What’s Up This Week

Here are just a few of the highlights on tap this week. More info on these—and the full slate—is in the Tribeca Citizen calendar of events.

Monday
Chef Marc Forgione talks at 92YTribeca. ••• CB1 holds a special Landmarks Committee meeting about tearing down a few buildings at Governors Island. ••• Six-word memoirs at 92YTribeca. Here’s mine: Partner and I get called brothers.

Tuesday
Landscape architect Signe Nielsen (Duane Park, Hudson River Park) talks at 92YTribeca. ••• Billy Bragg at City Winery (also Thursday and Friday). ••• Forro in the Dark plays behind City Winery for free as part of the Hudson Square Music & Wine festival. ••• How to arrange deli flowers (quickly, because they’ll be dead in two days) at 92YTribeca. ••• Denise Richards, who was so good in—er, never mind—must have a book out because she’s appearing at Barnes & Noble.

Wednesday
Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex screens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Tried rewatching this one a few years ago, and oy. ••• At 92YTribeca: Darkon, “a documentary feature that follows the real-life adventures of an unusual group of weekend “warrior knights,” fantasy role-playing gamers whose live action “battleground” is modern-day Baltimore.”

Thursday
Taj Mahal headlines the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at the World Financial Center. ••• Tiny Bubbles, the weekly party at the Bubble Lounge, with DJ Johnny Dynell. His name alone takes me back to my Jackie 60 days.

Friday
The Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at the WFC continues with James Blood Ulmer and the Memphis Blood Blues featuring Vernon Reid, and others. ••• Steve Tarshis trio plays at Jerry’s Café.

Saturday
The Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival at the WFC winds up with Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra and others. ••• Suzy Bogguss and the Greencards play together at City Winery.

Sunday
Fulton Stall Market and New Amsterdam Market.

As for ongoing events, you might consider…
The second show at One Art Space, the new gallery on Warren, is “Mirror Ball,” paintings by Blake Shirley.

 

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