June 20, 2008
Weekend on tap: Mermaid Parade, Summer Solstice
 Summer arrives this weekend, as does the Coney Island Mermaid parade, and free performances — inlcuding a massive Met Opera concert at Prospect Park.
For ongoing events and shows, click to NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list. For events on tap after this weekend, see NewYorkology’s calendar.
Events will be added through the weekend.
Friday
Free performance by the Met Opera: Met Summer Concert: Live in Prospect Park
The Cure play Madison Square Garden
Gogol Bordello plays McCarren Park Pool
Tribute to Cheo Feliciano at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
An Evening With My Morning Jacket at Radio City Music Hall
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy play BB Kings
Swedish Midsummer Festival at 5 p.m. at Battery Park City
New York Asian Film Festival
Tatsuya Nakadai retrospective starts at Film Forum
Neue Galerie screens “The Affair of the Necklace”
Les Soeurs
Fachées screens at the New-York Historical Society for free “Let Them Eat Cake Fridays”
“Traces” opens at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum with a reception for artist B. Amore at 7 p.m.
Neighborhood sails at the South Street Seaport Museum from 5 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Staten Island Yankees home game
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.;) and the Bronx Museum, (which is free all day.)
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
Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Mermaids of the Deep weekend at New York Aquarium at Coney Island
Make Music New York
7th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration at 5 p.m. at Socrates Sculpture Park
Solstice in Times Square free yoga-fest in the heart of Times Square at 8 and 10 a.m., noon, and 7:30 p.m.
Army Heritage Weekend on Governors Island
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Tudor City: Utopia on the East River at 11 a.m.
Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as an Historic District
Free walking tour: Destination: El Barrio from 3 to 5 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society’s Gowanus Transformations - walking tour from 2 p.m.
1st Annual Juneteenth Emancipation Day at Pleasant Village Community Garden in East Harlem at 11 a.m.
The Cure play Radio City Music Hall
Steely Dan at Beacon Theatre
Sonido Isleño/Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m., free with museum admission
James Taylor plays the Nikon at Jones Beach
Alice Russell
plays Hiro Ballroom
Free screenings of Blithe Spirit at 2 p.m., Anna and the King of Siam at 4 p.m. and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir at 6 p.m. the Met Museum
Free RETURN OF ROCOCO: A Baroque Bash @ teneleven
World’s Strongest Man Super Series at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Murray’s Cave Day cheese tour
Discover Madagascar at Bronx Zoo
Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m. and the Met Museum to 9 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
Bronx Week Food & Arts Festival at 1 p.m.
Stink Fest ‘08 cheese-eating contest at 3 p.m. on Smith Street, Brooklyn
Met Museum one-day lecture and panel event: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
NYC Pride kicks off with NYC LGBT Pride Rally in Bryant Park from 2 to 6 p.m.
Queerhood 2008: A Cultural Celebration of LGBT Pride in the Bronx at the Bronx Museum
Broadway Bares at Roseland
Salif Keita and Haale in a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell for Celebrate Brooklyn
New York Marble Cemetery, the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dorothy Parker Society’s Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour
Center for the Urban Environment tour: Cruising the Gowanus Canal
Free CelebrateStory Storytelling Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hans Christian Andersen Statue at the Conservatory Water in Central Park
Breakfast with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Yankees vs. Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium at 1:05 p.m.
Staten Island Yankees home game
New York Liberty vs. Phoenix Mercury at Madison Square Garden
Scandia Symphony Concerts in Fort Tryon Park a 2 p.m.
Young @ Heart at Beacon Theatre
Julie Budd: “The Standard of Things” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Tatum: Piano Starts Here at the Apollo Theater at 2 p.m.
Reading of “Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train” at Town Hall
Shells at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
92nd Street Y walking tour of Central Park’s politics and ecology at 11 a.m.
Cry Baby’s final day on Broadway
31st Annual NYC Big Apple Grapple International Arm Wrestling Championships at the Jacob K. Javits Center/Bar Show
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
TK
June 20, 2008 3:51 PM in
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