January 5, 2014

The Colts trailed, 38-10, early in the third quarter but stormed back behind Andrew Luck, who threw for 443 yards and 4 scores, to beat the Chiefs in an A.F.C. wild-card game.

The bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq, Lebanon and Syria exposes the emergence of a post-American Middle East in which no broker has the will or power to contain the region’s sectarian hatreds.

The $75 million production of “Spider-Man,” the most expensive musical in history and one of the most troubled, ended a run of three years and two months.

Capitalizing on three second-half turnovers by Andy Dalton, the upstart Chargers extended the Bengals’ playoff-victory drought to 23 years.

The director and multimedia-theater pioneer Jay Scheib has created a live cinematic adaptation of Chekhov’s unfinished play.

In “The Trip to Echo Spring,” Olivia Laing combines literary analysis, memoir and travelogue in examining six writers and their alcoholism.

At this year’s Vienna Philharmonic annual New Year’s concerts, the focus was again on the music, not the orchestra’s past.

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.

The Saints earned their first road playoff victory 46 seasons after their debut in the N.F.L., beating the Eagles on a 32-yard field goal as time expired.

Corrections appearing in print on January 5, 2014.

“Because” is increasingly being used to introduce a noun or adjective rather than a full clause, as in “because tired” or “because awesome.”

After a six week run, “Frozen” sold an astounding $20.7 million in tickets.