DON’T MISS!: SITARIFIC!
On tour, having just escaped the harrowing experience of hunkering down in a Dallas airport bathroom with her 1-year-old son during the tornadoes this week, sitarist Anoushka Shankar is looking forward to her shows in New York — tonight through Sunday at City Winery. She’s supporting her terrific new album, “Traveller,” which brings flamenco accents to her Indian sitar songs.
In New York, the London resident says, “You can really feel that it’s one of the most amazing music audiences in the world, through its cosmopolitan nature and the arts that are there. And it’s one of the cities that I like to call my home cities . . . where I know people or have loads of family and good friends.”
Mention her New Yorker half-sister Norah Jones, and Shankar — both are daughters of sitar master Ravi Shankar, who turns 92 next week — says, “Yeah, yeah. She’ll be there, she’ll be there.” But don’t expect Jones onstage; they’ve never performed together in public.
City Winery, 155 Varick St.; 212-608-0555, city-winery.com
— Billy Heller
AP
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SEE THIS!: PHOTO FINISH
In March 2011, the world mourned with images of earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan. A year later, photos from that region are bringing people together in Chelsea for the Aperture Foundation exhibit “Lost & Found: 3.11 Photographs From Tohoku.” The collection, on display now through April 27, started when emergency and recovery workers in the Miyagi Prefecture town of Yamamoto found nearly 750,000 photos, which Memory Salvage Project volunteers cleaned up, digitally enhanced and began returning to their rightful owners. About 30,000 photos were too badly damaged to identify — 1,300 of those are on display in New York.
“In the beginning, these were to be thrown away,” Lost & Found founder Munemasa Takahashi says through a translator. “But as a photographer, I question what photographs can do, and these, too, can tell a message.”
Admission is free, but donations are appreciated at Aperture Gallery, 547 W. 27th St.; 212-505-5555, aperture.org. Through April 27.
— Brian Niemietz
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WEAR IT OUT!: CAP DANCE
With Fashion Week in the rearview mirror, haute hatters still have a place to go — Sunday’s Easter Parade, where thousands of fashion-forward chapeau-holics will stroll up Fifth Avenue. Seemingly as many fotogs will try to capture the mad hatters. “It’s like being assaulted by the paparazzi!” says longtime participant Linda Pagan, who owns the Hat Shop in SoHo and is parading with the Milliners Guild. “We have to be careful not to get too big of a brim, because it obscures us from the camera.”
She’ll don a relatively sedate hot-pink topper adorned with orchids, but recalls a woman “wearing a cracked-egg hat that was amazing — [fake] chicks were coming out of it!” The procession runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. between 49th and 57th streets.
— Christina Amoroso
Riyad Hasan
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WATCH IT!: TRUE BRIT
Arguably the funniest fish-out-of-water comedy from Hollywood’s Golden Era, Leo McCarey’s “Ruggles of Red Gap’’ (1935) stars Charles Laughton, whose bravura turn won best actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, in his favorite role. He plays Ruggles, a veddy British third-generation valet whose dithering master (Roland Young) loses him in a 1908 Paris card game to a nouveau-riche American (the coincidentally named Charlie Ruggles). Introduced by his new master as “Colonel Ruggles’’ in his new home of Red Gap, Wash., our hero becomes a celebrity, blossoms in a more egalitarian society and, in the film’s high point, recites the Gettysburg Address. With Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts and Leila Hyams. Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, the flick is showing through Tuesday at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St.; 212-727-8110, filmforum.com.
— Lou Lumenick
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GO HERE!: PLAY THE MARKET
Downtown Brooklyn springs to life when the Dekalb Market (left) opens this weekend with an Easter egg hunt (Sunday) and live music including Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra (tomorrow) and Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens (also Sunday). All that, plus 60 vendors selling goods out of recycled metal shipping containers, including cutting-edge clothier Harriet’s Alter Ego and vintage-sunglass seller YakBlak Sunnies & Specs, make this extravaganza two parts shopping and two parts showtime. For its second year, the market is adding roller derbies, dance parties and drive-in movie nights for bicyclists. Tasty treats include Robicelli’s Cupcakes and Joe’s Coffee. Food stands open at 8 a.m., retail shops at 11 a.m., starting tomorrow, at 138 Willoughby St., Brooklyn; 212-529-9262, dekalbmarket.com.
— B.N.
