June 01, 2006

May 2008 New York City calendar of events

Thursday, May 1
Opening night on Broadway for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" with Laura Linney and Ben Daniels (through June 29)
NHL Playoffs: Rangers vs. Pittsburgh in the Eastern Conference Semifinals at Madison Square Garden
Rev. Jesse Jackson will be guest preacher at the Ascension Day Eucharist at Trinity Wall Street at 10:30 a.m.
This American Life—Live with Ira Glass, at the the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Celia the Queen, Lou Reed’s Berlin and Melvin Van Peebles’ Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Apple SoHo Store hosts a free Filmmaker Talks series with Harmony Korine as part of the Tribeca Film Festival at 6:30 p.m.
Dumbo 1st Thursday late-night openings for art galleries in Brooklyn
Bike Month NYC
at New York University at 7:30 p.m.
List Collection of Contemporary Prints , (organized by Lincoln Center) opens at the UBS Gallery (through July 25)
Lecture at the Jewish Museum with Mark Godfrey, a curator at Tate Modern, at 6:30 p.m. on how American abstract artists such as Barnett Newman and Richard Serra responded to the Holocaust
Israel: New Fears, Old Hopes with Elie Wiesel at 92nd Street Y
Dolly Parton plays Radio City Music Hall
"The Back Room" at The Ochi's Lounge at Comix – the only “underground (literally) gay comedy show in NYC�
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha at the Met Opera
World Voices: American Literature Seen from Abroad featuring Ian McEwan and others at Times Talks
Seminars with Artists: Alice Könitz at the Whitney at 7 p.m.
$15 Project Shaw tickets go on sale for the monthly reading at The Players on Gramercy Park South (and the fist of every month)
Friday, May 2
Philip Guston: Works on Paper opens at the Morgan Library and Museum (through Aug. 31)
Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City opens at the NY Public Library
From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art, including works from �smundur �smundsson, Olga Bergmann, Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Margrét H. Blöndal and Ólafur Elíasson, opens at The Scandinavia House (through Aug. 15)
Red, Black, and Gold opens at the Rubin Museum
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Empire II, Hotel Gramercy Park and The Cottage at midnight
First Fridays party at the Guggenheim from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with Shepard Fairey
Apple SoHo Store hosts a free Student Filmmaker Panel at 8 p.m. as part of the Filmmaker Talks series for the Tribeca Film Festival
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys appears as part of the at the free Filmmaker Talks series at Apple SoHo Store at 6:30 p.m.for the Tribeca Film Festival
5th Annual Golf Fest at Chelsea Piers (and May 3)
Open Studio, Afternoons With Artists: Phoebe Washburn at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Art after Dark: First Fridays at the Guggenheim
Sarah Jessica Parker at Times Talks at 7 p.m.
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Free First Fridays at the Bronx Museum
Saturday, May 3
Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (and May 4)
Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival and Family Street Fair as part of the Tribeca Film Festival
Here’s the full list of today’s screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Speed Racer, War, Inc. and a Tribeca Talks panel called Injecting the American Dream at 5 p.m.
Free Comic Book Day
Shorewalkers’ 23rd annual 2008 Great Saunter, a 32-mile walk around Manhattan's rim
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
Chinatown Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
New York Stories: A Musical Theater Cabaret at the Museum of the City of New York with choreographer Patricia Birch and Broadway performers including Stephen Bogardus, Brigid Brady, and Michael Winther (and May 4)
Apple SoHo Store hosts a free Filmmaker Talks series with Paul Haggis as part of the Tribeca Film Festival at 6:30 p.m.
Drums Along the Hudson: A Native American Festival and Shad Fest at Inwood Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
OHNY’s Green Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan, including “a model apartment in the Riverhouse*, and gain special access to the photovoltaic grid on the building's roof�
Family-paced 6th-Annual Future Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Bike Tour
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Itzhak Perlman plays Chamber Music; with Members of the Perlman Music Program; David Kadouch, piano at the Met Museum at 8 p.m.
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Met Opera
Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met Opera
Migration Sensation at Central Park Zoo (and May 4)
Fleece Festival at Prospect Park Zoo (and May 4)
Sheep Shearing Weekend at Queens Zoo (and May 4)
Family event: Create an Art Installation, at the Guggenheim
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Life's Little Ups & Downs�
Where To Watch The Kentucky Derby in NYC
Bamboozle Festival 2008 with more than 100 punk, hardcore and emo bands on 10 stages at The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. (and May 4)
PlayLand opens for the season in Rye, N.Y.
Lefferts Historic House’s Flax and Fleece Fest at Prospect Park (and May 4)
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Chinatown Dim Sum Tour at the Institute of Culinary Education
Sunday, May 4
Opening night on Broadway for Boeing Boeing on Broadway (open-ended run)
Five Boro Bike Tour
“Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976� opens at the Jewish Museum (through Sept 21)
AudraRox concert at the Jewish Museum at 2 p.m.
Here’s the full list of today’s final day of screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival, including Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins, The Caller with Frank Langella, Elliott Gould and Laura Harring, and Man on Wire
Brooklyn Cyclone individual tickets go on sale for the season at 9 a.m.
Freebird Books celebrates Thomas Pynchon's 71st birthday at 3 p.m.
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Yankee Peddler Day at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Rachel York at the Metropolitan Room
Summer on the Hudson: 7th Annual Irish Arts Festival
New York Stories: A Musical Theater Cabaret at the Museum of the City of New York with choreographer Patricia Birch and Broadway performers including Stephen Bogardus, Brigid Brady, and Michael Winther
Ft. Greene house tour
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Underground Muses of Green-Wood
Works & Process Preserving the Classics, at the Guggenheim with members of American Ballet Theatre’s artistic staff (and May 5)
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Matthew Modine at 5:30 p.m.
Prospect Park’s pedal boats open for spring season
Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
Sidney Horenstein's High Bridge Bottom to Top walking tour
Tim Gunn, Bravo TV's president Lauren Zalaznick and "Top Chef" judge Gail Simmonsat Times Talks at 2 p.m.
Donatella Versace at Times Talks at 6 p.m.
Lecture at the American Museum of Natural History: Technology and the Globalization of India
Dancing into the 21st Century, classical dances Kathak and Bharata Natyam, at the American Museum of Natural History with
Free workshops at the American Museum of Natural History on yoga, reiki, and meditation
NY Audubon’s trip to Sterling Forest Preserve
Monday, May 5
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Broadway Karaoke hosted by Seth Rudetsky
Culinary Historians of NY event, “Dates in Medieval Baghdad: Sweet Eats to Heady Drinks,� at the National Arts Club
Works & Process Preserving the Classics, at the Guggenheim with members of American Ballet Theatre’s artistic staff
Tuesday, May 6
Glory Days opens on Broadway (open-ended run)
Edward Albee’s Occupant plays Off-Broadway at the Signature Theater, where all tickets are $20 (through June 29)
Yankees vs. Cleveland at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
New York Academy of Science lecture: The Science of Scotch, at 6 p.m.
Discussion: The East Side of the East River Waterfront:
Transforming the View at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 with Roland Lewis, President and CEO of the MWA, Gayle Baron, Tom Fox, Milton Puryear, and Phaedra Thomas
Free yoga class in Bryant Park at 10 a.m.
American Museum of Natural History lecture: Darwinism: Its Social History and Impact
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Met Opera
Inside the News: Can the West Stop Genocide? at Times Talks
Wednesday, May 7
Opening night on Broadway for “Top Girls� (through June 22)
NY Philharmonic plays Camelot with Gabriel Byrne, Marin Mazzie, Nathan Gunn, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Drescher and Marc Kudisch at 7:30 p.m.
Protest led by Al Sharpton over Sean bell shooting verdict expected to tie up traffic near major bridge and tunnel entrances at 3 p.m.
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy opens at the Met Museum (through Sept. 1)
Yankees vs. Cleveland at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Book signing at the Bronx Museum with photographer Jamel Shabazz at 5:30 p.m.
Grand opening of the Sports Museum of America, ($15 admission in May only when using offer code NYC15)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Downtown Dinner at WTC 7 honoring Edward Albee, Kiki Smith and Michael Bloomberg and First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris
Cocktail party and silent art auction to benefit openhousenewyork at The Explorers Club
Impressionist and Modern Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s (and May 8)
Seminars with Artists: Daniel Joseph Martinez at the Whitney at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Annual Plant Sale (and May 8)
Public Programs Julia Peyton-Jones on “Good Better Best: Perspectives on Connoisseurship� at the Guggenheim
NY Audubon’s Spring Migration Birdwalks in Central Park
Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met Opera
Thursday, May 8
Skyscraper Museum’s tribute to the 75th anniversary of Rockefeller Center construction
No No Nanette at City Center Encores starring Beth Leavel and Rosie O’Donnell (through May 12)
NY Philharmonic plays Camelot with Gabriel Byrne, Marin Mazzie, Nathan Gunn, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Drescher and Marc Kudisch at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees vs. Cleveland at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Panel discussion on Art and American Culture at Mid-Century at the Jewish Museum at 6:30 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History lecture: Darwinism: Human Evolution and the Complexity of Living Organisms
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
The New Yorker Conference (and May 9)
Zhang Huan: Blessings exhibition opens at PaceWildenstein’s 25th and 22nd street galleries (through July 25)
Impressionist and Modern Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Annual Plant Sale
Friday, May 9
Gowanus Transformations opens at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Aug. 24)
Brooklyn Designs (through May 11)
Mets vs. the Reds - canceled due to rain
NY Philharmonic plays Camelot with Gabriel Byrne, Marin Mazzie, Nathan Gunn, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Drescher and Marc Kudisch at 9 p.m.
The American Opera Theater makes its New York debut with Charpentier's “David et Jonathas� at BAM (and May 10)
Sarah Silverman at Columbia University's Alfred Lerner Hall
An Evening with Michel Gondry, director of , “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,� “Dave Chappelle's Block Party� and videos for Bjork, Radiohead and The White Stripes, at the TimesCenter at 7 p.m.
Stevie Nicks tribute Night of a Thousand Stevies at the Highline Ballroom
Lightbulb Theatre Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden at 8 p.m.
New York Academy of Science lecture: String Theory
Meet the Editors: “The Tracey Fragments� at Apple SoHo store
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
92nd St. Y food tour: A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Adam Putnam at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Vonda Shepard at the B B Kings Blues Club
The RSVP period opens for Downtown Alliance’s free May 15 Third Thursdays lecture: David Rockwell and Rockwell Group: Inspiration, Imagination and Innovation. Location: Federal Hall
Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met Opera
Saturday, May 10
Plácido Domingo in The First Emperor at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Met Opera
NY Philharmonic plays Camelot with Gabriel Byrne, Marin Mazzie, Nathan Gunn, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Drescher and Marc Kudisch at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Heights Landmarks House and Garden Tour through five private homes in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District
Bike to Shea Day
Mets vs. the Reds at 1:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (second game is a rain make-up)
The Super Thing: NYC goes DEVO exhibition at 8 p.m.
NYC Parks’ Family Camping Night in Willowbrook Park on Staten Island
Chinatown Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Children’s Book Week kicks off at the Bryant Park Reading Room (through May 18)
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “The Itsy, Bitsy Statue of Liberty�
The American Opera Theater performs Charpentier's “David et Jonathas� at BAM
27th Annual Long Island Rugby Tournament at Lido Beach
The Bronx County Historical Society Presents "Edgar Allan Poe at Fordham"
Brooklyn Waterfront Coalation opens its weekends-only exhibition Spring Ahead in Red Hook, Brooklyn (through June 15)
Mother’s Day Weekend at New York Aquarium at Coney Island (and May 11)
Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers at Scandinavia House
A Tribute to the Big Bands at St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Birding and breakfast at the Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley
Sunday, May 11
Bronx Arts Ensemble Presents: Sleeping Beauty at the NY Botanical Garden
Mets vs. the Reds
John Treacy Egan, (from Broadway’s “The Little Mermaid�) at the Metropolitan Room
Brooklyn County Fair music at Galapagos
Second Sundays at the Guggenheim - for families (kids 5-10) – Stories in Art
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Richmond Hill, Featuring Guyanese Liberty Avenue
Mother’s Day March in Harlem from the foot of Mother Tubman’s statue, 122nd St., St. Nicholas Ave, and Frederick Douglass Blvd.
Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
Monday, May 12
If the rain stops, Mets vs. Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
Modernist poster auction at Swann Galleries at 1:30 p.m
Tegan & Sara play Terminal 5
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Avenue Q Swings concert at the Metropolitan Room
Forum: Understanding Black Theology: A 40-Year Retrospective at 6:30 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Harold Prince
(The Celebration of Maurice Sendak with Tony Kushner at 92nd Street Y has been delayed to September)
Tuesday, May 13
Tony Award nominees announced at 8:30 a.m
Tickets go on sale for the Tony Awards ceremony at Radio City
Mets vs. Washington Nationals
Post war and contemporary art evening at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Rag-nation designer sale (through May 18)
Calçotada festival at Savoy restaurant, celebrating the traditional Catalan onion festival that marks the start of spring
Discussion: Andy Borowitz, Jeffrey Toobin, Susie Essman: Countdown to the Election at the 92nd St. Y
Riverkeeper's Annual Fishermen’s Ball honoring Patty Smyth McEnroe and John McEnroe at 6:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society panel: Moynihan Station: What Needs to Happen Next
Seminars with Artists: James Welling and Walead Beshty at the Whitney at 7 p.m.
Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met Opera
Inspired by Kashmir: Works by New York City Students opens at the Asia Society (through Aug. 3)
Kids event (ages 4-6) Twinkling Stars at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center Classroom
Wednesday, May 14
New York Photo Festival (through May 18)
Plácido Domingo in The First Emperor at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
GayFest theater festival (through June 15)
Mets vs. Washington Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
Back Forty's Calçotada Festival celebrating the traditional Catalan onion festival that marks the start of spring
Auction: Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s (and May 15)
Post war and contemporary art auctions at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Free food and drinks (full bar) from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ultimate Canadian Room-With-A-View in a Rockefeller Center roof garden at 620 Fifth Ave., enter on 50th Street (and May 15)
NY Audubon’s Spring Migration Birdwalks in Central Park
(Canceled: Exploding Chinese Art: The Economy of Art/The Art of the Economy at the Guggenheim and Asia Society)
Thursday, May 15
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Met Opera
147 Front Street Open Studios in Dumbo from 5 to 10 p.m.
NY Water Taxi TV and Movie tour at 3:30 p.m.
Mets vs. Washington Nationals at 1:10 p.m. (tickets from $2.50)
Post-Mets Senior stroll night, allows people over 60 to take a leisurely stroll around the bases at Shea
New York Academy of Science lecture: Taking Stock of New York City's Water, held at the Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South at 6 p.m.
Free food and drinks (full bar) from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ultimate Canadian Room-With-A-View in a Rockefeller Center roof garden at 620 Fifth Ave., enter on 50th Street
Auction: Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s
George Gershwin and Kay Swift: An Evening of Song and Television, with live performances by Christine Ebersole, Klea Blackhurst and Noah Racey at the Paley Center at 6 p.m.
Friday, May 16
Subway series: Yankees vs. Mets (through May 18)
Catholics in New York, 1808-1946 opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through Dec. 31)
“Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection,� “Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan,� and “Bill Wood's Business� open at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 7)
Meatpacking District Design Week (through May 18)
Sip and Sail aboard the South Street Seaport Museum’s Pioneer from 7 to 9 .m.
Git-Hoan Dancers perform at the National Museum of the American Indian at 2 p.m.
Auction: African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art at Sotheby’s
Kathy Brier and Friends at the Metropolitan Room (and May 17)
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Matthew Brannon at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
GBH at Webster Hall
Greg Giraldo at Comix (and May 17)
Cask Ale Festival at the Brazen Head, Brooklyn (through May 18)
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
“Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan,� “Bill Wood's Business,� and “Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection� open at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 7)
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
La Fille du Régiment at the Met Opera
Pre-sale tickets go on sale for Yaz reunion at Beacon Theater on July 19 - with presale code HESITUATION
Burlesque at the beach: Night of the Living Dead Girls at 10 p.m.
Saturday, May 17
The Horse exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 4)
20th Annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits (through May 20)
Uptown Emerging Designers Market launches (and May 18)
Dance Parade along Broadway from 1 p.m.
NY Design Week begins
Tokion’s Creativity Now conference (and May 18)
Taste of Tribeca
Plácido Domingo The First Emperor at the Met Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met Opera
Climb to the top of the Highbridge Water Tower at 10 a.m.
Walking tour of Queens’ newest historic district: Sunnyside Gardens at 3:30 p.m.
Williamsburg Kite Festival at noon
Free (with RSVP) screening of "Crossing Delancey" at Outdoor L.E.S. Movie Night , in an outdoor parking lot on Broome and Ludlow
Free “Wall to Wall Bach� at Symphony Space at 10:30 a.m. as part of the UpperWestFest
Brooklyn Petanque Tournament at Pit Stop
Nosh Walk along Staten Island’s Victory Boulevard
Ghosts of the City walking tour at 7 p.m.
Auction: Finest and Rarest Wines Including the Cellar of William S. Morris III and Wines Direct from Chateau Angelus and the Sir Peter and Lady Michael Foundation at Sotheby’s
Auction: Fine And Rare Wines Including Highlights From A Distinguished Private Collection at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Murray’s Cave Day cheese tour
NY Salsa Fiesta at Aviator Sports in Brooklyn from 7 p.m.
Children's Festival "Tenas Sun" Youth Day at the National Museum of the American Indian (and May 18)
Chinatown Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
“The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley� Center for the Arts on Staten Island
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Robin Hood and Terrible Tom�
American Museum of Natural History’s Watershed Bus Tour of the Catskill watershed
Natalie Cole at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Rust and Remebrance: Bushwick's Southern End
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: 5th Annual Sustainable Brooklyn Bike Tour: Green Manufacturing
Final day of the POSH Sale
Brooklyn’s Sonya Stroll when South of Navy Yard Artists open their studios
Sunday, May 18
Working Harbor Day
Norwegian-American 17th of May Parade in Bay Ridge
Drama Desk Awards
AIDS Walk NY
Forgotten NY’s Across the Bridges walking tour
Walking tour: The Newly Rededicated Eldridge Street Synagogue and a Stroll in the Jewish Lower East Side with Justin Ferate
Summer on the Hudson: 5th Annual Mamapalooza Outdoor Extravaganaza at noon
Action/Abstraction Family Day at the Jewish Museum at noon
Greenwich Village Orchestra plays at Washington Irving Auditorium
Dorothy Parker Society’s Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour
Brooklyn’s Sonya Stroll when South of Navy Yard Artists open their studios
ABIYOYOPALOOZA: African Music & Magic, a free music and storytelling event for pre-school and young school-age children at Prospect Park
Children's Festival "Tenas Sun" Youth Day at the National Museum of the American Indian
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Horseshoe Crab Mating at Dead Horse Bay
Farmfest at the Queens County Farm Museum
Tokion’s Creativity Now conference
Uptown Emerging Designers Market launches
Riverkeeper’s 19th Annual Shad Fest & Hudson River Celebration
92nd St. Y food tour: Blue Hill at Stone Barns
Monday, May 19
Project Shaw reading of “The Devil’s Disciple� at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Israel Horovitz
Free event at Apple Soho at 6:30 p.m.: Meet the Director: Uwe Boll, Postal
Manhattan Theatre Club Spring Gala
Tuesday, May 20
Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers at the NY Philharmonic with Marvin Hamlisch, Kristin Chenowethand Raúl Esparza
NYC Ballet’s Double Feature at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Mystery of the Caves class at Murray’s Cheese
Kids event (ages 4-6) Twinkling Stars at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center Classroom
Auction: Important European Furniture, Works of Art, Ceramics, Carpets, And Glass at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
International Contemporary Furniture Fair opens to the public for the day at the Javits
Wednesday, May 21
Fleet Week begins (through May 28)
U.S. Navy Fly Over Hudson River Airspace near Pier 90 for Fleet Week
Dine Around Downtown with $3 to $6 tasting plates from 50 restaurants at Chase Manhattan Plaza from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Eric Bogosian reads Bitter Honey as a benefit for LAByrinth Theater Company (and May 22)
NY Audubon’s Spring Migration Birdwalks in Central Park
Coney Island USA Gala
Free event at Apple Soho at 6:30 p.m.: Molly Wright Steenson on her mobile, web, and urban projects
Nice 'n' Easy: The Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, at the Paley Center
Alexis Gershwin presents Gershwin Sings Gershwin at the Metropolitan Room (through May 23)
Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion opens at the Museum at the Fashion Institute (through Nov. 8)
Auction: Important American Paintings, Drawings And Sculpture at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Free book event: Alison Hart and Abigail Thomas at the Montauk Club in Park Slope at 7 p.m.
Tossed Salad with Hedda Lettuce at Comix
Thursday, May 22
The Brooklyn Philharmonic and special guests play a free concert at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park -- followed by a Grucci Fireworks show as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations. Gates open at 6 p.m.
The Telectroscope: A Window Through the World" art project opens at Old Fulton Street at Fulton Ferry Landing as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations
Brooklyn Bridge 125th Birthday Fireworks Cruise at 7:30 p.m. on the Classic Motor Yacht Manhattan
NY Water Taxi begins Brooklyn Bridge anniversary cruises with actors portraying the Roeblings family as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations (through May 25)
Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Sixth Annual New York Jets Taste of NFL Benefit at the Edison Ballroom
Algonquin Theater Productions’ "That Dorothy Parker" (through June 1)
Save Coney Island demonstration
Stepya, a documentary on Icelandic art, screens at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Book event on ‘30s-era NY with Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary, at 6 p.m. at The Library of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen – free
Auction: Important English, Continental and American Silver at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Auction: American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s
Eric Bogosian reads Bitter Honey as a benefit for LAByrinth Theater Company
Brooklyn Funk Essentials at the Highline Ballroom
Water Taxi Beach scheduled to open for the season
David Yazbek In Concert in a benefit concert for Riverspace and Riverkeeper
Friday, May 23
The Guggenheim begins extended hours for the final days of “Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe� (through May 28)
Free screening of “Mo’ Better Blues� at Tribeca Cinemas as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations (Doors at 6:30 p.m.)
Free outdoor screening of Disney's "Enchanted" and two historic shorts: "Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge" (1903) and "Manhatta" (1921) at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations from 6 p.m.
The American Society of Civil Engineers and the Roebling Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology will offer free guided tours for the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
13th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts (through May 25)
The Horticultural Society of New York screens “Soylent Green� at 6:30 p.m.
Counting Crows play a free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park for Good Morning America
Alanis Morissette plays a free concert at Rockefeller center for the Today Show
Turntables on the Hudson from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Water Taxi Beach
Van Halen plays Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Exene Cervenka, Sleep in Spite of Thunder exhibition opens at the DCKT Contemporary (through July 18)
Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
8th International Toy Theater Festival
Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran exhibition opens at the Asia Society (through Aug. 3)
Auction: American Indian Art at Sotheby’s
Whitney Live dance party with Matthew Brannon and Lucky Dragons
Book signing: Greg Girard, Phantom Shanghai at the International Center of Photography
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Amie Siegel at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Vietnam: A Memorial Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (through Aug. 3)
Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Saturday, May 24
Lighthouse tender Lilac celebrates her 75th birthday with open ship tours, an art show and music – along with fireboat John J. Harvey at Pier 40, where Houston Street meets the Hudson River (through May 26)
All 14 miles of NYC public beaches open for the season (through Labor Day)
Free screening of Ken Burns' 1981 documentary "Brooklyn Bridge" at BAM as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations at 4:30 p.m. (but tickets handed out from 1:30 p.m.)
Brooklyn Icons Mini-Golf at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park free all weekend from 1 to 5 p.m. as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations
Big Onion walking tour Brooklyn Bridge & Heights at Twilight at 5 p.m. as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations
Free outdoor screening of Frank Sinatra in 1947's "It Happened in Brooklyn" at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations from 6 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society hosts lectures and children’s readings as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations: (1 p.m. Dave Frieder aka "Dave the Bridge Man" on The Great East River Suspension Bridge; 2 p.m. childrens’ reading by Lynn Curlee, author of Brooklyn Bridge; 3 p.m. children’s reading by Phil Bildner, author of Twenty-One Elephants; 4 p.m. John Stern and Carrie Wilson lecture on the Beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge)
City Reliquary- sponsored Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Bike Ride at noon
Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Central Park Scavenger Hunt at 11 a.m.
Free NYC Parks walking tour in Central Park at noon of Seneca Village, Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners
Free kayaking on the Hudson at 72nd Street from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (weekends through October 12)
A Cyclist's History of New York at Museum of the City of NY at 2 p.m.
1970’s theme-park terrorism flick RollerCoaster screens at Coney Island Museum at 8:30 p.m., with free popcorn
Memorial Day Balkan BBQ in Williamsburg at 4 p.m.
Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends of the East Village walking tour at 7 p.m.
New York Air Show at Jones Beach State Park (and May 25)
Lady Liberty Swim
The Yard opens for the season with The Brooklyn Shuffle
Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture opens at the NY Botanical Garden (through Nov. 2)
NY Audubon’s Bird Watching at Fresh Kills
Chinatown Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Lizards and Snakes: Alive! reopens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 4)
Walking tour road trip: P.T. Barnum Museum & Miss Florence's House in Old Lyme, Connecticut with Justin Ferate
Sunday, May 25
Free walking tours of the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations - Ron Schweiger, the official historian for Brooklyn, leads an 11 a.m. tour starting from the Manhattan-side arch; Dave “Dave the Bridge Man� Fieder leads 1 and 4 p.m. walks from the Brooklyn side of the bridge
Deedle-Deedle-Dees play free kids concert at 1 p.m. in Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations
Municipal Arts Society walking tour Brooklyn Heights: America's First Suburb at 2 p.m. as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations
Little Brother book event at Books of Wonder at 5 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society hosts lectures as part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary celebrations: (1 p.m. Raymond “Paul� Giroux lecture on Building the Bridge, presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2 p.m. Clifford Zink lectures on The Roebling Legacy, presented by the Roebling Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, and 3 p.m. Richard Haw, author of Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History lectures on the Art of the Brooklyn Bridge.)
Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Spring Family Day at the Guggenheim
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.
4th Annual Tour de Brooklyn bike ride
Lecture at the Coney Island Museum by Dr. Michael Mark Chemers on “Liliputia: The Secret Utopia of Coney Island's Midget City�
Turntables on the Hudson from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Edgar Allan Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors of the East Village walking tour at 7 p.m.
Brighton Beach Nosh Walk
Monday, May 26
NY Philharmonic’s free Memorial Day Concert at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine at 8 p.m.
Met Museum, Museum of the City of NY and Children’s Museum of Manhattan (normally closed for Mondays) are open for Memorial Day
Free 11th Annual Memorial Day Concert at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
Free 11 a.m. Memorial Walk among the military attractions in the southern end of Central Park
Mets vs. Florida Marlins
The B-52s play a free concert at Rockefeller center for the Today Show
John Treacy Egan, (from Broadway’s “The Little Mermaid�) at the Metropolitan Room
Tuesday, May 27
Free Shakespeare in the Park season kicks off in Central Park with “Hamlet� (through June 29)
World Science Fest (through June 1)
Re-Saving Greenwich Village discussion at Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m. with Andrew Berman, David Gruber and Sean Sweeney
Mets vs. Florida Marlins
White Castle celebrates National Hamburger Month by selling sliders for 27 cents, but only for 87 minutes, starting at 2 p.m.
Free World of John Coltrane: “Rarities and Film Show� at the Harlem School of the Arts at 7 p.m.
Bebe Neuwirth: Stories with Piano at Feinstein's at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through May 31)
Free lecture on The Extraordinary
Accomplishments of Nikola Tesla at the Science, Industry & Business Library at 5:30 p.m.
Satya Graha Forum event: Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S and Japan, with Tom Hayden, James Orr and Amy Goodman
Wednesday, May 28
The Fifth Annual Walt Whitman Birthday Bash
Bicycle Film Festival begins (through June 1)
Discussion: On the Waterfront and the Catholic Labor Priests, at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York with Budd Schulberg, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for “On the Waterfront� and James T. Fisher, professor of theology at Fordham University and the author of “Covering The Waterfront: Labor Priests and Longshoremen in the Port of New York and New Jersey�
Xanadu celebrates its first year on Broadway with a cupcake sale to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 West 44th St.
River to River Festival kicks off with She Wolves from the Tiber to the Hudson, and An Evening of Arias with Leah Partridge and Norman Reinhardt
Ethan Hawke, Clement Joseph and Val Vinokur read from "Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky"
KT Tunstall at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Pinstripes in the Park, free live screening in Bryant Park of the Yankees game with David Cone, Bucky Dent, Craig Nettles and Mike Torrez - from 5:30 to 11 p.m.
Eighth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival at the IFC Center at 7 p.m.
Mets vs. Florida Marlins
92nd St. Y food talks: Wine and Cheese Pairing
“Il matrimonio segreto� at BAM (through June 4)
Auction: Latin American Sale Evening Session Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Paley Center premiere: A Sundance Channel Exclusive Series
On the Road in America
David Bromberg plays BB Kings
Thursday, May 29
Manhattanhenge
Sundance Institute at BAM (through June 8)
The Bourne Trilogy and An Evening with Doug Liman and James Schamus, at MoMA (through May 31)
Free 7 p.m. Castle Clinton show from Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck/Mirah and Spectratone International as part of the River to River festival
Free cake from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets
183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Conemporary Art opens at the at the National Academy Museum (through Sept. 7)
NY GOP annual dinner with V.P. Dick Cheney, ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani and friends at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers on 53rd Street
David Cook and David Archuleta play a free concert at Rockefeller center for the Today Show
Auction: Latin American Art at Sotheby’s (and May 30)
Auction: Latin American Sale Day Session at Christie’s Rockefeller Center
Paley Center premiere: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
with Mark Everett
Harlem Speakswith Jimmy Cobb, drummer, at Harlem School of the Arts at 6:30 p.m.
Discussion: “The Steamy Side of New York City� with representatives from Con Edison Steam as they discuss the history of steam generation, at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Mint Condition plays BB Kings
Mets vs. L.A. Dodgers at 7:10 p.m.
Book event for Saree Makdisi's “Palestine Inside Out� at Book Culture at 7 p.m.
3-night Wine Camp in Long Island's Wine Country
Friday, May 30
One Step Beyond dance party at the American Museum of Natural History from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. (21 and over)
Manhattanhenge
Wire plays a free show at South Street Seaport at 7 p.m. as part of the River to River festival
Mets vs. L.A. Dodgers
Film Festival Theater Festival
MegaBus starts cheap service from NYC
Usher plays a free 7 a.m. concert at Bryant Park for Good Morning America
Donna Summer plays a free concert at Rockefeller center for the Today Show
Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Jennifer Montgomery at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Slavic Soul Party at the Highline Ballroom
Works & Process Armitage Gone! Dance at the Guggenheim (and May 31)
Paul F. Tompkins at Comix (and May 31)
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be blue and white to mark Israel’s 60th Anniversary
(PopRally's Artist Talk with Mika Rottenberg at MoMA has been canceled and rescheduled for July 1)
Saturday, May 31
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Walt Whitman's Brooklyn
Mets vs. L.A. Dodgers
New Taste of the Upper West Side dining benefit
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc’s 152nd St. Cultural Festival in the Bronx
Governors Island reopens for the season
Six Point Craft Ale Big Ten block party on Stone Street at Ulysses Bar from 1 to 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Pigfest the Tobacco Warehouse
High Line sketching class
Free Rooftop Films screening of “At the Death House Door�
Edgar Allan Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors of Greenwich Village walking tour at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Petanque Tournament at Pit Stop
National Geographic Traveler presents A Night in Slovenia at Town Hall featuring “theatrical rock legends Laibach, and two special Slovenian ensembles featuring guests Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen and accordion master Guy Klucevsek.� Free pre-show wine and food to first 300 ticket holders
Free event at the Apple SoHo Store: Short Films, Tall Ideas: Sundance Online, with Festival programmer Trevor Groth at 3 p.m.
East Harlem Walking Tour: El Barrio Week, at 1 p.m. with art historian and El Barrio resident Mario Cesar Romero, focusing on galleries, museums, artists' studios, and public murals, arranged by the Museum of the City of New York
A Walk with Michael Henry Adams, Author of Harlem Lost & Found at 11 a.m.
Count Basie's New York at the Museum of the City of New York
Darkrai available at the Nintendo World Store for a limited time
Bang on a Can Marathon at World Financial Center (through June 1)
Works & Process Armitage Gone! Dance at the Guggenheim
Paul F. Tompkins at Comix
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building will be blue and white to mark Israel’s 60th Anniversary
Tickets go on sale to the public for Shrek the Musical on Broadway. (Previews start November 8th. Tickets on sale for performances through May 31, 2009)

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