Our Week With Marilyn at the Formosa Cafe

This week marks Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday. Did you know the starlet was a regular at the Formosa Cafe? Back in Hollywood’s golden age, she’d sit at the bar, drinking Piper-Heidsieck champagne cocktails. Now the champers brand and Chinese restaurant are teaming up for a weeklong celebration of their famous onetime customer with five nights of programming. On Monday night, there will be a tribute concert (8pm); on Tuesday, a short film screening on the rooftop and Marilyn trivia (8pm); on Wednesday, “old Hollywood close-up magic and Marilyn-inspired mentalism” (8pm); a free rooftop screening of The Seven Year Itch on Friday (8pm); and, finally, a costume contest on Sunday (9pm). Sidle up to the bar and order house-made potato chips and dip (a nod to Seven Year Itch) and wave to the life-size Marilyn mannequin sitting at her favorite booth.