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Left, Sara Krulwich/The New York Times; right, Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Victoria Clark and Danny BursteinThe Broadway stalwarts Danny Burstein and Victoria Clark will join Mary-Louise Parker in the coming premiere of “The Snow Geese,†setting the stage for a theater-world trade-off that involves both a fictional couple and a real-life one.
Ms. Clark, a Tony Award winner for “The Light in the Piazza,†and Mr. Burstein, a Tony nominee for “Golden Boy†and “Follies,†among other productions, will play a husband and wife in Manhattan Theater Club and MCC Theater's production of “The Snow Geese,†press representatives for the play said on Monday. “The Snow Geese,†a new play by Sharr White (“The Other Placeâ€) and directed by Daniel Sullivan, stars Ms. Parker (“Weedsâ€) as a widow raising her sons in upstate New York during World War I.
Ms. Clark, who is now playing the Fairy Godmother in the Broadway production “Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,†will take a leave from that musical to appear in “The Snow Geese.†Who will be filling in for her at “Cinderella†during that leave? Why, that would be Rebecca Luker, the “Mary Poppins†and “Music Man†star, who is Mr. Burstein's wife.
Evan Jonigkeit, Brian Cross, Christopher Innvar and Jessica Love were also announced on Monday for the cast of “The Snow Geese,†which will begin previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Oct. 1 and is scheduled for a limited run of 11 weeks.
Eric Thayer/Reuters Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards show on Sunday.MTV has once again outraged an advocacy group that wants to reduce the level of adult content and profanity on television. The Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group known for criticizing shows, including “Family Guy,†for explicit content and adult jokes, took the network to task for airing condom ads and staging performances with skimpy costumes and sexually suggestive dancing during the Video Music Awards on Sunday.
Some viewers have said that Miley Cyrus's performance, which included miming coitus with Robin Thicke and rump-shaking among dancing bears, was in particularly poor taste.
The Parents Television Council's complaint about the show, which echoes similar statements it has made in years past, took on greater weight this year because Ms. Cyrus's father, Billy Ray Cyrus, sits on the group's advisory board. Representatives for Mr. Cyrus did not respond to requests for comment, but he may have made his opinion known on Twitter last night, writing: “Thanking God for so many blessings tonight. Continue to pray for world peace. More love … less hate.â€
MTV rated the program TV-14, which means the program “contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age.†But the Parents Television Council said the show crossed a line and that the network should have warned parents against letting 14-year-olds - eighth graders, typically - view it without supervision. They also complained that the ads for birth control and R-rated movies during the show were aimed at an adult audience.
On its Twitter account, the council suggested that its ire was directed at the network, not Ms. Cyrus:
Not Miley. MTV. RT @SPINmagazine: Miley Cyrus' MTV VMA twerking tweaks the Parents Television Council http://t.co/7V13Ga1ObO
- Parents TV Council (@ThePTC) August 26, 2013
Daniel Deme/European Pressphoto Agency Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus in 2009.“This much is absolutely clear: MTV marketed adults-only material to children while falsely manipulating the content rating to make parents think the content was safe for their children,†a spokesman for the group, Dan Isett, said in a press release. “MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate ‘twerking' in a nude-colored bikini. How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?â€
Jeannie Kedas, a spokeswoman for MTV, said the network had no comment on the criticism. As a cable network, MTV faces fewer restrictions on content than broadcast networks. Groups like the Parents Television Council have been lobbying Congress to pass a bill giving consumers the ability buy subscriptions to cable networks a la carte rather than in packages, thus giving consumers more power to choose what channels their families can view.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 26, 2013
An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of a representative of the Parents Television Council. He is Dan Isett, not Islett.
Movies about science and democracy and a series devoted to cinematic portraiture will anchor the documentary portion of the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Monday.
The Applied Science series will present three films about technology: Mark Levinson's “Particle Fever†tells the story of the physicists at CERN and the search for the Higgs boson; “Google and the World Brain,†directed by Ben Lewis, recounts the search giant's efforts to digitize the collections of the world's libraries; and “Tim's Vermeer,†directed by Teller, investigates the techniques used by the 17th-century painter.
Another series, How Democracy Works Now, will focus on films by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson. They set out in 2001 to track efforts to overhaul immigration in the United States, following advocates and legislators in Washington in efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill. The filmmakers plan to complete 12 films in total; 10 are to be presented in the festival.
Motion Portraits, the last series, will include eight features that take decidedly different approaches toward the portrait. Among them are Nancy Buirski's “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq,†which illuminates Le Clercq's role as the wife and muse of George Balanchine, and “The Dog,†directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, which recounts the tale of John Wojtowicz, whose attempt to rob a Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, inspired the film “Dog Day Afternoon.â€
The festival opens on Sept. 27. A full list is at the film festival's Web site.
Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A scene with the original cast of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark†at the Foxwoods Theater.For the first time since performances began in November 2010, the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark†took in less than $1 million for a standard eight-performance playing week, with last week's gross totaling $966,952. While ticket sales have been softening since last fall for the $75 million musical, the most expensive in Broadway history, a spokesman on Monday linked last week's total to “fallout†from a well-publicized foot injury suffered by the cast member Daniel Curry during the Aug. 15 performance.
The record-low $966,952 gross is notable because, over the last two years, the “Spider-Man†producers have explicitly pointed to their seven-figure grosses as a sign of audience validation for a musical that critics widely panned The producers have also been optimistic about earning back the show's $75 million capitalization, but that feat would require weekly box office grosses in the $1.5 million range for several years. Last week's gross was below the show's weekly running costs, which are in the low seven figures, and far below the $2.94 million that the show grossed for nine performances during the New Year's holiday week in the 2011-12 season. That week set a record for the highest g ross ever on Broadway.
Asked about ticket sales, the production's spokesman, Rick Miramontez, said in a statement: “When a show like ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' suffers a very public trauma, as it did the previous week, we expect there to be some fallout at the box office. To be honest, we are less concerned with ticket sales at the moment and more concerned with the recovery of Daniel Curry, but ‘Spider-Man' remains one of the highest grossing shows on Broadway, and we expect this dip to be little more than a temporary reaction to the media coverage.â€
Mr. Miramontez declined to discuss Mr. Curry's recovery, citing the actor's privacy. But another executive on the production team said that Mr. Curry was still at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken the night of the accident, and had recently had a third foot surgery. “The mobility of the foot is still in question,†said the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the show's producers had not authorized release of Mr. Curry's health information.
“Spider-Man†remains a fan favorite. No Broadway musical has endured so many bad reviews and so much negative publicity - over the firing of its original director, Julie Taymor, and over cast injuries in its early months - yet continued to run for nearly three years with mostly million-dollar weeks. Broadway musicals and plays had modest ticket sales over all last week, with a total gross of $20.6 million compared with $21.8 million during the previous week and $19.3 million for the comparable week in 2012. Attendance was down slightly compared to the previous week, but it was a bit better than the comparable week last year.
Dolora Zajick will not be Dolores Claiborne after all.
With less than a month before the San Francisco Opera is to present the world premiere of “Dolores Claiborne,†a new Tobias Picker opera based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the company announced Monday that Ms. Zajick, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano who had been set to sing the title role, had withdrawn from the production.
Ms. Zajick said in a statement that she was “devastated†to be unable to continue, explaining that “the opera proved to be more challenging physically and vocally than I had anticipated.â€
The company announced that the role will be sung instead at the Sept. 18 premiere by Patricia Racette, a soprano who was already in San Francisco preparing for a production of Arrigo Boito's “Mefistofele.†David Gockley, the San Francisco Opera's general director, noted in the statement that Ms. Racette is familiar with Mr. Picker's works, noting that she has appeared in both “Emmeline†and “An American Tragedy.â€
“I look forward to welcoming Dolora back to the War Memorial Opera House stage in future seasons and wish her a full recovery,†he said in the statement.
Dolora Zajick will not be Dolores Claiborne after all.
With less than a month before the San Francisco Opera is to present the world premiere of “Dolores Claiborne,†a new Tobias Picker opera based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the company announced Monday that Ms. Zajick, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano who had been set to sing the title role, had withdrawn from the production.
Ms. Zajick said in a statement that she was “devastated†to be unable to continue, explaining that “the opera proved to be more challenging physically and vocally than I had anticipated.â€
The company announced that the role will be sung instead at the Sept. 18 premiere by Patricia Racette, a soprano who was already in San Francisco preparing for a production of Arrigo Boito’s “Mefistofele.†David Gockley, the San Francisco Opera’s general director, noted in the statement that Ms. Racette is familiar with Mr. Picker’s works, noting that she has appeared in both “Emmeline†and “An American Tragedy.â€
“I look forward to welcoming Dolora back to the War Memorial Opera House stage in future seasons and wish her a full recovery,†he said in the statement.
Moving quickly to highlight newspaper editorial-page endorsements she had just collected, Christine C. Quinn, a Democratic candidate for mayor, released her third English-language television advertisement on Monday. Called “It’s Unanimous,†the ad spotlights her endorsements by The New York Times, The New York Post and The Daily News.
Ms. Quinn did indeed win the endorsements of the three big newspapers. The ad features quotations from the editorials, which consist of arguments, not facts. For example, The Times’s description of Ms. Quinn as a “forceful counterpart to Mr. Bloomberg†is disputed by her Democratic rivals.
Ms. Quinn is banking on the idea that if three newspapers that are often at odds over issues can agree on one candidate, then surely she can be palatable to New Yorkers of all persuasions. Her ad quotes mostly from The Times’s endorsement, suggesting that she is hoping that the paper’s influence will sway voters even if they are not Times readers. But her task is delicate. By claiming that “she’ll build on our progress,†she is implying that she will take the torch from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who remains polarizing among Democrats in a year when many Democrats are yearning for something new.
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For the first time since performances began in November 2010, the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark†took in less than $1 million for a standard eight-performance playing week, with last week’s gross totaling $966,952. While ticket sales have been softening since last fall for the $75 million musical, the most expensive in Broadway history, a spokesman on Monday linked last week’s total to “fallout†from a well-publicized foot injury suffered by the cast member Daniel Curry during the Aug. 15 performance.
The record-low $966,952 gross is notable because, over the last two years, the “Spider-Man†producers have explicitly pointed to their seven-figure grosses as a sign of audience validation for a musical that critics widely panned The producers have also been optimistic about earning back the show’s $75 million capitalization, but that feat would require weekly box office grosses in the $1.5 million range for several years. Last week’s gross was below the show’s weekly running costs, which are in the low seven figures, and far below the $2.94 million that the show grossed for nine performances during the New Year’s holiday week in the 2011-12 season. That week set a record for the highest gross ever on Broadway
Asked about ticket sales, the production’s spokesman, Rick Miramontez, said in a statement: “When a show like ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ suffers a very public trauma, as it did the previous week, we expect there to be some fallout at the box office. To be honest, we are less concerned with ticket sales at the moment and more concerned with the recovery of Daniel Curry, but ‘Spider-Man’ remains one of the highest grossing shows on Broadway, and we expect this dip to be little more than a temporary reaction to the media coverage.â€
Mr. Miramontez declined to discuss Mr. Curry’s recovery, citing the actor’s privacy. But another executive on the production team said that Mr. Curry was still at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken the night of the accident, and had recently had a third foot surgery. “The mobility of the foot is still in question,†said the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the show’s producers had not authorized release of Mr. Curry’s health information.
“Spider-Man†remains a fan favorite. No Broadway musical has endured so many bad reviews and so much negative publicity â€" over the firing of its original director, Julie Taymor, and over cast injuries in its early months â€" yet continued to run for nearly three years with mostly million-dollar weeks. Broadway musicals and plays had modest ticket sales over all last week, with a total gross of $20.6 million compared with $21.8 million during the previous week and $19.3 million for the comparable week in 2012. Attendance was down slightly compared to the previous week, but it was a bit better than the comparable week last year.
Movies about science and democracy and a series devoted to cinematic portraiture will anchor the documentary portion of the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Monday.
The Applied Science series will present three films about technology: Mark Levinson’s “Particle Fever†tells the story of the physicists at CERN and the search for the Higgs boson; “Google and the World Brain,†directed by Ben Lewis, recounts the search giant’s efforts to digitize the collections of the world’s libraries; and “Tim’s Vermeer,†directed by Teller, investigates the techniques used by the 17th-century painter.
Another series, How Democracy Works Now, will focus on films by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson. They set out in 2001 to track efforts to overhaul immigration in the United States, following advocates and legislators in Washington in efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill. The filmmakers plan to complete 12 films in total; 10 are to be presented in the festival.
Motion Portraits, the last series, will include eight features that take decidedly different approaches toward the portrait. Among them are Nancy Buirski’s “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq,†which illuminates Le Clercq’s role as the wife and muse of George Balanchine, and “The Dog,†directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, which recounts the tale of John Wojtowicz, whose attempt to rob a Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, inspired the film “Dog Day Afternoon.â€
The festival opens on Sept. 27. A full list is at the film festival’s Web site.
Eric Thayer/Reuters Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards show on Sunday.MTV has once again outraged advocacy groups who want to reduce the level of adult content and profanity on television. The Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group known for criticizing shows like “Family Guy†for explicit content and adult jokes, took the network to task for airing condom ads and staging performances with skimpy costumes and sexually suggestive dancing during the Video Music Awards on Sunday.
Some viewers have said that Miley Cyrus’s performance, which included miming coitus with Robin Thicke and rump-shaking among dancing bears, was in particularly poor taste.
The Parents Television Council’s complaint about the show, which echoes similar statements it has made in years past, took on greater weight this year, because Ms. Cyrus’s father, Billy Ray Cyrus, sits on the group’s advisory board. Representatives for Mr. Cyrus did not respond to requests for comment, but he may have made his opinion known on Twitter last night, writing, “Thanking God for so many blessings tonight. Continue to pray for world peace. More love …less hate.â€
MTV rated the program TV-14, which means the program “contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age.†But the Parents Television Council said the show crossed a line and the network should have warned parents against letting 14-year-olds â€" 8th graders â€" view it without supervision. They also complained that the ads during the show for birth control and R-Rated movies were aimed at an adult audience.
On its Twitter account, the council suggested that its ire was directed at the network, not Ms. Cyrus:
Not Miley. MTV. RT @SPINmagazine: Miley Cyrus' MTV VMA twerking tweaks the Parents Television Council http://t.co/7V13Ga1ObO
â€" Parents TV Council (@ThePTC) August 26, 2013
Daniel Deme/European Pressphoto Agency Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus in 2009.“This much is absolutely clear: MTV marketed adults-only material to children while falsely manipulating the content rating to make parents think the content was safe for their children,†a spokesman for the group, Dan Islett, said in a press release. “MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate ‘twerking’ in a nude-colored bikini. How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?â€
Jeannie Kedas, a spokeswoman for MTV, said the network had no comment on the criticism. As a cable network, MTV faces fewer restrictions on content than broadcast networks. Groups like the Parents Television Council have been lobbying Congress to pass a bill giving consumers the ability buy subscriptions to cable networks on an a-la-carte basis, rather than in packages, thus giving consumers more power to choose what channels their families can view.
Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.
Jonah Bromwich contributed reporting.
De Blasio
Liu
Quinn
Thompson
Weiner
Group event
Bill de Blasio
Democrat
1 p.m.
Holds a news conference to provide updates on the legal action he is taking to prevent the closing of Long Island College Hospital, which is beginning to shut down its operations, at Cadman Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn.
2:30 p.m.
Greets voters at the corner of 13th Avenue and 45th Street, in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
John C. Liu
Democrat
7 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the Fordham Road subway station, in the Bronx.
10:30 a.m.
Greets senior citizens at the Casa Boricua Senior Citizens Center, the first of three senior centers he intends to visit in the Bronx on the day.
11 a.m.
Greets senior citizens at the Davidson Senior Center, the second of three senior centers he intends to visit in the Bronx on the day.
11:30 a.m.
Greets senior citizens at the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, the third of three senior centers he intends to visit in the Bronx on the day.
2 p.m.
Takes a small-business tour through Chinatown, beginning on East Broadway in Lower Manhattan.
5 p.m.
Greets evening commuters at the 238th Street 1 train subway station, on 238th Street and Broadway in Upper Manhattan.
9:30 p.m.
Speaks at the Rockaway Point Association’s Annual Meeting and Meet the Candidates Night, at the Colony Theater on Reid Avenue, in Queens.
Joseph J. Lhota
Republican
7:50 p.m.
Participates in the Jewish Press G.O.P. Mayoral Forum, at the Boro Park YM-YWHA on 14th Avenue, in Brooklyn.
Christine C. Quinn
Democrat
7:15 a.m.
A day after releasing her women’s agenda alongside the feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Ms. Quinn will take part in a five-borough tour in honor of Women’s Equality Day, while surrogates of her campaign will visit 19 subway stations across the city in honor of the 19th Amendment. Ms. Quinn begins her day by greeting morning commuters outside the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, on Staten Island.
8 a.m.
Greets morning commuters along the Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan.
9 a.m.
Meets with female voters alongside Sandra Wilkin, founder of the Women’s Builders Council, at a private residence on the Upper East Side.
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
7:30 a.m.
Greets morning commuters at the 125th Street subway station at Lexington Avenue, with Councilman Robert Jackson, in East Harlem.
9 a.m.
Holds a news conference with Councilman Robert Jackson, chairman of the City Council education committee, to draw attention to Mr. Thompson’s plan to fix education by providing more resources and attention, outside the Choir Academy of Harlem on Madison Avenue in East Harlem.
Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat
11:45 a.m.
Meets with senior citizens at the Young Israel Forest Hills Senior League, on Burns Street in Queens.
1:45 p.m.
Continues with his “Keys to the City†tour to discuss his plans for dealing with maternity and paternity leave, outside New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, on Gold Street in Lower Manhattan.
6:30 p.m.
Greets evening commuters at the Jamaica Center - Parsons/Archers subway station, at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue in Queens.
8:45 p.m.
Speaks at the Rockaway Point Association’s Annual Meeting and Meet the Candidates Night, at the Colony Theater on Reid Avenue, in Queens.
Sal F. Albanese
Democrat
7:30 p.m.
Speaks at the Rockaway Point Association’s Annual Meeting and Meet the Candidates Night, at the Colony Theater on Reid Avenue, in Queens.
George T. McDonald
Republican
7:50 p.m.
Participates in the Jewish Press G.O.P. Mayoral Forum, at the Boro Park YM-YWHA on 14th Avenue, in Brooklyn.
The Artist Is Present from Marina Abramovic Institute on Vimeo.
Hugs are in order. On Sunday, the Marina Abramovic Institute’s Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a long-durational performance art center surpassed its goal. The campaign, which hoped to raise $600,000, ended up bringing in $661,454 from 4,765 contributors. Ms. Abramovic has promised to hug every person who has contributed.
The funds are to be used for the early design phase (by the architects Rem Koolhaus and Shohei Shigematsu) of a 29,000-square-foot former theater in Hudson, NY, that Ms. Abramovic hopes to turn into a center. Throughout the campaign, Twitter was flooded with updates from the Institute, with messages of support from donors, video links to Lady Gaga practicing the Abramovic Method in the buff, and Ms. Abramovic telling us, semi-dead pan, how many hours it takes a performance artists to change a lightbulb.
In a telephone conversation from Oslo, where she was arranging a group enactment of Munch’s “The Scream,†she talked briefly to Roslyn Sulcas.
Roslyn Sulcas: When did you first have this idea?
Marina Abramovic: When I did “The Artist is Present†at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010, the people who sat in front of me were different races, cultures, from different social background. It was very intense experience, it’s not a painting or a sculpture, but an emotional event and all these people felt it. They understood the incredible power of long-durational work. After that, I had an incredible urge to leave behind something, all my knowledge of 40 years doing this work. But it’s a larger idea than just my work. How can we make a platform to change human consciousness?
Sulcas: So you think long-durational work can do this?
Abramovic: Yes, what we don’t have now in our intelligent, technological society is time. Long-durational work is not an original idea. Wagner was making 15-hour performances. You have very long duration in nature and science; there are plants that only bloom once every hundred years. But we have so many distractions today, it is very hard to focus on one thing. So with the Institute, you have to commit to six hours. You put away all your devices, you put on a lab coat, which is democratic and equal but also experimental. Then you go to different chambers for different experiences. Sound chambers, scientific chambers, a crystal cave, gazing chambers, anti-gravitation chambers. Then you will be wheeled into the main performance space, where I want to ask different artists and musicians, dancers and filmmakers to show their work, maybe long-durational that they cannot do elsewhere. And if you fall asleep, because it is long, you are put in the sleeping dock.
Afterwards, you see what you can do with this experience. You can apply it if you are a farmer or teacher or working in a bank.
Suzy Allman for The New York Times Are you over 14? United States Open ball-fetching glory could be yours.When the United States Open tennis tournament begins on Monday in Queens, keep an eye on those gathering the balls.
Anyone over 14 can qualify, upon completing a grueling trial.
Let other tournaments â€" we’re looking at you, Wimbledon â€" select only from the young. New York is striking a blow against inequality.
Here, in fact, they are known, in a final nod to inclusiveness, as “ballpersons.â€
This year, said Tina Taps, who runs the program, about 450 people applied for 75 slots.
They were recruited mostly through local schools, community boards, youth organizations and tennis programs in Queens, Harlem and across the city. (Yes, the vast majority are youngsters.)
The oldest person who ever attended a trial, she said, was around 80. In recent years, an Elvis impersonator repeatedly tried to join.
“He was better off staying in his band,†Ms. Taps said.
Ballpersons are paid up to $9 an hour.
Many tournaments, Ms. Taps said, consider the privilege of seeing the world’s greatest players up close reward enough.
“I guess we do it a little differently,†she said.
Here’s what you need to know for your Monday.
WEATHER
Highs in the mid-80s, with a chance of rain in the afternoon and into the evening. Leave the umbrella at home, if you want to live on the edge. Click here for more information.
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
- Mass Transit Click for latest M.T.A. status.
- Roads Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.
Alternate-side parking is in effect.
COMING UP TODAY
- Joseph J. Lhota, the Republican mayoral candidate, fresh from an endorsement by this newspaper’s editorial board, participates in the Jewish Press GOP Mayoral Forum, at the Boro Park Y.
- On the blue side of the race, Christine C. Quinn, also endorsed by The Times, hits 19 subway stops in honor of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, which allowed women to vote.
- Bill DeBlasio greets voters in Borough Park at the corner of 13th Avenue and 45th Street at 2:30 p.m. Bill Thompson campaigns outside the Choir Academy of Harlem, on 145th Street, from 9 a.m.
- Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? Annoy your friends and family by reciting lines from Raiders of the Lost Ark as it plays in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow at 8 p.m. [Free]
- A 30th anniversary screening of Wild Style, a classic documentary that bore witness to the early days of hip-hop in New York, is at East River Park in Manhattan at 6 p.m. Fab 5 Freddy, Grand Wizard Theodore and others attend. It will be bad. (Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good.) [Free]
- Try dance classes led by Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, a dance company, at Ingersoll Community Center in Brooklyn at 6 p.m. [Free]
- A festival of short documentaries featuring Native American musicians is at the National Museum of the American Indian at 10:30 a.m. [Free]
- Story time for grownups at the New York Public Library features short stories from New York writers, at 7 p.m. [Free]
IN THE NEWS
- New York’s Attorney General is suing Trump University, Donald Trump’s for-profit investment school, accusing it of illegal practices and seeking at least $40 million in restitution. [New York Times]
- Women went topless in Bryant Park as part of “Go Topless Day.†The point, apparently, was that women should feel as free as men to disrobe. [CBS]
- Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, died at 80. [New York Times]
- The quietest place in the city is apparently City Island [New York Daily News]
- Police opened fire in the city four times in three days last week. [New York Times]
- Little League players are confusing hawks, nesting at a ballfield in the Bronx, for baseballs. [New York Post]
AND FINALLY…
A Brooklyn man is suing the police, contending that he was arrested for being “too sexy,†our friends at Gothamist report.
Josue Pierre-Louis, 24, alleges that, as he was stopped by officers in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a passing woman catcalled towards him. A police officer thought her affections were directed towards him, according to Mr. Pierre-Louis.
But the officer became embarrassed when he discovered that he was not the intended target â€" Mr. Pierre-Louis was. So he arrested Mr. Pierre-Louis. Or so the lawsuit goes.
Nicole Higgins DeSmet contributed reporting.
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