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Welcome. The opening ceremony isn’t until Friday, but the Tokyo Olympics are already underway, and even if you’re questioning the utility of such a spectacle in the shadow of a pandemic, there are likely events you’re excited to watch, athletes you’re excited to root for.
I’m looking forward to surfing’s debut and, like pretty much everyone else, the women’s gymnastics competition.
Check out our guide to every sport at the Olympics if you’re not sure what to follow. (Skateboarding? Yachting?) Here’s how to watch the Games in the U.S., and here’s a schedule of some of the most popular events.
The official Olympics site has a schedule of all events; this converter will help you figure out when they’re airing in your time zone.
And if you still have questions (Where’s Usain Bolt? Where are the spectators?), we have answers.
If you get up early to watch live, consider making yourself a chef’s salad for breakfast, courtesy of Gabrielle Hamilton. Or, if that’s not your thing, make a no-bake dessert and watch in the evening. Come to think of it, there’s no reason you can’t have no-bake mango lime cheesecake in the morning, too.
A reader recommends.
Hritam Mukherjee from Kolkata, India, recommends that you check out a song about summer rain. (This song is included on the At Home and Away summer playlist.)
Indian summers are incomplete without rain. One of my summer favorites is a Bollywood classic from a Hindi-language film called “Lagaan.” It is called “Ghanan Ghanan,” a vernacular onomatopoeia that refers to the roar of a rain cloud, and is a story in itself of an entire village coming together to celebrate the first spell of the season. The song is in Hindi, and employs a lot of folk instruments.
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I enjoyed “The Richest Babysitter in the World,” a short story by Curtis Sittenfeld in The Atlantic.
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This is a pretty cool use of artificial intelligence: Tell Gnoosic three bands you love and it’ll recommend others you might like.
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I’ve been thinking recently about the Take-Away Shows, a series of intimate music videos shot in and near Paris by the French filmmaker Vincent Moon. Here’s a YouTube playlist of some of the best of the series. Here’s Lianne La Havas performing “No Room for Doubt” while walking through Montmartre in 2011.
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