The NBC reality competition draws its third-largest audience.

On Thursday an excerpt from “On the Block” a ballet based on the stories evoked in Bearden’s six-panel collage, “The Block,” will be performed by dancers from the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theater.

In “Tomatoland,” Barry Estabrook delivers a withering criticism of the tactics of the tomato industry in South Florida, where the soil is as devoid of plant nutrients as a pile of moon rocks.

As the number of mixed-race people grows in the United States, writers and artists are challenging assumptions about identity.

Ms. Scott, who called herself the world’s second-oldest teenager, covered rock music for The Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1964 until 2002, when she was almost 83.