Enlighten Yourself on Every Day of the Summer

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September

1 Watch the scrawny punks of Green Day solidify their new status as arena-rock gods with a Giants Stadium gig.

2 Get high at Dansville’s 24th Annual New York State Festival of Balloons, where dozens of hot-air enthusiasts rally—and talk nerdily about their baskets—for three days.

3 Troll the Strand Bookstore for an early galley of Candace Bushnell’s fortysomethings novel Lipstick Jungle, officially out September 6.

4 Your last chance to check out the New York Hall of Science’s exhibition on the groundbreaking tech-art collective Experiments in Art and Technology.

5 Labor Day means summer’s over, so go out with a bang. And a crash, a drum-kick, and clapping, and singing, and shouting, and some spicy roti— at New York’s loudest parade: the West Indian-American Day Carnival, which culminates at Grand Army Plaza.

See also:
New York Summer Freebie Calendar

Summer 2005 Movie Calendar