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today's MUG 09.21.18

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movie ‣ Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Joan Plowright, Dames all, spend a weekend together, captured in the film Tea With the Dames. For the thesbianically-inclined, a slice of heaven.

photography ‣ How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?, is the appealingly pointed title of Wolfgang Tillmans' new exhibit at David Zwirner. Mr. Tillmans is one of the artists whose artistry defies, for us at least, easy analysis. He's just so good.

theater ‣ One of Tennessee Williams' under-sung plays, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, gets a revival with a superb cast, Kristine Nielsen, Annette O’Toole, Jean Lichty, and Polly McKie, directed by the equally esteemed Austin Pendleton. It's in previews now at Theatre at St. Clements.

music ‣ The inestimable Jill Sobule has just released a new album, Nostalgia Kills, which finds the singer-songwriter as trenchant, funny, and tender as ever. Especially charming, I Put My Headphones On, a tribute to the healing powers of music.

event ‣ Saving Grand Central Terminal at the station's Vanderbilt Hall, tells NYC's essential preservation story, led by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Municipal Art Society. Opens Monday, September 24.