Hollywood Players

On the Street | In the Wind

The Preservation Society of Newport County invited the Coaching Club to hold a weekend of drives at the celebrated estates and gardens. The code of dress for guests on the coaches: hats for everyone.

Podcast: Music

Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic, moderates a round table about Woodstock at 40. Joining him are three reporters who braved the mud and the music for The Times in 1969: Michael Kaufman, Barnard Collier and Mike Jahn. Sia Michel is the host.

Abroad

Michael Kimmelman on culture and society in Europe and beyond.

Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Screen

Spike Jonze is known for making videos and movies his way — fast, cheap and dirty — but adapting a classic book turned out to be slow, expensive and very complicated.

Long and Winding Road, Newly Repaved

For those of us for whom the music is paramount — the newly remastered CDs of the Beatles’ original albums and singles, not the Rock Band video game, are really the main event.

All Together Now: Play the Game, Mom

The Beatles: Rock Band reinterprets an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another.

After 72 Years, Springfield Gets a Stop Sign

“Guiding Light,” broadcasting’s longest-running scripted program, will go dark after 15,762 televised episodes.

Still Seduced by All That Glitters

Despite the recession, jewelry has been doing brilliantly at auction for months, setting world records and attracting buyers at all levels.

Bullets, Buttocks and Button Pushing

“Gamer,” a futuristic vomitorium of bad taste, is set in a society where pornographic and punitive fantasies are indulged through online games featuring live avatars.

Rude, Crude and Coming to a Theater Near You

On Thursday, the author and blogger Tucker Max was in New York to screen a sneak preview of “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” adapted from his defiantly boorish book of the same title.

On a Grim Island, a Caped

Batman: Arkham Asylum may not provide the definitive superhero experience, but it is the finest comic-book game yet and one of the best video games of the year.

Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture

The company provoked outrage among designers when it replaced its version of the famed font Futura with the computer-screen font Verdana in its 2010 catalog.

N.B.A. Star, Now Memoirist, on Hometown Court

“Shooting Stars,” a memoir LeBron James has written with Buzz Bissinger, tracks his career at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, a place he still visits regularly.

Hollywood Players Vie to Tell DeLorean’s Story

The movie industry is eying an epic pileup of projects featuring a somewhat unlikely new film hero: the renegade automotive entrepreneur John Z. DeLorean.

From 12 Ropes and Bells

Trinity Church is the focus of the American bell-ringing world this week, as the annual meeting of the North American Guild of Change Ringers brings classes and ringing performances.