October 10, 2008

Friday in NY: Rangers, Pig Roast, piano marathon

It’s Friday, October 10 and here’s today’s calendar for NYC:

Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Blackhawks at 7 p.m.

Big Brooklyn Pig Roast and Harvest Hoedown at The Yard from 6 to 10 p.m.

Governors Island building demolition open to the public from noon

Haunted tours of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island

Keeping Time in Sag Harbor – the Other Port of New York opens at the South Street Seaport’s Melville gallery

“Quality of Life” urban landscape photography show opens at Factory Fresh

Book signing at the International Center of Photography with David Maisel

German artist and author Jens Kabisch lecture on It’s About Irony, Stupid: Political Creed in a Media Age with Jens Kabisch at the International Center of Photography at 7 p.m.

Live from the NYPL lecture series at 7 p.m.: Ferran Adria, A Day at elBulli

Game designers, artists, and critics gather for Next Level at the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 7:30 p.m.

Thelonious Monk at 91 Piano Marathon at the World Financial Center from 5 to 9 p.m. - free

New York Magazine’s 40th Anniversary event with The National and Grizzly Bear at Hammerstein Ballroom at 8 p.m.

Met Opera’s Don Giovanni at 8 p.m. with Erwin Schrott

Jason Mraz at Radio City Music Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Here and Now: American Contemporary Music Series, Music of David Shohl at Bargemusic at 8 p.m.

San Francisco Ballet at City center performing works by George Balanchine and Helgi Tomasson, plus New Works Festival choreographers Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, Val Caniparoli, and Yuri Possokhov

Cactus at BB Kings with BadFinger at 8 p.m.; and Project X: Kool Keith, Tim Dog and Marc Live at midnight

Beck with MGMT play the United Palace Theatre

Newly restored version of Max Ophüls’ “Lola Montes” screens at Film Forum

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America Film Screening and Author Talk at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space

Lewis Black at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Reading and book release for “New York” by playwright David Rimmer at the Drama Book Shop

Free lecture Will People Believe Anything? The Psychology of Gullibility at the Princeton Club at 6 p.m.

Friday’s weekly free walking tours include the Grand Central neighborhood tour at 12:30 and Times Square Exposé at noon

NYC Audubon’s Late Afternoon Fall Migration Birdwalk

The colors on the Empire State Building will go red, white and green through Monday for Columbus Day

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.;) and the Neue Galerie

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.)

For ongoing events and shows, click to NewYorkology’s Now in NYC list. For events after today, see NewYorkology’s calendar.

Picture credit: Demolition preparation at Governors Island. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology

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