Before he entered the minor leagues and earned an invitation to major league camp, Josh Thole’s batting practice took place in a converted hayloft in southern Illinois.

Mets Catching Prospect Honed Skills in a Barn

Yankees Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady are among the investors whose accounts were caught in a freeze of a company affiliated with Robert Allen Stanford.

Undergoing Some Shuffling on and Off the Field

An article last Sunday about the opening of Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food restaurant, in Woodside, Queens, erroneously included an item on the menu. The restaurant will not serve smoked bangus, a seafood dish offered at Jollibee restaurants in the Philippines.

Correction

Two days after routing the Toronto Raptors by 30 points in New York, the Knicks traveled north and got their payback, with a loss to the Raptors.

New Players, Same Result for Knicks

Treasury’s schedule of financing this week.

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

Lionsgate opened “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail” to a record-setting $41.1 million in sales at domestic theaters.

Big Opening for ‘Madea’ Lifts a Struggling Studio

“Zombie” is a chilling one-man study of perversity adapted from a Joyce Carol Oates novella.

The Pervert in the Basement

Investors are afraid and uncertain these days. Given how hard it is to determine true asset prices, they are being completely rational.

In This Economy, Fear Is Rational

A survey on Twitter and other microblogging sites shows that users of social networking services tend to cluster around age 25 and live in cities.

Tweeting? Odds Are You Live in a City

Merce Cunningham’s Beacon Events were frustrating on purpose.

In the Cunningham Dimension, Multiplicities in Time and Space

Corrections

An article in some editions last Sunday about the many links between the victims of the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 and residents of the Buffalo suburbs surrounding the site of the crash misstated, in some copies, the surname of an event planner who gathered with others to mourn Susan Wehle, a local cantor who died in the crash. She is Bonnie Gersh, not Stern. The article also referred incorrectly in some copies to Leon Komm, a funeral director who also knew Ms. Wehle. It is a friend of Mr. Komm’s  not Mr. Komm himself  who lives several hundred feet from the crash site, in Clarence Center.

The Week Ahead listings on Page 4 this weekend carry an erroneous date. All events listed are for Sunday through Saturday, Feb. 22 to Feb. 28.

An obituary last Sunday about the travel writer Leila Hadley misstated the surname and title she used in private life. After her 1990 marriage to Henry Luce III, she went by Mrs. Luce, not Mrs. Hadley. The obituary also misidentified a school where she was a classmate of Gloria Vanderbilt. It is the Green Vale School in Old Brookville, N.Y.  not St. Timothy’s School in Stevenson, Md., which she later attended.

The program, intimidatingly titled “Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience,” offered concert performances of two one-act operas by the Italian modernist Luigi Dallapiccola.

Songs of a Pilot Crashing

New releases from K’naan, Jake Owen, Bebo Valdés and Chuch Valdés and Joe Budden.

New CDs

The detainee, who claims that he was tortured while in C.I.A. custody, leaves Guantánamo without having been charged.

Detainee Who Claims Abuse to Return to Britain

“This Beautiful City,” the latest work of cultural anthropology from the Civilians, is an engaging, inquisitive and evenhanded work of theater.

In a Transformed City, Falling in and Out of Grace

European leaders called for a doubling of the resources of the International Monetary Fund to help head off problems in countries hit by the global financial crisis.

E.U. Leaders Turn to I.M.F. Amid Financial Crisis

The first 90 minutes of this “Winter’s Tale” have a pure emotional strength that leave you open mouthed and teary eyed.

Alas, Poor Leontes (That Good King Has Not Been Himself of Late)

Experts are better at bridge than less capable players for a variety of reasons. But one factor is as important as the rest, and often more important.

To Play Like a Pro, Know How to Keep Count

On Oct. 7, 1999, a young photographer hauled his camera gear to the Lipstick Building in Manhattan for a portrait assignment of an investor named Bernard L. Madoff.

Ten Years Later, Photographer Finds Old Portrait Shots Are in Demand

Ute Lemper, the smirking, haughty German cabaret diva, has opened a fearless, witty new cabaret show at Café Carlyle.

Oh the Economic Meltdown Has Pearly Teeth, Dear

Cable channels once embarrassed by on-air anchor outbursts are now glad to post the video clips on the Internet to maximize publicity and Web traffic.

CNBC Replays Its Reporter’s Tirade

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took his message of inclusion to the Kurdish heartland on Saturday, calling its people “first-class citizens.”

February 22, 2009

Headlines from February 22, 2009

Mets Catching Prospect Honed Skills in a Barn

Undergoing Some Shuffling on and Off the Field

Correction

New Players, Same Result for Knicks

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

Billboard 200

The Fray

Working On A Dream

Feel That Fire

Fearless

I Am...Sasha Fierce

Historical Context for February 22, 2009