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After two days of dimmed lights, the #EiffelTower is lit tonight in bleu, blanc and rouge. The mayor of #Paris, Anne Hidalgo, ordered that the tower display the national colors for three days after she saw monuments around the world paying tribute to France — including the @sydneyoperahouse and @oneworldtrade in New York. The #TourdEiffel will also display the city’s motto, “Fluctuat Nec Mergitur,” Latin for “Tossed but not sunk.” @pierreterdjman took this photo while on #nytassignment in Paris. #🇫🇷

“Happy Christmas from John and Yoko.” In 1969, the year before the Beatles broke up, #JohnLennon and Yoko Ono paid for this holiday greeting in Times Square. This photo, by @nytimes photographer William Sauro, comes from our newsroom archives. #Onthisday 35 years ago, John #Lennon was shot and killed while entering his apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Visit the link in our profile to see this print and other archival images in our @nytimes store.

People gathered outside the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in #Paris earlier tonight for a memorial service to honor victims of Friday’s coordinated attacks. Photo by Tomas Munita, who is on #nytassignment for @nytimes in Paris. Follow @pierreterdjman, @kostyukov and @bcsolomon to see more photos from #Paris today.

Mourners gathered on Rue de Charonne in Paris, near the restaurant where gunmen killed 18 people last night. The assault on Paris was the worst terrorist attack in Europe in 11 years. As the total death toll rose to 129, a basic timeline of the attacks came into view. For updates on the story, as well as more images, visit the link in our profile. @pierreterdjman, who took this photo, is on #nytassignment in #Paris for @nytimes.

How are you feeling this weekend? On Wednesday, the photographer @nicole_craine took a stroll through the Museum of Feelings in Battery Park City. The creators of the exhibit, which is located on the waterfront at @brookfieldplny, say it’s the first museum to react to emotions — or, in their words, act as a “mood ring of the city.” @nicole_craine captured visitors experiencing “Joyful,” one of the rooms inside the #MuseumofFeelings. The exhibition runs through December 15.

You already know this duo, the masters of a smart-sweet-spiky comedy boom. They’re like “Lean In,” but funny. Friends since they met as improvisers in Chicago 22 years ago, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are frequent collaborators. In their new film, “Sisters,” which comes out December 18, the two play siblings who unite to hold one last bash at their childhood home after their parents decide to sell it. In their fashion, they were hands-on producers for the film, overseeing script changes, budgets and casting. The film’s message, in Amy’s words: “You can create your own spark. And if you have another woman to support you, you can be very, very powerful.” @eliz photographed #AmyPoehler and #TinaFey.

Outside Le Carillon, a bar-cafe in Paris. As the death toll rose to 127 victims, the attacks in #Paris were met with condemnation from leaders around the world. President @fhollande, who blamed #ISIS for the massacre, declared three days of national mourning, and said that military troops would patrol the capital. Visit the link in our profile for updates and to see more photos. Photo by @jeromedelay of the Associated Press.

100 years ago today, Albert Einstein set down the equation that rules the universe. The theory of relativity describes how matter and energy distort the geometry of the cosmos to produce the effect we call gravity. It’s a standard trope in science writing to say that some theory or experiment transformed our understanding of space and time. General relativity did just that. This photo of #AlbertEinstein explaining a theorem to reporters in Pittsburgh was first published in December 1934. Visit the link in our profile to purchase the image from the @nytimes archives.

Mourners gathered in front of Cafe Bonne Bière in #Paris this morning to lay flowers for those killed during Friday’s terrorist attacks. At least 5 people were killed at the bar, which is in the city’s 11th Arrondissement. Today, Paris is still somewhat subdued, and France remains under a state of emergency. Photo by Tomas Munita, who is on #nytassignment in Paris.

Davide Martello played the #piano this afternoon at Place de la République in Paris, where crowds had gathered earlier for a #momentofsilence for the victims of the attacks. This was not Davide’s first performance of this kind: @nytimes wrote about him in June 2013, when he placed himself and his grand piano at the center of Taksim Square in Istanbul. “I wish all the street performers around Paris would stand together to perform for peace,” he wrote on his Facebook page yesterday. Photo by @kostyukov, who is on #nytassignment in Paris. Follow @pierreterdjman and @bcsolomon to see more photos, and visit the link in our profile for updates on the investigation in #Paris.

The rude interjection is a staple of life in New York City. Now, the landscape of the city will itself heckle residents and tourists, with a brash new sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park that yells “YO” if you are looking at it from Manhattan or “OY” if you are gazing out from Brooklyn. The sculpture, “OY/YO,” is the first of this size from the artist @debkass, whose work often makes reference to that of other artists, including Gertrude Stein, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella. @kirstenluce photographed the sculpture, which landed in @brooklynbridgepark on Monday.

The South Pacific island nation of #Kiribati could be submerged by rising oceans in just a few decades. In a speech today during the Paris #climatetalks, President Antoe Tong of Kiribati thanked Fiji for offering to take in the people of his country, which is home to just over 100,000. @kadirvanlohuizen photographed Kiribati for @nytimes in 2012. As the climate talks continue, follow @nytimes updates and photos by visiting the link in our profile. #COP21

This free-standing soaking #bathtub is a scene-stealer in @nicksandow’s 19th-century townhouse in #CarrollGardens, Brooklyn. Set in front of a window wall that overlooks the neighbors’ backyards, the tub is the focal point of the house, where @nicksandow wrote the screenplay for “The Wannabe,” a film about an aspiring gangster that opens this weekend. “I love the view in both directions,” said @nicksandow, the actor and director who is best known for his role in the @netflix series @oitnb. @alexwelshphoto captured @nicksandow’s home while on #nytassignment. #🛀

Where in the world is @nytimestravel? Hint: This week, ‘tis the season for #skiing, so rule out places that are warm or flat. Where do you think @danielbayer_photographer was when he took this photo? Follow @nytimestravel to see one more visual clue.

“Different people have different reasons for hating to see that evening sun go down, but nobody has a better reason than the New Yorker who travels by subway.” In January 1961, William K. Zinsser wrote a rant for the ages in @nytimes. “Rush hour turns lambs into lions, gentle people into fiends and fullbacks,” the cranky commuter wrote. The @nytimes photographer Sam Falk bravely descended into the depths of the city to help illustrate the struggle. To see more photos from our newsroom #archives, visit the link in our profile. #tbt

A male painted bunting in @prospect_park today. This avian connoisseur of grassland has never been seen in Brooklyn before. Since it was discovered on Sunday, crowds of #birdwatchers have rushed, quietly, to get a look at that brilliant indigo head, those yellow shoulders shading to chartreuse and then green, the scarlet-orange underparts. For much of the day, the bird’s actions were unremarkable: Duck, bob, peck, hop. Duck, bob, peck, hop. But at one point, for about 30 seconds, the boldly colored bunting put on a show. @kirstenluce photographed @prospect_park's #paintedbunting while on #nytassignment alongside @nytimes reporter Andy Newman. #🐦

On the streets of #Miami, an artist has been showcasing the increasingly delicate dance of climate change, water and everyday life. As scientists and politicians in Paris wrestle with the complexities of battling #climatechange, Lars Jan is inviting people to view it in a way that he said makes people “feel climate change in their guts, rather than just understand it.’’ He brought the installation, “Holoscenes,” to Miami this week to coincide with the annual @artbasel extravaganza. @jasonhenry photographed #Holoscenes, which is showing until tomorrow, while on #nytassignment at #ArtBasel. #💃🌊

Women wept this afternoon in #Paris near Cafe Bonne Bière, a bar in the 11th Arrondissement that was the scene of one of the attacks on Friday. Signs of shock, grief and fear were everywhere in Paris today. Meanwhile, military action against the Islamic State escalated. President François Hollande told Parliament, "France is at war." Tomas Munita took this photo while on #nytassignment.

A young man and a lion cub from Brian Staples’s Traveling Safari. The photographer Jayanti Seiler captured the pair in Savannah, Georgia. For an ongoing project, Jayanti has been exploring the contradictions and complexities of the relationship between humans and animals. She photographs circus, shelter and taxidermied animals alongside the humans who take interest in them. Many of the people she meets say that they’re dedicated to preservation and protection. But, Jayanti said, “we’re taking animals out of their natural environments. They’re helping the animals, technically. But when do you draw the line? It’s complex, messy.” See more of Jayanti’s photos on the #lensblog by visiting the link in our profile.

On March 18, Sheena Wagstaff will make her debut at the @metmuseum’s new Breuer building. Since arriving from London four years ago, the former chief curator at @tate’s task has been to help the museum ramp up its presence in contemporary art. It seems safe to say that the @metmuseum’s modern art collection will differ from those of its famous New York neighbors. It will not be the @whitneymuseum. It will not duplicate @themuseumofmodernart. It won’t be the ever-expanding @guggenheim or the @newmuseum. Yet, it might turn into the @tate of Fifth Avenue — with all that that implies about the British fascination with post-colonial cultures and a desire to dismantle Western-centric versions of art history. @damonwinter photographed Sheena earlier this month in a conservation room at the new Breuer building.

The plains of #Mississippi one dew-covered morning. The photographer @robertrausch captured Prairie Wildlife, a former cattle ranch that was converted into a hunting preserve on Mississippi’s famous Black Prairie. Visit the link in our profile to see more photos from the @nytimestravel story. #regram #🌾

Summit Station, located 10,530 feet above sea level on the #Greenland ice sheet, is more than 260 miles from land. In the winter, when the sun does not rise from mid-November until late January, temperatures can dip to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and winds can exceed 60 miles per hour. This remote outpost is one of several Greenland sites where researchers from around the world gather data to improve climate models and help predict climate change that will affect future generations. Greenland’s ice sheet holds one of the largest freshwater deposits on the planet, and scientists estimate that its full melting could raise sea levels by more than 20 feet. This #nytweekender, we have been sharing photos by the @nytimes photographer @joshhaner, who spent 7 days in #Greenland. #nytweekender

The Illulissat Icefjord in #Greenland shows the three-way intersection of the Greenland ice sheet, calving glaciers and rising sea levels. The grinding glacier generates sediment, which is then pushed out to sea with the meltwater, forming a contrasting plume in the fjord. The @nytimes photographer @joshhaner traveled to icy Greenland to document the scientists mining for data to understand how climate change will alter the rest of the globe. #nytweekender

Avital Zeisler, a former ballerina, demonstrated a kick during a private self-defense session with a student. At 19, Avital was sexually assaulted by her then-boyfriend, after which she went through a debilitating depression. Now, at 26, she is a hand-to-hand combat expert who has trained members of the military and law enforcement. One of her specialities: #selfdefense in #heels, the idea being that women should learn to defend themselves, no matter what they’re wearing. “When I teach self-defense, I want to make sure it’s authentic to women,” Avital said. Follow @dina_litovsky to see more of her photos.

In her new movie, “Secret in Their Eyes,” Julia Roberts was meant to be a man. Her character in this noirish murder thriller — originally an Oscar-winning Argentine drama — was written as a man who loses his wife. But in the American remake, it is Julia who loses a family member, this time her daughter. “You’re drawn to things as an actor that have as much of an arc as possible,” the 48-year-old actress told @nytimes. “I don’t know how much resolve I had or could portray when I was 20. I think it’s a kind of a gift that comes with age, that you get more complexities to play.” @brinsonbanks photographed #JuliaRoberts in Santa Monica, California. Posing solo, the Oscar award-winning actress said “I always feel like a jackass.” “Secret in Their Eyes” opens next Friday.

It’s possible to celebrate a #glutenfree Thanksgiving. But with dishes like this one, it’s can be difficult to celebrate a guilt-free one. The wheat-free hazelnut crust that @nytfood used to make this cranberry curd tart is adapted from a cookie recipe found on the pastry chef and writer David Lebovitz’s popular website. Fans of lemon curd and the classic French tarte au citron will fall in love with this colorful confection. @evansungnyc photographed the tart — and some of its ingredients — for @nytfood.

Ryan Gosling had something in common with his costars on the set of “The Big Short,” his forthcoming comic drama. He didn’t know much about the film’s subject: Wall Street outsiders who anticipated the subprime mortgage collapse and made a mint betting against the American economy. “I thought I knew, but I didn’t really know anything at all,” said Ryan, 35, who plays a flashily attired loudmouth. The film’s director, Adam McKay, whose resume includes films like “Step Brothers” and “Anchorman,” is known for including improvised dialogue in his films. But because of the complex subject matter, improvisation was a challenge for the cast. @brinsonbanks photographed #RyanGosling while on #nytassignment.

Jessica Trout-Haney and Zachary Wood used nets to capture insects near the Russell Glacier in #Greenland. Their goal was to analyze biotoxins found in the insects, to learn how those toxins move through the food web. Scientific researchers believe that Greenland’s warming could allow new forms of toxic cyanobacteria to thrive where they previously could not. The @nytimes photographer @joshhaner traveled to the Greenland ice sheet to document scientists mining the icy environment for data that will help us understand how climate change will alter the rest of the globe. #nytweekender

A boat carrying migrants coming from Turkey arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos today. With hundreds of thousands of people crossing Europe’s borders, and economic and political pressure mounting to enact tighter controls, the Continent has stayed fairly steady in its response to the humanitarian emergency. But after the attacks in Paris on Friday, fears of Islamic terrorists infiltrating the migrant flow have deepened, and the talk has shifted sharply to security over compassion. #regram from @sergeyponomarev, who is on #nytassignment in Greece.

The first few years the photographer Russell Monk lived in Mexico, he was routinely startled by dogs, like the threatening-looking creature pictured here. The roof dogs of San Miguel de Allende survey their territory from an advantageous perch — in Russell’s words, “peering down from rooftops, their bodies contorted, sometimes leaping in an almost comical abandon.” Visit the link in our profile to see more of Russell Monk’s photos of #roofdogs.

President @fhollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France hosted a dinner in #Paris, where guests included President @barackobama and Secretary of State John Kerry. (Look in the mirror to see others in the room, including @crowleygraph, a @nytimes photographer who is photographing the #climatetalks.) Leaders of industrialized nations and developing countries have expressed near unanimous agreement that climate change is real, that it is dangerous and that something must be done. The disagreements will be in the details. Visit the link in our profile for insights and analysis. Follow @crowleygraph to see more photos. #regram #COP21

Julia Child's sherry vinegar-glazed onions with finely minced parsley. At the height of Julia’s fame in the 1970s and ’80s, her #Thanksgiving guests often told her she should remove her home number from the public directory. (This was an analog tool called a “telephone book.”) A lot of strangers, it seemed, had turkey problems and rang up the expert for advice. But rather than leaving them to tackle their turkeys alone, Julia embraced the role of national Thanksgiving commander in chief. @francescotonelli photographed Thanksgiving, the #JuliaChild way, for @nytfood. Visit the link in our profile to get the recipe and follow @nytfood to find more Thanksgiving menu ideas.

When Daysi Perdomo came to the United States as a 7-year-old, she could barely speak. At home in Honduras, doctors had determined that she was hearing-impaired. In 2013, father, Getulio, managed to bring Daysi to the New York City, where he had moved years earlier to find work. Reunited, the two live with Getulio’s girlfriend and her children just blocks from the ocean. Daysi wears hearing aids and attends a school for deaf students. She has learned to communicate in 3 languages: English, Spanish and sign language, which she is trying to teach the family. “I don’t find it that difficult,” her father said. “She’s a great teacher.” @michaeldappleton photographed Daysi and her father near their home in Far #Rockaway, Queens.

“Youngsters” cheered as Santa Claus approached during the 1950 @macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. “War clouds in Korea and the immediate memory of a railroad disaster” made the city a little quieter than usual that year on #Thanksgiving. That said, “at such hotels as the Waldorf-Astoria bookings were exceptionally heavy with turkey dinners ranging from $6 up without wine,” @nytimes reported. This #throwbackthanksgiving photo, by the staff photographer Ernie Sisto, comes from the @nytimes #archives. #tbt

“#Mets in the #Bronx.” The @nytimes columnist @104bx — who happens to be a @mets fan — found symbolism yesterday during a walk near the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx. To see more photos from the borough, follow @104bx, an “unrepentant Bronxite." #regram

Ten years ago, Blake and Stephanie Alexandre bought their kids 150 hens. The couple, who run a dairy business in Northern California, wanted to teach the children business principles and instill values like responsibility and care for nature. The pastured egg business, which on their farm means hens are allowed to spend much of the day in open pasture, has since become the mainstay of Alexandre Family EcoDairy Farms. This year, their 9 chicken flocks, each typically about 3,500 birds, will produce roughly 5 million eggs, commanding prices that make organic milk look cheap. @fremson captured some of the #chickens drinking water while on #nytassignment. #🐣

People looked into a closed cafe — where drinks and food were left on the tables — near the #Bataclan concert hall in Paris earlier today. In one of a series of coordinated attacks in the city, four gunmen brandishing AK-47 assault rifles opened fire on the venue last night. @kostyukov, who took this photo, is on #nytassignment in #Paris. Visit the link in our profile to see updates.

“Well hello, Diane Lane, you’re gorgeous.” Earlier this month, the actress was revisiting the haunts of her youth in Manhattan when a New York City traffic captain named Carol Torres approached her. Soon, Carol was embracing Diane, who returned her hug spontaneously, the two laughing and chattering like old friends. The encounter proved, #DianeLane insisted, that “New York is the friendliest place. Not everybody knows that.” @samuelhodgson photographed the actress and former New Yorker for @nytimesfashion.

Tucked cozily inside a sweatshirt, Dixie settled into her new surroundings in New York City. The @nytimes photographer @bengiville documented the arrival of 22 small-breed rescue puppies from Texas on Saturday in the Lower East Side. A Texas-based group called K-9 Mill Rescue worked with @waggytailrescue in New York to help place the dogs in foster care. The animals traveled for a full day by van to make it to the city. Follow @bengiville, a @nytimes staff photographer, to see more from her #urbananimal series. #regram

The Passage Saint-Sébastien near the Bataclan concert hall, where gunmen killed at least 80 people Friday night in #Paris. Among the questions that remain unanswered: How did the terrorists, who acted in three synchronized teams, pull off the deadliest terrorist attack in Western Europe since 2004? @pierreterdjman took this photo​ while on #nytassignment​ this morning.

"The first time standing behind the curtains … I was like 'The stadium is full, thousands of people,' and I thought, 'Am I going to freak out?' ” Kristin Finley is a @ringlingbros trapeze flyer. While on assignment for @NYTMag, the photographer @stephsinclairpix made portraits of #circus performers and the staff that support them. The performers she met practice so often and so rigorously that when their train is in motion, they shut down: They sleep, they read, they watch TV. Visit the link in our profile to read the full @NYTMag story. @stephsinclairpix is posting more portraits this weekend. #nytweekender #🎪🚂

The Oxford Botanic Garden — a cool, quiet wonderland. Oxford was once home to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, the largest college at @oxford_uni. Charles was a brilliant logician and a deacon in the Church of England, but you probably know him best by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. The fantastical world of "Alice in Wonderland” — written for Alice, the 10-year-old daughter of the college’s dean — is rooted in Oxford. The public garden that comes closest to realizing Alice’s dream of wandering “among those beds of bright flowers” is the Oxford Botanic Garden. Follow @nytimestravel to see more photos of Wonderland in Oxford by @andyhaslamphoto.

If you’re a Thanksgiving purist, this chocolate pecan pie might make you shake your head. But bear with us. Bittersweet chocolate adds depth to what is traditionally an achingly sweet pie. And bourbon gives it a grownup finish. @nytfood has broken #Thanksgiving dinner down to its essential elements, from the turkey to the potatoes, and of course, the pie. Visit the link in our profile to see their guide to what some would call the year’s most important meal. Photo by @andrewscrivani.

A troupe of men clad in bearskins danced through #Comanesti, Romania, stopping at homes where they had been invited to perform. In Romania’s Trotus Valley, this is a holiday tradition: Men, women and children wearing bearskins descend on homes to chase away the year’s bad spirits. The photographer @dianazeynebalhindawi, who spent her early childhood in Romania, remembered this scene fondly. Last year, she returned to photograph it. This #nytweekender, we’ll be sharing @dianazeynebalhindawi’s photos of Romania’s dancing bears, which were featured on the @nytimes #lensblog. Tap the link in our profile to see more photos. #🐻🐻🐻

“Circling 3,000 feet above San Francisco, hiding at dawn beneath the morning fog,” wrote @nytimessports reporter @johnbranchnyt, who posted this photo earlier today. @johnbranchnyt was on his way from California to Las Vegas, where he will be covering the National Finals Rodeo (@lasvegasnfr). #regram #frommywindow

Claude Monet, whom @nytimes deemed “The Last Impressionist,” died 89 years ago this week, in December 1926. A week after his death, Elisabeth L. Cary, a @nytimes arts editor in the early 1900s, wrote a glowing obituary about the impact the Impressionist #painter left on the art world. Her focus: Monet’s research into the baffling problems of light. “It was this movement from which nothing in nature could escape that he followed unceasingly,” Elisabeth wrote. “Of course, his goal was beyond his reach, beyond the reach of anyone: but the stubborn splendor of his battle for his idea places him among the masters for whom there can be no death.” This #portrait of #Monet, taken by @nytimes in the year before his death, came from our newsroom #archives. #tbt #🎨

Volunteers helped refugees, primarily from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, disembark on the Greek island of Lesbos. “The Aegean Sea is particularly rough, with the first signs of winter storms beginning in late September when I made this photograph,” wrote @ashgilbertson. “During their journey, many refugees were seasick, and some suffered from life-threatening dehydration and cold.” @ashgilbertson, a @viiphoto photographer, spent three weeks documenting the refugee crisis while on assignment for @unicef. His work was published in this weekend’s @nytimes opinion section. To see the full essay, visit the link in our profile.

For the people of the Marshall Islands, a warming planet is not an abstract idea. Most of the 1,000 or so islands, which are spread out over 29 narrow coral atolls in the South Pacific, are less than 6 feet above sea level — and few are more than a mile wide. In the global fight over #climatechange, leaders of vulnerable nations like this one are seeking to draw attention to the peril of rising seas. “It does not make sense for us to go to Paris and come back with something that says, ‘In a few years’ time, your country is going to be underwater,’” said Tony A. deBrum, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands. “We see the damage occurring now. We’re trying to beat back the sea.” @joshhaner used a #drone to shoot this video of encroaching waves. Visit the link in our profile to see more videos and photos from the #MarshallIslands.

Twice a week throughout the year, Hannah James walks almost half a mile in Greenland’s punishing conditions to reach an area with pristine air. She stops to put on a so-called clean suit, designed to keep the environment as sterile as possible. From there, she hikes another 300 feet to collect a snow sample. Hannah is a science technician for a logistics company called Polar Field Services. In Greenland, scientific researchers are mining the icy environment for data to understand how #climatechange will alter the rest of the globe. The @nytimes photographer @joshhaner spent 3 days on the Greenland ice sheet. We’ll be sharing more of @joshhaner’s photos from #Greenland this #nytweekender.

Ramona Kelley and @tankerbell celebrated the choreographer Twyla Tharp's 50th anniversary during a program at the David H. Koch Theater on Tuesday. “If the thought processes within Twyla Tharp’s dances could be written down in book form,” writes the @nytimes #dance critic Alistair Macaulay, “it would be the world’s most densely packed, intelligent, artful guide to high-entertainment dance-making.” @andrea_mohin took this photo during the New York premiere of “Preludes and Fugues.” The #TwylaTharp tour continues through Sunday. #regram

The ice ruptures from the Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the most active in the world, as seen through the cockpit of a low-flying LC-130 leaving Summit Station. The remote outpost is one of several sites in #Greenland where researchers from around the world are gathering data that will improve climate models and help predict how climate change will affect future generations. The @nytimes photographer @joshhaner spent 3 days on the Greenland ice sheet, where the sun does not rise from mid-November until late January and where temperatures can dip to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. #nytweekender

Where in the world is @nytimestravel? Every week, our globetrotting friends ask their followers to guess where this week’s travel stories have led them. Let us know where you think this photo was taken. (Bonus points if you can name the river.) The photographer @askmott captured this scene while on #nytassignment. Follow @nytimestravel to find out where he took the photo. #regram

It all started with an email, which told its recipients to meet at an intersection in the industrial wilds of #LongIslandCity, Queens. From there, they were instructed by text to follow a yellow painted line. They had been summoned to an elevated rail line, no longer in use, where Jackpin II, an ephemeral — and exclusive — speakeasy made its temporary home. For 5 nights in late November, around 180 people visited in groups of 20. The secret watering hole, which was located inside a 20-foot-long shipping container, is now gone. But the decommissioned rail line remains, and its owner is trying to figure out what to do with it. @benjaminnorman followed 2 guests in November as they made their way to the short-lived speakeasy.

The #supermodel @iammariaborges posed backstage at last night’s @VictoriasSecret Fashion Show, held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. @damonwinter photographed the event, which will be broadcast on prime-time television in 192 countries next month. The ensembles were adorned with what @nytimesfashion reporter Vanessa Friedman described as an “ocean of extras,” from golden wings to cutaway Marie Antoinette gowns. But, she writes: “The vibe is overwhelmingly naughty maid. That doesn’t do much to move female identity forward ... but it does make sense if the goal is to grab attention through a small screen.” Follow @nytimesfashion to see more photos from #VSF2015.

“Over Iowa,” @fremson wrote when she posted this photo of the state’s patchwork landscape last night. “Dreamy.” @fremson, a @nytimes staff photographer based in Seattle, was en route to Des Moines, where she will cover Saturday’s Democratic debate. #regram #iowa

@uscg veterans marched along Fifth Avenue earlier today during New York’s 96th annual #VeteransDay Parade. The march, known as America’s Parade, is the country’s largest tribute to American #veterans. @angelfranco_nyt took this photo near the @empirestatebldg. #🇺🇸

Residents of Kobani, a border town in northern Syria, are struggling with loss, failed services and widespread destruction. It has been 10 months since the Kurds, backed by hundreds of American airstrikes, prevailed in repelling an invasion by the Islamic State. Now, #Kobani is trying to overcome the deep scars of war. And there are signs of life: Shops selling cellphones, cigarettes and grilled chicken have reopened, and thousands of displaced residents are returning each month. @nytimes staff photographer Tyler Hicks traveled to Kobani, known in Arabic as Ain al-Arab, while on #nytassignment.

Pakistani-Americans from Midwood, Brooklyn, celebrated a wedding in Queens. @sarahyltonphoto traveled to Brooklyn in search of a way to tell the story of the borough’s Muslim community, religious profiling and police surveillance. “These are people who are good, they’re working hard, they’re trying to make a life for themselves and their children,” said @sarahyltonphoto, whose project is part of a fellowship from @magnumfoundation. Visit the link in our profile to see more of her photos.

A group of kids played basketball at Stroud Playground in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The Prospect Park Alliance, which raises about $4 million a year, is redesigning the playground. The move is part of a deal the @nycmayorsoffice struck with eight of the largest park conservancies to donate expertise, workers’ hours and, to a lesser extent, cash to help improve parks in poor neighborhoods. @jtaggfoto visited Stroud Playground on Friday. #🏀

The photographer @lynseyaddrio found this love letter on the ground in #Sicily last year after photographing a ship of migrants and refugees disembarking while she was on #nytassignment. "Rana, I wanted to be with you,” the note begins. To the best that @nytimes foreign correspondents could make out, a rough translation reads: “Don't you forget us. I love you so much. I hope you won't forget me. Farewell my love. A loves R. I love you." Follow @lynseyaddario to see more of her work. #regram

Every holiday season, troupes of men, women and children wearing bearskins gather in #Moinesti for the city’s annual Bear Parade. The photographer @dianazeynebalhindawi, who left #Romania when she was 8, never forgot the raucous packs of bears playing music for tips, liquor and cubes of pig fat. When she returned to her childhood home last year, @dianazeynebalhindawi spent a few frigid days with the dancing bears. This #nytweekender, we’ll be sharing @dianazeynebalhindawi’s photos, which were featured last week on the @nytimes #lensblog. Tap the link in our profile to see more. #🐻

Victor Calise, 43, rides his handcycle through @centralparknyc every Sunday morning. Victor, who is commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities in New York City, has been using a wheelchair since 1994, when a mountain biking accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. More recently, he has been working with @nycparks to help bring the city’s parks, beaches and recreational facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Accessibility affects everyone,” he told @nyitmes. “People with strollers, people with aging parents.” @cassandragiraldo photographed Victor with his daughter Lola, 10, in #CentralPark.

The actress Helen Foster, a “featured player” at @universalpictures, posed in November 1927 with what most would agree is the chief ingredient of a seasonal holiday dinner. That month, @nytimes reported that a plentiful supply of turkeys from Texas and Oklahoma was available in New York, for just 45 to 52 cents per pound. And New Yorkers were gobbling them up, it seems. “Turkey will be king from Park Avenue to ... St. Mark's Place,” the @nytimes proclaimed in an article that month. #tbt photo from the @nytimes archives. #throwbackthanksgiving #🍗🍴

For reasons that may never be known, maybe just by chance, the November 13 attacks in #Paris skipped over the shops, outdoor cafes and theaters along Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud. The street, not far from the Bataclan theater and the the Café Bonne Bière, where 5 died, is the essence of what the terrorists were targeting: civic pluralism and street life. With its bobo — or "bourgeois bohemian" — bars toward one end and Muslim enclave at the other, Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud is a meeting place for a true mix of Parisians. It’s Paris in a nutshell. The @nytimes staff photographer Tyler Hicks wandered Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud while on #nytassignment in France. Visit the link in our profile to see more photos.

Yesterday, #Seattle began to say goodbye to the gum collection that has been accumulating on a wall in #PikePlaceMarket for 20 years — a deeply encrusted pointillist display of perhaps a million pieces. Pike Place officials say that about 2,200 pounds of sugary, cavity-inducing weight threatens the integrity of the 115-year-old brick walls. Crews started removing the gum using garden rakes and superheated water yesterday morning — the beginning of what will be a 3-day display of industrial-strength hygiene. @fremson got up-close and personal with the #gumwall while on #nytassignment.

From this vantage point, the singer @itstonybennett can look out over a 51-block verdant stretch of @centralparknyc and decide where he wants to paint. New York City’s great crooner — the recipient of 18 @thegrammys so far — has been painting since he was 8 years old. @itstonybennett signs his works with his birth name, Anthony Benedetto, and has published two books of his art. The @smithsonian keeps three of his paintings in its permanent collections. His identity as a painter, though, is entwined with @centralparknyc, which he says is his antidote to urbanity. “I always paint nature,” @itstonybennett said. “Nature is the boss.” @damonwinter photographed the 89-year-old #AmericanTreasure in his #CentralPark studio. #🎨

Mennonite children played at a family farm in #Capulín, Mexico. Nearly a century after the Anabaptist #Mennonites migrated from Canada to Chihuahua State, hundreds are trading the land they call home in search of cheaper land, where water is more plentiful. Underground reservoirs in Chihuahua have been drained by thirsty crops, like corn, that are the mainstay of the Mennonites’ success. Meanwhile, competition for groundwater has strained their relations with other farmers. Photo by @danielberehulak.

Kurdish militia and family members attended a funeral for Syrian fighters last month in Qamishli. When the Syrian government, stretched thin by the war, left this northeastern area along the Turkish border, ISIS entered and attempted to expand its so-called caliphate. Now the border area is in #Kurdish hands, ruled by neither ISIS nor Assad. With the collapse of the Syrian state, militias here have flourished, but most people are just trying to get by — or at least piece their communities back together after months under the black flag and public punishments of the Islamic State. Tyler Hicks captured this scene of mourning while on #nytassignment in Qamishli, Syria.

A pair of twins who were separated by war were reunited on Monday, their birthday. James P. Reilly and Michael J. Reilly, fraternal twins from central Queens, were part of a unit that stormed the beach of a small Japanese-held island in the Pacific in 1943, when the twins were 20 years old. As the @marines waded ashore, their landing craft impeded by the coral reefs, James was shot, not far from his brother. His battlefield grave was lost for decades, but rediscovered this year. His remains were buried once again, this time in Central Florida, 60 yards from the grave of Michael, who died in 2005. Follow @melissalyttle to see more photos and visit the link in our profile to read the full story. #veteransday #neverforget

A year ago, the producers of “The Color Purple” called Jennifer Hudson (@iamjhud) and asked if she would consider joining the cast of the Broadway show’s revival. “I said: ‘Sure. Yes. Great. Got it. Yup,’” @iamjhud recalled. Only then did she wonder which role they wanted her to play. The answer: Shug Avery, a voluptuous nightclub singer who awakens the musical’s heroine to love and sexual pleasure. This came as something of a surprise. The singer and actress thinks of herself as “the big girl with the big voice and the big personality.” Not a siren. “But I was like, ‘OK, I think I got a bit of Shug Avery in me,” @iamjhud said. @bwaycolorpurple, which is in previews, opens on December 10. @cgbp photographed #JenniferHudson while on #nytassignment.

Yonekazu Satoda, “94½,” shared a laugh with his wife, Daisy. Yonekazu was 22 in 1942 when he and his family were sent to an internment camp in the Arkansas Delta. It wasn’t until recently that he remembered the diary he wrote during his time there. Today, his roughly 1,000 diary entries are part of an exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library at @yale. Yonekazu wrote the diary mostly to calm his mother, who spoke only Japanese and worried about her extroverted son’s getting into trouble. Yonekazu’s writing chronicled simple pleasures, like drinking a cold root beer, as well as the monotony of confinement, which he noted by counting full moons. @ramintalaie photographed the Satodas in their apartment in Japantown, in San Francisco.

A troupe danced their way through #Asău, a village in Romania, on their way to perform at private homes. During the days leading up to the New Year, it’s not unusual for roads in the Trotus Valley of Romania to be blocked by troupes of revelers dressed as dancing bears. @dianazeynebalhindawi remembered scenes like this from her early childhood, and last year, returned to Romania to photograph them. “There were so many times I wanted to put my camera down, put on a bearskin and join them,” @dianazeynebalhindawi said. “It’s really magical, like going into a fairy tale.” Tap the link in our profile to read more on the @nytimes #lensblog, and follow @dianazeynebalhindawi to see more of her work. #nytweekender #🐻

The countdown is on. As all cooks know, #Thanksgiving is an adventure and a challenge: how to come up with fresh ideas that keep the dish on the right side of tradition? @nytfood looked to the work of Julia Child for inspiration. The recipe for Aunt Helen’s Fluffy Pumpkin #Pie, pictured here, was published in Parade in November 1982, when Julia was writing a recipe column for the magazine. Her addition of molasses, extra spices and especially bourbon breathe new life into the filling. To find Aunt Helen’s recipe, visit the link in our profile. Photo by @francescotonelli. #regram

A staged living room in Old Bethpage, New York, where earlier today, the Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center conducted a live fire. Their goal: Emphasizing the importance of keeping a Christmas tree well-watered. In order to make the #firesafety demonstration as realistic as possible, the firefighters built the living room, decked the tree and wrapped the presents. @christianhitehansen, who took this photo, said the set went up into flames in about 2 minutes. “That’s what they said it would do and that’s what it did,” he said. #🎄🔥

“There’s so much to delight and confound, but given that Tokyo is home to 13.5 million people, there’s also ample risk of being overwhelmed by it all.” The @nytimestravel writer Bonnie Tsui traveled to Tokyo with three generations — her children, her husband and the children’s grandparents. The photographer Ko Sasaki captured Omotesando, pictured here, and other sights around #Tokyo. See more photos by visiting the link in our profile. #表参道

Tatiana Tchalabaeva, of the Thundering Cossack Warriors, is an acrobatic rider with @ringlingbros circus. The men and women of @ringlingbros all say that only #circus people like them can understand what it's like to spend 44 weeks a year traveling on a train that is a full mile long. ‘‘The train is like a city on wheels,” said @stephsinclairpix, who spent 11 days photographing @ringlingbros circus performers and their staff while on assignment for @NYTMag. To read the full story, which considers the end of an era for @ringlingbros, visit the link in our profile. Follow @stephsinclairpix to see more portraits. #nytweekender #🎪🚂

Oleg, 11, sat among the wreckage of his school in Nikishino, a village in the separatist area of eastern Ukraine. “When the teachers would yell at us, we used to say: ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if the school blew up?’” Oleg recalled. “I would never say that anymore.” Most of Nikishino’s 360 houses were wholly or partly destroyed by fighting last winter between the pro-Western government in Kiev and Russian-backed rebels. With a cease-fire but no final resolution, roughly 3.2 million people, including Oleg and his family, now live amid destruction. For this weekend’s #NYTMag, @lynseyaddario photographed Oleg and two other children who have been #displaced by war and persecution. Visit the link in our profile to read their stories. #nytweekender

The @nytimes dance photographer @andrea_mohin captured @saramearns as Dewdrop on Friday in @nycballet’s “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” at @lincolncenter. As the opening night performance re-established, The #Nutcracker doesn’t get old, with more than enough theatrical detail to merit repeated viewings, and more than enough layers of embedded history and emotional depth to fascinate again and again. And for New Yorkers, it’s entirely possible to experience The Nutcracker again and again. Visit the link in our profile for a lineup of 11 different performances in the New York region. Follow @andrea_mohin to see more images from the @nycballet premiere.

One truth about #Thanksgiving turkeys: More work does not necessarily yield a better bird. That’s why @nytfood columnist @clarkbar skips the brining, stuffing, trussing and basting. Instead she uses a dry rub (well, technically a dry brine) — a salt and pepper massage that locks in moisture and seasons the flesh. With no stuffing or trussing, the bird cooks more quickly, with the white and dark meat finishing closer to the same time. @andrewscrivani photographed this simple roast #turkey for @nytfood. Visit the link in our profile to get the recipe. #🍗

“I have this thing in my head where I’m going to change the world, but with comedy,” said @noelwells, who plays Rachel in @azizansari’s “Master of None.” @noelwells has wooed critics in her role as a music publicist and maybe girlfriend to @azizansari’s Dev. The 28-year-old actress is also working on a @comedycentral series with her real boyfriend, Flint Wainess. So even though her contract with @nbcsnl was canceled after just a year, things are definitely looking good for @noelwells. @davidwalterbanks photographed the 28-year-old actress at her home in Hollywood Hills.

A drone’s-eye view of Majuro Island in Majuro Atoll. For the people of the Marshall Islands, a warming planet is not an abstract idea. In 2013, flooding tides damaged hundreds of homes on #Majuro, and the elementary school closed for nearly 2 weeks to shelter families. That same year, the airport was forced to close temporarily after tides flooded the runway. Most of the 1,000 or so islands, which are spread out over 29 narrow coral atolls in the South Pacific, are less than 6 feet above sea level — and few are more than a mile wide. @nytimes staff photographer @joshhaner used a #drone to shoot this #video. Visit the link in our profile to see more videos and photos from his time in the #MarshallIslands.

Laos is known as the Land of a Million Elephants. A @nytimestravel writer visited Elephant Village, a sanctuary for the animals — many of which performed hard labor in the logging industry. The sanctuary sits in a tranquil setting overlooking the Nam Khan river, about a half-hour drive from Luang Prabang, a tiny, ancient capital. @askmott photographed an #elephant during its early-morning routine — a meal before the tourists arrived. #🐘

“I’ve been here 38 years; I’m not going anywhere,” said Donna Mossman, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, who recently refused a buyout to vacate her apartment. “But if you’ve never had $50,000, that seems like a lot of money.” The African-Americans and West Indians who have made their homes for generations in this Brooklyn neighborhood are scattering, muscled out by surging rents and, tenant advocates say, landlords who harass tenants, withhold repairs or use evictions to make room for higher-income renters. @bryanthomasphoto photographed Donna while on #nytassignment in Brooklyn. #gentrification

Wrapped in a thermal blanket, an Afghan #refugee who had just arrived at Skala Sikaminias beach on the Greek island of Lesbos cried as he received medical care from a Red Cross doctor. A growing sense that #Afghanistan is slipping into greater chaos is driving rising numbers of Afghans to flee for Europe. In October, about 64,000 Afghans were registered entering Greece, second only to the number Syrians entering the country. But after weeks of harrowing travel, Afghans may be facing a new obstacle to their dreams of safety and security: a hardening stance by the German government on who gets to stay for a year or more. @limauricio has been photographing the migrant crisis in Europe while on #nytassignment.

Hong Kong, a city of 7.2 million people, is home to more skyscrapers than anywhere else on the planet. But the former British colony also has a wild side. Most of Hong Kong is not an urban jungle, but rather a real one, teeming with wildlife. As many as 1,000-odd feral bovines — mostly cattle, but also water buffaloes — reside in #HongKong, which is roughly the size of Luxembourg. While some of the animals make their homes deep inside the country parks, others live near people, occasionally raiding gardens and blocking traffic. @lamyikfei had a brush with wildlife while on #nytassignment in Hong Kong. #🐮

A squirrel suffered an unhappy fate along the corridors under the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at #Bronx Community College in University Heights. @bengiville took this photo during a tour of Gould Memorial Library, an opulent 116-year-old building in need of millions of dollars of repairs. Yet even with most rooms in a state of abandonment and decrepitude, Gould — the gateway to the Hall of Fame — remains one the New York City’s splendors. Follow @bengiville to see more photographs.

Gabriel Hanganu, known as the “bear tamer,” snuck a kiss from his fiancée, Anca Sabau, who huddled for warmth beneath hanging bearskins. In the Trotus Valley of Romania, troupes of men, women and children wearing bearskins descend on homes — ostensibly to chase away bad spirits, but also to make merry. @dianazeynebalhindawi spent a few frigid days photographing the bears as they performed in the village square, wandered at night, and occasionally made housecalls. This #nytweekender, we’ll be sharing more of @dianazeynebalhindawi’s photos of Romania’s dancing bear troupes, which were featured on the @nytimes #lensblog. Tap the link in our profile to see more. #🐻

The private utility company that supplies water to Apple Valley, a working-class town in the high desert east of Los Angeles, has been ordered to cut back 28 percent. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, the superrich have been able to keep multiple pools filled without fines for excessive water use. Four years into the worst #drought in California’s recorded history, districts are grappling with a mandatory order from the state to reduce water consumption by up to 36 percent. The contrast between the strict enforcement in Apple Valley and the unchecked profligacy in places like Bel Air has unleashed anger and indignation. @malmeidapix photographed Apple Valley while on #nytassignment.

During a recent trip to Cuba, where she was working on a story for @nytimessports, the photographer @bengiville took a late-night taxi ride along the #Malecón. Follow @bengiville to see more of her #nytassignment photos from Cuba and elsewhere. #regram

“Driving around the countryside in Liberia,” writes the Spanish photographer @samuel_aranda13, who is traveling there on #nytassignment. Follow @samuel_aranda13 to see more photos from his travels in #Liberia and elsewhere in Africa. #regram

Where in the world is @nytimestravel? Once a week, our globetrotting friends ask the Instagram community to guess where one of their stories has led them. This week, it isn't hard to guess the name of the country, so they’re looking for specifics. Where do you think @kosasaki was when he took this photo? Follow @nytimestravel to make a guess about another photo from the same city. We'll share more later this week.

When the classical pianist and singer known as @ourladyj learned that her health plan did not cover transition-related care, she was distraught. It reminded her of a darker time in her life, when she was suicidal and struggled with substance abuse, largely as a result of being unable to afford the medical care she needed to transition genders. “When you are living in a body you don’t identify with, it’s easy not to take care of that body,” said @ourladyj, who is a writer for @transparentamazon. “I am healthier because of what I have done with my transition. I am a more productive person. I am a better citizen.” @damonwinter took this #multipleexposure photo of @ourladyj for a @nytimes opinion series about transgender experiences and the challenges ahead. Visit the link in our profile to learn more.

@mileycyrus performed with @waynecoyne5, the singer and guitarist in the Flaming Lips, at @terminal5nyc in Manhattan on Saturday. “There was enough confetti, costumes and flickering and throbbing Day-Glo visuals projected onto screens to fuel an acid test,” the @nytimes critic Caryn Ganz wrote of the show. “There were not, however, enough songs to carry a two-hour-plus show.” @chadbatka photographed @mileycyrus, 23, whose latest album, “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz,” was inspired by the singer’s close relationship with animals. The album was made without the support of her major label but, she has said, with the assistance of various drugs.

Sandwiched between headlines that read “Copters Deliver Turkeys in Korea” and “Korea Peace Talks Brighten Holiday,” a handful of photos in the Thanksgiving 1951 edition of @nytimes showed “the New York housewife out to do her Thanksgiving Day shopping.” Here, Anton Reitmeier, a clerk at the Washington Beef Company's retail store, handed turkeys over the counter to waiting patrons. We found this #tbt photo by @nytimes staff photographer Carl Gossett in our newsroom archives. #throwbackthanksgiving #🍗🍴

A sour cream pumpkin pie photographed in the @nytimes studio in 1958. The @nytimes printed the recipe for the #pie alongside a wide-ranging look at the etymology of the word “pumpkin.” To wit: “ ‘Pumpkin head’ was ... a slang term applied to early New Englanders because of their round haircuts. And the phrase, ‘Some pumpkins,’ is still used in reference to Very Important People, regardless of their haircuts, and very important matters in general.” #veryimportant #themoreyouknow #throwbackthanksgiving #tbt #🍴

With official vote tallies seemingly confirming a landslide victory for the opposition, #Myanmar is electrified by the prospect of its long-suffering democracy movement taking control of Parliament and the executive branch. For the past five decades, the military establishment has ruled the country in one way or another. The opposition party — led by the Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — achieved an apparently lopsided triumph in Sunday’s landmark elections. But the victory could bring a troubled transition for Myanmar, where the role of the military extends well beyond just politics. @adamjdean photographed supporters of the opposition celebrating election results that were displayed on a giant TV screen in #Yangon on Sunday night.

Mourners reflected in the bullet-pierced glass of Le Carillon, the scene of one of Friday’s attacks in #Paris. Officials have been trying to make sense of a torrent of emerging intelligence about the planning and execution of the attacks. Seven attackers died in the assault on Friday night, but it now seems clear that at least nine directly took part. Photo by Tyler Hicks, a @nytimes staff photographer who is on #nytassignment in #Paris.

To measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the water, Grace Andrews and Josh Unterman collected samples from a stream of meltwater flowing across the #Greenland ice sheet. Winding through rivers and fjords, the meltwater flows toward the ocean, where it eventually merges with towering icebergs. Grace wants to learn whether the carbon dioxide in the stream is derived from an ancient carbon source that has been sequestered and stored in the ice for thousands of years. If so, this means that as the ice sheet melts, some of this ancient carbon is being released. At the moment, climate models do not account for that. This #nytweekender, we'll be sharing photos from #Greenland by @joshhaner, who traveled there to document scientists mining the icy environment for data to help better understand climate change.

Julio Pinedo lives with his wife in a small apartment atop a store in Mururata, #Bolivia. For a living, he farms coca leaves and other crops, and in his downtime, he likes to watch television. Julio lives a humble life — especially if you consider his lineage. This modest monarch can trace his roots to Senegal, where his ancestor Prince Uchicho was enslaved by the Spaniards in 1820 and forced to work in Bolivian silver mines. In 1992, Julio was given the ceremonial title of king after a historian set about to find the prince’s heir. Since then, he has been known as King Don Julio I. The photographer @susana_giron_photo spent time with the king and his wife, Queen Angelica. See more photos on the #lensblog.

Where in the world is @nytimestravel? Once a week, our resident explorers ask the Instagram community to guess where one of this week's travel stories has led them. Where do you think our staff photographer @heislerphoto was when he took this photo in May? Follow @nytimestravel to see the answer tomorrow. #regram

Some cooks prefer the #Thanksgiving meal, while others can’t wait for the after-party. Before you raid the fridge and commence a grazing free-for-all, consider cobbling together something more refined. Using common Thanksgiving leftovers, @nytfood columnist @david_tanis cooked up a tasty trio of recipes: a Thanksgiving take on biscuits and gravy, a layered savory pie and a shawarma-like pulled turkey sandwich. Visit the link in our profile to get the recipes. (But, if forkfuls of cold stuffing sound more your speed today, we understand.) Karsten Moran photographed this spread for @nytfood.

Kurdish forces captured a stretch of a strategic highway in northern #Iraq today with the help of thousands of Yazidi fighters. The road is a supply line connecting Raqqa, in Syria, to Mosul, in Iraq. The campaign marked the early stages of an offensive to reclaim the town of #Sinjar from ISIS, which seized it last year. @bdentonphoto — one of 2 @nytimes journalists embedded with the fighters — captured an ISIS suicide car bomb as it exploded near Mount Sinjar. The bomb was blown up by an antitank missile before the driver could reach his target.

A candlelight #vigil last night outside San Bernardino County headquarters for victims of the mass shooting that killed 14 people and wounded 21 last week. County offices in San Bernardino opened yesterday morning for the first time since the shooting, with heightened security measures and a pledge by county leaders to try to return life to normal in this shattered community. But one office will remain closed for at least another week: the Division of Environmental Health Services, whose members were assembled at a training session at the Inland Regional Center when the shooting took place. @nytimes photographer @malmeidapix has been on #nytassignment in #SanBernardino. #regram

A field inside the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the northern Petén region of Guatemala that has been illegally cleared of nearly all its trees. Cattle ranchers, illegal loggers and drug traffickers have all laid waste to forestland, in spite of government declarations intended to protect it. An experiment at the Maya reserve suggests that the most effective way to protect forests is to give control of them to the communities who already live there. After all, those who can secure a living from the forest have an incentive to protect it. @meridithkohut photographed the Maya Biosphere Reserve while on #nytassignment in #Guatemala.

One of New York’s greatest historical landmarks, Federal Hall National Memorial, can be defined by what it is not. It is not widely enough known. It is not well enough visited. And it is not Federal Hall, writes the @nytimes reporter David Dunlap. That building — where George Washington was inaugurated and where the first Congress convened in 1789 — was demolished in 1812. The memorial built 30 years later was called the Custom House. To many in Lower Manhattan passing by today, it’s a mysterious building that appears to be sealed shut. But its admirers are about to make another attempt at engaging the public. @heislerphoto captured a worker adjusting lighting on an eagle sculpture in the main rotunda of Federal Hall.

At a glance, @andrewlloydwebber — the composer of “Cats,” “Evita” and “The Phantom of the Opera” — might be the least likely person to produce and compose a musical about pent-up prep-schoolers who learn to stick it to the man. But he’s done just that for the Broadway adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black comedy “School of Rock” (@sormusical). “I haven’t written a score that’s going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.” Andrew said of the $16 million show. “But I just hope it’s fun.” @sormusical is in previews and opens on December 6. @damonwinter photographed the 67-year-old composer and musical-theater impresario in Midtown Manhattan.

Admit it: Some of you secretly (or not so secretly) live for the kind of cranberry sauce that comes in a can. And that’s okay! This year, though, skip the store-bought variety, and try @nytfood’s cranberry-orange jelly. This red ruby mass with an unexpected dash of orange and spice looks great in a glass bowl, but @nytfood recommends making it in a mold — that way you can display it on a cake plate and serve it in slices. Visit the link in our profile to get the @nytfood recipe, which was photographed by @melinahammer.

Stonehenge has captivated generation after generation. Archaeologists over the years have cataloged the rocks, divined meaning from their placement and studied animal and human bones buried there. But modern technologies like aerial imagery and ground-penetrating radar have revealed more about the people for whom Stonehenge and nearby monuments held great meaning. Last month, researchers excavated the area around a toppled tree shelter built about 4300 B.C. The home, which predates Stonehenge by more than 1,000 years, hints at the progression of early Britons. While exploring the landscape, Andrew Testa photographed #Woodhenge, a site about two miles from Stonehenge that was built around 2600–2400 B.C. Today, concrete posts mark the places where concentric rings of timber posts once stood.

The audience at a government-organized horse racing festival in #Yushu, China, a city in the southwestern #Qinghai province. All announcements at the festival were made in both Chinese and #Tibetan, even though there were few Chinese speakers in attendance. In recent years, China has sharply scaled back, and restricted, the teaching of languages spoken by ethnic minorities in its western regions. Instead, leaders are promoting instruction in Chinese as part of a broad push to encourage the assimilation of Tibetans, Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into the dominant ethnic Han culture. Especially contentious, though, has been the shift away from teaching Tibetan. Photo by @gillessabrie, who worked on #nytassignment with Edward Wong and @nytvideo journalist @jkessel.

In November 1993, the @nytimes photographer Chester Higgins, Jr. captured the star that was to be placed atop the Christmas tree at #Rockefeller Center. @rockcenternyc welcomed yet another festive tree last night — and with it, 45,000 LED lights. When the 10-ton #Christmas tree comes down at the end of the holiday season, it will be used as lumber for @habitatforhumanity. We found this photo in our newsroom #archives. Visit the link in our profile to see more archival photos. #tbt #🎄

In the face of Chinese competition, the tanneries in Kano, Nigeria have laid off most of their staff. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the northern Nigerian city, dozens of modern fabric factories have closed. Despite the high cost of labor in China, it is still cheaper and easier to mass-produce garments there. The relationship between China and Nigeria is a complex web of dependency, one replicated in dozens of developing countries around the world. But China’s extensive reach is now meeting resistance in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy. The @nytimes staff photographer Tyler Hicks traveled to #Kano, where he photographed workers at the tannery pictured here. Visit the link in our profile to read more about Chinese investment in #Nigeria.

After winning first place at the annual Bear Parade in #Comanesti, Romania, Dumitru Toloaca‘s troupe celebrated in the streets. While clad in bearskins, they sang, they danced, and they toasted with homemade palinka liquor. And the photographer @dianazeynebalhindawi captured it all. For @dianazeynebalhindawi, it was a familiar scene. She spent the first 8 years of her childhood in Romania’s Trotus Valley and recalled raucous packs of people wearing bearskins emerging each holiday season, ostensibly to chase away bad spirits from the previous year. This #nytweekender, we’re sharing @dianazeynebalhindawi’s photos from a few frigid days she spent with troupes of Romania’s dancing (and drinking) bears. Visit the link in our profile to see more on the @nytimes #lensblog. #🐻

Want to learn how to break into an electronic voting machine? Maybe a smartphone? What about a car? Thanks to the legacy of military rule and a culture of breaking rules of all sorts, #Argentina has become one of the best places on earth to find people who could show you how. Federico Kirschbaum, left, and Francisco Amato — who were photographed by @akirchuk — are co-founders of the security company Infobyte. The pair started #EkoParty, the largest hacking conference in Latin America. What began as a small online gathering is now an event that draws hundreds of Argentine hackers, ranging from 14 to 45 years old.

Bartica, a town in Guyana, is the jumping-off point for what the Guyanese call “the interior,” a sparsely populated region of forest and savanna that holds indigenous villages, mining camps and deposits of gold, diamonds, bauxite and other minerals. The region, a two-and-a-half-hour journey by car and boat from Guyana's capital, Georgetown, is at the center of a bitter battle between neighbors. In a squabble that goes back more than 100 years, Venezuela insists it is the rightful owner of everything west of the Essequibo — Guyana’s largest river — laying claim to nearly two-thirds of Guyana’s territory, including #Bartica. Photo by @meridithkohut.

‘‘I feel like we do too much telling women: ‘You aren’t aggressive enough. You haven’t made yourself known enough.’ And it’s like, women shouldn’t be having to hustle twice as fast to get what men achieve just by showing up.’’ @lenadunham, right, spoke to @NYTMag about what it’s like to be a woman in Hollywood. Female executives and filmmakers are ready to run studios and direct blockbuster pictures. But what will it take to dismantle the pervasive sexism that keeps them from doing it? @aspictures photographed @jennikonner, left — the executive producer of @girlshbo — @lenadunham and 61 other women directors, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers and executives. Follow our new @NYTMag account to see more portraits.

A child's shoe that was left near a popular border crossing by the Rio Grande in Texas. The number of migrants crossing the #RioGrande illegally has risen sharply in recent weeks, replaying scenes from last year’s influx of Central American children and families into South Texas. Many of the migrants crossing are women and children fleeing vicious gangs and endemic sexual violence in Central America. Rather than hiding from Border Patrol agents they often try to find them, to ask for protection and start the long legal battle to remain here. #regram from @ilanapl, who took this photo in November.

Remnants of homes in Nikishino, a small rural village in eastern Ukraine. Once picturesque, Nikishino is today a tableau of shattered glass, broken concrete and scorched timber — the result of months of fighting between the pro-Western government in Kiev and Russian-backed rebels. At first, the conflict was far from Nikishino. Then in July, scorched scraps of clothing and bits of paper with foreign writing blew through the village — debris from the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. In the ensuing months, most of Nikishino’s 360 houses were wholly or partly destroyed. This weekend’s #NYTMag tells the story of one Nikishino resident: an 11-year-old named Oleg. @lynseyaddario photographed Oleg for a story about children displaced by war and persecution. #nytweekender

Manny Guzman, 46, set up a memorial cross today near the police perimeter of yesterday’s shooting in #SanBernardino, California. The attack was the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since the assault on an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, nearly 3 years ago. The @nytimes photographer @malmeidapix, who has been covering the aftermath, said Manny told her that he was heartbroken when he heard the news. His father was killed during the holiday season 20 years ago, he said. “It brought back memories,” @malmeidapix said, “and he said it was heartbreaking; he felt for them.” Visit the link in our profile for updates on the story.

With the help of #Buddhist priests, injured birds that had been rehabilitated by @wildbirdfund were freed in @centralparknyc. Rituals like this one, known as life-release ceremonies, are believed to generate positive #karma for the animals, as well as for the people releasing them. But environmental and animal-rights advocates have been concerned that many of the animals released in such ceremonies — often nonnative species — pose risks to local ecosystems and to the animals themselves. @heislerphoto captured the humane release last week. Follow him to see another image.

“When I see families come out, and they have big smiles, and the kids are happy … it hits home. I've done my job good because I made sure we got here safely.” Jerry Lee Bentley has been a train mechanic with @ringlingbros for 16 years. The photographer @stephsinclairpix photographed @ringlingbros #circus performers and staff while on assignment for @NYTMag. More than 300 people make up the unit she documented, but only about 100 of them are actual performers. The rest are support staff, ranging from trainers to carpenters. To see photos of life aboard the train, visit the link in our profile. Follow @stephsinclairpix to see additional #portraits. #nytweekender #🎪🚂

It is a microcosm of American pop culture in all its ersatz glory, the anti-Disneyland, a realm of tawdry spectacle and mindless distraction. It is, of course, #ConeyIsland, whose history and culture are chronicled in a new exhibition at @brooklynmusem. This morning, along with a group of Instagrammers, @heislerphoto had a chance to to see the show a couple of days early. Among other things, the exhibition — which opens this Friday — presents photos by Walker Evans, Weegee and Diane Arbus, as well as posters, artifacts and carousel animals, like the one pictured here. #emptybrooklynmuseum

They helped erase Ebola in Liberia. Now #Liberia is erasing them. It has been more than a year since the deeply religious country embraced one of its biggest taboos — cremating bodies — to rein in the #Ebola pandemic. In that time, the majority of Liberians have started to move on. But some of the 30 young men who worked at the crematory pictured here are haunted by the work they did, burning close to 2,000 bodies. Ostracized by relatives and fellow countrymen, they now spend nights with alcohol or drugs, habits they said they acquired to get through the mass burnings. @samuel_aranda13 photographed 2 former workers at the now-abandoned crematory in Marshall, Liberia.

The B-52 is a @usairforce plane that refuses to die. Originally slated for retirement generations ago, it continues to be deployed in conflict after conflict. Now, it is expected to keep flying until at least 2040. The #B52 was the first plane to drop a hydrogen bomb, in the Bikini Islands in 1956, and laser-guided bombs in Afghanistan in 2006. It has outlived its replacement. And its replacement’s replacement. And its replacement’s replacement’s replacement. @edmundfountain photographed some aging B-52s at Barksdale Air Force Base in #Louisiana, where about half of the bombers are based.

“Everybody loves the circus. It’s a buffet of the extraordinary." When Johnathan Lee Iverson was named #ringmaster at @ringlingbros in 1998, he was both the traveling circus's first African-American ringmaster and the youngest in its history. While on assignment for @NYTMag, the photographer @stephsinclairpix spent 11 days photographing @ringlingbros #circus performers and their staff. Each year, they spend 44 weeks aboard the circus train, traveling an average of 20,000 miles from coast to coast. Visit the link in our profile to read the @NYTMag story and follow @stephsinclairpix to see more #portraits. #nytweekender #🎪🚂

The crew of a Filipino fishing boat. Seamen on small boats like this one, who make about $32 a month, say they want to work on larger vessels for the promise of a higher income, despite reports of abuse and unpaid wages. The photographer @hannahrey worked with @nytimes reporter @ian_urbina on a story about illegal “manning agencies,” which trick villagers in the Philippines with false promises of high wages and send them to ships notorious for poor safety and labor records. Men are tricked and indebted on land, then abused or abandoned at sea. Follow @hannahrey to see a video from the story and visit the link in our profile to read more.

Aws, 25, was a member of the Khansaa Brigade — the all-female morality police of the Islamic State — until she fled from her home in Raqqa, Syria. But her life was once much different. Aws, who we have identified by a nickname, grew up in a middle-class family and studied English literature in university. She devoured novels: some by Agatha Christie, and many by Dan Brown. Pictures of her old life in Raqqa show days on the lakeshore, her friends in bathing suits, dancing in the water. But at the start of 2014, everything changed. ISIS, known in #Raqqa as The Organization, wrested full control of her hometown. Today, after fleeing Raqqa and its jihadist rulers, Aws lives in a small city in southern Turkey, where @taratwphoto photographed her. Aws still struggles to explain how she changed from a modern young woman into a morality enforcer. Visit the link in our profile to read the full story.

The hull of the Western Flyer, a sardine fishing boat made famous by the writer John Steinbeck. It has been 75 years since Steinbeck and the marine biologist Ed Ricketts sailed the Flyer from California to Mexico — and into literary legend, in Steinbeck’s “The Log From the Sea of Cortez.” The Flyer has had a hard life since its birth in 1937. But now, the heavily damaged, derelict vessel is being restored as a science and education vessel. The question: Is it more important to get the boat into good working condition, or to capture its emotional and literary value? @davidmryder photographed the Flyer in Port Townsend, Washington earlier this month.

@actuallygrimes played to a packed @terminal5nyc last night. The do-it-yourself songwriter, singer, producer and visual artist performed with dancers, puffs of smoke, lasers and a breathlessly gleeful stage presence; there was even a fan blowing back her two-toned hair. @actuallygrimes's newest album, “Art Angels,” demands to play in the big leagues. The Canadian singer-songwriter has ramped up her music’s catchiness, its madcap invention and its contentious ideas. @chadbatka photographed @actuallygrimes while on #nytassignment in New York City.

In the final weeks of Ryan Hoffman’s life, the former football player spent nights in this abandoned warehouse in Haines City, Florida, eating out of garbage cans. A standout player at the University of North Carolina in the 1990s, Ryan, 41, encountered substance abuse and legal problems after his athletic career. His mental health deteriorated. He and his family believed that the hits he had taken for the game profoundly harmed his brain. On November 16, he sent his mother a text message saying that most of his belongings had been stolen. Everything but his bike was gone. At 3:59 p.m., another text arrived: “loveless. homeless. no food. no clothes. no anything.” To read the full story by Juliet Macur, who first wrote about Ryan in January, visit the link in our profile. Photo by @angelfranco_nyt.

Debris floated in a puddle in an Italian area on the border of Brooklyn and Queens known as “down the hole.” The site was once a notorious dumping ground for mob bodies. A case that went to the jury yesterday depicts #Mafia life from a time when the organization still ruled New York. The defendant, Vincent Asaro, 80, is accused of crimes including a 1969 murder, the Lufthansa heist at Kennedy International Airport — which served as a “Goodfellas” plot point — other robberies and extortions. His story is one of the disappearing New York Mafia, and of a disappearing way of life. @damonwinter went to Ozone Park in search of former mob hangouts and scenes.

A crowd celebrating New Year’s Eve gathered to watch as Dumitru Toloaca marched in playing a flute to announce the arrival of his troupe of dancing bears. (Or to put it more accurately, revelers clad in bearskins.) In Romania’s Trotus Valley, this much-anticipated visit is customary in the early-morning hours of a new year. The photographer @dianazeynebalhindawi, who lived in Romania until she was 8, returned last year to her childhood home, where she spent a few frigid days photographing the dancing bears. We’ll share more of @dianazeynebalhindawi’s photos from #Romania this #nytweekender. Visit the link in our profile to see more on the @nytimes #lensblog.

In the 5 years since @jeremih last put out an album, his slinky voice has been everywhere. Now, one of his aims is to make his name as well known as the sound of his voice. “That’s my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right,” said Jeremih (pronounced JAIR-uh-my). “They’re still saying it wrong.” The new album, “Late Nights” was released on Friday via @defjamrecords. And it came without warning — a welcome surprise for hungry fans, but also a crash landing for a long-planned project. “You’re talking about somebody that ain’t got no videos for any of my platinum singles,” he said of the lack of promotion. “You can’t ride around New York and see my face on a poster, and my album’s out.” @chadbatka photographed @jeremih, 28, while on #nytassignment.

“I’ll never give up, never give in / Never let a ray of doubt slip in And if I fall, / I’ll never fail, I’ll just get back up, and try again. / Whatever it takes, I’ll never quit. I’ll never go / down. I’ll make sure they remember my name / A hundred years from now.” Growing up, the @nfl player Lorenzo Mauldin and his four siblings shuffled between relatives and foster homes. With the help of a network of advisers, coaches and teachers, though, the 23-year-old defied expectations, obtaining a scholarship to play football at Louisville, where his prowess as a speedy pass rusher compelled the @nyjets to draft him in May. @chadbatka captured Lorenzo's #tattoo for @nytimessports.

Passersby near the scene of the police raid that killed the chief suspect in the Paris attacks. Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s body was identified today as the police continued their forensic investigation. But many questions remain unanswered, including how Abaaoud, an Islamic State militant, planned and organized the attacks, which killed 129 people. @pierreterdjman took this photo today while on #nytassignment in St.-Denis, a northern suburb of #Paris. Follow @pierreterdjman and @leslyedavis to see more images from Paris, and visit the link in our profile for updates.

Today in the Montgomery church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired residents to boycott the local bus network 60 years ago, @hillaryclinton called for overhauling the criminal justice system in the United States. There is something “profoundly wrong,” she said, when black men are disproportionately stopped and searched by the police, arrested or killed. @hillaryclinton made her remarks to civil rights lawyers who descended on the Alabama capital to commemorate the day #RosaParks refused to give up her seat on a bus. @kevindliles photographed #Montgomery while on #nytassignment. Follow him to see more photos.

When the University of Missouri (@mizzou) admitted black students for the first time, in 1950, Gus T. Ridgel was one of 9 students who enrolled. In the midst of a campus housing shortage, he lived alone in a 2-bed dormitory room because no white student would room with him. Just one year later, he earned his master’s degree in economics, graduating with honors. When the student demonstrators who named themselves Concerned Student 1950 — in reference to that year — toppled the president of the university system and the chancellor of its flagship campus in Columbia this week, they may not have known that somewhere out there, Gus, 89, was watching. “I have to commend them on accomplishing what people this time last year would have considered an impossibility,” Gus told @nytimes yesterday. @photobypip photographed Gus at his home in Frankfort, #Kentucky.

After a lifetime of close calls and hard-to-believe flukes, Scott Fagan, 70, is getting his unlikely second chance at music stardom. 47 years ago, the singer-songwriter, then 23, released a quirky psychedelic album called “South Atlantic Blues” on Atco Records. It flopped. But this week, his album is coming back, thanks to a re-release by the history-minded label Saint Cecilia Knows Records. Decades have passed, but Scott believes the songs he wrote for that album still hold up today, because, he said: “I sang with conviction. And I still do.” @dollyfaibyshev photographed Scott earlier this month.

“For us, normal life is traveling." Jose Aston Neves, left, is a trapeze flyer with @ringlingbros. His fiancé, Andrei Ricardo Peixotode Oliveira Neves, right, is a dancer with the #circus. The men and women of the circus all say that only circus people like them can understand the lifestyle. While on a @NYTMag assignment, @stephsinclairpix spent 11 days familiarizing herself with life aboard a circus train. We have been sharing portraits of @ringlingbros #circus performers and staff this #nytweekender. Follow @stephsinclairpix to see more #portraits, and visit the link in our profile to read the @NYTMag story exploring the end of an era. #🎪🚂

Paulo Cesar Oliveira dos Santos, a @ringlingbros actor. As the @ringlingbros circus train travels across the United States each year, Paulo shares a train car with his family. The photographer @stephsinclairpix spent 11 days on the road with @ringlingbros, a circus approaching the end of an era. This #nytweekender, we’ll be sharing portraits of #circus staff and performers by @stephsinclairpix, who was on assignment for @NYTMag. To read the full story, visit the link in our profile, and follow @stephsinclairpix to see more portraits. #🎪🚂

This bulbous, 90-foot-long tank is one of 2 on board the Perla del Caribe container ship. Inside: half a million gallons of liquefied natural gas, or L.N.G., that is chilled to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas will be the primary fuel used to power the ship when it begins moving cargo early next year. Compared with the heavy tarlike fuels used on most ships, L.N.G. can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 15 to 20 percent. @tlpix photographed the Perla del Caribe in San Diego while on #nytassignment. #stilllife

The story of @sentedcruz’s origin begins in Matanzas, a quiet seaside town on the north coast of Cuba, where his father, Rafael, grew up along a dirt road shaded with plantain trees. Since @sentedcruz was a boy, he has said, all he wanted to do was “fight for liberty” — a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father’s tales of fighting as a rebel leader in #Cuba in the 1950s. But the family narrative that has provided such inspirational fire and biographical heft to the Republican candidate’s speeches, debate performances and memoir is, his father’s Cuban contemporaries say, an embroidered one. @lisettepoole photographed #Matanzas and other sites from stories the Cruz family has told of Rafael’s Cuba.