Best Things To Do In New York City This Weekend
Among our picks for the best in eating, drinking, and merrymaking this weekend are a pow wow, a beer festival, and a poetry festival. Dance, drink, and versify? Sounds like a perfect two days to us. By Jessica Allen.
NYC Restaurant Week is back! Three full weeks of great, great meals for low, low prices: $25 for lunch and $38 for dinner, to be exact. Participating restaurants include A Voce Madison, Bann, Beauty & Essex, Brasserie, Catch NYC, Craftbar, The Dutch, Fung Tu, and many, many others. You get three courses, great ambiance, excellent service, and a chance to check out a new place. Monday, July 20, through Friday, August 14, prices vary, reservations recommended.
The city's oldest, and largest, pow wow takes over the apple orchard at the Queens County Farm Museum this weekend, where more than 40 Indian nations will come to dance, socialize, and educate. Vendors will be on hand, selling food, art, crafts, and jewelry. The weekend concludes with a 40th anniversary celebration on Sunday night, commemorating the museum's four decades. Friday, July 24, through Sunday, July 26, $10, see schedule for details.
The Mostly Mozart Festival is, as you probably guessed, largely focused on Mozart. Highlights include performances by the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langrée and other guests from all over. Not wild about Mozart? Fair enough. You can hear Haydn, Beethoven, and Bach too. These extraordinary concerts are about democratizing classical music, ensuring that all who wish to hear it, can. Saturday, July 25, through Saturday, August 22, see schedule for details, mostly free.
The Poetry Society of New York strives: "(1) to unite New York poetry communities, (2) to bring the works of New York poets to the world, and (3) to never bore you." See how the organization meets its mission at the annual New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island. Two hundred and fifty poets are scheduled to read their work. Don't forget to pack your own verse, for the open mic. Saturday, July 25, and Sunday, July 26, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., free.
Taste the World returns once again to the Queens Botanical Garden on Saturday, giving attendees the opportunity to sip on a brewski while looking at treeskis and plantskis. You'll get to sample beer from local and international breweries, nosh on snacks, attend demos, and groove to the sweet sounds of live entertainment in/of nature. Rain or shine! Saturday, July 25, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., $35 advance, $50 at the door, must be 21+, tickets required.
