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• Generation Harvest Summer in the City event. Metropolitan Pavilion North. 110 W. 19th St., nr. Sixth Ave., 6 p.m. Tim Robbins, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, B.J. Novak, and others are expected. Coming just after the slacker era of Generation X, "Generation Harvest" consists of 29- to 31-year-olds who dress like Ethan Hawke's character in Reality Bites but are corn farmers.
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