saturday
7am-1pm: summer streets kickoff: major manhattan arteries go car-less, joyful mayhem ensues. free… >>
10am-1pm: …including outside rev. billy’s campaign hq (lafayette/spring) where there’ll be a music-filled block party, free >>
10am-2pm: browse 10,000+ records @ music memorabilia show, tip top shoe bldg. >>
11:30am-5:30pm: 3rd annual international yo-yo open + ny state yo-yo contest @ south st seaport, free >>
12-6pm: go west (africa, that is) at morningside park’s côte d'ivoire fest. dance, music, food, free >>
1pm: a tribute to john hughes w. andrew w.k. + guests @ (le) poisson rouge’s radio happy hour, $5 >>
1-6pm: shake your booty to live hip-hop, eat free pirate’s booty @ the stoop ’09 music fest, fort greene park, free >>
1-7pm: the first 888 people get an 88-cent ice cream cone @ cold stone creamery (w. coupon >>
various times (starting @ 1:10pm): orson welles is harry lime in ‘the third man.’ part of film forum’s brit noir fest, $6-11 >>
various times (starting @ 2pm): cary grant hides from the law, battles for lurve in the genius-cuckoo ‘talk of the town,’ bam rose, $11 >>
2-9pm: p.s.1 warm-up features music curated by merce cunningham dance co., incl eats tapes. l.i.c., $10 >>
2:30pm: spanish art critic bruno ruibal, german-american artist marietta hoferer on ‘art + life’ @ nypl mid-manhattan, free >>
3-9pm: the rub and mattsoreal host an all-day black sabbath celebration! featuring sabbath cover band into the void @ bklyn yard, $5 >>
3pm-‘late’: djs, bbq, sangria: saturday in the yard w. the ivy @ tribeca grand, free (rsvp) >>
4pm-4am: brooklyn electronic music fest has 40+ acts for $25 (the juan maclean, shy child, bell, more) >>
7pm: big daddy kane + guests take over prospect park + screening of ‘bdk: the big daddy kane story,’ $3 >>
7:30-10pm: liquid liquid + 200 electric guitars and basses plug in for rhys chatham's ‘crimson grail.’ damrosch pk, free >>
8pm: blondie skate party @ coney's dreamland, $12 + $5 skate rental (blondie dress gets $2 discount) >>
8pm: beware blond tots w. starey eyes. ‘village of the damned’ (1960) screens @ coney island usa w. free popcorn, $5 >>
8pm: how fast can you narrate a slideshow? prof. von kittenzworth's interactive powerpoint battle to the death @ the tank $5. (prizes!) >>
8pm: last day for big rodent's production of willy s' 'measure for measure.' $10 w. code 'nycblog' + $1 beer >>
9pm: experimental outfit daedelus plays a mash-up of jazz/hip hop/electronic gadgetry. the studio @ webster hall, $10 adv ($15 dos) >>
9pm: book release of douglas century’s ‘barney ross’ @ gleason’s gym has djs, open bar, boxing match. dumbo, free >>
9:30pm: lara croft strips to the nips. videogame vixens burlesque, part of the tank’s geek week, $15 >>
sunday
last chance: work out like pilobolus, a.k.a. world's strongest dancers @ david barton chelsea. free for non-members (rsvp) >>
10-4pm: tour the northeast’s largest particle accelerator @ brookhaven national lab, free (via newyorkology)>>
1pm: walking tour: discover underground muses of green-wood cemetery, from bernstein to bellows. $10 >>
1-5pm (sundays all summer): l.i.c. boathouse free kayaking. near socrates sculpture park >>
various times (starting @1:30pm): bitter bomb expert inhabits ‘the small back room,’ london scientist vanishes in ‘7 days to noon.’ 2-4-1 @ film forum, $6-11 >>
2pm: jelly pool parties wmsbg waterfront concert: simian mobile disco dj set + fiery furnaces, free >>
2-6pm: 8-cent cupcakes for the first 488 customers @ buttercup bake shop (w. coupon) >>
3pm: r+b up-and-comer jazmine sullivan + the underrated chrisette michelle w. jon b., summerstage, free >>
7pm: '60's cinema twofer: polanski’s ‘knife in the water’ + kurosawa’s ‘high + low’ @ symphony space, $11 >>
7pm: akron/family play a free show at other music. get there early. >>
7:30pm: contra-tiempo + abakuá: 2 dance co.s bring afro-latino-caribbean salsaliciousness to damrosch bandshell, free >>
7:30pm: two performers ‘create images directly from your consciousness’ @ 3rd ward, free >>
8pm: light sabers + frozen mojitos, together at last: ‘star wars’ screens @ habana outpost, free >>
all weekend
9am-5pm: 150+ teams compete in the hong kong dragon boat festival @ flushing meadows park, free >>
10am-5pm (weekends all summer): kayaking on the hudson , 72nd st @ hudson river, free >>
10:30-4pm: cannon firings! confederate prisoners! civil war weekend re-enactstravaganza @ governors island, free >>
12, 3pm: thrillist’s get up get down brunch = cocktails, crab cakes, penthouse pool @ the gansevoort for $17 >>
12-6pm: 15th annual king of ny bmx competition, tompkins sq pk (sat), mullaly pk (bx, sun), free >>
12-7pm: tons of books are just $1 @ housing works bookstore café’s dollar days sale (crosby st) >>
2 + 4pm: french new wave essentials fest screens ‘cleo from 5 to 7’ + ‘the umbrellas of cherbourg’ @ museum of arts + design, $7-11 >>
7pm: asphalt orchestra play free marching concerts w. music by bjork, mingus, zappa @ b’way plaza, free >>
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