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DON'T MISS!: OUTSIDE THE BOX `MY idea of a good picture,” Andy Warhol declared, “is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” He’d love the Met’s new show, filled as it is with images of Elvis, Mao and Marilyn, Capote, Streisand and Kurt Cobain. Star power and soup cans — “Regarding Warhol: 60 Artists, 50 Years” has it all. Opening Tuesday, it bursts with charisma and chutzpah. (When is a pharmaceutical cabinet art? When Damien Hirst says it is.) A third of its 150 works are by Warhol, the rest by artists who fell under his consumerism-driven sway, like Ai Weiwei, who painted a Coca-Cola logo onto an ancient vase, and Tom Sachs, whose “Chanel Chainsaw” cuts up couture. Jeff Koons? Check. Cindy Sherman? Yup — the gang’s all here. Spring for the audioguide ($7) and let the divine John Waters explain; Fifth Avenue at 81st Street, metmuseum.org. — Barbara Hoffman

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SAIL AWAY!: UP A CREEK . . . Rank with sewage, spilled oil and other toxins from more than 150 years of industry, Newtown Creek isn’t a hot weekend destination. But a trio of artists exploring the waterway — which divides western Queens and Brooklyn — is offering a reason to visit. It’s the Newtown Creek Armada, a public art project that involves launching a fleet of remote-controlled boats equipped with cameras and allowing visitors to pilot them, thus documenting the state of the waterway. “It’s a way to engage people in a Superfund site and encourage them to take stock of urban waterways,” says Laura Chipley, one of the artists. A Greenpoint resident, Chipley says she’s drawn to the creek for the way it reflects the area’s history, and “the beauty and horribleness that exist simultaneously.” 1 p.m. tomorrow (and Sept. 22, 29 and 30) at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk; entrance at 50 Paidge Ave., Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Free; newtowncreekarmada.org. — Chris Erikson

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WATCH THIS!: WHO YOU GONNA CALL? “Nobody steps on a church in my town!’’ exclaims wisecracking Manhattan ghost exterminator Bill Murray — joined by Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson— in Ivan Reitman’s rollicking and popular special-effects comedy epic “Ghostbusters’’ (1984) showing tomorrow at 4:30 and 9:15 p.m. as BAMcinematek winds down its “American Gagsters’’ series. Another great Murray-Reitman collaboration, the military-service comedy “Stripes’’ (1981), is showing at 2 and 6:50 p.m. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette St., Brooklyn. Info: bam.org. — Lou Lumenick

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LISTEN UP!: HIP HIP-HOP “If there’s one word,” says Compton, California-born rapper Kendrick Lamar, that sums up his mission in hip-hop, “it’s originality.” Since dropping his first mix-tape 10 years ago at the age of 16, Lamar has evolved into a master of many flows, as comfortable rhyming about Black Panther Fred Hampton as he is about parties. Tomorrow, he’ll be joined by members of his Black Hippy crew and rapper Stalley at Terminal 5, where he plans to live up to the city’s discerning rap crowd. “I bring my A game wherever,” Lamar says, “but New York City especially — it’s the mecca of hip-hop.” And with his upcoming album, “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” featuring collaborators such as Dr. Dre and Lady Gaga, Lamar shows no signs of slowing down. 610 W. 56th St.; 212-582-6600, terminal5-nyc.com. Tickets: $30. — Charlie Heller

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GET A TASTE!: TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE Sweet! The Rockaways will be swarming with activity at tomorrow’s NYC Honey Fest. More than 1,000 attendees flocked to last year’s inaugural festival, which sold out of honey in under an hour. This year, organizer Chase Emmons is determined not to get stung and will be hawking several hundred pounds of the sweet stuff from Brooklyn Grange, the farm in charge of the fest where he’s also the chief beekeeper: “It’s gotten super popular since it became legalized [in New York] in 2010,” Emmons says of the hipster hobby. The 30-plus vendors include Sixpoint Brewery, pouring out honey-flavored suds, and Bushwick Print Lab, selling bee-themed graphic tees. Other buzz-worthy activities include a bee mural-painting session for kids and a honey-themed dinner (at 7 to 10 p.m.) for $20 from Rockaway Boardwalk Concession chefs, including Caracas Arepa Bar. You’d better bee-lieve it! 10 a.m. to sundown on the Rockaway Boardwalk, Shore Front Parkway and Beach 96th Street; nychoneyfest.com — Christina Amoroso