May 2, 2008
Weekend on tap: Cherry blossoms, 5 Boro Bike Tour
 The weather might not cooperate, but there are an awful lot of big events scheduled for NYC this weekend. The final days of the Tribeca Film Festival include Saturday's free family festival, the annual Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) is set for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Yankees are home through Sunday.
The Shorewalkers’ 23rd annual 2008 Great Saunter, a 32-mile walk around Manhattan's rim is scheduled for Saturday while the Five Boro Bike Tour hits the streets Sunday.
For ongoing exhibitions and shows, see Now in NYC. For more upcoming events, see the May calendar.
Events will be added through the weekend.
Friday
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art, including works from Ă?smundur Ă?smundsson, Olga Bergmann, Hildur BjarnadĂłttir, MargrĂ©t H. Blöndal and Ă“lafur ElĂasson, opens at The Scandinavia House
Philip Guston: Works on Paper opens at the Morgan Library and Museum
Red, Black, and Gold opens at the Rubin Museum
Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City opens at the NY Public Library
Open Studio, Afternoons With Artists: Phoebe Washburn at the Whitney at 2 p.m.
Sarah Jessica Parker at Times Talks at 7 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
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
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
La Fille du RĂ©giment at the Met Opera
5th Annual Golf Fest begins at Chelsea Piers
Museums open after 7 p.m.: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close and Free music Fridays;) and the Guggenheim to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close,) – and there is a First Fridays party at the Guggenheim from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with Shepard Fairey)
Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has "voluntary contribution" admission from 5 p.m. 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 and holds First Fridays events;) and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (which is free the first Friday of each month from 5 to 8 p.m.)
Museums open to 8:45 p.m.:Rose Center for Earth and Space, with live jazz.
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; the Asia Society, (where it's free from 6 to 9 p.m.,) and the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum.
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
Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Shorewalkers’ 23rd annual 2008 Great Saunter, a 32-mile walk around Manhattan's rim
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival and Family Street Fair as part of the Tribeca Film Festival
Where To Watch The Kentucky Derby in NYC
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.
Apple SoHo Store hosts a free Filmmaker Talks series with Paul Haggis as part of the Tribeca Film Festival at 6:30 p.m.
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 Walking Tours offered by the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Free Comic Book Day
Drums Along the Hudson: A Native American Festival and Shad Fest at Inwood Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Queens Jazz Trail on board the Flushing Town Hall Trolley
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
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�
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 and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Met Opera
Family-paced 6th-Annual Future Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Bike Tour
Family event: Create an Art Installation, at the Guggenheim
Weekend-long Migration Sensation at Central Park Zoo
Weekend-long Fleece Festival at Prospect Park Zoo
Weekend-long Sheep Shearing Weekend at Queens Zoo
Re-creating Radio kids program at the Paley Center: “Life's Little Ups & Downs�
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 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
Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden from 10 a.m.
Opening night on Broadway for Boeing Boeing on Broadway
Five Boro Bike Tour
Ft. Greene house tour
Yankees vs. Seattle at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
“Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976� opens at the Jewish Museum
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
Filmmaker Talks series (free) at Apple SoHo Store for the Tribeca Film Festival with Matthew Modine at 5:30 p.m.
Freebird Books celebrates Thomas Pynchon's 71st birthday at 3 pm
Summer on the Hudson: 7th Annual Irish Arts Festival
Prospect Park’s pedal boats open for spring season
Sidney Horenstein's High Bridge Bottom to Top walking tour
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Underground Muses of Green-Wood
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 on yoga, reiki, and meditation
Works & Process Preserving the Classics, at the Guggenheim with members of American Ballet Theatre’s artistic staff
Mike Daisey’s Off-Broadway-bound How Theater Failed America at Joe’s Pub
Rachel York at the Metropolitan Room
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
Edward Albee’s The American Dream/The Sandbox at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theater (to May 3)
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature (through May 4)
Congress of curious peoples at Coney Island (through May 4)
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Little Flower of East Orange at the Public Theater, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, starring Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Canavan and Liza Colón-Zayas (to May 4)
The Walworth Farce plays St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo (through May 4)
“The Collections of Barbara Bloom� and “Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art� at the International Center for Photography (through May 4)
“From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim� at the Guggenheim (through May 4)
Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (extended through May 4)
Recent Acquisitions on display at the National Academy Museum (through May 4)
Thread to the Past: Ukrainian Folk Art from the 1933 World's Fair at the Ukranian Museum (extended through May 4)
"Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Met Museum of Art (through May 4)
Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680 – 1860 at the Asia Society and Museum (through May 4)
Exoticism at the Museum at the Fashion Institute (through May 7)
123 FESTIVAL of dance at Joyce Theater (through May 11)
"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)
Travel links
PlayLand opens for the season in Rye, N.Y. on Saturday
Bamboozle Festival 2008 with more than 100 punk, hardcore and emo bands on 10 stages at The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J. on Saturday and Sunday
NY Audubon’s Sunday trip to Sterling Forest Preserve
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