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The Tribeca Film Festival is a huge draw for film lovers. Tickets are hard to get for certain films. They’re about 26 bucks each. Crazy.

For the poorer or stingier film lovers, Tropfest at Tribeca 2007 may be just what you (we) need. Tropfest is the world’s largest short film festival. The main perks of the fest are that it’s outside (and who doesn’t love an outdoor flick?) and better yet, it’s FREE. Oh, yes, my friends, my favorite word appears yet again. Free, free, freeeeeeee.

If you want to make short short short films with your cell phone, you can enter the Slice of Life contest. Record 30 seconds of life on your phone to win a Nokia Nseries prize and have your clip aired at the fest.

Head to Battery Park on Sunday, September 23. Entertainment begins at 5 PM. Films begin at 8 PM.

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The U. S. Open comes to town this week. From now until September 9, professional tennis players will flock to Corona–that’s Queens–and duke it out with rackets and balls. Heh. I said “rackets and balls.” Ha. I’m so twelve.

Flushing Meadows Park will be the home of 2007’s last Grand Slam tournament.

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Crumbs
1114 Avenue Of The Americas
New York, NY 10036
212 221 1500

Scenario: You’re in Bryant Park and you’re jonesin for dessert of the sweet variety.

Get up from the Reading Room or the lawn or wherever you happen to be sitting and cross the street to Crumbs. Trust me, it’s worth the short walk.

Crumbs bakery features humongo cupcakes in flavors like pistachio and peanutbutter and birthday. The icing is supersweet and the good folks at Crumbs actually inject the icing down into the center of the cupcake. So icing is on top and inside. INSIDE!!!!

Also, Crumbs makes their own sodas, teas, and coffees. Homemade soda is supersweet and supergood and comes in all different flavors. The tea and coffee is iced or hot and also has several varieties for your choosing.

Ten bucks will get you two vanilla sodas and a pistachio cupcake (with the small amount of extra change falling in the tip jar). That may seem expensive even for New York prices, but truly, the cupcake is for two to four people. Maybe for one person who’s really hungry and chooses to eat cake instead of a meal.

Once you have your bag of goodies, you can cross back over to Bryant Park and lounge around as if you’d never left.

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River To River is still going strong as it has all summer long. Now it’s time for movies. Surely, you’ve been taking advantage of Bryant Park’s flick fest. But now, there’s even more. 55 Water Street is the place to be in August to catch some movie classics.

August 7 presents The Fountainhead circa 1949.

August 14 is all about Breakfast at Tiffany’s from 1960

August 21 offers On The Waterfront filmed in 1954.

August 28 brings it all to an end with The Apartment, a throwback to 1960 once more.

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