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Fri 19
Inside Out; Opens in theaters
Pixar's latest dives into the mind of Riley, an 11-year-old girl whose tiny world is turned upside down when she moves from Minnesota to San Francisco with her mom and dad.
Kulturfest; Various locations and prices.
Brush up on your Yiddish and prepare to dance the hora at New York's first international festival of Jewish performing arts.
Confused House: Antenes (live) + Hank Jackson + Bookworm; Bossa Nova Civic Club, Bushwick, 10pm. $10, free before midnight.
One of our favorite monthlies returns to the fogged-out, strobed-out dance floor of Bossa Nova Civic Club.
River to River Festival; Various locations
Manhattan's waterfronts get cultured with live dance, art installations and special events like the Bang on a Can Marathon.
Eden; Opens in theaters
The Almost Famous of the 90s French house-music scene, Mia Hansen-Løve's fourth feature is a tuneful and bittersweet eli about a DJ (based on her brother) who learns that dreams can become traps if you give them time to rot around you.
10 out of 12; Soho Rep, Tribeca, 7:30pm. $35, after June 22 $50–$75.
Techweek for a play-within-a-play is the unlikely setting for Anne Washburn's transfixing mediation on theatrical craft and perseverance.
New York Philharmonic: Concerts in the Parks; Ball Fields, Long Meadow Prospect Park, 8pm.
Sit back at Prospect Park and hear the city fall silent as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performs mesmerizing scores. Performances tonight include Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Saint-Saëns's Violin Concerto No. 3, Stravinsky's Petrushka and Ravel's La Valse.
“KAWS: ALONG THE WAY"; Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park, 11am. $16.
The street-slash-gallery artist's eight-foot-tall sculpture of his signature skull-headed Mickey character looms over the museums lobby.
American Ballet Theatre; Metropolitan Opera House, at Lincoln Center, 7:30pm. $20–$200.
The venerable company returns for its 75th season with the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty. The dancers are also slated to perform other classic tales like Swan Lake, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.
Sat 20
Mermaid Parade 2015; Coney Island, 1pm.
King Neptune and Queen Mermaid, and over a thousand other marchers, hit Surf Avenue once again to show a little—okay, a lot of—skin and bask in all things nautical.
Str8 West Coastin'; Project Parlor, Staten Island, 2pm. Free.
Looking for a California-backyard-party vibe, complete with carne asada and elotes on the grill? Head to Str8 West Coastin', where resident DJs Still Life, Eleven and Dopeshoes will be playing West Coast treats from the likes of Dre, Snoop, Cube, E-40 and Too Short.
Drunk TED Talks presents: Graduating From the West-ern Canon; Littlefield, Gowanus, 2pm. $5.
This is what TED talks would be like if drunk comedians and witty journalists were giving them. And this edition is dedicated totally to Kanye.
Adventures NYC; Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, Lenox Hill, 11am. Free.
Backpacker Magazine and the Parks Department help you prepare for an active summer with outdoor-gear exhibits, bike-helmet giveaways and a rock-climbing wall, as well as health, fitness and yoga clinics.
Nolafunk Crawfish and Music Festival; Governors Beach Club, Governors Island, 4:30pm. $35, General admission + Crawfish Platter, $55.
There’ll be so much New Orleans in New York for this event, you’ll be tempted to give up your job and join a roving horn band.
Crazy Since Da 90s'; Union Hall, Park Slope, 10pm. Before 11pm free with R.S.V.P., after 11pm $5.
Get in free before 11pm to this house party that takes you back to the sweet days of DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mariah Carey with gin-and-juice specials all night long.
Sun 21
Make Music New York; Various locations, 9am.
Musicians flood NYC's public spaces during this daylong, citywide, entirely free festival.
Sunday Night in Brooklyn with Colin Quinn; Over the Eight, Williamsburg, 8pm. Free.
Here Colin Quinn invites his funniest comic friends to perform and then closes out the show with an hour's length of new material.
Socrates Sculpture Park Summer Solstice Celebration; Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, 5pm, Free.
It’s harder to justify indoor-art peeping once the weather is nice, but you don’t have to. Head to the en plein air sculpture haven—one of the city’s few spots designed for outdoor works.
D'Angelo and the Vanguard + Gary Clark Jr. + Meg Mac; Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, 6pm. $42.50–$122.50.
The new songs sounded magical at an Apollo show in February; here, catch the almighty D'Angelo and his deadly live band in an open-air setting, with support from stylish young blues-rocker Gary Clark Jr.
Bang on a Can Marathon; Brookfield Place Winter Garden, Battery Park City, 12pm. Free.
It's 10 hours of outdoor tunes at Brookfield. First up: pieces by Tristan Perich and Lainie Fefferman.
RVIVR + War on Women + Arm Candy + Rips; Palisades, Bedford Stuyvesant, 8:30pm. $10.
The greatest young punk band in the land—an Olympic WA, four-piece led by dual frontfolk Mattie Canino and Erica Freas—brings its speedy, soaring, socially conscious anthem.