January 1, 2012

April 2012 New York City calendar

Sunday, April 1
Blessing of the rides at 11 a.m. at Coney Island
The Cyclone opens for the season with free rides for the first 100 people
Luna Park at Coney Island opens for the season
Coney Island History Project opens for the season from noon to 6 p.m.
Cherry Blossom Season, Hanami, begins at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (through April 29)
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Bruins at 3 7 p.m.
Last skate of the season, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., at Wollman Rink at Central Park
The Annual Pre-Passover Jewish Lower East Side Tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m.
Free 3 p.m. Prospect Park wildlife walking tour
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Ridegewood at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Free Revolutionary New York Walking Tour: The Conference House at 1 p.m. at Staten Island’s Conference House Park
Free tour of the Heather and Alpine Gardens at 1 p.m. in Fort Tryon Park
Free Fashion District walking tour at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
New-York Historical Society’s George Washington’s New York: Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan at 11 a.m. (sold out)
Talking Fiction, Talking Fact: Colm Tóibín and Mick Moloney on Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.
Frank Langella at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
In the News with Jeff Greenfield: Nancy Pelosi at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
What Is The Most Important Photograph In American History? discussion at 2 p.m. at the Alice Austen House Museum
Writers Read at (le) poisson rouge at 6 p.m. with Kim Powers , Alan Herman , Laura Kelly, Odette Heideman and Andrée Lockwood
Book event for Glyn Maxwell at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Happiness + Sustainability talk with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Dasho Karma Ura at the Rubin Museum of Art at 6:30 p.m.
“Star Spangled to Death” screens at the Museum of the Moving Image at 1:30 p.m. with director Ken Jacobs in person
Opening night 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 (extended through July 8)
Midtown Men, (the original cast from Jersey Boys) perform at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 7 p.m.
Andreas Brantelid and Shai Wosner play a Sunday Morning Coffee Concert at 11 a.m. at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater
Free 5 p.m. concert of Handel, Fauré, Taktakishvili and Diana Syrse at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Russian Dedications concert at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Pianist Evelina Puzaite plays works by Rachmaninoff, Ciurlionis and Liszt at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 2 p.m.
The New York City Chamber Orchestra and Festival Choruses at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 2 p.m.
De Profundis: The Deep End (Music for Low Instruments) at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
This Shining Night: The Music of Lauridsen and Whitacre at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Gary Dranch & Friends at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland at 9 and 11 p.m.
George London Foundation Recital Series at The Morgan Library & Museum at 5 p.m.
John Senakwami presents: Young Pianists - Young Singers at 7 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
Lance Horne & The Salon for Fools at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Dangerous Muse at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Wild Flag at Webster Hall at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Willis Earl Beal at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m.
Citizen Cope at City Winery (through April 5)
April Fools Comedy Show at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m. with JB Smoove, Tommy Davidson, Hannibal Buress, Michael Blackson, Tony Roberts, Drew Fraser and Wil Sylvince
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Sunday Sessions at PS1 from 1 to 7 p.m.
“My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish …” performance at 2 p.m. at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Qing Ming Festival Family Day at The Museum of Chinese in America
Spring Opening Weekend events at the Queens Botanical Garden from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Performance of “Ramona Quimby” at the Queens Theatre in the Park at 1 and 3 p.m.
Dan Zanes & Friends at 3 p.m. at the Met Museum
Family Concert: David Grover with Grover’s Gang at The Jewish Museum at 2 p.m.
Easter Egg Hunt at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 1 p.m. (registration requested)
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films Closing Night: Surprise Film at 7 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater
“The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry” screens at the Maysles Cinema at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale for Project Shaw’s reading of “Widower’s House”

Monday, April 2
U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels will perform a survey flight with two F/A-18 jets from 9:30 to 11 a.m., making multiple passes over the Hudson River
Opening night on Broadway for “End of the Rainbow” with Tracie Bennett, Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell at the Belasco Theatre (through Sept. 2)
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 7:30 p.m.
The Ventures play B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Ben Howard at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Andrew W.K. at Webster Hall at 7 p.m. (sold out)
SBTRKT DJ Set and special guests at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Jonny Corndawg at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m.
Rachael Yamagata at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Ana Gasteyer: Elegant Songs from a Handsome Woman at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Free Singers Space American Songbook performances at the Symphony Space BARthalia at 8 p.m.
The Mimesis Ensemble Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and Choirs at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Marcus & Riza Printup Quartet with Corcoran Holt and Obed Calvaire at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
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.
“11 O’Clock Numbers” with Christina Bianco, Carole J. Bufford & Scott Coulter at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Rutgers Faculty Jazz Septet & University Jazz Ensemble play the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m.
A Celebration of Paul Newman’s Dream to Benefit The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps at 7 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Over the Rainbow - a gala evening of Harold Arlen Songs at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7 p.m.
Figure Skating in Harlem: Skating Under the Stars with the Stars at 5:30 p.m.
Photography Exhibition of the Lower East Side During the 1960’s opens at the Grand Central Library (through June 20)
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s free presentation on Time and Space on the Lower East Side at the Duo Theater at 7 p.m. (reservations required)
Book event for Robert Fitts’ “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Story of Katie Casey and Our National Pastime at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Free Highlife to Hiplife discussion at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 6:30 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Masters of the Planet with Ian Tattersall paleoanthropology lecture at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Taiga Taiga Burning Bright: A Centennial Expedition to Tunguska lecture at 7 p.m. at the Explorers Club with Dee Breger
BIFx: The Baffler Innovation Forum at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Building in the Middle East panel at the Center for Architecture at 6 p.m.
Book event for Mark Leyner’s “The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Early Hollywood Censorship: Hollywood Before and After the Production Code lecture with Max Alvarez at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Qaddafi: An Insider’s Account of Human Rights at the UN at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Kathryn Harrison and Lionel Shriver at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Book launch party for The Social Media Reader at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Eric Whitacre CD signing at the Julliard Store at 4 p.m.
Book event for Kristen Johnston’s Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Luis Buñuel’s “Un Chien Andalou” (1929) and “L’Age d’Or”(1930) screen for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
“This is My Life” screens at BAM Rose Cinemas at 6:50 p.m. with a Q&A with Nora Ephron and Lena Dunham
“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 8 p.m. with an introduction by Eva Respini, an associate curator in the Department of Photography
Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Catherine Deneuve at Alice Tully Hall at 7 p.m.
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Big Fish” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Tuesday, April 3
Broadway previews begin for “Leap of Faith” with Raúl Esparza (April 26 opening night; open-ended run)
Previews begin on Broadway for the revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” (opening night: April 22; extended through July 22)
Michael Jackson “The Immortal” World Tour by Cirque du Soleil at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden (through April 5)
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot at 7:30 p.m.
Davy Jones Memorial: An Evening of Music & Memories at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Joe Locke Quintet with Dado Moroni, George Mraz, Clarence Penn, and Kenny Washington at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 8)
Christos Rafalides & Manhattan Vibes at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 7)
Billy Hart Quartet CD Release Celebration at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through April 7)
Ron Carter Quartet plays the Blue Note at 7:30 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through April 8)
Craig Taborn Trio at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through April 8)
Magnetic Fields at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and April 4)
Amra-Faye Wright at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
The Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7 p.m. with Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Meryl Streep, Bryn Terfel, Rosanne Cash,Vince Gill, Bruno Mars, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Hudson
Gregory Charles at the Carlyle (through April 7)
Free, ticketed open dress rehearsal of “La Traviata” at the Met Opera at 10:30 a.m. with Natalie Dessay
UniverSoul Circus begins performances at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens (through April 15)
NY Moth StorySLAM at the Bell House at 8 p.m.; topic: duped
Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700 exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 3)
Book event for Jim Abbott: Imperfect: An Improbable Life at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
New-York Historical Society discussion on The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food at 6:30 p.m. with Adam Gopnik
Lauren Conrad at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
The Lure of the Local in the Dutch Golden Age lecture at The Morgan Library & Museum at 6:30 p.m.
News from Underground: “Imagining Peace in an Age of Empire” panel at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free Cintra Wilson lecture at 6 p.m. at the SVA MFA Design Criticism Department (registration required/waitlist)
Gilbert & George in conversation with Michael Bracewell at the Guggenheim Museum at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
Free Mini Model Build at LEGO Rockefeller Center of a LEGO Duck from 5 p.m. while supplies last (children ages 6 to 14 only)
2nd Annual Tasting Brooklyn at the Dumbo Loft (sold out)
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Delayed to April 4: Previews begin on Broadway for David Auburn’s “The Columnist” at the Friedman Theatre

Wednesday, April 4
Previews begin on Broadway for David Auburn’s “The Columnist” at the Friedman Theatre with John Lithgow (April 25 opening night; through June 17)
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” begins performances at the Classic Stage Company with Bebe Neuwirth, Taylor Mac and Christina Ricci (extended through May 20)
Met Opera stages ”Das Rheingold” at 8 p.m.
“Being Shakespeare” begins performances at BAM Harvey Theater (through April 8)
Mika Yoshida and Richard Stoltzman play world premieres by Chick Corea, Marcos Valle, Tamar Muskal, Mike Mainieri, Michiru Oshima, and William Thomas McKinley at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Sylvie Guillem 6000 miles away performances begin at 7 p.m. at the Joyce Theater The David H. Koch Theater (through April 7)
Sergei Tcherepnin with Woody Sullender at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
Magnetic Fields at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
An Evening with the Knights at the Greene Space at 7 p.m.
Caroline Jones: Dance with Me at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Sharon McNight at The Metropolitan Room at 7 p.m.
Free Ice Theatre of New York performance at the Rink at Rockefeller Center at 1 p.m.
Guitar concert in the Met Museum’s The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments at 3:30 p.m.
Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival: Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Central Library
Anupama + Nitin Mitta concert at the Rubin Museum of Art at 7 p.m.
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater at 7:30 p.m. hosted by the comedian Capone
James Hunter plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Wild Yaks and Fenster at the Brooklyn Knitting Factory at 8:30 p.m.
Andre Nickatina at the Highline Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Raul Midón at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Joy in Singing at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 1 p.m.
Free Jazz Jam at Flushing Town Hall at 7 p.m.
“Al Hirschfeld, Characterist” exhibition opens at the Society of Illustrators (through June 2)
New York City Beer Showcase at 6:30 p.m. at the South Street Seaport Museum (reservations required)
SciCafe cocktails night from 7:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History on Island Birds and Biodiversity
Free Bronx Culture Trolley departs from the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Book event for Rachel Dratch’s “Girl Walks into a Bar: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle” at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Free lecture on The Music Halls of 6th Avenue with Barry Lewis at the New York School of Interior Design at 6 p.m. (reservations required)
Madeline Miller in conversation with Maud Newton at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Purchase-required book event for Tori Spelling‘s “celebraTORI: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family” at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue at 12:30 p.m.
Purchase-required book event for What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Bridging the Gap: Poetry Showcase with Tara Betts, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Adrienne Lyric (A. Lyric), and Nichole Acosta at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Book launch party for Adam Levin’s “Hot Pink” at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Curator tour of the Keith Haring exhibition at 6 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum
Hong Kong: New Force in Art and Design panel at 6:30 p.m. at at the Asia Society
Meet the Filmmakers: Whit Stillman and Greta Gerwig at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.
A conversation with David Rockwell at noon at 92Y Tribeca
Ticketed book event for Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities at the Center for Architecture at 6 p.m.
Alien vs. Predator: Michael Robbins, Sasha Frere-Jones, Kristin Hersh, Sara Marcus, & Choire Sicha at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Recognizing the Animal screenings presented by Cynthia Chris at 92YTribeca at 7:30 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center screens “Nightfall” and “The Burglar” at 6:30 p.m. with a discussion between screenings with David Goodis anthology editor Robert Polito and Library of America Editor in Chief Geoffrey O’Brien
“Tatsumi” screens at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art with an introduction by director Eric Khoo
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30
NY Rangers playoff tickets go on sale at noon
Empire State Building lights up red, white and blue in honor of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day
Rescheduled to April 18: Robert Polidori lecture at the International Center of Photography at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 5
Mets Opening Day game at Citi Field vs. the Atlanta Braves at 1:10 p.m. with a pre-game tribute to catcher Gary Carter and free magnetic schedules for the first 25,000 fans
Opening night on Broadway for “Evita” with Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris (open-ended run)
Previews begin on Broadway for “The Lyons” with Linda Lavin (opening night: April 23; through Sept. 2)
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 8 p.m.
Poetry & the Creative Mind readings at 6:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall with Meryl Streep, Brooke Shields, Dianne Reeves, Colum McCann, Chip Kidd, Bill Keller, Terrence Howard, John Wesley Harding, Claire Danes and Tom Brokaw
“Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots” begins performances at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (through April 8)
Staging of “Bigger Than Jesus” at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m.
Village Light Opera Group begins performances of the new three-act play “All This Here” begins performances at the Access Theater (through April 15)
Disney’s Phineas and Ferb at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. (through April 10)
Dr. John: Insides Out, Locked Down at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m. (through April 7)
Vogler Quartet and Ute Lemper play a program of Berlin Nights/Paris Days: The Art of Chanson at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Blair String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse at 7:30 p.m.
Chick Corea at the Highline Ballroom at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
The New Monuments + Marcia Bassett & Samara Lubelski Duo + Lasse Marhaug at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
Ozric Tentacles play B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Raul Midón at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
MoMA Nights with DJ $mall ¢hange from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
Our Lady Peace at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Walk Off the Earth (sold out) at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Matty Fasano and Friend Roulette at 9:30 p.m.
Of Monsters and Men at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Amra-Faye Wright at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
Michael Blackson at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through April 8)
Michael Clark in Residence performance at the Whitney Museum at 4 p.m., possibly with a Jarvis Cocker performance (through April 8)
Jesse Frohman’s Kurt Cobain Images go on display at the Morrison Hotel Gallery
Free Kamilya Joubran: Makan performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Performance by cast members of Broadway’s “Mary Poppins” at Macy’s Herald Square at 1 p.m.
Upstairs at the Square With Eric Erlandson and Melissa Auf der Maur at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Takuya Nakamura plays free live jazz in-store at Uniqlo from 6 to 9 p.m.
Free 19th New York African Film Festival preview at the Greene Space at 7 p.m. with DJ Spooky and others
Director Whit Stillman introduces the 7 p.m. preview screening of “Damsels in Distress” at the Museum of the Moving Image
Alec Baldwin and James Toback discuss “Last Tango in Paris” at Film Society of Lincoln Center at 6:15 p.m.
“The Good Fairy” screens at 92YTribeca at 7:30 p.m. with commentary from Elliott Kalan, John Hodgman and Kristen Schaal
Q&A with Whit Stillman, Lena Dunham, and Chris Eigeman at the 6:50 p.m. screening of “The Last Days of Disco” at BAM Rose Cinemas (sold out)
Book event for Delia Ephron’s “The Lion Is In” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m. with readings from the novel by actresses Katie Finneran, Melissa Joan Hart and Carol Kane
American Cities Take On the Grid panel at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York (reservations requested)
Designers Discussion: Made in New York panel discussion at 6 6:30 p.m. at the South Street Seaport Museum (reservations required)
Wearing the Lost Generation: A Musical/Sartorial Salon at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Free Word Rapport: Baratunde Thurston with Elon James White at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (registration suggested)
Eric Kandel with Alan Alda: Between Science and Art at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
MoMA @ the Library presents Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Purchase-required book event for “The Woman Who Wasn’t There” at Strand Books at 7 p.m. with Robin Gaby Fisher & Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr.
Book launch party for Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Have Your Mind Blown: Leland Maschmeyer lecture at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Art & Design
The Critic’s Voice: Marilynne Robinson with Paul Harding at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Dwight Eisenhower, Leonard Bernstein and the Cultural Cold War lecture at noon at 92YTribeca
Book event for Fred Weintraub’s “Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me: From the Man Behind a Half-Century of Music, Movies and Martial Arts” at Barnes & Noble Tribeca at 6 p.m.
Book event for former secret service agent Clint Hill’s “Mrs. Kennedy and Me” at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 6 p.m.
Diane Ackerman in conversation with Dava Sobel at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Ask Roulette with Kurt Andersen, Julie Klausner, and Maria Popova at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Unterzakhn with Leela Corman program at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Twentieth Anniversary of The Big Show: Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick Together Again panel at the Paley Center for Media at 6 p.m. (sold out)
Free Public Movement on SALON 4 – Deconstructing Birthright Israel at the Artists Space at 7 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30
Empire State Building lights up green, pink and yellow in celebration of Easter (through April 8)

Friday, April 6
New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center (through April 15)
Previews begin at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre for “One Man, Two Guvnors” (opening night: April 18; through Sept. 2)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Nokia Lumia 900 launch event in Times Square with a big stage set up near TKTS for a 7 p.m. “live performance with special guest” - Nicki Minaj
Live from Lincoln Center: Renée Fleming @ the Penthouse at 9 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera stages “La Traviata” at 8:30 p.m. with Hei-Kyung Hong
BAMcafé Live All-Stars: Cornelius Dufallo & Patrick Derivaz free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Harlem Gospel Choir Good Friday matinee brunch at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at noon and an evening performance at 8 p.m.
Thing NY begins performance of three experimental operas at Chashama @ Moe’s Taxi in Long Island City (through April 8)
Sayama Big Band Pyramid at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
National Band and Orchestra Festival at Carnegie Hall at 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Student Nights with The Onion w/Joe Locke Quintet at 11:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
David Johansen at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Of Monsters and Men at Webster Hall at 7 p.m. (sold out)
The War on Drugs at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Walk Off the Earth at 7:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Gentlemen Hall at 10:30 p.m.
Pitbull at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m. (and April 7)
Sebastian Ingrosso at the Roseland Ballroom at 9 p.m. (and April 7)
Anoushka Shankar at 8 p.m. at City Winery (through April 8)
The Rapture at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold old)
FEED ME with TEETH at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m.
North Mississippi Allstars at Brooklyn Bowl at 6 p.m.
Enter Shikari plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Jagged Edge at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
The Spring Standards at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
The Battle of The Boroughs: The Bronx at the Greene Space at 7 p.m.
The Who’s Tommy: A Burlesque Tribute at 11:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
DJ Tyger Lilly at the Rubin Museum of Art at 6 p.m.
“Dibbles to Daisy Grubbers: The Art of the Garden Too” exhibition opens at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum with First Friday! Music from 5:30 p.m. and the running of the Bronx Seaside Trolley
Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books exhibition opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Sept. 3)
Eric Erlandson and Mark Yarm in conversation on “Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge Rock” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
A Proposition by Dave McKenzie: “Dear Siri, It’s not you—it’s me. Xo, D” public forum at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
Book signing for Paolo Ventura’s “The Automaton” at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
Free Central Park “art of the park” walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Downtown Where New York Began – Religious Diversity at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Asghar Farhadi’s Iran screenings begin at Film Society of Lincoln Center (through April 8)
John Chamberlain’s “The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez” screens at 11 a.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Midnight screening of “Assault on Precinct 13” at the IFC Center (and April 7)
Midnight screening of “Do the Right Thing” at Sunshine Cinemas (and April 7)
New York Tartan Week (through April 15)
Early 2 p.m. closing at The Jewish Museum for Passover

Saturday, April 7
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Atlanta Braves at 1:10 p.m. with free texting gloves for the first 25,000 fans
New York Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. the Capitals at 3 6:30 p.m.
Scotland 10k Run in Central Park at 8 a.m.
Free Scottish highland dance performance by Shot of Scotch at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 11 a.m.
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
The Heritage Ensemble plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Free First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum from 5 to 11 p.m. featuring performances by Floor Royalty Crew break dancers, art-punk band The Library Is On Fire, electro-punk group Comandante Zero and a dance party with DJ Junior Vasquez
Free 2 p.m. screening of “Big Fish” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko at noon
Met Opera stages ”Das Rheingold” at 9 p.m.
Prairie Home Companion at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m. with Sharon Isbin, Ellie Dehn and Lake Street Dive
Teen Poetry: Grand Slam Final at the Apollo Theater at 7 p.m.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Freestyle Love Supreme perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Gramercy Theatre
Melanie plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Nada Surf at Webster Hall at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Pomerium—Passion and Resurrection Motets of the Renaissance concert in The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Cloisters at 1 and 3 p.m.
National Band and Orchestra Festival at Carnegie Hall begins at 9:30 a.m.
WWOW Mystery Radio Play at 6 and 8 p.m. at Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers
One-night-only mimed production “The Fourth Wall” starring Barbara Barrientos at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Hedda Lettuce at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Pitbull at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
The Rewind Show at the Highline Ballroom at 11 p.m.
Sebastian Ingrosso at the Roseland Ballroom at 9 p.m.
Sharon McNight at The Metropolitan Room at 7 p.m.
DeKalb Market opens for the season
Smorgasburg all-food outdoor market opens for the season on the Williamsburg waterfront between North 6th and North 7th St (Saturdays through the summer)
Shop, Drop & Drink shopping event in Williamsburg
Free lecture on Edgar Allan Poe at Fordham at 2:30 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center
The Box That Rocks panel discussion at the Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Art at 6 p.m.
Meet the Scientist: Antarctica’s Anonymous Anemones at the American Museum of Natural History at 2:15, 3 and 3:45 p.m.
Poetry and songs In Memoriam of Bella Akhmadulina at 2:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 and 11 a.m, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society political/literary walking tour of “Too 13th Street” at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Signs and Symbols: Spotlight on Symbolism tour of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
RMS Titanic and Green-Wood: 100 Years Later Trolley Tour at 1 p.m. (sold out)
Barnyard Easter Egg Hunt at the Queens County Farm Museum from noon to 4 p.m.
Free Modell’s Spring Sports Clinics (Double Dutch) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hansborough Pool & Recreation Center in Manhattan and the Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center in Queens
Fine Books go on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the April 12 auction
Revolutionary Americana from the Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection / Autographs exhibition goes on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the April 17 auction
Q&A with Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone at the 6:50 p.m. screening of “Vamps” at BAM Rose Cinemas; and a (sold-out) 9:30 p.m. screening of “Clueless”
Midnight screening of “Assault on Precinct 13” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “Do the Right Thing” and “The Room” at Sunshine Cinemas
Bank of America cardholders get free museum admission all weekend at seven spots including the Met, Whitney and New-York Historical Society
The Jewish Museum, Museum of the American Gangster and Garibaldi-Meucci Museum closed in observance of Easter and Passover (through April 8)
International Pillow Fight Day
Status uncertain: Opening Day: Little League Parade at 10 a.m. in Prospect Park

Sunday, April 8
Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival begins at 10 a.m. on Fifth Avenue at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
The Annual Easter Sunday Jewish Lower East Side Tour walking tour with Big Onion at 2 p.m.
Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra play the Easter Parade (in front of the University Club) from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Knicks vs. Chicago at Madison Square Garden at 1 p.m.
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Atlanta Braves at 1:10 p.m.
Unofficial Easter Marathon in the Bronx begins at 10 a.m.
Vocal Jazz festival with Phil Mattson at Town Hall at 7 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Bruceforma 2012 performance at PS1
Klezmer Brunch at City Winery at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage closed for Passover
Canceled: Free 5 p.m. concert at the Nicholas Roerich Museum

Monday, April 9
1/2/3 subway trains closed overnight from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
from 34th Street-Penn Station to Atlantic Avenue for FASTRACK work (through April 12)
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
Met Opera stages Verdi’s “Macbeth” at 8:30 p.m.
Clarinetist Giampiero Sobrino and the Elysium String Quartet play works by Mozart and Brahms at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Furthur with Phil Lesh and Bob Weir play the Beacon Theatre at 7:30 p.m. (through April 18)
Kevin Costner & Modern West at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Lysistrata Jones Reunion Concert at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7 p.m. with Mario Cantone, Darrell Hammond, Gina Gershon, Jackie Hoffman, Marsha Mason, Steve Schirripa, Jennifer Tilly and more
Freshmen Live at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m. with Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Kid Ink, Future, Roscoe Dash, Hopsin, Macklemore, Don Trip, Iggy Azalea and French Montana
Juilliard Jazz Orchestra plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
American Classical Orchestra plays Alice Tully Hall at 8 p.m.
Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra & Concert Jazz Band at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Liliane Montevecchi at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Ron Lynch, Arden Myrin, Adam Newman and Murderfist
Karen Mason & Brent Barrett at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Bombino at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2012 with The Deering Estate Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Cabaret artist Steve Ross performs Noël Coward: Off the Record at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Live at the Apple Store: Vijay Iyer at 7 p.m. at the Apple Upper West Side
Padma Lakshmi & Amanda Hesser: Men and Women in the Kitchen talk with Adam Gopnik at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Cast members of “The Big C,” including Laura Linney, Gabourey Sidibe, Oliver Platt, John Benjamin Hickey and Gabriel Basso talk about the show’s new season at 8 p.m. at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall
Charles Moore lecture on the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Book event for Greg David’s “Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City” at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Free crime novel “Easy Money” book talk with Jens Lapidus at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
An Evening with Michael Snow at the Museum of Modern Art at 7 p.m.
Passover-themed tour of the permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum at 2:15 p.m.
Free Spring Book Fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Recreation Center Fifty-four
Met Museum opens on a holiday Monday schedule: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; The Cloisters will be open 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “Memoirs of a Geisha” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Tuesday, April 10
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Nationals at 7:10 p.m.
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
The Dawn of Egyptian Art exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 5)
“Titanic at 100: Myth and Memory” exhibition opens at the South Street Seaport Museum (through May 16)
The Museum of Bronx History opens its spring exhibitions at the Valentine-Varian House (through Oct. 7)
The Metropolitan Opera stages “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 8:30 p.m.
Concert performance of “The Mikado” with The Collegiate Chorale, Kelli O’Hara, Victoria Clark, Chuck Cooper, Jason Danieley, Christopher Fitzgerald and Lauren Worsham at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
“Lonely, I’m Not” begins performances with Topher Grace at Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre (through May 27)
Last Touch First performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Joyce Theater (through April 15)
Sold-out Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 17)
Barbara Cook at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m. (through April 21)
Japanese Women’s Choir at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Michael Brown at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Tom Harrell Quintet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through April 15)
Herlin Riley Quartet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 15)
Ray Gallon/Bobby Porcelli Quartet at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 14)
Clint Holmes at the Carlyle at 8:45 p.m. (through April 28)
Pulp plays Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
The Ting Tings play Webster Hall at 7 p.m.
A Silent Film at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Sleepy Sun at 9:30 p.m.
The Horrors at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m.
The Jezabels at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Vijay Iyer Trio featuring Stephan Crump and Marcus Gilmore at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through April 14)
Bill Evans Soulgrass Special Edition with Mike Mainieri at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note (through April 14)
Dayna Kurtz at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
MANA at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m. (and April 11)
Hiromi Uehara plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at 7:30 p.m. at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe; topic: education
Doctor Who: How It All Began—An Evening with Waris Hussein at the Paley Center for Media at 7 p.m.
Lee Gray lecture on The 1875 New York Tribune Building: The Tall Tower of Whitelaw Reid at 6:30 p.m. at the Skyscraper Museum (free/reservations requested)
Meet the Filmmakers: Kevin Kline and Lawrence Kasdan at the Apple SoHo store at 5 p.m. and Meet the Filmmaker: Mary Harron, “The Moth Diaries” at 6 p.m.
Carole King book event for her new memoir at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Stephen Schwarzman at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Mark Bittman with Ruth Reichl at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
In Good Taste fashion designer panel and chef tasting event with Veronica Beard at Saks at 6 p.m.
Molly Crabapple in conversation with Sarah Jaffe at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Live from the NYPL ticketed discussion with E.O. Wilson at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 7 p.m.
Book event for Peter Cameron at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Book event for Brad Meltzer’s “Heroes for My Daughter” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
“Life & Legacy of Andrew Carnegie” presentation and reception at the Museum of American Finance at 5:30 6 p.m.
The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America hosts a free lecture on Queens Victorian at The New York New Church (Swedenborgian) at 6 p.m.
Free lecture on NYC’s Joan of Arc statue at 7 p.m. at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center
The CFDA at 50: The Presidents Speak ~ Stan Herman at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (reservation required)
Book launch party for Rajesh Parameswaran’s “I Am An Executioner: Love Stories” at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Artisan Lecture Series at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen at 6 p.m. with Miriam Ellner, Verre Eglomisé Artisan
Book event for “The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic” with Dr. Obery Hendricks with Marc Lamont Hill at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. (free, reservations suggested)
Free Bird Hike at High Rock at 10 a.m. with the Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Free, weather-permitting Stargazing on the High Line from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
“Killer of Sheep” screens at 6:50 p.m. at BAM Rose Cinemas with a Q&A with director Charles Burnett
Lou Reed, Stephan Berwick and Jonas Mekas attend the 8:15 p.m. screening of “Final Weapon” at Anthology Film Archives
Cindy Sherman’s “Doll Clothes” and “Office Killer” screen at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art with an introduction by Eva Respini, an associate in the Department of Photography

Wednesday, April 11
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Nationals at 1:10 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Magic/Bird” (through Dec. 30)
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko at 8 p.m.
Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianists Andrew Staupe and Alexandria Le at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Joshua Bell and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields play at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Selected Shorts: La Vie Boheme/Boho Brooklyn at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space with Martha Plimpton, David Rakoff, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Sarah Steele, Kaneza Schaal and John Shea
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater hosted by the comedian Capone at 7:30 p.m.
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event at 7 p.m. with Joshua Foer + Daniel Kahneman
Pulp plays Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Alabama Shakes at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
The Ting Tings at Webster Hall at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m.
Howler at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m.
Song of Return/Phamie Gow at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Mastodon and Opeth at the Roseland Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Alice Smith at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Strunz & Farah play B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to World War II performances at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 5 p.m. with Debra Monk, Brandon Victor Dixon, Betsy Wolf, Ted Chapin and Andy Einhorn
“Audubon: National Treasures—Selected Gulls for The Birds of America (1827-38)” opens at the New-York Historical Society (through July 1)
Chol Hamoed Family Festival at the Intrepid Museum
David Rees book event at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut: A Celebration of Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Work panel at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
An Evening with David Leopold on the Art of Al Hirschfeld at the Society of Illustrators at 6:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for “My Last Supper: The Next Course: 50 More Great Chefs and Their Final Meals: Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Melanie Dunea
Book event for Matty Simmons’ “Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Real Characters storytelling and performance show at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Free lecture by Richard Louv on the Nature Deficit Disorder at 6 p.m. at the Altschul Auditorium at the International Affairs Building (reservations requested)
Lecture at 2 p.m. at the Met Museum on Bad Boy: Portrait of the Rylands Haggadah as Naughty Sibling
Book launch party for Benjamin Busch’s “Dust to Dust: A Memoir” at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Brian McGreevy with Eli Roth at 7:30 p.m. at 92YTribeca
Free Access Restricted panel at 7 p.m. on “At the Intersection: Art, Money and Politics” at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School (reservation required/sold out)
Disappearing Act IV: European Film Festival in New York begins at multiple venues (through April 22)
19th New York African Film Festival begins at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (through April 17)
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 7:30 p.m. with an introduction by director Philip Kaufman, film editor Walter Murch, and Annette Insdorf, author of “Philip Kaufman;” book signing begins at 6:30 p.m.
“May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Qu’ils reposent en révolte)” screens at BAM at 7:15 p.m. with a post–screening discussion with filmmaker Sylvain George
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
J&R Girls Night Out with a CD signing and Q&A with Monica
Whisky Live New York at Pier 60
NHL and NBC Sports Group at 11 a.m. open a 21-foot-high, 6,600-pound Stanley Cup drinking fountain in Times Square
Reservations open at noon for the free Access Restricted panel on Arts and the World Trade Center: Past and Future at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site on Vesey Street

Thursday, April 12
NHL playoffs: New York Rangers home game vs. Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden vs. at 7 p.m.
New York Philharmonic and Yuja Wang play Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m., with a sold-out open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Dr. John: Insides Out, Funky But It’s Nu Awlins at 8 p.m. at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (through April 14)
Barb Jungr at The Metropolitan Room at 7 p.m. (through April 28)
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
David Del Tredici 75th birthday concert at (le) poisson rouge at 6:30 p.m.
The Fray at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
White Rabbits at Webster Hall at 6 p.m.
Little Tybee, Bryan Scary and Windsor Field at Joe’s Pub at 6:30 p.m.
Cody Canada & The Departed with Shooter Jennings at 7 p.m. at the Gramercy Theatre
Yellow Ostrich (sold out) at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Crocodiles at 9:30 p.m.
Lady Rizo: unescorted at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Midnight in Paris with Stephane Wrembel concert at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Lil B at the New Museum at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Alabama Shakes at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Tanlines at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Salsa for a Cure concert at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m. with Pequeno Johnny, Our Latin Thing, Luis Damon, George Lamond, Frankie Negron and others
The NYC Choreographer’s Ball at the Highline Ballroom at 10:30 p.m.
Hannibal Buress at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through April 15)
The Daily Show Live: Stand-up Comedy from The Daily Show’s Staff at 92YTribeca at 9 p.m.
New York Antiquarian Book Fair opens for a VIP preview at The Park Avenue Armory(through April 15)
Umami Food & Art Festival begins (through May 4)
Meet the Filmmaker: James Cameron, “Titanic” at the Apple SoHo store at 5 p.m. and Meet the Author: Rachel Dratch, “Girl Walks into a Bar” at 6 p.m.
Book event for Bud Harrelson’s “Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back With the New York Mets” at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue
“NYC 22” panel at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m. with Terry Kinney, Adam Goldberg, Leelee Sobieski, Stark Sands, Judy Marte, Harold House Moore, Tom Reed, Felix Solis, Jane Rosenthal and Richard Price
New-York Historical Society discussion on The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White at 6:30 p.m.
Book event for Bill Clegg’s “Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery” at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m. with a performance by Rachael Yamagata
Brooklyn Bodega’s “Told It First Hand” panel on Heavy D-The Overweight Lover to Notorious B.I.G. at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Local Behavior: What Makes An American Designer? panel at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Art & Design
Charles Atlas in conversation with the Biennial curators and Robert Swinston at 2 p.m. at the Whitney Museum
150th Birthday Celebration of Modern Dance Pioneer, Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.
Keyboard Conversations with Pianist Jeffrey Siegel: Concerts with Lively Commentary at the Scandinavia House at 8 p.m.
Arts Forum: Libraries as Culture Hubs panel at 6:30 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library
Book event for : Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West at 6:30 p.m. at the Korea Society
Author @ the Library event for James Madison and the American Ideal of Religious Liberty at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Kevin Gutzman
The U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan: Untangling Without Unraveling panel at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
Peter Cameron and Catherine Chung at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Book event for Kaitlin Bell Barnett’s “Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Fence Magazine: Fiona Maazel, Paul Lisicky, Elizabeth Koch and James Yeh at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Post-show artist talk with Simon Callow at BAM Harvey Theater following “Being Shakespeare”
Free performance of “Titanic Tales: Stories of Courage and Cowardice” at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Free Listening Party with trumpeter Jimmy Owens at 7 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
Mobius Collective Allstars play free live jazz in-store at Uniqlo from 6 to 9 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Where does Harlem Begin (Nieuw Haarlem)? at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
13th Havana Film Festival New York begins (through April 20)
Director Philip Kaufman introduces the 7:30 p.m. screening of “The Right Stuff” at the Museum of Modern Art
“The Hudson River and its Painters” screens at the Met Museum at 2 p.m.

Friday, April 13
Yankees Opening Day home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Angels at 1:05 p.m. with a flyover of two F-18 jets at 1 p.m.; Yankee-Stadium bound vintage subway cars depart Grand Central at noon
Knicks vs. Washington at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Met Opera stages Wagner’s “Die Walküre” at 6:30 p.m. with Bryn Terfel and Deborah Voigt
New York Philharmonic and Yuja Wang play Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
New York Pops at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist Thomas Schultz at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Takács Quartet at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Jennifer Koh at College of Staten Island’s Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m.
The Red Krayola play “ensemble music and free-form freakout” at 6 p.m. at the Whitney Museum
Tin Hat takes on e.e. cummings at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater (and April 14)
Fridays at Noon Dance Performance - Ellen Bar & NY Export/Opus Jazz at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at noon
Grandfather plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Gutbucket plays a live score to “panel-by-panel projections of the comic book, ‘The Magic Life of Milarepa’ by Eva Van Dam” at 7 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art
Grouper and Julianna Barwick play the Guggenheim Museum at 10 p.m.
Eddie Money plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp at the Highline Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
The Billie Holiday Project at the Apollo Theater at 10 p.m. (and April 14)
Jeffrey Steele at Joe’s Pub at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Keith Mina Caputo at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
The Touré-Raichel Collective at City Winery at 8 p.m. (and April 14)
The Pretty Reckless plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
White Denim at 7:30 and 11:30 p.m. at the Bowery Ballroom
Snow Patrol at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m.
The Cribs at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m.
Dawn Landes, Cheyenne Marie Mize and Donora at 7 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Savoir Adore at 10:30 p.m.
Say Anything at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 7 p.m. (sold out)
BETTY: The Workshop Series at 92YTribeca at 9 p.m.
Daniel Tosh at Radio City Music Hall at 7 and 10 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at 7:30 p.m. at The Players
Magic Johnson does a talkback at the 2 p.m. performance of “Magic/Bird” on Broadway
Purchase-required book event for James Franco at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in conversation with Bill Carter for a TimesTalks event at The Times Center at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Transcending Time, Sustaining Tradition panel on Indian dance in the 21st century at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
The Lonely Phone Booth performance and storytime by the Manhattan Children’s Theatre at 11 a.m. at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
Image Matters: Photography and the Black Vernacular panel at the International Center of Photography at 7 p.m.
Book Signing: Ed Kashi’s Witness Number 8 at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
“Baseball in the Bronx: Nine Innings of Bronx Baseball” exhibition opens at the Bronx Museum (through May 13)
Raw/Cooked: Heather Hart exhibition opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through June 24)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Director Philip Kaufman introduces the 4:30 p.m. screening of “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid” and “Henry & June” at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
PUNCH: Puppet Slam, Short Films at 92YTribeca at 7:30 p.m.
Midnight screening of “48 Hrs.” at the IFC Center (and April 14)
Midnight screening of “Sid and Nancy” at Sunshine Cinemas (and April 14)
Free ice cream sandwiches from 2 to 4 p.m. at ‘wichcraft in Bryant Park
The Jewish Museum is closed in observance of Passover (and April 14)

Saturday, April 14
NHL playoffs: New York Rangers home game vs. Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden vs. at 7 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Angels at 1:05 p.m. with a free promotion: calendar weekend
New York Tartan Day Parade begins at 2 p.m. at 45th Street and heads up Sixth Avenue to 55th Street
40th birthday events at the Staten Island Zoo for Grandpa, the oldest spider monkey in the United States
Chinatown Cherry Blossom Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Confucius Plaza square in front of 33 Bowery
Free Sakura Cherry Blossom Festival at 11 a.m. at Sakura Park in Manhattan
j-CATION culture fest at the Japan Society from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free Norman Dee and Josephine Chan Yung concert of duets by Mozart, Chopin and Piazzolla at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Free The McGraw-Hill Companies CarnegieKids: Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower concert at 1 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library
Free Triinu Taul concert at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Free Comedy Night at BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Free 3 p.m. screening of “Memoirs of a Geisha” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (reservations suggested)
The Metropolitan Opera stages “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 1 p.m. and “Manon” with Anna Netrebko at 8 p.m.
New York Philharmonic and Yuja Wang play Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Takács Quartet at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition Finals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 1:30 p.m.
Michigan State University Collegiate Honors Recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
The New York City Chamber Orchestra and Festival Choruses at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Prairie Home Companion at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m. with Renée Fleming, Aoife O’Donovan, Heather Masse and the Punch Brothers
Viver Brasil Dance Company at 2 and 8 p.m. at the Queens Theatre in the Park (and April 15)
Kraftwerk Music Festival at PS 1 from 3 to 6 p.m. (and April 15)
Virtuoso Players of Chinese Folk Music at Flushing Town Hall at 7 p.m.
Oleta Adams plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Gospel Explosion 2012 performance at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 5 p.m.
Gilberto Santa Rosa at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
NY Lyric Opera at Symphony Space
DanceFEST INDIA at the Asia Society at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Gabriel Iglesias at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Reptar at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Snow Patrol at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m. (sold out)
NRBQ at Brooklyn Bowl at 6 p.m.
Converge at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Song of Return and Phamie Gow at 7:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Chain and the Gang at 10:30 p.m.
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Carnegie Hall Family Concert: The New York Pops plays a musical tribute to Jim Henson at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert Four Greats: Johannes Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and April 15)
“Transhistoria,” a Guggenheim stillspotting nyc, event begins in Jackson Heights, Queens (weekends through May 6)
Second Saturday Staten Island art walk
“Satan’s Seat”: New York During Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m. 2 p.m.
Forgotten NY walking tour of Prospect Cemetery/King Manor at noon (reservations requested)
Municipal Art Society Starchitecture walking tour at 9:45 a.m. (registration requested)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Churches of Cobble Hill at 10:30 a.m. (reservations required)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Sunset Park: In the Old Neighborhood at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
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 10:30 and 11 a.m., and 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Free guided tour of the Bohemian National Hall at 3 p.m. (reservations required)
Free 2012 Annual Itchy Ball Round-Up at Staten Island’s Westerleigh Park from 9 a.m. to noon
Arts, Patronage and Society in British and Mughal Delhi panel at the Asia Society at 2 p.m.
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event with Diane Ackerman and Todd Sacktor on Using and Losing Language at 3 p.m. (sold out)
Johnathan Bate in conversation with Barry Edelstein for an Artist Talk: Being Shakespeare at 5 p.m. at BAM’s Hillman Attic Studio
“Il Circo” (“The Circus”) by Larry DiSalvo exhibition opens at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum (through July 14)
The 1931 film “Thaw” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 7:30 p.m. with musical accompaniment by Ben Model and live English translation by Anna Kadysheva
Midnight screening of “48 Hrs.” at the IFC Center
Midnight screening of “Sid and Nancy” at Sunshine Cinemas
EscapeMaker.com Local Food & Travel Expo from noon to 5 p.m. at Skylight One Hanson
Rhizome Seven on Seven Conference: Presented by HTC at the New Museum from noon to 9 p.m.
The Jewish Museum is closed in observance of Passover
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. for The Jacksons: Unity Tour 2012 at the Apollo Theater
Status uncertain/removed from calendar: Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and the coming of the Civil War program at St. Paul’s Church at 2 p.m.

Sunday, April 15
Knicks vs. Miami at Madison Square Garden at 1 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Angels at 8:05 p.m. with a free promotion: calendar weekend
JFK Runway Run at 9 a.m.
9th Annual Persian Parade begins at noon at 38th Street and heads down Madison Avenue to 26th Street with a music and food festival at Madison Square Park until 4 p.m.
Food Truck Rally from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn
Pianist Inesa Sinkevych plays a free 5 p.m. concert of Scarlatti, Schubert, Prokofiev and Schumann at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Free 30-minute Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Free American Variations: A Concert of All American Composers at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Free Ensemble ACJW concert at 5 p.m. at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church on Bennett Avenue at 189th Street
Opening night on Broadway for “Peter and the Starcatcher” at 5 p.m. (open-ended run)
Jonathan Biss plays Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Titanic centennial tributes include Gavin Bryars’ “The Sinking of the Titanic” performance at Le Poisson Rouge at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Reflecting Rabe reading with David Rabe, Bobby Cannavale, Judith Ivey and Matthew Modine at 4 p.m. at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row
Kraftwerk Music Festival at PS 1 from 3 to 6 p.m.
WestBeth Entertainment and Henson Alternative’s Stuffed & Unstrung at the Highline Ballroom at 6 and 8 p.m.
Harlem Gospel Choir sings a Remembering Whitney concert at 8 p.m. at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Local H at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 2 p.m.
Alaria at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 2 p.m.
National Children’s School Choir and National Christian Schools Youth Choir at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Bottazzi International Musical Society and School of Music at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic Ensembles concert at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 3 p.m.
Mahler, Mozart and Beethoven concert at Bohemian National Hall at 3 p.m.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Debussy and Stravinsky at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi: Songs of the Persian Mystics at Symphony Space at 7 p.m.
Performance by the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble at the Met Museum at 2:45 p.m.
Food tour of Woodlawn Cemetery at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Downtown at the Time of the Titanic at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Bloomingdale Blocks at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Secrets of St. John the Divine: Spotlight on Hidden Images tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
Hidden Spaces and (kind of) Creepy Places family tour of the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
The Greatest Grid: Curator’s Talk at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m. (reservations requested)
Free Historic Lecture Series: Brooklyn at the Salt Marsh Nature Center at 1 p.m.
Ticketed book talk with Alexander McCall Smith at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 7 p.m. on his new book “The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection”
Found Objects and Forgotten Stories talk with Benjamin Feldman at 3 p.m. at the Museum at Eldridge Street
Author Talk & Swing Dancing at the Morris-Jumel Mansion on “Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem” at 1 p.m. (free but registration required)
Public Movement, SALON 5 – Birthright Palestine? Debate/Vote
at the New Museum at 3 p.m.
Ralph Buultjens lecture on the Israel-Iran Crisis at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Public Show of Orphan Film Symposium highlights at 2 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale from noon to 5 p.m. at NYC Pet in Greenpoint
No Pants Bingo at The Standard hotel at 10:30 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade

Monday, April 16
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Twins at 7:05 p.m.
War plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Taylor Mac: 1940s at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Aaron Lazar at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Todd Almond Loves You with Donna Murphy at (le) poisson rouge at 6 p.m.
Natalie Douglas in “Freedom Songs” at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Alice Ripley at The Metropolitan Room at 9:30 p.m.
Berklee Global Jazz Institute with Joe Lovano at the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland 9:30 p.m.
Walter Blanding Sextet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
New York New Music Ensemble 35th Anniversary Celebration at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
Great Noise Ensemble plays the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
USA-Japan Goodwill Concert at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
ABC Gala at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7 p.m.
Asobi Seksu at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Peter Mintun at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 10:30 p.m.
“Words in the World” performance program begins at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 12)
“Antony & Cleopatra” ticketed, open rehearsals begin at the Classic Stage Company at 8 p.m.
Free performance by the The Brooklyn College Chorale at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m.
Free reading of “Trevor” by Nick Jones at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Studio Theater at 7:30 p.m.
Our Time’s 10th Annual Benefit Gala at NYU’s Skirball Center at 7 p.m. with Rachel Dratch, Edie Falco, Victor Garber, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Kind, Jesse L. Martin, Matthew Modine, John Oliver, Ron Rifkin, Amy Ryan, Mark Sanchez and cast members from “The Book of Mormon”
Tap & Tapas at Studio 450 at 6:30 p.m. to benefit the Groove With Me free dance school for girls in East Harlem
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Andy Blitz, Tony Camin and Carmen Lynch
Free but ticketed NPR’s “Ask Me Another” live taping at the Bell House (sold out)
Bad Veins at 6:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and LUNIC at 9 p.m.
Neon Trees at the Bowery Ballroom at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Mayer Hawthorne & The County at Webster Hall at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Conversation on Practice with Adam Gopnik at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Writers on Film ticketed event at the Crosby Street Hotel with Martin Amis at 7 p.m.
Book event for Eric Alterman at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Francisco Goldman and Roger Rosenblatt at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Free lecture on Sweden’s Changing Role in World Politics and its Relationship to the U.S. at the Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
Frontiers in Astrophysics Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History on Asteroids: Friends or Foes with Richard Binzel at 7:30 p.m.
Christoph Niemann book event at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Book event for Ginger Strand’s “Killer on the Road” at the Half-King at 7 p.m.
Free New York Philharmonic Offstage: Jaap van Zweden and Yuja Wang event at 7 p.m. at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Meet the Musician: Jake Shimabukuro at the Apple SoHo store at 7 p.m.
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event with Eric Kandel and George Prochnik at 7 p.m.
Book event for Tom Bissell at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Eye to Eye: DeWitt Godfrey gallery tour at 6:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Holocaust Remembrance Day themed tour of the permanent exhibition at The Jewish Museum at 1:15 p.m.
An Evening with My Barbarian at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
Master class with Garrick Ohlsson at 92Y’s Weill Art Gallery at 5 p.m.
Spa Week begins (through April 22)
Single tickets go on sale to the general public for Tribeca Film Festival at 11 a.m.
Online registration opens at 11 a.m. for free access to the 2012 Tribeca Online Film Festival (limited availability)
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screenings of the “Open Season” trilogy at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab

Tuesday, April 17
Knicks vs. Boston at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Twins at 7:05 p.m.
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot at 7:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic and Yuja Wang play Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Igudesman and Joo: A Little Nightmare Music at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Columbia Players at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Ballet Hispanico at the Joyce Theater at 7:30 p.m. (through April 29)
Barcelona Ballet at City Center at 7:30 p.m. (through April 20)
Joshua Redman Trio at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through April 22)
Jim Hall Quartet and Julian Lage play the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through April 22)
Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson Sextet at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 22)
Johnny O’Neal & Friends at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 21)
Cyrille Aimee at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through April 21)
Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Live at the Apple Store: TACTUS at Apple Upper West Side at 7 p.m.
Atari Teenage Riot at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Ravens & Chimes and The Apache Relay at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Reckless Sons at 9 p.m.
Trampled by Turtles at Webster Hall at 7 p.m.
Neon Trees at the Bowery Ballroom at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Modeselektor at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m.
Gary Lucas with Jeffrey Lewis at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Tower of Power plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Bad Brains plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: 
The Best LIVE Tour Ever! at Staten Island’s St. George Theatre at 7 p.m. (and April 18)
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week begins (through April 24)
Working Harbor Committee’s All About Tugs program at 6 p.m. at the Community Church of New York on E. 35th Street
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s free lecture on The Gardens of Greenwich Village at the Hudson Park Branch Library at 6:30 p.m. (reservations required)
Philip Glass and Chuck Close in conversation at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
John Cusak in conversation with Dave Itzkoff for a TimesTalks event at The Times Center at 6:30 p.m.
John Lahr and David Ives: the Creative Process discussion at 7 p.m. at 92YTribeca
An evening with Benson Lee at the Korea Society at 6:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library event for Steven Greenhouse’s “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker” at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Thomas Morrissey book signing at Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers at 7 p.m. for “Faustus Resurrectus”
Leaping Tall Buildings panel at Book Court with Dean Haspiel, Tim Hall and Sucklord at 7 p.m.
Book launch for Eat With Your Hands by Zakary Pelaccio, founder of Fatty Crab and Fatty ‘Cue, at 6 p.m. at the Powerhouse Arena
Christoph Niemann In conversation with Francoise Mouly purchase-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Small Demons and FSG’s Work in Progress presents Nerd Jeopardy at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Victoria Bond discusses her opera, “Mrs. President,” based on the life of Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President in 1872, at the Museum of American Finance at 12:30 p.m.
“Microvisions” exhibition opens at the Society of Illustrators (through May 12)
Holocaust Remembrance Day-themed tour of the permanent exhibition at The Jewish Museum at 1:15 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Free Stargazing on the High Line at 6:30 p.m. with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
$7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center
Empire State Building lights up red, white and blue for the United States Olympic Committee and 100 Days to the 2012 Olympic Games in London

Wednesday, April 18
United States Olympic Committee’s Road to London Celebration in Times Square, free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Twins at 7:05 p.m. with a free promotion: tomato seed packet night
Tribeca Film Festival begins (through April 29 )
Opening night on Broadway for “One Man, Two Guvnors” at 6:30 p.m. (through Sept. 2)
The Metropolitan Opera stages “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 7:30 p.m.
Performances of “Three Sisters” begin at BAM Harvey Theater (through April 28)
European Union Youth Orchestra with Itzhak Perlman at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Tribeca New Music Festival: Sirius String Quartet and Face the Music at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
Free performance by the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn at 5 p.m. at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Unsound Festival begins at multiple venues (through April 22)
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater
Steel Panther plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Ed Lover & Friends at 9:30 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club
UniverSoul Circus begins performances at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn (through April 29)
Culinary Historians of New York food event and lecture on Beating the Nazis with Truffles and Tripe: The Early Years of Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living at 7:30 p.m. the National Arts Club (reservations required)
Meet the Actor: John Cusack, “The Raven” at the Apple SoHo store at 5 p.m.
Book event for Christopher Moore’s “Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art” at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square
Robert Polidori lecture at the International Center of Photography at 7 p.m.
Vasari, Borghini, and Papal Portraits free lecture at The Morgan Library & Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Governor Kim Choongsoo: Emerging Asia and Global Economic Recovery at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society discussion on When General Grant Expelled the Jews at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
Free An Art Book - Diane Victor, Judy Hecker, David Krut panel at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 6 p.m.
Book event for “Jersey Shore” reality-actor Vinny Guadagnino’s book “Control the Crazy: My Plan to Stop Stressing, Avoid Drama, and Maintain Inner Cool” at 6 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
John D’Agata in conversation with Jim Fingal and Heidi Julavits at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m. on “The Lifespan of a Fact”
Free Access Restricted panel on Arts and the World Trade Center: Past and Future at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Preview Site (reservation required)
Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete appearance at Macy’s Herald Square at 5:30 p.m. for his fragrance launch
A Taste of Fifth Avenue food event at The Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn at 6:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Previews begin for the Affordable Art Fair (through April 22)
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s series on Classic and Contemporary Icelandic Cinema (through April 26)
The Empire State Building will light up in tie-dye colors in honor of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and FURTHUR
Opened earlier than originally scheduled, on April 16: “The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook” exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 29, 2013)

Thursday, April 19
11th annual Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca Drive-In begins at 6 p.m. with a free screening of “Jaws” (through April 21)
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Twins at 7:05 p.m. with a free promotion: magnetic schedule night
Opening night on Broadway for “Clybourne Park” at 6:30 p.m. (extended through July 15)
New York Philharmonic plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky at 7:30 p.m. with an open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
The Paul Simon Songbook: Paul Simon & Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Aaron Neville at 8 p.m. at the Rose Theater
Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Allen Room (and April 20)
Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist Jenny Q Chai at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Great Moments of Opera at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
Shen Yun dance performance at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center at 7:30 p.m. (through April 22)
Ailey II dance performances at the Ailey Citigroup Theater (through April 29)
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
Uncorked Comedy at City Winery at 8:30 p.m.
The Murray Hill Show at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Shuffle Culture at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m. (and April 20)
Creed at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and April 20)
Nickelback at Madison Square Garden at 6:30 p.m.
Audiophile: Oneohtrix Point Never with Body Language at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum
Honey Brothers at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
NEEDTOBREATHE at Webster Hall at 7 p.m.
Com Truise at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m.
Buy the Sky at the Mercury Lounge at 7 p.m. and JD McPherson at 9:30 p.m.
Black Dahlia Murder at Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Lambchop at 6:30 p.m. at (le) poisson rouge (sold out)
Charles Atlas in Residence at the Whitney Museum of Art (through April 22)
George Kuchar screenings at the Whitney (through April 22)
”Whores’ Glory screens at 7 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image with Michael Glawogger in person
CAMP: Electronic Ear Cleaning script reading and screening at the New Museum at 7 p.m.
NY Moth StorySLAM at 7:30 p.m. at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe; topic: armor
Gordon Getty’s The White Election at 7:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Free Arturo O’Farrill concert at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Free Unsound Festival: INTERZONE and Peaking Lights performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30 p.m.
J&R in-store performance and autograph signing with JD McPherson at 12:30 p.m.
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation hosts the free 11th annual Family Heritage Awards honoring Angela Lansbury, architect Richard Meier and Tony La Russa at 11 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s free lecture on Green Buildings with architect Jean Phifer at 6:30 p.m. at Village Community School (reservations required)
Book event for Ricki Lake at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Free Tenement Talks event: Leaving Story Avenue: My Journey from the Projects to the Front Page with Paul LaRosa at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Anne Enright and Meghan O’Rourke at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Donny Vomit and Heather Holiday Present The Curious Couple from Coney at 8:30 p.m. at the Coney Island Museum
Brooklyn Dodgers Memorabilia with Ron Schweiger at Brooklyn College at 1 p.m.
Holocaust Remembrance Day-themed tour of the permanent exhibition at The Jewish Museum at 1:15 p.m.
Free Fashion District walking tour at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
“The Great American Revue: How Ziegfeld, White and their rivals re-made Broadway” exhibition opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through July 21)
Ebbets Field blueprints go on display at Brooklyn College
AIANY Design Awards 2012 Exhibition exhibition opens at the Center for Architecture (through May 31)
Free admission to the Affordable Art Fair from 5 to 9 p.m.
Free admission at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum from 4 to 7 p.m.
Postponed indefinitely: Oscar de la Renta at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology for The CFDA at 50: The Presidents Speak (reservation required/sold out)

Friday, April 20
Free outdoor screening of “The Goonies” at the Tribeca Drive-In; activities begin at 6:30 pm. and the movie starts around 8:15 p.m.
Free First Friday events from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Bronx Museum include a performance by Gerardo Contino y sus Habaneros and a screening of “Caminando Aragon” as part of the Havana Film Festival of New York
Free Friday night concert at the New-York Historical Society with Missy Modell at 6:30 p.m.
Lachi & Meridian Gold plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 10 p.m.
Free Queens Symphony Orchestra concert at Flushing Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Free Two Boots’ Americana Jamboree at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 6 p.m.
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Giants at 7:10 p.m.
Met Opera stages “Manon”with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot at 7:30 p.m.
The Paul Simon Songbook: Paul Simon & Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Aaron Neville at 8 p.m. at the Rose Theater
Air Supply plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. at Radio City Music Hall at 9 8 p.m.
Graham Parker at City Winery at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Shinedown at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Greyboy Allstars at Brooklyn Bowl at 6 p.m.
One Step Beyond after-hours party at the American Museum of Natural History at 9 p.m.
The Birdland Big Band at Birdland at 5 p.m.
LIGHTS at Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Shpongle at the Roseland Ballroom at 9 p.m.
DanceNOW [NYC]/Dancemopolitan Series at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m. (and April 21)
Cameron Carpenter at the Greene Space at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Bosco Delrey, Terry Malts and Xray Eyeballs at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m. and Mansions on the Moon at 10:30 p.m.
Portugal. The Man at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Lucero at Webster Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Philharmonic and New York Choral Society concert at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Grace Francis at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Cheikh Lô at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 10 p.m.
Pianist Fazil Say plays at the Met Museum at 7 p.m. (sold out)
New York Philharmonic plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky at 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents An Evening with Leon Fleisher and Gilbert Kalish at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Mzuri Moyo stages “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” a one-woman musical, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 10:30 a.m.
Staging of The Dragon Child at NYU’s Skirball Center at 7 p.m. (through April 22)
Festival of India, Series I: Next Generation at Symphony Space at 7 p.m.
John Witherspoon at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club (through April 22)
SOFA New York Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (through April 23)
Old Master through Modern Prints exhibition goes on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the April 25 auction
40th Anniversary of Ploughshares at 7 p.m. at Joe’s Pub with readings by Elizabeth Strout, Margot Livesey, Jim Shepard, Yusef Komunyakaa and Nick Flynn
An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine lecture at noon at 92YTribeca
Daniel Miller at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 1 p.m. for Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper: Biography On Film
Laura Poitras: Surveillance Teach-In at 7:30 p.m. at the Whitney Museum
Shipwrecks of the Cunard Line book talk and reception at the at the South Street Seaport Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations required)
Book signing for Ken and Melanie Light’s “Valley of Shadows and Dreams” at the International Center of Photography at 6 p.m.
The Re-Emergence of Traditional Western Herbalism program at 7 p.m. at The Commons Brooklyn
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
“Juan of the Dead” screens at 8 p.m. at the Directors Guild Theatre as part of Havana Film Festival of New York; ceremony begins at 7 p.m.
“El páramo (The Squad)” screens at 7 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image with producer Ignacio Rey in person
Midnight screening of “Some Like It Hot” at Sunshine Cinemas (and April 21)
Midnight screening of “Another 48 Hrs” at the IFC Center (and April 21)
Fireworks scheduled at 10:30 p.m. near Liberty Island
Empire State Building lights up green in honor of Earth Day (through April 22)
Status uncertain/removed from NPS calendar: Church Tower Walk at St. Paul’s Church at 3 p.m.

Saturday, April 21
Free Tribeca/NYFEST Soccer Day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Hudson River Park’s Pier 40
“Knuckleball!” screens for free outdoors at 8:15 p.m. at the Tribeca Drive-In with pre-screening events from 6:30 p.m. including live music and pitching clinics with pro knuckleballers R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets, Tim Wakefield, formerly of the Boston Red Sox, and former New York Yankee Jim Bouton
Free St. George Day Festival from noon to 8 p.m. at Staten Island’s Tompkinsville Park
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Earthdriver plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Record Store Day
New York Green Festival at the Javits Center (and April 22)
NHL playoffs: New York Rangers home game vs. Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden vs. at 7 p.m.
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Giants at 1:10 p.m. with free shopping bags for the first 25,000 fans
Met Opera stages “Siegfried” with Jay Hunter Morris, Deborah Voigt and Bryn Terfel at 11 a.m. and “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 8:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky at 8 p.m.
Concert by Well-Tuned Words at the Morris-Jumel Mansion at 4 p.m.
Pianist Earl Buys plays German Master Composers: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
Fountains of Wayne plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
New Edition at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Gloria Gaynor and Colonel Abrams at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
Keith Sweat plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Soul of Cuba/Sierra Maestra plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Comedian Ron White at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Staten Island Comedy Festival at the Auditorium at South Beach Psych Center at 8 p.m.
Meet the Filmmakers: “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” at the Apple SoHo store at 5 p.m. with actor Hugh Grant and director Peter Lord
Books and Roses: Celebration of Catalan Culture at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at noon
Gallery talk on A Marchioness’ Mantón de Manila at The Hispanic Society of America at 11 a.m.
Wiki-Gangs of New York: Local History Editathon from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
5th Annual Cherry Blossom Walk on Roosevelt Island at 11 a.m. (reservations requested)
A Rebellious Brew: New York’s Tea Party of 1774 walking tour at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 and 11 a.m. and 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Noshwalk of Staten Island’s Victory Boulevard at 11:15 a.m.
The Stained Glass Menagerie: Spotlight on Animals tour at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 1 p.m.
New-York Historical Society April bird walk at 9 a.m. (sold out)
Free screenings of the “Open Season” movies at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at noon, 2 and 4 p.m. (reservations suggested)
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and April 22)
LEGO Star Wars Club meeting (pre-registration required)
Midnight screening of “Some Like It Hot” at Sunshine Cinemas
Midnight screening of “Another 48 Hrs” at the IFC Center
NY Knicks playoff tickets go on sale to the general public at noon

Sunday, April 22
Opening night on Broadway for the revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at 6:30 p.m. (through July 12)
At This Performance Broadway standbys/understudies concert at 7 p.m. at The Lion Theatre
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland at 9 p.m.
Pianist Michael Sellers plays a concert of works by George Gershwin, Samuel Barber and Frédéric Chopin at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Ensemble ACJW concert at Ukranian Institute of America at 3 p.m.
Sunday Sessions at at P.S. 1 from 2 to 7 p.m. featuring Celebrating Kraftwerk: Greg Wilson
Girlyman with Edie Carey at City Winery at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Back to the 60s concert at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Reading of the play ”Tea Party” at 3 p.m. at the Conference House Museum on Staten Island
Performance of Branch Dances at Wave Hill at 3:30 p.m.
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters performance at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 2 p.m.
New York Classical Players perform at 3 p.m. at the Church of the Heavenly Rest
Student Composer Festival at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 4 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
Free High Line Art Performance: Alison Knowles, ‘Make a Salad’ from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with free salad for the audience
Earth Day Celebration at J&R with Moey’s Music Party at 11 a.m.
Free The McGraw-Hill Companies CarnegieKids: Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower concert at 2 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center
Free Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Free 5 p.m. concert of Bach, Mozart and Schubert at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Final day of free screenings for the Disappearing Act IV: European Film Festival in New York at the Bohemian National Hall
Canceled due to rain: Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Giants at 1:10 p.m. with a free Tom Seaver Bobblehead for the first 25,000 fans and a post-game Mr. Met Dash for children 12 and under
“Bill Bollinger: The Retrospective” exhibition opens at the Sculpture Center (through July 30)
Free Fort Totten Tunnel Tour at 1 p.m. with the Urban Park Rangers
The History and Archaeology of the Ship at the World Trade Center Site discussion at 1 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York
Free Earth Day hike in High Rock Park with the Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy at 10 a.m.
Hidden Spaces and (kind of) Creepy Places family tour of the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
Special free Earth Day tour of Hallett & The Pond in Central Park at 12:30 p.m.
Free Dorothy Day and the Spanish Camp program at 1 p.m. at the Blue Heron Nature Center
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Boerum Hill: Inside & Outside the District at 11 a.m. (reservations required)
Jodi Kantor with Jill Abramson at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 7:30 p.m. on “The Obamas”
In the News with Jeff Greenfield: Jon Huntsman at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper: Based on the Book discussion with Charles Matthau at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 1 p.m.
Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance: Keeping Boundaries/Breaking Barriers program at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 2 p.m.
Pinhole Camera Workshop on Earth Day at 1 and 2 p.m. at the Alice Austen House Museum (reservations required)
Free Harlem Earth Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Great Hill in Central Park
New York City BBQ Cookoff at Historic Richmond Town from 2 to 6 p.m.
Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Last skate of the season at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center

Monday, April 23
A/C/E subway trains halted from 10 p.m. at 5 a.m. from 59 Street/Columbus Circle to Jay Street/MetroTech and World Trade Center for Fastrack work (through April 27)
Single-admission doubleheader (due to Sunday’s rainout) Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Giants at 7:10 4:10 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Ghost: The Musical” at 6:30 p.m. (open-ended run)
Opening night on Broadway for “The Lyons” with Linda Lavin at 7:30 p.m. (through Sept. 2)
Met Opera stages “Manon” with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot at 7:30 p.m.
Project Shaw’s reading of “Widower’s House” with Richard Easton at The Players Club at 7 p.m.
Antony & Cleopatra open rehearsal at 8 p.m. at the Classic Stage Company
26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition at 4:30 p.m. at the Minskoff Theatre (and April 24)
Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence Gala honoring Bill Cunningham at the The Waldorf=Astoria at 7 p.m.
Capezio 125th Anniversary Celebration at City Center at 7 p.m.
Open rehearsals of Culture Project’s The Seagull (through May 11)
Gipsy Kings play the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Musica Sacra Chorus and Piano at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Purchase Jazz Orchestra with Jon Faddis plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
The Big Pink at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Refused at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m.
Washed Out at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Kendra Morris at 7 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge and Ceremony at 10:30 p.m.
The Vaccines at Webster Hall at 7 p.m.
27th annual Bistro Awards Gala at the Gotham Comedy Club at 6:30 p.m.
Youth America Grand Prix at 7 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center (through April 27)
Steven Brinberg as Simply Barbra In “70 Girl, 70!” A Birthday Celebration Concert at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Lee Brice at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m. (sold out)
Iconic Artist Talk: Bill T. Jones at 7 p.m. at the BAMcafe
Free Tribeca Film Festival: Location Scouting Event with Nick Carrof Scouting NY at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.
A Cavalcade of Coward program on Noël Coward at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m. with Simon Jones, Anna Bergman, Steve Ross, Amanda Squitieri and Barry Day
Grantland Quarterly event at Book Court with Rembert Browne, Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb at 7 p.m.
Rick Moody, On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening, with Jolie Holland purchase-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Free lecture on From Battleground to Empire State: New York and the Legacy of the War of 1812 at 6:30 p.m. at York College in Queens
Author @ the Library event for They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food From Around the World at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Jonathan Deutsch and Natalya Murakhver
Carol Anshaw and Cara Hoffman at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
World Book Night
 with Anna Quindlen, Buzz Bissinger and Patti Smith at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Union Square
Knopf and Tumblr Celebrate Poetry with Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Unveiled Secrets of the Taklamakan Desert lecture at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Book event for Ben Anderson’s No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
The World of John Chamberlain program at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Book event for T.M. Luhrmann at the Half-King at 7 p.m. on “When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God”
Shakespeare Week begins at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through April 27)
Future of Film Lunch Series with Tribeca Film Festival at noon at 92YTribeca (daily at noon through April 26)
Loung Ung: Lulu in the Sky in conversation at the Asia Society at 6:30 p.m.
Ruth Reichl and Paul Rozin on The Madeleine Syndrome at the Rubin Museum of Art at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Free gallery tour of Fashion A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of The Museum at FIT, Part One at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required/sold out)
An Evening with Adam Pendleton and Lorraine O’Grady at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
Free advance screening of “Headhunters/Hodejegerne” at the Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Reservations open for Saturday’s free screening of “The Muppets Take Manhattan” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Deadline to apply for the ING Marathon lottery
Postponed due to weather: Space shuttle Enterprise arrives at JFK

Tuesday, April 24
Mets home game at Citi Field vs. the Marlins at 7:10 p.m.
Opening night on Broadway for “Nice Work if You Can Get It” with Matthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara and Michael McGrath at 6:30 p.m. (open-ended run)
“The Sound of Music” (in concert) at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m. with Laura Osnes, Tony Goldwyn, Brooke Shields, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and others
Met Opera stages Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” with Deborah Voigt Katarina Dalayman as Brünnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris Stephen Gould as Siegfried at 6 p.m.
Bach’s Easter Oratorio at St. Bartholomew’s Church at 7:30 p.m. by St. Bartholomew’s Choir with an orchestra of period instruments
American Tap Dance Foundation Spring Gala at Symphony Space at 7:30 p.m. hosted by Tommy Tune
Thing NY plays Vaudeville Park and a Sunset + Music Event at Cooper Park from 7 p.m.
Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m. (through April 29)
26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition at 2 p.m. at the Minskoff Theatre
Musicians from Marlboro concert at 7:30 p.m. at The Morgan Library & Museum
Playing Our Parts: A Benefit For The Jazz Foundation of America at 7:30 at Jazz at Lincoln Center with John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Eddie Henderson, Ravi Coltrane, Fleurine, Brad Mehldau, Lewis Nash, John Patitucci and Gregory Porter
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert of Beethoven, Brahms and a new violin sonata by CMS Season Composer John Harbison at Alice Tully Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Keiko Matsui plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Eddie Clendening & The Blue Ribbon Boys play Lucille’s at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
ETHEL: Heavy CD Release at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Nite Jewel at the Bowery Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
Mike Snow at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m (sold out)
Emeli Sande at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 7:30 p.m. (sold out)
Allo Darlin’ at the Mercury Lounge at 7:30 p.m.
Hoodie Allen at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m. (sold out)
PigPen Theatre Co. presents: “Bremen” at Joe’s Pub at 7:30 p.m.
Marilyn Maye at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m. (through May 5)
The Bad Plus plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m. (through April 29)
BOSSABRASIL Festival at Birdland (through April 28)
Counting Crows at the Roseland Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Free Bollywood Dance Party at the World Financial Center at 7:30 p.m. with DJ Rekha, dhoonyaDANCE and classical films
Madeline Albright book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 7:30 p.m. for “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 through 1948”
Free but ticketed book event for Rodney King’s “The Riot Within” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 6:30 p.m.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s free lecture on City, Village, and Country: The Fever of 1822 at 6:30 p.m. at the Washington Square Institute (reservations required)
Donald Friedman book talk on “Structural Systems of Early Skyscrapers: 
The Case for New York” at 6:30 p.m. at the Skyscraper Museum (free/reservations requested)
Great Public Squares lecture at noon at 92YTribeca with architect Robert Gatje
New-York Historical Society discussion on The Civil War and the American Constitution at 6:30 p.m.
Character Design— From Soup to Nuts: An Evening with Peter de Sève at the Society of Illustrators at 6:30 p.m.
Artisan Lecture Series at 6 p.m. at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen with Michael Simon, interior designer and musical composer
False Bottoms and Secret Compartments: Locking Away the Secrets of Ancien-régime Paris lecture at 6:30 p.m. at The University Club of New York
The Ladies Eye: Interior Decorating and the Emerging Role of Women 1890-1920 lecture at the House of the Redeemer at 6:30 p.m.
Lunch-time talk with Sally Frishberg, Holocaust Survivor at noon at the Intrepid Museum
Book event for Priscilla Gilman at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Imaging Japan’s Earthquake with Miaki Ishii program at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Unseen Universe program at 6:30 p.m. at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
East Asia and Neo-Confucianism lecture at 6:30 p.m. at the Korea Society
Drawn & Quarterly presents Guy Delisle on “Jerusalem” at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Michael J. Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy lecture at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
Book event for Kelly Killoren Bensimon’s “I Can Make You Hot” at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s free Storyforum panel with Jay Bennett at 7 p.m.
“No Look Pass” screens for free at 6:50 p.m. at BAM Rose Cinemas with a Q&A with director Melissa Johnson
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
General registration opens at noon for free Googa Mooga tickets
Delayed to May 1 May 15: Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City installation opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof (through Nov. 4)
Canceled/rink closed for season on April 22: $7.50 skate deal (including skate rental) at the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center

Wednesday, April 25
Knicks vs. Los Angeles Clippers at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Mets home game at Citi Field vs.the Marlins at 7:10 p.m. with a free window cling for the first 25,000 fans
Opening night on Broadway for David Auburn’s “The Columnist” at the Friedman Theatre at 6:45 p.m. (extended through June 24)
New York Philharmonic rush-hour concert: Batiashvili Plays Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall at 6:45 p.m. with a ticketed, open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
Pianist Richard Goode at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist John Kamitsuka at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera stages “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 7:30 p.m.
Juilliard Opera: Don Giovanni at 8 p.m. at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (through April 29)
Johnny Colon & His Orchestra at (le) poisson rouge at 7 p.m.
Selected Shorts: Zadie Smith and Colm Toibin read by Lois Smith at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space
Free Get It Out There: Comedy by BAM & IFC at 9 p.m. with Wyatt Cenac, Jared Logan, Mike Lawrence, Damien Lemon and Giulia Rozzi at BAMcafé
Free staged reading of Vicki Lynn Mooney’s “Broken Heart Land” at 7 p.m. at Studios 353 (reservations required)
Richard Maxwell in residence at the Whitney Museum (through April 29)
Suzanne Vega & Duncan Sheik at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m. (and April 26)
Nick Lowe and His Band at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Good Old War at the Bowery Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Lissy Trullie at 7:30 p.m. at the Mercury Lounge
Mike Snow at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m. (sold out)
The Weekend at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (sold out)
Charly Garcia at the Best Buy Theater at Times Square at 8 p.m.
Bacon Brothers at City Winery at 8 p.m. (and April 26)
Brandon Terzic and Matt Kilmer performance at the Rubin Museum of Art at 5 p.m.
Mac Miller at the Roseland Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Kina Grannis plays Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Toh Kay and Sycamore Smith at Joe’s Pub at 6:30 p.m.
Our Hit Parade with Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman and Neal Medlyn at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater at 7:30 p.m.
Emerging Artist Series: Hailey Niswanger Quartet plays the Blue Note at 6:30 p.m.
The Music of Wayne Shorter with Ravi Coltrane, Jeremy Pelt & Marcus Strickland at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 29)
Cyrille Aimee & The Surreal Band: Night Dreamers at 11 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (through April 28)
Sound of a Hundred Colors: Pandit Ramesh Misra at Symphony Space at 7:30 p.m.
Rodriguez at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Soundcheck Live with Kaki King and Punch Brothers at the Greene Space at 2 p.m.
Live at the Apple Store: Cypress String Quartet at 7 p.m. at the Apple Upper West Side
Knish History program at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 7 p.m.
Adventures in the Global Kitchen program on the French Paradox with Mireille Guiliano at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Anne Perry at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
James McGrath Morris book talk on “Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power” at 6:30 p.m. at the Skyscraper Museum (free/reservations requested)
Free 6 p.m. lecture at the Frick Collection on Pen and Palette: Painters in Balzac, Zola and Proust
Author @ the Library event for A History of the Birth Control Movement in America at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Book event for Sandra Beasley’s “Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life” at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Ron Rash in conversation with Maud Newton at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
Book event for Seamus Mullen’s “Hero Food: How Cooking with Delicious Things Can Make Us Feel Better” at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m.
Best Sex Writing 2012 with editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and contributors at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at 7 p.m.
Don Share and Scott Zieher talk poetry at 6 p.m. at the NY Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland: A Tribute with Joyce Brabner, Dean Haspiel, Jeff Newelt and Joseph Remnant purchased-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Lecture at 11 a.m. at the Met Museum on From Centaurs to Sarcophagi: Presenting Greece and Rome at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Ticketed Dinner with Eloisa James at 7 p.m. at Word Brooklyn
Free book event for Madeline Albright at the Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m. (reservations requested)
Mystery Writers of America Edgars Symposium at the Lighthouse International Auditorium from 9 a.m.
Free lecture on What Is Green Architecture? with Michael Braungart at Parsons East Building at 6:15 p.m.
22nd Annual Spring Environmental Lecture and Luncheon on The Urban Naturalist: The Roosevelt Legacy at the American Museum of Natural History at noon
High Line Tours & Talks: From Freight to Fabulous at 6:30 p.m. (reservations required)
Daniel Allen Cox and David Pratt at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Jack Elliott lecture on Ecofeminism, Design, and the Future of the Planet We Live On at 5:30 p.m. at the New York School of Interior Design
Advice to Live By: An Evening with Randy Cohen and Emily Yoffe at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
Free Erik McDuffie with Ruthie Gilmore talk on “Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Authors from Hanging Loose Press celebrate the magazine’s 100th issue at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library
Live from the NYPL ticketed event at 7 p.m. with Slavoj Žižek (sold out)
Free but ticketed NPR’s “Ask Me Another” live taping at the Bell House (sold out)
Edible Manhattan’s Good Dairy food event at the Openhouse Gallery at 6 p.m. (sold out)
Kino! 2012: New Films from Germany series begins at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 2)
“Stopped on Track” screens at 4:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art followed by a Q&A with director Andreas Dresen; and “Lollipop Monster” screens at 8 p.m. followed by a Q&A with director Ziska Riemann
Preview screening of “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” at the Museum of the Moving Image at 6:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at noon and 12:30 p.m.
The Empire State Building lights up blue and white for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Partners in Preservation
Postponed to April 27: NYC flyover of Enterprise and the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

Thursday, April 26
NHL Playoffs, Round 1: NY Rangers vs. the Senators at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Mets home game at Citi Field vs.the Marlins at 1:10 p.m.
NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m. (through April 28)
Opening night on Broadway for “Leap of Faith” with Raúl Esparza at 6 p.m. (open-ended run)
Opening night on Broadway for the comedy “Don’t Dress for Dinner” (through June 17)
Performances of “Man and Superman” begin at 7 p.m. at the The Irish Repertory Theatre (through June 17)
Staging of José Rivera’s “Marisol” at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. (through April 29)
Met Opera stages “Das Rheingold” at 8:30 p.m.
New York Philharmonic plays Batiashvili, Mozart, and a World Premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Pianist Paul Lewis plays Schubert at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Jung-Mi Kim and Noreen Cassidy-Polera at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Sandrine Piau and Susan Manoff at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
C’est La Vie! With The Cassatt Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
New York City Master Chorale at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8 p.m.
Youth America Grand Prix at 7 p.m. at the David Koch Theater (through April 28)
New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse at 7:30 p.m.
Punch Brothers play Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Losers Lounge tribute to Carole King at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m. (through April 28)
Urban Guerilla Orchestra plays the Philly Soul Show at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 p.m.
Wombats at Webster Hall at 6:30 p.m.
Fleming at the Mercury Lounge at 6:30 p.m. and Guards at 9:30 p.m.
Archers of Loaf at the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Heavy Pets at Brooklyn Bowl at 6 p.m.
Toh Kay and Sycamore Smith at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Saúl Hernández plays (le) poisson rouge at 10 p.m.
WU LYF at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Accordionist Veli Kujala at the Scandinavia House at 8 p.m.
Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballhoo: A Show Tune Hootenanny at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 11 p.m.
Miike Snow at Terminal 5 at 7 p.m. (sold out)
Anthony Jeselnik at 8 p.m. at Caroline’s comedy club
Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra free concert at the World Financial Center at 6 p.m.
Free Essentially Ellington Alumni All Stars event at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 8:30 p.m.
Live at the Apple Store: Philippe Quint at 7 p.m. at the Apple Upper West Side
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s free but ticketed 29th annual Young Musician’s Concert at 11 a.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Free Listening Party with clarinetist Anat Cohen, trumpeter Avishai Cohen and saxophonist Yuval Cohen at 7 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
Free Poem in Your Pocket Day readings and music at Bryant Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and Poets House celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day at the World Financial Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen” exhibition opens at the Neue Galerie (through Aug. 27)
June 4, 1989: Media and Mobilization Beyond Tiananmen Square and America through a Chinese Lens exhibitions open at the Museum of Chinese in America (through Sept. 10)
Through a Papermaker’s Eye: Artists’ Books from the Dieu Donné Collection of Susan Gosin exhibition opens at the Grolier Club (through June 8)
Historian Warren Shaw discusses Bums, Slummers and Swells —American Social Class and the Birth of Popular Culture on the Lower East Side, 1820-1855 in a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. at Recreation Center Fifty-four
Free lecture on Walt Whitman’s New York with Suzanne Wasserman, David Blake, Karen Karbiener and Greg Trupiano at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Book event for Zach Wahls’ “My Two Moms” at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway at 7 p.m.
Book event for Gary Marshall’s “My Happy Days in Hollywood” at 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Union Square
Eat, Drink & Be Literary event with Aleksandar Hemon at 6:30 p.m. at BAMcafé
Magazine launch party for American Poet: Issue 42 at the Powerhouse Arena at 7 p.m. with readings by Yusef Komunyakaa, Sandra Beasley, and Thomas Sayers Ellis
An Authors’ Dialogue:“Transforming Urban Education: New York City Schools under Chancellor Joel Klein at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library with Jennifer A. O’Day, Sean Corcoran, Jeffrey Henig, James Kemple, Leslie Santee Siskin and Leanna Stiefel
Lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum on Homesickness: An American History at 6:30 p.m.
Kevin Barry in conversation with Sheila Langan at McNally Jackson Books at 7 p.m.
An Oceanic Solution to Race: Colonization and the Nineteenth-Century Dream of a White Nation lecture at 6:30 p.m. at Bldg92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Gay Block in conversation with Daphne Merkin at the Jewish Museum at 6:30 p.m.
Comix night at Book Court at 7 p.m. with Sam Henderson, Derf Backderf, Joyce Brabner and Joseph Remnant
Unpacking the Day: A Collaboration Between Neil Goldberg and Maira Kalman panel at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York - “Blue Marble Ice Cream will be served” (reservations requested)
D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, with Matthea Harvey purchased-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Lecture on Almodóvar and Fashion by Davidelfin and Paul Julian Smith at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 6 p.m. (reservation required/sold out)
Yankees fragrance launch at Macy’s Herald Square at 4 p.m. with Mariano Rivera
Design on a Dime interior design benefit event at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea (through April 28)
Mystery Writers of America Edgar Banquet at at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
“The Man with the Bassoon” screens at the Museum of Modern Art at 4:30 p.m. followed by a Q&A with Miguel Alexandre and Udo Jürgens
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival: Animation at 8 p.m. at 92YTribeca
“Life in a Day” screens at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society Starchitecture walking tour at 9:45 a.m.
Empire State Building lights up red, red and white in honor of Coty Inc. and the annual DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala
Canceled: Charles Aznavour in concert at City Center (through April 28)

Friday, April 27
NYC flyover of Enterprise and the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) sometime between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Tigers at 7:05 p.m.
NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall at 7 p.m. (through April 28)
New York Philharmonic plays Batiashvili, Mozart, and a World Premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at 2 p.m.
National Chorale concert at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Met Opera stages Janácek’s “The Makropulos Case” with Karita Mattila at 8:30 p.m.
The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Pianist Georgy Tchaidze at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Live Read at the TimesCenter of “The Apartment” at 7:30 p.m. with Paul Rudd, Emma Stone, James Woods, Cara Buono, Tom Cavanagh, Lena Dunham, Jason Sudeikis and David Wain
Lynda Carter: Body & Soul at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room (and April 28)
Wayne Shorter Quartet at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater (and April 28)
Pavel Haas Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Cold Cave plays the Guggenheim Museum at 8:30 p.m.
Georgia Sagri performance at the Whitney Museum at 7 p.m.
Gary Sinise and The Lt. Dan Band concert at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
K’Jon plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Colin Hay plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Adam Ferrara at 8:30 p.m. at Gotham Comedy Club (through April 29)
Yann Tiersen plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Jack White at Webster Hall at 6:30 p.m. (sold out)
New Sufi Music of Pakistan: Arif Lohar with Arooj Aftab at the Asia Society at 8 p.m. (sold out)
Free concert by Ondrej Pivec and Coney Island Gospel Choir at the Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.
Xenia Rubinos plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Terracotta Warriors exhibition opens at Discovery Times Square (through Aug. 26)
Antique Garden Furniture Show at the New York Botanical Garden from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (through April 29)
Free Renoir Night at the Frick Collection from 6 to 9 p.m.
Panel discussion on Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams at the Museum of the Moving Image at 7 p.m. with Robert Klein, Harold Prince, Jeff Greenfield, David Bianculli, Alan Zweibel, and Ben Model
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave event with Nick Flynn and William Hirst at 7 p.m.
Lara Spencer book event at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe at noon
Natalie Dessay In-Store Signing at the Met Opera Shop at 5 p.m.
Book event for Marilu Henner’s “Total Memory Makeover: Improve Your Memory, Take Charge of Your Life” at Barnes & Noble at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 7 p.m.
Lecture on Borys Kosarev and Ukrainian Photography at The Ukrainian Museum at 7 p.m.
Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading at the Museum of Modern Art (and April 28)
Minimalist Drawing: The 1960s and 1970s symposium at The Morgan Library & Museum from 10:30 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Brooklyn Meets the Middle East at 10 a.m. (reservations required)
Free Central Park walking tour at 12:30 p.m.
“Satan’s Seat”: New York During Prohibition walking tour with Big Onion at 11 a.m. 2 p.m.
Angelis Perez Soto introduces the 3 p.m. screening of “Sugar” at the Bronx Museum
Sprout Film Festival begins at the Met Museum (through April 29)
Midnight screening of “Super Mario Bros. ” at Sunshine Cinemas
Midnight screening of “The Long Riders” at the IFC Center (and April 28)
Empire State Building lights up pink, pink and white in honor of the Sakura Bicentennial (through April 29)
Exhibition of Impressionist & Modern Art opens at Sotheby’s ahead of the May 2 auction Update: “The exhibition will be limited to Sotheby’s clients”

Saturday, April 28
2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Semifinal: NY Rangers vs. Washington at Madison Square Garden at 3 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Tigers at 4:05 p.m. with a free promotion: beach wallet day
NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall at noon
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and April 29)
Free Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair and ESPN Sports Day
NYC Parks and the Walt Disney Company host free Street Games at Thomas Jefferson Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free Youth Street Hockey Festival at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hester Street Fair opens for the season from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Red Hook Food Vendors open for the season (weekends through October)
Decker Farm Stand season begins at Historic Richmond Town from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Touch-A-Truck Brooklyn from noon to 5 p.m. along 18th Street between 6th and 7th avenues, next to PS 295
MoCCA Fest at the Lexington Avenue Armory (and April 29)
New York Philharmonic plays Batiashvili, Mozart, and a World Premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
“Die Walküre” at Met Opera at 11 a.m. and “La Traviata” with Natalie Dessay at 8:30 p.m.
Traditional Chinese Music for Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Tokyo String Quartet at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Bang on a Can: 25 Years at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall at 7 p.m.
Smokey Robinson at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m.
Lynda Carter: Body & Soul at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
Wayne Shorter Quartet at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater
Yuri Bashmet, Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra and Mischa Maisky at 3 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
Laura Falzon, flute and Robert Frankenberry, piano concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at 2:30 p.m.
The 2nd annual Big Green Theater Fest at the Bushwick Starr (and April 29)
Usher plays “Running Man” in the 7 and 10 p.m. performances of Off-Broadway’s “Fuerza Bruta”
Roslyn Kind concert at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m.
The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Finals at 8 p.m. at Town Hall
Squeeze and The English Beat at the Roseland Ballroom at 8 p.m.
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery at 8 p.m.
Rebirth Concert: Armenia-UN 20th Anniversary at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center at 8:30 p.m.
Ludo at the Highline Ballroom at 7 p.m.
Fabulous Fakes: A Drag Extravaganza and Vogue Contest at the Apollo Theater at 7 p.m.
Death Cab for Cutie at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (and April 29)
Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Artist-in-Residence: Yarn/Wire with Tristan Perich Chalk at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
Conspirator plays Irving Plaza at 8 p.m.
Free Neighborhood Family Concert at 3 p.m. at Bargemusic
Free concert by pianist Alexander A. Wu at 5 p.m. at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
Free concert by the Ben Allison Band at Flushing Town Hall at 7:30 p.m.
SonnyBoy plays a free BAMcafé Live show at 9 p.m.
Free screening of “The Muppets Take Manhattan” at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at noon (reservations suggested)
New Orleans: Culture Remixed program at the American Museum of Natural History from 1 to 6 p.m. with Delfeayo Marsalis and others
New New York: Interior Designs on the Cutting Edge panel at the South Street Seaport Museum at 12:30 p.m. (reservations required)
Tribeca Film Festival: Effective Storytelling with Diana Weynand at the Apple SoHo store at 6 p.m.
Free lecture on Chip Bishop’s book “The Lion and the Journalist — The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop” at 2 p.m. at at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (reservations required: (212) 260-1616)
Free John James Audubon birthday celebration at 3 p.m. at the Riverside Oval
Rubin Museum of Art Brainwave events with Marilu Henner and Suparna Rajaram at 2 p.m. and Vernon Reid and Gary Marcus at 4:30 p.m.
Bones of an Old Dutch Farmhouse program at noon in Prospect Park
Obscura Day tours and talks, including tours of the Conjuring Arts Research Center on the history and culture of magic at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.
Walking tour of Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side at noon
Municipal Art Society walking tours of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal at 11 a.m. and the Lower East Side at 1 p.m. (reservations required)
Noshwalk of Astoria at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 10:30 and 11 a.m. and 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Free, self-guided Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour from 1 to 6 p.m. (through April 30)
Free classes from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bryant Park for World Tai Chi Day
1978’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” screens at the Museum of the Moving Image at 6 p.m., introduced by Annette Insdorf, author of “Philip Kaufman”
“Imitation of Christ” screens at the Maysles Cinema at 9 p.m.
Midnight screening of “Super Mario Bros. ” at Sunshine Cinemas
Midnight screening of “The Long Riders” at the IFC Center

Sunday, April 29
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Tigers at 1:05 p.m. with a free Yankees stopwatch for the first 18,000 fans
New Amsterdam Market opens for the season from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a bread pavilion and pizza-making demonstration
Astoria Market opens at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Queens
33nd Annual Antique Auto Show at the Queens County Farm Museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Arbor Festival at the Queens Botanical Garden from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
26th Annual 2012 Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K
Walk MS begins at the South Street Seaport at 9:30 a.m.
Free 2 p.m. concert by the West Point Jazz Knights at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Free Organ Recital at 4:45 p.m. at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Free concert at 5 p.m. by James Pedersen and Sarah Badavas at the Nicholas Roerich Museum
The McGraw-Hill Companies CarnegieKids: Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower free concert at 3 p.m. at the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement
Free workshop performance of “The Last Cyclist” at the Bohemian National Hall at 7 p.m.
Garrick Ohlsson at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 3 p.m.
Solisti Ensemble at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 5 p.m.
Ensemble ACJW at 7:30 p.m. at Le Poisson Rouge
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert for kids: Claude Debussy meets Sherlock Key at Merkin Concert Hall at 1 and 3 p.m.
The new musical “Fat Camp” opens Off-Broadway at 7 p.m. (through May 13)
When Everything Was Possible A Concert (with comments) at City Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Shins play Terminal 5 at 7 p.m. (through May 1)
Death Cab for Cutie at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
ASSSSCAT 3000 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigrade
We Built New York – A Labor History Tour walking tour with Big Onion at 2 p.m.
Hidden Spaces and (kind of) Creepy Places family tour of the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Free Historic New York Walking Tour: Native Americans departs the Pelham Bay Ranger Station at 11 a.m.
Tour the Tip at Breezy Point hike at Fort Tilden from 10 a.m. to noon
Free Fashion District walking tour at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
New-York Historical Society’s The Civil War Draft Riots Walking Tour at 11 a.m. (sold out)
Art Deco on the Upper-West Upper West Side walking tour at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Municipal Art Society walking tour of Hudson Square at 2 p.m. (reservations required)
Woodlawn Cemetery’s Titanic centennial tribute: 100 Years Later: Little Known and New Facts About R.M.S. Titanic program at Woodlawn Cemetery at 1 p.m. (sold out)
The Birds of Woodlawn tour at Woodlawn Cemetery at 7 a.m.
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebrated at the Alice Austen House at noon (reservations required)
Terry Tempest Williams with Eve Ensler at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 7:30 p.m.
In the News with Jeff Greenfield and Paul Krugman at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Intellectual Derelict: Lovers’ Dilemma, An Outdoor Falconry Performance at noon at Wave Hill
Free Birding: Waterfowl program at 11 a.m. at Fort Totten

Monday, April 30
2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Semifinal: NY Rangers vs. Washington at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Yankees home game at Yankee Stadium vs. the Orioles at 7:05 p.m.
“Siegfried” at the Met Opera at 6 p.m. with Katarina Dalayman and Jay Hunter Morris
The New York Pops 29th Birthday Gala at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 7 p.m. with Terrence McNally,
Liz Callaway, Kevin Chamberlin, LaChanze, Boyd Gaines,Brian d’Arcy James, Nikki M. James, Norm Lewis, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Darlene Love, Andrew Rannells, Rachel York and others
Masaaki Suzuki conducts Haydn’s Creation at 7:30 p.m. at St. Bartholomew’s Church, free
Free NYU Symphony Orchestra concert at NYU’s Skirball Center at 8 p.m.
Australian Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
An Evening of Chamber Music with the FSU College of Music at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Sister Spit with Michelle Tea & Justin Bond at the Issue Project Room at 8 p.m.
A Cast of Characters by American Ballet Theatre at the Guggenheim at 7:30 p.m.
Ticketed Antony & Cleopatra open rehearsal at the Classic Stage Company at 8 p.m. with Kim Cattrall and Anthony Heald
Barry Manilow at 8 p.m. Radio City Music Hall (through May 2)
Wishbone Ash plays B.B. King Blues Club & Grill at 8 p.m.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard at 9 and 11 p.m.
Temple University Jazz Band at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
NYU Jazz Orchestra plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Theatre Museum Awards at The Players Club at 6 p.m.
PEN World Voices Festival begins with a tribute to Christopher Hitchens at 6:30 p.m. (through May 6)
Free Parade of Illuminations: Opening Procession for the PEN World Voices Festival on the High Line at dusk
NY Moth StorySLAM at the Bitter End at 7:30 p.m.; topic: silver lining
Nora Schultz with Ei Arakawa. Countdown Performance. 2007/2012 at 4:30 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art
An Evening with Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne at 7 p.m. at MoMA
Author @ the Library event for Gretchen Morgenson’s Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NY Public Library
Book event for Ryan O’Neal’s “Both of Us: My Life With Farrah” at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at 82nd & Broadway
“Our America”: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Ilan Stavans at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 8:15 p.m.
The Best Man: A Conversation with James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, director Michael Wilson and more at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Frederick “Fritz” Selby lecture on Myanmar and Laos at the Explorers Club at 7 p.m.
Talk and book signing with New York Times sports journalist Bob Lipsyte on “An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir” at the Bronx Museum at 3 p.m.
Book launch for “The Outdoor Museum” by Sheldon Harnick and Margery Gray Harnick at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m. (reservations requested)
Teju Cole in Conversation with Amy Waldman purchased-required event at Strand Books at 7 p.m.
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal at Littlefield at 8 p.m. with Hari Kondabolu and Rob Lathan
Eye to Eye: Huma Bhabha gallery tour at 6:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Oculus book talk on Kenneth Frampton’s “Five North American Architects” at 6 p.m at the Center for Architecture
Decoded Fashion forum at Lincoln Center from 9 a.m.
Dorothy Parker Society tour of the New York Distilling Co. in Greenpoint at 6 p.m.
Taste of the Nation food tasting benefit at 82 Mercer at 7:30 p.m.
“Man with a Movie Camera” screens for free at 4 p.m. at the Neue Galerie
Delayed to May 1: New York Classical Theatre begins free open rehearsals of “Twelfth Night” at 7 p.m. in Central Park at West 103rd Street and Central Park West (through May 27)
Listed incorrectly: Juilliard Jazz Orchestra plays the Blue Note at 8 and 10:30 p.m.

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