The perception that the U.S. is now serious about tackling climate change has set off a flurry of diplomacy around the globe.

Obama’s Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact

The uninspired new revival of “Guys and Dolls” provides a valuable lesson in the importance of chemistry by demonstrating what can happen without it.

It’s a Cinch That the Bum Is Under the Thumb of Some Little Broad

A statue of a giant male horse at Denver International Airport is freaking more than a few people out.

And Behold a Big Blue Horse? Many in Denver Just Say Neigh

Old-economy hits are more successful than ever, suggesting that network viewers prefer comforting comedy to high-wire satire.

Sitcoms Serve Up Comfort Laughs

An emergency meeting of European leaders raised the very worries it was intended to calm: that the crisis threatens to split Europe into rival camps.

Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe

The city landmarks agency has yet to be convinced that Morningside Heights is worthy of protection.

Fighting On to Preserve Morningside Heights

An art review last Sunday about an exhibition of Rembrandt etchings at the Morris Museum in Morristown misidentified the nationality of Rembrandt and another artist in the Netherlands, Andriaen van de Venne. They were Dutch, not Flemish.

Corrections

Dwyane Wade tied a franchise record with 24 points in the fourth quarter and led the Heat to a spectacular comeback in Saturday’s win.

When Knicks Stoke Rivalry, Wade Turns Red Hot

By the time the Knicks waived him last week, Stephon Marbury had collected about $150,000 a day to sit in exile. But the Knicks are not done paying for Marbury.

Distraction Gone, but Knicks’ Tab Remains Open

The first six Yeh Bros Cups were contested in China or Taiwan. But this year’s, which was to conclude on Monday, was played in the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, south-southeast of Brisbane.

Players From Europe Do Battle in Australia

Last week’s concerts demonstrated two different kinds of respect for the music of Thelonious Monk.

2 Approaches to Monk’s Historic Night

Opening-weekend results for “The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience” missed industry expectations by a mile.

‘Madea’ Holds Off Jonas Brothers at Box Office

The world’s largest publisher of consumer books has acquired a Berkeley, Calif., independent publisher of business; cooking; and mind, body and spirit titles.

Random House Buys Ten Speed Press

The illusionists Siegfried and Roy were back onstage for a final performance with the same white Bengal tiger that mauled and partially paralyzed Roy Horn in October 2003.

Final Bows With Tiger for Siegfried and Roy

The French film “Séraphine” won its country’s top film honors, receiving seven Césars.

‘Séraphine’ Sweeps French Film Awards

Kathleen Chalfant, Stephen Spinella and Linda Emond have joined the cast of Tony Kushner’s new play.

Kushner Play Is Cast

The Metropolitan Room will present a return engagement of “Strings Attached,” the cabaret show starring Anne Steele.

Award Winner Returns to Her Cabaret Show

“End Days,” a new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, will have its Off Broadway premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theater starting March 25.

Footnotes

Johan Santana’s successful bullpen session eliminated the need for him to fly back to New York to have his left elbow examined.

Positive Report on Santana’s Elbow

Vladimir Martynov’s stupefying opera, a work of nearly two and half hours, is banal and pretentious.

Love Poems With Musical Annotation

Dan Auerbach’s brooding new solo debut is an album at once more intimate and less exposed than his work with the Black Keys.

A Garage Rocker Gives Songwriting a Spin in a Solo Debut

“24” is going green, becoming the first “carbon neutral” television series.

Car Crashes to Please Mother Nature

An article last Sunday about Meg Whitman, a former eBay chief executive considering a run for governor of California, misspelled the surname of another former eBay executive who previously sought the office. He is Steve Westly, not Westley.

The most successful tales in Caitlin Macy’s “Spoiled” are wise and cryptic enough to offset the collection’s clunkers.

March 1, 2009

Headlines from March 1, 2009

Obama’s Backing Raises Hopes for Climate Pact

It’s a Cinch That the Bum Is Under the Thumb of Some Little Broad

And Behold a Big Blue Horse? Many in Denver Just Say Neigh

Sitcoms Serve Up Comfort Laughs

Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe

Billboard 200

Fearless

Raising Sand

Testimony: Vol. 2; Love & Politics

The Fray

It's Not Me; It's You

Historical Context for March 1, 2009