The schedule of summer events in NYC is like my group of friends on a bender: it just don’t stop!

August Activities Around NYC:

Monday, July 28th-Friday, August 1st
Restaurant Week
Enjoy prix fixe lunches at selected restaurants for $24.07 and prix fixe dinners for $35. Please your pals by scoring a great reservation at one of the more than 200 participating restaurants, but make sure they know to bring cash. Order the wine and tip the wait staff generously.
www.nycvisit.com/restaurantwee

July 22nd-August 17th
Shakespeare in the Park
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical featuring Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening)
Get up early and stand in line at Central Park, 81st Street entrance near the Delacorte Theater. Good luck!
www.publictheater.org/content/view/126/219

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This week I’m focusing on events that only take place in this fabulous town. Enjoy!

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This week’s post is jam-packed with events taking place throughout July, from Brighton Beach up to Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Click after the jump to find enough activities to keep you busy every day for the rest of the month!

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This week I found myself in a slightly less familiar part of town: the east side. Yeah, I’m one of those kids who lives and works on the west side, and audibly groans when friends want to hang out on the opposite side of town. Of course, exceptions are made for good happy hour specials and a sloppy brunch.

My venture on the crosstown bus proved worthy when I arrived to Madison Square Park (23rd Street & Broadway) on Wednesday to meet two old friends I hadn’t seen in a while. We reunited to hear Raul Midon, a blind soul/pop guitarist we’ve followed for years.

I discovered Midon at Joe’s Pub about five years ago. He recently received a glowing review from the New York Times for his JVC Jazz Festival performance, and described as “…a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus.” Check out his tour schedule at www.raulmidon.com - he’s incredible.

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In about 24 hours, I’ll be eating a traditional Polish-style dinner at my little brother’s wedding: kluski noodles, mashed potatoes, Polish sausage and about 15 other types of meat. The Polish know how to party. I should know; I’m currently in my hometown with my crazy family who is successfully incorporating vodka into every meal. Impressive.

I’m happy to know that the partying and overeating doesn’t have to stop when I return to NYC.

If you’re looking for a tasty way to support an important nonprofit, consider this amazing food festival taking place on Monday, June 23 at Pier 54 in Manhattan.

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When you’re an event planner who is one week away from your largest fundraiser of the year, and are attending three weddings in three different states over the next three weeks, you sometimes have to hurry through your weekly ‘bee post.

Hopefully you’ll forgive me.

I’m blog-phoning it in with a list of my favorite e-subscriptions. If you want to learn about hundreds of events that can be delivered to your inbox on a weekly basis, start right here on neighborbeeblog.

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Every year around this time, my friends anxiously await an e-mail that I send around once a year. For a number of years, I’ve compiled a list of all the great summer activities that take place in NYC and send it to the masses with hopes that others will join me on urban adventures.

There are many other summer events lists floating around the Internet right now, but mine includes activities that take places in *gasp* other boroughs than Manhattan.

The list is usually the same from year to year, but one notable exception for 2008 is the absence of the Metropolitan Opera concert in Central Park. Instead, the Met will host one performance in Prospect Park on Friday, June 20.

Be sure to bookmark this page, as I’ll add a few more events as I come across them. And check back for the lists of monthly activities for July, August and September later this summer.

Pull up your calendar and mark down these dates. What a way to kick off summer!

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Finally, I have a forum to write about one of my absolute favorite activities: happy hour!

I know, I know. I’m supposed to write about “events.” But doesn’t planning a mass gathering where everyone drinks affordably qualify as an event? Yes, I think so.

Now that summer is approaching, bars are accommodating the drinking crowds by offering some thirst-quenching specials. I polled many of my libation-loving friends and they offered up their favorite cheap drink joints. (This is what you call “blog-phoning it in” when your flight to New Orleans leaves in a few hours!)

And now, I present to you many frosty reasons to leave work on time.

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I can’t move right now. I feel as though I’m weighed down by something. I feel like someone dropped a weight on my stomach. I don’t even want to think of getting out of my chair. I’m tempted to flop right out of my seat and fall asleep on the floor underneath my desk.

If you’ve had this feeling before, it’s probably because you eat too much. And if you know the food coma as well as I do, then you probably have a favorite food that brings it on. You might know to avoid that food for the most part and only eat it sparingly. (Key example: Chipotle. Do you really want to know how many calories are in that burrito?)

Today, I decided that today was a street meat day.

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I have a confession to make.

No, actually, I have a proclamation to make. I will shout it from the rooftops.

I hate Sex and the City. With a burning passion.

And if half of the women in this city felt the same way that I did, this city would be a much better place to live.

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