TENNIS OPEN AT BROOKFIELD
Brookfield Place will host its 4th Annual Tennis Open starting tomorrow, August 20, and running through August 30. Check the website for hours, which vary. Events include adult and kid clinics, mini camps and a celebrity match on August 24 between John Isner and Lucas Pouille. Register here for free play.

FAMILY DANCE: AFRO-SOCA
On Saturday, August 24, at 6:30 to 8p, join Kwabs Dance Company and award winning dancer/choreographer Kwabena Safo-Agyekum for a high energy celebration of Afro-Soca on Esplanade Plaza (south side of the marina at Liberty). This colorful and rhythmic experience fuses together the music and dance of soca, dancehall, Afrobeats and hip hop with central African movement and Caribbean traditional dance. Enjoy a live performance of carnival classics and favorite tunes of the 2019 Soca playlist. The event is free through the BPCA, though you can RSVP here.

THE TRIBECA CONNECTION TO BROOKLYN BOWL
This is a tenuous – and decades old – connection to the nabe, but I like it. Turns out Brooklyn Bowl, the hip concert spot in, well, where else – Williamsburg – is owned by Peter Shapiro, who owned the former Wetlands Preserve here. Wetlands, as many will recall, was *the* scene for jam bands of the ’90s — Dave Matthews, Phish, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors. The club also had an environmental activism bent, hence the name. It closed in 2001. (See, we used to be cool.) Shapiro also owns the Capitol Theater in Port Chester.

KESTE INTRODUCES CHEESE FOCACCIA
The Times has a feature on the cheese focaccia at Keste, baked in a special copper pan. Roberto Caporuscio, the owner of the local chain, is baking the cheese focaccia at his outpost at Southbridge Towers. In addition to the mammoth classic, 25 inches across and available to order in advance, he’s baking an individual 8-inch size for $10 and a 12-inch for $15.