June 01, 2006

June 2008 New York calendar of events

Sunday, June 1
Mets vs. Los Angeles Dodgers at Shea Stadium at 8:05 p.m.
Jazz & Roses festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Japan Day festival in Central Park
Salute to Israel Parade
Beatles drummer Pete Best plays BB Kings
Thomas Music Study Club celebrates its 76th anniversary with a concert at the Museum of the City of New York at 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission
Hamilton Heights House & Garden Tour
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc’s annual mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Wii Fit Battle at the Plaza at the Nintendo World Store from 1 to 4 p.m.
Center for the Urban Environment walking and bus tour of Brooklyn Navy Yard with Richard Drucker, senior vice president for external affairs of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
True Colors featuring Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s, Rosie O’Donnell, Indigo Girls, The Cliks, and host Carson Kressley play the Nikon at Jones Beach
Emily Skinner: Broadway Her Way at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Broadway Loves Country at Joe’s Pub
Brooklyn Museum panel discussion on Talks and Tours: Panel Discussion: Gen X, Gen Y, Baby Boomers, and Traditionalists
Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami launch Monogramouflage at the Brooklyn Museum
Art talk at the Met Museum: The Art of Observation: Why Police Officers Are Taking a Second Look at Art, Part 1
Community Day at Historic Richmond Town
what made milwaukee famous play Union Hall
Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Boerum Hill home tours
$15 Project Shaw tickets go on sale for the monthly reading at The Players on Gramercy Park South (and the fist of every month)
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be blue and white to mark Israel’s 60th Anniversary
Monday, June 2
“Applause, Applause” - A Salute to Charles Strouse, with Lauren Bacall and moderated by Peter Filichia, at the Paley Center
Teatro Stage Fest (through June 15)
Orfeh at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Broadway Underground at BB Kings
Taste of Times Square food festival at 5 p.m.
what made milwaukee famous play Mercury Lounge
Book event: Photographer Julia Calfee (INSIDE The Chelsea Hotel) and writer Ed Hamilton (Legends of the Chelsea Hotel ) team up for “The Chelsea Hotel in Words and Pictures” at 7 p.m.
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be purple and white in recognition of the Alzheimer’s Association’s “Forget-Me-Not” gala
Presale at 10 a.m. for Bob Dylan’s Aug. 12 concert at Prospect Park
Tuesday, June 3
Free Museum Mile Festival
Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940 opens at the Met Museum (through Sept. 1)
Joba Chamberlain makes his first big league start for the Yankees vs. Toronto at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Internet Week (through June 10)
“Rabbit and Rogue” Twyla Tharp World Premiere - American Ballet Theatre at 8 p.m.
Jazz for Curious Listeners free series Art Tatum at 7 p.m. at Harlem School of the Arts
Book Court book event at 7 p.m.: “Sweet Melissa Baking Book”
Tony Danza at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through June 7)
True Crimes: The Untold Story Behind the Devastation of Iraq, at Town Hall
Auction: Oriental Rugs And Carpets Including Property From The Doris Duke Collection And The Newport Restoration Foundation at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Auction: Important French Furniture and Decorations, European Ceramics and Carpets at Sotheby’s
Wednesday, June 4
Yankees vs. Toronto at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Scott McClellan with Dan Rather: Inside the Bush White House at 92nd Street Y
Central Park Taste of Summer food fest at 7 p.m.
Book event: David Sedaris at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
Domingo Quiñones Y Orquesta plays a free 7 p.m. show at Wagner Park at Battery Park
Lach in-store performance at J&R at 12:30 p.m.
AEG/HighLine Presents: Paid Dues at 7 p.m. at the Nokia Theater Times Square with Rakim, GZA, Blackalicious, Murs & 9th Wonder, Buckshot of Boot Camp Clik, Supernatural & Scratch, Kidz in the Hall and Yak Ballz
New Coney Island beers premiere party at The Gate
Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue” at American Ballet Theatre at 2 and 8 p.m.
Coney Island Weekends photo exhibition at Umbrella Arts (through June 22)
Book event for Felicia Pride and Ferentz Lafargue at the Bronx Museum at 5:30 p.m.
Auction: Antiquities at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Thursday, June 5
Jana Hunsaker Memorial Wheelchair Tennis Tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows Corona Park (through June 8)
Live at Lincoln presents an evening of conversation and musical performances with Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, Matthew Morrison, Danny Burstein & Loretta Bales Sayre of Broadway’s “South Pacific” with host Laurence Maslon at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 5 p.m.
A Tribute to Duke Ellington with the NJMIH All Star Big Band at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Christian Church - free
Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra’s “An English Evening” at Borough Hall
1st Thursdays gallery walk in Dumbo from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tropical Night at the Seaport from 5 to 9 p.m.
Eric Clapton plays the Nikon at Jones Beach
Book Court book event at 7 p.m.: David Browne on “Goodbye 20TH Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth”
Cheeky B*stard plays Hiro Ballroom
Latte Art Throwdown at 8 p.m. at
Joe
Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue” at American Ballet Theatre at 8 p.m.
Book event: Joe O’Neill reads and signs “Netherland” at 7 p.m.
The Voice of Iran: Mohammed Reza Ahajarian, at Town Hall
Yankees vs. Toronto at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Kids Day with free admission at Brooklyn Historical Society, (this is the date of the traditional “Brooklyn-Queens Day”)
L magazine’s New Music Fest at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Remix Curatorial Lecture with Joe Baker (Lenape) and Gerald McMaster (Anishnabe) at the National Museum of the American Indian at 5:30 p.m.
Auctions: Old Master Paintings and Antiquities at Sotheby’s
Atlantic Yards rally
Friday, June 6
Yankees vs. Kansas City at Yankee Stadium, where it’s Stadium Figurine Night, at 7:05 p.m.
Come Out and Play games festival on the Lower East Side (through June 8)
Learn to Sail in One Night at Miramar Yacht Club for $25
Free bike program begins on Governors Island
92nd Street Y tour: The Ritz-Carlton Luxury Tour and Tea at 1 p.m.
Chuck Berry plays BB Kings
American Idol’s Taylor Hicks joins the cast of “Grease” on Broadway
Rooftop Films official opening night with free after party
Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival (through June 8)
Free “Dance to the Music! A Look at Hip Hop, Dance and Culture,” at the bronx Museum at 6 p.m. with Adesola Osakalumi, (Elite Force/ MopTop Productions), Buddha Stretch, (Elite Force/ MopTop Productions), Jorge “Fabel” Pabon, (RSC, Tools of War), Ana “Rokafella” Garcia (Full Circle Productions), and Moncell “Ill Kozby” Durden (Filmmaker). Moderated by April Silver: (AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc)
Bronx Symphony Orchestra Woodwinds play the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 5:30 p.m. for First Fridays
Neue Galerie screens “Topkapi”
Les Petits Soldats screens at the New-York Historical Society for free “Let Them Eat Cake Fridays”
Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue” at American Ballet Theatre at 8 p.m.
Rick Smolan at Apple SoHo store on “America at Home” at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Mac n Cheese cookout & General Hootenannay from 4 to 11 p.m. at The Yard
22nd Annual ISI Figure Skating Competition at Chelsea Piers (through June 8)
Krispy Kreme in Penn Station will be giving away free doughnuts all day for Doughnut Day
Squirrel Nut Zippers play the Highline Ballroom
Ashanti with a special guest play a free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park for Good Morning America
Auction: Old Master & 19th Century European Art at Sotheby’s
NY Audubon’s Montauk Spring Weekend
Saturday, June 7
Big Apple Barbecue Block Party at Madison Square Park (and June 8)
Hamilton Grange moves from about 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free self-guided Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk (and June 8)
Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival with free NY Water Taxi service from Pier 11 at Wall Street to Fairway
Yankees vs. Kansas City at Yankee Stadium (cap day) at 1:05 p.m.
Free tours of the Little Red Lighthouse in Fort Washington Park from 1 to 3 p.m.
Open Air Book Fair at Housing Works Bookstore from 10 a.m.
Grillin’ On The Bay - New York City’s Original Barbecue Contest from 10 a.m. in Brooklyn
Garden Days at the Cloisters (and June 8)
Artists’ Open Studios tours in Red Hook/Carroll Gardens and Victorian Flatbush (and June 8)
Frank Wess Celebration Nonet at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Cassandra Wilson at BAM
Rooftop Filmsevent with Fab 5 Freddy, graffiti artists, MCs, DJs, rock bands, poetry, dance and dramatic performances, followed by a program of urban short films
“Squeezebox!,” about the drag punk club at Don Hill’s, screens at 10:30 p.m. as part of the New Fest, the New York LGBT film festival
St. Mark’s Annual Block Party from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 11th Street between Second & Third avenues
Twyla Tharp’s “Rabbit and Rogue” at American Ballet Theatre at 2 and 8 p.m.
29th Annual Mississippi Day Picnic in Central Park from noon to 6 p.m.
Free 2nd Annual Learn-to-Row Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Dyckman Landing in Fort Tryon Park
Second Annual Mayor’s Cup Cricket Tournament at 11 a.m. at New Canarsie Cricket field in Brooklyn
National Trails Day at Wave Hill
“The Funhouse” screens at Coney Island Film Society
Book event: Asphalt Jungle or Wildlife Refuge: The Natural History of New York City at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m., free with museum admission
Free LES Band Crawl from 1 to 5 p.m.
Festa Italiana at the Staten Island Zoo (and June 8)
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
140th running of the Belmont Stakes
Mudhoney plays the Highline Ballroom
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc’s Brooklyn Musical Festival
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Powergirls and the Brothers Evil”
Bank of America cardholders get free admission all weekend to the Met Museum, International Center of Photography, NY Hall of Science, the Jewish Museum, Bronx Zoo and NY Aquarium for Museums on Us
CBS begins airing Tony Awards Nominations Concert with performances from ten shows—A Catered Affair, Cry-Baby, Grease, Gypsy, In The Heights, Passing Strange, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, The Little Mermaid, and Xanadu — in advance of next weekend’s Tony Awards
Sunday, June 8
2008 National Puerto Rican Day Parade from 11 a.m.
Yankees vs. Kansas City at Yankee Stadium (for All-Star Game Bat Day) at 1:05 p.m.
Little Richard plays BB Kings
James Beard Foundation Awards
19th Annual Mount Morris Park Home Tour from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Emily Skinner: Broadway Her Way at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
New York Harbor Rail-Marine Cruise
Canoe Challenge through Staten Island’s Lemn Creek at 11 a.m.
Jazz Lawn Party on Governors Island with Michael Arenella and the Dreamland Orchestra and the Dorothy Parker Society
Walking tour: The Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre with Justin Ferate
Monday, June 9
Free Thank You New York Philharmonic ceremony honoring Maestro Lorin Maazel followed by a concert of Brahms Second Symphony and Tchaikovsky violin concerto at 8 p.m.
13th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge at 6:30 p.m.
Armen Donelian plays at the free Paino in the Park at Bryant Park’s Upper Terrace from noon to 1:45 p.m. (through June 13)
Yankees vs. Kansas City at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler, A Swell Party: RSVP Cole Porter at Town Hall
Book Court book event: Theodore Hamm on “The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, Moveon, Jon Stewart and Company are Transforming Progressive Politics”
The Kurt Weill Project: A Song About Forever: Songs by Kurt Weill at at 6 p.m.
Book event: Bill Berloni: Broadway Tails at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
Wyclef Jean performa at Apple SoHo store at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, June 10
ShowBoat in Concert at Carnegie Hall
Mets vs. Arizona at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
U.N. discussion: New York Neighborhoods/Development and Preservation: Remaking the Middle East Side, at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York with Daniel R. Garodnick, Michael Adlerstein, Marilyn Jordan Taylor and Edward Rubin
New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Sept. 14)
Gnarls Barkley perform at the Apple SoHo store at 7 p.m.
Marcus Garvey Tribute from noon to 8 p.m. at Marcus Garvey Park
Tony Danza at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through June 14)
M.I.A. plays Party in the Garden benefit at MoMA
Working Harbor Committee’s Hidden Harbor Tour, departs Pier 16 at South Street Seaport Museum at 6 p.m.
Panel Discussion : Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran at the Asia Society
Debra Winger at Times Talks
Murray’s Cheese class: Border Battles: VT vs NH Beer & Cheese
Auction: Christie’s Interiors at Christie’s Rockefeller Center (and June 11)
Book event: Mark Kurlansky: The Last Fish Tale at Barnes and Noble at 82nd and Broadway at 7 p.m.
Joe opens in Grand Central’s Graybar Passage
Wednesday, June 11
Mets vs. Arizona at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Taste of Long Island City food fest
AIGA|NY Presents: Linked by Air at Apple SoHo store
Exile Cinema reading at the KGB Bar at 7 p.m. with ex-Village Voice film critic Michael Atkinson and other contributors
Transit Museum lecture: Engineering East Side Access with Alan Paskoff of MTA Capital Construction at 2 p.m. at the museum’s Brooklyn location
Musical performance at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle : Karen Akers: Simply Styne at 6 p.m.
21st Century Band: Caribbean Jazz Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Auction: Carpets at Sotheby’s
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be orange and white in recognition of the 150th Anniversary of the YWCA of New York City
Thursday, June 12
Isaac Hayes kicks off Celebrate Brooklyn concert season at Prospect Park with a free 8 p.m. concert ($300+ gala begins at 5:30 p.m.)
Free Digital Downtown consumer technology showcase at the World Financial Center (through June 14)
Kidz in the Hall, the Ellis Marsalis Quartet and Regina Belle play the free J&R’s Summerfest at City Hall Park
8th Annual Celebrity Readathon at Magic Johnson Theatres
Screening and discussion of Twilight Becomes Night, a short documentary set in New York City which explores the pivotal role of neighborhood stores
Housing Works Showcase at Housing Works Bookstore
WNYC Stoop Sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as the public radio station cleans out its Municipal Building offices in preparation for a move
Book signing and discussion for Manhattan’s Turtle Bay at the Cervantes Institute at 6 p.m.
Bernadette Peters performs for Broadway Barks event at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 10 a.m.
Book event: Peter Filichia, & David Greenspan Mart Crowley, Tony Kushner: The Boys in the Band at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7:30 p.m.
SketchFest NYC, the fourth annual international sketch comedy festival (through June 14)
Mets vs. Arizona at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
Loser’s Lounge tribute to The Kinks at Joe’s Pub (through June 14)
NYC Parks’ free walking tour at Fort Tryon Park: Sidney Horenstein’s If Manhattan Was Schist, It Wouldn’t Be Gneiss from 6 to 8 p.m.
J&R’s annual Summerfest concert series (through June 14)
Harlem Speaks free series with George Wein, pianist/entrepreneur at Harlem School of the Arts at 6:30 p.m.
Cheeky B*stard plays Hiro Ballroom
Affordable Art Fair (through June 15)
Discussion: Your Catholicism or Mine? at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Auction: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Mystery of the Caves class at Murray’s Cheese
VineTime, The North Fork Wine Experience
Friday, June 13
Mavis Staples and Stephanie McKay open Central Park Summerstage for the season at 7 p.m.
The 6th Annual Explorers Club Film Festival (and June 14)
Casley, The Dey, Yung Berg, Tiffany Evans and Noel Gourdin play the free J&R’s Summerfest at City Hall Park
“The Universe of Keith Haring” screens at 5:30 p.m. as part of the New Fest, the New York LGBT film festival
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes play BB Kings (and June 14)
Mark Kozelek at Highline Ballroom
Neue Galerie screens “Topkapi”
Coney Island’s Astroland now open daily (until Sept. 1)
Le Couperet screens at the New-York Historical Society for free “Let Them Eat Cake Fridays”
Harlem in the Himalayas series Joe Wilder, trumpeter & friends at the Rubin Museum at 7 p.m.
Mets vs. Texas at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
The Marriage of Bette and Boo starts previews at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre with Terry Beaver, Heather Burns and Victoria Clark (through Sept. 7)
Auction: Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design and An Important Private Collection of French and Ivory Figures at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Tickets go on sale for the Bob Dylan Prospect Park concert
Saturday, June 14
Backpacker Magazine’s free Adventures NYC featuring a 70-foot water slide and Pro BMX Bike competition
Gerald Veasley, Danielia Cotton, Maino, Young Steff, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, The Drifters featuring Rick Sheppard and play the free J&R’s Summerfest at City Hall Park
Roackaway Beach’s Rockstock and Barrels second annual festival with surf contests, skateboard demos and live music from noon to 6 p.m.
Family Overnight Safari at the Bronx Zoo
Vampire Weekend, Kid Sister, Born Ruffians play Central Park SummerStage for a $5 suggested donation from 4 to 8 p.m.
Renegade Craft Fair at the McCarren Park Pool (and June 15)
High School Musical pep rally at World of Disney at 711 Fifth Avenue (Saturdays through June)
Mets vs. Texas at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Children’s Day and Fireworks from noon to 5 p.m. with Gordon from Sesame Street, Curious George, Clifford the Red Dog, Maisy, Winnie the Pooh, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck ; then the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs at 8 p.m. and accompanies the Spectacular Target Fireworks Show with a performance of John Adams “Shaker Loops” – 9:30 p.m.
Second annual Food Film Festival (through June 20)
Brooklyn Historical Society’s guided walking tour of the Weeksville Neighborhood
Brooklyn Pride festival
17th Annual Bronx Day
Father’s Day Strawberry Shortcake Eating Contest at the Grand Army Plaza greenmarket
New York Aquarium at Coney Island celebrates the 1st birthday of their baby walrus
SpongeBob Square Pants at Coney Island’s Astroland
PanJazz at Lincoln Center
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “The Lamp of Olah”
Seining in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Coastal Marine Resource Center from 10 a.m. to noon
Miriam Makeba and Bakithi Kumalo celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Auction: Important 20th Century Design at Sotheby’s
Richard Nader’s Summer Doo Wop Reunion XIX plays the Izod Center at the Meadowlands in N.J.
Sunday, June 15
Tony Awards
JVC Jazz Festival begins (through June 28)
Atlantic tunnel tour
moe plays Governors Island
Victor Manuelle plays Central Park Summerstage at 3 p.m.
Mets vs. Texas at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
9th annual Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works Bookstore at noon
Deadline to register for a chance to buy All-Star Tickets at Yankee Stadium
Monday, June 16
Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy begins previews on Broadway (opening night: June 26; through Aug. 24)
Opening night for the free 2008 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (and every Monday through Aug. 18)
Musical Performance: Mark Marino: Just Us at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 6 p.m.
Herring Week at Aquavit (through June 20)
Bloomsday on Broadway XXVII at 7 p.m. at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
BROADWAY BY THE YEAR: 1979 at Town Hall
Lea Michele at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 17
Opening night for Shakespeare in the Park’s Hamlet (which plays in Central Park through June 29)
Free Pizza Film Fest screens in the parking lot next door to Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn at 8 p.m.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers play Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
Bill Clinton speaks at Radio City Music Hall
Musical Performance from Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch: Sunday in New York at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 7 p.m.
Discusion: Preserving the Robert Moses Legacy: Jones Beach, at the Museum of the City of New York, reservations required
Liz Callaway Sings the 60’s “The Beat Goes On” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through June 21)
Jazz for Curious Listeners free series Art Tatum at 7 p.m. at Harlem School of the Arts
Free screening of Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde at the Met Museum at 2 p.m.
The National Yiddidh Theatre/Folksbiene celebrates Carl Reiner at Town Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees vs. San Diego at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Minor league baseball opening day: Brooklyn Cyclones vs. Staten Island Yankees in Coney Island
Macbeth performed in the old tobacco warehouse at the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park (through June 29)
Auction: Important Scientific Books: The Richard Green Library at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Wednesday, June 18
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
Alicia Keys plays Madison Square Garden at 7: 30 p.m.
Staten Island Yankees home game vs. the Brooklyn Cyclones
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway of “Get Smart” appear at Apple SoHo store
Meet the artists event at the Brooklyn Pubic Library for “Twilight on the Waterfront: Brooklyn’s Vanishing Industrial Heritage” at 7 p.m.
Musical Performance from Karen Mason: Right Here/Right Now at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 5:30 p.m.
South Brooklyn waterfront park opens at IKEA’s grand opening
Yankees vs. San Diego at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Emmylou Harris plays Town Hall (and June 19)
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be
blue, green and yellow in honor of opening day for the New York Conference on the Caribbean as well as acknowledge June as Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Thursday, June 19
Yankees vs. San Diego at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
R.E.M. play Madison Square Garden
The Roaring 20’s Night In The Park at the Ederle Terrace in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at 6 p.m.
Cheeky B*stard plays Hiro Ballroom
Medeski Martin & Wood, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Taylor McFerrin & Cell Theory in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour moderates a free panel on Food Crisis: How Rising Prices Are Stoking Emergencies from Haiti to Somalia at 7 p.m. at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium
Free screening of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Questions, Not Answers at the Met Museum at 2 p.m.
Tom Wopat sings at the Metropolitan Room
RAEKWON + CAPPADONNA of WU-TANG CLAN play BB Kings
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island vs. Staten Island Yankees
Auction: Fine Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby’s
Post-apocalyptic book discussion at Freebird at 7:30 p.m. on the 1954 classic short novel “I Am Legend,” followed by an 8:30 p.m. screening of “Logan’s Run” at Sugar Lounge
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be red for “Cartier Love Day”
Lorin Maazel leads the NY Philharmnic in Puccini’s Tosca in Concert at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 20
Free performance by the Met Opera: Met Summer Concert: Live in Prospect Park
The Cure play Madison Square Garden
Neighborhood sails at the South Street Seaport Museum from 5 p.m.
New York Asian Film Festival (through July 6)
Gogol Bordello plays McCarren Park Pool
Tribute To Cheo Feliciano at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
An Evening With My Morning Jacket at Radio City Music Hall
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy play BB Kings
Neue Galerie screens “The Affair of the Necklace”
Les Soeurs
Fachées screens at the New-York Historical Society for free “Let Them Eat Cake Fridays”
Swedish Midsummer Festival at 5 p.m. at Battery Park City
“Traces” opens at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum with a reception for artist B. Amore at 7 p.m.
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Staten Island Yankees home game
Tatsuya Nakadai retrospective at Film Forum (through Aug. 7)
Saturday, June 21
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Make Music New York
Mermaids of the Deep weekend at New York Aquarium at Coney Island
The Cure play Radio City Music Hall
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Tudor City: Utopia on the East River at 11 a.m.
Free screenings of Blithe Spirit at 2 p.m., Anna and the King of Siam at 4 p.m. and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir at 6 p.m. the Met Museum
Free RETURN OF ROCOCO: A Baroque Bash @ teneleven
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as an Historic District
1st Annual Juneteenth Emancipation Day at Pleasant Village Community Garden in East Harlem at 11 a.m.
World’s Strongest Man Super Series at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
7th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration at 5 p.m. at Socrates Sculpture Park
Solstice in Times Square free yoga-fest in the heart of Times Square at 8 and 10 a.m., noon, and 7:30 p.m.
Army Heritage Weekend on Governors Island (and June 22)
Free walking tour: Destination: El Barrio from 3 to 5 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society’s Gowanus Transformations - walking tour from 2 p.m.
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Sonido Isleño/Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m., free with museum admission
James Taylor plays the Nikon at Jones Beach
Alice Russell
plays Hiro Ballroom
Murray’s Cave Day cheese tour
Discover Madagascar at Bronx Zoo(through July 13)
Sunday, June 22
NYC Pride kicks off with NYC LGBT Pride Rally in Bryant Park from 2 to 6 p.m. (through June 29)
Shells at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Center for the Urban Environment tour: Cruising the Gowanus Canal
Met Museum one-day lecture and panel event: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
New York Liberty vs. Phoenix Mercury at Madison Square Garden
Young @ Heart at Beacon Theatre
Bronx Week Food & Arts Festival at 1 p.m.
Broadway Bares at Roseland
Julie Budd: “The Standard of Things” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (and June 23)
Stink Fest ‘08 cheese-eating contest at 3 p.m. on Smith Street, Brooklyn
Tatum: Piano Starts Here at the Apollo Theater at 2 p.m.
Salif Keita and Haale in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Reading of “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” at Town Hall
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Dorothy Parker Society’s Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour
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.
Breakfast with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Staten Island Yankees home game
Cry Baby’s final day on Broadwy
92nd Street Y walking tour of Central Park’s politics and ecology at 11 a.m.
Queerhood 2008: A Cultural Celebration of LGBT Pride in the Bronx at the Bronx Museum
31st Annual NYC Big Apple Grapple International Arm Wrestling Championships at the Jacob K. Javits Center/Bar Show
Scandia Symphony Concerts in Fort Tryon Park a 2 p.m.
Free CelebrateStory Storytelling Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue at the Conservatory Water in Central Park
Monday, June 23
Mets vs. Seattle at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Free Coldplay concert at Madison Square Garden
Musical Performance from Rufus Reed: Live at the Kennedy Center at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 6 p.m.
Project Shaw reading of “Great Catherine with Annajanska, The Wild Grand Duchess” at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Poetry Society of America’s Bright Lights, Big Verse free 6:30 p.m. reading of Times Square-inspired poetry
Julie Budd: “The Standard of Things” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Pirate Party Pig Roast at Water Taxi Beach at 6:30 p.m. to honor artist Dean Radinovsky
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island
Juilliard Jazz Ensemble with Special Guest Steve Turre at Jazz at LincolnCenter
Tuesday, June 24
Free NY Philharmonic concert in Central Park
Brooklyn Philharmonic plays a free concert at Central Park’s Naumberg Bandshell at 7:30 p.m.
Pearl Jam play Madison Square Garden (and June 25)
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band at Radio City Music Hall
Free screening of Iconoclasts: Tom Ford + Jeff Koons at 2 p.m. the Met Museum
Jazz for Curious Listeners free series Art Tatum at 7 p.m. at Harlem School of the Arts
Liz Callaway Sings the 60’s “The Beat Goes On” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through June 28)
Free book event: Brooke Shields at Barnes & Noble Tribeca at 4 p.m.
Drew Lachey opening in “Spamalot” party at Southern Hospitality (after 9 p.m.)
Mets vs. Seattle at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Working Harbor Committee’s Hidden Harbor Tour, departs Pier 16 at South Street Seaport Museum at 6 p.m.
Free concert from Ulrich Schnauss, Dorit Chrysler & Chiaki Watanabe at the World Financial Center at 9 p.m.
Gilberto Gil concert at the Nokia Theatre Times Square
Campaigning for President exhibition opens at the Museum of the City of New York
Catriona Herd painting exhibition opens at Broome Street Gallery (through July 6)
Free blowouts at noon in Times Square on on Military Island (7th Ave. btwn 43rd and 44th St.) from the cast of Shear Genius and the show’s host, Jaclyn Smith
Wednesday, June 25
Mets vs. Seattle at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.
Idina Menzel at Town Hall
Free Talib Kweliat performance at Apple SoHo at 6 p.m.
Pearl Jam play Madison Square Garden
Little Death NYC play Mercury Lounge
Britain’s RAF Red Arrows make a New York harbor fly by starting at 6:30 p.m., ending at the Statue of Liberty at 6:58 p.m.
(Pushed back from June 17) U.S. premiere of Sam Shepard’s Kicking A Dead Horse at the Public Theater. (through Aug. 10)
Liz Phair plays “Exile in Guyville” unplugged, in its entirety at Hiro Ballroom
Chef tours & Tastes with Chef/Owner Peter Hoffman of Savoy
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine begins screening at the Film Forum (through July 28)
Forest Park Concert Series begins with Jay and the Americans at 7:30 p.m.
Lecture: 50 Years with Akira Kurosawa: An Evening with Teruyo Nogami
Auctions: Pop Culture and Ocean Liner at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Free Brooke Fraser performance at J & R at 12:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for All-Star Week events
Thursday, June 26
Start date for the NYC Waterfalls in the East River (through Oct. 13)
Opening night on Broadway for Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy (through Aug. 24)
Selections from Malcolm McLaren’s “Shallow at 44 1/2” begin hourly screening on MTV’s outdoor HD screen in Times Square (plus full screenings at midnight)
NBA Draft 2008 at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
Devo play the McCarren Park Pool with Dan Deacon and Tom Tom Club at 6 p.m.
New York Liberty vs. Indiana Fever at Madison Square Garden
Devowith Dan Deacon and Tom Tom Clubplays McCarren Park Pool
Meet the Director and Actor - Jonathan Levine and Josh Peck at Apple SoHo
Free screening of Iconoclasts: Tom Ford + Jeff Koons at 2 p.m. the Met Museum
John Waters at New York Society for Ethical Culture at 9 p.m.
Panel discussion: Winning the Catholic Vote, at 6:30 p.m. the Museum of the City of New York
Carolin Chocolate Drops and the Dixie Hummingbirds in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Cheeky B*stard plays Hiro Ballroom
Harlem Speaks free series with Emme Kemp, pianist at Harlem School of the Arts at 6:30 p.m.
Tom Wopat sings at the Metropolitan Room
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island
Soap opera starts Robin Strasser, Jason Tam and Brittany Underwood from “One Life to Live” take part in a free dramatic reading of Likely Story by David Van Etten at Borders Time Warner Center at 6 p.m.
Reservations open to the public for Summer Restaurant Week (from July 21 through Aug. 1, sans weekends)
Friday, June 27
NYC public outdoor pools open for the season (through Sept. 1)
Free concert from A Place to Bury Strangers, King Khan and the Shrines, Black Acid at 7 p.m. at the South Street Seaport
Mets Vs. Yankees at Yankee Stadium for a 2:05 p.m game and at Shea Stadium for an 8:10 p.m. game (one is a make up for May 16 game that was rained out.)
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Bats in Brooklyn
Louise Bourgeois full-career retrospective opens at the Guggenheim (through September 28)
Eddie Izzard at Radio City Music Hall (through June 29)
Free Grucci fireworks show at Orchard Beach from 9 p.m.
Poco plays BB Kings
Cold War Kids, Elvis Perkins in Dearland and Sam Champion in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Friday night fireworks at the Coney Island boardwalk from 8 p.m. (every Friday through Sept. 5)
Fireworks night at Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island
Staten Island Yankees home game
One Step Beyond dance party at the American Museum of Natural History from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. (21 and over)
Six-piece reggae band Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad play Sullivan Hall at 10 p.m.
Neue Galerie screens “The Affair of the Necklace”
New York Academy of Science lecture: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
Brooklyn Museum opens Click! A Crowd Curated Exhibition (through Aug. 10)
Saturday, June 28
Subway series: Mets vs. Yankees at Shea Stadium at 3:55 p.m.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays BB Kings for the club’s 8-year anniversary party
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Weeksville: Past, Present & Future
Municipal Art Society walking tour Mansions and Servants at 11 a.m.
Figment Festival on Governors Island (and June 29)
Crooklyn Dodgers Reunion with O.C., Jeru the Damaja, Chubb Rock, EMC featuring Masta Ace, DJ Premier, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, hosted by Buckshot of Black Moon and Special Ed in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
Confessions of a BET Producer: Hip Hop Xposed from 1 to 10 p.m.
Weeksville Walking Tour at 1 p.m.
Gallery Tour: New York Fast Forward, Neil Denari Builds on the High Line, at the Museum of the City of New York with Donald Albrecht, the Museum’s Curator of Architecture and Design. Free with museum admission at 2 p.m.
Wine tasting event on Il Prato Grande at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum from 4 to 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island (thrugh June 30)
Free walking tour: Destination: El Barrio from 3 to 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 29
NYC Pride March from noon from 5th Ave. & 52nd St. to Christopher & Greenwich St, with Pridefest set for 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Hudson Street between Abingdon Square and West 14th St. and Dance on the Pier from 4 to 10:30 p.m. with fireworks and the music of Joe Gauthreaux and Tracy Young
Dalí: Painting and Film opens at MoMA (through Sept. 15)
Hold Steady plays McCarren Park Pool
Un-fancy Food Show
Brooklyn Record Riot at Warsaw from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hold Steady, The Loved Ones, J Roddy and the Business play the McCarren Park Pool
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Cypress Hills & Highland Park
Scandia Symphony Concerts in Fort Tryon Park a 2 p.m.
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band at Beacon Theatre
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Forest Hills: Garden City in the City at 2 p.m.
Governors Island Swim
Harlemwood Film Festival at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
Harlem Speaks free series with Johnny Colon & NY Salsa Jazz at The Riverside Theatre at The Riverside Church at 2 p.m.
Subway series: Mets vs. Yankees at Shea Stadium at 1:10 p.m.
Adam Pascal “Broadway State of Mind” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (and June 30)
Bike New York’s New Long Island Harbors Ride
Staten Island Yankees home game

Monday, June 30
Radio Broadway presents the hits of 1958 at Town Hall
Yankees vs. Texas at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Staten Island Yankees home game
“Hud” screens for free on the lawn at HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival at dusk
Afrika Bambaataa at Hudson free with rsvp at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation’s public meeting on the first phase of park construction and schedule at Dibner Auditorium, Polytechnic University, 6 Metrotech Center at 6 p.m.
Christie’s Rockefeller Center Open House

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