June 01, 2006

March 2008 calendar of things to do in New York City

Saturday, March 1
"South Pacific" begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (through June 15)
The Little Red Lighthouse opens for tours at 1 p.m.
Free Target First Saturdays for Families at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
PopRally Presents: DFA DANCE PARTY at the Museum of Modern Art from 9 p.m.
Central Park Zoo celebrates National Pig Day
Jazz for Young People: What is a Latin Groove?
Free Trumpet Jazz Battle: James Zollar vs. Mike Rodriguez w/ Xavier Davis Trio at 1 and 3 p.m. at Dizzy’s Jazz Club
John Zorn plays St. Ann’s Warehouse
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Met Opera’s Otello
Afrika Bambaataa at Hiro Ballroom
Brooklyn Museum first Saturday events
Open call for submissions for Brooklyn Museum’s Click! A Crowd Curated Exhibition (through March 31)
The Gates: A Panel Discussion at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
Joe Perry of Aerosmith concert at Hard Rock Café, Times Square
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Visiting Presenter: American Songbook, Patti Smith
Artwalk Chelsea at 1 p.m.
TJ Miller of the film "Cloverfield" at Comix
2008 Tyson American Cup USA Gymnastics at Madison Square Garden
ArtExpo at the Javits (through March 3)
American Paintings go on exhibition at Sotheby’s in advance of the March 6 auction
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
$15 Project Shaw tickets go on sale for the monthly reading at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Adventure Society trip to Winter Horseback Ride w/Optional Wine & Cheese Tasting
Sunday, March 2
Screening of the original “King Kong” and a Fay Wray Scream-Alike Contest to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the film’s premiere
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today opens at MoMA (through May 12)
Cynthia Hopkins plays St. Ann’s Warehouse
Sundays in the City Film Festival (through March 16)
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 a.m.
NYC Parks’ free Highbridge Water Tower tour at 1 p.m.
Adventure Society dogsledding and snowshoeing daytrip
Monday, March 3
“Shrek: From Book to Film to Broadway” panel discussion with Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Lindsay-Abaire, Leonard Marcus, Chris Miller and Jason Moore at The Jewish Museum
Knicks vs. New Orleans at Madison Square Garden
Previews begin on Broadway for Patti Lupone in "Gypsy"
The Sixth Annual A Taste of Greenwich House
James Beard House dinner: Oregon Winemaker Dinner
Big Onion walking tour: The Financial District
Michael Patrick MacDonald book signing/reading at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. (This week: “King Arthur” and “Madama Butterfly”
Tuesday, March 4
Book launch and discussion on “Rediscovering Jacob Riis” at the Museum of the City of NY
NY Rangers vs. NY Islanders at Madison Square Garden
Metropolitan Opera performs Otello
Bobby McFerrin Voicestra at Carnegie Hall
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Symphony Space (and March 5)
James Beard House dinner: Great Regional Chefs of America
Lecture: Metalworkers for a New Century at the General Society of of Mechanics and Tradesmen
NYC Audubon excursion: Winter Birds of Barnegat and Island Beach
TimesTalk: Inside the News: The Issues & The Elections: Where Do The Candidates Stand?
Wednesday, March 5
Book signing: Ed Koch signs “The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism” at 7:30 PM. at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle
Knicks vs. Cleveland at Madison Square Garden
Ed Palermo Big Band- The Music Of Frank Zappa at Iridium Jazz Club
James Beard House dinner: Taste of the Windy City
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of the area around Belvedere Castle
Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Symphony Space
Thursday, March 6
Opening night on Broadway for Tennessee Williams’ "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Terrence Howard, Anika Noni Rose, James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad, and directed by Debbie Allen (through April 13)
Whitney Biennial Exhibition opens (through June 1)
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Jimmy Breslin lecture at the New-York Historical Society: The Good Rat: A True Story
Forgotten NY’s Kevin Walsh at World Books in Greenpoint
Small-Press Month marathon reading at Bowery Poetry Club
A Chuck Klosterman Conversation at the Highline Ballroom
Wine and Hors d'Oeuvres class at the Chelsea Wine Vault
James Beard House dinner: Best of Boston
Herbie Hancock Project at Iridium Jazz Club (through March 9)
Friday, March 7
1st Annual NY Wine Expo (through March 9)
Knicks vs. Detroit at Madison Square Garden
New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival (through March 16)
Brooklyn's Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough at BAM
Faux Punk plays Music Hall of Williamsburg
King Arthur at the New York City Opera
James Beard House event: First Friday Luncheon
Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730–2008 opens at the Cooper-Hewitt (through July 6)
Free First Fridays at the Bronx Museum
Architectural Digest Home Show at Pier 94 opens to the public (through March 9)
Behind-the-scenes tour: Waldorf-Astoria Tour and High Tea
South Street Seaport’s Port at the Port wine tasting
Two New Chamber Operas by Martin Halpern at 8 p.m.
Fireworks Ensemble plays Symphony Space
Rapunzel at the New Victory Theater (through March 23)
Jersey City First Fridays
Saturday, March 8
Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers at Scandinavia House
The 10th annual BAMkids Film Festival (and March 9)
King Arthur at the New York City Opera
Met Opera’s Otello
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Green Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1:00 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Knicks vs. Portland at Madison Square Garden
Big Onion walking tour: The East Village
James Beard House event: French-Inspired California Cuisine
The East Village: Noshes and Nibbles on St. Mark's Place tour from the Institute of Culinary Education
Adventure Society trip to Learn to Ice Climb
Sunday, March 9
"In the Heights" opens on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
King Arthur at the New York City Opera
David Singer of “August: Osage County” sings at Joe’s Pub
Discussion “The Chelsea Ethos: The Artistic World of Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy Burckhardt” at the Museum of the City of NY
Pomegranate: A Video by Ori Gersht opens at the Jewish Museum (through June 22)
Oil/Water—Mother/Daughter: Video and Photography by Mor Arkadir opens at the Jewish Museum (through June 22)
New York Transit Museum book talk: I Took the Train: Locating Women on the Rails
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers
Roundtable discussion on Arab Music Traditions and Their History in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Historical Society
NYC Audubon excursion: Winter Birds of Sandy Hook
The RSVP period opens for Downtown Alliance’s free March 20 Third Thursdays lecture: Reflecting Absence: Designing a Memorial at the World Trade Center. Location: WTC 7’s 45th floor
Monday, March 10
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
Cooking class: Taste of the CIA Cooking Fundamentals: Grilling & Broiling at the Astor Center
James Beard House event: Italian Springtime Feast
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Charles Fuller
Tuesday, March 11
Edward Allbee’s The American Dream/The Sandbox starts previews at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater (through April 19)
Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens opens at the Met Museum (through June 1)
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Met Opera
Tim Gunn at 92nd Street Y
Book signing: Glenn Hurowitz on “Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party” at Bluestockings
James Beard House event: The Gems of Denver
Village Voice’s Choice Eats food event at the Puck Building
Lecture: New York City Housing Futures at the General Society of of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Discussion: Tim Gunn in Conversation with Budd Mishkin at the 92nd St. Y
Wednesday, March 12
New York Philharmonic plays Rush Hour: R. Strauss
La Traviata at the Met Opera
Brooklyn close-up screening of “Blackout” at BAM with a Q&A with Jerry Lamothe, cast, & crew
Streets of New York: Writers Covering the City at Times Talks with Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Dan Barry, Susan Dominus and Clyde Haberman
New Immigrant Writing at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Book talk: Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize at Book Culture
King Arthur at the New York City Opera
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
James Beard House event: Modern Peruvian Flavors
Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Taste O’ Ireland – at 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 13
New York City Opera's King Arthur
Lucia di Lammermoor with Natalie Dessay at the Met Opera
Culinary Historians of NY lecture on The History of Chop Suey in America
Film series - MoMA Presents: Poor Boy's Game (through March 18)
MoMA film series: Canadian Front, 2008 (through March 20)
Steven Berlin Johnson at New School
Post-apocalyptic book talkon Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” at Freebird Books in Brooklyn
2008 Isaac Asimov memorial debate: Mining the Sky at the American Museum of Natural History
Sake Plus class at the Chelsea Wine Vault
James Beard House dinner: Waldy Malouf of Beacon
Piedmont wine class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
Beware the Ides of March: Dining in Imperial Rome at the Institute of Culinary Education
Friday, March 14
NY Philharmonic's Inside the Music: R. Strauss
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
The fantasy/fake/true/science-fiction/candy-coated/stripped-bare/ all-lies/documentaryhistory of the Dirt Palace at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
Donna Karan Personal Warehouse Sale (and March 15)
Sputnik Mania at the IFC Center (through March 18)
Williamsburg Every2nd where 38 art galleries stay open until 9 pm and beyond
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Dancenow/NYC: Dance-mOpolitan at Joe’s Pub
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Frank Caliendo performs at the Beacon Theater
Lenny Clarke from "Rescue Me" at Comix comedy club (and March 15)
Salmagundi Club art auction
Saturday, March 15
The Pier Antiques Show at Pier 94 (and March 16)
Previews begin for Cry-Baby on Broadway
The Pogues play Roseland Ballroom (through March 17)
Asian Contemporary Art Week (through March 24)
Metro-North’s Bunny Express
Solid Gold Salsa From Puerto Rico To El Barrio/ Ralphy Leavitt Y La Selecta & Spanish Harlem Orchestra Lehman Center For The Performing Arts in the Bronx
La Traviata at the Met Opera
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Met Opera
Mandy Patinkin at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: The Many Faces of Williamsburg
Free NYC parks hike: Henry Hudson Bridge to Inwood Hill Park at 10 a.m.
Artist Dialogue—Ghada Amer and Maura Reilly at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Panel Discussion—Funding a Revolution, on the first anniversary of the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Free lecture: Women's Suffrage movement at 2 p.m. at the Morris-Jumel Mansion
10th Annual St.Patty’s “Luck of the Irish” Pub Crawl
New York Transit Museum tour: Old City Hall subway station
SPLAT: A Graphic Novel Symposium
James Beard House event: Gastro Canada
Afternoon Tea & Servants’ Quarters Tour: Wearin’ O’ The Green Tea at the Merchant’s House Museum
Big Onion walking tour: St. Patrick's Weekend Irish New York
Book Signing Event with Author Shea Megale at FAO Scwarz
Living In Green/Year of the Frog at the Bronx Zoo (and March 16)
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 10 am
Institute of Culinary Education’s West Village Walking Tour
Sunday, March 16
Coney Island’s Astroland opens for the season at noon (weekends only through June 13th, except for Spring Break Recess when it's open daily April 21st to 25th)
Band Organ Rally at Coney Island
American Irish Historical Society reopens after a two-year renovation of its landmark Beaux-Arts building at 991 Fifth Ave.
“Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered” opens at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 3 )
"Off the Wall: Artists at Work" opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 27)
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Crossing Gowanus
Free lecture at the Met Museum: Sufis, Shi'ites, and Shahs: The Great Shrines of Iran, 1500–1650 at 3 p.m.
The Pier Antiques Show at Pier 94
Living In Green/Year of the Frog at the Bronx Zoo
Arthur Schwartz on Jewish Home Cooking at 92nd Street Y
NY Audubon’s Winter Birds and Seals of New York Harbor tour on the NY Water Taxi
Zodiac! Puppet show at China Institute
Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century opens at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 3)
Knicks vs. Atlanta at Madison Square Garden
Last skate of the season at Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
92nd St. Y food talks: Arthur Schwartz on Jewish Home Cooking
La Traviata at Symphony Space
Special Open House NY tour with Tom Otternes
Leprechaun Hike from the Greenbelt Nature Center on Staten Island
Snakes & Ladders 2008, a festival of new Irish music at the at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center (and March 17)
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Adventure Society trip to Winter Horseback Ride w/Optional Wine & Cheese Tasting
Monday, March 17
St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 11 a.m.
Big Onion walking tour: St. Patrick’s Day Irish New York
Ladies And Gents, a site-specific noir thriller set in a public restroom in 1957 Dublin, staged in Central Park's Bethesda Fountain Toilets (through March 29)
An Evening with Akram Zaatari at MoMA’s Modern Mondays
10th Annual St.Patty’s “Luck of the Irish” Pub Crawl
Irish writers Colm Toibin & Colum McCann at the Tenement Museum
Reading – Yeats in New York: Simon Loekle Presents 19th-Century Irish Poets at the Merchant’s House Museum
Free live Irish music from Sorcha Dorcha at The Half-King
Snakes & Ladders 2008, a festival of new Irish music at the at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center
Project Shaw reading of “In Good King Charles Days” at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Designing the Car of the Future at Times Talks
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, March 18
Museum of Modern Art, normally closed Tuesdays, is open today
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Little Flower of East Orange begins previews at the Public Theater, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, starring Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Canavan and Liza Colón-Zayas. (through April 20)
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe: Curatorial Walk-Through by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art at 4 p.m.
Haru Ichiban Japanese music festival (through March 23)
James Beard House event: Modern European Dégustation
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Master class with Menahem Pressler
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ Midnight Elephant Walk through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to Madison Square Garden (ends in the early hours of March 19th)
Wednesday, March 19
Masur Conducts Bach at the New York Philharmonic (through March 22)
La Traviata at the Met Opera
Bayside Historical Society lecture: The East River
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Mika Tajima/New Humans at the Whitney
Free music and wine at the Movado Hour concert at the Baryshnikov Arts Center at 7 p.m. Reservation req’d.
Panel discussion: Reimagining the Cultural Revolution at the Guggenheim with Zhang Hongtu, artist, New York; Gao Minglu, art historian, curator, critic, Pittsburgh; Wang Mingxian, independent scholar/curator, Beijing
Projects 87: Sigalit Landau opens at MoMA (through July 28)
Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s opens at MoMA (through June 23)
MoMA begins a new film series: Contemporasian
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
James Beard House event: Crazy Canuck Winter Barbecue Dinner
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Thursday, March 20
Paul Rudnick’s The New Century -- with Peter Bartlett, Jayne Houdyshell and Linda Lavin -- begins performances at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (through June 15)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano at Carnegie Hall
Commemoration of the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Met Opera
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening plays Off-Broadway’s Bleecker Street Theater (through June 1)
Downtown Alliance’s free Third Thursdays lecture: Reflecting Absence: Designing a Memorial at the World Trade Center. Location: WTC 7’s 45th floor
Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival event: Timeless Traditions from Egypt and Iraq
Full Frontal Hip-Hop at the Hammerstein Ballroom
"Comedy Central Presents" Live & In-Person at Stand-Up NY
Riesling: Welcome to the Revolution class at the Chelsea Wine Vault
Zagat member event: Scotch School at Shoolbred’s
Bishop and Douch UK comedy at the UCB Theatre
Discussion: Stand-Up Comedy of the ’70s Eddy Friedfeld, Robert Klein and Richard Zoglin at the 92nd St. Y
White Burgundy Wine Class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
Average White Band at the B B Kings Blues Club
Big Onion walking tour: The Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
James Beard House event: Relais & Châteaux Celebration
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden (through April 5)
Friday, March 21
Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900 opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through June 15)
Aretha Franklin plays Radio City Music Hall (through March 22)
Knicks vs. Memphis at Madison Square Garden
"Casting Off" Open Rehearsal in the bank vaults
at 14 Wall Street (RSVP required)
(Delayed from earlier date due to illness) Edward Albee’s The American Dream/The Sandbox begins previews at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater (opening night: March 25; through April 19)
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
New York International Auto Show (through March 30)
Arab-o-rama: New York Bellydance Music and Dance Review at Lafayette Bar
Steven Spielberg Week at Ziegfeld Theatre (through March 27)
Saturday, March 22
Madama Butterfly at the NY City Opera
Itzhak Perlman plays Chamber Music with Members of the Perlman Music Program; Orion Weiss, piano at the Met Museum
Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink opens for the season in Coney Island’s historic Childs' Restaurant Building at 21st St. and the Boardwalk
New York City Pillow Fight 2008 at Union Square at 3 p.m.
Phagwah Parade in Richmond Hill, Queens at noon
Murder at the Museum of Natural History Scavenger Hunt
TRIBUTE WARS XX, metal Bee Gees tribute band at the B B Kings Blues Club
The Songs Of Leonard Cohen: Conspiracy of Beards, (a 30-member acappella male choir) at the Highline Ballroom
World Water Day celebrated at the American Museum of Natural History
Orlando Marin Quintet at The Bronx Library center
Barnyard egg hunt at the Queens County Farm Museum
Tosca at the NY City Opera
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
La Traviata at the Met Opera
Easter egg hunt at the Queens Zoo
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of Seneca Village, Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that would become Central Park
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of the Manhattan Adirondacks
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour Belvedere Castle
Spring Fling Egg Hunt at Brooklyn Bridge Park with 15,000 eggs
Whitney Bienniel Slumber Party, 2008 at the Park Avenue Armory
NYC Parks’ Native American History of Northern Manhattan in Inwood Hill Nature Center at 11 a.m.
Eggstreme Weekend at Bronx Zoo (and March 23)
James Beard House event: East Meets Far East
”Macbeth” on Broadway tickets go on sale to the general public
Sunday, March 23
Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival along Fifth Avenue between 49th and 57th streets from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral is sold out - but there are six other masses at the cathedral today, plus one in Spanish
Restoring the Lower East Side—Synagogues Renewed walking tour
Big Onion walking tour: Annual Easter Sunday Jewish Lower East Side
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at the B B Kings Blues Club at 9 p.m.
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
Bronxs Arts Ensemble Presents: Babar the Elephant at the NY Botanical Garden
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
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.
Open Table’s Easter brunch listings (and free reservations)
Monday, March 24
Dine-In Brooklyn restaurant week (through March 31)
Musicals Tonight at Symphony Space
Knicks vs. New Jersey at Madison Square Garden
Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes at the Met Opera
Israel at 60: A Festival of Hebrew Literature at 92nd Street Y
What’s My Line live on stage at the Barrow Street Theatre (through April 28)
NYU’s The James Beard House: An Insider's Tour and Dining Experience II
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, March 25
A Catered Affair begins previews on Broadway (opening night: April 17; open-ended run)
DiVA (Digital & Video Art) Fair 2008, walk-in video art exhibitions that will be set up in ten shipping containers scattered around West Chelsea (through March 30)
Works & Process Satyagraha at the Guggenheim with Philip Glass and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb
Seminars with Artists: Matt Mullican at the Whitney
Spencer Platt photo exhibition opening at 7 p.m. at the The Half King, with an opening talk rom Nurse Johanne Sekkenes, RN, Director of Operational Support for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières-USA
Dance: Emanuel Gat presents K626 at Joyce Theater (through March 30)
Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (through March 29)
Lecture: The Nation: Politics at the Center of the Storm with John Nichols, Nation Washington Correspondent, at 6 p.m.
PHTHRD invites three artists to tell a story using hundreds of Polaroid pictures to craft a mosaic narrative – live in Brooklyn
Zagat member event: Classics Reborn $55 prix fixe menu at One if by Land, Two if by Sea with new executive chef Craig Hopson
Matthew Good plays the Highline Ballroom
Lecture: The Press and International Organizations: The Case of Khmer Rouge and South East Asia with Barbara Crossette at the New School
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710–50 opens at the Frick (through June 29)
United Nations Tour and Delegates’ Dining Room lunch
Wednesday, March 26
Knicks vs. Miami at Madison Square Garden
Laurie Anderson at Carnegie Hall
Rubin Museum of Art’s BrainWave: The Groove Factor with Moby and Dr. Petr Janata, including a listening party for Moby’s upcoming “Last Night” at 6:30 p.m.
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Launch of Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for the Nintendo DS at Nintendo WORLD at Rockefeller Center with one of the game's creators at 2 p.m.
Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing opens at MoMA (through July 7)
MoMA film series: New Directors/New Films (through April 6)
Iva Bittová and the Wendy Osserman Dance Company at the Hudson Guild Theatre (through March 30)
Book signing: Samantha Power, “Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World” at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
Book signing: actor Gene Wilder, author of “The Woman Who Wouldn't” at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue
Free at 6 p.m. panel discussion at the Horticultural Society of New York on “Practical Applications for Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect” with Ken Gale, producer of Eco-Logic, WBAI; Bram Gunther, NYC Parks, Forestry and Horticulture; Chris Neidl, Outreach Coordinator at Solar One; Sam Schwartz, “Gridlock” Sam Former Transportation Commissioner and Annette Williams, Sustainable South Bronx - B.E.S.T.
China Travel Workshop at the China Institute
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Go, Diego, Go Live! plays Radio City Music Hall (through March 30)
Drive by Truckers play Terminal 5
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour tour of the Harlem Meer and its strategic American Revolution environs at 11 a.m.
Helen Mirren at Times Talks
Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Cheese 101
Great New York Restaurants' Signature Dishes at the Institute of Culinary Education
Ticket pre-sale begins for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Thursday, March 27
Dave Brubeck & Ramsey Lewis play Jazz at Lincoln Center (through March 29)
Wiener Werkstatte Jewelry opens at the Neue Galerie (through June 30)
International Fair of New Art at the Armory (through March 30)
Bridge Art Fair (through March 30)
RED DOT New York art fair at the Park South Hotel (through March 30)
The Volta Show (through March 30)
Pulse Fair of contemporary art (through March 30)
Art Now Fair (through March 30)
DiVA New York 2008’s free ‘26TH AFTER DARK’ when galleries on 26th Street in Chelsea hold a block party and galleries stay open until 10 p.m.
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Met Opera
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
Senator Chuck Hagel: America—The Next Chapter at 92nd Street Y
James Beard House event: Sensational Seafood Extravaganza
Opening night on Broadway for Patti Lupone in Gypsy
Juno at City Center Encores (through March 30)
Right Bank Bordeaux Wine Class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
WINE CLASS: Bordeaux versus Burgundy - The Basics at the Chelsea Wine Vault
Friday, March 28
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
New York City Opera performs "Tosca"
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Met Opera
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at Carnegie Hall
Barbara Bloom book signing of “ The Collections of Barbara Bloom” at the International Center of Photography
Fado of Portugal: Ana Moura plays Peter Norton Symphony Space
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Michael Smith (at 2 p.m.) and Seminars with Artists, Multiple Edition: Ry Rocklen (at 7 .m.) at the Whitney
Creative Time presents free screenings aboard a New York Water Taxi of Matthew Buckingham’s film Muhheakantuck - Everything has a Name (reservations required) (through April 6)
Salmagundi Club art auction
GPIA Documentary Series presents: The Last Ghost of War
James Beard House event: Italian Luncheon
One Step Beyond dance party with Simian Mobile Disco at the Rose Center for Earth and Space from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Go Ape Week (“Planet of the Ape” screenings) at Ziegfeld Theatre (through April 3)
Organization of American Historians annual conference (through March 31)
Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z play the Izod Center at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.
Saturday, March 29
Lecture—"Harriet Tubman, Warrior for Freedom" at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Armory After-Hours Pep Rally
Williamsburg's Every 2nd Armory Special - in collaboration with the Bridge Art Fair and in celebration of Armory weekend, Williamsburg art galleries will stay open until 11 p.m.
Meet Mr. Met at Nintendo WORLD at Rockefeller Center from noon to 4 p.m.
Rugby: Four Leaf Fifteens
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Robin Hood and Terrible Tom”
Fine Books go on display at Swann Galleries ahead of the April 3 auction
Early Printed Books and Gastronomic Literature from The Fillin and Yeh Collection go on display at Swann Galleries ahead of the April 7 auction
Falstaff at the NY City Opera
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Prospect Heights
La Bohèmeat the Met Opera
Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Opera
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 2 pm
James Beard House event: San Francisco Celebration
Essential Chinese for Travelers at the China Institute
Madama Butterfly at NY City Opera
Chinatown Dim Sum Tour at the Institute of Culinary Education
Panel discussion on Recovering History, Preservation, and Community Involvement: Local African American History on Long Island at the Brooklyn Historical Society
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at noon
Walking tour: Art, Design & Preservation on the New York City Subway with Justin Ferate at 1 p.m.
Making Music: Thomas Adès at Carnegie Hall
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of the Manhattan Adirondacks
Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival event: Diverse Traditions: Arab Folk Music in Regional Expression
An Evening with the Stars of Doo-Wop/Rock& Roll starring The Duprees, Carl Gardner's Coasters, Willie Winfield & The Harptones at the St. George Theater near the Staten Island Ferry terminal on Staten Island
Boscobel House reopens for the season in Garrison, N.Y, in the Hudson Valley
Sunday, March 30
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel tour at 1 p.m.
Tour of Fort Wadsworth's Battery Weed and its top tier
Last skate of the season at Trump Lasker Rink on the north end of Central Park
Greenwich Village Orchestra plays at Washington Irving Auditorium
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Boerum Hill
Tosca at the NY City Opera
The MET Chamber Ensemble plays Carnegie Hall
The Chocolate Collection: An Evening of Tasting at 92nd Street Y
James Beard House event: Downtown New York Chef’s Brunch
Kate Royal and Roger Vignoles play the Frick
New York Transit Museum tour -- Walk and tour key stations on the IRT and the BMT Brighton Line with transit historian Andrew Sparberg – marks 100 years of subway service to Brooklyn
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of the area around Belvedere Castle
92nd St. Y food talks: The Chocolate Collection: An Evening of Tasting
Tunnels and Chambers - “the big unveiling of the Endicott Batteries, a labyrinth of concrete hidden among trees and bushes” at Fort Totten at 10 a.m.
Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival event: Answering the Call to Prayer: Arab-Influenced Song Traditions in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Brooklyn
Boredoms play Terminal 5
Beth Orton plays Music Hall of Williamsburg
Slow-Food NY Hundred-Mile Dinner
Avril Lavigne plays the Izod Center at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.
Monday, March 31
Yankees home opener vs. Toronto
Prokofiev’s The Gambler at the Met Opera
“Emmy winning Daily Show Producer Rory Albanese presents Friends, Acquaintances and Colleagues” including Rob Riggle, Elliott Kalan and Rich Blomquist at Comix
The American Musicals Project Benefit: Fantasia for Sondheim at the New-York Historical Society with Elaine Stritch
Discussion: Agency + Surveillance at the New School
James Beard House event: Taste of Louisville
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Eduardo Machado
Works & Process The Kirov Ballet at the Guggenheim, a performance of The Dying Swan, and excerpts from Le Spectre de la Rose and Paquita (Grand Pas) performed by company stars
The week’s worth of NY City Opera’s $25 Opera-for-All tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
http://www.publictheater.org/support/summer.php
Shakespeare in the Park "summer supporter” program opens for 2008. Anyone who donates $160 or $165 to the Public Theater, will get one reserved set to a one of the free Shakespeare in the Park shows – either “Hamlet” or “Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”
Deadline to apply for reserved tickets to the June 7 running of the Belmont Stakes

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