Last Thursday's event was the first of six Rockin' the River tube floats scheduled for this summer by Trinity Vision, featuring live music, lifeguards and discounts at nearby bars in the newly hopping West Seventh district just west of downtown.
Discrete time scheduling is preferred over floating point scheduling, because discrete calculations do not suffer from rounding errors.
(March 15 and March 19 at 8). | The Franco Zeffirelli production of "La Traviata," which has been floating about the schedule for the past two months, returns with a promising cast that features Krassimira Stoyanova, Jonas Kauffman (who made a strong impression as Alfredo last season), and Dwayne Croft, and a new conductor, Marco Armiliato.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA The Franco Zeffirelli production of "La Traviata," which has been floating about the schedule for the last two months, returns with a promising cast that features Krassimira Stoyanova, Jonas Kaufmann (who made a strong impression as Alfredo last season), and Dwayne Croft, and a new conductor, Marco Armiliato.
OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA The Franco Zeffirelli production of "La Traviata," which has been floating about the schedule for the last two months, returns with a promising cast that features Krassimira Stoyanova, Jonas Kaufmann (who made a strong impression as Alfredo last season), and Dwayne Croft, and a new conductor, Marco Armiliato.
After leaving Dubai in October and being overhauled at a shipyard in China, the floating hotel is scheduled to open as early as winter 2014.
The current NBC entertainment president, Jeff Zucker, was not in charge when "Third Rock" arrived or when it began to float around the schedule like a golf ball in zero gravity.
BARGEMUSIC The schedule at the floating chamber-music series begins with a concert of violin sonatas by Beethoven (including the "Spring") and by Handel, an older master he profoundly admired, performed by the violinist Mark Peskanov and the pianist Jeffrey Swann, both of whom will be featured in the two weeks of concerts to come.
The designs for the ferry terminal at Pier 79 on the Hudson River are in the final stages of approval, and construction on a $40 million, glass-enclosed floating landing at Battery Park City is scheduled to begin by early next year.
The Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 made their official debuts in October 2011 and 2012 respectively, and now that we've got persistent rumors of a Google event scheduled for October 14 floating around, I'd wager all this cloak-and-dagger business should be dispensed with very shortly.
