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Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that air or stream this week, March 6-10. Details and times are subject to change. They’re on the case. It’s been a little while since we last saw Amanda Seyfried on the … Read more

Even if I’m wrong, the robbery subplot remains a major part of this season, and it could be what gets us eventually to the gunshots and the corpse we saw in the season premiere’s flash-forward. For now, what matters about the robbery is that it leads to a meeting between the gatekeeper, Gaitok, and his … Read more

Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with cartography, Volkswagen Beetles, urban walking, jokes and sexual fetishes, many of which were enduring interests of Mr. Nicholson himself — died on Jan. 18 in Colchester, England, northeast of London. He was 71. His death, … Read more

Survivors include his second wife, Ms. Fourie, his daughter from his first marriage, Lisa Fugard, two children from his second marriage, Halle and Lanigan, and a grandson. An ‘Ugly’ Experience The Fugards moved to Johannesburg in the late 1950s, and for three months Mr. Fugard took a job as a clerk in a court that … Read more

David Sellers, a maverick architect who helped start the design-build movement, creating a community of like-minded innovators near the tiny town of Warren, Vt., died on Feb. 9 in Los Angeles. He was 86. Mr. Sellers was in California visiting his son, Parker Sellers, to work on a house they had designed together and to … Read more

Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in … Read more

In April 1970, Mr. McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles, initiating a famously nasty split. Still, Badfinger remained in their orbit. The band played on Mr. Harrison’s triple album “All Things Must Pass” (1970), for example, and Mr. Molland and Mr. Evans backed John Lennon on some tracks of his watershed 1971 album, … Read more

The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is Merle Oberon’s. In 1936, Merle … Read more

In ‘Dark Winds,’ Things Are About to Get Even Darker

One night shortly before the Oscars ceremony, my boyfriend decided to catch up on “Flow,” the animated film from Latvia that would go on to win best animated feature. When I returned home from dinner, I found that the film had also captured the attention of another viewer — my dog Daisy, a corgi mix. … Read more