March 7, 2008

Mark Morris’s unabashedly fanciful production of Purcell’s “King Arthur,” at the New York City Opera, offers audiences a chance to bask in the music.

Detectives and federal agents are exploring the similarities that Thursday’s Times Square blast shares with two other explosions in high-profile Manhattan locations.

The attack took just a few minutes. Times Square was aglow in the morning darkness but nearly deserted as a shadowy figure on a bicycle pedaled in and planted a small bomb that shattered the glass facade of the military recruiting station on Broadway just north of 43rd Street.

The gunman who entered a prominent Jewish seminary and killed at least eight students was named by police as Ala Abu Dhaim.

For all the money raised by the Democratic presidential candidates, the Republicans are beating them in one crucial area: fund-raising by the parties themselves.