February 29, 2008

Weekend on Tap: Modern Show, King Kong, The Plaza

The Plaza, now 100 years old, finally reopens as a hotel this weekend, but unless you've got upwards of $700 a night, you may want to redirect your attention to something slightly younger. Like Sunday's 75th anniversary of "King Kong," which will be screened at Film Forum along with a Fay Wray Scream-Alike Contest.

Also this weekend, there's the The Modern Show and a number of free museum events. The parks department is also offering a pair of seldom-scheduled tours: the The Little Red Lighthouse on Saturday and the Highbridge Water Tower on Sunday.

For more upcoming and ongoing events in NYC, see NewYorkology’s March calendar.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Friday
The Modern Show opens at the 69th Regiment Armory

One Step Beyond dance party with DJ Jazzy Jeff and DJ Dirty Finger at the Rose Center for Earth and Space from 9 p.m.

Whitney Live dance party at the museum with Tristan Perich

Free Absolute Beginners TANGO Workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO, 35 West 20th, #301. From 8:30 p.m.

Haunted tour of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island

New York Times Travel Show at the Javits

Weekend-long American Crossword Puzzle Tournament at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott

John Zorn plays St. Ann’s Warehouse

James Blunt plays the Beacon Theater

Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room

Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia

The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival

TJ Miller of the film "Cloverfield" at Comix

Central Park Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo celebrate Leap Day – with the frogs

Night School, Public Seminar 2, Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Works on Paper at The Park Avenue Armory

$20 Off-Broadway tickets with 20at20

The Chocolate Bar -- all-you-can-eat, $75 per person at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park

Last day of City Bakery’s Hot Chocolate Festival.

American whiskey class at the Chelsea Wine Vault

Museums open after 7 p.m.: 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 close;) 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 Children’s Museum of Manhattan; and the 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. and tonight hosts Tristan Perich for its Whitney Live dance party;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) the 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 p.m. to close.)

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Saturday
"South Pacific" begins previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

The Plaza reopens

The Little Red Lighthouse opens for tours at 1 p.m.

PopRally Presents: DFA DANCE PARTY at the Museum of Modern Art from 9 p.m.

The Gates: A Panel Discussion at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.

Free hotdogs at Papaya King

Afrika Bambaataa at Hiro Ballroom

Brooklyn Museum first Saturday events

Free Target First Saturdays for Families at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

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

Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Visiting Presenter: American Songbook, Patti Smith

“Carmen” at the Met Opera

Met Opera’s Otello

John Zorn plays St. Ann’s Warehouse

Judy Collins plays her final show at The Carlyle

Joe Perry of Aerosmith concert at Hard Rock Café, Times Square

2008 Tyson American Cup USA Gymnastics at Madison Square Garden

ArtExpo at the Javits

Artwalk Chelsea at 1 p.m.

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

Final night for The Chocolate Bar -- all-you-can-eat, $75 per person at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park

$20 Off-Broadway tickets with 20at20

Next-to-last day for the Barneys Warehouse sale

Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m.; the Met Museum to 9 p.m. and the Brooklyn Museum (which is free from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.)

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Sunday
Screening of the original “King Kong” and a Fay Wray Scream-Alike Contest to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the film’s premiere

NYC Parks’ free Highbridge Water Tower tour at 1 p.m.

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today opens at MoMA

Final performance for "The Farnsworth Invention" on Broadway

$20 Off-Broadway tickets with 20at20

Last day of the Barneys Warehouse sale

Cynthia Hopkins plays St. Ann’s Warehouse

Sundays in the City Film Festival

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.

Late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Closing soon
Lynn Redgrave stars in Grace Off-Broadway at the The Lucille Lortel Theatre (through March 8)
Eddie Izzard workshops his upcoming solo show at Union Square Theatre - Tickets $40. (extended through March 8)
Mark Twain’s lost comedy "Is He Dead?" plays Broadway (closing early, on March 9)
Come Back, Little Sheba starring S. Epatha Merkerson on Broadway (through March 9)
Tom Stoppard’s new play, "Rock 'N' Roll" on Broadway (extended through March 9)
"Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007" exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through March 9)
"Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings" at MoMA (through March 10)

Travel links
Hudson Valley’s Philipsburg Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside this weekend opens for the season
Saturday's Adventure Society trip to Winter Horseback Ride w/Optional Wine & Cheese Tasting
Sunday's Adventure Society dogsledding and snowshoeing daytrip

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