Cat on a Leash

Victor Kerlow

Dear Diary:

Starting my walk home the balmy afternoon of Aug. 14 on West 85th Street, I spied a man with a cat on a leash.

Just the idea was funny enough for me, but the man was slumped against the wall, clearly exhausted, while the cat sat nearby, calmly washing her face.

I guess the cat won.

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Sept. 1: 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

De Blasio

Lhota

Liu

McDonald

Quinn

Salgado

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

11 a.m.
Attends the Flatbush Jewish Community Center’s Community Leadership Event at Young Israel of Midwood on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

11 a.m.
On a day in which the mayoral candidates will make at least 20 appearances at Sunday services across the city, Mr. de Blasio addresses the congregation of First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in Brooklyn.

4 p.m.
Speaks before the finals at the Caribbean Cup Soccer Tournament at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. Youths from St. Lucia, last year’s winner, will play against Jamaica, 2011’s winner, in the championship game.

John C. Liu
Democrat

8:45 a.m.
Kicks off his second straight day of five-borough campaigning by addressing the congregation of New Life Cathedral in Brooklyn, the first of five congregations he intends to address on the day.

10 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of Mount Sinai Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

11:15 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of International Pentecostal City Mission in Brooklyn.

11:40 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of Pentecostal House of Prayer in Brooklyn.

12:30 p.m.
Addresses the congregation of Christ Assembly Lutheran Church on Staten Island.

1:10 p.m.
Addresses the Staten Island Gurdwara on Oregon Avenue.

2 p.m.
Attends the Richmond County Fair at Historic Richmond Town on Clarke Avenue, Staten Island.

3:15 p.m.
Attends the Coalition for a District Alternative’s annual picnic at the Orchard Alley Community Gardens on East Fourth Street in Alphabet City. The organization endorsed Mr. Liu in May.

3:45 p.m.
Greets residents of the Esplanade Gardens Co-Op on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem.

4:30 p.m.
Accepts an endorsement from the Committee of 100 Democrats at 205th Street in the Bronx. Mr. Liu attended the political club’s annual picnic on Aug. 24.

5 p.m.
Greets voters at Orchard Beach in the Bronx.

7 p.m.
Attends a get-out-the-vote rally with the Bangladeshi community in Queens.

8:30 p.m.
Attends the annual Back-to-School Praise Jam, hosted by Primrose Ministries, at Beulah Church of God Seventh Day in Brooklyn.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

11 a.m.
Attends the Flatbush Jewish Community Center’s Community Leadership Event at Young Israel of Midwood on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.

2 p.m.
Visits with small businesses along 72nd Street in Woodside, Queens.

3:30 p.m.
Attends the American Legion Post 157’s picnic in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

5 p.m.
Attends the American Legion Post 1636’s picnic in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

8 a.m.
Attends services at East Ward Missionary Baptist Church in Harlem, the first of three churches Ms. Quinn intends to visit in the morning.

9:30 a.m.
Attends services at Antioch Baptist Church of Harlem.

10:30 a.m.
Attends services at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem.

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

7:50 a.m.
Begins a day of campaigning in Brooklyn by adddressing the congregation of Cornerstone Baptist Church, the first of six congregations he intends to address before 1 p.m. in Brooklyn.

9 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.

10 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.

10:40 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

11:25 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of Vandeveer Park United Methodist Church in Brooklyn.

12:20 p.m.
Addresses the congregation of Christ the Rock International Ministries in Brooklyn.

10 p.m.
Campaigns at the Caribbean Fever Music Festival, featuring Damian Marley and other performers, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

11 p.m.
Attends the Panorama Steel Band Competition, as part of the 46th Annual West Indian American carnival weekend, at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn. This is the third consecutive day Mr. Thompson will have visited an event associated with the festival.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

10:15 a.m.
Addresses the congregation of the Vision Celestial Church in Brooklyn, the first of three congregations he intends to address today.

11:30 a.m.
Visits with residents at the Boro Park Senior Citizen Center on 11th Avenue in Brooklyn.

12:15 p.m.
Two hours after William C. Thompson Jr. addresses the same congregation, Mr. Weiner makes his pitch before the congregation of St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, the second of three congregations he intends to address today.

12:45 p.m.
Addresses the congregation of Haitian Methodist Church in Brookyn.

1:30 p.m.
Meets with voters along Avenue J in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

2 p.m.
Meets with voters along Avenue M in Coney Island.

George T. McDonald
Republican

10 a.m.
Addresses the congregation at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.

11:15 a.m.
Attends the Flatbush Jewish Community Center’s Community Leadership Event at Young Israel of Midwood on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

10 a.m.
Continues his second straight day of caravanning by truck, with stops in Williamsburg, Bushwick and East New York, Brooklyn.

In Telluride, a Peak at ‘Gravity’

TELLURIDE, Colo. â€" In its 40th year, the Telluride Film Festival has added an extra day and a new site, the 650-seat Werner Herzog, housed in an ice rink at the edge of town and named for the German director who has been a regular presence here for most of the festival’s history. The Herzog was the scene Saturday night of the first North American showing of “Gravity,” which arrived from the Venice Film Festival on a vapor trail of excited buzz.

“Gravity,” which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts stranded, like David Bowie’s Major Tom, far above the world, brought a shot of pure, giddy entertainment to this high-altitude gathering of serious-minded cinephiles. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron from a script he wrote with his son Jonas, the film uses 3D to evoke the feeling of weightlessness experienced by the characters. It also brings some of the wonder and mystery back to cinematic space, inviting comparisons to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001” and Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” and making most recent science-fiction epics seem clumsy and earthbound by comparison.

Another movie about the fight for survival in a hostile environment, J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost,” has drawn crowds here, as have the tributes to the film’s starâ€"and only cast memberâ€"Robert Redford. Mr. Redford, playing an unnamed man on a foundering sailboat in the Indian Ocean, utters barely a word in “All Is Lost,” which anchors an allegory of human survival within an intensely practical story of desperate troubleshooting.

While it is considered somewhat gauche to speak of the Oscars here in the San Juan mountains on Labor Day weekend, the fact is that the last three Best Picture winners (“Argo,” “The Kings Speech” and “The Artist”) encountered their first North American audiences here. Mr. Redford’s name is already at the top of any list of presumptive best actor nominees, and it is likely to be joined by Chiwetel Ejiofor, the star of Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave,” which arrived in Telluride as a sneak preview.

Based on a memoir by Solomon Northup, a free black resident of New York state kidnapped into slavery in 1841, “12 Years” is by far the most ambitious of Mr. McQueen’s three features (“Hunger” and “Shame” are the others) and an impressive blend of radical and conventional movie techniques. Its violence is appropriately harsh, given Mr. McQueen’s determination to illustrate the full cruelty of American slavery, but it is also emotionally accessible and thought-provoking in a way that should engage audiences and extend the discussions about race and film that have rippled around “The Help,” “Django Unchained,” “Lincoln” and more recently “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”