January 1, 2012

March 2012 New York City calendar

Thursday, March 1
“Jesus Christ Superstar” begins previews on Broadway (March 22 opening night; open-ended run)
Flamenco Festival 2012 begins at City Center (through March 4)
Met Opera stages “Khovanshchina” at 7 p.m.
Mark Morris Dance Group begins performances at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 7:30 p.m. (through March 3)
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 and 7 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m., with an open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Bituin Domincel-Escarcha at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Ecstatic Music Fest: Mariam Wallentin & Mikael Karlsson with ACME at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Preview performance of Eisa Davis’ “Flowers Are Sleeping” at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Staging of the comedy thriller “The House” at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m.
S.E.M. Ensemble + Chris Nappi at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
Thing NY performance at Vaudeville Park at 7:30 p.m.
Van Halen at Madison Square Garden at 8 7:30 p.m.
Trey Songz and Big Sean play the Theater at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
August Burns Red plays Irving Plaza at 6:30 p.m.
MoMA Nights with DJ Huggy Bear from 5:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
School of Seven Bells at the Mercury Lounge at 9:30 p.m. (sold out)
Ollabelle at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Gilbert Gottfried at 7:30 at Caroline’s comedy club
Wyatt Cenac at 9:30 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through March 4)
Free Brooklyn Philharmonic concert at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
Ice Theatre of New York performance at 1 p.m. at the Rink at Rockefeller Center
Free Community Sing: Soweto Gospel Choir at 7:30 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn
Free Carlos Andrés Gómez 2 p.m. performance at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts
Live at the Apple Store: Lara St. John and Marie-Pierre Langlamet play J. S. Bach sonatas at 7 p.m. at the Apple Upper West Side
Free Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Any World I’m Welcome To event at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Free Tribute to Lee Hoiby at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Whitney Biennial 2012 opens at the Whitney (through May 27)
Sarah Michelson in residence at the Whitney (through March 11)
”Women in Aviation: World War II” exhibition opens at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (through July 8)
Elizabeth Turk: Cages exhibition opens at the Hirschl & Adler Modern gallery (through March 31)
Japan Week at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall (through March 3)
Jodi Picoult in conversation with Katie Couric at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event: Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Lecture on The Lorillards and the Bronx Botanical Garden at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Ellen Ullman in conversation with Maud Newton at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Talking Fiction, Talking Fact: Arthur Phillips and James Shapiro on the “Tragedy of Arthur” at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Anthony Giardina in conversation with David Rabe at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free program on Rebranding Park51 Muslim Community Center at 7 p.m. at the New Museum
Purchase-required book talk for Michael Ian Black, You’re Not Doing It Right at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Book event and listening party for “The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone” at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at 7 p.m.
Bill Rhodes and Alan Blinder: Can Leadership Get the Global Economy Back on Track? panel at 6;30 p.m. at the Asia Society
Theatre at The Library presents: An Evening Of Spiritual Poetry, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson - A Comparison at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Adventures in the Global Kitchen program with David Chang and Lucky Peach at the American Museum of Natural History’s Kaufmann Theater and Hall of Asian Peoples at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum on All-Important Paris Years of Five American Masters with David McCullough and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (sold out)
Free The Tale of Uummannaq and Ajajajaja program at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Queens World Film Festival begins at the Museum of the Moving Image (through March 4)
Fusion Film Festival begins at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts (through March 3)
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012 series begins (through March 12)
“Funny Business: An Inside Look at the Art of Cartooning” screens at the Met Museum at 2 p.m.
“The White Diamond” screens at 7:30 p.m. at BAM Rose Cinemas followed by a conversation with Werner Herzog and Paul Holdengräber (sold out)
First Thursday Gallery Walk of Dumbo
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Free Fashion District walking tour at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
President Obama in NYC for four fundraisers from 4 to 11 p.m.
“Nice Work if You Can Get It” box office opens at 10 a.m. with a cupcake giveaway

Friday, March 2
“In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan” exhibition opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through May 20)
Stories the City Tells Itself: The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg exhibition opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through May 28)
“Being Singular Plural” group exhibition of film, video, and sound-based works opens at the Guggenheim Museum (through June 6)
“Casting the Divine” exhibition opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through July 13)
In Pieces: The Ancient Fragment or Ruin in Early Modern Prints exhibition opens at the Print Gallery at NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through May 6)
Photography and Ruin exhibition opens at the Stokes Gallery at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through May 6)
Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m. (through March 4)
Plácido Domingo conducts Met Opera’s staging of “Madama Butterfly” at 7:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 and 7 at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
Alan Gilbert Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Soprani Compagni at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble concert at The Morgan Library & Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Soweto Gospel Choir at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
On Silence: Hommage to John Cage at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc. - Harkness Dance Festival at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8 p.m. (through March 4)
Spirit of Uganda dance and drumming performance at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. (and March 3)
Daniel Bernard Roumain + The Mission: Civil Rights Reader concert at Flushing Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Two Boots Presents Americana Jamboree at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 6 p.m.
Gloria Reuben: “Here’s To Life- The Songs Of Shirley Horn” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m. (and March 3)
Free 7 p.m. concert by Son de Madre at the Bronx Museum
Vivan Sessoms plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo play Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Y&T plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7 p.m.
An Unpredictable Evening With Todd Rundgren at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
New York International Children’s Film Festival begins at multiple locations (through March 25)
Heather Henson Sing-along with “The Muppet Movie” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Harold and Maude” at Sunshine Cinemas (and March 3)
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” at the Rubin Museum of Art screens at 9:30 p.m. with an introduction by neurophilosopher Dr. S. Matthew Liao
Iraq film series screening of “Nice Bombs” at 6:30 p.m. at the Center for Architecture
Special Selection from the Clermont-Ferrand Internation Short Film Festival screenings at 92YTribeca at 7 and 9 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Alien” at the IFC Center (and March 3)
Free gallery talk on Dan Flavin: Drawing at The Morgan Library & Museum at 7 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
NY Wine Expo at the Javits Center (through March 3)

Saturday, March 3
The Orchid Show opens at the NY Botanical Garden (through April 22) with two-for-one tickets through March
Restless: Films and Other Works by Mircea Cantor exhibition opens at the Museum of the Moving Image (through May 6)
Jean-Emile Laboureur: Prints, Paintings & Livres D’Artiste / 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings go on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the March 8 auction
First Open Post-War Contemporary Art on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Christie’s Rockefeller Center ahead of the March 7 auction
20th Century Decorative Art & Design on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Christie’s Rockefeller Center ahead of the March 8 auction
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free From Mozart to Gavrilin concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Sara Serpa plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Free Story Pirates performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 11 a.m.
Free screenings at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” at noon and “I Am Legend” at 3 p.m. (reservations closed but remaining tickets distributed half an hour before each film)
MetOpera stages “Aida” at 1 p.m.
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” at 8 p.m.
Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Carnegie Hall Family Sing: Songs of Solomon at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 1 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 and 7 at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
New York Piano Society Gala Benefit Concert at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
In the Footsteps of Babur: Musical Encounters from the Lands of the Mughals at 8 p.m. at the Asia Society
Juan de Juan, Jason Samuels Smith, Prashant Shah, Nelida Tirado and Nights of Rhythm flamenco performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Museum of Art & Design
David Bromberg plays Town Hall with Allen Toussaint at 8 p.m.
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester play the Met Museum at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Jay and the Americans at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Mike Doughty at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Chuck Mead at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Forever Freestyle concert at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
Mike Epps at the Theater at Madison Square Garden at 8 and 11:30 p.m.
AT&T American Cup presented by USA Gymnastics at Madison Square Garden at 11:30 a.m.
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival screenings at 92YTribeca at 8 p.m.
”Carnival Scenes” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 4 p.m., introduced by actors Victor Rebenegiuc and Mariana Mihut
“Pater” screens at BAM at 6:30 p.m. with a Q&A with Vincent Lindon and Michel Ciment
Midnight screening of “Alien” at the IFC Center
Midnight screenings of “Harold and Maude” and “The Room” at Sunshine Cinemas
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Trinity Church Cemetery’s Notable Women at 11 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Stuyvesant Heights at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Fort Totten walking tour at 1 p.m.
Free tour of the historic sanctuary and chapel at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 11:30 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.
Free Night Sky program at 7 p.m. at Pelham Bay Ranger Station
Staten Island OutLOUD reading of Tom & Huck In Egypt at 2 p.m. at Historic Richmond Town’s Museum
Uummannaq Music presents Greenland Children’s Day, at 1 p.m. at the Scandinavia House
Free Annie Egleson and Adam Teninbaum - An Artist Dialogue at 2:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave events: The Robotic Mind at 3 p.m. with Randall Wolf + Miguel Nicolelis; and Rivka Galchen + David Linden at 6 p.m. on Memory and Identity
New York Times Travel Show opens to the public at the Javits Center (through March 4)
NY Wine Expo at the Javits Center
NY Vegetarian Food Festival at the Metropolitan Pavilion from 10am to 5 p.m. (and March 4)
NYC American Craft Beer Festival at the Lexington Armory
Bank of America cardholders get free museum admission all weekend at seven spots including the Met, Whitney and New-York Historical Society
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 2 to 5 p.m. (and March 4)
Free Target First Saturday events at the Brooklyn Museum from 5 to 11 p.m. on the theme Fierce, Phenomenal Women
Tickets go on sale for “Clybourne Park” on Broadway

Sunday, March 4
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Bruins at 3 12:30 p.m.
Free Brooklyn Philharmonic concert with Phillip Lopate at the Dweck Center of the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch at 4 p.m.
Music for Piano and Violin concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Il Volo performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 3 p.m.
Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m.
New England Symphonic Ensemble at 2 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Musical Olympus Festival Concert at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 3 p.m.
Concert Festival Winners Concert at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
National Youth Choir, National Middle School Choir at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
George London Foundation Recital Series at The Morgan Library & Museum at 5 p.m.
“Welcome Spring” chamber music concert at Bohemian National Hall at 4 p.m.
Ballet Folklórico de Antioquia at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 6 p.m.
Manhattan Concert Productions Presents: New York City Jazz Festival at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
Mark Murphy 80th Birthday Celebration featuring pianist George Mesterhazy at Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
Aaron Copland School of Music Guerrilla Arts Ensemble at Flushing Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert for children 6 and up on Inspector Pulse and the Contrapuntal Contraption at Alice Tully Hall at 2 p.m.
Jaime Laredo plays Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Marieann Meringolo: “You Must Believe in Spring” concert at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday Sessions at PS1 form noon to 6 p.m.
Possessed plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7 p.m.
Secret Policeman’s Ball in New York at Radio City Music Hall with Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Russell Brand and others
Korallreven at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Kaleigh Baker at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m.
Young Jeezy plays Irving Plaza at 7:30 p.m.
Justin Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
NYC Audubon Winter EcoCruise of Winter Seals and Waterbirds of New York Harbor at 2 p.m.
Secrets of St. John the Divine: Spotlight on Hidden Images tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of the Meatpacking District at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Broadway Talks: Nick Jonas program with Jordan Roth at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Lecture at 1 p.m. at the Met Museum on The Art and Evolution of Chess
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event: Memorizing the Great American Novel at 6 p.m. with Scott Shepherd and John Kubie
Meet the Filmmakers: “21 Jump Street” at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.
Free Night Sky program at 7 p.m. at Belvedere Castle in Central Park
Am I My Genes? Mixing Species in Science and Art illustrated lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Free Historic New York Lecture: Women’s History at 11 a.m. at Blue Heron Nature Center
Screenings and discussion on ”News from Home” with Chantal Akerman at 4 and 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image
”Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” Special Closing Program at 2 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image
“Farewell, My Queen (Les Adieux à la reine)” screens at BAM Rose Cinemas at 6 p.m. with a Q&A with Benoit Jacquot and Michel Ciment
New York Times Travel Show at the Javits Center
NY Vegetarian Food Festival at the Metropolitan Pavilion
Enlightenment Wines tasting at 4 p.m. at the South Street Seaport Museum Thompson Warehouse
Climb to the Top National Multiple Sclerosis Society fundraiser event at 30 Rockefeller Center from 6 to 10 a.m.
Bank of America cardholders get free museum admission all weekend at seven spots including the Met, Whitney and New-York Historical Society
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 2 to 5 p.m.

Monday, March 5
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
Edward Albee’s “The Lady From Dubuque” with Jane Alexander opens Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre (through April 1)
Duo Flury-Prinz at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Making Music: Kaija Saariaho at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 6 p.m.
Villa-Lobos 125th Birthday Anniversary Concert at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Arbors Records presents Harry Allen’s Monday Night Jazz at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 7 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Guy Davis & The High Flying Rockets plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Florida State University Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Anastasia Barzee in “The Dimming Of The Day” at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7 p.m. with Tony Danza, Mario Cantone, Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Alan Zweibel
Broadway Backwards at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre at 8 p.m. with $40 rush tickets
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Hari Kondabolu, Eric Drysdale, James Patterson and Lane Moore
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland at 9:30 p.m.
Public Sings benefit for the Public Theater with Laura Benanti, Tituss Burgess, David Byrne, Alan Cumming, Matt Doyle, Raul Esparza, Montego Glover, Gabriel Kahane, Norm Lewis, Jesse L. Martin, Kelli O’Hara and others at 6:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Ticketed Women’s Jazz Festival: Meshell Ndegeocello: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, The Works of Nina Simone at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Robert Johnson 100th Birthday Celebration Rehearsal Show at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Tennis at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
Bombay Bicycle Club at the Bowery Ballroom at 8:30 p.m. (sold out)
Dex Romweber Duo at 6:30 p.m. the Mercury Lounge and Ramesh at 8:30 p.m.
Free book launch, reading and Q&A at 7 5 p.m. at the Drama Book Shop for Gary Sloan’s “In Rehearsal” with Stacy Keach, Kathleen Chalfant and others
Book event for Michelle Haimoff’s These Days Are Ours at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Book event for “The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn” with Lucette Lagnado at the Jewish Museum at 11:30 a.m.
Ruth Reichl and Alex Guarnaschelli host A Taste of Home tasting and culinary-themed benefit event at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
After 1989: Race After Multiculturalism, What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Race? panel at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m. with Roberto Bedoya, Harold Augenbraum, Das Racist and Latoya Peterson
Insights Series: The Modern Beethoven at 6:30 p.m. at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse
Free From Songwriting to Stardom program at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Words & Music: Federico Garcia Lorca program at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Public Studio: Desire Machine Collective at 1 p.m. at the Guggenheim
“The Man Who Laughs” screens for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
Michel Ciment introduces the 7 p.m. screening of “A Few Days with Me (Quelques jours avec moi)” at BAM Rose Cinemas
BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. with Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick
Single-game Mets tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Jack and Jill” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Empire State Building lights up blue for the 125th anniversary of Hearst Corporation

Tuesday, March 6
Previews begin on Broadway for the revival of “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” with James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, Kerry Butler, Jefferson Mays, Michael McKean and Angela Lansbury (opening night: April 1; through July 1)
Red Bull Theater production of “The Maids” begins performances at the Theater at St Clement’s (through April 1)
“A Moon for the Misbegotten” begins performances at City Center (through April 15)
Met Opera stages “Khovanshchina” at 7 p.m.
Stephen Petronio Company at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through March 11)
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 and 7 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis” at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Mischa Bouvier at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Al Foster Quartet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through March 11)
Cedar Walton Quartet at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through March 10)
Fragments for the End of Time concert for the Boston Early Music Festival at The Morgan Library & Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Edmar Castaneda CD release show with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Miguel Zenón at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (and March 7)
Judy Kuhn at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
“Heart of Japan” Public Symposium & Concert at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7 p.m.
Free but ticketed Overcoming the Disaster: Gratitude from the Japan to the World concert at 7:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater (sold out)
Joan Rivers at Laurie Beechman Theatre at 8 p.m.
Robert Johnson @ 100 tribute at the Apollo Theater at 8 p.m. with The Roots, Shemika Copeland, Bettye LaVette, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Sam Moore, Todd Rundgren, Macy Gray, Chuck D, Savion Glover, Pedrito Martinez Group, Living Color
Benjamin Walker’s Find the Funny at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Moth NYC GrandSLAM at the Highline Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Orgy plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
O.A.R. at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
“Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution” exhibition opens at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through April 7)
Josephine Meckseper’s Manhattan Oil Project public art exhibit opens at 46th Street and 8th Avenue (through May 6)
Times Square Arts opens Pablo Atchugarry: Soñando New York in Duffy Square for Armory Arts Week (through March 13)
“Prague 1968” photo exhibition opens at the Bohemian National Hall (through March 26)
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Amar Kanwar at 6:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim
Free Made in USA—German Architects in New York panel discussion at 6 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
Walter Isaacson talk on Steve Jobs at 6:30 p.m. at the New-York Historical Society (sold out)
Diane von Furstenberg lecture at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required/sold out)
Olaf Olafsson book event for “Restoration” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
In Conversation: Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Ticketed panel with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Simone Leigh and Claire Barliant at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 7 p.m.
Robert Hormats: 40 Years After the Nixon Visit discussion with Orville Schell at 6:30 p.m. at the Asia Society
East Side, West Side, Dark Side: New York Mysteries panel at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Triss Stein and panelists, Peter Blauner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Stefanie Pintoff, and SJ Rozan of The Mystery Writers of America - New York Chapter
Patrick Henry & the Call to a New Nation lecture at noon at 92Y Tribeca with Harlow Giles Unger
Free Annual James Arthur Lecture with Paul Glimcher, professor of neural science, economics, and psychology, at 6 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Iconic Artist Talk: Steve Reich at 7 p.m. at BAMcafe
Dragons in Space panel at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m. with Myke Cole, Hillary Jordan and Naomi Novik
Sarah Manguso in conversation with Lorin Stein at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Purchase-required book event for Kathryn Harrison’s “Enchantments” at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
NYC Farm to City Expo: Connecting Farmers to NYC’s Wholesale Foodmarkets at the Javits Center from 2 to 5 p.m. (free but reservation required)
Free Lower East Side Heritage Film Series screenings of “City of Contrasts” and “Italianamerican” at the Seward Park Library at 6:30 p.m.
“Americano” screens at 7:30 at BAM Rose Cinemas with a Q&A with actor-writer-director Mathieu Demy
“Without” screens at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 8 p.m. with director Mark Jackson, producer/cinematographer Jessica Dimmock and star Joslyn Jensen in person for a Q&A moderated by Ted Hope
Fraunces Tavern Whiskey Society inaugural meeting and tasting at 6 p.m. (reservations requested)
Free Mini Model Build at LEGO Rockefeller Center of a LEGO Garden from 5 p.m. while supplies last (children ages 6 to 14 only)
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center

Thursday, March 8
The Armory Show opens at Piers 92 and 94 (through March 11)
Volta NY art show (through March 11)
Celebrating Our Legacy: Oral History Photographic Exhibit of the League of Professional Theater Women exhibition opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through April 28)
Photographic Masterworks by William Eggleston Sold to Benefit the Eggleston Artistic Trust go on display at Christie’s Rockefeller Center ahead of the March 12 auction
Under the Influence auction at noon p.m. at Phillips de Pury & Company
Contemporary Art Evening Sale at 7 p.m. at Phillips de Pury & Company
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 8 and 4 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m. - and a ticketed open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Boston Pops at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist Young-Ah Tak at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Plácido Domingo conducts Met Opera’s staging of “Madama Butterfly” at 7:30 p.m.
Matt Charman’s “Regrets” begins performances at City Center (through April 29)
The Wind Up: Kalkidan + DJ Spooky at 8:30 p.m. at the Jewish Museum
Free Kate McGarry Quartet jazz concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Altan at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Todd Snider plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Flamenco Festival 2012 presents: La Shica at (le) poisson rouge at 7 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Late Night Rose concert at 9:30 p.m. at the Rose Studio
Big K.R.I.T. at the Highline Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Mutemath at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
Judy Kuhn at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Chuck Loeb – Plain ‘n’ Simple plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through March 11)
MATA Interval 4.3: Beaubourg to Brooklyn – Electro-acoustic Music from Paris at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
O.A.R. at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert at the Rose Studio at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
The Daily Show Live: Stand-up Comedy from The Daily Show’s Staff at 92Y Tribeca at 9 p.m.
Charlie Murphy at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through March 11)
Backlash comedy/cabaret show at The People’s Improv Theater at 9:30 p.m.
Leslie Uggams performance at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Emma Straub book event at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square for “Other People We Married” with a performance by Stephin Merritt
Author @ the Library event for “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Will Hermes
Tommy Hilfiger in conversation with Fern Mallis at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Animalish lecture with Susan Orlean at The Morgan Library & Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Local History, Local Lore lecture on City Island: From Mulberries to Minesweepers at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Patrick deWitt in conversation with Andy Hunter of Electric Literature at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Book event for Alexandra Styron: Reading My Father at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Book event for Deborah Feldman’s “Unorthodox” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Purchase-required book event for Peter Cameron’s “Coral Glynn” with Sigrid Nunez at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation lecture on Kleindeutschland: the Lower East Side’s Forgotten Past at 6 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club (reservations required/sold out)
Ticketed, Live from the NYPL event with Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 7 p.m. (sold out)
A Proposition by House of Natural Fiber: Intelligent Bacteria forum at the New Museum at 7 p.m. (and March 9)
Farm, Suburb, City, Borough: Brooklyn Transformed lecture at noon at 92Y Tribeca
The Artist’s Voice: Jack Whitten in conversation with Naima J. Keith at the Studio Museum in Harlem at 7 p.m.
Women in the World summit begins at the David H. Koch Theater
10 Years of Progress — A Celebration of International Women’s Day panel discussion at the Asia Society at 8 a.m.
Free High Line Art Talk at 7:30 p.m. with Charles Mary Kubricht and Dr. Timothy O’Neill with Bumble and Bumble Recreation Center reservation required
Keyboard Conversations with Pianist Jeffrey Siegel: Concerts with Lively Commentary at Scandinavia House at 8 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Free screening of “Crossing Canal” at The Museum of Chinese in America at 6:30 p.m. followed by a panel discussion
Screening of ”Meanwhile” with director Hal Hartley in person at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
The Surreal Life—Dallying With the Absurd screenings at the Museum of Modern Art with musical accompaniment by Ben Model at 1:30 p.m.

Friday, March 9
Chinatown Restaurant Week begins offering $18.88 three-course meals at 18 locations (through March 18)
Coffee Fest New York at the Javits Center (through March 11)
2012 Big East Championship Tournament begins at Madison Square Garden (and March 10)
Georgia Sagri performance at the Whitney Museum at 7 p.m.
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 10 p.m.
Kaija Saariaho and Anssi Karttunen Master Class at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Choral Society: Of Peace – Dona Nobis Pacem, Vaughan Williams at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Queens College Orchestra at Flushing Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg at City Center (through March 11)
Monica Bill Barnes & Company - Harkness Dance Festival at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall (through March 11)
Judy Kuhn at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (and March 10)
The Allman Brothers Band plays the Beacon Theatre (through March 25)
Herbie Hancock at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater (and March 10)
Martha Redbone with John McEuen and The Dust Busters at 92YTribeca at 9 p.m.
Free BAMcafe Live All-Stars: Nora York’s Power/Play BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
The Shanghai Restoration Project with NeochaEDGE at the Asia Society at 8 p.m.
Balkan Beat Box plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Phil Keaggy plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Paul Thorn & Ruthie Foster at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Bobby Keys & The Suffering Bastards at the Highline Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
A Proposition by House of Natural Fiber: Intelligent Bacteria performance at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
Daughter at 7 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Duke Special at 8:30 p.m.
O.A.R. at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Young the Giant at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Los Amigos Invisibles at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Bruce Springsteen plays the Apollo Theater at 8 p.m., a concert available only to SiriusXM subscribers
Garland Jeffreys at the Rubin Museum of Art at 7 p.m.
Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush at Radio City Music Hall at 7 p.m.
Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel exhibition opens at the Jewish Museum (through July 29)
Andy Warhol’s New York lecture at noon at 92YTribeca with Vito Giallo
Ticketed Occupy Rousseau: Inequality and Social Justice panel at 7 p.m. at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Bob Mackie and Hal Rubenstein in conversation at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required)
Free gallery talk on In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan at The Morgan Library & Museum at 7 p.m.
Book event for Patrick Dewitt at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Poetry 2012: Grand Slam! at 7:30 p.m. at BAM Harvey Theater
Lecture at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum on The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View
Conversation with a Curator at the Met Museum on The Mihrab at 2 p.m.
Book signing for Harvey Stein’s Coney Island 40 Years at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
Free Networked New York conference at NYU from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
“North by Northwest” screens at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m.
“Vigilante Vigilante ” screens at the Maysles Cinema at 7:30 p.m. followed by a conversation between director Max Good and retired Vandals Squad Cop Steve Mona
“Son of Babylon” screens at 6:30 p.m. at the Center for Architecture as part of its Iraq Film Series
The Surreal Life—Dallying With the Absurd screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 2:30 p.m. with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model
Midnight screening of “Mulholland Dr.” at Sunshine Cinemas (and March 10)
Empire State Building lights up blue, white and red for the Big East Conference and the 2012 Big East Men’s Championships (through March 11)
JFK control tower lit red “to salute the disaster relief and lifesaving work of the American Red Cross” (through March 14)

Saturday, March 10
Free Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts at 12:30 with the Jed Levy Quartet and 2:30 p.m. with the The Earth String Band
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free but ticketed concert by Soloists from L’Orchestre International de Genève at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Golem plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” at noon
Met Opera stages “Khovanshchina” at 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 8 and 4 at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
The Little Orchestra Society plays “Cinderella” at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center
Herbie Hancock at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater
David Johansen at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Jon Anderson of Yes plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
They Might Be Giants play Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery at 8 p.m. with Meg Baird (Espers), Bhi Bhiman, Sloane Crosley, A.M.Homes, Eugene Mirman, Sondre Lerche and Joe Pernice
Tara O’Grady & The Black Velvet Band play the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood at 7 p.m.
Saw Doctors play Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Symphony X and Iced Earth at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 7 p.m.
SFJAZZ Collective at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
VNV Nation at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
O.A.R. at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Rubberbandits at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
PopRally Presents: CHERYL at the Museum of Modern Art at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Juan Luis Guerra Y 440 at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Free tour of Bohemian National Hall at 3 p.m. (reservations required)
Free tours of the historic Sanctuary and Chapel at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 11:30 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
“Satan’s Seat”: New York During Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m.
Second Saturday Staten Island art walk
Municipal Art Society’s Starchitecture walking tour at 9:45 a.m. (reservations required)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Mott Haven: From the Harlem River to the Bronx Hub at 11 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Park Slope at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Behind the Emerald Curtain “Wicked” behind-the-scenes tour at 10 a.m.
The Greatest Grid: Curator’s Talk at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m. (reservations requested)
Artist Talk: Get Gaga at noon with Batsheva company dancer Ia’Ara Moses at BAM’s Hillman Attic Studio
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event with Mark Linn-Baker and Robert Landy at 6 p.m.
Women’s History Month Lecture: Georgia O’Keeffe at the Morris-Jumel Mansion at 2 p.m. (free but rsvp required)
Free HSBC Children’s Garden Family Day at the Queens Botanical Garden
Women’s History Month Event: Abigail Adams & Ballet at St. Paul’s Church from noon to 4 p.m.
Free Night Sky astronomy program at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. with the Urban Park Rangers
The Eric C. Caren Collection: How History Unfolds On Paper, Part II exhibition goes on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the March 15 auction
New York International Children’s Film Festival begins at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (through March 21)
Free 3 p.m. screening of “Jack and Jill” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
“Prince of the Himalayas” screens at the Rubin Museum of Art at 2:30 p.m. followed by a discussion with Jungian analyst Bruce Parent on the role of the archetype in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
“Death of a Japanese Salesman” screens at the Asia Society at 3 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Mulholland Dr.” at Sunshine Cinemas
2012 Big East Championship Tournament at Madison Square Garden
Street closures for the Grant’s Tomb Criterium from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale at noon for Phil Lesh and Bob Weir with their band Furthur at Coney Island’s MCU Park in July

Sunday, March 11
Phagwah / Holi Parade begins at noon on Liberty Avenue to Phi Rizutto Park in Richmond Hill, Queens
Knicks vs. Philadelphia at Madison Square Garden at noon
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Islanders at 7 p.m.
Free concert of A 120th birthday celebration for Stravinsky and Turina, works for violin and piano, at 5 p.m. at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Chameleon Ensemble play the Music of Latin America at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Performance by chamber ensemble Canta Libre at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, Dweck Center
Free The Beauty of Ballet program at 2 p.m. at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts for families with children ages 4 and up
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage “Patience” at 5 p.m. at Symphony Space
Shinsai: Theatres for Japan benefit concerts at 3 and 8 p.m. with Patti LuPone, Sab Shimono, Richard Thomas, Ann Harada and Mary Beth Hurt at The Great Hall at Cooper Union
Dresden Philharmonic plays Avery Fisher Hall at 3 p.m.
New York City Chamber Orchestra and Festival Choruses at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Pianist Adam Tendler plays Sonatas and Interludes at the Rubin Museum of Art at 4 p.m. to mark the Cage Centenary in 2012
Flamenco Festival 2012 presents: Canteca de Macao at (le) poisson rouge at 10 p.m.
Celtic Woman at Radio City Music Hall at 3 p.m.
Apple Hill Chamber Players at St. Bartholomew’s Church at 3 p.m.
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
The Aaron Copland School of Music Guerrilla Arts Ensemble: Brooklyn Tango String Quartet at Flushing Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Marieann Meringolo: “You Must Believe in Spring” concert at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Paula Cole at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Bobby Keys & The Suffering Bastards at the Highline Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
Mindless Self Indulgence at Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
The Zambonis at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m. and Bonaparte at 9:30 p.m.
Sharon Katz & The Peace Train at 7:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Gomez at the Bowery Ballroom at 8:30 p.m. (sold out)
Justin Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Sunday Sessions at P.S. 1 from noon to 6 p.m. including the M. Wells grilling station, a Clifford Owens performance and “Le Corbusier: The Architect on the Beach”
New Music Bake Sale from 4 p.m. to midnight at Roulette
Free 9 a.m. Eco Walk: Early Spring at Willowbrook Park on Staten Island
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: Estates of Pelham Bay at 1 p.m. with the Urban Park Rangers
Free 7 p.m. Astronomy program at Fort Totten Visitor’s Center in Queens
Free 2 p.m. hike Exploring the Upland Trail at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Free Fashion District walking tour at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn Now at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
“Dear Pyongyang” screens at the Asia Society at 3 p.m.
Staten Island OutLOUD program on Tom & Huck In the Cemetery at 3 p.m. at the Historic Lake Cemetery
A Conversation with Geoff Dyer at the Museum of the Moving Image at 3 p.m.
Michael Robinson in Conversation with Peggy Ahwesh at 4 p.m. at the Whitney Museum
In Conversation:Fyvush Finkel and his son Ian Finkel at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 3 p.m.
Ticketed Ed Kashi slide talk on Madagascar and Punjab at the Powerhouse Arena at 5 p.m.
Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Environments program from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
What to Wear: Women, Clothing, Religion lecture by Valerie Steele at an 10:15 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. event at The Jewish Theological Seminary (reservation required)
Free Central Park walking tours at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Monday, March 12
A/C/E lines will be closed overnight from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for FASTRACK work from 59th Street/Columbus Circle in Manhattan to Jay Street/MetroTech in Brooklyn (through 5 a.m. March 16)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Evita” with Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris (opening night: April 5; open-ended run)
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
Staged reading of the tragicomedy “Suicide Bomb” at the Bohemian National Hall at 7:30 p.m. followed by a panel discussion on Hungarian women playwrights
Pianist Martina Frezzotti at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Kaija Saariaho and Anssi Karttunen Young Artists Concert at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Violinist Benjamin Beilman at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Joe Louis Walker – CD Release Show for Hellfire at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
The Black Keys at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Jovanotti at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Nick Blaemire and The Hustle at 6:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and 2:54 and Big Deal at 9:30 p.m.
Symphony For The Devils & Special Guests Present the music of The Rolling Stones, Live Rehearsal show at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
“The Niko Songbook” The Songs of Composer/Lyricist Niko Tsakalakos at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland at 9:30 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Tatum Greenblatt Sextet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Young People’s Chorus of New York City Annual Gala at 7 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater
Alan Schmuckler at Joe’s Pub at 10 p.m.
Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward exhibition opens at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through Aug. 18)
Public Studio: Desire Machine Collective at the Guggenheim Museum at 1 p.m.
“Lust for Life” screens for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
Illustrated lecture on Gimbels at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Michael J. Lisicky
Remembering Jerry Orbach program at 6 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
An Evening with A. K. Burns and A. L. Steiner at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
Free Career Panel: Women in Theater panel at the Apollo Theater at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Free Real Stories on Stage seminar at the Apollo Theater at 4:45 p.m. (sold out)
McSweeney’s Presents Diane Williams, Ben Marcus, and Deb Olin Unferth at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Andy Zaltzman, Michael Che, Jessi Klein, Front Page Films
Fashion Vs Comfort debate at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space with Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Tom Cavanagh, Elna Baker, Dave Hill and Kevin Townley
PEN American Center’s free Breaking Through Internet Censorship panel at 7 p.m. at the Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium (reservations required)
The War Reporter Story discussion with Frank Delaney and Sebastian Junger at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
The Last Songs of the Glaciers lecture at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Book talk with Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Orville Schell on The New Rules of Innovation: Does China Have What it Takes? at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
Women in the Newsroom: From Fashion Pages to the Front Lines ProPublica panel at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Meet the Filmmakers: “Jeff Who Lives at Home” at the Apple SoHo store at 5 p.m.
Reservations open for Spa Week
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival tickets go on sale to the general public
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Empire State Building lights up green for the 100th Anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Date listed incorrectly: Phagwah / Holi Parade begins at noon on Liberty Avenue to Phi Rizutto Park in Richmond Hill, Queens

Tuesday, March 13
The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 concert at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m. with Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Mountain Goats, Glen Hansard, Rich Robinson, Jackie Greene, Taj Mahal, Jackson Browne, Art Garfunkel, Marianne Faithfull, Rickie Lee Jones, Ronnie Spector, Peaches, Marc Cohn, Jovanotti, members of TV on the Radio, Angelique Kidjo, and Gomez
The Heath Brothers at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through March 18)
The Rodriguez Brothers Band at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through March 18)
John Benitez Group at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through March 17)
Linda Eder at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m. (through March 17)
Celtic Tenors at City Winery at 7 p.m.
Rick Ross at the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Jovanotti at the Bowery Ballroom (sold out) at 9 p.m. (and March 14)
Quique González plays Joe’s Pub at 10 p.m.
New Build at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m. (sold out) and Cultfever at 9:30 p.m.
Coco Montoya plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7:30 p.m.; topic: marriage
Met Opera stages “Khovanshchina” at 7 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 8 and 4 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Morgenstern Trio at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Quartet Variations at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through March 18)
Paul Taylor Dance Company begins performances at the David Koch Theater at 7 p.m. (through April 1)
Free Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Pat Martino Organ Trio at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through March 17)
Eddie Palmieri 75th Birthday Celebration at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through March 18)
Bettye Lavette at the Carlyle at 8:45 p.m. (through March 31)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Hurricanes at 7:30 p.m.
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
Mercator at 500 exhibition opens at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through Sept. 29)
To Me There’s No Other Choice – Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012 exhibition opens at the Scandinavia House (through March 24)
George Mitchell in conversation with Howard Gardner at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Ree Drummond book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m. for “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier: Simple, Scrumptious, Satisfying”
Look At Me: Fashion Photography: Documenting the Evolution of the Modern Woman panel discussion at 6 p.m. at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (reservation required)
Artisan Lecture Series at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen with master weaver Rabbit Goody at 6 p.m.
The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America hosts a free lecture on Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Co. at The New York New Church (Swedenborgian) at 6 p.m.
John Chamberlain: A Conversation at the Guggenheim Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Book talk on “Devil in the Grove,” a biography of Thurgood Marshall at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 6:30 p.m.
Great Japan Earthquake: One Year Later panel at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
The International Association of Culinary Professionals event at the Greene Space at 7 p.m.
Book event for Luc Carl’s “The Drunk Diet” at Barnes & Noble Tribeca at 6 p.m.
Robert De Niro and Paul Weitz in discussion with Janet Maslin at 8 p.m. for a TimesTalks event at The Times Center (sold out)
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s panel on The Titanic & the Village: 100 Years After the Tragedy at the Jane Hotel at 6:30 p.m. (reservations required/sold out)
Experimental films “Spark of Being” and “657 Second” screen for free at the Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 14
Knicks vs. Portland at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Byzantium and Islam:Age of Transition exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through July 8)
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s free lecture on The Piers: Art & Sex Along the New York Waterfront with Jonathan Weinberg at 6:30 p.m. at King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU (reservations required)
Free book event for Harry Belafonte’s “My Song” at 6 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (reservations requested)
History Talk: The Irish on Staten Island at 7:30 p.m. at the Staten Island History Center (registration requested)
Anttinen Oiva Architects: Recent Works lecture at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Cherry Blossoms: Japan Fest begins at the American Museum of Natural History (through March 17)
Combating Islamophobia: An Evening with Rabbi Marc Schneier & Russell Simmons, Moderated by Chelsea Clinton at The JCC in Manhattan at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Visual talk on Hollywood’s Golden Age: The Rise & Fall of the Studio System at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Andrew Nagorski book event at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m. on “Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power”
President’s Forum with Sarah Sze and Siddhartha Mukherjee at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Susan Derges lecture at the International Center of Photography
Book event for Catherine Chung’s “Forgotten Country” at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Book event for Kristen Johnston’s “Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Public Studio: Desire Machine Collective drop-in hours from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Book event for Eleanor Lambert: Still Here at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required)
Free gallery tour of Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 10:30 a.m. (reservation required/sold out)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Music and Literary Salon at the Greene Space at 6 p.m. marking the 75th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Free Joy in Singing master class at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts with Paul Sperry at 2:30 p.m.
Come Sunday: Chanda Rule sings Mahalia Jackson, free, at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library
Free Ice Theatre of New York performance at the Rink at Rockefeller Center at 1 p.m.
Selected Shorts: Tales of Money, Greed, and Power with NPR’s Planet Money at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space
Randy Cohen’s “Person Place Thing” Live with David Rakoff at 92YTribeca at 7 p.m.
Amateur Night: Broadway at the Apollo Theater at 7:30 p.m. hosted by Lilias White and Leslie Uggams
Elevator Repair Service’s “GATZ” begins performances at the Public Theater (through May 6)
Martha Graham Dance Company with Diana Vishneva and Fang-Yi Sheu at 7 p.m. at City Center
Michael Clark in residence at the Whitney (through April 8)
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” at 7:30 p.m.
Pro Musicis Concert Series: Guitar Fest at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
L’Arpeggiata at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Fela! Reunion at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at 10 p.m.
Harlem Gospel Choir’s Remembering Whitney concert at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Jovanotti at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Eric Church at the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
Willie Nile at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker & Yim Yames at Webster Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Jonah’s onelinedrawing at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and New Build at 9:30 p.m. (sold out)
Jackie Greene acoustic set with Milton at City Winery at 8 p.m.
“Monsieur Lazhar” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 7 p.m. with an introduction by producer Luc Déry

Thursday, March 15
Opening night on Broadway for “Death of a Salesman” with Philip Seymour Hoffman (through June 2)
“Ghost The Musical” begins previews on Broadway (April 23 opening night; open-ended run)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Newsies” (March 29 opening night; through June 10)
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 7:30 p.m.
Free SpokFrevo Orchestra concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Free Works-in-Progress performance of “Formosa” by Kelly Tsai at The Museum of Chinese in America at 6:30 p.m. (reservation required)
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 and 3 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m., with an open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir plays Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall at 7:30 p.m.
D’Addario Pro-Arte Guitar Series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
L’Arpeggiata at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Marianne Faithfull & Marc Ribot at City Winery at 8:30 p.m.
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
BETTY: The Workshop Series at 92YTribeca at 7 p.m.
Immortal Technique at Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Jin Akanishi at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Penguins at 7 p.m.
New-York Historical Society panel on the Draft Riots at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for Richard Zacks’ Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Free Freedom of Information Day lecture at 10:30 a.m. at Science, Industry and Business Library with Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen
Kehinde Wiley in Conversation at the Jewish Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Fiction Magazine 40th Anniversary Celebration at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Book event for Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “Birds of a Lesser Paradise” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability and the Modern Movement at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Bill’s Design Talks: Helen Walters, with Fiona Morrisson and Beth Viner at 44 Charlton St at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for Louis Begley’s “Schmidt Steps Back” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks book event on High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky with Joshua David and Robert Hammond at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Teju Cole at BAMcafé at 6:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Space Chronicles with Neil deGrasse Tyson at 7 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History (sold out)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
“Restrepo” screens at the Bronx Documentary Center at 7 p.m. with a conversation with Sebastian Junger and Sgt. Brendan O’Byrne, 173rd Airborne
“Brooklyn Boheme” screening at the Brooklyn Historical Society with director Nelson George at 7 p.m.
“Miss Representation” screens at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum hosted by Jennifer L. Pozner, founder and executive director of Women In Media & News
Sexual Misconduct screenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art with musical accompaniment by Yaeko Miranda, Ben Model, Peter Bufano and Mike Dobson; introduced by Elif Rongen-Kaynakci
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 4 to 7 p.m.
Great Googa Mooga tickets go on sale at noon, including free general admission passes and $250 Extra Mooga tickets
Moved forward by one day: Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ at the Public Theater (through May 6)

Friday, March 16
10,000 works by Irish and Irish American authors handed out for free for Irish Arts Center Book Day 2012 from 7:30 a.m. at multiple locations
Asia Week begins at multiple locations, including free admission to China Institute Gallery (through March 24)
Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945 exhibition opens at the Japan Society (through June 10)
Asian Works of Art exhibition opens at 10 a.m. in advance of the March 19 auction at Doyle New York
“Keith Haring: 1978–1982” exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 8)
Francesca Woodman photography exhibition opens at the Guggenheim Museum (through June 13)
Art After Dark with music and a cash bar from 9 p.m. to midnight at the Guggenheim Museum
New York Classical Players perform a free Mozart to Walton concert at the Bohemian National Hall at 8 p.m.
Magos Herrera plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 and 3 at Avery Fisher Hall at 11 a.m.
New York Pops: Patti Austin Sings Ella Fitzgerald’s Gershwin Songbook at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
L’Arpeggiata at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
WHY? with Danielson at Le Poisson Rouge at 7:30 p.m.
Trio Lorca at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Susan Marshall & Company - Harkness Dance Festival performances begin at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8 p.m. (through March 18)
Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva at City Center for Dialogues at 8 p.m.
0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab performances begin at The Bushwick Starr (through April 7)
York Theatre Company begins performances for the Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival (through May 13)
Javanese Wayang Kulit, Shadow-Puppet Theater of Indonesia at the Asia Society at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Brooklyn Philharmonic and guest conductor Wayne DuMaine play the music of Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Otis Redding and William Grant Still at 10:15 a.m. and noon concerts at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Georgia Sagri performance at the Whitney Museum at 7 p.m.
Betty Buckley plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Big Gay Sing 4 at 8 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center (and March 17)
Marianne Faithfull & Marc Ribot at City Winery at 8:30 p.m.
Saw Doctors play Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Justice at Terminal 5 at 9 p.m. (sold out)
One Step Beyond after-hours party at the American Museum of Natural History from 9 p.m. with John Stanier, Battles DJ set and Black Moth Super Rainbow DJ set
George Lopez at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (and March 17)
NY Moth StorySLAM at 7:30 p.m. at The Players; theme: Stories of Safe Passage (sold out)
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event with Jonatha Brooke + Gayatri Devi on Dealing with Dementia at 7 p.m.
Met Talks panel discussion on Manon at 5:30 p.m. with Anna Netrebko, Sarah Billinghurst, Laurent Pelly, Piotr Beczala and Fabio Luisi
Book signing event at 6 p.m. for Lauri Lyons’ and Crystal McCrary’s Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
Free Theater Talks at the Schomburg: Amanda Seales with Elon James White at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (registration requested)
Book event for Mike Doughty’s “The Book of Drugs: A Memoir” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Book signing for Michael Smith’s “Baby Ikki at the Museum” at the Whitney at 6 p.m.
Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum on Making Madurai: Temple Arts in Early Modern South India
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
NYC FIRST Robotics Competition begins at the Javits Center (through March 18)
Knicks vs. Indiana at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Muay Thai at The Mecca at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Stunt man/director Hal Needham attends the 7:30 p.m. screening of “Body Slam” at 92YTribeca
Midnight screening of “Aliens” at the IFC Center (and March 17)
Midnight screening of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” at Sunshine Cinemas
Tavern Concert - Irish Songs of the Civil War at Historic Richmond Town at 7:30 and 9 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Day Festival at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden (through March 18)
Empire State Building lights up green for St. Patrick’s Day (through March 18)

Saturday, March 17
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade begins at 11 a.m. at 44th Street, marches up 5th Avenue to 79th Street
The 19th Original GLBT Expo at the Javits Center (and March 18)
35th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott (through March 18)
The Pier Antiques Show and Fashion Alley at Pier 94 (and March 18)
Norouz Persian New Year Family Day at the Asia Society at 1 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Avalanche at 7 p.m.
2012 PSAL Championships at Madison Square Garden from 10 a.m.
Boxing: Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez vs. Matthew Macklin at 7 7:15 p.m. at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden
Met Opera stages “Khovanshchina” at noon
Metropolitan Opera stages Michael Grandage’s production of “Don Giovanni” at 8 p.m.
L’Arpeggiata at Carnegie’s Weill Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Itamar Golan at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Ecstatic Music Fest: Oneida and Rhys Chatham at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Tokyo String Quartet at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 and 3 at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church at 8 p.m.
Early Music New York concert at 8 p.m. at St. James’ Church
Phildanco at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 2 and 8 p.m. (and March 18)
Young People’s Concert at the NY Philharmonic on Four Greats: Ludwig van Beethoven at 2 p.m.
Big Gay Sing 4 at 8 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center
Rebecca Jordan plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble and Gato Loco concert at 9 p.m. at 92Y Tribeca
Booga Sugar at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Justice at Terminal 5 at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Lee Fields & The Expressions at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. and John Mark McMillan at 9:30 p.m.
Joe Hurley at 11:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Joseph Arthur with Joan as Police Woman at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Black 47 plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7 p.m.
A Tribute to Betty Davis with Nucomme at the Apollo Music Cafe at 10 p.m.
Tavern Concert- Irish Stout at Historic Richmond Town at 7:30 and 9 p.m.
George Lopez at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
An Afternoon with Composer Joel Feigin at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
The Curator’s Perspective: Rosina Cazali at the New Museum at 3 p.m.
Servants’ Quarters reopens after a renovation at the Merchant’s House Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
Free admission all day for Super Sabado at el Museum del Barrio from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Day Irish New York walking tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Downtown – Where New York Began: Immigrant Diversity at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: The Irish in NYC departs Inwood Hill Nature Center at 11 a.m.
Free tours of the historic Sanctuary and Chapel at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 11:30 a.m.
IN Group’s Holi Festival – Rang Barse cruise on The Princess departs Pier 16 at South Street Seaport Pier 81 at noon
Staten Island OutLOUD reading of Mark Twain’s “Party Cries In Ireland” at the Alice Austen House at 2 p.m.
Free kids program on Self-Portrait as a Young Leprechaun at McNally Jackson Books at 11:30 a.m.
LEGO Star Wars Club Meeting at Rockefeller Center one hour prior to the LEGO Store’s opening (reservation required)
Free 2:30 p.m. screening of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
Science Fiction films screen at the Museum of Modern Art at 5:30 p.m. with musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and an introductoin by Elif Rongen-Kaynakci; Mass Destruction films follow at 7:30 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Aliens” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” at Sunshine Cinemas
Free Night Sky program at Wolfe’s Pond Park at 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 18
NYC Half Marathon at 7:30 a.m. from Central Park to Water Street at Maiden Lane
Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day Marathon in the Bronx
Brooklyn Irish-American Parade begins at 1 p.m. at 15th Street and Prospect Park West
Formation of the Federation of Hindu Mandirs Parade begins at 10 a.m. at 133rd Street between Liberty and 107th Avenues
WWE presents “Road To WrestleMania” at 5 p.m. at Madison Square Garden
Free Alarm Will Sound concert at 3 p.m. at the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement
Free concert by violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Reiko Uchida at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library
Free Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral with Hervé Duteil
Free 5 p.m. concert of music by Hummel, Lalo, Dohnányi at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Opening night on Broadway for “Once” (open-ended run)
New York City Opera stages “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College at 1:30 p.m.
Moscow Festival Ballet dances “Swan Lake” at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 4 p.m.
Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva at City Center for Dialogues at 3 p.m.
Georgia Sagri performance at the Whitney Museum at 1 p.m. (Sundays through May 27)
Ebène Quartet at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 2 p.m.
National Youth Choir at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Parisii Quartet plays an 11 a.m. concert at Walter Reade Theater
DCINY Presents: REQUIEM X 2 at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center piano concert of French and French-inspired works at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
Vocal Masterclass with Jane Monheit at Birdland at 1 p.m.
New York Opera Forum presents “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 1:30 p.m.
Cavalleria Rusticana and the Beginnings of Verismo in Italian Literature and Opera at 1 p.m. at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Mercersburg Academy choir performs at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 4 p.m.
Women of Asia Concert: Musical Stars of Asia at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 3 p.m.
National Council Grand Finals Concert at 3 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera House
Music between East and West: Continuity and Change concert at 4 p.m. at the Met Museum
Old World/New World Klezmer with Hot Pstromi concert at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 3 p.m.
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio plays Town Hall at 2 p.m.
The Aaron Copland School of Music Guerrilla Arts Ensemble plays Flushing Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Marieann Meringolo: “You Must Believe in Spring” concert at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8:30 p.m.
Eisley at the Bowery Ballroom at 7 p.m.
The Head and the Heart at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Ace Reporter at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m. and The Hollows at 9 p.m.
Sunday Sessions at PS 1 from noon to 6 p.m.
Justin Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Murray Hill’s Annual Miss Lez Pageant at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at 8 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Thomas Solomon Underwater Escape Act at the New York Aquarium at 2:20 p.m.
Fading Ads of Greenpoint walking tour at 2 p.m. (reservations requested)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Bushwick: Magnificent Remnants and Intelligent Redevelopment at 11 a.m.
The Eminent Irish of Green-Wood Walking Tour at 1 p.m.
Unfinished Symphony: Spotlight on Architecture tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
Jewish Harlem tour with 92Y at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Lenny’s Garage tour of classic vehicles including 45 cars and trucks from 1924 to1968; open from 11 a..m. to 2 p.m.
Noshwalk of Borough Park Shmura Matzoh at noon (sold out)
Seal and Bird Watching Cruise departs Riis Landing in Queens at noon (weekends through April 15)
The Flying Irishman - Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan program at 1 p.m. at Floyd Bennett Field - Hangar B
Barb Stuckey, Malcolm Gladwell with Adam Gopnik: The Mechanics of Taste panel at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Free Historic New York Lecture: The Irish in NYC at 1 p.m. at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn
Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Traditions in the Art of Seventh-Century Jerusalem lecture at the Met Museum at 3 p.m.
Artist Talk: ‘Tis Pity at 6 p.m. at BAMcafé
Free Tom-Becky-Huck look-alike contest sponsored by Staten Island OutLOUD at 2 p.m. at the Greenbelt Nature Center
Wide Open 3 exhibition opens from noon to 5 p.m. at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (weekends through April 1)

Monday, March 19
Dine In Brooklyn restaurant week begins offering three-course dinners for $25 and three-course lunches for $20.12. (through March 29)
SpaFinder’s Wellness Week begins (through March 25)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Devils at 7:30 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for “End of the Rainbow” with Tracie Bennett, Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell at the Belasco Theatre (opening night: April 2; through Sept. 2)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Ra Ra Riot at 8 p.m. at the Rock Shop
Gavin Creel at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Diggy Simmons at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Black Magic cabaret show with Lillias White and Chester Gregory at the Apollo Theater’s Music Cafe at 8:30 p.m.
Erotic Broadway at the Triad Theater at 7 p.m.
One-night staging of “Weaker People” at Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre at 8 p.m.
6th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space hosted by Tovah Feldshuh
Broadway Musicals of 1950 concert at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Jonathan Tunick & The Broadway Moonlighters with Rebecca Faulkenberry at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Pianist DiYi Tang at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Pianist Vassilis Varvaresos at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7 p.m.
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Brian Culbertson & David Benoit: Piano 2 Piano plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Akiko Tsuruga Quintet with Jerry Weldon and Joe Magnarelli at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater at 8 p.m.
The 9 Songwriter Series at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Ticketed Women’s Jazz Festival at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m.
Rich Robinson at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Gomez at Brooklyn Bowl at 8 p.m.
Choir of Young Believers at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m.
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Heather Lawless, Gabe Liedman, Sheng Wang, Ronald Reagan - Boston’s Premier 80’s Pop Saxophone Duo
“Projects 97: Mark Boulos” opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through July 16)
Architectural historian Kathryn Holliday free lecture on A Tower to “Wake Up the Nation:” The New York Times in Times Square at 6:30 p.m. at the Skyscraper Museum (reservations requested)
Book event for Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine: How Creativity Works” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book event for Michael Tucker with Isaiah Sheffer at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m. on “After Annie: A Novel”
Book event for Richard Grant’s “Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Book event for John Leonard’s “Reading for My Life” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
Ventriloquism 101 lecture at 8 p.m. at the Coney Island Sideshow
The Bridge: Michael Emmerich and Ted Goossen in discussion on translating from Japanese at 7 p.m. at McNally Jackson Books
Free gallery tour of Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required/sold out)
“Lust for Life” screens for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
“The Search for Michael Rockefeller” screens at the Explorers Club headquarters at 7 p.m.
An Evening with Mark Boulos at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
Reservations open for Friday’s free screening of “A River Runs Through It” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Tickets go on sale for the James Beard Foundation Awards

Tuesday, March 20
Free Macaron Day at multiple locations in new York City
Knicks vs. Toronto at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 7:30 p.m.
New York City Opera stages “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College at 7:30 p.m.
Cheek by Jowl production of “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore” begins performances at 7:30 p.m. at the BAM Harvey Theater (Through March 31)
New York Philharmonic plays The Modern Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 and 3 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Trio Encounters concert at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Violinist Ryu Goto at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Ecstatic Music Fest: Dan Deacon with NOW Ensemble & the Calder Quartet at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through March 25)
Pharoah Sanders Quartet at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through March 24)
Carl Allen/Rodney Whitaker Project at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through March 25)
Juilliard Jazz All Star Ensemble at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through March 24)
Bill McHenry Quartet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through March 25)
Stanley Clarke Trio + Larry Coryell Trio play the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through March 25)
Free Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Nellie McKay: “Silent Spring - It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m. (through March 31)
Henry Cole at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Poundcake at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Lianne La Havas (sold out) at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Three Blind Wolves and Sleep City at 9:30 p.m.
The Wood Brothers at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Gomez at Brooklyn Bowl at 8 p.m.
Mike Snow at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Odd Future at the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Bruce MacCallum’s “Sixties Pop Icons, Unseen” exhibition opens at the Half-King (through May 14)
Tim Hamilton exhibition opens at the Society of Illustrators (through April 14)
Opening preview of the Arts of Pacific Asia Show (through March 25)
The News Quiz USA with Lewis Black at the Greene Space at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Signing with the cast members from “Hunger Games” at 8 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square; wristbands handed out at 10 a.m. with purchase
Performance by cast members of ”Lucky Duck” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
”Mad Men” creator and cast in discussion with Dave Itzkoff for a TimesTalks event at The Times Center at 6:30 p.m. (sold out/livestream)
2012 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Faster Than the Speed of Light panel at 7:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson (sold out/livestream)
Anne Lamott reads from “Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Live at the Apple Store: Todd Reynolds and Friends at the Apple Upper West Side at 7 p.m.
Meet the Filmmakers: Clive Owen and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for “Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with with Joyce Purnick, former Metro editor of the New York Times
Largehearted Lit: Coney Island Novels with Tara Altebrando and Haley Tanner at Word Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event on “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York” at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
“How to Eat a Cupcake” signing, tasting and reading at 7 p.m. at Posman Books in Chelsea Market
Hari Kunzru in conversation with James Surowiecki at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free discussion with Marvin K. White with Steven G. Fullwood at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 6:30 p.m. (reservation required)
When General Grant Expelled the Jews lecture at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Slaughterhouse 90210 Third Anniversary Party at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Free Duane Michals and Sam Shahid - An Artist Dialogue at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 6 p.m.
Book event for Harlan Coben’s “Stay Close” at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Caroline Stoessinger in Conversation with Eli Wallach at Strand Books at 7 p.m.; purchase-required
Free Central Park Spring Equinox Special: Cross Park Promenade Tour at 1 p.m.
John Cage 100th birthday screening of “26’1.1499” for a String Player” at Anthology Film Archives at 7:30 p.m.
Free screenings of Czech and Other Experimental Films at Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.
Reservations open at noon for the March 28 free Access Restricted panel On The Waterfront: Re-Imagining the East River Esplanade at 7 p.m. at the Two Bridges Community Room, 82 Rutgers Slip (reservation required)

Wednesday, March 21
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Red Wings at 7:30 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for “Magic/Bird” (April 11 opening night; through Dec. 30)
Free performances throughout the city for Bach in the Subways day
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
Prague Philharmonia concert at the Bohemian National Hall at 8 p.m.
The Salomé Chamber Orchestra- A Bach Birthday Concert at 7:30 p.m at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater at 7:30 p.m. hosted by the comedian Capone
Standard Time with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
New York International Music Festival at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Emerson String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
The Louis Armstrong Centennial Band at Birdland at 5:30 p.m.
Jerry Costanzo and His Trio at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.
NYC Improv Festival begins (through March 24)
Lee Ritenour plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Oberhofer at the Bowery Ballroom at 8:30 p.m.
Young Concert Artists Series: Charlie Albright at The Morgan Library & Museum at noon
Free lecture by Paul Volcker at The Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.
on the current state of the economy
Things You Should Know Before Trying to Run a Freakshow lecture by by Dick Zigun, founder of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow at 8 p.m.
Kevin Smith book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book launch for Rick Moody’s “On Celestial Music:
And Other Adventures in Listening” at 7 p.m. at the Powerhouse Arena
Illegal Living: 80 Wooster St and the Evolution of SoHo lecture at noon at 92YTribeca
Lecture by English artist Christopher Bucklow at 7 p.m. at the International Center of Photography
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Claude Lanzmann on Shoah and My Life, a conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Flux Death Match panel on Art & OWS at 8 p.m. at the Flux Factory
Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum on The Dawn of Photography
Purchase-required book event in the New York Palace hotel’s library for Jane’s Green’s “Another Piece of My Heart” at 6:30 p.m.
Free Word Rapport: Michael Long with Mila Rosenthal at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (registration requested)
Artists and the Business of Art panel at the Greene Space at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Artist Talk with Ethan Shoshan: Strange Birds at the Center for Book Arts at 6:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Michael Takiff’s “A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Karma-Con: Studio Salon evening of comics and cocktail at 6 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art
Lauren Groff and Megan Mayhew Bergman at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free Access Restricted panel on The Sacred and the Secular: Arts and Community at Trinity Wall Street at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Chapel (reservation required)
Free Joy in Singing master class at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts with Paul Sperry at 2:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Free gallery tour of Impact: 50 Years of the CFDA at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 10:30 a.m. (reservation required/sold out)
Preview screening of “4:44 Last Day on Earth” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. with Abel Ferrara and Shanyn Leigh in person
“Ice Age” To The Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios exhibition opens at the Society of Illustrators

Thursday, March 22
Opening night on Broadway for “Jesus Christ Superstar” (open-ended run)
Opening night for Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of “Lost in Yonkers” at the Beckett Theatre (through April 14)
Off-Broadway’s “Naked Boys Singing!” moves to Theatre Row’s Kirk Theatre (through Sept. 29)
Dohnányi conducts Henze and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m., with a ticketed open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
New York City Opera stages “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College at 7:30 p.m.
Prague Philharmonic plays a Music for Water concert at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
New York Scandia Symphony presents 
Scandinavian Masterworks at 8 p.m. at the Scandinavia House
Artisan Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
New York Staff Band of the Salvation Army at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballyhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
Artist-in-Residence: Yarn/Wire with Nathan Davis and Pete Swanson at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
BrooklyNites Jazz featuring Helen Sung at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum
Gil Parris plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 p.m.
CMA Songwriter Series at Joe’s Pub at 6:30 and 9 p.m.
Tracy Morgan at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through March 25)
Vlada Tomova’s Balkan Tales free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
The Black Keys at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Housse De Racket at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Kasabian at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Band of Skulls at Webster Hall at 8 p.m.
Grace Woodroofe at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Mr. Dream at 9:30 p.m.
Roseneath Theatre of Toronto’s performance of “The Neverending Story” at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. (through March 25)
Elephant Room magic show begins performances at 8 p.m. at St. Ann’s Warehouse (through April 8)
NY Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7:30 p.m.; topic: Kiss of Death
Book event for Joshua Foer at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Elaine Pagels book event at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m. for “Revelations”
Free but ticketed panel at The Public Theater at 8 p.m. on the ethics and artistic license in nonfiction-based theater in the wake of Mike Daisey’s truthiness admission regarding “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”
Author @ the Library event for “How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Moustafa Bayoumi
Jewish Women in Social Services panel at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Book launch event for R.J. Smith’s The One: The Life and Music of James Brown at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m. with Dave Tompkins
Free lecture on The War of 1812 in American Caricature at St. John’s University at 5 p.m.
Book event for Hari Kunzru’s “Gods Without Men” at Word Brooklyn at 7 p.m. (reservation requested)
AIGA/NY: Design + Interiors program with Rafael de Cárdenas at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Arts & Design
Free World Water Day presentation on the Croton Reservoir at 6:30 p.m. at Charles A. Dana Discovery Center in Central Park
New Directors/New Films 2012 series at Film Society Lincoln Center (through April 2)
”A Better Life” screening and discussion at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Architectural Digest Home Design Show at Pier 94 opens to the trade; opens to the public as of Friday (through March 25)
Artexpo opens to the trade at Pier 92 (through March 25)

Friday, March 23
Dohnányi conducts Henze and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic at 2 p.m.
National Chorale concert at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Elias String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Citizen Cope at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 10 p.m.
Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Lisa Moore plays a free 8 p.m. concert at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Viva and her Power Trio play a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Keyboard Kid at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
Excision at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 10 p.m. (and March 24)
Todd Barry at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club
MythBusters at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Capitol Steps plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Esperanza Spalding autograph signing at J&R at 12:30 p.m.
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Cedar Walton in conversation with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 4 p.m.
Free Coyote Awareness Q&A program at 4 p.m. at Railroad Park in Queens with the Urban Park Rangers
Foreclosed: Documents from the American Housing Crisis exhibition opens at the Alice Austen House Museum (through June 8)
Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art final exhibition opens at Exit Art gallery (through May 19)
Free 3 p.m. screening of “A River Runs Through It” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
Midnight screening of “El Topo” at the IFC Center (and March 24)
“Satan’s Seat”: New York During Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Sabres at 7 p.m.
Empire State Building lights up white, red and white for the New York Red Bulls’ Opening Day (through March 25)
Status uncertain/removed from Apple calendar: Meet the Author: Kevin Smith at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 24
Meet the Pilots Day at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum with an 11 a.m. panel on female aviators
24-hour screening of Mary Ellen Carroll’s “Federal” begins at 9 a.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image; free with museum admission, except from 7 p.m. until 9 a.m. when it will be completely free as the museum’s other galleries will be closed
Knicks vs. Detroit at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Red Hook Criterium race at 8 p.m. at Pier 11/Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 1 p.m. and Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 8:30 p.m.
New York City Opera stages “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College at 7:30 p.m.
Dohnányi conducts Henze and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Pianist Hai-Kyung Suh at Alice Tully Hall at 8 p.m.
The Music of the Tenor Masters at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
The Werner Chamber Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 2 p.m.
The Music of George Oakley at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Lo Còr de la Plana at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 10 p.m.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7 p.m.
The Kitchen: Instrumentals II at The Kitchen at 8 p.m.
Brooklyn Philharmonic concert at Roulette at 7:30 p.m.
Women’s Drum & Dance Company of Guinea: Nimbaya! at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Excision at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 10 p.m.
Tom Wopat at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 2 and 8 p.m.
An Evening with Ronan Tynan
 and Judy Collins at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 8 p.m.
Ben Kweller plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Franco De Vita at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Magic at Coney!!! – A Historical Revue performance at 3 p.m. at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Bitch plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Free Civil War New York Walking Tour: Fort Totten at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of St. John’s Park: Pleasure Garden of New York’s First Families at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Crown Heights North at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Free tours of the historic Sanctuary and Chapel at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at 11:30 a.m.
Behind the Emerald Curtain “Wicked” behind-the-scenes tours resume every Saturday at 10 a.m. (through June 30)
Medieval 2.0: Spotlight on Traditions Transformed tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m. and Secrets of St. John the Divine: Spotlight on Hidden Images at 2 p.m.
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: Native Americans at 11 a.m. with the Urban Park Rangers at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx
Photography & the Art of Community program on Northern Manhattan at the Morris-Jumel Mansion at 2 p.m. with Mike Fitelson (pre-paid registration required)
Free Exploring the Water Cycle program at 11 a.m. at the Dana Discovery Center in Central Park
Oh, the Gall of it! Insect Gall Diversity and Ecology lecture at the Explorers Club at 9 a.m.
LEGO Star Wars Club Meeting at Rockefeller Center one hour prior to the LEGO Store’s opening (reservation required)
St. Patrick’s Dinner at 6 p.m. at Staten Island’s Conference House Museum
Midnight screening of “El Topo” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “Alice in Wonderland: An Adult Musical Comedy ” at Sunshine Cinemas
Aputumpu Music Festival at multiple locations (through March 25)

Sunday, March 25
Greek Independence Day Parade begins at 1:30 p.m. at 64th Street and heads up 5th Avenue to 79th Street
38th annual Macy’s Flower Show begins (through April 7)
Magnolia Blossom Walk on Roosevelt Island at 11 a.m. (reservations requested)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Flushing’s Koreatown at 11 a.m.
Municipal Art Society’s Starchitecture walking tour at 9:45 a.m. (reservations requested)
Brooklyn Historical Society building tour at 2 p.m.
Free Revolutionary New York Walking Tour at 11 a.m. at Staten Island’s Conference House Park
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: Women’s History at 11 a.m. in Riverside Park
Free William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge Hike at 1 p.m. the Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy (registration required)
Free Freshkills Park March Birding Tour at 10:30 a.m. (reservation required)
Free Birding: Eagles program at 1 p.m. with the Urban Park Rangers at Raoul Wallenberg Forest at 232 Street in Riverdale Park in the Bronx
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event: “Caris’ Peace” screening and Film + Talk: David Carr and Andre Fenton on Short-term Memory Loss at 4:30 p.m.
Black Clock Issue 15 panel at McNally Jackson Books at 4:30 p.m. with Rick Moody, Anthony Miller, Geoffrey O’Brien, Kyra Simone, Lynne Tillman and Steve Erickson
SALON 3 – Birthright as Public Choreography at the New Museum at 4 p.m.
Free Exploring the Water program at 1 p.m. at the Salt Marsh Nature Center
Mad Men Season Premiere Viewing Party at the Paley Center for Media at 8 p.m. Hosted by TV Guide Magazine’s Matt Roush and Carol Dittbrenner
March for the Earth events at the Queens Botanical Garden
J&R in-store with Suzi Shelton at 11 a.m.; the Z Brothers at 1 p.m.; and Jon Samson at 3 2:30 p.m.
Free JACK Quartet concert at 3 p.m. at the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement
Daria Rabotkina plays pieces from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, excerpts from Schumann’s Humoreske, and Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Central Library
Free Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Free 5 p.m. piano concert at the Nicholas Roerich Museum of Shostakovich, Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy
Blue Heron concert in the The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters at 1 and 3 p.m.
St. Lawrence String Quartet plays Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Jorn Swart Trio at Flushing Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
National Festival Chorus Millikin University Choir at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Philharmonic concert at 7:30 p.m. at Roulette
Michael Schade and Luca Pisaroni at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Bach in the Subways 3 p.m. concert at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church
Marcy Playground at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Justin Vivian Bond at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Japan’s L’Arc-en-Ciel in concert at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
BodySlam at Irving Plaza
Fish Face kids program at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts at 3 p.m.
The Fresh Beat Band Live In Concert at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. (sold out)
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
“Synecdoche” screens at 6 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image with an introduction by Mark Friedberg
Lasker Rink at the north end of Central Park closes for the season
Postponed: Noshwalk of Midtown at 1 p.m.

Monday, March 26
Knicks vs. Milwaukee at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for “Clybourne Park” (opening night: April 19; through July 15)
Met Opera stages “Manon” with Anna Netrebko at 7:30 p.m.
Dickie Landry plays a site-specific SOLO concert at the Guggenheim Museum at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays The Frank Loesser Songbook: Anywhere I Wander at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
NY Philharmonic’s Very Young People’s Concerts: Forte and Piano at 10:30 a.m. at Merkin Concert Hall
Free Songbook@LPA: Broadway’s Future concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
So Percussion plays John Cage at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Henry Wong Doe at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Band and Choir at Alice Tully Hall at 7 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Helen Sung Quintet 
Tribute to Wayne Shorter at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
East Coast Chamber Orchestra at (le) poisson rouge at 7:30 6:30 p.m.
2nd Annual James Moody Scholarship Benefit Concert & Celebration at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Women’s Jazz Festival: The Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook ticketed event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m.
Jane Monheit Swings Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at Birdland at 7 p.m. with Robert Creighton and Ted Nash
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland at 9:30 p.m.
At This Performance Broadway standbys/understudies concert at 7 p.m. at The Lion Theatre
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Scott Moran and Ben Kronberg
Musical performance by Joan Osborne at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Fiona Apple at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Kimbra (sold out) at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Tribes at 9 p.m.
Performances of “If It Only Even Runs A Minute 9” at 7 and 9:30 p.m at Joe’s Pub
Staged reading of “Krchen the Immortal” at the Bohemian National Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Scandinavian American Theater Company reads Thomas Markmann’s “Twenty Minutes After Death” at the Scandinavia House at 7:30 p.m.
Free staged reading of “Deadline” for TeatroStageFest at 7:30 p.m. with Jimmy Smits and Jenn Colella at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre (reservations required)
NY Moth StorySLAM at The Bitter End at 7:30 p.m.; topic: vacation
Book event for Joshua Knelman’s “Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Lecture on The Forest Unseen, A Year’s Watch in Nature at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m. with David Haskell
Book event for Richard Zacks’ “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for “Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
Book event for The Buried Life at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Book event for Ahmed Rashid’s “Pakistan on the Brink” at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
Free book event on “Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families” at 7 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
A WILD Night with Sugar and the Rumpus at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m. (sold out)
The American Musicals Project Annual Gala Benefit at 6 p.m at the New-York Historical Society (sold out)
Actors Fund benefit Nothing Like a Dame performance at the The Gerald Lynch Theatre at 7:30 p.m. with Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen, Phyllis Newman and others
Miscast MCC Theater gala at 6:30 p.m. at The Hammerstein Ballroom
FalconWorks benefit in Red Hook at Kidd Studios at 7 p.m.
Free gallery tour of Impact: 50 Years of the CFDA at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservations required/sold out)
Music and Conversation with Michael Tilson Thomas at the Greene Space at 7 p.m. (sold out)
“Un Chien Andalou” (1929) and “L’Age d’Or” (1930) screens for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
“We Own the Night” screens at 7 p.m. with a Q&A with director James Gray at BAM Rose Cinemas
Reservations open for Friday’s free screening of “Midnight in Paris” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at 3 p.m.
Moved to March 27: New York Philharmonic Insights Series: An Evening with Frank Peter Zimmermann at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27
Lunchtime talk with Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown at noon at the Intrepid Museum (reservations required)
Free Conversations on Practice: Patti Smith with Glenn Kurtz at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
A Tribute to Anthony Shadid at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Giada de Laurentiis at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Marissa Mayer at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7 p.m.
Free Authors in Conversation: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir & Elizabeth Hand at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Robert Shiller on “Finance and the Good Society” lecture at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 p.m.
Launch Party for Kris D’Agostino and “The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac” at 7 p.m. at Word Brooklyn
Free Tenement Talks event on Public Markets: Talk & Tasting with Robert Lavala, Anne Saxelby and Suzanne Wasserman at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
TEDxHarlem: Creating Waves at Riverside Church from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New York Philharmonic Insights Series: An Evening with Frank Peter Zimmermann at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse at 6:30 p.m.
India Prospective: 2012 panel at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m. co-hosted by by KPMG, U.S. India Business Council and Asia Society
Spring Skies: Venus and Jupiter Conjunction astronomy talk at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Author @ the Library event for “Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Leslie Day and Trudy Smoke
Word Rapport: ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba, Jafari Allen with Steven G. Fullwood at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 6:30 p.m. (registration required)
Meet the Actor: Lily Collins from “Mirror Mirror” at the Apple SoHo store at 8 p.m.
“Being Elmo” screens for free indoors at the World Financial Garden at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Made in NY series
Korean Cultural Society presents a free screening of “My Girlfriend is an Agent” at 7 p.m. at Tribeca Cinemas
Free screening of “The City” at the Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 7:30 p.m.
DanceBrazil at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through April 8)
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through April 1)
Free Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen performance at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Generations in Vocal Jazz concert with with Sachal Vasandani, Jon Hendricks, Dayna Stephens, Jeb Patton, David Wong and Clarence Penn at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 1)
Adison Evans Quintet: The Music of Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through March 31)
The Brussels Jazz Orchestra ft. Kenny Werner & Chris Potter plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through April 1)
Pianist Susumu Aoyagi at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Live taping of NPR’s From the Top: The Achievers at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Gotham Chamber Opera Steps Out at (le) poisson rouge at 7 p.m.
Joan Osborne at City Winery at 8 p.m. (and March 28)
Sun Records 60th Golden Anniversary concert at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
HAPA at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Drew Gasparini at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Youth Lagoon at the Bowery Ballroom at 8:30 p.m. (sold out)
Toots & the Maytals at Brooklyn Bowl at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Gotye at Webster Hall at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Band of Skulls at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m. (sold out)
Cloud Nothings at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Christian McBride & Inside Straight at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through March 31)
“The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context” exhibition opens at the Met Museum (through Sept. 30)
A Plague Remembered: AIDS Memorial Park Design Competition exhibition goes on display at the Center for Architecture (through April 11)
75th Annual NIT college basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.: Massachusetts vs. Stanford and Washington vs. Minnesota
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
New York City World Theatre Day celebrated at at Houndstooth Pub at 5 p.m.
Individual Yankees home game tickets go on sale at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, March 28
Knicks vs. Orlando at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for “Peter and the Starcatcher”
Performances of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Pipe Dream” begin at City Center’s Encores! at 7:30 p.m. with Will Chase, James Clow, Philip Hernández, James Moye, Laura Osnes, Steve Routman, Leslie Uggams, Stephen Wallem and Tom Wopat (through April 1)
Meet the Musicians of The Metropolitan Opera’s New “Ring” Cycle at the Apple Upper West Side store at 6 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetique” at Avery Fisher Hall at 6:45 p.m. with an open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Vered Reznik and Haim Avitsur at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
The Cathedral Choirs performance at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 7:30 p.m.
ENJOY! Tokyo Student Ballet at Alice Tully Hall at 7 p.m.
Selected Shorts: Fire and Ice with Mike Daisey at 7 p.m.
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater at 7:30 p.m.
Our Hit Parade at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub with Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn
Hideki Togi with Iwao Furusawa at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Ecstatic Music Fest: Music from China & Music from Copland House at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
A Lorca Soundscape at 92YTribeca at 8 p.m.
Joan Osborne at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Skream & Benga at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 9 p.m.
The Temper Trap at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
The Joy Formidable at Terminal 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Strangefolk at Brooklyn Bowl at 9 p.m.
First Aid Kit at Webster Hall at 9 p.m.
Youth Lagoon at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
Simone Felice at 6:30 p.m. the Mercury Lounge and Polica at 9:30 p.m.
DJ Shadow plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
WATERS plays at Macy’s Herald Square at 6 p.m.
“Electric Currents, 1900–1940” exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 30)
Culinary Historians of New York food event and lecture on The History of Early Cookbooks at the Astor Center at 7 p.m. (reservation required)
News from Underground: “Is It a University, or Just a Corporation? The Case of NYU’s Expansion Plan” panel discussion at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free Coney Island: Photographs, Facts, and Fun panel at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m. with photographer Harvey Stein, historian John Manbeck and Lola Star
James Peterson discusses and signs the revised version of his “Vegetables” cookbook at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Bill’s Design Talks discussion with Emily Oberman of Pentagram at 6:30 p.m. at 44 Charlton St
Peter Popham in conversation with Suzanne DiMaggio on The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
The Intersection of Health Care, History and Justice ticketed event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m.
John Maxtone-Graham lecture on Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner at noon at 92YTribeca
The Salon book event at Book Court at 7 p.m. with Michelle Maisto, Julie Powell, Melissa Vaughan and Rachel Wharton
Deana Lawson lecture at the International Center of Photography at 7 p.m.
Planet under Pressure: Climate Change and Mass Transit panel discussion at 6 p.m. at the NY Transit Museum (reservation requested)
Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum on Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Brooklyn Independents: Graywolf Press poetry reading at the Brooklyn Public Library at 7 p.m. with Jeffrey Yang, Gary Jackson and Matthea Harvey
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event at 7 p.m. on Film + Talk: Allan Lokos and John Deluca on “A Memory of Living in the Moment”
Ticketed Live from the NYPL conversation on The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, From Vienna 1900 to the Present with Eric Kande and Paul Holdengräber at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 7 p.m.
Lecture on the Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians at Bohemian National Hall at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Launch party and presentation from Blast Books and The National Library of Medicine at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
NPR Science Friday at the Museum taping at the American Museum of Natural History at 6:30 p.m.
“Metropolitan” screens for free indoors at the World Financial Garden at 7:30 p.m. for the Made in NY series
Mohamed Nasheed, subject of “The Island President,” and filmmaker Jon Shenk attend the 7:50 p.m. screening of the film at Film Forum
“Oslo, August 31st” screens at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m. with the director in person for a Q&A
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Diego Rivera-inspired Eat, Drink, MoMA food program at the Museum of Modern Art at 6:30 p.m.
Delayed to April 4: Midsummer Night’s Dream begins performances at the Classic Stage Company with Bebe Neuwirth (through May 6)

Thursday, March 29
Opening night on Broadway for “Newsies” (extended through Aug. 19)
Previews begin on Broadway for “Nice Work if You Can Get It” with Matthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara and Michael McGrath (opening night: April 24; through June 2)
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 7:30 p.m.
Free Eva Ayllón concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Harlem Stage (reservations requested)
Free staging of the dark comedy “Asking For It” at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Jonathan Maron plays free live jazz in-store at Uniqlo from 6 to 9 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky and Dvorák at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
American Mavericks with Members of the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Festival Chamber Music Concert Series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
The Chamber Music Collective of CSI concert at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m.
Big Band Hits at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater (through March 31)
Dr. John: Insides Out, A Louis Armstrong Tribute begins at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m. (through March 31)
Guerrilla Girls stage a multimedia performance in full jungle drag at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum (reservations suggested)
Thomas Dolby at 8 p.m. at the Canal Room
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
Slaughterhouse at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
Delta Spirit at Webster Hall at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Metronomy plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m. (and March 30)
The Temper Trap at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m. (sold out)
COMMUNION: Austin To Boston with Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff and Bear’s Den at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
The Pierces at the Bowery Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Mason Jennings with The Pines at City Winery at 8 p.m. (and March 30)
Steep Canyon Rangers at 9:30 p.m at Joe’s Pub
Jim Norton at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through April 1)
Association of International Photography Art Dealers’ AIPAD Photography Show New York opens to the public at the Park Avenue Armory (through April 1)
Property from the estate of filmmaker Gary Winick: 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks go on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the April 4 auction
“Shift,” “Ralph Lemon” and “Harlem Postcards” exhibitions go on view at the Studio Museum (through May 27)
Unnatural Formations photography group show of the work of Stephen Hilyard, Simen Johan, and Lydia Anne McCarthy opens at 6 p.m. at the Scandinavia House (through June 30)
Book event for Rachel Maddow’s “Drift” at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Women in Hip-Hop panel at 6 p.m. with a DJ set by female artists at the Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Art (reservation requested)
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum on Witches, Wife Beaters, & Whores: Common Law & Common Folk in Early America at 6:30 p.m.
Free dialogue between Cornel West and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou at 7 p.m. at . West-Park Presbyterian Church
New-York Historical Society discussion on Conquered into Liberty at 6:30 p.m.
Katori Hall at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Kenneth Turan and Henry Bean in conversation at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Playwrights in Conversation: John Guare and Christopher Durang purchase-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Adventures in the Global Kitchen program on The Magical Meal with Wylie Dufresne at the American Museum of Natural History at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Ellen Ullman in conversation with Laura Miller at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Born to Giglio discussion at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m. with Stephanie Trudeau and Danny Vecchiano, leader of the Vecchiano Festival Band
Eleventh National Black Writers Conference Poetry Café at the Brooklyn Public Library at 6:30 p.m.
The Artist’s Voice: Kira Lynn Harris in conversation with Lauren Haynes at 7 p.m. at the Studio Museum
Ashley Greene appearance at Macy’s Herald Square at 6 p.m.
Isabel Toledo event at el Museo del Barrio at 6:30 p.m. (reservations required)
BK Fashion Week{end} begins in Sunset Park (through April 1)
“Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo” screens for free at 7:30 p.m. for the opening night of CUNY’s Global Film Series
Preview screening of “Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. with director Neema Barnette, actors Pam Grier and Reed Mccants, and producer Jeff Clanagan in person
“The Moors: Prelude to the Renaissance” screens at 3 2 p.m. at the Met Museum
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
75th Annual NIT Championship Doubleheader college basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Daily News Golden Gloves Finals at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. (and March 30)

Friday, March 30
Free Love is Here to Stay: Evening for Vaclav Havel event with Edward Einhorn, Ivan Kral, Wendy Luers, Martin Palous, Lou Reed, Ed Sanders, Suzanne Vega at 8 p.m. at the Bohemian National Hall
Free reading of Marina Carr’s “16 Possible Glimpses” at The Irish Repertory Theatre at 3 p.m.
The New Cookers play a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Previews begin on Broadway for the comedy “Don’t Dress for Dinner” (opening night: April 26; through June 17)
New York Philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky and Dvorák at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Musical Armenia 2012 at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m. featuring music by Schumann, Vache Sharafyan, Khudoyan, Tsintsadze, Hovhaness and Chopin
American Mavericks with Members of the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert by master clarinetist David Shifrin at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Spring Instrumental Music Festival at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Cappella Romana concert at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum
From Sofia to New York in One Hour concert at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Catherine Russell at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room (and March 31)
Charles Busch’s new comedy “Judith of Bethulia” begins performances at Theater for the New City’s Cino Theater (through April 28)
“MacHomer: The Simpsons do Macbeth” performance at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (and March 31)
Metronomy plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Sonic Boom at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at 9 p.m.
Revival Tour 2012 at the Bowery Ballroom at 6:30 and 11 p.m.
of Montreal at Webster Hall at 6:30 p.m.
The Temper Trap at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Jenny Owen Youngs and Aunt Martha at 6:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Twerps at 10:30 p.m.
Falu at the Rubin Museum of Art at 7 p.m.
Tall Heights / The Brothers McCann / Little Sur at 92Y Tribeca at 9 p.m.
JALALA (Janis Siegel, Laurel Masse, Lauren Kinhan) at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Soundcheck Live with Andrew Bird and Ana Gasteyer at the Greene Space at 2 p.m. (sold out)
Mord Fustang at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 10 p.m.
Mason Jennings with The Pines at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Barstool Blackout Tour, world’s biggest blacklight party, at the Roseland Ballroom at 11 p.m.
Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world … video exhibition goes on display at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 26)
The “Rose Haggadah” goes on display at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through April 22)
Photographs go on display at Christie’s Rockefeller Center ahead of the April 5 auction
Book event for Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone at Barnes & Noble Tribeca at 6 p.m. by Linda Ramone, Tommy Ramone and John Cafiero
NYU Steinhardt/Blue Note Jazz Series: Eddie Gomez in conversation with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 4 p.m.
NYC Teen Author Festival Symposium at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Met Museum on The Roman City of Zeugma Conservation Project
Conversation with a Conservator on An Exceptional Persian Carpet at 2 p.m. at the Met Museum
Free Human Rights v. Civil Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (reservation required)
Book signing for Ed Panar’s “Animals That Saw Me” at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
Free Women in Music ceremony at 11 a.m. at the Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center in Brooklyn
David Levithan at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Free 3 p.m. screening of “Midnight in Paris” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
”Return to the Scene of the Crime” and “Seeking the Monkey King” screen at 7 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with director Ken Jacobs in person
“Player Hating: A Love Story” screens at the Maysles Cinema at 7:30 p.m.; Q&A with director Maggie Hadleigh-West to follow screening
Midnight screening of “House” at Sunshine Cinemas (and March 31)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Canadiens at 7:30 p.m.
Daily News Golden Gloves Finals at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 31
Knicks vs. Cleveland at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
The 100-year-old Prospect Park Carousel opens for the season
World War II Day at Fort Wadsworth
Spring Opening Weekend events at the Queens Botanical Garden from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and April 1)
Ticketed openstudios Hudson Square program with openhousenewyork from 1 to 5 p.m.
Free rain-or-shine Brooklyn Bridge Park Spring Fling from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free 7 p.m. Community Sing: Young People’s Chorus of New York City at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Eric Wyatt plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Philip Glass Retrospective with Paul Barnes at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York Philharmonic plays Tchaikovsky and Dvorák at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Met Opera stages Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” at 1 p.m.
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko at 8 p.m.
Catherine Russell at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum
Orchestra of the Aaron Copland School of Music plays an All-Dvorak Concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Bohemian National Hall
Red Star and Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble concert at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m.
Collegium Vocale Gent Choir and Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall at 7 p.m.
Eternal Light…Shining Bright concert at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
100th Concert of the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
Tlen-Huicani plays a concert of traditional folk music of Mexico and Latin America at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 8 p.m.
Duquesne University Tamburitzans concert at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Triboro plays the Tavern Concert at Historic Richmond Town at 7:30 and 9 p.m.
No BS! Brass plays Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Ticketed V-Day Harlem performance of “Vagina Monologues” at 6 p.m. at the Schomburg Center’s American Negro Theatre
Staten Island OutLOUD performance of YO, TWAIN! Tom Sawyer Lives on Staten Island! at 8 p.m. at Brighton Heights Reformed Church
Wyclef Jean at City Winery at 9 p.m.
Jordan Knight plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
The Good Rats play B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 p.m.
Legends of Disco at the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom at 7 p.m.
ANOMALY featuring Laidback Luke, Martin Solveig, Mt. Eden, Felguk and Pierce Fulton at Terminal 5 at 8 p.m.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at Brooklyn Bowl at 6 p.m.
Swervedriver at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett at the Highline Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 10 p.m.
Dirty Names at 7:30 p.m. the Mercury Lounge and Sandro Perri at 10:30 p.m.
of Montreal at Webster Hall at 6 p.m. (sold out)
Swear and Shake, Tall Tall Trees and Plume Giant in concert at 9 p.m. at 92YTribeca
Nero at the Roseland Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 6.)
American Furniture & Decorative Arts exhibition opens in advance of the April 4 auction at Doyle New York
NYC Audubon Early Spring Bird Walk at 10 a.m. at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (reservations requested)
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: Park Slope at noon with the Urban Park Rangers
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. plus a 1 p.m. insect exploration trek
Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side Walking Tour at noon with the president of the NYC Dorothy Parker Society (reservations requested)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Prospect Park South: A Closer Look at 11 a.m. (sold out)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of A Geography of Modern Art at 4 p.m. (sold out)
Free wilderness survival program at 1 p.m. at Pelham Bay Park
Green-Wood Through the Lens Talk & Tour at 1 p.m.
Aesthetic Realism Foundation illustrated lecture on The Brooklyn Bridge: A Study in Greatness at 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library
Independent Art Spaces Symposium and Art Spaces Directory Launch at noon at the New Museum
Nervous Magic Lantern Performance: Time Squared at the Museum of the Moving Image at 2 p.m. with Ken Jacobs in person and Short Works at 4:30 p.m. and for his Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World and A Loft at 7:30 p.m.
“Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974” screens at 3 p.m. at the Asia Society
“Women on Top” screens at the Maysles Cinema at 9 p.m.
Midnight screening of “The Holy Mountain” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “House” at Sunshine Cinemas
Beer for Beasts II charity event (sold out)
Free transit cards handed out for the You the Man campaign starting around 3 p.m.
The Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Best Buy Theater and other structures will turn off their lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. for Earth Hour

Image source: Flamenco Festival logo from New York City Center.

Image source: K. Kotani (dates unknown), The Modern Song (Modan bushi), 1930. Color lithograph, ink on paper, 16 × 20 in. Photograph courtesy of The Levenson Collection. From the Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945 exhibition at the Japan Society.

Photo credit: Magnolias in bloom. Roosevelt Island Historical Society.

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