November 1, 2011

NYC November 2011 calendar of events

Tuesday, November 1
Savor the Bronx restaurant week begins (through Nov. 13)
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Book event for Joan Didion’s “Blue Nights” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for ”In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives” with Steven Levy at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Chuck Palahniuk book event for “Damned” at The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Tom Brokaw
Ken Winell of the New York Road Runners presentation at the Apple Upper West Side at 7 p.m. on marathon technology for runners and spectators
Life of a Continental Soldier program at 3 p.m. at the Van Cortlandt House Museum
Free Tenement Talks event: Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories with Simon Winchester at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Met Opera stages Wagner’s “Siegfried” at 6 p.m.
La Gesse Foundation Concert Series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Django Reinhardt Festival with Dorado Schmitt at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Return to Forever Unplugged with Chick Corea at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
The Gong Show Live at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Carlyle (through Nov. 26)
Marilyn Maye: “The Best of Times is Now!” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through Nov. 12)
Festival Flamenco Gitano Diego El Cigala at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Three Cohens Sextet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through Nov. 6)
The Duke Robillard Band at Iridium Jazz Club at 8 and 10 p.m.
Free Mini Model Build at LEGO Rockefeller Cener of LEGO Turkey from 5 p.m. while supplies last (children ages 6 to 14 only)
Meet Eli Manning event at Macy’s Herald Square at 5:30 p.m.
Día de los Muertos Fiesta at the James Beard House at 7 p.m.
14th annual WhiskyFest at the Marriott Marquis Times Square at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Kids Night on Broadway tickets go on sale at noon
Big Apple Film Festival 2011 (through Nov. 6)
Tickets go on sale for the Nov. 21 Project Shaw reading of “Passion, Poison and Petrifaction” with “Press Cuttings” at The Players at 7 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up orange, orange and white in honor of the Food Bank for NYC’s “Go Orange – Fill the Plate” Campaign

Wednesday, November 2
Selected Shorts: Murakami Madness! at Symphony Space at 7 p.m. with Jane Curtin, Aasif Mandvi, Campbell Scott, Miriam Silverman, Parker Posey, Isaac Mizrahi and John Wray
NY Moth Mainstage storytelling hosted by Garrison Keillor at Town Hall at 7 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
5 Dutch Days begin (through Nov. 6 )
Building Back: 30 Years of Growth in NYC exhibition opens at The Center for Architecture (through Nov. 30 )
Free Bronx Culture Trolley departs Hostos Community College at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
DOC NYC documentary festival (through Nov. 10)
Free organ performance at 3:30 p.m. on the Met Museum’s 1830 Appleton pipe organ in the galleries
Koyaanisqatsi Live! at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Met Opera performs Verdi’s “Nabucco” at 7:30 p.m. with Željko Lucic and Maria Guleghina
Chunky Move dances “Connected” at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through Nov. 6)
“Desdemona” performance at the Rose Theater at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center (and Nov. 3)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Frank Wess Quintet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 6)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: The Curtis Brothers at 11 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 5)
D.J. Mendel in “Dick Done Broke” at the Bushwick Starr (through Nov. 19)
Opening night for Off-Broadway’s “Suicide, Incorporated” (through Dec. 23)
Return to Forever Unplugged with Chick Corea at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Django Reinhardt Festival with Dorado Schmitt at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through Nov. 6)
La Gesse Foundation Concert Series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Mannes Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Third Day at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
Soulwax at Webster Hall at 8 p.m.
V.V. Brown at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and From Out of Nowhere at 9:30 p.m.
The Sounds at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 7:30 p.m.
Feist at 8 p.m. at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (sold out)
The Drums at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Free Forum on the Architecture of Appropriateness at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for New York Dozen: Gen X Architects at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Mom and Pop vs. Big Box: Retail in New York City panel at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
The Language of Objects panel at MoMA at 6 p.m.
Book event for Tom Brokaw’s “The Time of Our Lives: Past, Present, Promise” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event: Raised by the Church: Growing up in NYC’s Catholic Orphanages at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Recording Jazz in GarageBand Featuring the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble at 7 p.m. at the Apple Upper West Side
Ilene Beckerman book event at the Brooklyn Public Library at 7 p.m.
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Errol Morris
Anime Night: Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library at 7 p.m.
Buddy Valastro: The Cake Boss at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
AppsWorld and Social Media World Forum at the Javits Center
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
James Beard House’s Now that’s Italian! Annual Gala at 6:30 p.m. at Guastavino’s

Thursday, November 3
Free concert by the 30-plus member circus punk marching band Mucca Pazza at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm present a Russian Cartoon Music concert at 8 p.m. at the Millennium Theater on Brighton Beach Ave
“Desdemona” performance at the Rose Theater at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” with Mariusz Kwiecien at 7:30 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Other Desert Cities” with Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Stacy Keach, Judith Light and Thomas Sadoski at 6:45 p.m.
The Foundry Theatre’s “How Much is Enough” at St. Ann’s Warehouse at 7:30 p.m. (through Nov. 27)
’S WONDERFUL: The New Gershwin Musical at the Queens Theatre in the Park (through Nov. 13)
Koyaanisqatsi Live! at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall (sold out)
A Celebration of the Life and Music of Robert Helps at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Juho Pohjonen at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
5 Dutch Days events include the American Friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Salon at 6 p.m.
Shawn Colvin at City Winery at 8 p.m. (through Nov. 6)
BoDeans play Irving Plaza ay 7 p.m.
Arvind Mehrotra on Kabir at the Poets House at 7 p.m.
Free illustrated talk on A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan Library
Book event for Michael Pollan’s “Food Rules” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
IFPDA Print Fair 2011 at the Park Avenue Armory from noon to 8 p.m. (through Nov. 6)
THE ING NY City Marathon Health and Fitness Expo at the Javits Center from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (through Nov. 5)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Ducks at 7 p.m.
Postponed: KingCon Brooklyn III comic, illustration and animation festival (through Nov. 6)
Canceled: Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.

Friday, November 4
“Maurizio Cattelan: All” opens at the Guggenheim (through Jan. 22)
“The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951” exhibition opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 25)
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures opens at the Jewish Museum (through March 25)
“Raw/Cooked: Lan Tuazon” exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 15)
Byron Kim exhibition opens at the James Cohan Gallery (through Dec. 17)
Free concert by Lucía Pulido at 7 p.m. at University Settlement
BAMcafé Live All-Stars: Fred Ho & The Afro Asian Music Ensemble free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for “Bonnie & Clyde” with Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan (opening night: Dec. 1; open-ended run)
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30 p.m.
“She Kills Monsters” begins performances at The Flea (through Dec. 23)
Remarkable Theater Brigade: Opera Shorts at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Bill Frisell / Bill Morrison: The Great Flood at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 10 p.m.
Sweet Honey in the Rock plays Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Autumn Opera Soiree at Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.
Compañia Flamenca José Porcel performance at 7 p.m. at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Met Museum
Enrique Iglesias at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Korn at the Roseland Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Joe Bonamassa at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 5)
Fall Doo Wop Spectacular at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 8 p.m.
Tim Minchin plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Free First Fridays admission at the Neue Galerie from 6 to 8 p.m.
City Island’s Bronx Seaside Trolley runs from the Pelham Bay Park subway stop at 5:25, 6:25, 7:30, 8:25 and 9:25 p.m.
The Critical Edge of Curating program at 2 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Philosopher Poet: A Reading and Conversation with Michel Degu at the Poets House at 7 p.m.
Gregory Maguire book event for ”Out of Oz” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Houston Person in Conversation with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 4 p.m.
5 Dutch Days events include Historic New York Walking Tour at 1 p.m. and Colonial Fireside Dining at The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum at 7 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Jaws” at the IFC Center (and Nov. 5)
Midnight screening of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ” at Sunshine Cinemas (and Nov. 5)
Holiday window unveiling at American Girl at 5 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up orange, white and blue in honor of the New York Road Runners and the 2011 ING New York City Marathon (through Nov. 6)
Fireworks Central Park at 10 7:30 p.m. sponsored by the New York Roadrunners for the ING NYC Marathon
Central Park Moonlight Ride at 10 p.m.

Saturday, November 5
Ken Thomson & Slow/Fast plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free Remember, Remember the Fifth of November: A Guy Fawkes Party at the Bell House at 10 p.m.
Met Opera stages Wagner’s “Siegfried” at noon
Met Opera performs Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Željko Lucic and Marianne Cornetti at 9 p.m.
Early Music New York concert at Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 8 p.m.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
Pianist Sophia Agranovich celebrates 200 Years of Franz Liszt at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Bang on a Can All-Stars at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 9 p.m.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
NYC Labor Chorus plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Canadiens at 7 p.m.
NYRR Dash to the Finish Line 5K starts at 8:30 a.m. near the United Nations
Free Super Sprowtz family event at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 11 a.m.
Free screening of “Zookeeper” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Falcons, Owls and Little Critters program at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Family Concert: Who is Duke Ellington? at 1 and 3 p.m. at the Rose Theater
Free museum admission all weekend for Bank of America cardholders at several cultural venues
Brooklyn Museum free First Saturdays programs from 5 to 11 p.m. on the theme Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 2 to 5 p.m.
20th Annual Quilt Show at the Lefferts Historic House from noon to 4 p.m. (weekends through Nov. 27)
”The Radiant Child” screens at 1 p.m. at Green-Wood Cemetery followed by a Q&A with Suzanne Malouk, artist, psychiatrist and Basquiat’s former girlfriend, and Michael Harmon, co-founder of Basquiat’s 1980s industrial noise band, “Gray”; and a visit to Basquiat’s grave
Free Fall Fungus Foray at 1 p.m. through Inwood Hill Park with Paul Sadowski of the New York Mycological Society
“Satan’s Seat”: New York during Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 1 p.m.
Free tour of Historic Lawrence Cemetery with a special performance at 2 p.m.
5 Dutch Days events include 3rd Annual Peg-Leg Pete Scavenger Hunt at noon
Free El Barrio Today Walking Tour at 11:30 am. (reservation required)
59th Street Powerhouse tour with the New York Transit Museum at 10 a.m.
Fall Foliage Cruise with Friends of Hudson River Park departs Pier 40 at 12:30 p.m. (sold out)
Book event for Tintin: The Complete Companion at Books of Wonder at 3 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Jaws” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ” at Sunshine Cinemas
John Edwards, Crossing Over event at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 7 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum at 8 p.m. (reservations required)
Delayed to Nov. 11: Eat Sleep Play – Building Health Every Day opens at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan

Sunday, November 6
ING New York City Marathon starts at 8:30 a.m. with the wheelchair division
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Jets at 7 p.m.
Free Thing NY performance of “Robert Ashley: Perfect Lives Manhattan” throughout Lower Manhattan from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Free Manhattan Brass concert at 4 p.m. at Brooklyn Central Library
Free Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Pianist Lisa Joy Sitjar plays Bach, Chopin, Bartók at 5 p.m. at the Nicholas Roerich Museum; free
Dances Patrelle Yorkville Nutcracker performance at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 5 p.m.
William Lewis free performance at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 7)
Early Music New York concert at Cathedral of St. John the Divine at 2 p.m.
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation 2011 Opera Gala at 6:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts at 3 p.m.
Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim (sold out)
Tenebrae Choir plays Church of Saint Mary the Virgin at 8 p.m.
Soul Street Dance: Breakin’ Backwards at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m.
Taylor Mac at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Colleen Zenk at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
The Sunday at Sunny’s Grand Finaleat Book Court at 5 p.m.
Niall Ferguson: The West and the Rest at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Stories of the Night Sky: Fall Skies program at 6:30 p.m. at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
Lots of LEGO® with Sean Kenney ticketed event at Word Brooklyn at 1:30 p.m.
Artists Talks: Bees & Sustainability at 1:30 p.m. at Wave Hill
Free SI 350 Loyalist Panel Talk at 2 p.m. at CYO Hall at Mt. Loretto
Free Garden Walking Tours in Fort Tryon Park at 1 p.m.
Insider’s tour of the NY Aquarium at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
Atka: Return of the Wolf program at 1 p.m. at Staten Island’s Greenbelt Nature Center
5 Dutch Days events include Fancy Dutch Beer Week at Jimmy’s No. 43 (status uncertain/removed from calendar: a From Garden to Table lecture at 2 p.m.)
Free 14th Editions|Artists’ Book Fair on W. 22nd Street
New Amsterdam Market from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lucky Magazine Shops on W. 14th Street
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 2 to 5 p.m.

Monday, November 7
Jay-Z & Kanye West at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Stand Up for Peace event at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. with Hannibal Buress, Vidur Kapur, Max Silvestri, Joe DeRosa and Gabe Liedman
Opening night on Broadway for “Godspell” with a lottery for $30 rush tickets open from 4 to 5:15 p.m.
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” with Mariusz Kwiecien at 7:30 p.m.
Brandi Carlile plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Harry Allen’s Monday Night Jazz at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 7 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Erik Charlston JazzBrasil Sextet Plays Hermeto at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Michael Patrick Walker & Friends In Concert at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Twenty-One Song Salute at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Rose Theater
Jackie Evancho at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
PhilDev Celebrates Broadway: Suites by Sondheim at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Jonathan Lethem and Philip K. Dick’s daughters discuss “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick” at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Peter Eichstaedt book event for “Consuming the Congo” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Book event for Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Public lecture at the Explorers Club on In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes at 7 p.m.
League of Professional Theatre Women conversation with Donna Murphy and Rick McKay at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Book event for Ian W. Toll’s Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Gilbert Gottfried with Judy Gold at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Lecture on Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris at 6 p.m. at the Park Avenue Armory (sold out)
Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoomaker introduce the 7 p.m. screening of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Q&A with Charles Grodin and Jeannie Berlin at the 3:45 p.m. screening of The Heartbreak Kid at the Film Society Lincoln Center
An Evening with Rigoberto Jiménez at 7 p.m. at MoMA
NYC Meat Week begins (through Nov. 12)
Much Ado About Noshing benefit for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation at 6 p.m at the Astor Center with Calvin Trillin and the Russ & Daughters family
New York Taste: A World of Flavors food event at 6 p.m. at Skylight Soho
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Hook” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m. noon
Changed to Nov. 9: Empire State Building lights up purple, blue and yellow in honor of Only Make Believe

Tuesday, November 8
Opening night on Broadway for “Venus in Fur” with Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy at 7:30 p.m. (through Dec. 18)
Opening night for King Lear Off’Broadway at the Public Theater with Sam Waterston (through Nov. 20)
Jay-Z & Kanye West at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Sting at the Roseland Ballroom at 7 p.m. (and Nov. 9)
Joan Baez & Kris Kristofferson at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre at NY City Center (through Nov. 13)
Sydney Dance Company at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through Nov. 13)
The Pearl Theatre Company stages “Richard II” at City Center (through Dec. 24)
Royal Irish Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
2nd New York Chinese Film Festival Black-tie Opening Night Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Four Quartets concert at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center (through Nov. 12)
Bill McHenry Quartet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through Nov. 13)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Leny Andrade & Her Trio: From Rio with Love at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 13)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Antonio Madruga Quartet at 11 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 12)
Maureen McGovern “Dangling Conversations” at Birdland (through Nov. 12)
NY Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7:30 p.m.; topic: Warning Signs
Umberto Eco ticketed event for Live from the NYPL at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Artisan Lecture Series with Vanessa Hoheb, Master Sculpture Enlarger and Modeling Artisan, at the General Society Library at 6 p.m. (registration suggested)
The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America hosts a free lecture on The Erotic Entanglements of the Pre-Raphaelites at 6 p.m. at The New York New Church (Swedenborgian)
Onassis Cultural Center’s The Truth in Tragedy, a discussion with Daniel Mendelsohn at 7 p.m. at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium
Free Tenement Talks event: The Truth About the Drug Companies at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Lecture by architect Dan Allen on Restoring the Yiddish Art Theater at 6:30 p.m. at Third Street Music School (free, reservations required)
Passwords: Jerome Rothenberg on Ethnopoetics and the Origins of Poetry at the Poets House at 7 p.m.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan: A Life of Meaning and Values at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center screens “The Battle of Algiers” at 7 p.m. with a Q&A with actor, producer and former National Liberation Front leader Saadi Yacef
J&R in-store autograph signing with Keith Sweat at 12:30 p.m.
New York Transit Museum tour of the Coney Island Yard at 6 p.m. (sold out)
Empire State Building lights up red, white and blue in honor of Election Day

Wednesday, November 9
New York Comedy Festival begins with the Stand up for Heroes event with Jim Gaffigan, Ricky Gervais, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, and The Max Weinberg Big Band at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (festival through Nov. 13)
Met Opera performs Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Željko Lucic and Marianne Cornetti at 7:30 p.m.
Sting at the Roseland Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Babylon begins at BAM Harvey Theater as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival (through Nov. 12)
CAG Winners Series
: The Linden String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Free Maurice Brown Effect concert at 7 p.m. at the Schomberg Center
Annie Leibovitz book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m. for “Pilgrimage”
Free Tenement Talks event: Appetite City screening and panel discussion with William Grimes at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Approaching You in English: Israeli Poet Admiel Kosman with Lisa Katz at the Poets House at 7 p.m.
Studio 360 Live: Tim Minchin, Cintra Wilson and Colson Whitehead at the Greene Space at 7 p.m.
An evening with City Lights at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life & Writings of Paul Nelson, book event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Rare and Important Travel Posters go on display at Swann Galleries ahead of the Nov. 11 auction
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
CNET GOTHAM holiday pop-up opens on Mulberry Street with free food from the Sweetery Truck and Korrilla BBQ from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lard Exoneration Dinner at 7 p.m. at Bubby’s Brooklyn
Empire State Building lights up purple, blue and yellow in honor of Only Make Believe
Delayed to Nov. 16: The Cherry Orchard begins performances at the Classic Stage Company with John Turturro and Dianne Wiest (through Dec. 18)

Thursday, November 10
Opening night on Broadway for Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway (through Jan. 1)
Free New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players: “I’ve Got a Little Twist” performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Free concert by The Miguel Zenón Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.; NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Huelgas Ensemble at the Fourth Universalist Church at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center
Raul Malo at City Winery at 8:30 p.m.
Best Buddies New York Benefit Concert: Elaine Kwon and Friends at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Nobuyuki Tsujii at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
A Unique Musical Performance by MGMT at the Guggenheim Museum (and Nov. 11)
An Evening with Furthur at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m. with Phil Lesh & Bob Weir
Missionary Positions at BAMcafé at 8 p.m. as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival
Persona Performa by Ming Wong site specific performance at the Museum of the Moving Image at 8 p.m.
Poncho Sanchez plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra: No Place to Go at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m. (through Nov. 12)
New York Comedy Festival events include Wanda Sykes at Town Hall at 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m.; Louis C.K. at the Beacon Theatre; Russell Peters at Caroline’s; and Michael Ian Black at the Bowery Ballroom
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival begins at the American Museum of Natural History (through Nov. 13)
ImageNation: Kinyarwanda at 7 p.m. at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale screens at the Museum of Modern Art at with an introduction by writer/director Wei Te-sheng at 7 p.m.
14th annual Chocolate Show begins at the Metropolitan Pavilion (through Nov. 13)
The Bearden Project opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through March 11)
Sherrie Levine’s “Mayhem” exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum (through Jan. 29)
Canstruction at the World Financial Center (through Nov. 21)
“Samizdat: The Czech Art of Resistance, 1968–1989” exhibition opens at the Czech Center New York at the Bohemian National Hall (through Jan. 12)
Book event for Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square
Book event for Tony Amato — The Smallest Grand Opera in the World at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
John Tauranac, New York from the Air: A Story of Architecture book event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Free Protest Organizing with Art for Change program at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Art & Design
New-York Historical Society discussion on New York on the Cusp: The City When Carnegie Hall Debuted at 6:30 p.m. with Barry Lewis at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
Don DeLillo tribute reading at Book Court at 7:30 p.m.
Free A Celebration of Poetry @ Tech event at the Poets House at 7:30 p.m.
Culinary Historians of New York free lecture on The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women at 6 p.m. at the New York Public Library (reservation required)
Architects Shrugged? The Architectural Vision of Ayn Rand program at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara at the Drama Book Shop at 6 p.m. for the publication of Where’s the Watch?!And Other Tales — a memoir from Seinfeld’s Uncle Leo
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Gilberto Gil
Gretchen Morgenson and Richard Ravitch discussion on “The Government’s Response to the Ongoing Financial Crisis and the Practices that Led To It” at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
Abby Joseph Cohen: The Outlook for 2012 at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Vivian Gornick and Philip Lopate on Emma Goldman at 92Y’s Warburg Lounge at 7:30 p.m.
Book event for Kurt Loder’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Czechoslovak Samizdat and its Legacy symposium at the Bohemian National Hall (and Nov. 11)
Alfred Stieglitz and His Artists: Friends, Lovers, and Bitter Enemies lecture at the Met Museum at 6 p.m. (sold out)
Empire State Building lights up in tie-dye colors for an unidentified “private lighting”
Delayed to Nov. 11: Pavilion of Art & Design at the Park Avenue Armory (through Nov. 14)

Friday, November 11
New York City Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue from 29th to 52nd street starting at 11:11 a.m. will feature the U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Dakota Meyer, the nation’s most recent Congressional Medal of Honor recipient; Nicholas Oresko, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient; the Tuskegee Airmen; Vietnam veteran Medal of Honor awardees Paul W. Bucha and Bruce P. Crandall; Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Kelly, Tom Selleck and others
Free Veterans Day Ceremony at 3 p.m. at the Intrepid Museum featuring the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall
Free admission for veterans at the Brooklyn Historical Society from noon to 5 p.m.
Free Memorial Walk Tour - Veterans’ Day Special through Central Park at 11 a.m.
Special free, off-season Airplanes and Archives tour of Governors Island at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrives; (tree lighting Nov. 30)
New-York Historical Society reopens after a major renovation
Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92 opens to the public
Radio City Christmas Spectacular begins performances at Radio City Music Hall (through Jan. 2)
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” with Mariusz Kwiecien at 7:30 p.m.
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Wind of the Spirit organ recital at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center
LiquidBody: An Evening of Dance and Music performance at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (and Nov. 12)
”West Side Story” flash mob in Times Square around noon
Silver Roots plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Persona Performa by Ming Wong site specific performance at the Museum of the Moving Image at 8 p.m.
John Pinette plays Town Hall at 8 7:30 p.m.
The Super Coda presents thingNY performance at Exapno at 8 p.m.
Martha Wainwright with Alexa Wilding at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
New York Comedy Festival events include Bill Burr at Carnegie Hall; Tracy Morgan at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.; and Behind the Scenes at the Onion News Network on IFC panel at the Paley Center for Media at 7 p.m.
Pavilion of Art & Design at the Park Avenue Armory (through Nov. 14)
Eat Sleep Play – Building Health Every Day opens at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan
Latin America Contemporary Art auction exhibition opens ahead of the Phillips de Pury & Company auctions Nov. 14 and 15
J&R in-store with Steven Wilson at 12:30 p.m.
Book event for Christina Tosi’s Momofuku Milk Bar at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Bronx Food Tour begins at 10:45 a.m.
Eighteenth-Century Tavern Nights at the Queens County Farm Museum at 8 p.m. (reservations required)
“The Extraordinary Voyage” and “A Trip to the Moon” screen at 7 p.m. at Museum of Modern Art with an introduction by Séverine Wemaere (Technicolor Foundation), Gilles Duval (Groupama Gan Fondation), Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films) as part of the To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Midnight screening of “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ” at Sunshine Cinemas (and Nov. 12)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Hurricanes at 7 p.m.
Fireworks near Liberty Island sometime between 10:25 and 11:40 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up red, white and blue in honor of Veterans Day (through Nov. 13)
Delayed: Dynasty and Divinity: Life Art in Ancient Nigeria opens at the new Museum for African Art (through April 8, 2012)

Saturday, November 12
Nintendo turns Times Square into a real-life Mushroom Kingdom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Military Island to celebrate the launch of “Super Mario 3D Land”
Quidditch World Cup at Randall’s Island (and Nov. 13)
Free Fort Totten Tunnel Tour at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour Religion on the Land: Polytheism in Flushing at noon
ForgottenNY tour of Hudson River Park from 11 a.m.
Noshwalk of Woodside, Queens at 1 p.m.
Free Fall Migration Bird Walk at 10:30 a.m. at the Queens Botanical Garden (registration requested)
Free Night Hike with the Urban Park Rangers departs Inwood Hill Nature Center at 7 p.m.
Second Saturday Staten Island art walk
Meet the Author: Jane O’Connor talks about Fancy Nancy at Apple Upper West Side at 10 a.m.
Author @ the Library event for Central Park Entire: the Definitive Illustrated Folding Map at 12:30 2:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Danger Zone: In the Field with Archer panel at the Paley Center for Media at 1 p.m.
Book Launch: Finding Fernanda by Erin Siegal at 7 p.m. at the Powerhouse Arena
Protégée in Film panel at the NY Public Library with Annemarie Jacir, Danny Glover and Peter Scarlet at 3 p.m.
Ticketed Live from the NYPL event with José Van Dam and Osvaldo Golijov at 7 p.m.
We Gotta Have It: The 20th Anniversary of the New Wave of Black Cinema screening and event at the Museum of the Moving Image at 3 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center screens “The Gambler” at 6 p.m. followed by a Q&A with James Toback
Puppets on Film screenings at BAMcinématek (through Nov. 20)
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Family Films series includes a 4 p.m. screening of Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (series continues through Dec. 17)
Free screening of “Hook” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m. noon (time changed yet again to) 2 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Midnight screening of “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ” at Sunshine Cinemas
“Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading” at the Museum of Modern Art (and Nov. 13)
Short Stories: Alejandro Cesarco and Ursula Mayer exhibition opens at the Sculpture Center (through Dec. 4)
‘up river’, an installation by Kingley Parker, opens at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through Dec. 10)
Latin American Art exhibition goes on display at Sotheby’s ahead of the Nov. 16 and 17 auctions
Previews begin on Broadway for “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” with Harry Connick Jr. (opening night: Dec. 11; open-ended run)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Lysistrata Jones” at the Walter Kerr Theatre; (opens Dec. 14; open-ended run)
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free concert by Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo-Soprano and Christopher Cano, Piano at 5 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church
Free Fifth Festival of Universal Sacred Music from 2 p.m.
Met Opera performs Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Željko Lucic and Marianne Cornetti at 1 p.m.
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 8 p.m.
New York Lyric Opera Theatre performs an all-Mozart program at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
The Music of Astor Piazzolla at 8 p.m. at the Rose Theater
Angelika Kirchschlager and Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
LiquidBody: An Evening of Dance and Music performance at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 8 p.m.
Huelgas Ensemble at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center
Poems Set to Music at 5 p.m. with Tracy K. Smith and Hans Magnus Enzensberger at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 5 p.m. (sold out)
Pacifica Quartet concert at the Met Museum at 7 p.m.
New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert on Four Greats: Leonard Bernstein at 2 p.m.
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Gloria Gaynor plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
John Hiatt at City Winery (and Nov. 13)
38th anniversary of Zulu Nation Anniversary at (le) poisson rouge at 11 p.m.
Loser’s Lounge presents “This Woman’s Work” A Night of Kate Bush at Le Poisson Rouge at 7 p.m.
One For The Road-TGR 2011 Ski Film Premiere at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
New York Comedy Festival events include Louis C.K. at the Beacon Theatre at 10:30 p.m.; Norm MacDonald at Town Hall at 8 p.m.; Sarah Silverman and Friends at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m.; and Kathy Griffin at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Comedy Night free show BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Rutgers vs. Army football at Yankee Stadium
Family Day at Citi Pond
Colonial Candlelight Dinner at 6 p.m. at the Conference House Museum

Sunday, November 13
“Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art” opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 14)
Clifford Owens: Anthology exhibition opens at PS1 in Queens (through March 12)
Free Commemoration of the 235th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Washington from noon to 3 p.m. at Fort Tryon Park
Free 125th Anniversary Cornerstone Celebration at the Museum at Eldridge Street with a ceremony at 1 p.m. and open house from 2 to 4 p.m.
New Amsterdam Market from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring the Peck Slip Pickle Festival and a display of new Archaeological Finds discovered during recent street reconstruction near 40 Fulton Street
14th annual Chocolate Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Free Fort Totten Tunnel Tour at 1 p.m.
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour walking tour at noon
Brooklyn Navy Yard tour at 1:45 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Monday, November 14
Free Performing Arts: Half-Mythical, Half-Legendary Americanism performance at 5:30 p.m. on the High Line
Hubble’s Heartbeat On Hayden Sphere free laser installation begins at 6 p.m. the Rose Center for Earth and Space (then runs continuously from 5 to 11 p.m. nightly through Nov. 27)
Fabio Luisi conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Met Opera stages Handel’s “Rodelinda” with Renée Fleming in the title role at 7:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic Ensemble at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m.
Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Anastasia Khitruk at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Josh Groban at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 15)
Buddy Guy plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 15)
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Howard Fishman & The Biting Fish Band at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Fred Ho-The Sweet Science Suite: A Scientific Soul Music Honoring of Muhammad Ali at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
8th Annual Broadway Unplugged at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway at 8 p.m. at the American Airlines Theatre
Celebrity Charades fundraiser for Labyrinth Theater Company at the Highline Ballroom featuring Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Wiig, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daphne Rubin-Vega
Broadway Impact Benefit Concert featuring Jonathan Reid Gealt & Matt Hinkley at 11:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
The Work of Alan Ayckbourn: A Four-Part Series begins at the Greene Space at 7 p.m.
John Hodgman book event at Union Square Barnes & Noble at 7 p.m.
Adam Gopnik, The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food book event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Rethinking the Glimmer Twins: A New Look at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards panel discussion at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Nell Casey Discusses The Journals of Spalding Gray at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Frontiers in Astrophysics Lecture Series: The New Universe and The Human Future with Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams at 7:30 p.m. at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
Four Fish with Paul Greenberg lecture at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Sanford Socolow, executive producer of Cronkite Productions, Inc., lecture at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Seen through a Social Lens: The Work of New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951 lecture at the Jewish Museum at 11:30 a.m.
Book event for Gregory D. Sumner’s Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Irshad Manji and Bret Stephens - Reconcilling Allah, Liberty and Love lecture at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
David Gessner book event for “The Tarball Chronicles” and “My Green Manifesto” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
What Makes it Great lecture on Gamelan Kusuma Laras at 7:30 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center (sold out)
Jeffrey Eugenides and Jennifer Egan at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Diane Keaton (sold out)
Lord & Taylor holiday window unveiling at 5:30 p.m.
Grand Central Holiday Fair opens for the season at Vanderbilt Hall (through Dec. 24)
Sneak preview of Shame at BAMcinématek at 7 p.m. with a Q&A with James Badge Dale and Elizabeth Masucci (sold out)
Empire State Building lights up blue, blue and white in honor of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and World Diabetes Day pink and white “in memory of Evelyn Lauder and her courageous work raising awareness about and fundraising to fight breast cancer.”
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “The Guns of Navarone” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m.
Resumed earlier than scheduled: Yankee Stadium tours resume after post-season break

Tuesday, November 15
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters museum (through April 22)
Radio City Rockettes pull the lever at 11 a.m. to start the 10th Annual Grand Central Holiday Train Show at the Transit Museum Gallery Annex
Umberto Eco book event at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square for “Prague Cemetary”
Q&A with the Astronauts of NASA Mission STS-125 at noon at the Cullman Hall of the Universe at the American Museum of Natural History
Barbara Cook performance at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m. for “You Make Me Feel So Young: Live at Feinstein’s”
J&R in-store with Tyrese at 12:30 p.m.
Wrapping Up the Third Season of Bored to Death discussion at the Paley Center for Media at 7 p.m. with Jonathan Ames and Dick Cavett
“Jungle Fever” 20 Years Later: Screening and Discussion at the Brooklyn Historical Society at at BAMcinématek at 7 p.m.
Michael Moore in Conversation with Wallace Shawn at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Diana Balmori with Peter Reed at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Meet the Authors: Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me” at the Apple SoHo store at 6:30 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event: Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making & Eating Delicious Food at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 book event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Richard Kurin discussion on Financing the Hope Diamond at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
From the Inside Out: The Interiors of Kevin Roche program at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s George Washington Night at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
New Literature from Europe readings at Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.; free but reservations required
First Second Fifth Anniversary Celebration at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m. of the site of Seneca Village, Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30 p.m.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through Nov. 27)
The Theater of Early Music at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Lila Downs at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
Healing Time Foundation Benefit – Hurricane Irene Relief Concert at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Free St. Nicholas Celebration at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Bebe Neuwirth: “Stories with Piano #3” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (through Nov. 26)
J. D. Allen Quartet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through Nov. 20)
Preview screening of ”Sleeping Beauty” with director Julia Leigh at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
State Farm Champions Classic at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up red, blue and white all blue in honor of the 5th Anniversary of “Mary Poppins” on Broadway

Wednesday, November 16
“An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin” begins performances on Broadway (Nov. 21 opening night; through Jan. 13)
“The Cherry Orchard” begins performances at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company with John Turturro and Dianne Wiest (extended through Dec. 30)
Ethan Coen’s “Happy Hour” begins performances Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Space (through Dec. 31)
NY premiere of John Jasperse’s “Canyon” at 7:30 p.m. as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival (through Nov. 19)
Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden at 8 7:30 p.m.
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
John Waite plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7 p.m.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Jesus Reina at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Late-Night Elegies at 10:30 p.m. at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center
Jerry Costanzo and His Trio with Special Guests at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.
Free Holiday Open House at LIRR’s Penn Station in the 34th Street Corridor from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. with the Radio City Rockettes
NY Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7:30 p.m.; topic: style
Diane Keaton book event at 7 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Artist Talk: Staging a Serial Killer with John Malkovich, Michael Sturminger, and Martin Haselböck at BAMcafe at 7 p.m. as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival
Nigella Lawson: The Meaning of Food and Family at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Book event for The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition: An Illustrated Record of the City’s Historic Buildings at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Picasso as Thief: The Case of Purloined Drawings? lecture at the Frick Collection at 6 p.m.
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 6:30 p.m. on The Struggle To Set America Free The Story Behind a Piece of Colonial Currency
New-York Historical Society lecture on Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson at 6:30 p.m. with Susan Hertog
Two Evenings with Michael Imperioli screenings begin at BAMcinématek (and Nov. 17)
Pie Social Workshop at 7 p.m. at Bubby’s Brooklyn
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 17
Opening night on Broadway for “Private Lives” with Kim Cattrall at 6:30 p.m. (through Feb. 5)
Free Mimi Goese and Ben Neill: Songs for Persephone event at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Live at the Apple Store: Juilliard Artist Diploma Ensemble at 7 p.m. at Apple Upper West Side
Met Opera performs Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Željko Lucic and Marianne Cornetti at 7:30 p.m.
The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer begins performances at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 7:30 p.m. with John Malkovich as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival (through Nov. 19)
Garage plays Bohemian National Hall at 8 p.m.
NY Philharmonic rehearsal at 9:45 a.m. of Haitink Conducts Haydn and Bruckner
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 8 p.m. (and Nov. 18)
Chris Robinson plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Who Are You New York?: The Songs of Rufus Wainwright with the New York City Opera at Rose Theater at 7 p.m.
Delbert McClinton plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
BrooklyNites Jazz featuring Vince Giordano at the Brooklyn Museum at 7 p.m.
Federico Aubele at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Haitink Conducts Haydn and Bruckner at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. (through Nov. 19)
Pianist Marika Bournaki at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Performance of “Love Letters” with Renée Fleming
and Alec Baldwin at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Manhattan Theatre Club’s After Words: “Venus in Fur” at the Greene Space at 5 p.m.
Late Night Foolin’ at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m. with Bill Irwin, Doug Skinner, Kelli O’Hara, Michael McKean and members of The Public Theater’s “King Lear”
“Canyon” performance at 7:30 p.m. with a post-show artist talk with John Jasperse and collaborators at BAM Harvey Theater
Michael Ondaatje book event for “The Cat’s Table” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
PEN’s The Fall Literary Tasting at 7 p.m. at Westbeth Center for the Arts
Free Tenement Talks event: Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Ann Beattie in conversation with Edmund White at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Reading the Qur’an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam lecture at The Morgan Library & Museum at 6:30 p.m.
New York Times Magazine Photographs panel at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Book launch party for Love Goes to Buildings on Fire:
Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever at 7 p.m. at the Powerhouse Arena
New-York Historical Society panel on American and Haitian Revolutions and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade at 6:30 p.m.
Civic Pride: New Jersey event at Word Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
Free Protest Organizing with Art for Change workshop at the Museum of Art and Design at 6 p.m.
Islamic art lecture on The Palace, the Garden, and the City at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Preview screening of “The Muppets” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
Michael Imperioli introduces the 6:30 p.m. screening of Summer of Sam at BAMcinématek
A Celebration of George Kuchar: Rambunctious Rarities, Moody Masterpieces presented by Trisha Donnelly and Bruce Hainley at 6:30 p.m. at MoMA as part of the To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Scrabble Master Class at 92Y’s Warburg Lounge at 7 p.m.
Director Michel Hazanavicius with a preview of “The Artist” at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:15 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Apple: A Global History at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Erika Janik
“Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda” exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 20)
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 4 to 7 p.m.
Whoopi Goldberg and cast members from Broadway’s “Sister Act” unveil Macy’s Herald Square Christmas Windows at 5 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Norwegian Christmas Fair begins at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church (through Nov. 19)
2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. (and Nov. 18)
Fireworks at Pier 84 on the Hudson River sometime between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. sponsored by KPMG LP
Empire State Building lights up purple, purple and white in honor of March of Dimes and Prematurity Awareness Day
Delayed to Nov. 20: George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies exhibition opens at P.S. 1 (through Jan. 2)

Friday, November 18
Previews begin on Broadway for “Stick Fly” (opening night: Dec. 8; open-ended run)
Cotton Club Parade at City Center with Wynton Marsalis (through Nov. 22)
Met Opera stages Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “La Bohème” at 7:30 p.m.
Page to Stage event at 8 p.m. at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre with Paul Mooney, Victoria Rowell, Cheryl Wills, Keli Goff, Deborah Gregory, Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour and Melvin Van Peebles
JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9:30 p.m.
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds play the United Palace Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
John Fogerty at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
dirtyphonics (LIVE) and Funtcase at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 10 p.m.
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Thee Oh Sees and Total Control at (le) poisson rouge at 7 p.m.
Architecture In Helsinki plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Elena Vaenga at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The New York Pops play “Cheyenne Jackson’s Cocktail Hour: Music of The Mad Men Era” at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Vocal Productions NYC sing Don Giovanni at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space (through Nov. 23)
Juilliard Opera presents the U.S. premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! at 8 p.m.
Sepharad: Jewish Songs from the Mediterranean concert at 10:30 p.m. at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center (sold out)
Queens College Baroque Ensemble plays the King Manor Museum at 6:30 p.m.
The 2011 Stars of New York Dance at 7 p.m. at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, Long Island University
Paul Byrom plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Chant Macabre: Songs of Death & Enchantment perfromance by the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society at the Merchant’s House Museum at 7 p.m.
Special free, off-season Airplanes and Archives tour of Governors Island at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Book signing: Shelby Lee Adams’ Salt & Truth at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
Mario Batali book signing at Eataly at 2 p.m.
Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Free gallery talk on the Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan at the Morgan Library at 7 p.m.
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 4 p.m.
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer slide show and Q&A with John Maloof at the Powerhouse Arena at 6:30 p.m.
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Feb. 12)
American Craft Show NYC and Contemporary Art Fair NYC at the Javits Center (through Nov. 20)
Extra “First Friday” free admission at Neue Galerie from 6 to 8 p.m.
WiredStore holiday pop-up opens in Times Square (through Dec. 24)
18th annual Union Square Holiday Market opens for the season at 11 a.m. (through Dec. 24)
2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer at Madison Square Garden at 4:30 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Guy Maddin’s Tales From the Gimli Hospital: Reframed at 7 and 9 p.m. (and Nov. 19)
India by Song screens at 6:45 p.m. at the Asia Society with a post-screening Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Aseem Chhabra
Puppet Rampage screens at 6:50 p.m. at BAM Rose Cinemas with an introduction by Puppeteers of America President Anna Vargas, and directors Chad Williams and Lindsey Z. Briggs
Midnight screening of “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan” at Sunshine Cinemas (and Nov. 19)
Midnight screening of “Ghostbusters” at IFC Center (and Nov. 19)
Empire State Building lights up green, green and red in honor of Marines’ Toys for Tots and the 12 Days of “Arthur Christmas” (through Nov. 20)
Gridlock alert day

Saturday, November 19
“Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration” exhibition opens at the Rose Center for Earth and Space (through Aug. 12)
“Story-Telling in Japanese Painting” exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 6)
Holiday Train Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden with the tree lighting set for 4 p.m. (through Jan. 16)
Free Bronx Artisans Trolley runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the Comité Noviembre’s Artisans Festival
Paul Auster book event for “Sunset Park” at Green-Wood Cemetery at 1 p.m.
J&R in-store with Nick Swisher at 2 p.m.
Sea Stories program at the Explorers Club from 9 a.m. on exploration, conservation, scuba diving, shipwrecks, nautical history and marine life
Free Urban Park Rangers program on the Lenape people at noon at Inwood Hill Nature Center
Free Fall Migration Bird Walk at 10:30 a.m. at the Queens Botanical Garden
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
George Washington’s NY walking tour with the Museum of American Finance at 1 p.m.
Urban geographer Jack Eichenbaum leads a Life Along the L Train tour for the NY Transit Museum at 10 a.m. (sold out)
Free Chamber music concert featuring the Beowulf Consort at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Haitian singer-songwriter Emeline Michel plays a free 4pm concert at El Museo del Barrio
Heston plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9:30 p.m.
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 1 p.m.
Met Opera stages Handel’s “Rodelinda” with Renée Fleming in the title role at 8 p.m.
Rhythm of Rajasthan at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m., with a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.
Suk Soon Kim and Ilya Kazantsev at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
The Whispers play B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Saori Yuki and Sachiko Yasuda “Songs with Your Life” Concert at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at The Allen Room
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years: A Broadway Musical Cabaret at the Museum of the City of New York at 3 p.m. (and Nov. 20)
Ani DiFranco plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Kid Rock at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
The English Beat plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Morgan James at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Mindless Behavior and Diggy at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Passio-Compassio: J.S. Bach and Sufi Mysticism at Alice Tully Hall at 7:30 p.m. as part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center (sold out)
Children’s Book Fair from noon to 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum
“Peter and the Wolf” performance at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum, free with museum admission
Mile Square Theatre stages Rikki Tikki Tavi at 3 p.m. at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Scandinavian Sing-Along at the Scandinavia House at 1 p.m.
Book event for Balloons Over Broadway at McNally Jackson Books at 11:30 a.m.
When Ghosts Pop Up the Pages: A 3D Christmas Carol family program at The Morgan Library & Museum at 2 p.m. (sold out)
American Kennel Club’s Meet the Breeds dog and cat show at the Javits Center (and Nov. 20)
The Pier Antiques Show and Fashion Alley from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pier 94 (and Nov. 20)
Beerathon begins at 11 a.m. at Amity Hall
29th Annual “Battle of the Badges” at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Free screening of “The Guns of Navarone” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Guy Maddin’s Tales From the Gimli Hospital: Reframed at 7 and 9 p.m.
“Welcome to Harlem” screens at the Apollo Theater at 8 p.m.
Warren Miller’s “…Like There’s No Tomorrow” screens at Symphony Space at 6 and 9 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan” at Sunshine Cinemas
Midnight screening of “Ghostbusters” at IFC Center
Status uncertain/removed from Bargemusic calendar: Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Status uncertain/removed from MAS calendar: Municipal Art Society walking tour Starchitecture NYC, 2011 at 10 a.m.

Sunday, November 20
Opening night on Broadway for “Seminar” with Alan Rickman at 6:30 p.m. (through March 4)
Liza Minnelli and Sam Harris play Birdland at 6 p.m.
Free Organ Recital at 6:30 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Free 5 p.m. concert of Brahms, Korngold, Franck at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Pianist Alexander A. Wu plays a free Bach to the Future program at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall at 3 p.m.
National Chorale’s performance of Beethoven Symphony #9 at 2 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
WQXR Beethoven 32-Piano Sonata Marathon at the Greene Space from 11 a.m.
Greenwich Village Orchestra’s “Pictures” concert at Washington Irving Auditorium at 3 p.m.
Song and symphony concert at Bohemian National Hall at 4 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Mendelssohn, Bruch and Jalbert at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Pianist Jon Nakamatsu plays a Sunday Morning Coffee Concert at 11 a.m. at the Walter Reade Theater (sold out)
Ray Davies performs the Kinks Choral Collection featuring the Dessoff Chamber Choir at the Beacon Theatre at 7:30
Christmas in New York with David Phelps and The American Festival Choir at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Chick Corea’s Flamenco Heart at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note
Pianist Lloyd Arriola plays The Franz Liszt Bicentennial: The Composer and His Legacy at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Alexander and Buono International String Competition at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 1:30 p.m.
Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
Deer Tick plays Webster Hall at 9 p.m.
Jackopierce at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Actors Temple benefit with Brent Barrett, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Jackie Hoffman, Lisa Lampanelli at 7 p.m.
Encompass New Opera Theatre and Brian d’Arcy James, Lucie Arnaz, Karen Ziemba and perform A Musical Salute to Marvin Hamlisch at the National Arts Club at 6 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Municipal Art Society walking tour Upper East Side Deco at 2 p.m.
“Satan’s Seat”: New York during Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 1 p.m. 11 a.m.
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy’s Jewish Community of Colonial New Amsterdam Walking Tour at 10:45 a.m.
92Y’s Jewish Harlem tour at 11 a.m.
Signs and Symbols: Spotlight on Symbolism tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Noshwalk: Sephardic Kings Highway & A Taste of Midwood at 1 p.m.
Free Freshkills Park November Birding Tour at 10:30 a.m. (reservation required)
“Block By Block: New York Street Historians” panel at Union Docs at 7:30 p.m.
Hanging Loose Poets reading and book signing at 5 p.m. at the Powerhouse Arena
David Icke at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 11 a.m.
Civil Rights in Brooklyn: Stories of Struggle and Protest panel at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.
Artist-in-residence open studios at the Studio Museum Harlem from 1 to 6 p.m.
Fall open house from noon to 6 p.m. for the opening of “George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies exhibition at P.S. 1 (extended through Jan. 15) and Surasi Kusolwong exhibition at P.S. 1 (to January)
Meet the Filmmakers: Kevin Clash , Elmo, and Constance Marks, “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey”at 2 p.m. at Apple Upper West Side
Where the Wild Things Are screens at 9:15 p.m. at BAMcinématek with an introduction by creative supervisor of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Peter Brooke
“Tosca” screens at The Morgan Library & Museum at 2 p.m.
New Amsterdam Market from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
American Kennel Club’s Meet the Breeds dog and cat show at the Javits Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Pier Antiques Show and Fashion Alley from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pier 94
Brooklyn Marathon in Prospect Park begins at 8 a.m.
NY Giants home game at MetLife Stadium vs. Philadelphia Eagles at 8:20 p.m.
WWE’s “Survivor Series” at Madison Square Garden at 7:45 p.m.

Monday, November 21
Opening night on Broadway for “An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin” at 7 p.m. (through Jan. 13)
Liza Minnelli and Sam Harris play Birdland at 7 p.m.
Allen Toussaint: A Southern Night at 7 p.m. at Joe’s Pub (through Nov. 23)
Chris Cornell at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. (and Nov. 22)
Peter Murphy plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Leon Russell plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Martha Wainwright with Nath Ann Carrera at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Free but ticketed concert by the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall at 8 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Peter Mintun: Mintun Monday Nights at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.
The Tenth Annual Classical Recording Foundation Awards at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Project Shaw reading of “Passion, Poison and Petrifaction” with “Press Cuttings” at The Players at 7 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at SouthPaw at 8 p.m.; topic: reunion
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7 p.m. with Matthew Broderick, Illeana Douglas, Carol Kane, Sherri Shepherd, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Alan Zweibel (sold out)
Black Gotham: African American Life in New York City book talk at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History’s Speakeasy: Prohibition-Era Cocktails program at 6:30 p.m. at the Linder Theater
MetTalks: Gounod’s “Faust” discussion with director Des McAnuff, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and cast members at 6 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera House
Master class with violinist Joseph Silverstein at Rose Studio at 2 p.m.; free but tickets required
New-York Historical Society gallery tour of Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn at 11 a.m. with curator Valerie Paley
Author @ the Library event for Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Helen Benedict book event for Sand Queen: A Novel at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event: The Emperor of Lies at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. with Steve Sem-Sandberg (reservations requested)
Seeing the City Plain: New York through the Eyes of the Photo League lecture at 11:30 a.m. at the Jewish Museum
Journey Into the Spiritual Heart Of Asia lecture at the Explorers Club with Jon Ortner at 7 p.m.
Book event for The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Sven Birkerts and André Aciman at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse? panel at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m.
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Joan Didion (sold out)
See You Next Wednesday: 8 Films by John Landis screenings begin at BAMcinématek with a 6:50 p.m. screening of “Into the Night” with a Q&A and book signing with Landis (series through Nov. 30)
“Bridesmaids” screens at Museum of Modern Art at 7 p.m. followed by a discussion with Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, and Paul Feig
Views from the Avant-Garde presents: An Evening with Greta Snider at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from 6:30 p.m.
Origami Holiday Tree goes up at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 2)
American Ballet Theater will perform at the seasonal debut of Saks Fifth Avenue holiday windows and “Snowflake & Bubble Spectacular” 3D-projection on the front of the building
GaGa’s Workshop at Barney’s opens at 11:59 p.m.
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Jumanji” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Tuesday, November 22
New York Philharmonic plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall; rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Met Opera stages Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “La Bohème” at 7:30 p.m.
Abedian String Trio at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Mobb Deep plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 9 p.m.
Straight No Chaser at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Chick Corea & Marcus Roberts Duo at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Bucky Pizzarelli/Ken Peplowski Quintet:American Anthems at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 27)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Charenee Wade Quartet at 11 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Nov. 26)
Gerald Clayton Trio at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through Nov. 27)
Peter Case plays Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Pianist Hiroshi Uenohara plays a free concert at 9:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
An Evening with Hugo Cabret at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
Q&A and book signing with John Landis at the 7 p.m. screening of “The Blues Brothers” at BAMcinématek
A Rational Mind: The Films of Edward Yang series begins at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Nov. 27)
“Larks on a String” screens for free at 7 p.m. at the Bohemian National Hall
The Birth of Promotion: Inventing Film Publicity in the Silent-Film Era exhibition opens at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through Jan. 28)
Jewels go on display at at Phillips de Pury & Company ahead of its Dec. 6 auction
Book event for Unstuck in Time A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Steve Almond in conversation with Nick Flynn and Darin Strauss at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Kyrgyzstan’s Political Transition and Its Role in the World panel at 12:30 p.m. at the Asia Society
Book event for Steve Alpert’s “Worth Fighting For” at the Intrepid Museum at 2 p.m.
David Garrard Lowe lecture on Art Deco NY at 11 a.m. at the Met Museum (sold out)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Not NYC: An Evening with Melvin Van Peebles at Hue-Man Bookstore at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 23
Gridlock alert day
Macy’s parade balloon inflation opens to the public from 3 to 10 p.m.
Met Opera stages Handel’s “Rodelinda” with Renée Fleming in the title role at 7:30 p.m.
Beijing Dance Company at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Jason Mraz: A Special Acoustic Evening with Toca Rivera at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Mariuccia Iacovino Orchestra plays works by Gomes, Villa-Lobos, Fernandez, Marquez, and Bernstein at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock Duo play the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
The Louis Armstrong Centennial Band plays Birdland at 5:30 p.m. and The Birdland Jazz Quartet featuring Carrie Jackson at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Mary J. Blige at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
Echosuite at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. and American Royalty at 9:30 p.m.
M83 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
Real Estate at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones and Milton at City Winery at 8 p.m.
N’Dea Davenport plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. and Hip-Hop Legends at 11 p.m.
Five Finger Death Punch at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Kill Van Kull plays Staten Island’s Dock Street
Guitarist Bill Wurtzel plays a free set at the American Folk Art Museum at Lincoln Square from 2 to 3 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Alien” at the IFC Center (through Nov. 26)
The Paintings of India: Roots in Sacred Art screening and post-film discussion at the Rubin Museum of Art at 1 p.m.
NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up red, orange and yellow in celebration of Thanksgiving (through Nov. 27)

Thursday, November 24
Macy’s 85th Thanksgiving parade begins at 9 a.m.
Museums, ice rinks, movie theaters, zoos, restaurants and shops open on Thanksgiving in 2011
Sci-Fi Thanksgiving screenings begin at BAMcinématek (through Nov. 30)

Friday, November 25
Free Castle Clinton bicentennial events begin at 10 a.m.
28th Annual Seaport Chorus Tree Lighting Spectacular begins at 6 p.m.
NYC Ballet begins performances of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” at 8 p.m. (through Dec. 31)
New York Philharmonic plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Met Opera stages Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “La Bohème” at 7:30 p.m.
Beijing Dance Company at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Chick Corea Original Elektric Band at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note (through Nov. 27)
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical at NYU’s Skirball Center at 2 p.m. (through Nov. 27)
A Christmas Carol at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 1 and 3 p.m.
Akim Funk Buddha Hip-Hop Holiday free BAMcafé Live show at 10:30 p.m.
The Cure plays Beacon Theatre (through Nov. 27)
Jason Mraz
: A Special Acoustic Evening with Toca Rivera at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 3 and 8 p.m.
Slick Rick plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 11:30 p.m.
Elysian Fields at (le) poisson rouge at 6:30 p.m.
moe plays Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
Puscifer at 8 p.m. at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Dark Star Orchestra at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 26)
Donna the Buffalo with Richie Stearns at City Winery at 8 p.m.
J&R in-store with Willie Nile at 2 p.m.
Post-Thanksgiving Multi-Ethnic Eating Tours with Big Onion at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Fraunces Tavern Museum’s Evacuation Day Walking Tour at 11 a.m. (sold out)
NIT Season Tip-Off at Madison Square Garden at 2:30 p.m.
Free 8th Annual Turkey Be Gone Hike departs Greenbelt Nature Center at 10 a.m.
“Fantasia” screens at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
“Crazy Wisdom” screens at the Rubin Museum at 6:30 and 8:15 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Alien” at the IFC Center (and Nov. 26)
Midnight screening of “The Big Lebowski” at Sunshine Cinemas (and Nov. 26)
Canceled: Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 26
Lighted Boat Parade of tour boats, work boats, private boaters and charter yachts begins at 7 p.m. with best viewing from Brooklyn Bridge Park and South Street Seaport
Free but ticketed viewing of The Beatles: Hidden Gallery from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Carnegie Hall; tickets available from 10 a.m.
Arlo Guthrie’s Annual Thanksgiving Concert at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m. with Rob Fisher, Calvin Trillin, Debra Monk, Heather Masse, Andy Stein
NY Philharmonic plays Schubert, Bach, and Mozart at 2 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera at 1 p.m.
Met Opera stages Handel’s “Rodelinda” with Renée Fleming in the title role at 8 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” at 2 and 8 p.m.
Beijing Dance Company at 2 and 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Pianist Nazzareno Carusi at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Calpulli Danza Mexicana at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 8 p.m. (and Nov. 27)
Holidaze in Hicksville: Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Dubin/Uchida Duo play a free recital at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Akim Funk Buddha Hip-Hop Holiday free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Astoria Music Marathon at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden from 2 p.m. (and Nov. 27)
Jimi Hendrix 69th Birthday Tribute at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 6:30 p.m.
Dark Star Orchestra at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
Make a Joyful Noise concert at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space
moe at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
Bernie Worrell Orchestra with appearances by Jimmy Destri and surprise guests at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Willie Nile plays Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m. (sold out)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Flyers at 2 p.m.
College Hockey - Boston University vs. Cornell at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour Downtown Brooklyn: What’s New? at 11 a.m.
”Mark Twain’s New York” birthday tour at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Book event for Tracey Zabar’s “One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes” at Zabar’s from 10 a.m. to noon
Holiday Kickoff at Books of Wonder from noon to 2 p.m.
Free Winter on a Flatbush Farm family program from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Lefferts Historic House
Free screening of “Jumanji” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 2 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Midnight screening of “Alien” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “The Big Lebowski” at Sunshine Cinemas
Status uncertain/removed from Bargemusic calendar: Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic

Sunday, November 27
Free Fort Totten Tunnel Tour at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour Dvorak in Love: New York in the Time on Antonin Dvorak at 2 p.m.
Free Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument lecture at 1 p.m.
Free Reflections: Celebrating Our Veterans program at the Lewis H. Latimer House in Queens at 2 p.m.
Staten Island OutLOUD’s Native American Poetry reading and stroll in Tappen Park at 3 p.m.
Art & Craft Fair from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Alice Austen House Museum
Free 5 p.m. piano concert at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Free Grupo Coco Rico concert at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space
Benjamin Bradham plays works by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, George Walker and Ravel at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” at 1 and 5 p.m.
Strings Attached: Christine Ebersole with The Aaron Weinstein Trio at Birdland at 6 p.m.
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 2 p.m.
Great Soloists of Milal at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Messiah…Refreshed! at 2 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Julie Reyburn: “Winter Songs” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m. (and Nov. 28)
Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Illogic, brokeMC, MC Homeless, Adrienne Mack Davis and MC Baker at the Mercury Lounge at 8 p.m.
Kirk Franklin at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 7:30 p.m.
Liz Queler and Seth Farber present “The Edna Project” at 7:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Mx Justin Vivian Bond at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Calpulli Danza Mexicana at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 3 p.m.
Astoria Music Marathon at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden from 2 p.m.
Frank Ocean at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
The Descendants screens at 5:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art with a post-screening discussion with director Alexander Payne as part of its The Contenders 2011 series
NY Jets home game at MetLife Stadium vs. Buffalo Bills at 1 p.m.

Monday, November 28
Free The 12th Annual Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square festival begins at 5:30 p.m. and related free events at Time Warner Center
Free Brain Cloud western swing concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 6:30 p.m.
Free Broadway’s Future concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Free but ticketed performance by the Juilliard String Quartet at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Live at the Apple Store: Lynette Washington and Dennis Bell Jazz NY at the Apple Upper West Side at 6 p.m. and Christian McBride and Inside Straight at 7 p.m.
Met Opera stages Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “La Bohème” at 7:30 p.m.
Strings Attached: Christine Ebersole with The Aaron Weinstein Trio at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Steve Nelson Quartet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Charles Busch’s staged reading of Tea at Five at The Lucille Lortel Theatre at 7 p.m.
Chicago plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Eden: A Musical by Mel Marvin and Jonathan Levi at 7:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Matt Doyle plays Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Julie Reyburn: “Winter Songs” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Leon Ware at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note
Guitarist João Kouyoumdjian plays Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
J&R in-store performance and autograph signing with Amber Bullock & Le’Andria Johnson at 12:30 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at The Bitter End at 7:30 p.m.; topic: freaks
Blogologues blog readings at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at UNDER St. Marks
Swann Galleries opens exhibitions of Printed & Manuscript Americana and Ocean Liner Memorabilia in advance of the Dec. 1 auction
American Art Fair opens at the Bohemian National Hall (through Dec. 1)
MoMA brown-bag lunch lecture on Performing the Past: Italian Art and Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s at 12:30 p.m.
Recollections by Photo League Photographers Marvin Newman gallery talk at 1 p.m. at the Jewish Museum
A Conversation with Mary J. Blige at the Times Center at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World at the Asia Society at 8:30 p.m.
Book event for How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Book event for journalist Ioan Grillo’s El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Wild Coast - Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge lecture at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Emily Books party at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe with a reading by Eileen Myles at 7 p.m.
Book Launch & Crafting Party: Stencil 201 by Ed Roth at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Finding A Lost Tribe of Israel: The Bnei Menashe of India lecture at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
“Sophie’s Choice” screens at BAMcinématek at 7:30 p.m. as part of its Brooklyn Close-Up series
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Smurfs” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Status uncertain/removed from Feinstein’s calendar: Clayton Bryant “4 Da Love Acoustik” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 29
Free Bryant Park tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. with performances by Sarah McLachlan, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, skaters Steven Cousins, The Haydenettes and John Zimmerman & Kyoko Ina, as well as cast members from Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Porgy & Bess”
Shen Wei Dance Arts begins performances at Park Avenue Armory (through Dec. 4)
New York Theatre Ballet’s new free production of Keith Michael’s The Nutcracker at the World Financial Center at 12:30 and 6:30 6 p.m.
Angel Reapers at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through Dec. 11)
Big Dance Theater begins performances of “Supernatural Wife” at BAM Harvey Theater (through Dec. 3)
Public Lab begins performances of “Titus Andronicus” with Jay O. Sander (through Dec. 18)
Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
A Chanticleer Christmas in the Medieval Sculpture Hall of the Met Museum at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Met Opera stages “Faust” at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Aglaia Koras plays works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
New York Women’s Ensemble at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
New York Festival of Song: A Goyishe Christmas to You! at 8 p.m. at the Merkin Concert Hall
John Scofield Quartet ft. Mike Eckroth, Ben Street & Greg Hutchinson at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through Dec. 4)
Xianix Barrera & Sabor Flamenco free show at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Fabolous plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Suzanne Vega at Joe’s Pub at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. (and Nov. 30)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Mulgrew Miller & Wingspan at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Dec. 4)
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Dmitry Baevsky Quartet at 11 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through Dec. 3)
Christian McBride & Inside Straight at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through Dec. 3)
Don Delillo and Paul Auster for Granta 117: Horror at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book event for The Roebling Legacy at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Free Freshkills Park Talks: Operating the Biggest Landfill in the World at The Arsenal in Central Park at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for Francesco Clemente’s “Made in India” in conversation with Salman Rushdie at Strand Books at 7 p.m. - “Buy the book or a $10 Strand Gift Card in order to attend this event”
Free Ask Roulette panel at Housing Works Bookstore at 7 p.m. with Brooke Gladstone, Baratunde Thurston, Lizzie Widdicombe, AJ Jacobs and Jody Avirgan
Free Tenement Talks event: Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Book event for the Intolerant Gourmet at Swann Galleries at 6 p.m.
MoMA @ the Library presents Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Michael Bublé autograph signing at J&R at 4 p.m. (wristbands required)
Rush Limbaugh at Town Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The Great Debates: Jewish Talmudic Debate lecture at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society discussion on The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
TimesTalks hosts Gary Oldman at 6 p.m and Tilda Swinton at 8 p.m.
Preview screening of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. followed by a Pinewood Dialogue with director Tomas Alfredson
Preview screening of “Young Adult” at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall and interview with director Jason Reitman at 7:15 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s In Memoriam: Dino De Laurentiis program at 8:15 p.m.
The Great Designers, Part One opens at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through May 8)
Karen Mirzoyan’s Rock the Casbah -­ Basement Bands in Tehran photography exhibition opens at the Half-King (through Jan. 22)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Penguins at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 30
2011 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony from 7 to 9 p.m.
Gridlock alert day and President Obama in NYC from 5 to 11 p.m.
Alan Ayckbourn’s “Neighbourhood Watch” begins performances at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters (through Jan. 1)
Chita Rivera and John Cullum in Terrence McNally’s “The Visit” at The Ambassador Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
A Chanticleer Christmas in the Medieval Sculpture Hall of the Met Museum at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Met Opera stages Handel’s “Rodelinda” with Renée Fleming in the title role at 7:30 p.m.
Juilliard Percussion Ensemble plays a free one-hour concert at 1 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Free Sonatenabend concert from Juilliard’s Collaborative Piano Department at Paul Hall at 6 p.m.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center (through Jan. 1)
The Collegiate Chorale sings Rossini’s “Moïse et Pharaon” at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist Adam Kent plays works by Montsalvage, Granados, Surinach, Octavio Vazquez and Tania León at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Suzanne Vega at Joe’s Pub at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Tank plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Brian Newman at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.
The 6th Romanian Film Festival in New York begins at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (through Dec. 6)
PopRally Presents: We Need to Talk About Kevin at 8 p.m. at MoMA (sold out)
Opening reception at 6:30 p.m. for 22nd Members Open: Fear the Society of Illustrators (through Dec. 29)
Joan Didion discusses “Blue Nights” at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Panel discussion on Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m. with Will Hermes, DJ Kool Herc, Laurie Anderson, Lenny Kaye, Larry Harlow and Robert Christgau
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Mary Beard
Charles J. Shields discusses Kurt Vonnegut with Rachel Syme at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Donald Albrecht, curator for the Museum of the City of NY, discusses Cecil Beaton: The New York Years at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
High Line book signing at 8 p.m. at the Coach Store on Madison Avenue
Free Design and Style - New African Fashion panel at 6 p.m. at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building’s Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
From “Beach Party” to “Woodstock”: The Pop Cultural Revolution of Sixties America panel at 6 p.m. at at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building’s South Court Auditorium
Author @ the Library event for Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo, former Christian Science Monitor Baghdad correspondent at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Book launch party for I’ll Be Dead by the Time You Read This: The Existential Life of Animals at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
New-York Historical Society discussion on George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis at 6:30 p.m.
The Human Genome and Human Health: Will the Promise Be Fulfilled? lecture at 7 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Meet the Narrators: David and Ashley Eckstein, “David and Goliath, MVP Edition” at Apple Upper West Side at 7 p.m.
Curator talk at the Daphne Guinness exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 10:30 a.m. (sold out)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.

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