Your Weekend: A Selective Guide
Movies: “Beauty and the Beast” is great fun for both kids and adults…The new “Trainspotting” movie is a workout for Americans unversed in Scottish-accented English. TV/Streaming: This weekend, the award-winning “OJ: Made In America” is running on Vice…To binge watch the first season of the smash NBC hit “This Is Us,” log on to Hulu. Music: 1980s-associated band Depeche Mode has a new release: “Spirit“…Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca performs this weekend at Carnegie Hall — check out her latest CD, “Revive.” Books: This year’s must-read among my techie friends is Yuval Noah Harari‘s “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.” Sports: I don’t do as well in my March Madness betting as I do in my Oscar betting — but that doesn’t keep me from trying. Finally: Why have I been reading up so much lately on the history of assassinations?