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Watch the Jets and Yankees try to do big things and also, while you can, Jose Reyes

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People might assume that because I’m a Mets fan, the only thing I have to look forward to this fall is the ongoing, painful-to-watch decline of the of the team's ownership.

But the glorious thing about New York's diverse sporting scene is how many opportunities there will be to enjoy the roar of the crowd between court hearings. In fact, hardly a day will go by this fall without the pleasure of first-rate sports entertainment for the discriminating fan. More

By Howard Megdal

September 9, 2011 7:28 am

 

The last opera director standing

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Strassberger is a director of opera, and only of opera. That is a rare thing these days—particularly for a young artist and particularly in America—at a time when opera companies are more and more likely to poach directors from theater and film. From Strassberger's perspective, it's a mixed blessing. More

By Zachary Woolfe

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July 27, 2010 8:11 am