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Best Things To Do In New York City This Weekend

Ain't this city grand? On Saturday and Sunday, you can flit from seeing a first-rate film to checking out the cherry blossoms to challenging your taste buds to cooling them down with some suds. Read on to learn more about our picks for the best in eating, drinking, and merrymaking this weekend. By Jessica Allen

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Hoping to revitalize lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff created the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. These days, it receives more than 6,000 submissions each year, with almost 450,000 people attending screenings of accepted films, which range from mainstream movies you'll be able to catch at your local cinema to arthouse documentaries to foreign films looking for a distributor. Wednesday, April 15, through Sunday, April 26, see schedule for details, tickets required.

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Activities at Sakura Matsuri, a celebration of Japanese culture held in conjunction with the Cherry Blossom Festival, include tea ceremonies, drumming, kabuki dance, bonsai workshops, and samurai sword fighting. The fleeting, blink-and-you-miss-them blossoms provide an antidote to our culture's emphasis on getting-everything-now attitude. You can get them this weekend, or else you'll have to wait until next year. Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, $25, tickets required.

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Some like it hot, and some like it very, very, very hot. Find out where you sit on the spectrum at the third annual Hot Sauce Expo. Activities range from a Bloody Mary Mix Down sponsored by Stoli to a burrito-eating contest to a pizza-eating contest to an event involving hot peppers and the Guinness Book of World Records. We're sweating just thinking about that one. Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 26, 10 am to 6 pm, $10, tickets required.

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The Bacon and Beer Classic comes to NYC this weekend. This event, held at Major League Baseball parks around the country, combines food and drink, specifically bacon-inspired and -inflected bites from local restaurants, such as Tres Carnes, Tipsy Scoop, and Roni-Sue's Chocolates, and locally crafted beer, from Otter Creek, Third Rail, and others. Live music and talks too. Saturday, April 25, 12 to 3 pm and 7 to 10 pm, $79, tickets required.

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Symphony Space honors the Man in Black this weekend with a free concert, featuring performers and musicians interpreting the work of Johnny Cash. The seven-hour concert is divided into two segments: Love and Death, and Prison and The Man in Grass, the latter spotlighting Cash in all-new bluegrass arrangements. Scheduled performers include Sierra Hull (a 19-year-old mandolin prodigy), Superhuman Happiness, and Kat Edmonson. Saturday, April 25, 4 to 11 pm, free, first come, first served.

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