June 21, 2007

Weekend on tap: Mermaids, Pride march, UFO fest

If you are looking for things to do in New York City this weekend, the top options include the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday and the gay pride march on Sunday. For more ongoing events, see NewYorkology’s June calendar.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Thursday
Solstice in Times Square
Summer Solstice Celebration - Socrates Sculpture Park from 5 to 9 p.m.
Opening day of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square Odditorium
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie “MO”
Screening: Drag Show Video Verite: The Ultimate NYC Drag Show on Video Tape at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center
NYC Food Film Festival -- hot dogs, sausages and an eating competition -- at Water Taxi Beach.
The Richard Thompson Band and Ollabelle play a free Celebrate Brooklyn show at Prospect Park
Museums open until 8 p.m.: Jewish Museum, Museum of Arts & Design, (which is also pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 8 p.m.;) National Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of Biblical Art.

Friday
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys and James Reams & The Barnstormers play a free show for the Celebrate Brooklyn festival at Prospect Park
Dave Attell hosts a free comedy show of John Mulaney, Ted Alexandro, Joe DeRosa, Amy Schumer and Kurt Metzger at Central Park Summerstage
Free Rockefeller Center Drive-In movie “"Netherbeast Incorporated"”
UFOs: (1947-2007) -- A Conference, Film Retrospective & Multi-Media Celebration, including Foo Fighter Friday at Pioneer Theater
Last chance to see Celluloid Skyline: New York & Movies, a free multimedia exhibit including original “long lost but now found and restored original backdrops from movies filmed in New York City over the past seven decades” - at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal
Fireworks at Coney Island, starting at 9:30 p.m.
Michael Moore’s film Sicko opens at AMC Loews Lincoln Square
Free 7 a.m. concerts: Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana at Bryant Park for “Good Morning America” and Chicago & America at Rockefeller Center for "Today"
Free Swedish Midsummer Festival and Family Dance at Wagner Park
Rooftop Films shows “Eternal Love,” romantic short films about love that lasts forever
2nd Annual Bronx Green Roof Tour
Museums open late: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close;) and the Guggenheim, to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close.)
Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has "voluntary contribution" admission from 5 to 8 p.m.;) Museum of Modern Art, (which is free from 4 to 8 p.m.;) New-York Historical Society, (with free admission from 6 p.m.;) Bronx Museum, (which is free all day;) the Queens Museum of Art; and Museum of the Moving Image (also free from 4 to 8 p.m.)
Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m.;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie; and the Asia Society, (where it's free from 6 to 9 p.m.)
Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 to close.)

Saturday
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Mermaids of the Deep weekend at the New York Aquarium
New York Hall of Science opens its 30,000 square foot addition to the Science Playground
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s Art Festival 2007 at the Puck Building

Tour of Newark Bay via the Kill van Kull, (including the ships' graveyard) from onboard the 1930s-era tugboat W.O. Decker
Army Heritage Weekend on Governors Island (and June 24)
Walking tour: Crossing Newtown Creek: The "Upper" Tributaries organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
NYC Dyke March
Rooftop Films shows Losers and Winners
Free walking tour: The Rail Yard History of Riverside Park South
3rd annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m. and the Met Museum to 9 p.m.
Scheduled subway interruptions

Sunday
Heritage of Pride march begins at noon at 5th Avenue and 52nd Street, heading to Christopher and Greenwich streets
Superchunk, Oakley Hall and + / - play a (free with rsvp) concert at the McCarren Park Pool
Sloan, Apostle Of Hustle and Duhks play a free Central Park Summerstage show
37th annual Bronx Day Parade
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s Art Festival 2007 at the Puck Building
1957 Night at Coney Island’s Keyspan park for the Brooklyn Cyclone’s baseball game. (Danny McDevitt and Joe Pignatano, the Dodgers' pitcher and catcher for the last game ever played at Ebbets Field, will be on hand.)
St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music starts at 10:45 a.m.
Bedford-Stuyvesant Art & History Tour organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Cruising the Gowanus Canal organized by Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s free Carnegie Hall concert at Travers Park
Final day of the Staten Island Film Festival, and Rose Month at New York Botanical Garden
Final day on Broadway for "Talk Radio" with Liev Schreiber as well as "LoveMusik" with Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris
Scheduled subway interruptions

Travel links
Antiques& Design in the Hamptons
Met Opera performs a free show of La Bohème at Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick, NJ on Saturday
Civil War Trails Discovery Weekend in Pennsylvania (June 22- 24)
Don’t expect functioning Internet access on a Hampton Jitney
Slow Food NY’s Washington County Weekend "Sleep-Away"
Garden Design Online visits Chanticleer “pleasure garden” in Wayne, PA
Gadling tells you where to go in Rhinebeck
22nd annual Burlington "Chew Chew" Food Festival June 22 - 24
Vermont History Expo June 23 - 24
Resort vs. motel debate in Montauk
Cinema Treasures sends you to a Jersey drive-in: Warwick Drive-in

June 21, 2007 11:16 AM in Sightsology

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