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Video: San Francisco Welcomes Frugal Baby
Audio Slide Show: Shadows of the Bowery
Dan Barry on the characters that color the rich history of the Bowery.
Frugal San Francisco
By MATT GROSS
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Local parents suggested the California Academy of Sciences and its Steinhart Aquarium for a visit with a child.
Are the hills too steep for a stroller? Are the costs too high for a dad on a budget? Not if you’re the Frugal Traveler on a father-daughter vacation.
Video: On the Street | In Paris
A fresh language for 21st-century dress popped up here and there last week during the Paris fashion shows.
Starring... City Island
A brief history of City Island on the big screen, culled by Barbara Burn Dolensek, of The Island Current.
A Home Steeped in Family History
Delphi and Norman Harrington have lived for nearly three decades in a mazy apartment on West 90th Street off Broadway.
Local Stop: South Norwalk
South Norwalk, Conn., has all the necessary components of a quick day trip: dining, shopping, entertainment and a good place to buy chocolates. Easy access via the Metro-North Railroad, too.
The Week in Culture Pictures, March 12
A slide show of photographs of cultural events from the week.
Interactive Feature: Living in Old Hill, Conn.
Old Hill, a well-to-do enclave of Westport, is as unequivocally aged as its name indicates. But the landscape feature that most obviously asserts itself is water: ponds like Nash’s and Cypress, and other pools too small to be named.
Photo Replay: March 12
A view of the day in sports, including cycling in Pakistan and World Cup skiing in Germany.
Interactive Feature: Anatomy of a Scene: ‘Mother’
Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director, narrates a scene from his film.
The Rise and Fall of Desiree Rogers
Party crashers at a state dinner dealt the final blow to Desirée Rogers’ position as White House social secretary. But tension had been brewing well before.
Enduring Cold With the Hope of a Hot Dinner
Ice fishing 15 miles from the nearest road in Ontario, Canada.
Photo Replay: March 11
A view of the day in sports, in which a skier left his sport without his tights.
Masterpiece-Worthy Dining in Paris
New museum restaurants pair ambitious dishes with panoramic views.
Life as a Runway | The Artworks Were Walking
The Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary celebration last week was a magnet for fashion extremists.
Souvenirs From a Long, Strange Trip
The new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society explores a newly available archive of the Grateful Dead.
Sniffing Out Bedbugs
A day in the life of Cruiser, a bedbug-sniffing puggle, and his handler, Jeremy Ecker, the owner of Bed Bug Inspectors.
Brooklyn Apartment: A Décor With Provenance
Inside the Brooklyn one-bedroom that is a live-work space for the architects Robert Highsmith and Stefanie Brechbuehler.
Jones Makes W.N.B.A. Comeback
The former sprinter Marion Jones signed a contract to play for the Tulsa Shock of the W.N.B.A.
Photo Replay: March 10
A view of the day in sports, from the snows of the Winter X Games Europe to a Cactus League baseball game in Arizona.
Graphic: 13 Days of Aftershocks
The timeline shows the magnitude of all aftershocks that have rocked Chile.
United Tastes
Audio Slide Show: Breakfast Anytime: Tamale House, Austin, Tex.
The proprietor of this local standby, which has sold breakfast tacos since the 1970s, narrates a look inside.
Interactive Feature: Trendspotting | Futuristic Visions
Designers in Paris seemed tuned to a frequency from cyberspace, steeped in sci-fi references.
Trendspotting | Pantsuits
Photo Replay: March 9
A view of the day in sports, full of winter sports and even a soccer game in the snow in Japan.
A Setting Sun?
Puertollano’s brief solar boom has turned bust, pointing to the delicate policy calculations needed to stimulate nascent solar industries and create green jobs.
Interactive Feature: Madison Avenue's Moon Shot
Selected aviation industry advertisements that revisit a time when outer space reigned.
Superheroes Take New York in a Single Bound
A look back at some of the comic book characters who have taken on the city.
Graphic: Putting Google to the Test in Translation
Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Here are some quick comparisons of human translations and computerized versions from Google and two competitors.
Oscars: Red Carpet Fashion
Looks from the red carpet before the 82nd Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.
Academy Award Winners
"The Hurt Locker," Jeff Bridges and Mo'Nique were among the winners at the 2010 Academy Awards.
Deal Sets Back Everglades Restoration
The price tag and terms of Florida's deal with a major landowner will likely set back Everglades restoration for years or even decades.
Photographs: Iraqis Vote in Spite of Attacks
In a pivotal test of Iraq's democracy, Iraqis went to the polls in large numbers despite a wave of bombings across the country.
Audio Slide Show: A Sense of 'The Nose'
William Kentridge and Paulo Szot talk about the Met’s production of Shostakovich’s opera.
Among the Ruins, Education Is Also Lost
Children in Haiti are languishing in camps or working in menial jobs because thousands of schools in and around the devastated capital of the country could remain closed for months or never reopen.
Inside Scientology
A tour of the Church of Scientology’s international spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Fla.
Joy Amid Destruction
Those with skills, strength and luck will be the ones to thrive after Haiti’s destruction, while small, handmade treasures will bring some measure of joy.
Metrics
Graphic: A Banking Battleground
Despite the power of big banks, small institutions still dominate huge swaths of the country and hold nearly half of bank deposits overall.
Photographs: Tigers in Peril
Could this Chinese Year of the Tiger be the last one with actual tigers still afoot in the world’s wild?
Video: On the Street | The Loop
A lot of New Yorkers chase off the winter blues with cleverly tied scarves or variations on the scarf.
Interactive Feature: Scenes From a Nomination
Clips of the acting nominees and best picture nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards.
Detroit’s Iconic Ruins
Detroit is debating how best to save Michigan Central Station, a gracious relic of the industrial age that has been idle and deteriorating for more than 20 years.
Same War, New Theater
“The Pacific,” an HBO mini-series set in World War II by the team behind 2001’s “Band of Brothers,” follows three real-life Marines from Pearl Harbor to homecoming after V-J Day.
Met Guards Are True Artists
An exhibition at a gallery on Central Park West in Manhattan features works created by guards from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Map: Filmed in New York: An Oscar Tour
“Precious" and “Julie & Julia,” both nominated for Oscars, and “Doubt” and “The Visitor,” nominated last year, were shot in New York.
Women in Uniform
As modern peacekeeping has evolved, the number of female police officers in U.N. missions around the world has doubled during the past five years.
Video: Teaching Techniques
Doug Lemov, founder of the charter-school network Uncommon Schools, analyzes methods that effective teachers from around the country use to engage students.
Living in Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill, a Brooklyn hamlet a few blocks long and a few wide, is nudged into a corner of the waterfront that seems, at least in part, forgotten by time.
Local Stop: Bryant Park
Though Fashion Week has taken its leave of Bryant Park, the fashion-addicted among us still have many reasons to visit the neighborhood.
In Her Opinion...
Joan Rivers’s comments about celebrities’ red-carpet looks at recent awards shows.
Audio Slide Show: Singing the Suffering of Haiti
A singer-songwriter named Beken, unable to compose any music since an earthquake devastated his country on Jan. 12, finds his voice again.
Film’s Influence on Fashion, Then and Now
Costumes can be protagonists, as in these Hollywood classics.
The 7th Annual Great Performers in Film
This year's stars and on-screen couples, five actresses who broke through in 2009 and nine days on the road with Jeff Bridges.
Inside the Action
The Snowboard Halfpipe
The United States halfpipe coach, Mike Jankowski, explains the snap, grabs and “big air” of an Olympic halfpipe run.
Olympic Stars of Yesteryear
Photographs by DAN WINTERS
Nine legends remember the Games and describe life after competition.
A Growing Risk in Haiti
The problem of human waste disposal has become impossible to overlook in Port-au-Prince, with the stench of decomposing bodies replaced by that of excrement.
Scenes From a Ruined Boulevard
A view of the destruction along a quarter-mile stretch
of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the main commercial arteries in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Orphanages in Haiti
Since the earthquake, chronic problems in Haiti's orphanages -- like inadequate services and overwhelming poverty -- have only intensified.
Giving Birth in Haiti
Haitians must wait in line to give birth in a tent in the wake of the earthquake that hit the country more than two weeks ago.
Haiti Earthquake Multimedia
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the desperation in Haiti after a powerful earthquake devastated the country on Jan. 12.
Memories of Sugar Hill
Stories of people who grew up in a part of Harlem in the 1930s and ’40s and found success all around them.
Tell Us the Best Places to Go in 2010
Where do you want to travel? What are your favorite spots? Share your recommendations and comments on our global map.
A Peek Into Netflix Queues
Examine maps of Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities across the nation.
2009: The Year in Pictures
A collection of the most gripping, and poignant, photographs of 2009, as selected by the editors of The New York Times.
The 9th Annual Year in Ideas
From A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations from all corners of the thinking world.
A Conflicted Mission in Congo
United Nations peacekeepers have an especially difficult task in Congo because the two main tenets of their mission — protecting civilians and helping the Congolese Army wipe out rebel forces — often collide.
Timeline: The Selling of the Cellphone — and Warnings Unheeded
Since 1984, when car phones came into fashion, they were quickly marketed to drivers as a means to mobile freedom.
Part One
7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity
A series about the Taliban kidnapping of The Times's David Rohde and his two Afghan colleagues.
Flipped: Inside the Private Equity Game
A look at how private equity dealmakers can win while their companies, like Simmons Bedding, lose.
The Family Tree of Michelle Obama, the First Lady
New revelations have emerged recently from the research of Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist, and from reporting by Jodi Kantor and Rachel L. Swarns of The New York Times.
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.
Gauging Your Distraction
A game illustrates the potential consequences of distractions like texting on your driving ability.
Talk to the Newsroom
Talk to The Times: One in 8 Million
The staff members involved with One in 8 Million answered questions.
Talk to the Newsroom: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally
Michele McNally, who oversees photography, answered questions from readers.
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