Metro Weekly: The Best Medicine - After 40 years of performing stand-up, Paula Poundstone has decided that nothing heals the soul quite like laughter. Interview by Randy Shulman
Notable Rise: Pete Buttigieg leads a new Iowa poll, joining Warren, Biden, and Sanders in the upper tier. By Rhuaridh Marr
Prodigy: Folger’s Amadeus offers an entertaining flight of historical fancy in the fictitious battle of Salieri v. Mozart. By Kate Wingfield
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