On holidays like Hanukkah, gentile chefs with Jewish spouses bring epicurean interpretations to simple, traditional dishes.

At Hanukkah, Chefs Make Kitchen Conversions

Thanks to a new machine, home cooks can now try sous vide, a method that combines the steady heat of poaching and an airtight seal, without having to improvise.

Sous Vide Moves From Avant-Garde to the Countertop

“Brief Encounter” is a captivating stage adaptation of the 1945 movie.

Revisiting Those Strangers at a Train Station

Recent days have offered hope that some in Congress are summoning the courage to cut wasteful health spending, and endure the scare stories that follow.

Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs

Divorce lawyers are increasingly seeing wronged spouses using text messages to show that a partner has strayed.

Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar

Indians fret that Bangalore, and India more broadly, will remain a low-cost satellite office of the West, rather than a hotbed of entrepreneurship.

In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation

Stephen P. Harbeck, the head of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, has been criticized for failing to help the victims of feeder or pension funds lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Protection Chief Struggles With Madoff Claims

Senators said a tentative agreement between Harry Reid, the majority leader, and 10 other Democrats would sideline but not kill a government-run health insurance plan.

Reid Says Deal Resolves the Impasse on the Public Option

The Large Hadron Collider achieved its goal to be the most powerful physics machine in the world.

Collider Sets Record, and Europe Takes U.S.’s Lead

Aggressive bank lending is sending Chinese consumers on a shopping spree, while Americans spend more prudently.

Recession Elsewhere, but It’s Booming in China

Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions from Amazon’s Kindle comes fraught with disappointing footnotes.

Not Yet the Season for a Nook

The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys gave the first of its two seasonal performances of Handel’s “Messiah” on Tuesday evening.

‘Messiah’ Is a Big Job for Men and Boys

Sting performed a concert of winter songs at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Tuesday night.

At the Cathedral, Sting’s Wintry Mix

La Scala in Milan started its season Monday night with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” an unknown mezzo-soprano in the title role, a novice director and the usual brouhahas offstage.

Cheers and Catcalls for ‘Carmen’

The generally excellent new cast of “God of Carnage” brings a slightly blunter edge to the play.

Undercard of Jabbers Replaces Punchers

Greg Mortenson’s follow-up to “Three Cups of Tea” further details his efforts to build schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Personal Take on Public Projects in Two Devastated Lands

With an eye always on the bottom line, Alexander Wang broadens his base.

Alexander Wang, for Cool Kids, and Now You

The mall operator agreed to buy Prime Outlets for $2.24 billion from the Lightstone Group, a real estate company hurt badly by the recession.

Simon Property to Buy Outlet Mall Unit

An article on Saturday about the increasing use of iPhones and other smartphones as musical instruments gave an incomplete name for a jazz group that used smartphones in a recent performance in New York. It is the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, not the Large Ensemble.

Corrections

Because of an editing error, an article on Dec. 1 about an oil tanker, the Maran Centaurus, that had been seized by Somali pirates misstated the value of the crude on board. It was worth about $150 million, according to The Associated Press, not $20 million.

An article on Monday about the future of broadcast television after the Comcast-NBC Universal deal misspelled the surname of a former host of “The Tonight Show.” He was Jack Paar, not Parr. The article also misstated the age of the broadcast division of NBC Universal relative to its film division. The NBC network was founded in 1926, 14 years after Universal was created by a merger; the network is not the oldest part of NBC Universal.

An article on Monday about a lawsuit against the cellular industry in a case of distracted driving reversed the name of a lawyer who defends companies in product liability cases. He is Russell Jackson.

An article on Tuesday about a new $100,000 prize for artists under 35, the Future Generation Art Prize, misstated the size of another art award, the Hugo Boss Prize. It is $100,000  not $50,000.

A map in the Escapes pages on Nov. 13 with an article about time shares in New York and other cities misidentified the location of Carnegie Hall. It is on West 57th Street at Seventh Avenue, not West 56th Street. The map also misidentified a Midtown street; the street labeled West 52nd Street is West 53rd Street.

Because of an editing error, a report in the Vital Signs column on Tuesday about accidental swallowing of soda-can tabs misstated the extent of a radiologist’s study of the problem. The researcher, Dr. Lane F. Donnelly, found reports of 19 such incidents from 1993 to 2009 at his own hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center  not at “hospitals.”.

Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952) and The War of the Worlds (1953) and for his portrayal of the title characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, among many roles.

December 9, 2009

Headlines from December 9, 2009

At Hanukkah, Chefs Make Kitchen Conversions

Sous Vide Moves From Avant-Garde to the Countertop

Revisiting Those Strangers at a Train Station

Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs

Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar

Billboard 200

I Dreamed A Dream

My Christmas

For Your Entertainment

Rated R

The Fame Monster (EP)

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for December 9, 2009