1. Hear Jersey rocker/new pro-football team owner Jon Bon Jovi at Giants Stadium.
2. See Music is the Weapon at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
3. Hear Steven Rinehart read from his first novel, Built in a Day.

[Post additional to-do's in the "comments" field]
1. See Grant Gee's Radiohead documentary Meeting People is Easy at Warsaw.
2. See Matt & Ben at P.S. 122
3. Hear political cartoonists discuss their work at Housing Works.

THE DAILY LISTICLE: FORCE YOUR FRIENDS ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE TO MEET YOU DOWNTOWN FOR DINNER THROUGH STRATEGIC USE OF RESTAURANTS CONVENIENTLY STATIONED NEAR WEST SIDE SUBWAY STOPS. Here are a few from my publisher's "1, 9 and A/C/E subway stops" list.
1. DA SILVANO'S - I recommend Silvano's for entirely selfish reasons: so that you can send me celebrity sightings and update me on The State of the Spray Balsamic.
2. YAMA - Old reliable. And my publisher swears by the oysters.
3. MIYAGI - Supposedly good (I've never been there) inexpensive sushi.
4. MIRCHI Indian food. Reportedly has very good drinks, and what more do you need?

1. Catch Human League at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
2. Hear Sheri Holman read from her new novel, The Mammoth Cheese, at Barnes & Noble.
3. See They Might Be Giants documentary Gigantic: a Tale of Two Johns at Makor.

1. Hear Aerosmith and KISS at Jones Beach.
2. Discuss the Black Panthers in Harlem.
3. Hear Jill Nelson read from her debut novel, Sexual Healing, at Borders.

1. Hear Def Leppard at Jones Beach. Just because.
2. Go on the Central Park moonlight ride.
3. Catch "President Harding Is a Rock Star" at the HERE Arts Center.

1. Catch Jurassic 5 at S.O.B.'s.
2. Take Afro-Funk lessons with Senam Okudzeto at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
3. See I Am Trying to Break Your Heart at OfficeOps in Brooklyn.
[I'm turning comments on for those of you who keep sending me press releases and emails about events. Feel free to add listings.]

1. Hear Tracy Quan read from her book, Manhattan Call Girl, at Rocky Sullivan's Pub.
2. Catch Fringe Festival favorite, "Matt & Ben" at Performance Space.
3. See Baghdad-born architect Zaha Hadid's show at Artists Space.

A citysearch review of Mannahatta on Bowery, titled "interesting surprise": "I decided to go in for a drink and I met a georgous bartender. What was 10 minutes turned into an entire night. While the upstairs is beautifully open to the street with windowed doors that open, I was surprised to find out there was a really cool club downstairs with a great DJ. They where having a wild party with a bunch of graffiti artists with magic markers creating cool designs on truck driver caps. Next thing I know, I am rocking it out to Guns & Roses, with a shot of tequila in one hand and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the other hand with a truck driver hat on my head. Thanks Mannahatta!"
User review: Mannahatta [Citysearch]

1. Catch Supergrass at Irving Plaza.
2. See Pasolini's "Arabian Nights" at the Film Forum.
3. Try the grilled octopus at Trattoria Anna Maria.

1. Hear Cynthia Kaplan read from Why I'm Like This at the Half King.
2. Mock Radar editor Maer Roshan's CD collection at the Soho Grand tonight.
3. See "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in Bryant Park.

New York Mag reviews Rocco DiSpirito's new restaurant, Rocco's (also the set of NBC's reality TV series, The Restaurant.) The ambience: "The cameras are mercifully gone now, but the residue of staginess and contrived kitsch remains. There is the impossibly rotund maitre d' figure at the door, who seems to have been plucked directly from a Sopranos casting call. There are the antic waiters wearing colorful soccer jerseys, and the foosball game that patrons can play while they wait for their platters of pasta to arrive. Operatic tenor voices blast vigorously from the sound system, and there's an eye-catching glass-bead mural of old Napoli itself, spread against the back wall." And we haven't even talked about the food yet. If you want the insider's take on the reality show, Gideon Horowitz (the kid that camped out by the door in the first episode and won a staff job) has a blog. In a post titled, "Reality TV Sucks," he writes, "paparazzi were screaming my name ...'over here....over here...look to the right Gideon' As I was standing in front of 50 lenses I couldnt help but think...are these people serious. I didn't cure cancer, I'm not starring in a feature film, I just let cameras follow me around for awhile. However ridiculous the situation was...it was a dream come true." Ah, the thrills of pre-achievement celebrity.
Rocco's on 22nd St. [NY Mag]
Reality TV sucks [Gideon Horowitz via Anil]

1. Try the oysters at the Mermaid Inn.
2. Pretend like it's 1991 all over again at Lollapalooza at the PNC Bank Arts Center.
3. Hear historian Edward T. O'Donnell talk about New York's "second worst catastophe" (covered in his book, Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum) at Barnes and Noble.

Da Silvano, the celebrity/media-infested hotspot in Greenwich Village, is now selling orange t-shirts. (Ugly orange t-shirts, our spy reports.) This is, of course, another sign of the increasing Olive-Garden-ness of the restaurant. Other evidence: the inexplicable balsamic vinegar in a spray bottle and the sinking feeling that at any second the waiters are going to gather around the next table and launch a hand-clapping back-slapping rendition of "Happy Birthday"or "Bon Compleanno," as it were. [Ed.the old but fairly reliable "Happy Birthday" index of restaurant quality.] If I didn't like the foodits saving [overpriced] graceI'd already be referring to it as "Carmine's on 6th."

1. Catch Chris Isaak at the Beacon Theater.
2. Hear Marc Nesbitt and David Amsden read with music by Jerkwater at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg.
3. Attend the Tomoko Sawada opening at the Zebriskie Gallery [via Flavorpill]

The Lincoln Center's giving away a few pairs of New York Video Festival tickets to Gawker readers.

[Well, not completely arbitrary. Now that electroclash is dead, it's safe to go back.]
1. Hear Stephen Malkmus in Prospect Park.
2. Go to the "underwear party" in Greenpoint.
3. Tour Brownstone Brooklyn [last listing].

1. Hear Douglas Coupland read from Hey Nostradamus! at Barnes & Noble.
2. Catch "The Boss" Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium or Blur at Hammerstein Ballroom.
3. Attend the "New Yorkers on the edge: you talkin' to me?" urban storytelling Summerstages event at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park.

1. Catch Ani DiFranco at SummerStage in Central Park.
2. Watch Paul Taylor's second dance company perform in Union Square.
3. Hear Jon Krakauer read from his book, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble.

David Duchovny of X Files is appearing in the final season of Sex and the City. Kristin, E! Online's TV gossip, speculates. "HBO isn't saying a peep about his role, but it sounds to me like he could be one-third of a final love triangle with Carrie and Big. Show producer Michael Patrick King has said they're bringing in a big love interest post-Berger. In the episode after the one I told you about with Big in the hospital, Carrie goes out on a date with a Russian artist. Somehow, I can't see Duchovny in that role, but maybe!"
Watch with Kristin [E! Online]