Here are 20 top feature stories from The New York Times News Service for the week that ended Sunday, March 9. This list is designed to help editors find evergreen stories from the previous week that can be used in the week ahead. To reach the News Service, email newsservice@nytimes.com. Clients can receive all New York Times News Service budgets via email; contact krueger@nytimes.com to be added to this list. For the latest photos and graphics, go to www.nytlicensing.com. ROCKY-HORROR-FLOP (Undated) -- Fifty years have passed, but actor Tim Curry isn't sure he has ever forgiven the reception that "The Rocky Horror Show" received in its original Broadway production, which was also his Broadway debut. Arriving on Broadway after "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was shot but several months before it was released, the musical starred Curry in the role he had originated in London, as the sexually omnivorous, corset-clad, extraterrestrial mad scientist Frank-N-Furter. By Laura Collins-Hughes. NEW-YORKER-EXHIBIT (New York) -- From its founding in 1925, The New Yorker aimed to be something fresh, irreverent, experimental -- "a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan life," as its first editor, Harold Ross, declared in a prospectus. An exhibition at the New York Public Library, "A Century of The New Yorker," mixes the weighty and the whimsical and is designed to appeal to New Yorker devotees and casual browsers alike. By Jennifer Schuessler. With photos. UKRAINE-MILITARY-BAND (Kyiv, Ukraine) -- The mission of the 101st Separate Guard band is to show two sides of Ukraine's struggle three years into the war: acknowledging the unbearable toll and keeping up the spirits of those who press ahead with the fighting. They support soldiers and civilians by playing uplifting concerts in schools and at universities and rehabilitation centers. But the tune they play most frequently is a version of taps, to honor their fallen comrades. By Maria Varenikova. With photos. QUEBEC-SKI-TOURS (Undated) -- Amid light snow, I skied out of the town of Ste.-Adele, in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, and headed to Prevost, 8 miles away. Only a few minutes earlier, I had walked out of Au Clos Rolland, a historic inn where I'd spent the previous night dining on a three-course meal and resting up from a day of cross-country skiing. Skiing from town to town through forests and meadows, then overnighting near the trail in relative luxury, was something I had never experienced in North America. By Cindy Hirschfeld. With photos. SCI-VESUVIUS-ERUPTION (Undated) -- Scholars and armchair archaeologists still can't agree on the day Mount Vesuvius blew its top in A.D. 79, the height of the umbrella-shaped cloud or the length and the aggression of the blasts. Two new research projects add kindling to those embers. By Franz Lidz. With photos. KAN-VINYL-ARTISAN (Salina, Kan.) -- Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, Kansas, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape. Over the last 15 years, this unassuming complex has become a leading manufacturer of the music industry's most surprising hot format: vinyl LPs. Acoustic Sounds, founded in 1986, is Chad Kassem's umbrella for a group of interrelated businesses that form a nearly complete vinyl supply chain. By Ben Sisario. With photos. FRANCE-BEEF-COSTS (Paris) -- At Le Bouillon Chartier in Paris, the recipe for a perfect beef Bourguignon involves beef, carrots, wine, butter and "coquillettes," a tiny macaroni-shaped pasta. It is cooked for at least three hours. And it must be affordable, so the price cannot be more than 10 euros a dish. But rarely in Bouillon Chartier's storied history has it been as hard to keep costs under control as it is today. The challenges facing owner Christophe Joulie reflect the broader impact of sticky inflation across Europe. By Liz Alderman. With photos. CHRONIC-DISEASE-NURSE (Undated) -- Sam Runyon, a 45-year-old nurse, makes home visits across West Virginia. All 31 patients in her caseload for the Williamson Health and Wellness Center were younger than 65, yet each had at least one of the chronic diseases that had become endemic in the United States over the last two decades. Americans now spend more years living with chronic disease than people in 183 other countries in the World Health Organization. By Eli Saslow. With photo. NOVELIST-SITTENFELD (Cincinnati) -- In her debut novel, Curtis Sittenfeld focused on a girl who pinballs between a hunger to be noticed and a desire to disappear. In the eight books she has published since, she has mined the terrain of female self-consciousness and status anxiety across all life stages. Her newest work is a collection of short stories, called "Show Don't Tell." By Emma Goldberg. With photos. DESIGN-WOODWORKING (Undated) -- With boundaries dissolving between craft and high art, and women in both areas enjoying a new wave of appreciation, woodworking -- which has long been and still remains a male-dominated field -- has become more interesting. It is filled with narrative content, social commentary and visually daring forms courtesy of its female makers. By Diana Budds. With photos. QUARANTINE-WEDDINGS (Undated) -- The March 21, 2020, wedding of Julie Samuels and Joe Hillyer in Montclair, New Jersey, ushered in an unparalleled time. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and its social-distancing mandates, couples had to get creative about how to pull off weddings. Samuels and Hillyer had their nuptials on the front porch of their home as a honking convoy of friends and family drove in circles around the block. Some couples married with no one else in the room, their officiant beaming in over Zoom. Here is a look at four couples who married during COVID and their reflections on how saying "I do" at such a fraught time shaped the relationships they're in now. By Tammy LaGorce. With photos. BOLIVIA-WINE-COUNTRY (Undated) -- The Tarija region of Bolivia isn't big -- only about 14,000 square miles, making it a click larger than Maryland. But its topography is amazingly varied: forests, deserts, lakes, mountains, sun, rain, snow. This is Bolivian wine country -- a collection of a half dozen of the best little-known wineries in the world surrounded by vast, untouched wilderness. Throw in a five-star resort and a celebrity wedding, and Tarija could be Tuscany. By Danielle Pergament. With photos. SCI-HUMANS-RAINFOREST (Undated) -- For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace of our species. But recently some researchers have put forward a different history: Homo sapiens evolved across the entire continent over the past several hundred thousand years. If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond grasslands. Origins by Carl Zimmer. With photos. VT-SKI-RESORT (Undated) -- Bolton Valley Resort, about 30 minutes east of Burlington, Vermont, has long been overshadowed by larger, more famous neighbors. What Bolton lacks in glam it more than makes up for with its terrain and friendly vibe. It has cultivated a niche among Eastern ski areas as a hybrid downhill and backcountry resort, leaning into demand for backcountry skiing with its fabled 1,200-acre powder preserve, known as the Bolton Backcountry. By David Goodman. With photos. RUSH-FAVORITES (Undated) -- Geoffrey Rush has rarely met a physical task he didn't want to attempt, be it sword fighting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" or playing the piano for his Oscar-winning role in "Shine." The new horror movie "The Rule of Jenny Pen," starring Rush as a supercilious former judge living in a nursing home, required yet another unfamiliar skill set: He had to use a motorized wheelchair. In a video call, Rush discussed his cultural essentials, many of them -- to his surprise -- from his childhood and early professional life. My Ten by Kathryn Shattuck. FILM-SALTBURN-BATHTUB (Undated) -- After the release of the movie "Saltburn" in late 2023, a steamy bathtub scene from the film spread online -- and became the inspiration for candles, cocktails, bath bombs and thousands of discussion threads. And the tub featured in it? It's now on display in Ohio, at the home of Kyle Harvey, 36, who bought the tub for $4,375 in an auction. Harvey is part of a global community of collectors who scour online forums and auctions in search of objects from their favorite movies. By Valeriya Safronova. With photos. SCI-PLANKTON-CLIMATE (Undated) -- Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth. But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. By Delger Erdenesanaa. With photos. INDIA-BOOK-FESTIVALS (Jaipur, India) -- India may appear consumed by Bollywood, cricket and phone screens, but literature festivals are blooming, bringing readers and writers together in hilltop towns and rural communities, under the cover of beachside tents or inside storied palaces. The festival season typically runs from October to March, when the weather is pleasant in much of the country. Most are free to attend. By Anupreeta Das. With photos and map. FRANCE-MOVIE-THEATERS (Paris) -- The global movie business had a disappointing 2024. But in France, there has been a more celebratory feeling of late, with fresh statistics suggesting that its audiences are leading the way in returning to what are lovingly known as "les salles obscures" -- the "dark rooms" of their movie theaters. That celebration was infused with a very French idea about citizens' moral obligation to support the arts and to do so somewhere other than at home. By Richard Fausset. With photos. 36-HOURS-KATHMANDU (Undated) -- Ten years after a powerful earthquake devastated the Himalayan nation of Nepal, its crowded, colorful capital, Kathmandu, is resurgent. Nearly all of the UNESCO-listed, centuries-old Hindu and Buddhist temples that sprinkle the city have been restored to their former glory, and the 19th-century Dharahara tower -- a city icon -- reopened in fall after a total reconstruction. By Seth Sherwood. With photos. 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