Drug Toxicity Caused Death of Cory Monteith

Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images The “Glee” star Cory Monteith.

Cory Monteith died of “a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol,” the coroners service of British Columbia said on Tuesday.

Mr. Monteith, who played Finn Hudson on the hit Fox musical-comedy series “Glee,” was found dead in his hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday afternoon. He was 31 years old, and had struggled with substance abuse problems, having voluntarily checked himself into a rehabilitation facility in March.

The coroners service said in a statement that it had reached its conclusion following post-mortem testing that included an autopsy and toxicological analysis.

Its statement said:

The investigation into this death by the BC Coroners Service is continuing, and no other details are available at this time. It should be noted that at this point there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith’s death was anything other than a most-tragic accident. When the investigation is concluded, a Coroners Report will be issued.

Mr. Monteith’s family has been made aware of the circumstances surrounding the death. On behalf of family members, the BC Coroners Service asks that the media respect their privacy at this difficult time.

The BC Coroners Service expresses its sincere condolences to Mr. Monteith’s family and friends.

The service said it would not provide other details on Mr. Monteith’s death, nor respond to further inquiries, until its investigation was concluded.

Drug Toxicity Caused Death of Cory Monteith

Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images The “Glee” star Cory Monteith.

Cory Monteith died of “a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol,” the coroners service of British Columbia said on Tuesday.

Mr. Monteith, who played Finn Hudson on the hit Fox musical-comedy series “Glee,” was found dead in his hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday afternoon. He was 31 years old, and had struggled with substance abuse problems, having voluntarily checked himself into a rehabilitation facility in March.

The coroners service said in a statement that it had reached its conclusion following post-mortem testing that included an autopsy and toxicological analysis.

Its statement said:

The investigation into this death by the BC Coroners Service is continuing, and no other details are available at this time. It should be noted that at this point there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith’s death was anything other than a most-tragic accident. When the investigation is concluded, a Coroners Report will be issued.

Mr. Monteith’s family has been made aware of the circumstances surrounding the death. On behalf of family members, the BC Coroners Service asks that the media respect their privacy at this difficult time.

The BC Coroners Service expresses its sincere condolences to Mr. Monteith’s family and friends.

The service said it would not provide other details on Mr. Monteith’s death, nor respond to further inquiries, until its investigation was concluded.

A Budding Empire Expands: the Bowery Presents Moves Into New Orleans

The Bowery Presents, a concert promoter in New York, has grown significantly since the 1990s, when its partners ran two clubs on the Lower East Side, the Mercury Lounge and the Bowery Ballroom. These days it is a force in the concert business on the East Coast, with dozens of shows throughout New York each week and a network that runs from Maine to Atlanta.

Now the company has planted a flag in New Orleans, with a deal to book events at the Civic Theater, a historic space that reopened in January after a nine-month renovation. So far the Civic has held private events, but on Sept. 27 its public shows start with the comedian Russell Brand, and include the Black Crowes, Steve Earle, the Waterboys and the New Orleans funk band Galactic.

Bryan Bailey, one of the owners of the Civic, said in a statement on Tuesday that that the renovations added up-to-date technology. “The oldest theater in the city is married with the most advanced tech infrastructure for a venue of its size anywhere in the country,” he said. That includes, for example, a “modular flooring system” that allows the space to be changed from theater-style seating “to corporate conference arrangement in minutes,” according to the announcement.

The Civic was opened in 1906, and according to a historian quoted by The Gambit, a New Orleans newspaper, it has been dormant for decades, after last being used as a disco.

New Chapters in ‘Life and Times’ Will Be Part of Crossing the Line Festival

Much as the opening bell signals the start of trading on Wall Street, Steve Lambert’s “Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False)” - an illuminated scoreboard, to be set up in Times Square at noon on Sept. 20 - will help proclaim the opening of the seventh annual Crossing the Line Festival.

The iconoclastic, multidisciplinary festival, which is presented by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), officially begins the night before, with the United States premiere of “Systema Occam” by the French electronic music composer Eliane Radigue and the visual artist Xavier Veilhan, at Florence Gould Hall - and runs through Oct. 13.

Notable among the festival’s 13 premieres are the latest installments - Episodes 4.5 and 5 - of “Life and Times,” a work by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. The first four episodes of what will eventually be a 16-hour work received a special Obie award citation after they were staged at the Public Theater in January. The piece is based on a single telephone conversation in which a 34-year old woman tells her life story. The festival is staging these latest sections on Sept. 20 and 21.

Also among the festival’s theater offerings are Tim Etchells’s “Sight is the Sense that Dying People Tend to Lose First,” a monologue performed by Jim Fletcher (Sept. 28), and “a (micro) history of world economics, danced,” by Pascal Rambert (Oct. 11-13).

Several of the works, like Mr. Lambert’s, require audience participation. (In his piece, people visiting Times Square will be able to approve or disapprove of capitalism, their votes tabulated for public consumption.) In Annie Dorsen’s “Spokaoke,” an American premiere at the Karaoke Cave, visitors are invited to recite classic speeches in much the same way they would sing pop songs at a karaoke bar (Sept. 21 through Oct. 13).

The choreographer Fanny de Chaillé, in “The Library” (at the Haskell Library at FIAF, Sept. 24 and 26, and the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library, Sept. 27) asks viewers to interact with the performers, who act as books, each with stories to tell. Ms. de Chaillé will also present a dance collaboration with the visual artist Philippe Ramette, “Passage à l’acte / Acting Out,” at the Invisible Dog Art Center, in Brooklyn (Sept. 28).

Other dance pieces include “The Inkomati (dis)cord,” by the South African choreographers Boyzie Cekwana and Panaibra Canda (Sept. 25-26); “riot,” a world premiere by Nora Chipaumire inspired by “The Rite of Spring” (Oct. 3-5)’ and “Time After Us,” a site-specific work by Ernesto Pujol, danced in silence at St. Paul’s Chapel and lasting 24 hours (Oct. 3-4).

A Worldwide Tour for ‘Hamlet’

Stephen Kelly/Press Association, via Associated Press Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

“All the world’s a stage,” wrote Shakespeare. Now Shakespeare’s Globe is putting those words into action. The London theater company announced on Tuesday an ambitious plan to perform “Hamlet” in every nation on earth. A cast of eight is expected to tour with a modest production of the tragedy for two years, starting April 23, 2014, the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, and ending on April 23, 2016, the 400th anniversary of his death.

Dominic Dromgoole, the Globe’s artistic director, said in a statement: “The spirit of touring, and of communicating stories to fresh ears, was always central to Shakespeare’s work. We couldn’t be happier to be extending that mission even further.”

Shakespeare’s Globe said it aims to perform in some 205 countries and territories, some of which have never seen a Shakespeare production before, and will get around by automobile, boat, train and plane. The Twitter feed @WorldHamlet will track the show’s whereabouts.

This “Hamlet” has already toured Britain, Europe and the United States, including a stop in New York last year. (In his review, Charles Isherwood said the show “prizes efficiency, clarity, accessibility and above all energy.”) The global tour will feature a new cast performing over two dozen parts.

With a Virtual Tour, Preserving the History of East Harlem

Dith Pran/The New York Times
A virtual tour of East Harlem will include the historic La Marqueta market that once occupied several buildings under the Park Avenue railroad tracks.

Celia Cruz and Tito Puente, two legendary Latin musicians, may not have had superpowers, but an artist from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, plans to tap the popularity of comic book heroes to celebrate the significance of these and other figures in the cultural history of East Harlem.

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, an artist specializing in comic-book-style graphics, is working with other comic book artists to depict, among other spots, Park Palace, a former Latin dance club in East Harlem that welcomed artists like Ms. Cruz and Mr. Puente when downtown clubs would not welcome Latinos.

“They were like the Superman and Wonder Woman of the Latin music world,” he said.

Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez’s work will be part of an app that a nonprofit organization, the Caribbean Cultural Center in East Harlem, hopes will help preserve the history and culture of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification and that those participating in the project say history books often overlook.

The center will use art to depict significant people, places and events to give the app’s users a virtual walking tour of East Harlem. The app will superimpose original artwork onto images of the neighborhood on the screens of smartphones and tablets.

“The importance of this project is the sustainability of community in a period of gentrification,” said Marta Moreno Vega, president of the Caribbean Cultural Center’s African Diaspora Institute.

Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez and seven other artists from East Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens and Puerto Rico are each developing several works for the app component of the “Mi Querido Barrio” project, which means “my beloved neighborhood.” The virtual tour will include tributes to Puerto Rican, Jewish, Italian, Mexican and African history and culture in East Harlem, Dr. Vega said.

The project plans to include artwork about the historic La Marqueta marketplace on Park Avenue, for example, and an African burial ground on First Avenue. Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez also plans to sketch a tribute to the game of stickball, which East Harlem residents of various ages and ethnicities have played in the streets for decades.

“The artists are looking broadly at events and people that have created what we understand as East Harlem,” Dr. Vega said.

The debut of the app will coincide with the planned opening in early 2015 of the Caribbean Cultural Center’s new location at a vacant firehouse at 120 East 125th Street. The app will direct users from the firehouse to different locations in an area encompassing 103rd Street to 128th Streets and Fifth Avenue to the East River. When users reach specific destinations, artwork related to their current location and its history will appear on their devices’ screens.

The neighborhood’s history is not traditionally easy to find, said Yasmin Ramirez of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, who has studied Puerto Rican art history in the city and researched East Harlem’s cultural history for the project.

“We’re trying to really preserve a history that if we don’t do it would never be seen, because it was marginalized when it was happening,” she said.

One of Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez’s works depicts a 1969 demonstration in which the Young Lords, a group of community activists, piled up and burned trash to spur the city’s sanitation department to pick up garbage more often in East Harlem.

“You look at the Young Lords. Those were our Avengers,” he said. He calls his work on the project a tribute to “actual amazing heroes from our community.”

Carlos Pacheco, a comic book artist from Spain whose work includes Superman, X-Men and Captain America comics, drew the Young Lords piece from sketches that Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez provided.

Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez plans to animate the graphic and pair it with a spoken word piece from a musical, “Party People,” based on the Young Lords Party and Black Panthers Party. Clickable bilingual text on the protesters’ signs and links to stories about the Young Lords will make it interactive, he said.

“It’s better than some tour guide saying, ‘Visualize here there was all this garbage that was set on fire,’” said Mr. Miranda-Rodriguez, who hopes pairing technology and comics draws a wide audience to the app. “We’re in an era now where geek is chic.”

Stevie Wonder Says He Won’t Play in Florida Because of Stand Your Ground Law

Protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of the black teenager Trayvon Martin, Stevie Wonder said on Sunday that he will not play a concert in Florida until the state repeals its Stand Your Ground law, which makes it harder to prosecute people who claim they killed someone in self-defense, NBC reported.

“I decided today that until the Stand Your Ground law is abolished in Florida I will never perform there again,” Mr. Wonder said during a concert in Quebec City. “Whereever I find that law exists I will not perform in that state or that part of the world.”

The trial focused attention on Florida’s expansive self-defense law, and its Stand Your Ground provision. That provision allows people to use lethal force to defend themselves if they “reasonably believe” they might be killed or suffer severe injuries, even if they can retreat from the conflict, setting a low bar that makes prosecuting such cases difficult. About two dozen states have similar laws.

Like almost everything else in the trial of Mr. Zimmerman, the role of the Stand Your Ground provision in the jury’s decision to acquit him is unclear. Mr. Zimmerman’s defense did not invoke the provision, arguing instead that he could not have retreated from the fight on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, because Mr. Martin had pinned him to the ground and was hitting him. Still, the judge specifically mentioned the provision when she gave the jury its instructions, so it may have been a factor in the jury’s deliberations.

For many people upset about the outcome of the trial, however, the provision has become a focus of anger. Some argue that such laws, coupled with gun laws allowing citizens to carry concealed guns, encourage the kind of confrontations that led to Mr. Martin’s death.

Mr. Wonder is one of them. “For those that we have lost in the battle for justice, wherever that fits in any part of the world, we can’t bring them back, what we can do is we can let our voices be heard,” he said. He added: “You can’t just talk about it. You got to be about it.”

LaBeouf and ‘Orphans’ Producers Settle Over Firing

The actor Shia LaBeouf has reached a settlement with the producers of the Broadway play “Orphans” over his firing from the show in February, which came after Mr. LaBeouf clashed during rehearsals with the director, Daniel Sullivan, and its star, Alec Baldwin. The producers, Robert Cole and Frederick Zollo, and Mr. LaBeouf announced the settlement in a statement on Tuesday; the terms were not released, though the producers did offer words of praise for Mr. LaBeouf.

The settlement is in response to a grievance Mr. LaBeouf filed against the producers with the Actors’ Equity union, claiming unfair termination from “Orphans.” A spokeswoman for Mr. LaBeouf said that Equity representatives pressed Mr. LaBeouf’s claim on his behalf; she declined to comment on how far along the grievance process unfolded before the settlement. A spokeswoman for Equity declined to comment.

Mr. LaBeouf’s ouster from “Orphans,” a revival of a 1983 drama by Lyle Kessler, was a rare instance where problems with collegiality and compatibility spilled out of a Broadway rehearsal room and into the public eye.

Best known for action films like the “Transformers” franchise and the last Indiana Jones movie, Mr. LaBeouf was cast last winter in the role of as the hotheaded thief Treat, a young man who kidnaps Mr. Baldwin’s character - the gangster Harold - and holds him hostage. When rehearsals began in February, the divergent acting styles of Mr. LaBeouf and Mr. Baldwin quickly became apparent; the two actors proved “incompatible,” Mr. Sullivan wrote in an e-mail to Mr. LaBeouf that the actor posted on Twitter after his firing.

“This one will haunt me,” Mr. Sullivan continued in his e-mail to Mr. LaBeouf. “You tried to warn me. You said you were a different breed. I didn’t get it.”

This was one of several private e-mail indicating backstage discord that Mr. LaBeouf posted on Twitter, to the consternation of the producers and Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Baldwin. There was also an incident of Mr. LaBeouf punching his hand through a door during rehearsals, to the surprise of his collaborators; he later apologized by e-mail to Mr. Kessler, writing, “im a child.”

The actor Ben Foster replaced Mr. LaBeouf during the second week of rehearsals. The play ultimately opened in April to mixed reviews, and closed in May, sooner than scheduled because of weak ticket sales. The production was nominated for two Tony Awards: best revival of a play and best actor in a play for Tom Sturridge, who played Treat’s brother Phillip.

The joint statement on Tuesday said that Mr. LaBeouf and the producers had “resolved their differences” concerning Mr. LaBeouf’s departure, without providing details. Mr. Cole and Mr. Zollo also issued this statement: “We regret the circumstances that caused Shia’s departure from ‘Orphans.’ Shia is a gifted actor whose full preparation to undertake the role of Treat demonstrated his respect and devotion to the play. The parties recognize that neither Mr. LaBeouf nor the producers was at fault. We have the utmost respect for Shia and his acting abilities, and would welcome the opportunity to work with him in the future.”

A spokeswoman for the “Orphans” producers confirmed the settlement and their statement and said they had nothing further to add.

A spokesman for Mr. Baldwin said on Tuesday that he had no comment on the settlement.

July 16: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Joseph Burgess and Nicholas Wells contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.

Events by candidate

Albanese

Carrión

De Blasio

Liu

Quinn

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

8 a.m.
Greets morning commuters, at the Church Avenue subway station in Flatbush.

12 p.m.
Three days after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Florida, holds a news conference on racial profiling by the police with City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, Councilman Andy King, clergy and activists from across the city, outside City Hall.

1 p.m.
Holds a news conference criticizing the New York City Housing Authority for having an excessive backlog of needed repairs, and warns the agency against quick fixes on the most serious and health-threatening problems, at Alfred E. Smith Houses in Lower Manhattan.

2 p.m.
Talks with voters at St. Gabriel’s Senior Center, with former Councilwoman Una Clarke, on Hawthorne Avenue in Brooklyn.

5 p.m.
Greets voters at Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway, in Crown Heights.

7 p.m.
Participates in a town hall meeting on Justice for Trayvon, hosted by State Senator James Sanders Jr., at the New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Jamaica, Queens.

8:30 p.m.
A week after getting arrested for participating in a rally protesting the possible closing of Long Island College Hospital, Mr. de Blasio attends a rally to save Interfaith Hospital, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, at King Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

12 p.m.
Visits with seniors, at the Corsi Senior Center in East Harlem.

12:30 p.m.
Stops by a second senior center, the Leonard Covello Neighborhood Senior Center in East Harlem.

7 p.m.
Three days after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Florida, attends a candlelight vigil for Trayvon Martin, at Mitchell Square Park in Upper Manhattan.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters, at the Inwood 207th Street subway station.

11 a.m.
Holds a news conference with representatives of groups calling themselves Organizations United for Trash Reduction and Garbage Equity, or OUTRAGE for short, who will be calling on opponents to the city’s proposed East 91st Street waste transfer station to drop their lawsuit and propose an alternative site if they do not support the solid waste plan that the city formulated seven years ago. Ms. Quinn speaks at P.S. 132 in Williamsburg, a Brooklyn neighborhood that already houses city waste stations.

Some of Ms. Quinn’s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

12 p.m.
Visits with seniors at the Casabe Senior Center in East Harlem.

12:30 p.m.
Accepts the endorsement of Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, outside of Casabe Senior Center in East Harlem. Mr. Ferrer himself ran for mayor twice, losing in a 2001 primary runoff to Mark Green and then in the 2005 general by 19 points to Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Ferrer also endorsed Mr. Thompson’s failed bid for Gracie Mansion in 2009.

Outlines new efforts to help Latino small businesses and tours local businesses with Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, in East Harlem.

5 p.m.
Greets afternoon commuters, at the 72nd Street subway station on Broadway.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

11:30 a.m.
Continues his “Keys to the City” tour, proposing steps to stem the loss of mom-and-pop drug stores, at N.Y.C. Pilgrim Pharmacy on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx.

7:30 p.m.
Attends the New York Philharmonic concert, in Van Cortlandt Park.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the 52nd Street subway station in Sunnyside, Queens.

11 a.m.
Joins a Sustainable Restaurant Corps news conference that will address a recent survey of restaurants and assess ways to increase recycling rates while reducing food waste, the use of plastic foam containers and utility costs, outside City Hall.

11:30 a.m.
Visits with seniors at the Williamsburg Senior Center, on Graham Avenue in Brooklyn.

1 p.m.
Continues his “Save Our Neighborhoods” tour, walking the length of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens to talk with residents and local business owners about their concerns surrounding possible developments in the area, including changes to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, starting at 51st Street.

Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Independent

10:30 a.m.
Meets with the editorial board of CBS2, at the CBS Broadcasting Center.

Latest in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, ‘Another Self Portrait,’ Coming in August

Columbia Records A painting created by Bob Dylan for the cover of his album “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971).”

Whenever Bob Dylan picks up a paintbrush he usually stirs up trouble. It happened in 2011, when a gallery exhibition of his paintings looked more like famous photographs of Asia than scenes he might have observed on his travels there. And, perhaps most notoriously, it happened in 1970 when Mr. Dylan put a painting of himself on the cover of an album called “Self Portrait” â€" an album that provoked a Rolling Stone review by Greil Marcus so negative that its opening rhetorical query cannot be reproduced in a family newspaper.

But apparently Mr. Dylan’s feelings weren’t too badly hurt by that kiss-off, as he is now preparing a new album of his previously released recordings, taken in part from the sessions that yielded “Self Portrait,” which he is calling â€" what else? â€" “Another Self Portrait.” Columbia Records said on Tuesday that the album, officially titled “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971),” would be released Aug. 27, and would contain outtakes from the sessions for “Self Portrait” and its follow-up, “New Morning,” including alternate versions and demos of songs like “Went to See the Gypsy,” “If Not For You,” “Wigwam” and “All the Tired Horses.” The album will be released in a two-disc version as well as four-disc edition containing a live recording of Mr. Dylan and the Band performing at the Isle of Wight festival in 1969.

And, to stir the pot further, Columbia said Mr. Dylan had created a new painting for the album’s cover art, as seen above.

Shopping Advice at Loehmann’s

Dear Diary:

I have been a Loehmann’s shopper for over 40 years and have seen many changes. Designer labels used to be cut out, designer samples were commonplace, returns were not allowed, men shopping with their wives waited on a bench and there was only a communal dressing room. Part of the whole experience.

And if you were not alone, you didn’t have to go to social media to get an opinion; you just asked the dressing room.

A week or two ago I was in the dressing room in Loehmann’s on the Upper West Side and an older woman was trying on a designer top. It was pretty ugly and about three sizes too big. So I just offered, “It’s too big for you.”

She turned, gave me the once-over and said, “Well, you wear your clothes rather tight.”

Are there any traditions left?

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In Performance: Christopher Denham of ‘The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin’

In Steven Levenson’s new drama “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,” the title character is a disgraced former securities attorney who attempts to reconcile with his family after serving a five-year prison sentence for fraud. In this scene, Tom’s son, James, played by Christopher Denham, confronts his father about the aftermath of his crime. The show continues through Aug. 25 at the Roundabout Theater Company’s Laura Pels Theater.

Recent videos in this series include members of the cast of “Choir Boy,” a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney at City Center, singing the spiritual “Motherless Child,” and Carla Gugino in a scene from Daniel Pearle’s play “A Kid Like Jake,” at LCT3’s Clare Tow Theater.

Coming soon: Rory O’Malley sings a number from the musical “Nobody Loves You.”

In Performance: Christopher Denham of ‘The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin’

In Steven Levenson’s new drama “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,” the title character is a disgraced former securities attorney who attempts to reconcile with his family after serving a five-year prison sentence for fraud. In this scene, Tom’s son, James, played by Christopher Denham, confronts his father about the aftermath of his crime. The show continues through Aug. 25 at the Roundabout Theater Company’s Laura Pels Theater.

Recent videos in this series include members of the cast of “Choir Boy,” a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney at City Center, singing the spiritual “Motherless Child,” and Carla Gugino in a scene from Daniel Pearle’s play “A Kid Like Jake,” at LCT3’s Clare Tow Theater.

Coming soon: Rory O’Malley sings a number from the musical “Nobody Loves You.”

New York Today: All-Star Evening

Peter Morgan/Associated Press Big Apple, the All-Star Game awaits you. And vice versa.

For baseball fans, this is a big deal.

The All-Star Game will be played tonight at Citi Field, home of the Mets.

The Mets have not hosted the game since 1964, when their old stadium opened. And the Mets’ new star, Matt Harvey, will be the starting pitcher.

For the rest of New York, it means a “red carpet” parade of retired Mets stars and costumed mascots down 42nd Street that will set off a cascade of street closings.

Next door to Citi Field in Queens, there will be a protest by auto body-shop owners against their proposed eviction to make way for a big redevelopment project.

Matt Harvey may be a celebrity in the baseball world. But when he took to Manhattan and asked passersby what they thought about one Matt Harvey - well, the results were amusing. (Almost no one recognized him.)

It’s all captured in a video that Jimmy Fallon aired last night.

Here’s what else you need to know to start this steamy Tuesday.

WEATHER

The weather forecast, sadly, has not changed. It will be scorchingly hot, with a forecast high of 95, a degree hotter than Monday’s high of 94. No relief in sight till Saturday.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Roads [5:51] O.K. so far, 1010 WINS reports.

Alternate-side parking rules: in effect.

- Mass Transit [5:51] Subways are fine. Click for the latest status.

COMING UP TODAY

- On the mayoral campaign trail, Bill de Blasio does Curtis Sliwa’s morning show on AM 970, and wraps up the day at a rally to save a Brooklyn hospital. John A. Catsimatidis will speak at The Common Good’s candidate series.

- Jews and Muslims will join together at Beth Elohim, a synagogue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to mark the observance of both Ramadan, the Muslim fasting holiday, and the end of Tisha B’Av, a Jewish fast day.

- Metropolitan Opera stars will perform “an enchanting evening of favorite opera arias and duets” at Central Park SummerStage at 8:00 pm. [Free]

- Find films, not cars, on the roof deck of Bronx Terminal Market’s parking garage. At sunset, it’s the first iteration of “Despicable Me.” [Free]

- Brace yourself, it’s hurricane season. Better yet, join volunteers packing disaster relief supplies this afternoon at the Food Bank for New York City, 355 Food Center Drive in The Bronx.

- Learn how to be a better urban gardener at Green Series: Urban Gardening Design Challenge on Pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park at 7pm. (Your withered window sill plants will thank you.) [Free]

- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

Michaelle Bond and Sarah Maslin Nir contributed reporting.

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