Today’s “Fab 5″/ Selected NYCity Events –SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, 2014
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The Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival (through Sept. 30)
“For the fifth year running, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola has organized a monthlong series with a multigenerational theme. Headlining this weekend is the Fountain of Youth Band, led by the indomitable drummer Roy Haynes; next week’s highlights include the pianist Donal Fox with the vibraphonist Warren Wolf (Tuesday) and the Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander, in a program called “Jazz Around the West Indies” (Wednesday through Sept. 21).” (Chinen-NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St. and Broadway,
212-258-9595, jalc.org
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. / $35 to $45 cover
Exploring Latin American Jewish Culture
This is my kind of event – learn something interesting, eat something tasty.
With chefs Sam Gorenstein and Leticia Moreinos Schwartz, food writer Susan Schmidt, and anthropologist Ruth Behar; moderated by cookbook author Jayne Cohen.
Latin American Jewish cuisine is heating up restaurants and kitchens throughout the Americas. Hear a lively and mouthwatering conversation about the cuisine’s journey from early Sephardic influences to the Jewish food landscape of today. A reception will follow featuring tasty Latin desserts.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
2:30pm / $20
646.437.4202 / mjhnyc.org
Summer Street Festivals
This is the last week of summer, maybe the last chance to enjoy a street festival.
Today’s weather should be great and anyone of these 3 festivals should be fun:
52nd Street Jazz Festival From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue.
Washington Square Music Festival includes string bands, Mexican ensembles and square dancing. 1 to 5 p.m.
92nd Street Y Lexington Avenue Festival From noon to 5 p.m., between 79th and 95th Streets.
Harlem International Film Festival (last day)
Short and animated films, as well as documentaries and feature-length works, are part of this annual festival, which began this week and continues at several Manhattan locations. Many of the programs feature discussions with the filmmakers after the screenings. The films begin at noon on Saturday and Sunday at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue, between 127th and 128th Streets, Harlem. Tickets are $11; some screenings are free for students. A schedule and other information is available at harlemfilmfestival.org.
4X4 Baroque Music Festival (last day)
4 Concerts on 4 Summer Nights
The 4×4 Festival presents concerts of baroque music at New York City’s historic Saint Paul’s Chapel, showcasing works by well-known composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi while shedding light on some of their unjustly neglected contemporaries.
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Tonight – From Darkness to Light
Contatas of J.S. Bach
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway at Fulton
4PM / FREE
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A PremierPub – West Village
Corner Bistro / 331 W. 4th St.
Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.
In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town. The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.
Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.
Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening, in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.
For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).
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Website: cornerbistrony.com
Phone #: 212-242-9502
Hours: 11:30am-4am Mon-Sat; 12pm-4am Sun
Happy Hour: NO
Music: Juke Box
Subway: #1/2/3 to 14th St. (S end of platform)
Walk 2 blk W. on 13th St. to 8th Ave.; 1 blk S. on 8th Ave. to Jane St.
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