The discovery of the plumes, one as large as 10 miles long, is evidence that the leak could be substantially worse than estimates.

Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

Despite military concerns, a contractor network of spies is still operating and has become an important source of intelligence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts

After a switch in jockeys by Bob Baffert, Lookin at Lucky’s trainer, Martin Garcia raced the horse to win the Preakness Stakes.

No Triple Crown, but Young Rider Is King

Engineers achieved some success by using a mile-long pipe to capture some of the oil flow and to divert it to a drill ship on the surface, company officials said.

BP Reports Some Success in Capturing Leaking Oil

There is no more succinct and appropriate way to describe Red Dead Redemption than a tour de force.

Way Down Deep in the Wild, Wild West

The actors in “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,” a Pulitzer finalist coming to Second Stage, have to rehearse wrestling moves as well as their characters.

Here, a Careful Body Slam Is as Vital as Deft Dialogue

Mariano Rivera gave up a grand slam for the first time since 2002, and Minnesota ended a 12-game losing streak against the Yankees.

Rivera Yields Grand Slam as Twins Win

New episodes of “Law & Order” aren’t necessary as long as there are reruns.

‘Law & Order’: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten

At the Cannes Film Festival, the global economic crisis has already shaped up as one of the defining stories.

At Cannes, the Economy Is On-Screen

Once, headlines were meant to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now they are there to get search engines to notice.

Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline

In the fight over Gourmet magazine’s former readers, it’s the mass-market food magazines that seem to be thriving.

Fans of Gourmet Magazine Accept No Stand-Ins

Damaged by a flood two weeks ago, country music’s mecca, the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, is in the midst of major repairs.

Grand Ole Opry Gets Touch-Ups

The red brick building at 548 West 22nd Street, which was home to the Dia Art Foundation from 1987 to 2004 and more recently to a temporary project called the X Initiative, is about to enter a new era.

New Adventure For Old Dia Building

Eminem and Jay-Z will be tag-teaming at baseball stadiums this fall. 

Rappers To Hit the Ball Field

Here is why being saddled with the nickname Little Fatty and told that you sing like a girl is the best thing that could ever happen to you.

‘Little Fatty’ Signs Deal With Sony Music

After calling for a boycott of Newsweek, Ryan Murphy, right, a creator of the Fox television series “Glee,” has invited the writer of an article about gay actors published on the magazine’s Web site to watch the show’s writers and its casting process at work. Mr. Murphy called for the boycott after Ramin Setoodeh wrote that gay actors should not portray heterosexual men because they were not believable in such roles. According to Entertainment Weekly, Mr. Setoodeh got in touch with Mr. Murphy and is going to meet with the show’s writers to discuss why they found the piece so offensive. In a letter Mr. Murphy sent to EW he said that Mr. Setoodeh felt misunderstood and was the subject of anonymous attacks.

‘Glee’ Creator Reaches Out

The marathon “Wall to Wall Behind the Wall” at Symphony Space compressed into 13 ½ hours a representative sampling from 75 years of musical activity behind the Iron Curtain.

Marathon of Music From Behind the Iron Curtain

Production on a film based on the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, is set to begin despite threats of legal action, Reuters reported.

Legal Threat for ‘Winnie’ Film

New book deals for the movie critic Roger Ebert and the model and television host Tyra Banks.

Footnotes

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s next season is to feature work by Adam Rapp, Dan Klores and Suzanne Vega.

Rattlestick’s New Season

The Metropolitan Transit Authority has threatened to evict the experimental media and theater group 3-Legged Dog from its Lower Manhattan building.

Downtown Theater Company Faces Eviction

Prepare to see “The Big Bang Theory” on television a lot more often.

‘The Big Bang Theory’ Gets Syndication Deal

Many cultural institutions across New York’s five boroughs will give free admission to veterans and active-duty members of the United States Armed Forces over Memorial Day weekend.

Free Days for Members of Armed Forces

PEN American Center has teamed up with ESPN to create a new $5,000 award to honor the best nonfiction books about sports. 

Award for Sports Books

The winner of the Preakness Stakes, Lookin at Lucky, and the Kentucky Derby champion, Super Saver, will skip the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown.

Preakness and Derby Winners Will Skip Belmont

Ronald James Padavona, known professionally as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal singer. He fronted numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell.

Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)

Ronnie_James_Dio

Henry Jones Jr. was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. In 2008, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On April 13, 2009, the University of Hartford presented Jones with an honorary Doctorate of Music for his musical accomplishments.

May 16, 2010

Headlines from May 16, 2010

Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts

No Triple Crown, but Young Rider Is King

BP Reports Some Success in Capturing Leaking Oil

Way Down Deep in the Wild, Wild West

Billboard 200

B.o.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray

Need You Now

Fever

My World 2.0

Iron Man 2 (Soundtrack)

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 16, 2010