Let’s celebrate Friday with a bunch of articles to jump-start your creative week-end:

• Reading list for the over-60 crowd.
• Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio.
• You can improve your quality of life by doing these eight things during your off-hours.
• Italy—the land of domes.
• Be careful what you wish for—and be willing to edit your goals.
• Have you ever been to Oahu? Here are some things you could do there.
• Buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Little quilt masterpieces.
• Remember the movie Amadeus? Here is the truth about Mozart’s Requiem.
• Presidential jokes.