1. Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax
The serene portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that hung for 32 years in the Illinois governors mansion, and the touching tale accompanying it, are false.
2. Music Review: Guns N Roses, on Stage in Unchanging Fashion
Axl Rose, who turned 50 on Monday, clung to his bombastic, outmoded brand of rock and felt no need to modernize it on Friday night at the Roseland Ballroom.
3. Phantom of the Opera Reaches 10,000th Broadway Performance
The Phantom of the Opera will have its 10,000th Broadway performance on Saturday, thanks to persistent marketing, quality control and smart pricing.
4. Museum Review: Lincoln Museum at Expanded Fords Theater Complex
In 2009 the first part of a formal Lincoln tribute opened at the renovated Fords Theater; now a 10-story Center for Education and Leadership is opening across the street.
5. Video Game Review: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, From 38 Studios
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the fantasy role-playing game that is the first release from Curt Schillings 38 Studios, defies expectations.
6. Critics Notebook: TV Kisses Lose Impact They Had in Sammy Davis Jr.s Day
There is plenty of smooching on television but the high-impact kiss that lingers for years in the cultural memory, like the Archie Bunker-Sammy Davis Jr. moment, seems to be extinct.
7. Television Review | 'Comic Book Men': Kevin Smiths Comic Book Men on AMC
Comic Book Men is an AMC reality series about the filmmaker Kevin Smiths comic shop. Seriously.
8. Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room
The band Tune-Yards, led by Merrill Garbus, began playing at the Allen Room and finished outdoors in Columbus Circle.
9. Music Review: Aida at the Metropolitan Opera
Stephanie Blythe shines in the Metropolitan Operas production of Aida.
10. Television Review | 'Wild Mississippi': On Nat Geo Wild, the Fight for Life Along the Mississippi
Photography is the star of the three-part series Wild Mississippi, Sunday night on the Nat Geo Wild Channel.
11. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater
Two Balanchine works, Concerto Barocco and Vienna Waltzes, were bookends of New York City Ballets Wednesday program at Lincoln Center.
12. Dance Review: Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez at the Kitchen
Choreography by Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez at the Kitchen includes a stylized rock-star moment.
13. Dance Review: Cloud Gate 2 at the Joyce Theater
Schools of fish and perpetual motion punctuate Cloud Gate 2s program at the Joyce Theater.
14. Dance Review: Parallels at Danspace Project
Revisiting his 1982 project, the choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones was the guest curator for Platform 2012: Parallels, which started with works by dance artists from a younger generation.
15. Theater Review: Disaster! at the Triad
A musical spoof of 1970s Irwin Allen films, Disaster! also draws heavily from that decades deep well of corny pop tunes.
16. Theater Review: Ionescopade at the York Theater at St. Peters
The York Theaters revival of the comic musical revue Ionescopade is less Kafka than Carol Burnett.
17. Music Review: Fretwork Performs at Weill Recital Hall
The British period-instrument ensemble Fretwork performed Thomas Maces Musicks Monument at Weill Recital Hall on Wednesday.
18. Bridge: Celebrating With a Slam
How do bridge players celebrate after marrying or when having a big birthday, one ending with a zero? Most have a party, but some play bridge.
19. Jeffrey Zaslow, Best-Selling Author, Dies at 53
Mr. Zaslow was a columnist and author whose books included a best seller with Randy Pausch and a chronicle of Gabrielle Giffordss recovery.
20. Peter Breck, 82, Actor in The Big Valley, Is Dead
Mr. Breck played a temperamental son in a ranching family headed by Barbara Stanwyck.
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23. The Week Ahead: Feb. 5 11
A selection of cultural events this week.
24. Spare Times for Feb. 10-16
A selected guide to exhibitions, performances, celebrations, walks, talks and other events, including several tied to Valentines Day.
25. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 10-16
Events for, by and about children, teenagers and families in New York.
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