Normal Friday, 8 items, 5 of 8 free: the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival opens tonight for ten days of free garden programming on the Lower East Side, Reservoir and the Live Sex Acts reception both land tonight, San Gennaro rolls into day two, and the weekend shapes up as the Queens Night Market opener (Sat), the 32nd Mexican Day Parade on Madison Ave (Sun) and FONT’s finale (Sun).
Live Music
- LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — opens tonight, ten days through Sun 9/27: 50-plus events in 30 Lower East Side community gardens and every one of them free — tonight 6pm the Pressure Point Brass Band opens at La Plaza Cultural (674 E 9th St at Ave C), 8–10pm Isabel Estrada Jamison and friends present Afro-Cuban folklore and Rumba de Corazón. Saturday spreads across 12 gardens, including a free jazz run at 11BC Serenity Garden: Rocco John & Ras Burnett 3pm, Eaton / Nahtal / Hertlein 4pm, Ben Stapp 5pm, Ras Moshe 6pm. Full schedule on the festival site.
- Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) — still on through Sun 9/20; there’s no NYC set tonight (Friday’s bill is in Jersey City), so what’s left is Sat 7pm at Nublu (151 Ave C, $22 — Cole Kamen-Green + AANI) and the 7pm Sunday finale, Volker Goetze Quartet at The Cutting Room ($32.99).
Art & Performance
- Live Sex Acts — opening reception tonight, Fri 9/18 6–9pm at Times Square Space, then Thu–Sat noon–6pm through Nov 15: photographs and artworks by Vivienne Maricevic, Scott Ewalt and Alix Vernet on the sex clubs, peep shows and adult theaters that lined the area from the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, and what happened when they went away. 18+, explicit imagery and mature themes; no price listed, check the site.
- Reservoir — final performance tonight, Fri 9/18 6:30pm, Barnard Movement Lab, 3009 Broadway (Morningside Heights): free, advance RSVP required, donations welcome — María José Contreras’s lecture/theatre/testimony piece on Santiago’s water supply, the retreating Andean glaciers and the dictatorship-era water code that privatized Chile’s water.
Festivals & Markets
- Feast of San Gennaro — still on, day two of eleven: daily through Sun 9/27, Mulberry St between Canal and Houston plus the Hester and Grand blocks, Little Italy — free to walk the 100th edition.
- Queens Night Market — still on for Saturday, 9/19 4pm–midnight behind the New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park: free entry, 100-plus independent vendors and small-scale cultural performances, then every Saturday through Oct 31 (7 train to 111th St, four blocks south; most stalls cash-only).
- 32nd Annual Mexican Day Parade NYC — Sunday 9/20, steps off at noon, Madison Ave from E 38th St to E 27th St: free — the annual Mexican Independence Day celebration of music, dance, art and community (parade site: themexicandayparadeinc.com).
Comedy
- Alvin Kuai headlines Popcorn Comedy at Oliver’s Astoria — tonight 8pm, Oliver’s Astoria (Broadway, Astoria): touring headliner, code POPCORN for $5 off via the Eventbrite link in the post; ticket price not stated.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (9)
- Critics & Filmmakers: Godfrey Cheshire & Alex Winter - DEDUP: still upcoming and written up in full yesterday, but no new information; Monday sits outside this run’s Fri–Sun window and tonight’s three event-day items took the slots (bluesky · @ifccenter.bsky.social)
- Piano in Bryant Park - DEDUP: free weekday Parks series, 8th consecutive cut; today already carries LUNGS’ opening night, Reservoir and the Live Sex Acts reception (web · Bryant Park)
- Ride Queens Bike Tour - DEDUP: 2nd edge; registration capped and Sunday goes to the Mexican Day Parade + FONT finale (web · Time Out)
- Free Neighborhood Night Market - UNVERIFIABLE: address and hours but still no date anywhere in the text; 2nd run (r/Bushwick)
- HARLEM RUNWAY SHOW Presented By Marcus Meets Malcom - UNVERIFIABLE: empty body, no date; 5th consecutive run (r/Harlem)
- CNN got the extended version of the Zohran-AOC “laughing” video and it shows him standing in a somber mood before AOC comes, exchanging greetings and returning to a somber mood thereafter - POLITICS: political-media discourse, not an attendable event (score 289) (r/nyc)
- The Trader Joe’s 72nd Street Renovation - OFFTOPIC: store-renovation news, not an event (score 262) (r/UpperWestSide)
- Knicks Pause Ticket Sales After LeBron James Opener Seats Top $1,200 - NEWS: sports-ticketing coverage, not an event you can attend on its own (score 254) (r/nyc)
- Looking For This Women Who Left Without Paying For Her Haircut - CRIME: doxx-style crime post, not an event (score 226) (r/Greenpoint)
14 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.