Astorian Weekend Edition — July 8, 2005

Tonight, drown out the mysterious noises coming from the cubicle next to you—and ease your joints after a week in the highly nonergonomic chairlike contraption in front of your computer—with some of Sutra's punch.

Tomorrow, you’ll be ready to venture outside. Start the weekend out right—at the opening of the long-awaited, much-lobbied-for, soon-to-be-devoured Long Island City Greenmarket. Be there or be stuck with the rotting grocery-store variety. Inspired to paint a still life of your newfound fruit? Learn how in a watercolor class at the Local Project.

Sunday, cycle along the Brooklyn-Queens divide with ace urban geographer Jack Eichenbaum. He’ll tell you all there is to know about Newtown Creek. Finally, unwind your weekend under the spell of Mike D's tabla-playing pal Ray Spiegel and sitar virtuoso Ravi Rao in the Noguchi Museum Sculpture Garden.

- Joey

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