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SUPERHERO EDITION

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK

Batman

Made worldwide headlines when Ben Affleck was cast to play him

Spider-Man

Ticket sales have slowed for his Broadway musical, Turn Off the Dark

ODDITIES

Spritz for Buzz

We can already drink, chew and suck caffeine. So we suppose Sprayable Energy is just a natural evolution: the concept product (which has raised $30,000 on Indiegogo) promises the same kick as a cup of coffee with just a few spritzes on your skin. Yay?

WATCH THAT TUNE

Martin Klimas can help you see music. No, really. By pouring paint onto a special speaker system, then turning up the volume, the German artist is able to photograph the actual sonic vibrations of songs like Miles Davis’ 1970 jazz odyssey “Bitches Brew” (below). His “Sonic” exhibition is on view through Nov. 3 at New York City’s Foley Gallery.

VERBATIM

‘This is the “You got old” award.’

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, on receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award (for lifetime achievement, solo and with *NSYNC) at the MTV Video Music Awards

OREOOPS

1.86

Proportion of frosting in a Double Stuf Oreo (vs. a regular one), as discovered by a high school math class in New York. It’s short of what the company advertises.

ROUNDUP

Famous First Tweets

The Twitterverse has expanded rapidly in recent weeks, welcoming first tweets from Drew Barrymore, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and even the briefly reunited *NSYNC. Alas, most of their debut missives were relatively tame. (See “PRINCE’S 1ST TWEET … TESTING 1, 2 …”) Not so with these (totally subjective) Hall of Famers:

MAY 2013

Warren is in the house.

@WarrenBuffett

JANUARY 2011

ryan seacrest told me I had to get on Twitter. So here I am.

@JimCameron

FEBRUARY 2010

Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.

@ConanOBrien

DECEMBER 2008

apologizing to a very needy cat for being gone so long.

@TaylorSwift13

DECEMBER 2008

GETTING READY TO SHOOT MORE CSI.

@iamdiddy

DIFFERENT SHADES

Though it may look as if it’s ripped from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book, this landscape was actually shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The psychedelic hues come courtesy of photographer Richard Mosse, who snaps otherwise bleak-looking locales using old infrared aerial-surveillance film, which captures greens in shades of pink and red. His work will be on view Sept. 19 through 22 at the Aperture booth at Expo Chicago, a Navy Pier arts festival.

QUICK TALK

Gloria Estefan

Thirty years after “Conga” made Estefan a star, her latest album demands a very different kind of dancing. On The Standards, out Sept. 10, the 56-year-old Grammy winner belts jazz classics like “Young at Heart” and “The Way You Look Tonight.” Here, she lets loose with TIME.

–LILY ROTHMAN

There are a lot of languages on this album–Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese. Do you actually speak all of them?

I speak Spanish and English, and I studied French in college. Actually, my first job was as an interpreter for Customs and Immigration.

What did that entail?

We worked in hideous orange polyester uniforms. Once, they were going to strip-search a nun because they caught her smuggling a sausage into the United States. I grew up in Catholic girls’ school, and it was very difficult for me to ask her to surrender the sausage. The CIA tried to recruit me because I was really serious.

You might be a CIA agent right now.

You wouldn’t know. It’s the perfect cover.

What was your standard for choosing these standards?

I whittled it down to 50 from a couple thousand. Then I sat with [conductor Shelly Berg], and we spent hours trying them. I made him cry, he made me cry.

Sounds like a lot of crying.

Yes, and a lot of playing and a lot of hours.

Are you a big crier in general?

Not at all. I’m very stoic, but I cry through music. Music was a catharsis to me as a kid. I had a tough time, and I would lock myself up in my room and sing.

I hear there’s going to be a Broadway musical about you.

We’ve been working on this for a while, finding how we’re going to tell this story. I’m still working and doing stuff, so it can’t be my whole life up there.

Does it have a title?

On Your Feet.

What do you listen to when you’re not testing jazz standards?

Right now I’m in a Brazilian phase. There’s this guy in his 70s, Ney Matogrosso–he’s kind of Bowie-esque, and he’s still doing his thing. He’s still a sex symbol. At the same time, that “pop some tags” song [“Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis] is crazy. I love it.

BOOKS

Modern Love

Step aside, Lena Dunham. The next great voice of the millennial generation is … Aziz Ansari? The Parks and Recreation star signed a $3.5 million deal to write about the trials of 20-something dating, like when a girl Instagrams a pic of her pizza but refuses to text you back.

3 THINGS YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS WEEK

1. Kim and Kanye’s family ties.

Baby North’s public debut was a photo on the season finale of Kris, her grandma’s talk show.

2. Getting your J.D. Salinger fix.

His biographers say five new works by the late author will be published this decade.

3. Burger King’s ability to innovate (kind of).

The fast-food chain’s latest gimmick burger topping: french fries.

FOR MARY POLS’ REVIEW OF SNITCH AND TIME’S COMPLETE FILM COVERAGE, VISIT time.com/movies