Weekend Picks: Catalpa NYC, NewFest and more
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Head out to iAdventure.com's first annual BBQ & Blues Blowout for a day of chowing down on barbecue, sipping on brews and listening to live blues and country music. (Sat., noon or 4 p.m. sessions, $25-$80, Greenwich Village Country Club, 110 University Pl., fifth fl., iadventure.com)
Attention, classical music fans: Next week's Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center offers up a free preview concert on Saturday. Tickets are being distributed starting at 10 a.m. at Avery Fisher Hall. (Sat., 7:30 p.m., FREE, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plz., 212-875-5030)
The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg headline the two-day outdoor music festival Catalpa NYC. (Sat.-Sun., 1:30 p.m., $99.99/one-day pass or $179.99/weekend pass, Randalls Island, catalpanyc.com)
The American Museum of Natural History's new exhibition is uber-creepy and crawly: It's name, "Spiders Alive!" should tell you all you need to know. So get ready to get up close and personal with 19 species of live spiders. (Sat.-Dec. 2, various hours, FREE-$19, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 212-769-5100)
'Democrats say this is a misuse of taxpayer funds' Nassau Republicans awarded over $1 million in taxpayer-funded legal contracts to the one-man law firm of Sheharyar Ali, a longtime GOP ally. Ali's father is an adviser to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa and Newsday Nassau County politics reporter Bahar Ostadan have the story.
'Democrats say this is a misuse of taxpayer funds' Nassau Republicans awarded over $1 million in taxpayer-funded legal contracts to the one-man law firm of Sheharyar Ali, a longtime GOP ally. Ali's father is an adviser to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa and Newsday Nassau County politics reporter Bahar Ostadan have the story.
