyes wider as if to underscore her point. “People just don’t know. Look how far we came with gay rights â€" but then we can’t get access for deaf people!”

“It’s 2013,” she said. “It’s about time.”



Aziz Ansari Signs to Write a Book on Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor who plays the crass but endearing Tom Haverford on “Parks and Recreation,” has struck a deal to write his first book, an examination of modern romance, his publisher said last week. The Penguin Press acquired the book, described as an “investigation” into what Mr. Ansari calls “an entirely new era for singles, in which the basic issues facing a single person- whom we meet, how we meet them, and what happens next - have been radically altered by new technologies.”

Scott Moyers, the publisher of the Penguin Press, said in a statement, “This will be a funny book that also shines a bright light on a whole new landscape, which incidentally concerns the future makeup of the species.” The book is tentatively scheduled for release in September 2015.



Aziz Ansari Signs to Write a Book on Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor who plays the crass but endearing Tom Haverford on “Parks and Recreation,” has struck a deal to write his first book, an examination of modern romance, his publisher said last week. The Penguin Press acquired the book, described as an “investigation” into what Mr. Ansari calls “an entirely new era for singles, in which the basic issues facing a single person- whom we meet, how we meet them, and what happens next - have been radically altered by new technologies.”

Scott Moyers, the publisher of the Penguin Press, said in a statement, “This will be a funny book that also shines a bright light on a whole new landscape, which incidentally concerns the future makeup of the species.” The book is tentatively scheduled for release in September 2015.



‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Keeps Top Spot at Box Office

Forest Whitaker in Anne Marie Fox/Weinstein Company Forest Whitaker in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”

Three new movies quietly - very quietly - arrived in theaters over the weekend as the summer blockbuster season ebbed toward its end and previously released films continued to perform well.

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (the Weinstein Company) was the No. 1 film in North America for the second weekend in a row, taking in an estimated $17 million, for a new total of $52.3 million, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. “We’re the Millers” (Warner Brothers) motored along in second place, selling about $13.5 million in tickets, for a strong three-week total of $91.7 million.

Among the newcomers, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (Sony Pictures Entertainment) fared the best, taking in about $9.3 million, for a total of $14.1 million since opening on Wednesday; it was independently financed for about $60 million. Fourth place went to “The World’s End” (Focus Features), with ticket sales of about $8.9 million. Not to be confused with “This Is the End” from June, “The World’s End” concludes Edgar Wright’s trilogy of British comedies and cost between $20 million and $30 million to make. “Planes” (Disney) was fifth, taking in an estimated $8.6 million, for a three-week total of $59.6 million. The new micro-budgeted horror film “You’re Next” (Lionsgate) couldn’t crack the top five, taking in a feeble $7.1 million.



Aug. 25: 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.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April »
Events by candidate

Albanese

De Blasio

Liu

Quinn

Thompson

Weiner

Group event


John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

12:45 p.m.
Attends the Pakistan Independence Day Parade, which runs down Madison Avenue from 37th Street to 23rd Street.

2 p.m.
Attends the Latin Women in Action’s annual back-to-school festival, along with several other candidates, in Corona, Queens.

3:30 p.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

8 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, where an opponent, Anthony D. Weiner, spoke two weeks ago.

9 a.m.
Delivers remarks at Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

10 a.m.
Speaks at the Elim International Fellowship Cathedral, where John C. Liu and William C. Thompson Jr. have spoken in the past month.

11 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Anthony D. Weiner spoke earlier in the day.

1 p.m.
Attends a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

10 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Antioch Baptist Church in Harlem, whose pastor endorsed him in July. Bill de Blasio and Anthony D. Weiner spoke at the church last Sunday.

10:40 a.m.
Delivers remarks at Saint Anthony Bapitst Church in Brooklyn.

11:15 a.m.
Speaks at the Full Gospel Assembly Church of Queens in Richmond Hill.

12 p.m.
Addresses congregants at the Church of God of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, where William C. Thompson Jr. spoke in July.

1:15 p.m.
Marches in the Brooklyn Dominican Day Parade, which runs along Graham Avenue from Metropolitan Avenue to Broadway in Brooklyn.

1:45 p.m.
Attends the Pakistan Independence Day Parade, which runs down Madison Avenue from 37th Street to 23rd Street.

2:40 p.m.
Delivers remarks at the Latin Women in Action’s annual back-to-school festival, attended by several other candidates, in Corona, Queens.

3:15 p.m.
Attends Family Day at the Housing Authority’s Pomonok Houses, two hours after Anthony D. Weiner visits the event, on Parsons Boulevard in Queens.

3:30 p.m.
Makes the first of two local business tours of the day, and stops by a get-out-the-vote rally, in Flushing, Queens.

4:45 p.m.
Stops by an open house at his Bronx borough campaign office on Jerome Avenue.

5:30 p.m.
Tours businesses along Liberty Avenue and stops at a get-out-the-vote rally in Richmond Hill, Queens.

6:30 p.m.
Celebrates the Hindu holiday of Janmashtami at the Baps Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a temple in Flushing, Queens.

6:45 p.m.
Attends the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Society’s annual banquet at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Queens.

7:35 p.m.
Attends the U.S. Bangladeshi Social Organization’s annual convention at White Park in Upper Manhattan.

8:30 p.m.
Attends a reception for the Eng Suey Sun Association, a fraternal society that was founded more than a century ago, at Delight 28 in Chinatown.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

10:30 a.m.
Attends services at First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, a church that celebrated its 60th anniversary in May, during which Bill de Blasio and John C. Liu addressed congregants.

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

10:30 a.m.
Attends services at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans in Queens.

11:45 a.m.
Attends services at the Greater Springfield Community Church in Jamaica, Queens, whose pastor, the Rev. Phil Craig, endorsed John C. Liu in July.

12:30 p.m.
Attends services at the Greater Rescue Church of Christ in Jamaica, Queens, where he missed a barbecue he had planned to attend last Saturday.

1:30 p.m.
Helps hand out school supplies at the Street Fair School Supplies Give Away, sponsored by the Brown Community Development Corporation and Brown Memorial Church, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

2:30 p.m.
Attends the Afro-Punk Street Festival, a music and street fete that prides itself on offering alternative visions of diversity. His visit will correspond with performances by D.J. Moma and the alternative-rap group MeatLoaf Muzik.

5:10 p.m.
Attends the Bangladeshi Cultural Street Fair in Woodside, Queens.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where a rival, Bill de Blasio, plannned to speak later in the morning.

11:15 a.m.
Greets voters at the North Shore Towers and Country Club, a residential cooperative in Floral Park, Queens.

12:30 p.m.
Speaks at New Bethel Ministries in Queens.

1:15 p.m.
Stops in at a family-day event at New York City Housing Authority’s Pomonok Houses in Queens.

2:20 p.m.
Addresses voters at a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

3:15 p.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

12:30 p.m.
Attends a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

11 a.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

1 p.m.
Marches in the Brooklyn Dominican Day Parade, which runs along Graham Avenue from Metropolitan Avenue to Broadway in Brooklyn.



Aug. 25: 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.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April »
Events by candidate

Albanese

De Blasio

Liu

Quinn

Thompson

Weiner

Group event


John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

12:45 p.m.
Attends the Pakistan Independence Day Parade, which runs down Madison Avenue from 37th Street to 23rd Street.

2 p.m.
Attends the Latin Women in Action’s annual back-to-school festival, along with several other candidates, in Corona, Queens.

3:30 p.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

8 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, where an opponent, Anthony D. Weiner, spoke two weeks ago.

9 a.m.
Delivers remarks at Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

10 a.m.
Speaks at the Elim International Fellowship Cathedral, where John C. Liu and William C. Thompson Jr. have spoken in the past month.

11 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Anthony D. Weiner spoke earlier in the day.

1 p.m.
Attends a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

10 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Antioch Baptist Church in Harlem, whose pastor endorsed him in July. Bill de Blasio and Anthony D. Weiner spoke at the church last Sunday.

10:40 a.m.
Delivers remarks at Saint Anthony Bapitst Church in Brooklyn.

11:15 a.m.
Speaks at the Full Gospel Assembly Church of Queens in Richmond Hill.

12 p.m.
Addresses congregants at the Church of God of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, where William C. Thompson Jr. spoke in July.

1:15 p.m.
Marches in the Brooklyn Dominican Day Parade, which runs along Graham Avenue from Metropolitan Avenue to Broadway in Brooklyn.

1:45 p.m.
Attends the Pakistan Independence Day Parade, which runs down Madison Avenue from 37th Street to 23rd Street.

2:40 p.m.
Delivers remarks at the Latin Women in Action’s annual back-to-school festival, attended by several other candidates, in Corona, Queens.

3:15 p.m.
Attends Family Day at the Housing Authority’s Pomonok Houses, two hours after Anthony D. Weiner visits the event, on Parsons Boulevard in Queens.

3:30 p.m.
Makes the first of two local business tours of the day, and stops by a get-out-the-vote rally, in Flushing, Queens.

4:45 p.m.
Stops by an open house at his Bronx borough campaign office on Jerome Avenue.

5:30 p.m.
Tours businesses along Liberty Avenue and stops at a get-out-the-vote rally in Richmond Hill, Queens.

6:30 p.m.
Celebrates the Hindu holiday of Janmashtami at the Baps Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a temple in Flushing, Queens.

6:45 p.m.
Attends the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Society’s annual banquet at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Queens.

7:35 p.m.
Attends the U.S. Bangladeshi Social Organization’s annual convention at White Park in Upper Manhattan.

8:30 p.m.
Attends a reception for the Eng Suey Sun Association, a fraternal society that was founded more than a century ago, at Delight 28 in Chinatown.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

10:30 a.m.
Attends services at First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, a church that celebrated its 60th anniversary in May, during which Bill de Blasio and John C. Liu addressed congregants.

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

10:30 a.m.
Attends services at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans in Queens.

11:45 a.m.
Attends services at the Greater Springfield Community Church in Jamaica, Queens, whose pastor, the Rev. Phil Craig, endorsed John C. Liu in July.

12:30 p.m.
Attends services at the Greater Rescue Church of Christ in Jamaica, Queens, where he missed a barbecue he had planned to attend last Saturday.

1:30 p.m.
Helps hand out school supplies at the Street Fair School Supplies Give Away, sponsored by the Brown Community Development Corporation and Brown Memorial Church, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

2:30 p.m.
Attends the Afro-Punk Street Festival, a music and street fete that prides itself on offering alternative visions of diversity. His visit will correspond with performances by D.J. Moma and the alternative-rap group MeatLoaf Muzik.

5:10 p.m.
Attends the Bangladeshi Cultural Street Fair in Woodside, Queens.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9 a.m.
Addresses congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where a rival, Bill de Blasio, plannned to speak later in the morning.

11:15 a.m.
Greets voters at the North Shore Towers and Country Club, a residential cooperative in Floral Park, Queens.

12:30 p.m.
Speaks at New Bethel Ministries in Queens.

1:15 p.m.
Stops in at a family-day event at New York City Housing Authority’s Pomonok Houses in Queens.

2:20 p.m.
Addresses voters at a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

3:15 p.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

12:30 p.m.
Attends a first-anniversary celebration for the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush Community Service Office in Brooklyn.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

11 a.m.
Attends the 37th Annual Brighton Jubilee Festival, hosted by the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association, along Brighton Beach Avenue in Brooklyn.

1 p.m.
Marches in the Brooklyn Dominican Day Parade, which runs along Graham Avenue from Metropolitan Avenue to Broadway in Brooklyn.



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Exhibition of Sicilian Antiquities Will Proceed at Cleveland Museum

An exhibition of ancient treasures from Sicily that had been abruptly canceled last month is back on the fall schedule of the Cleveland Museum of Art after the museum and Sicilian officials ironed out a dispute over money.

The show, “Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome,” had been at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and was scheduled to open in Cleveland on Sept. 29, when Sicilian officials complained that the absence of its treasured artifacts was hurting the Italian island's tourism.

Culture officials on the island complained in particular about the absence of two items, a six-foot-tall statue of a charioteer and a gold libation bowl. Sicilian officials had initially tried to extract more than the agreed upon amount of reimbursement from the Cleveland museum, but officials there demurred and the show was canceled. But on Friday, the museum said the exhibition was back on and “coming to Cleveland under terms that are consistent with the agreements previously reached.”

To sweeten the deal, the museum has agreed to lend several masterworks from the museum's Italian art collection, including Caravaggio's “Crucifixion of Saint Andrew,” for an exhibition in Sicily in 2015. “Our discussions with the government of Sicily resulted in a very favorable agreement that will benefit both the museum and the Sicilian public,” David Franklin, the museum's director, said in a statement.



Popcast: Gary Burton, Resurgent Jazz Outsider

The pianist Chick Corea, left, and Gary Burton, who have won six Grammy Awards together.Jonathan Chong The pianist Chick Corea, left, and Gary Burton, who have won six Grammy Awards together.

If you're only a casual listener to jazz, and not a vibraphonist, Gary Burton may not be a big name to you. But he's probably had more to do with the development of jazz over the last 50 years than you think as a player (he developed the widely used four-mallet Burton Grip for the vibraphone); a mentor (to Pat Metheny, for starters); a conceptual inspiration (to Bill Frisell, among others, through the way he incorporated country and rock into his music during the late '60s); and a longtime teacher and administrator at Berklee College of Music.

Mr. Burton, now 70, recently released “Guided Tour,” one of his best records in years, with the New Gary Burton Quartet. He has also just published a candid autobiography, “Learning to Listen.” As Nate Chinen, a jazz critic for The Times, tells the host Ben Ratliff, the book explains much about coming to jazz as an outsider several times over - a white Midwestern vibraphonist, but also as a gay man who didn't come out publicly until the mid-'90s.

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Screenwriter Questions Whether Tchaikovsky Was Gay, Sparking Furor in Russia

MOSCOW - A prominent Russian screenwriter working on a film about Tchaikovsky's life that has just received state financing set off a firestorm this week by saying that the biopic would not focus on the composer's sexuality because “it is far from a fact that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual.”

“Only philistines think this,” the screenwriter, Yuri Arabov, told the newspaper Izvestia of the commonly accepted view of Tchaikovsky's sexual orientation. “What philistines believe should not be shown in films.”

Mr. Arabov, who is known for his screenplays for films by Alexander Sokurov about the inner lives of Lenin, Hitler and Emperor Hirohito, told the newspaper in an interview published Aug. 20 that the movie, which is called “Tchaikovsky” and scheduled for release in 2015, would show Russia's most revered composer as a man who “is marked by rumors and suffers greatly from this.”

Contemporary scholars still debate how Tchaikovsky died, with some claiming that he was driven to suicide out of torment over his sexuality. For decades, the cause of death was reported as cholera.

Mr. Arabov's comments came amid the continuing controversy over anti-gay legislation passed in Russia recently that has prompted calls for boycotts against Russian goods and for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be relocated. The Games are scheduled to open in the Russian resort city of Sochi in February.

In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and the International Olympic Committee this month, the British actor Stephen Fry compared Russia to Nazi Germany and claimed that referring to Tchaikovsky as gay was regarded as a crime in Russia.

“Any statement, for example, that Tchaikovsky was gay and that his art and life reflects this sexuality and are an inspiration to other gay artists would be punishable by imprisonment,” he wrote.

This week, Wentworth Miller, who starred on the Fox television show “Prison Break,” turned down an invitation to a film festival in St. Petersburg, writing to the festival's director that he could not participate in an event in “a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.”

Mr. Arabov told Izvestia that he would “not sign my name to a film that advertises homosexuality.” He said his aversion was “not because I don't have a gay friend, but because this is outside the sphere of art.”

“Tchaikovsky” is being directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, one of the most successful theater and film directors in post-Soviet Russia, who has so far managed both to criticize the government and to secure state financing.

Russia's culture ministry has stressed that it is interested in patriotic films that will help Russia's image, and infuriated some liberals by turning down a World War II-themed film by Alexander Mindadze, a veteran film director. On Friday, a historian who serves on a military advisory board to the ministry told the Interfax news agency that Mr. Mindadze had been persuaded to shift the film's chronology to avoid historical inaccuracies.

On Wednesday, Mr Serebrennikov posted what he described as a synopsis of a film about Tchaikovsky, describing it as “the true story of the tragic love and death of the brilliant Russian composer,” in which he runs into his first love at a ball only to find that she is married. When she finally leaves her husband, the composer dies of cholera with her at his side.

One commentator noted that this was the synopsis of “Es War Eine Rauschende Ballnacht,” a 1939 German film about Tchaikovsky. In English, the title is “It Was a Gay Ballnight.”

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: August 23, 2013

An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of the reporter. She is Sophia Kishkovsky, not Kishkovksy.



New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot\'

Chris Sullivan (in beige) and Dave Hansen (in grey) in Jill Steinberg Chris Sullivan (in beige) and Dave Hansen (in grey) in “Waiting for Waiting for Godot.”

Reviews of shows from the New York International Fringe Festival will appear on ArtsBeat through the festival's close on Aug. 25. For more information, go to fringenyc.org.

Two guys on a road waiting for a man they've never met who never comes? Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot,” of course. Two understudies backstage waiting for their chance to go on - a seriously unlikely prospect - in a production of “Waiting for Godot”? That is Dave Hanson's delectable “Waiting for Waiting for Godot.”

It would be a crime against absurdist-theatrical nature to make the abstractions of Beckett's masterpiece concrete. But Mr. Hanson's play gets away with pretending to be a parody, so we forgive it - even for having the nerve to provide a resolution.

Chris Sullivan has the showier role as Ester (Estragon in the original), a big guy who pretends to know everything. He decides to teach Val (played with convincing delicacy here by Mr. Hanson) the Miserly acting technique, which consists of repeating the other actor's line ad infinitum, and the Mamet, the art of cursing onstage.

Half the joke is that Ester pronounces the name Mam-may, and pretty much everyone in the audience knows that David Mamet's surname rhymes with “damn it.” Yes, this is catnip for theater insiders, but you don't have to be one to appreciate certain comments on Juilliard and talent agents.

“Waiting for Waiting for Godot” is richly, vibrantly, aggressively acted, and directed in kind by Alex Harvey. Even Amy Weaver, who appears briefly as the assistant stage manager, is memorable, doing what amounts to a dramatic reading of lighting cues.

“Waiting for Waiting for Godot” continues through Sunday at the Kraine Theater, 85 East Fourth Street, East Village.



New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Very Bad Words\'

The New York International Fringe Festival concludes on Aug. 25. For more information, go to fringenyc.org.

American middle education is pilloried in Jacob Presson's “Very Bad Words,” a bristling portrait of vanity, ambition and prejudice at an upper-middle-class Massachusetts high school.

Before the action begins, Emily Auciello's dissonant sound design - blasts of Jay-Z, Machinedrum and Major Lazer - effectively anticipates the coming strife. Then we meet the effusive, cocky Will (PJ Adzima), the haughty Taylor (Olivia Macklin) and the comparatively sympathetic Steve (Adam Warwinsky), who think the world of themselves. Enraged at being called out in class for tormenting a peer, they scrawl a gay slur on a locker, a predatory prank generating dire results.

The play's ingratiating glimpses of youthful insolence evolve into a scathing rendering of diamond-hard selfishness, especially from the tireless Mr. Adzima (“Don't hesitate, just execute,” Will says). In Ms. Macklin's cool performance, we learn that men have no monopoly on callous indifference. Mr. Warwinsky ably channels the audience's dismay.

Mr. Presson, a junior at Marymount Manhattan College, started on “Very Bad Words” in high school, and his obscenity-infused script brims with adolescent authenticity. The ages of the players - theater majors at Marymount and Fordham College at Lincoln Center - add further verisimilitude, while the direction, by the Fordham graduate Jake Ahlquist, is unflaggingly brisk. Despite an abrupt ending and a cliché or two, the conviction from all the participants offers a most heartening promise.

“Very Bad Words” continues through Saturday at Teatro SEA, 107 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side.

A version of this article appears in print on 08/24/2013, on page C4 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Very Bad Words.