My Urban Sherpa

NYPhil ~ Concert in the Park ~ July 17

Alegria ~ New Cirque du Soleil in New York

Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria” will be performed at the Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry Street from July 16 through July 19.

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Tango with Otros Aires at Midnight Summer Swing ~ July 15

Green Drinks NYC at Tavern on the Green ~ July 15

Join Green Drinks NYC for a Midsummer Night Soiree
Wed., July 15th, 6-10pm
Tavern on the Green
$10 in advance, $15 at the door

Meet, greet, network, socialize and make friends while enjoying delicious local, organic food, organic drink specials, giveaways, speakers, live music and a vibrant green community of leaders and thinkers. Eco-Chic “Midsummer Night Soiree” attire suggested.

NY Phil. Concert in the Park ~ Tuesday July 14

New York Philharmonic ~ Concerts in the Parks – Central Park

Free ~ Tonight ~ July 14 at 8:00 PM

Program

Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

For weather updates, call the Parks Hotline: (212) 875-5709.

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Bryant Park Film Festival ~How Green Was My Valley ~ Monday, July 13

The Bryant Park Film Festival continues with, How Green Was My Valley

The lawn opens at 5:00pm for blankets and picnicking. The films begin at sunset (typically between 8pm and 9pm).

Winner of the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars (over “Citizen Kane”), this beautiful film is about a close-knit family in a Welsh mining village. John Ford directed the story, told through the eyes of a young Roddy McDowell, striking an incredible balance between moral seriousness and elegy. (1941) 118 Min. (Fox)

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LPGA Final at Saucon Valley – Today

You are 84 miles / 90 minutes from the LPGA at Saucon Valley Country Club, Bethlehem PA; or watch it from the computer.

Alisa Weilerstein at Caramoor ~ July 11

Heading out of town? travel north to Tanglewood.

This week-end at Tanglewood, James Levine will lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Vocal Fellows in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Act III, on July 11, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and an International Cast. Herbert Blomstedt will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in two programs with pianist Emanuel Ax on July 10, and with violinist Joshua Bell on July 12.

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Journey to the Stars ~ AMNH

Whoopi Goldberg narrates the American Museum of Natural History’s spectacular new Hayden Planetarium Space Show, Journey to the Stars, which opened to the public at the AMNH’s Rose Center for Earth and Space on Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Journey to the Stars launches visitors through time and space to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky. Audiences travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, and witness brilliant supernova explosions that sent new kinds of matter coursing through the universe, into the atoms of our own bodies and the air we breathe. They visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise as it transforms into a massive red giant some five billion years in the future. Visitors tour stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars.

Journey To The Stars, written by Emmy award winner Louise A. Gikow with a score by Robert Miller, follows Cosmic Collisions (2006) narrated by Robert Redford, The Search for Life: Are We Alone? (2002) narrated by Harrison Ford, and Passport to the Universe (2000) narrated by Tom Hanks.

The Space Shows are shown every half-hour Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and every half-hour, Monday–Friday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., except Wednesdays (first show on Wednesday begins at 11:00am).