A secret memo set off a search for new options in dealing with Iran’s steady progress toward nuclear capability.

Gates Says U.S. Lacks a Policy to Thwart Iran

Locked in a scoreless duel with the Cardinals for 18 innings, the Mets pushed across the winning run in the top of the 20th.

Long Story Short: Mets Beat Cardinals in 20th

As Europe grounded most airline flights for a fourth day, desperate airlines ran test flights and pressed aviation authorities to loosen the flight ban.

Airlines Press Europe to Ease Ban on Flights

The inspired revival of “La Cage aux Folles” delivers the unexpected lesson that in theater, shabby can be not just chic but redemptive.

Squint, and the World Is Beautiful

Paul Harding’s “Tinkers” received a raft of rejections from publishers. Now this book championed by independent bookstores is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Mr. Cinderella: From Rejection Notes to the Pulitzer

A project by Rhizome, the new-media art organization, brings two worlds together to tackle issues of guilt and unruly umbrellas.

Art Made at the Speed of the Internet: Don’t Say ‘Geek’; Say ‘Collaborator’

An MSNBC documentary about the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh shows him speaking dispassionately and impersonally about his terrorist act that killed 168 people 15 years ago.

A Terrorist, Plain-Spoken and Cold

Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others are now trying to rent large corporations the remote use of their technology infrastructure, but some concerns remain after a few cautious steps into cloud services.

Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

The Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano had the worst season of his career last year, and things have not gotten demonstrably better this year.

Unease at Wrigley While Soriano Struggles

The 36 Hours column on April 4, about San Antonio, misstated the number, and status, of golf facilities at the new JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. There are two courses at the resort, not one, and they have been open since January; they are not opening soon. 

Corrections

A picture caption on April 4 with the cover article about Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, misstated the location of a small island off Mauritius. As the article and an accompanying map correctly noted, the island, Île aux Cerfs, is off the east coast of Mauritius  not off Grand Baie, which is on the northwest tip of the island. 

A new ABC comedy about four single friends who have difficulty finding mates has a hard time making a joke of the inherently laughable process of dating.

Discussing Dating Woes Over Coffee

Roxane Butterfly paid tribute to the great tap dancer Jimmy Slyde, who died in 2008, in a low-key show that included her fellow hoofers Rocky Mendes and Tamango.

Hoofers Pay Tribute to the Tapper Jimmy Slyde

“Kick-Ass” brought in about $19.8 million at North American theaters over the weekend, a so-so performance that, by early estimates, was good enough only for second place.

‘Dragon’ Edges Out Fake Superheroes

Entertainers, like thousands of other travelers, have been stranded since the cloud of ash from the Icelandic volcano prevented flights from taking off across much of Europe.

Coachella Festival, Under the Volcano

In his first performance since surgery for cancer more than a month ago, Plácido Domingo earned a 14-minute ovation and cheers on Friday at La Scala in Milan.

Domingo Returns to Ovation at La Scala

The Fox TV musical-comedy “Glee” was among the winners at the 21st annual Media Awards ceremony of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in Los Angeles.

A GLAAD Award for Fox’s ‘Glee’

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater is leaving its performance space at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery in June, the playwright and director Richard Foreman said.

Ontological Departs St. Mark’s Church

An unheard Rolling Stones song, “Plundered My Soul,” recorded for a 1972 album but never released, was issued as a limited-edition single in honor of Record Store Day in Britain.

Rolling Stones Song Gets a Hearing

An article last Sunday about Mary Kay Gallagher, 90, a real estate broker who specializes in the Victorian Flatbush section of Brooklyn, misidentified the formerly WASP-only club that she joined half a century ago. It is the Knickerbocker Field Club, a tennis club in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn  not the Knickerbocker Club, an all-male social club in Manhattan.

An obituary in some editions last Sunday about Robert D. Franks, a former Republican congressman from New Jersey, misstated the length of his tenure in the House of Representatives. He was elected four times, but did not serve four terms. (He left the House before the end of his fourth term to run for the United States Senate in 2000.) The obituary also misstated the amount Jon S. Corzine, Mr. Franks’s Democratic opponent in the Senate election, spent on his campaign. It was $63 million, not $62 million. (A corrected version of the obituary appeared in some editions on Monday.)

The cellist Maya Beiser’s “Provenance,” a program at Le Poisson Rouge, featured the Israeli composer and performer Raz Mesinai and the oud player Bassam Saba.

A Cellist and Her Friends Explore Multicultural Harmonies

The New York Philharmonic’s sold-out concert in its new-music series had an air of excitement and a refreshing informality.

3 Premieres Highlight New-Music Concert

New releases from Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Trombone Shorty and Devin the Dude.

April 18, 2010

Headlines from April 18, 2010

Gates Says U.S. Lacks a Policy to Thwart Iran

Long Story Short: Mets Beat Cardinals in 20th

Airlines Press Europe to Ease Ban on Flights

Squint, and the World Is Beautiful

Mr. Cinderella: From Rejection Notes to the Pulitzer

Billboard 200

Raymond V Raymond

My World 2.0

NOW 33

NEW AMERYKAH: Part Two: Return Of The Ankh

Need You Now

Historical Context for April 18, 2010