June 1, 2006

November 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Sunday, November 8
Bauhaus 1919–1933: workshops for modernity opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 25)
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to noon
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
92Y Excursion: Lower East Side Synagogues O! Multitudes! Three Centuries of Domestic Architecture on the Lower East Side at 11 a.m.
Kids’ Extreme Mammals Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History from 11 to 12:30 p.m.
Pavel Haas Quartet concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Westchester Legacy Tour of Woodlawn Cemetery at 2 p.m.
NY Giants home game vs. San Diego
Museum at Eldridge Street’s Gangster, Writer, Rabbi walking tour at 11 a.m.
Teena Marie at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden
Bronx walking tour: Historic St. Mary’s Park & Its 17th Century Roots, at 9:30 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Powerhouse Arts District, Jersey City at 1 p.m.
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
An Evening with Bill Maher at 7 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center
Andy Samberg & Friends at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Monsters of Folk at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Louis CK at Caroline’s

Monday, November 9
Bernadette Peters sings at the Minskoff Theatre as a benefit for Broadway Cares
Explorers Club lecture: An Inside View: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Mummies
4th Annual Latin American Cultural Week begins at the World Financial Center
Morimoto Sushi & Sake Cruise on Yacht Manhattan
Peter Maass and Ed Kashi: A Conversation on Oil at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
The NEXT New York Conversation presents Breakout: Voices from Inside (a partnership between PEN’s Prison Writing Program and WNYC’s The Greene Space) at 7 p.m.
target=”_blank”>NY Knicks vs the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Free discussion with Mark Kurlansky and four writers whose novels deal with food at 7 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, November 10
A Conversation with Novelist Stephen King at the Times Talks series at 7 p.m.
Kylie Minogue plays the Hammerstein Ballroom
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Thomas Hampson & Mozart’s Prague Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall
Children’s Workshop: Astrofavorites: The NASA Mission Collection at the American Museum of Natural History
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future opens at the Museum of the City of NY (through Jan. 31)
New-York Historical Society panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. on America’s Future, America’s Constitution
Lunch and tour of Crystal Cruise Lines’ 5-star luxury cruise ship Crystal Symphony from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Maude Maggart: “Parents & Children” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Nov. 14)
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ray LaMontagne at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 11
Veterans Day Ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
New-York Historical Society panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. on Yankee Stadium Forever: College Football with Regis Philbin, Dave Anderson, Pete Dawkins, Paul Hornung, Tony Morante and Bert Sugar
Wintuk begins performances at Madison Square Garden (through Jan. 3)
USS New York opens for free public tours while docked at Pier 88 at W. 48th Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursday, November 12
5 Dutch Days (through Nov. 16)
7th Annual Queens International Film Festival (through Nov. 15)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Scandinavians Celebrate Dutch New York: Henry Hudson and Beyond at the Scandinavian East Coast Museum in Brooklyn
Met Museum’s $300 Private Gallery Tours, Impressionist Paintings in the Met
Slowind Quintet plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
17th Annual NYC Competition of Canstruction opens at the World Financial Center (through Nov. 23)
NY Rangers home game vs. Thrashers
Keyboard Conversations with Pianist Jeffrey Siegel: Chopin for Lovers, at the Scandinavia House at 7:30 p.m.
Fellini’s “8 ½ ” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
Joan Osborne at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
New York City Opera’s $5 Artist Dialogues at The Church of Saint Paul the Apostle at 6 p.m. on ” Don Giovanni”
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius
Rob Thomas at the Beacon Theatre at 7 p.m. (through Nov. 14)
16 Futurist Noise Intoners at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Friday, November 13
Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall opens for the season (through Dec. 30)
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas begins previews on Broadway (through Jan. 3)
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum (reservations required)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
92Y Food Outing: Noshes and Nibbles in the West Village and SoHo at 10 a.m.
60×60 Dance performs at the World Financial Center
“Hidden Fortress” screens as part of the Classic Samurai Cinema: Three by Kurosawa series at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Trading in New Amsterdam at 11 a.m.
NY Knicks vs Golden State Warriors at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Jefferson Starship at BB Kings at 7 p.m.
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Free U. S. Army Chorus and Strings at 1 p.m. at Trinity Church
Dark Shadows at Twilight: A Paley Center Vampire Weekend at the Paley Center for Media (through Nov. 15)

Saturday, November 14
The Pier Antiques Show and the Fashion Alley & Vintage Collecting @ The Pier Show at the Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94 & 92 (and Nov. 15)
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Historical lecture and music on “Presidential Power” at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
A Song for the Horse Nation opens at the National Museum of American Indan (through March 7, 2011)
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
Cooking Workshop at Historic Richmond Town with materials in the library and archives of the Staten Island Historical Society
Steve Ross, To Wit: Humor in Song at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum
South Street Seaport Museum family program: Veterans Day
The Jersey Devil at 8 p.m. at Ars Nova
Hidden Harbor tour at 11 a.m. of Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay and Shooters Island
The Outlaws at BB Kings at 8 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Metallica at Madison Square Garden
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Beyond the Bauhaus at 11 a.m.

Sunday, November 15
Opening night on Broadway for “Ragtime” (open-ended run)
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Alias Man Ray opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 14)
Metallica at Madison Square Garden
Tamevate Kapelye at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 3 p.m.
Kids’ Extreme Mammals Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History from 11 to 12:30 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery book event on “America’s Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation” at 2 p.m. in the Woolworth Chapel
NY Jets home game vs. Jacksonville
Enrichment Workshop- Red Panda at the Staten Island Zoo from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Three Ways of Looking at Park Slope: Park Slope Northwest with Francis Morrone at 2 p.m.
First Annual Independent Bookstore Week NYC (through Nov. 21)
Tour of the Atlantic Avenue train tunnel (reservations required)
New York Road Runners: Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park
Free History Club: Brooklyn Brews at 1 p.m. at Marine Park

Monday, November 16
Project Shaw reading of “On The Rocks”
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Philharmonic Chamber Music at College of Staten Island, City University of New York at 7:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s New York Painting Begins: 18th-Century Portraits Gallery Tour with curator Kimberly Orcutt at 11 a.m.
WWE Presents MONDAY NIGHT RAW at Madison Square Garden
6TH ANNUAL BROADWAY UNPLUGGED at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Neko Case at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Law & Order: Twenty Years and Counting panel at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m. with Dick Wolf, René Balcer, S. Epatha Merkison and
Sam Waterston

Tuesday, November 17
Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s opens at the gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (through March 20)
John Mayer at the Beacon Theatre at 9 p.m.
New York Philharmonic: Garrick Ohlsson, Haydn & Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania opens at the Met Museum (through Sept. 6)
New-York Historical Society discussion on Cold War journalism: Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America with Kati Marton and Frank Rich at 6:30 p.m.
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Women of Wall Streetat 11 a.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Capitals
“La Damnation de Faust” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Jim Cramer book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 18
Previews begin on Broadway for Broadway Bound
New-York Historical Society The Draft Debate discussion at 6:30 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Orhan Pamuk book event for “The Museum of Innocence” at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Free lecture by Bronx Borough Historian Lloyd Ultan on Henry Hudson – The Man at the Woodlawn Branch of the NY Public Library at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 19
Opening night on Broadway for In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) (through Jan. 10)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum: Civil War Wives: The Winds of Change Presented by Carol Berkin
Watteau and Words: A Reading of French Poetry at the Met Museum at 6 p.m. with Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fiske Kimball Professor in the History of Culture and Museums, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
itsnotyouitsme, featuring multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 2, 2011)
South Street Seaport Museum event featuring maritime authority Anthony Cooke
Fashion Conversations at Museum at FIT at 6 p.m.: Glenda Bailey in conversation with Valerie Steele
“2001: A Space Odyssey” screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Masterpieces series
“Esther” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
New York City Opera’s $5 Artist Dialogues at The Church of Saint Paul the Apostle at 6 p.m. on “Esther”
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Sexy Soul Tour 2009 at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Ray Davies at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Friday, November 20
Preview performances begins for David Mamet’s Race on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 10; open-ended run)
Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Garden
Lesley Gore at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Free Friday events at the South Street Seaport Museum: New Amsterdam and the Native American Perspective
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 8 p.m.
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Ray Davies at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 21
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 10)
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
David Cassidy concert at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m.
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt play the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Panthers
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
WIRED pop-up shop opens for the holidays at 415 W. 13th St. (through Dec. 27)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Downtown’s Lost Neighborhood , Little Syria, at 11 a.m.
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Jan. 10)
Tickets go on sale for Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson
Super Sábado!: Target Free Third Saturdays at El Museo del Barrio from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Yo Gabba Gabba Live! at the Beacon Theatre at 11 a.m., 2 and 5 p.m.
Ani DiFranco at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 22
Tim Burton exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 26)
Free Urban Glass Open House with Holiday
Urban Oyster tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
92Y Excursion: Lower East Side Synagogues, Bialystoker the Beautiful, Shteibl Row and the Sites of Historic East Broadway at 11 a.m.
New Amsterdam Market monthly Public Marke on South Street
Hudson River Historic Concerts at Wave Hill: Stephen Hamilton directs actor Reed Birney in recreating a reading of “Doctor Marigold” and “Mr. Bob Sawyer’s Party”, first given by Charles Dickens in 1868 at New York’s Steinway Hall and in Albany
Nareh Arghamanyan concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
NY Giants home game vs. Atlanta
Port O’ Monkeys with Jeff Greene performance at 3 p.m. at the Museum at Eldridge Street
NY Knicks vs Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden at 1 p.m.
Thanksgiving with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Woodside Avenue, Queens at 11 a.m.
Big Band Social on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater at 4:45 p.m.
“Don Giovanni” at the NY City Opera at 1:30 p.m.
Michael Jackson’s Video Art at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 6:15 p.m.
Devendra Banhart at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Monday, November 23
Opening night on Broadway for “Fela!”
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Explorers Club lecture: On Thin Ice: The Polar Bear in a Changing World
NY Rangers home game vs. Blue Jackets
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Skyscraper Museum book event at 6:30 p.m.: Paul Goldberger on Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, and Why Architecture Matters
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7:30 p.m. with Scott Adsit, Craig Bierko, Rachel Dratch, Carol Kane, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Steve Schirripa, Sherri Shepherd, Michael Urie, Alan Zweibel
David Chang book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 24
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 6)
“A Little Night Music” with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Dec. 13)
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Avery Fisher Hall
The World of Cole Porter performance and lecture at the Met Museum with David Garrard Lowe, author of “Art Deco New York,” and Bobby Nesbitt, pianist and singer
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at Madison Square Garden
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 9 p.m.
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 25

Thursday, November 26
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - with a new route this year
Prospect park Track Club’s Turkey Trot 5M at 9 a.m.
Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink opens for the season
Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola performance at 7:30 p.m.
Places that were open on Thanksgiving in 2008

Friday, November 27
Performances of “A StreetCar Named Desire” begin at BAM with Cate Blanchett, Joel Edgerton and Robin McLeavy (thorugh Dec. 20)
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Thanksgiving Weekend Art and Craft Fair at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island
Big Onion walking tour: Annual Post-Thanksgiving Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour at 1 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Celebrating Chekhov series at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Dec. 3)
Guster at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.

Saturday, November 28
College Hockey: Boston University vs. Cornell University at Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic: Muti Conducts Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 and 8 p.m.
Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour of the oldest kitchens at Historic Richmond Town at 2 p.m.
First Annual New York Harbor Festival of Lights Holiday Boat Parade around Lower and West Manhattan
New York City Ballet begins performances of “The Nutcracker” (through Dec. 30)
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Guster at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m.

Sunday, November 29
Thanksgiving Kitchen Tour of the oldest kitchens at Historic Richmond Town at 2 p.m.
NY Jets home game vs. Carolina
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Bedford Stuyvesant at 11 a.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Wynton Marsalis Quintet plays at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, November 30
Chanticleer Christmas in the Met Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
10th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square
Explorers Club lecture: Seas of Hope: New Ocean Discoveries, Natural Phenomena and Positive Stories in Marine Conservation
Duncan Phyfe, America’s Legendary Cabinetmaker opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 7)
Met Opera Open House: free dress rehearsal of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”
NY Rangers home game vs. Penguins
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Morimoto Sushi & Sake Cruise on Yacht Manhattan

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