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The U.S. Open is going on and if you can't make it out to the National Tennis Center, you might want to watch the matches free on big-screen TV outdoors at Manhattan's Madison Square Park. Matches will be shown at the Park starting on Friday, August 29 and running every day of the U.S. Open through the finals on Sunday, September 7.

It's a festive atmosphere with bleachers set up ...

If you can't be at the 2008 U.S. Open tennis tournament, at least you can follow the action live online. The official U.S. Open Web site, www.usopen.org, has live, updating scores; schedules of play, profiles and biographies of the players, and plenty of photos and videos.

It should be a very interesting tournament, with the once-indestructible Roger Federer seemingly in a bit of a slump, and having slid down ...

For those New Yorkers (and others) who want to relive the latest madcap adventures of Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends, it will be good news that the "Sex and the City" DVD is coming out soon.

I received a an e-mail from HBO saying that the "Sex and the City" DVD is now available for pre-order. The HBO shop also has other "Sex and the City" items including t-shirts ...

Deepika Padukone, the actress who made her Bollywood debut last year with the movie Om Shanti Om, is the grand marshal for 2008's India Day Parade in New York City on August 17th. This year's parade, the 28th annual, is celebrating India's 61st independence day.

The India Day Parade takes place on Madison Avenue in Manhattan and features a number of entertainment events and cultural activities at the end of the ...

New York City will have a permanent outpost of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year. It was announced today at a press conference that an annex of Cleveland's famous musical museum will open in November in the SoHo area of Manhattan.

Among the memorabilia that will be on display will be some items with a distinctly local flavor: Bruce Springsteen's first car (a 1957 Chevy ...

A sure sign of summer in New York is the annual Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and the 2008 edition is underway.

You can hear a live broadcast of the Festival's opening program today, July 30th, on the New York public radio station WNYC, 93.9 on the FM dial. The program will be Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and a chamber version of Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (The ...

It's time once again for restaurant week in New York (the summer edition), and you can find all the details at the official site below. Restaurant week takes place in summer 2008 from July 21 to 25 and July 28 to August 1. Check the restaurants, hours, and locations below.

http://nycvisit.com/restaurantweek/

Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, the site of the U.S. Open each summer, is being readied for a different type of contest on Saturday, July 19th: a professional basketball game. The hometown New York Liberty will take on the Indiana Fever in the first-ever WNBA game to take place outdoors. The women are getting a jump on the men: next year it's expected that the NBA will hold its first ...

Just because you couldn't get a ticket to the 2008 Baseball All-Star Game doesn't mean you can't join in the all-star fun... check out the DHL All-Star Fanfest at New York's Javits Center! It runs from Friday, July 11th right up to the day of the All-Star Game itself, Tuesday, July 15th.

It's billed as the largest baseball interactive spectacular in the world, and you'll find exhibits, memorabilia, a chance to ...

The Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show is one of the most spectacular displays in the country, and here are the details on where, when, and how to see it.

The Macy's Fourth of July fireworks Web site (see link below) lists the starting time as 9 p.m. on Friday, July 4th, but usually the first shells aren't fired until 9:20 or so. This site also tells where the best viewing ...