Canadian Olympic officials said long ago that they expected to "own the podium," but midway through the Winter Games, Canada sits in fifth place.

Big Push From Canada Is Not Panning Out

The short-track speedskating 1,ooo-meter race gave Apolo Ohno his seventh medal, the most of any American winter athlete.

Ohno Stakes Claim as U.S. King of Winter

With conservation and preparedness no longer seen as opposing goals, American military bases have become prime habitats for rebounding species.

A Base for War Training, and Species Preservation

Bode Miller won the first Olympic gold medal of his career, the one item missing from his impressive résumé.

Miller Wins Gold in the Super Combined

Helen Simonson’s first novel has intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone.

Blending Tea and Hearts

Releases from Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, High on Fire and Jack Rose.

New CDs

A new installation in Vancouver examines the subtle conceptual difference between the bar as watering hole and as self-activating performance space.

In Canada, an Artwork With Its Own Barkeeps

The best exploits of what NBC unfailingly refers to as “Team USA” only bring out the worst in network heavy breathing.

Cheering Team USA on NBC’s Olympics

Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park” is a spiky and damningly insightful new comedy.

Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors

Outfielder Johnny Damon, whose contract talks with the Yankees fizzled, will make $8 million with Detroit.

Damon Moves to Tigers for a Year

“Shutter Island,” yanked from the fall release schedule by a cost-cutting Paramount Pictures, was a strong No. 1 at the North American box office.

‘Shutter Island’ Soars at Box Office

The New England Knockout Team Regional in Cromwell, Conn., which ended last Monday, also had some pair events.

Top Defense by Top Pair in Cromwell

Awards season is in full swing at home and abroad.

Film Honors All Over

The French National Library has bought itself a belated valentine in the form of manuscript pages by the hand of Giacomo Casanova, Reuters reported.

Racy Memoir for the French National Library

News about a festival of works by María Irene Fornés, the Amoralists’ new season and casting for “Enron.”

In the Wings

The British rocker Sting and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra are pairing up for a North American tour beginning this summer, the promoter Live Nation announced.

Classic Sting via the Royal Philharmonic

Owen Wilson has been cast in Woody Allen’s latest movie, Reuters reported.

Owen Wilson Goes Woody Allen

Malaria courses relentlessly through narratives of history and literature — and is expected to kill 700,000 children this year.

Malaria: A Scourge as Old as King Tut

An answer in the F.Y.I. column last Sunday about some of the largest auditoriums in New York City by seating capacity, using information from the Department of Education, omitted two of the largest venues. They are the Metropolitan Opera House, with 3,800 seats, and the Paradise Theater on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, with 3,700 seats.

Corrections

A theater review in some copies last Sunday of “Compulsion,” about the writer Meyer Levin, at Yale Repertory Theater, referred incompletely to the productions of Mr. Levin’s play about Anne Frank. Besides being performed for the Israeli Army in the 1960s, it was produced at least one other time  at Brandeis University, in 1972.

A news analysis article last Sunday about the sports agent David Falk’s long-held view that the National Basketball Association and its players would be worlds apart as they started to negotiate a new labor deal misstated, in some editions, the reason Billy Hunter, the president of the players union, missed Commissioner David Stern’s All-Star address last Saturday. He declined to attend; it was not because he was not invited. 

A Pop entry in the Week Ahead report on Page 2 this weekend about the Tibet House benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on Friday erroneously includes several performers among the musicians who are to appear. David Bowie, Moby, Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, R.E.M., Rufus Wainwright, Baaba Maal, Vampire Weekend and The National are not on the program. (They previously appeared at Tibet House benefit concerts.) 

Paul Casey and Camilo Villegas traded shots for 23 holes to see who would meet in the final of the W.G.C-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Poulter in Final, Awaiting Opponent

EMI denied that Abbey Road Studios, the London recording complex made famous by the Beatles, was being put on the market but confirmed that it was seeking financial help to save it.

After Outcry, EMI Says Abbey Road Isn’t for Sale

Dirty Projectors performed “The Getty Address,” backed by the chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.

February 21, 2010

Headlines from February 21, 2010

Big Push From Canada Is Not Panning Out

Ohno Stakes Claim as U.S. King of Winter

A Base for War Training, and Species Preservation

Miller Wins Gold in the Super Combined

Blending Tea and Hearts

Billboard 200

Need You Now

Rebirth

Who I Am

The Fame

2010 Grammy Nominees

Historical Context for February 21, 2010