October 10, 2008
Weekend on Tap: ice skating, pizza, transit open house
 There’s unusually warm weather forecast for New York this weekend, and despite that, it’s the first weekend for ice skating at the rink at Rockefeller Center. It’s also the final weekend of the season at Governors Island.
If you didn’t get enough of OpenHouse NY last weekend, on Saturday, Metro-North’s largest maintenance and repair facility, Harmon Shop will hold its own one-day free open house.
Sunday highlights include the pizza eating championship in Times Square and the Federation of Black Cowboys Rodeo in Queens.
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.
Saturday
 Metro-North’s largest maintenance and repair facility Harmon Shop, open to the public for free for one day only from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Butterfly Conservatory opens at the American Museum of Natural History
Salome at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Hong Kong Panorama: A Rhapsody of Cantonese Opera performed at 7 p.m. at Queens Theatre in the Park - as part of the New York Celebrates Hong Kong 2008 festival
Oh What A Night! An Evening with the Stars Of Doo-Wop & Rock ‘n Roll at St. George Theatre on Staten Island
Madonna at Madison Square Garden
Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met Opera with Diana Damrau and Anna Netrebko at 8 p.m.
Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World at the NY Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Carnegie Hall event: Yundi Li at 8 p.m., and Lura at 8:30 p.m.
Killing Joke at the Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
Dianne Reeves at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Voices Only: An Evening of A Cappella Music with Award-Winning Quartets ‘Round Midnight and the New Yorkettes at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Uli Jon Roth of the Scorpions at BB Kings at 8 p.m. with special guests
Ray LaMontagne at Radio City Music Hall
Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays Handel and Haydn at the Brooklyn Museum
HBO Films Dialogues as part of the NY Film Festival with Darren Aronofsky and Arnaud Desplechin
Film Screening: Otto Preminger’s Advise and Consent at 2 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York
Black on Both Sides: Hip Hop’s Afro-Latinas/os Represent! at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Red Hook International Film & Video Festival
Gowanus Harvest Festival
Fall Clam Shuck at the The Brazen Head in Brooklyn from 5 to 10 p.m.
Boo at the Zoo begins at the Bronx Zoo
Rhizome Commissions ‘08 discussions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 3 p.m. with Annie Abrahams, Nadia Anderson, Fritz Donnelly, John Craig Freeman, Will Pappenheimer, Lee Walton, Marek Walczak, and Martin Wattenberg
Diesel xXx Rock and Roll Circus at Brooklyn’s Pier 3
The colors on the Empire State Building will go red, white and green through Monday for Columbus Day
NY Transit Museum tour: The Cross-Bronx Express to Good Eats
Ghosts of NY tour: Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends, at 7 p.m.
NYC Audubon’s Fall Food for the Birds at Floyd Bennett Field
Municipal Art Society walking tour: New to New York: Duffy Sqaure to Murray Hill
Brooklyn Waterfront from Newtown Creek to Gowanus Bay harbor tour on the South Street Seaport’s restored 1930 wooden tugboat W.O. Decker
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at 10 a.m.; The Castle and its Kingdom at noon; Seneca Village at 2 p.m.
Saturday’s weekly free walking tours include the Wall Street walking tour at noon and Union Square at 2 p.m.
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
 Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in Times Square from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Federation of Black Cowboys Rodeo from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cedar Lanes Stables in Queens
NY Jets home game vs. Cincinnati
Free RiverKeeper’s Water Fest with music, food, a NYC Tap Water Taste Test, and a 5-mile raft flotilla down the Hudson River from Pier 96 to the North Cove Marina
Madonna at Madison Square Garden
Killing Joke at the Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza
Hong Kong Panorama: A Rhapsody of Cantonese Opera performed at 2 p.m. at Queens Theatre in the Park - as part of the New York Celebrates Hong Kong 2008 festival
Carnegie Hall event: Neighborhood Concert: Moët Trio at 2 p.m.
Peter Tosh birthday tribute at BB Kings at 11 p.m.
Irish Musicians for the Mercy Center at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Hugo Wolf Quartet concert at the Frick at 5 p.m.
All About Sourdough class at Sullivan Street Bakery
Greenjeans Fall Furniture Fest at the Brooklyn Flea
Ghosts of NY tour: Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends, at 7 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Cobble Hill at 2 p.m.
The Mansions of Clinton Hill with Joe Svehlak walking tour
Red Hook International Film & Video Festival
Sunday’s weekly free walking tours include Discover Flatiron at 11 a.m. and Orchard Street at 11 a.m.
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
10th New York Turkish Film Festival (through Oct. 11)
KT Sullivan in “All the Things You Are” The Music of Jerome Kern at the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room (through Oct. 11)
“Lady” at the Off-Broadway Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (extended through Oct. 11)
Hip Hop Theater Festival (through Oct. 11)
“[title of show]” on Broadway (through Oct. 12)
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement Three Installations, Two Films at the Whitney (through Oct. 12)
New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line at the Museum of the City of New York (extended through Oct. 12)
NYC Wine & Food Festival (through Oct. 12)
46th New York Film Festival (through Oct. 12)
Free kayaking on the Hudson at 72nd Street from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (weekends through October 12)
Governors Island open for the season (extended through Oct. 12)
NYC Waterfalls in the East River (through Oct. 13)
New 35 mm prints of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II at Film Forum (extended through Oct. 14)
Icelandic Food Festival at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room (through Oct 17)
American Express-only Wine & Dine NYC begins with three-course prix-fixe dinners with wine pairings at restaurants including Lure, Megu, Town and Aquavit (through Oct. 17)
“The Tempest” with Mandy Patinkin plays Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company (extended through Oct. 19)
“Legally Blonde” on Broadway - use code XOXO for $55 tickets (through Oct. 19)
Ballet Hispanico at the Joyce (Oct 19)
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End at the Brooklyn Museum (through October 19)
Victor Prevost: Early Photographs of New York at the New-York Historical Society (through Oct. 19)
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at MoMA (through Oct. 20)
Travel links
The Colors of Fall program at Teatown in the Hudson Valley
NYC Audubon’s Fall Birding at Robert Moses State Park
2nd Annual Heirloom Garlic Festival at the Hoboken Historical Society from 1 to 5 p.m.
Image credit: Butterfly logo from the American Museum of Natural History; Rockefeller Center ice rink, and Villagio Trattoria pepperoni pie by Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
October 10, 2008 1:56 PM in
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