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August 21, 2008

Today in NY: Boston Pops at Radio City, Hedwig turns 10

It’s Thursday, August 21 and here are some of today’s events:

The Boston Pops at Radio City Music Hall

Hedwig & The Angry Inch 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Highline Ballroom

Battle of Brooklyn Week at Fraunces Tavern Museum discussion: “The Strange Case of ‘Baron’ Herman Zedwitz: Genius, Traitor of Madman?” At 6:30 p.m.

Screening of the documentary “Home” at 6:30 p.m. at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum with a Q&A with filmmaker Dawn Scibilia and journalist Pete Hamill (free with rsvp)

Free screening of “Strangers on a Train” at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield for Central Park Conservancy Film Festival

World Beat/AfroPop Dancing on the Plaza, Central Park

“Being There” screens for free at dusk at Movies With a View next to the Brooklyn Bridge

Terrence Howard, Solange and Michelle Williams perform for free at the J&R MusicFest at City Hall Park at 5 p.m.

Marc Anthony, Alejandro Fernandez & Aventura play Madison Square Garden

Huey Lewis & The News play the free Seaside Summer Concert series at Coney Island’s Asser Levy/Seaside Park at 7:30 p.m.

Free Central Astoria’s Waterfront Concert Series: Gary U.S. Bonds at 7:30 p.m.

Suzanne Vega and Christina Courtin play the Masonic Temple in Ft. Greene

Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely with Bernice Johnson Reagon and David Dorfman Dance: underground at the free Lincoln Center Out of Doors at Damrosch Park Bandshell at 7 p.m.

Mostly Mozart Festival events: Emerson String Quartet at 8 p.m. and A Little Night Music: Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 10:30 p.m.

The Radiators play the Circle Line 42 concert cruise

Free performance of 12 Ophelias at 8 p.m. in the McCarren Park Pool

Mets vs. Atlanta at Shea Stadium at 7:10 p.m.

Inter Milan Soccer Festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Juniper Valley Park in Queens

Brooklyn Cyclones minor-league baseball at Coney Island

Benefit for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund with DJ Spooky and Cory Doctorow at the Helen Mills Theater at 7:30 p.m.

Free carousel rides from noon to 6 p.m. in Prospect Park

Evening of art in honor of Storme DeLarverie at the Chelsea Hotel Grand Ballroom from 6 to 9 p.m.

Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building North side: Red/Green/Red - Morocco; West side: White/Blue/White - Finland; South side: Green/Red/Black - Kenya; East side: Red/White/Blue - Malaysia

Thursday’s weekly free walking tours include Wall Street and Governors Island

NY Botanical Garden stays open late (until 8 p.m.) for Evenings at the Garden with live music, food and cocktails

The New Museum has free admission from 7 to 10 p.m. today and the China Institute Gallery is free from 6 to 8 p.m.

Several other museums are open until 8 p.m. tonight: the Jewish Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Paley Center for Media, the Museum of Biblical Art and the China Institute Gallery.

For more ongoing exhibits and shows, see NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list, and for upcoming events, the calendar.

August 21, 2008 12:03 AM in

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