Major League Baseball investigators have contacted several of Alex Rodriguez’s associates to determine if he used performance-enhancing drugs for a longer time than he has admitted.

Baseball Said to Be Inquiring About Rodriguez Drug Use

Mr. Kemp, a former football star turned congressman, moved the Republican Party to a commitment to tax cuts as the central focus of economic policy.

Jack Kemp, Star on Field and in Politics, Dies at 73

After a total of seven overtimes in the first six games, the Celtics made an early night of it as they beat Chicago in regulation in their first-round Eastern Conference series.

Celtics Write Quiet Ending to Series That Roared

The reaction to the announcement that the team of Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup has been selected to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture should be a round of applause.

Tracing the Threads That Join America and Africa

Sherie Rene Scott’s sensational diva-as-trash-goddess show qualifies as one of the year’s most extravagantly entertaining new musicals.

Story of a Semi-Star, From Kansas to Broadway

A burst of plays helped drive up the number of new Broadway productions this season to 43, the most in 25 years.

Late-Season Plays Fuel a Surge on Broadway

“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” kicked off the spring-summer blockbuster season with $87 million in ticket sales.

X-Men Return to Motivate Moviegoers

This year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival largely stuck to business as usual.

From Shaky Start to Enduring Tradition

For family dealerships that have tied their names to Pontiac for generations, the closing of the brand hits hard.

A Life Selling Pontiacs, and Feeling Sold Out

Pakistan’s poorest families have turned to Islamic schools that feed and house children while pushing a militant brand of Islam.

Pakistan’s Islamic Schools Fill Void, but Fuel Militancy

The Unboxed column last Sunday, about online volunteers who perform customer-service work for companies, misstated the amount that Benchmark Capital invested last year in Lithium Technologies, which supplies software for customer-service communities. It was $12 million, not $9 billion.

Correction: Customer Service? Ask a Volunteer

The Treasury schedule for the week of May 4, 2009.

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

Henry Miller’s Theater, the first so-called green theater on Broadway, is set to open in September with a revival of “Bye Bye Birdie.”

White Way Gets a ‘Green’ Theater

The American Composers Orchestra offered a program of premieres by Lukas Ligeti and Derek Bermel and the New York premiere of the Guitar Concerto by Robert Beaser.

Honoring the Leaders and Mission

The actor Andrew Sachs said that publicity surrounding obscene telephone messages left for him by the comedians Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand was awful for his family but that he “came out of it very well.”

Great Career Boost, Shame About the Calls

“Waiting for Godot” will be extended another week, and “Hair” is planning a national tour.

Longer ‘Waiting,’ Bigger ‘Hair’ and More

The singer Amy Winehouse was treated for dehydration at a St. Lucia hospital, Agence France-Presse reported.

Winehouse Falls Ill

A man who says he is the biological father of a 4-year-old Malawian girl whom Madonna is trying to adopt said he wanted to care for her himself, cbsnews.com reported.

Father Opposes Madonna Adoption

“City Island,” a comedy about a Bronx family and the secrets each member keeps, was the winner of the Heineken Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

TriBeCa Festival Award

Wynton Marsalis and other jazz musicians are scheduled to participate in a memorial for the trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.

Footnote

NBC has ordered 13 more episodes of the police drama “Southland,” and more television news.

Small Screen News

Another miserable outing Saturday left Oliver Perez embarrassed and General Manager Omar Minaya considering yanking him from the rotation.

Perez Struggles, Putting Future in Doubt

Corrections

An article last Sunday about South Africa’s election results misstated the age of Helen Zille, the mayor of Cape Town, who won the vote for the premiership of Western Cape Province. She is 58, not 48.

Correction

Because of an editing error, an article in some editions last Sunday about the killing of three people in Athens, Ga., misstated the age of the suspect, George M. Zinkhan III, in some copies. He is 57, not 47.

Renée Morisset, was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband, Victor Bouchard, were one of the foremost piano duos in Canadian classical music.

Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (born 1928)

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Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar was a Marathi orator, writer, and literary critic from Maharashtra, India.

May 3, 2009

Headlines from May 3, 2009

Baseball Said to Be Inquiring About Rodriguez Drug Use

Jack Kemp, Star on Field and in Politics, Dies at 73

Celtics Write Quiet Ending to Series That Roared

Tracing the Threads That Join America and Africa

Story of a Semi-Star, From Kansas to Broadway

Billboard 200

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Forever In A Day

Unstoppable

Twilight

NOW 30

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 3, 2009