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| It's Wednesday. |
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| Weather: Don't get caught in the rain: Heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely after 3 p.m. Expect a high in the upper 80s. |
| Alternate-side parking: In effect until Aug. 11. |
 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, center, one of the Democratic presidential candidates with ties to New York, at a debate in June.
Doug Mills/The New York Times |
| There are more Democrats running for president (24) than there are solo studio albums by Jay-Z (13), cast members on "Saturday Night Live" (18) or members of the New York Times masthead (23). |
| Ten of those candidates debated last night in Detroit. Tonight, 10 more candidates will be onstage, including at least four contenders with direct connections to the New York area: Mayor de Blasio, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Cory Booker and the entrepreneur Andrew Yang. |
| (Night 2 will also include former Vice President Joe Biden; Senator Kamala Harris of California; Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, whose brother, James Bennet, is The Times's editorial page editor; Julián Castro, the former housing secretary and former mayor of San Antonio; Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington; and Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.) |
| [Read The Times's coverage of last night's Democratic debates.] |
| There are many ways to watch tonight's debate, which will air on CNN, CNN en Español, CNN International and streaming services at 8 p.m. Eastern Time: on closed caption, with a bottle of good rosé; with the volume turned up to 11 while tweeting in all caps; or under a ceiling fan with background music. (I recommend the instrumental version of "The Message" by Nas, which samples Sting's "Shape of My Heart.") |
| Here are some other options: |
| ■ Comedians and political commentators narrate the debate at Q.E.D. (27-16 23rd Avenue, Queens). The comedians will include Christian Finnegan, who had a memorable appearance on "Chappelle's Show," and Leah Bonnema, who helped create the comedic storytelling show "Average Women With Average Rage." $10. |
| ■ The comedians behind "Pod Damn America," a self-described gothic socialist comedy podcast, will offer commentary and riffs at Secret Loft (137 West 14th Street, Manhattan). Its co-host Jake Flores once posted a joke on Facebook that got the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, he said in a recent interview. $10 in advance; $15 at the door. |
| ■ The power of Democratic clubs has waned over the years, but some, like the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, have strength and durability. Its members are gathering to watch the debate at Blackstone Bar & Grill (3713 Riverdale Avenue, the Bronx). R.S.V.P. suggested; no cover charge is listed. |
| ■ Members of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn and supporters of the L.G.B.T.Q. community are watching the debate at Fulton Ale House (1446 Fulton Street, Brooklyn). R.S.V.P. suggested; no cover charge is listed. |
| ■ Members of the Libertarian Party of New York are watching at Cloister Cafe (238 East Ninth Street, Manhattan). $5. |
| ■ Buunni Coffee (4961 Broadway, Manhattan) will serve a vegan and vegetarian Ethiopian dinner before showing the debate. $15. |
| Some candidates had events listed on their websites; these events may be independently organized. |
| Mr. Biden's site: Shades of Green Pub (125 East 15th Street, Manhattan) with the Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club. |
| Ms. Harris's: The Chelsea Bell (316 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan). |
| Mr. Booker's: Montclair Brewery (101 Walnut Street, Montclair, N.J.). |
| Ms. Gillibrand's: Little Pecks (211 Broadway, Troy, N.Y.). |
| Mr. Yang's: 234 Old Country Road, Mineola, N.Y. |
| Mr. Castro's: 1311 Prince Rodgers Avenue, Bridgewater Township, N.J. |
| From The Times |
 Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times |
| So long, swiping. The "tap-and-go" subway is here. |
| "We saw people dropping": How a Brooklyn rite of summer ended in bloodshed. |
| Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat, faces extermination. |
| Members of the far-right Proud Boys are on trial, but anti-fascists are boycotting. |
| [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 |
| Tech companies will try to improve bus service in the city. [amNew York] |
| The real reason Joe Lhota stepped down as head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year was because of potential conflicts of interest, according to his resignation letter from November, which Politico published on Tuesday. [Politico New York] |
| An upstate Republican lawmaker wants the governor to investigate the state's parole board. [Albany Times Union] |
| Steven Spielberg is filming "West Side Story" all over town. [Gothamist] |
| Coming up today |
| Whip up a dish or two from the "Superiority Burger Cookbook" for a potluck with the cookbook club at Archestratus Books & Foods in Brooklyn. 7 p.m. [Free] |
| The "Nevertheless She Existed" podcast kicks off at Caveat in Manhattan with female storytellers, comedians and historians. 7 p.m. [$20] |
| Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the documentary "Tibet in Song" with a screening and Q. and A. at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan. 7 p.m. [$25] |
| — 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: 'Bat Out of Hell,' but not out of time |
 Jim Steinman with Meat Loaf in 1977.
Gary Gershoff/Getty Images |
| As a teenager at Amherst College, Jim Steinman created an ambitious, rollicking show about eternal youth. Fifty years after the story was conceived, it will have its New York debut this weekend at the New York City Center. |
| Initially, Mr. Steinman starred in the show, called "The Dream Engine." The Times recently described it as a "rock musical about a tribe of wild teens in a dystopian metropolis." Naturally, a show like that had to go to New York. |
| The piece caught the attention of Joseph Papp, the founder of the Public Theater in Manhattan, who expressed interest in Mr. Steinman's work. While at the theater, Mr. Steinman met an indefatigable performer named Marvin Lee Aday. |
| As The Times's Dave Itzkoff wrote, Mr. Steinman and Mr. Aday spent several years reworking that college show into a piece called "Neverland." |
| "Neverland" made direct references to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," but Mr. Steinman and Mr. Aday were unable to secure legal rights to use the "Peter Pan" elements. "Neverland" was never fully produced. |
| So they did the next best thing: They took some of the "Neverland" songs and turned them into a rock album called "Bat Out of Hell." The lead vocals were sung by Mr. Aday, better known as Meat Loaf. |
| The album became a rock classic, thanks to songs like "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad." It also jump-started Meat Loaf's career, as well as Mr. Steinman's (he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012). |
| Now the stars have aligned for Mr. Steinman's original dream. The timing couldn't be better. "I grew up in a time when the youth were rebelling against the status quo," Mr. Steinman told my colleague. |
| "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical" debuted in 2017 at the Manchester Opera House in England, Mr. Itzkoff wrote. It then played in London and Toronto. In New York, previews begin tomorrow. |
| It's Wednesday — turn up the volume and live your dreams. |
| Metropolitan Diary: Friends forever |
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| Dear Diary: |
| Sixty-one years ago this September, I moved into the Clara de Hirsch Residence on East 63rd Street. I was a freshman at Hunter College a few blocks away. |
| The Clara de was amazingly affordable for the times: $50 a month included a hot breakfast daily, full kitchen privileges, a private or shared room with linens and housekeeping and dormlike hallway bathrooms. There was a laundry room and ironing boards and, on the second floor, three doorless "beau parlors" where you could entertain young men. |
| It was where I met my lifelong best friend, Susan, who had come from her immigrant parents' egg farm in Vineland, N.J., to attend secretarial school. |
| I got a job shelving books in the college library so I would have spending money. The $50 for rent was all my parents could afford. |
| Our main form of entertainment was the neighborhood. We quickly discovered Bloomingdale's a few blocks south, and it became our destination almost weekly. Sometimes we could actually find something we could afford on the clearance racks in the basement. Somewhere along the way, we started calling it Mothers. |
| Fast forward to 1978. I was living with my family in Fairfield, Conn. Susan was living with hers in Nanuet, N.Y. We decided to meet for lunch at Bloomingdale's in White Plains. We have continued to, every few months since then. We talk, we eat and then we wander the floors looking at the displays. |
| We have come a long way since September 1958, but Mothers has been a constant in our lives. |
| — Harriet Liss |
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