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| It's Friday. And yes, there will be an Off Broadway show next month inspired by the breakup of the Cellino and Barnes law firm. |
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| Weather: Sunny with a high near 87. This weekend will be dry, with temperatures in the 80s. |
| Alternate-side parking: In effect until Aug. 11. |
 The Upper East Side home of Jeffrey Epstein.
Yana Paskova for The New York Times |
| More than a decade ago, the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was investigated in Florida in connection with the sexual abuse of underage girls. But Mr. Epstein struck a secret deal with prosecutors, and was released after serving 13 months in a state jail. |
| Now facing federal charges of sex trafficking in New York, Mr. Epstein was found injured on Tuesday in a Manhattan jail, according to law enforcement officials. |
| Remind me: Why is Mr. Epstein in custody? |
| Mr. Epstein, who taught at the esteemed Dalton School and later became a hedge fund manager, was charged this month in Manhattan with sex trafficking and conspiracy. If convicted, he could face up to 45 years in prison. |
| The alleged crimes occurred between 2002 and 2005, according to a federal indictment. |
| On July 6, Mr. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, having just arrived from Paris. That day, lewd photographs, many of which appeared to depict underage girls, were discovered by the authorities in a search of his Upper East Side home. |
| On July 18, a judge denied bail for Mr. Epstein, citing his potential danger to the community and the risk that he would flee to avoid prosecution. |
| [Jeffrey Epstein's safe had "piles of cash" and a fake passport, prosecutors say.] |
| Why is he facing charges now? |
| In recent months, federal prosecutors in Manhattan opened their investigation into Mr. Epstein, which led to the new indictment. |
| It came on the heels of a series of articles in The Miami Herald that began last November about the unusual deal in Florida and Mr. Epstein's alleged abuse of girls. |
| Prosecuting in the #MeToo era |
| The Epstein case comes as prosecutors, victims' advocates and others are feeling the impact of the #MeToo movement on the criminal justice system. |
| [Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and a change in how prosecutors look at sexual assault] |
| This month, New Jersey announced mandatory training for judges "in the areas of sexual assault, domestic violence, implicit bias and diversity." The news came in the wake of harsh criticism of a judge who said a 16-year-old accused of rape would not be tried as an adult because the boy "comes from a good family." |
| Days after Mr. Epstein's arrest, the singer R. Kelly was charged in Chicago in connection with making child pornography. And in Brooklyn, prosecutors accused Mr. Kelly of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with him. |
| Like Mr. Epstein, Mr. Kelly had faced accusations for years. |
| And like Mr. Epstein, Mr. Kelly has been the subject of renewed public attention. A six-hour documentary called "Surviving R. Kelly" aired on television earlier this year. |
| From The Times |
 Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times |
| Melinda Katz and the Queens district attorney primary: How did a loyal Democrat become an enemy of the progressives? |
| Southwest Airlines is shutting down its operations at Newark Liberty International Airport. |
| The Times columnist Ginia Bellafante asks: Why is a man facing more severe punishment for dousing a police officer than Officer Daniel Pantaleo is for choking Eric Garner? |
| [Want more news from New York and around the region? Check out our full coverage.] |
| The Mini Crossword: Here is today's puzzle. |
| What we're reading |
| The Bagel Store in Williamsburg, famous for its viral rainbow bagel, was seized by the state Department of Taxation and Finance. [Eater New York] |
| A state panel will study how artificial intelligence, robots and automation will affect New York. [Wall Street Journal] |
| The attorney for Judith Giuliani, the estranged wife of the former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, revealed details about their strained finances during a contentious divorce hearing. [The New York Daily News] |
| 5Pointz: A developer that wants to build luxury apartments at the old complex in Queens met privately with community board members. [The City] |
| A drawing by the Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele, which is said to be worth about $200,000, was found in a Queens thrift shop. [Patch] |
| Bushwick can feel like the cultural center of New York City. Did you know it's the geographic center, too? [NY1] |
| Coming up this weekend |
| Friday: |
| The Thunderbird American Indian Powwow includes intertribal dance competitions, food and a marketplace at the Queens County Farm Museum. 6 p.m. [$5-$16] |
| Learn how to go green on a budget at the Summer Soiree at The Canvas by Querencia Studio in Brooklyn. 6 p.m. [$15-$20] |
| Comedians roast notorious historical figures at Caveat in Manhattan. 6:30 p.m. [$10-$12] |
| Saturday: |
| Attend a telegraph and Morse code workshop at the Queens Historical Society. 11 a.m. [$10 for children; free for parents and guardians] |
| The New York City Poetry Festival has readings, performances, vendors, installations and more at Colonel's Row on Governors Island. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. [Free] |
| Sunday: |
| Celebrate traditional artists and immigrant communities at the Brooklyn Roots Festival in Prospect Park. Noon-7 p.m. [Free] |
| Tour the seasonal garden highlights at Wave Hill Center in the Bronx. 2 p.m. [Free with $10 admission to the grounds] |
| — Melissa Guerrero |
| Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times's culture pages. |
| And finally: Slime! |
 Yael Malka for The New York Times |
| The Times's Melissa Guerrero writes: |
| Have you ever been sucked into the digital (and, as some say, satisfying) wormhole of slime? |
| Now there's an expo dedicated to the oozy substance often made with laundry detergent, glitter and glue. "Slimers" can make their blob dreams come true on Saturday and Sunday at the Slime Expo NYC 2 at the Brooklyn Expo Center. |
| The event will feature more than 50 vendors and be full of squishy activities for adults and children — an edible slime workshop, a contest for the best "avalanche drip" slime, a slime-making station and even a dry-ice-and-slime science show. |
| Unlike with that messy, green Nickelodeon goo, no one's actually getting slimed, so any cleanup should be minimal. |
| Attendees can also purchase slime from their favorite YouTube and Instagram influencers. |
| "Slime represents the collision of classic D.I.Y. creativity and YouTube-molded kid culture," Amanda Hess, The Times's internet culture critic at large, wrote last month about the goo. |
| "Slime is an art form, a community and an industry: sensory gratification tubbed and sold." |
| Claudia Gamez, an organizer of the expo, said last year's one-day slime extravaganza sold 3,500 tickets. As of Thursday, 4,000 tickets had been sold for this weekend's two-day event. |
| "New York is already bigger than life, so I feel like we had to match that," she said. |
| Ms. Gamez, who is a self-described slimer, said she got into "sliming" for a simple reason: "It's just a creativeness for me," she said. "It brings out the kid in you." |
| It's Friday — embrace your inner child. |
| Metropolitan Diary: Easter Sunday |
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| Dear Diary: |
| It was Easter Sunday and I had made the 7:07 train from South Norwalk to Grand Central by the skin of my teeth. The cars were packed — standing room only. I managed to find a comfortable spot where I could lean against the wall with a bit of personal space. |
| At 125th Street, a young woman got off the train, leaving behind a Williams Sonoma shopping bag. A man standing across from me opened it to find a new, hardcover copy of "The Immortalists" and what looked like leftovers from an Easter lunch. |
| "Does it make me a jerk if I keep the book?" he asked me. |
| "If you don't take it, someone else will," I replied enviously. "The Immortalists" was on my list of books to read, and hardcovers were a luxury beyond my postgraduate-student budget. |
| He nodded and tucked the book under his arm. |
| Halfway up the platform at Grand Central, I felt a hand at my elbow. It was the guy from the train. |
| "I never do this," he said, "but would you like to go out sometime?" |
| "Sure," I said, smiling, "if you promise to share that book." |
| — Kate Flanders |
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