January 28, 2012

Among the feature films presented at the somewhat lower-key 28th Sundance Film Festival, there was “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and there was everything else.

The Outsider Art Fair celebrates self-taught artists with a compulsion to create.

Twitter’s announcement that it would agree to block certain messages in countries where they were deemed illegal prompted outcry, argument and even calls for a boycott.

The Boston Patriots bounced from stadium to stadium and played “home” games as far away as San Diego. Bizarre occurrences seemed to follow them wherever they went.

The public doesn’t mind misbehavior. It’s the other politicians who care.

A former aide to a prominent rabbi helped raise money from the rabbi’s followers for the 2010 campaign of Michael G. Grimm, according to interviews and records.

The autumn of Occupy Wall Street has been followed in New York, however incongruously, by a winter of showcasing wealth’s traditions.

The median price of first grade has gone up by 48 percent over 10 years, and parents at three schools are waiting to find out whether they will be joining the $40,000-a-year club.

New poems by the noted publisher Jonathan Galassi tell the story of a married, middle-aged man who falls in love with a younger man. “It’s about me,” he said.

Goldman Sachs, which manages Mitt Romney’s family’s fortune, is also his largest source of campaign contributions.

Thanks to Facebook, the concept of “defriending” has become part of the online culture. But in the real world, breaking up is a lot more difficult.

The gold medalist Rulon Gardner is 40 years old and overweight, but he believes that he can qualify to wrestle at the Summer Games in London.