June 01, 2006

April 2008 New York City calendar of events

Tuesday, April 1
Paul Simon starts a month-long residency at Brooklyn Academy of Music (concerts through April 27)
Rescheduled due to rain Yankees home opener vs. Toronto
Maude Maggart plays the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel (through May 10)
Kirov Ballet at City Center (through April 20)
La Bohème at the Met Opera
Eels play the Highline Ballroom (and April 2)
Author-illustrator Mo Willems announces the title of his brand new pigeon book, "The Pigeon Wants ____ " at the Bryant Park Reading Room at 4 p.m.
Stephen Petronio Company at the Joyce Theater (through April 6)
Free lecture: Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie at the NYPL Science, Industry & Business Library at 5:30 p.m.
71st annual NIT at Madison Square Garden (through April 3)
$15 Project Shaw tickets go on sale for the monthly reading at The Players on Gramercy Park South (and the fist of every month)
Toddler Tuesdays begins at Bronx Zoo (through October 28)
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Wednesday, April 2
The World of Charles Ethan Porter: Nineteenth-Century African-American Artist opens at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through June 29)
The Risotto Challenge at Loki Lounge on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
Manhattan Trinity plays Carnegie Hall
Jhumpa Lahiri reads from "Unaccustomed Earth," followed by a conversation with Isaiah Sheffer at Symphony Space, and Rita Wolf will perform “Hell-Heaven” from Lahiri’s story collection Unaccustomed Earth
Eels play the Highline Ballroom
New York Weddings Showcase
Thursday, April 3
Opening night on Broadway for "South Pacific" (through June 15)
Country Girl begins previews on Broadway (opening night: April 27; through July 20)
NY Uke Fest - “The Ukulele Event of the Year” (through April 6)
Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Book Talk and Panel Discussion at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
An Evening with Wong Kar-wai at the Museum of the Moving Image
Tosca at the NY City Opera
Bo Bice at the B B Kings Blues Club
Ben Allison & Man Size Safe play a free 7 p.m. concert at the Brooklyn Museum
Seminars with Artists: Lisa Sigal at the Whitney
Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson from Xanadu on Broadway make an in-store appearance at Grand Central Terminal’s InMotion Entertainment from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Wine class: Wine and Cheese Pairing at the Chelsea Wine Vault
NYU’s Hell's Kitchen -- Hotter Than Ever Culinary Walking Tour
Friday, April 4
Yankees vs. Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
New York Rangers vs. NY Islanders at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Cholera 1832 opens at the New-York Historical Society (through June 29)
Food, Sex, and Art panel at 6:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim with David Bouley, restauranteur; Cai Guo-Qiang, artist; Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist
Art after Dark: First Fridays at the Guggenheim
NY Antiquarian Book Fair (through April 6)
Free concert of traditional and contemporary Scottish music in the British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Slope Music Presents Jazz at the Old Stone House at 8 p.m.
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Kevin Jerome Everson at the Whitney
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Met Opera
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Andrius Zlabys, piano at the Met Museum
In Conversation: David Goldblatt with Joanna Lehan at the International Center of Photography
“The Hudson River School” opens at the New-York Historical Society (through Jan. 16)
Reading and discussion: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo: Five Years of My Life, Murat Kurnaz with Baher Azmy, Bernhard Docke, Philippe Sands, Michael Ratner & James Yee with a reading by Wallace Shawn at the NY Public Library at 7 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design hosts AfterTaste 2, a two-day symposium on contemporary design
NY Antiquarian Book Fair at the The Park Avenue Armory (through April 6)
New York Pops at Carnegie Hall
Special Open House NY workshop with architectural photographer and ICP faculty member Elliott Kaufman, focusing on the techniques and approaches of photographing some of New York City’s most interesting buildings and spaces. (and April 5)
92nd St. Y food tour: Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and Soho
'Taste' Weekend in Wine Country
Saturday, April 5
Hanami: Celebrating the Cherry-Viewing Season begins at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (through May 11)
Yankees vs. Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
“Goldfinger” sing-along at Film Forum
Tartan Day Parade
4th Annual Shearing of the Heather at Fort Tryon
Jefferson Starship at the B B Kings Blues Club
Clean Up Coney Island day
Family Members Guided Gallery Tour of Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “The Hawk of the West”
Food for Thought Film Fest (through April 19)
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Bushwick Creek
Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays celebrating "©MURAKAMI" with anime dress-up and other events
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
Tosca at the NY City Opera
Gladys Knight at the Lehman Center For The Performing Arts
Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Cheese 101
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
A live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion at Town Hall (through April 19)
Seasonal Opening Day activities at Prospect Park, including re-opening of the carousel and electric boat tours, as well as handwashing of the 19th century reproduction clothing at Lefferts Historic House
New York Transit Museum tour: MTA Arts for Transit: Art Along the Hidson Line
Hands-on Heritage Crafts at Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley (and April 6)
Sunday, April 6
"This Case of Conscience" Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance opens at the Queens Museum (through June 29)
Yankees vs. Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Book talk at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn at 1 p.m. by
David H. Jones discussing Clifton Kennedy Prentiss and William Scolay Prentiss, Maryland brothers, who fought on opposing sides during the Civil War
Works & Process Exploring Light at the Guggenheim with Tony Award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, choreographer Dana Reitz, director Jackson Gay, and set designer Ola Maslik (and April 7)
Last skate of the season at Central Park’s Trump Wollman Skating Rink
Tartan Day on Ellis Island
Congressman Charles Rangel in Conversation with Jeff Greenfield at 7:30 p.m.
Satya Graha Forum’s 1 p.m. "Be the Change" Walk through Union Square with Philip Glass, author Mark Kurlansky and Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
Ira Glass at the Center for the Arts on Staten Island – “Sitting behind a desk, utilizing audio clips, Glass will weave stories that captivate, entertain, and inform. A Q&A with Mr. Glass will follow the performance.”
Revolutionary War Re-enactment at Historic Richmond Town at 1 p.m.
Kickoff of the Brooklyn Flea market
Discussion: Breaking Ground: Doug Varone with Deborah Jowitt at the 92nd St. Y
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Knicks vs. Orlando at Madison Square Garden
NY Antiquarian Book Fair
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts’ Evita at the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College
Beaux Arts Trio – New York Farewell Concert at the Met Museum
NYC Audubon Early Spring Nature Walk
Hands-on Heritage Crafts at Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley
Monday, April 7
Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Yays at 7:05 p.m.
One-night only The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim with Angela Lansbury, Patti Lupone and others
One-week sideshow school begins at Coney Island
An Evening with Kazuhiro Soda at MoMA’s Modern Mondays
Book signing and lecture: Images of America: The Queensboro Bridge
Book talk at the Half King from Benjamin Skinner on “A Crime So Monstrous: Face To Face with Modern-Day Slavery” at 7 p.m.
Satya Graha Forum event: Mark Kurlansky, author of “Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea” in discussion with neuroscientist Michael Meaney on the psychology of nonviolence – at the Rubin Museum
Works & Process Exploring Light at the Guggenheim with Tony Award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, choreographer Dana Reitz, director Jackson Gay, and set designer Ola Maslik
Tuesday, April 8
Mets home opener vs. Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium
Satya Graha Forum event: The Moth StorySLAM, The Nuyorican Poets Café
Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty at 92nd Street Y
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Met Opera
Candide at NY City Opera
NY Rangers playoff tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, April 9
Knicks vs. Charlotte at Madison Square Garden
Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium
Hillary Clinton and Elton John at Radio City
Garrison Keillor at 92nd Street Y
Chanticleer – From the Path of Beauty at the Met Museum
Ballet Tech's MANDANCE PROJECT at Joyce Theater (through April 20)
The Tubes play B B Kings Blues Club
Spoon plays Terminal 5
Candide at NY City Opera
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Paul Chan: The 7 Lights opens at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (through June 29)
Tomma Abts opens at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (through June 29)
Lost and Found Music Series: Music from Yiddish Celluloid at the Eldridge Street Project
Cupcake Workshop 1 at the Institute of Culinary Education
Sure-sellout $20 tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. for Edward Albee’s Occupant with Mercedes Ruehl at the Signature Theatre (performances May 6 - June 29)
The RSVP period opens for Downtown Alliance’s free April 17 Third Thursdays lecture: NYC Landmarks to Remember location: NYSE
Thursday, April 10
Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium
MoMA film series: MoMA Presents: Raphaël Nadjari's Tehilim (through April 16)
Loser’s Lounge The Cars vs. Duran Duran (through April 12)
Free lecture: Alexander Hamilton and the National Triumph of New York City at Morris Jumel Mansion at 7 p.m.
Daily Show Producer Rory Albanese presents Friends, Acquaintances and Colleagues at Comix, including John Hodgman
Satya Graha Forum event: “Gandhi: The Legacy,” a Photo Exhibition at the Tamarind Art Gallery (through April 23)
Seminars with Artists: Ellen Harvey at the Whitney
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Candide at NY City Opera
Friday, April 11
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium
Knicks vs. Atlanta at Madison Square Garden
NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils in Newark, N.J.
Havana Film Festival (through April 17)
Book signing: Joyce Tenneson, Joyce Tenneson: A Life in Photography at the International Center of Photography
Nada Surf and Superdrag play Terminal 5
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Rashawn Griffin at the Whitney at 3 p.m.
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Candide at NY City Opera
The Rodney Graham Band live, featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon! (and April 12)
Dr. John plays Blender Theater at Gramercy
Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors opens at the New-York Historical Society (through Aug. 17)
Orientalism in New York opens at the New-York Historical Society (through Aug. 17)
Wine class: Blind Tasting/Speed Dating at the Chelsea Wine Vault
92nd St. Y food tour: Extreme Chocolate Walking tour
Saturday, April 12
Previews begin on Broadway for "Thurgood" with Laurence Fishburne
Little Red Lighthouse opens for free tours from 1 to 3 p.m.
Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium
Jacksonknife performs at Apple SoHo store at 3 p.m.
UFO at the B B Kings Blues Club
Pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden: New York Titans vs. Colorado
Walking tour: Gargoyles at City College of New York
Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers at Scandinavia House
NYC Parks’ Hawk nest watch in Inwood Hill Park at noon
Vernon Reid and Masque at Center for the Arts on Staten Island
Hilary Hahn, Violin and Josh Ritter, Voice and Guitar at the Met Museum
(Rescheduled) Previews begin on Broadway of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" with Laura Linney and Ben Daniels (May 1 opening night; through June 29)
Vernon Reid and Masque play the College of Staten Island
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Met Opera
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Candide at NY City Opera
Academic Symposium—Love and Pop: Visual Cultures in Japan and Beyond , at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Tribeca Film Festival ticket packages go on sale, as well as single tickets if you’re buying with American Express
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum (and April 13, 19, 20)
Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Charcuterie 101
On Aphrodite's Trail: An Aphrodisiac Walking Tour at the Institute of Culinary Education
Great New York Restaurants' Signature Dishes at the Institute of Culinary Education
Connie Francis plays the St. George Theater near the Staten Island Ferry terminal on Staten Island
Editor @ the Library presents: "I Speak of the City: Poems of New York," at the Mid-Manhattan Library at 2:30 p.m.
The O’Jays play the Kupferberg Center in Queens
Sunday, April 13
Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium
NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils at Madison Square Garden
Artcrawl Harlem
Lecture at the American Museum of Natural History: Sustainable Food and Agriculture of Manhattan
Second Sundays at the Guggenheim - for families (kids 5-10) – “Touch—Don’t Touch”
Golden Dragon Acrobats at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Last skate of the season at the Rink at Rockefeller Center
Jon Stewart-hosted Night of Too Many Stars live from The Beacon Theatre
Free walking tour: Brooklyn Heights at 11 a.m.
Satya Graha Forum event: Gandhi's "Truth Force" in the Age of Climate Change
Eldridge Street Passover Party
Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton at 92nd Street Y
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Long Island City's Shifting Center
Candide at NY City Opera
St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of Bizet’s CARMEN at the Lehman Center For The Performing Arts
New York Transit Museum tour: Grand Avenue Bus Depot
Organ recital in the Hudson Valley at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, which has stained glass windows by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall
Monday, April 14
Knicks vs. Boston at Madison Square Garden
Lantern Tour of Fort Wadsworth
Queens: A Taste of the World at the USTA Billie Jean King National Center
Spa Week (April 20)
Symposia:About the Archive Broadly Perceived where artists, curators, and critics discuss how archival documents are used to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss
Theater Museum panel discussion on "The Impact on Jewish Culture on Broadway Theatre" at the Times Square Visitors Center at 6 p.m.
Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
5th Annual Immigrant History Week (through April 20)
Inside Michael Angelo’s Portrait of Cambodia presentation at Apple SoHo store
Rhubarb Festival at the Tour de France Restaurant Group (through May 12)
Etta James at the B B Kings Blues Club (through April 16)
Synthetic Times: Media Art Now at MoMA’s Modern Mondays
Philip Glass’ "Satyagraha" at the Met Opera
Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II: The Unknown Story - Norman H. Gershman in Conversation with Jason Williams at 92nd Street Y
Live Broadway cast recording of “Passing Strange” at 2 p.m. (for $20, but sign up online)
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
NYC Ballet box office opens for Spring season sales
Tuesday, April 15
“Top Girls” begins previews on Broadway (opening night: May 7; through June 22)
Mets vs. Washington Nationals at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Kim Cattrall attends the premiere of PBS's Masterpiece Classic
”My Boy Jack” at the Paley Center
Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 14)
Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through September 21)
Public Programs Hans Belting: Global Art and the Museum at the Guggenheim
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Candide at NY City Opera
Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing and Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger opens at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 14 and Sept. 21)
Wednesday, April 16
Yankees vs. Boston at Yankee Stadium
Mets vs. Washington Nationals at Shea Stadium
NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils at Madison Square Garden
Book talk Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends with Pete Fornatale
Lecture: Grayson Perry, the 2003 Turner prize winner at the Folk Art Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Jazz Score opens at MoMA (through Sept. 15)
Candide at NY City Opera
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)at the Met Opera
An Evening with the Writers and Friends of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at Comix
Thursday, April 17
Opening night on Broadway for "A Catered Affair"
Yankees vs. Boston at Yankee Stadium
Mets vs. Washington Nationals at Shea Stadium
NYC's sixth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day
Downtown Alliance’s free Third Thursdays lecture: NYC Landmarks to Remember location: NYSE
Swann Galleries’ 1:30 p.m. sixth annual auction of Space Exploration, including an Apollo 11 Flight Plan page with mission notes recorded by Neil Armstrong
Edward Albee in Conversation with Marian Seldes, free, at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Culinary Historians of NY event, “Lisbon and Spices: Transforming the World's Culinary Horizons,” at the Astor Center
Taste of the Lower East Side food fest at the Puck Building (from $150)
Bobby Collins at Comix (through April 19)
MoMA film series: MoMA Presents: Arthur Penn's Mickey One (through April 23)
Olivier Mosset, Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler at the Whitney at 7 p.m.
Immigrant Heritage Week celebrated with a lecture about traditional Mexican ballads adapted to the events of September 11 at the American Folk Art Museum, Branch Location at 2 Lincoln Square
Candide at NY City Opera
Ingrid Fliter, Piano at the Met Museum
Crossword Puzzles: A Master Class with David J. Kahn at 92nd Street Y
3-night Wine Camp in Long Island's Wine Country
Friday, April 18
The pope arrives in NYC, addresses the United Nations and holds a prayer service at St. Joseph's Church in Yorkville
ComicCon at the Javits (through April 20)
Garage & Tony Duchacek Concert at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden
James Bond Week 1 at Ziegfeld Theatre (through April 24)
NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils in Newark, N.J.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History (sold out, but watch for cancellations)
Book signing: Dayanita Singh, Sent a Letter at the International Center of Photography
“ The Brain" a new puppet theater work about Albert Einstein, at La MaMa E.T.C. (through April 27)
Pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden: New York Titans vs. Chicago
Musicians from Marlboro at the Met Museum
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Carol Bove at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Tribeca Film Festival tickets go on sale – but only to downtown residents with proof of a zip code below Canal Street)
Candide at NY City Opera
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Free Open House at the MetOpera for “la Fille du Regiment”
VineTime, The North Fork Wine Experience
Saturday, April 19
The pope’s in NY and today celebrates mass with priests and deacons at St. Patrick's Cathedral and then heads to Yonkers to meet with Catholic youth
Afternoon Tea & Tour – 19th-Century Strip Tea-se at the Merchant’s House Museum
Washington Heights neighborhood walking tour offered by the Morris-Jumel Mansion at noon and 1 p.m.
Free Fresh Kills Park Tours
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum (and April 20)
“Whalesong: Past and Future, New York and the World,” a symposium on the history, science and perennial romance of the leviathan in America at the NY Public Library
Colin Hay (Men at Work) plays Center for the Arts on Staten Island
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Last Exit to Brooklyn: Red Hook
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)at the Met Opera
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
Candide at NY City Opera
Panel Discussion—Envisioning Japan: Consuming Art in Japan/America, at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Earth Week at Prospect Park (through April 26)
Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo celebrate Earth Day Weekend (and April 20)
Earth Day—Seas the Day! A New York Aquarium at Coney Island (and April 20)
New York Transit Museum tour: The L to the MMMMM Train: Hipster Food, Puebla York, & Wurst
Breakfast with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Tribeca Film Festival tickets go on sale to the general public
Sunday, April 20
The pope’s visit to NY today includes a visit to Ground Zero, mass at Yankee Stadium and an 8 p.m. departure from JFK Airport
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opens at MoMA and P.S. 1 in Queens (through June 30)
John Lithgow: Stories By Heart begins previews at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (through June 2)
4th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival (through April 26)
Free Green Apples Festival at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield from noon featuring Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Vusi Mahlasela and Vienna Teng
22nd Annual Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K fun run/walk through the tunnel
Forgotten NY tour of Gravesend at 1 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society panel discussion on Puerto Rican Steamship Migration to Brooklyn at 3 p.m.
Book talk at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, on HARRIET & ISABELLA, the Beechers, a celebrated American family torn apart by the most lurid scandal of the 19th century
Candide at NY City Opera
They Might be Giants play Town Hall
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo at the B B Kings Blues Club (and April 22)
The Onion presents “Our Dumb World” at the Highline Ballroom
Crochet Reef Symposium on pattern and peril in nature and art at the NYU Cantor Film Center at 11 a.m.
Sunday In Brooklyn: An Italian-American Feast from the Institute of Culinary Education
Monday, April 21
Project Shaw reading of “Farfetched Fables” at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
Satya Graha Forum event: Gandhi, King and the Power of Nonviolence: Alternatives to Force in the 21st Century
Coney Island’s Astroland open every day for Spring Recess (through April 25, then back to weekends-only until June 13)
The Leading Men III at Birdland
An Evening with Kalup Linzy at MoMA’s Modern Mondays
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Earth Week at Bronx Zoo (through April 27)
Children’s Museum of Manhattan (normally closed for Mondays) is open for Spring Break
Spring break Week at New Victory (for kids ages 7-14)
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 22
Met Museum opens its rooftop sculpture garden for the season (weather permitting) with Jeff Koons on the Roof (through Oct. 26)
“Tools of the Trade” exhibit opens at the NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through Dec. 7)
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
"Glory Days" begins previews on Broadway (opening night: May 6; open-ended run)
First Lady Laura Bush and Jenna Bush on Literacy and Learning at 92nd Street Y
The Science of Champagne lecture at the NY Academy of Science at WTC 7 at 6 p.m.
$30 lunch prix fixe lunch at il Buco (including the Porchetta Panino) with all proceeds going to Al Gore's We Campaign (through April 27)
Skyscraper Museum lecture: Williamsburg Waterfront presented at the NYPL Donnell Library Auditorium
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam at the Joyce Theater (through April 27)
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo at the B B Kings Blues Club
Wednesday, April 23
First day of Tribeca Film Festival (through May 4)
Brits Off-Broadway theater festival (through June 29)
Symposium on Catholics in New York at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m.
Lecture and book signing: Learning From The Past: The Struggle to Build Penn Station at the Municipal Art Society at6:30 p.m.
Discussion: Watermill: A Robbins Meditation on Time at the N-Y Historical Society at 6:30 p.m.
indieWIRE Presents: Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure at Apple SoHo store
Tossed Salad with Hedda Lettuce at Comix
MoMA film series: Kim Ki-Duk (through May 8)
Double Album: Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer opens at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (through July 6)
Satya Graha Forum event: Gandhi for Today's World, presented by Asia Society and Syracuse University, with composer Philip Glass, Asia Society president Vishakha Desai and Gustav Niebuhr
The new Facts & Fictions reading series kicks off at the Montauk Club with readings by Alex Prud'Homme (“My Life in France”) and Kim Sunée (“Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home”)
Akram Khan at City Center (through April 27)
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)at the Met Opera
Thursday, April 24
Opening night on Broadway for "Cry-Baby"
Free cabs from the Sheraton Hotel on 811 7th Ave., between 52nd and 53rd – as hailed by Mario – from 8 to 10 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m.
Lynne Cheney and Pete Williams appear at theNew-York Historical Society for a talk about her book “Blue Skies, No Fences” at 6:30 p.m.
Today’s Tribeca Film Fest offerings include the 5 p.m. set of short-films under the topic Off the Beaten Path, including The New Yorkist
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at the Met Museum
Kips Bay Decorator Show House opens on E. 66th Street (through May 22)
BoltBus begins $1 service between NY and Boston
ABC Carpets’ Bronx Warehouse sale starts today (link in pdf)
"The Back Room" at The Ochi's Lounge at Comix – the only “underground (literally) gay comedy show in NYC”
Friday, April 25
Mets vs. Atlanta at Shea Stadium
Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through April 6)
Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale at the NY Botanical Garden (through April 27)
One Step Beyond dance party at the American Museum of Natural History at 9 p.m. (advance tix req'd)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studio Weekend (through April 27)
George Lois: The Esquire Covers opens at MoMA (through March 31, 2009)
Free outdoor drive-in style screening of Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins at the World Financial Center Plaza for the Tribeca Film Festival
full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including a midnight showing of Killer Movie
Free one-hour absolute beginners Tango workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Congress of curious peoples at Coney Island (through May 4)
Clive Owen appears as part of the at the free Filmmaker Talks series at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival at 6:30 p.m.
James Bond Week 2 at Ziegfeld Theatre (through May 1)
Derringer -- featuring Rick Derringer, Kenny Aaronson, Vinny Appice, and Danny Johnson – play B B Kings Blues Club
Tony Orlando plays St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Plum Beach Restoration Cleanup and Planting (and April 26)
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Samuel Beckett’s Endgame begins previews at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with John Turturro, Elaine Stritch, Alvin Epstein and Max Casella (through May 18)
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Gretchen Skogerson (at 2 p.m.) and Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition: Eduardo Sarabia (at 7 p.m.) at the Whitney
Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure opens at the NY Botanical Garden (through June 15)
NYU’s Noshes and Nibbles Along St Mark's Place and the East Village
Saturday, April 26
Mets vs. Atlanta at Shea Stadium
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including The 27 Club
Free outdoor drive-in style screening of We Are Marshall at the World Financial Center Plaza for the Tribeca Film Festival
Amy Poehler appears as part of the at the free Filmmaker Talks series at Apple SoHo Store at 8 p.m. for the Tribeca Film Festival
NY Magpies (Australian Rules Football) 2008 ANZAC Day Party at the Boat Basin Cafe
NFL Draft (and April 27)
GoGreenExpo at the Hilton New York (and April 27)
NYC Parks’ Street Game festival featuring Stick Ball, stoop ball, box ball, skully and other games at Jackie Robinson Park
NYC Parks’ Plant Giveaway at RING Garden
Film Screening of “The Music Inn” at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Free one-hour absolute beginners Tango workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO from 8 to 9 p.m.
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met Opera
The Good Rats play B B Kings Blues Club
Steven Lubin plays piano sonatas by Mozart in the Morris-Jumel Mansion’s 1765 octagonal music room
Lecture and tour: Green Roofs, Green Homes at the New York City College of Technology
Plum Beach Restoration Cleanup and Planting
Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn Heights walking tour organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Open Studio Weekend (and April 27)
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: A Meet and Greet Tour of Fort Greene
Brooklyn Museum of Art Lecture: Miriam Schapiro on the evolution of the 1970s feminist movement, and her role in it.
Cake will be served at Prospect Park in honor of the birthdays shared by John Audubon and Frederick Law Olmsted
Legends Of Salsa/The Gathering Of Salsa Royalty at the Lehman Center For The Performing Arts in the Bronx
Creating Central Park A Panel Discussion at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m.
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Tony Gilroy at 6:30 p.m.
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Robin Hood and the Tinker”
Pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden: New York Titans vs. Rochester
100 Important Old master Prints go on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the May 1 auction
Rugby: The Big Apple Classic
Dances of Vice party at the Montauk Club
Sheep-to-Shawl event at the Philipsburg Manor in the Hudson Valley (and April 27)
Sunday, April 27
Mets vs. Atlanta at Shea Stadium
Opening night on Broadway for Country Girl (through July 20)
Staten Island Yankees’ Back to Baseball Bash 2008 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with games, raffles and Tino Martinez and Darryl Strawberry signing autographs. (This is also the first day individual game tickets go on sale.)
HomeBase Project, a site-specific art project in a five-floor landmark townhouse, opens in Sugar Hill, Harlem (through May 18)
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Redbelt, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha and Guest of Cindy Sherman
Free walking tour: Walt Whitman's Fort Greene & Clinton Hill at 2 p.m.
Dorothy Parker Society’s Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Mansions of Clinton Hill
Municipal Art Society walking tour: In the Shadow of the High Line at 11 a.m.
Rangers dressed in period dress will lead tours of the site of General Grant’s internment (arrive at 10 a.m. for 11 a.m. tours)
NFL Draft
GoGreenExpo at the Hilton New York
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Open Studio Weekend
Works & Process Poetry into Music with Dana Gioia at the Guggenheim
2008 NYC GROWS Garden Festival presented by Target at Union Square
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Guy Maddin at 5:30 p.m.
The Session: Play Reading at the Museum of the City of New York
Silhouettes and Tea with a silhouette artist at The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
Brad Garrett at St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Richard Lewis with Keith Olbermann at 92nd Street Y
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
30th Annual Antique Auto Show at the Queens County Farm Museum
Last day to visit the Museum of Art and Design before it closes to move to its new building on Columbus Circle (which opens in September)
NY Audubon bus trip to Raptor Trust and Great Swamp
Monday, April 28
Mets vs. the Pirates at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m. (rained out)
An Evening with Karen Yasinsky at MoMA’s Modern Mondays
Morgan Spurlock appearance as part of the at the free Filmmaker Talks series at Apple SoHo Store at 6:30 p.m. for the Tribeca Film Festival
Contest/audition for Donna & the Dynamos from the movie, MAMMA MIA at Spotlight Live at 11 a.m.
(Rescheduled date) Broadway and Off-Broadway’s 22nd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition (and April 29)
Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
Norman Lear at 92nd Street Y
Danny Forster of Discovery’s “Build it Bigger” at New School
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
Drama Desk Award nominees announced
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 29
"39 Steps" on Broadway reopens at the Cort Theater after a one-month hiatus
Yankees vs. Detroit at Yankee Stadium
Mets vs. the Pirates at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
NHL Playoffs: Rangers vs. Pittsburgh in the Eastern Conference Semifinals at Madison Square Garden
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature (through May 4)
123 FESTIVAL of dance at Joyce Theater (through May 11)
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Tom Kalin at 6:30 p.m. and Isabella Rossellini at 8 p.m.
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Guest of Cindy Sherman ,
Milosevic on Trial and Yonkers Joe
Discussion: New York Infrastructure: What’s New in Transportation in New York City? at the Museum of the City of New York
Free 7:30 a.m. Bryant Park Tai Chi
Urge Overkill plays Bowery Ballroom
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Broadway and Off-Broadway’s 22nd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition
Details announced for free Coldplay concert at Madison Square Garden on June 23
(The Nelson Freire piano recital at the Met Museum has been cancelled due to tendonitis.)
Wednesday, April 30
Opening night on Broadway for "Thurgood" with Laurence Fishburne (through July 20)
Yankees vs. Detroit at Yankee Stadium
Mets vs. the Pirates at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Greg Mottola at 6:30 p.m.
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including The New Yorkist, The Universe of Keith Haring and An Omar Broadway Film, a documentary about Newark's Northern State Prison.
Fine Arts Lecture Series, Kiki Smith at the New School
Natural History auction at Bonham’s includes the “World’s Most Spectacular Meteorite” and fossilized dinosaur droppings
Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met Opera
NY Audubon’s Spring Migration Birdwalks in Central Park
Municipal Art Society program: World-Class Train Stations
Olga Kapustina annual sample sale at 161 W 22nd St., 3rd Floor from 9 a.m. (through May 2)
Jarvis Cocker at virtual Lower East Side at 3 p.m.

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