May 9, 2008

Weekend on tap: Plácido Domingo, Bklyn Designs

Some of this weekend's NYC highlights include the Brooklyn Designs show in Dumbo, Bike to Shea Day and Brooklyn Heights Landmarks House Touron Saturday.

For culture, you've got Plácido Domingo in The First Emperor at the Met Opera as well as the NY Philharmonic's rendition of "Camelot" with Gabriel Byrne.

For the city's ongoing shows and exhibitions, check the list at Now in NYC. For more, see NewYorkology’s May calendar.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Friday
Weekend-long Brooklyn Designs opens in Dumbo

Gowanus Transformations opens at the Brooklyn Historical Society

Mets vs. the Reds

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.

Meet the Editors: “The Tracey Fragments� at Apple SoHo store

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

Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met Opera

Vonda Shepard at the B B Kings Blues Club

Sarah Silverman at Columbia University's Alfred Lerner Hall

Lightbulb Theatre Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden at 8 p.m.

Stevie Nicks tribute Night of a Thousand Stevies at the Highline Ballroom

Last day of the free Made in the Bronx Film Festival

Open Studio, Afternoons with Artists: Adam Putnam at the Whitney at 2 p.m.

New York Academy of Science lecture: String Theory

Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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

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.: 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;) and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan

Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m. and sometimes hosts Whitney Live dance parties;) 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 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
Plácido Domingo in The First Emperor at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.

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.

Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Met Opera

A Tribute to the Big Bands at St. George Theatre on Staten Island

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)

Brooklyn Heights Landmarks House and Garden Tour through five private homes in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District

First weekend to see the new Sports Museum of America, (where admission is lowered to $15 in May only when using offer code NYC15)

The Super Thing: NYC goes DEVO exhibition at 8 p.m.

The Bronx County Historical Society Presents "Edgar Allan Poe at Fordham"

Chinatown Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition opens its weekends-only exhibition Spring Ahead in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Last weekend for Hanami: Celebrating the Cherry-Viewing Season at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Mother’s Day Weekend begins at New York Aquarium at Coney Island

Children’s Book Week kicks off at the Bryant Park Reading Room

Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers at Scandinavia House

Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “The Itsy, Bitsy Statue of Liberty�

NYC Parks’ Family Camping Night in Willowbrook Park on Staten Island

The American Opera Theater performs Charpentier's “David et Jonathas� at BAM

Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m., and the Met Museum.

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
Mets vs. the Reds

Restaurants that still have open reservations for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day March in Harlem from the foot of Mother Tubman’s statue, 122nd St., St. Nicholas Ave, and Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Bronx Arts Ensemble Presents: Sleeping Beauty at the NY Botanical Garden

Off-Broadway-bound Mike Daisey’s How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub

John Treacy Egan, (from Broadway’s “The Little Mermaid�) at the Metropolitan Room

Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Richmond Hill, Featuring Guyanese Liberty Avenue

Second Sundays at the Guggenheim - for families (kids 5-10) – Stories in Art

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
"Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 11)
Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette at the Museum of the City of New York (extended through May 11)
Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA (through May 12)
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today at MoMA (through May 12)
No No Nanette at City Center Encores starring Beth Leavel and Rosie O’Donnell (through May 12)
Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with John Turturro, Elaine Stritch, Alvin Epstein and Max Casella (through May 18)
Gustave Courbet exhibition at the Met Museum of Art (through May 18)
Manhattan Noon: Photographs by Gus Powell at the Museum of the City of New York (extended through May 18)
HomeBase Project, a site-specific art project in a five-floor landmark townhouse in Sugar Hill, Harlem (through May 18)
"Macbeth" on Broadway (through May 24)

Travel links
Saturday's birding and breakfast at the Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley
Saturday's 27th Annual Long Island Rugby Tournament at Lido Beach

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