1. Hear Diana Barby at Pete's Candy Store.
2. See comedians Colin Quinn, Jim David, Dave Attell, Jim Norton and others at the Comedy Cellar (shows at 9PM & 11PM, different comedians at each).
3. Hear Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, read from his book, Execution in the Family at Barnes & Noble, Broadway & 82nd Street, 7:30PM.

1. See Ash at Irving Plaza.
2. See Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise in a new 35mm print at Film Forum.
3. Hear the Chanteuse Club at Joe's Pub.
4. See Rana's Wedding, one of the films from the 2003 Human Rights Watch Festival, at the Walter Reade Theater.

1. Hear the Vue at Luxx.
2. Listen and dance to Karsh Kale and Realize Liveat S.O.B.'s.
3. Debate the state of hip-hop at panel discussion, "Inside Hip-Hop: What's Up With America's Mass Music?". at The Williams Club.
4. Check out Feature Feature, two audience-suggested improvised movies, at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
5. Hear readings from the new issue of Open City, with contributors Cynthia Weiner, Greg Ames and Jesse Goldstein at Buzzer Thirty.

Radar has an article in the summer issue about Rocco DiSpirito's new restaurant, "Rocco" and the reality TV show ("The Restaurant") it has spawned. The author speculates that the producers pack a table with DiSpirito's ex-girlfriends to make it more interesting. There may be something to that theory. A spy reports that Rocco has everyone wearing ROCCO shirts, hats, and buckles as well as pins that say "I love Rocco." At least one ex-girlfriend has snagged a pin and changed it to "I loved Rocco."
"Kitchen Confidential" (Not online. Grumble, grumble, hint, hint.) [Radar]

1. See Morvern Callar at BAM.
2. Hear Yale law professoer and The Emperor of Ocean Park author Stephen Carter speak at the 92nd Street Y.
3. Catch the Chucho Vald s Quartet featuring Wycliffe Gordon at the Village Vanguard.
4. Watch the editors of The Nation and The Economist battle it out about America's role in the world, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
5. Go the Met in the Park.

Filmmaker Spike Lee was in court today to block Viacom's new cable network, Spike TV. He claims the channel, which broadcasts Pamela Anderson's cartoons, will dilute his brand. "I don't want to be associated with some 'Stripperella' crap," Lee said.
1010 WINS: Spike Lee Wants Viacom to "Do the Right Thing" [1010 WINS]

File under obvious. A discussion thread on yesterday's theater awards reveals the following: Open Gays Completely Dominate Tony Awards.

Rosie O'Donnell began painting after the attack on the Twin Towers. Her work goes on show later this month in a Massachusetts gallery. As one might expect, plenty of shards.
Rosie [Mumford Gallery]

For the week of June 23rd, many Manhattan eateries are offering cut-price lunch menus as part of New York restaurant week. In some cases, the promotional rate isn't much cheaper than the usual prix fixe. But Craft, at $20.03 for lunch, is a bargain. For advance booking, the full list of participating restaurants is below; online reservations are through OpenTable.
NY Restaurant Week [NYCvisit.com]
NY Restaurant Week [OpenTable]

1. See Pater Familias, one of the Italian premieres in the New Italian Cinema series at the Walter Reade Theater.
2. Go to the The Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Program Benefit which has music by David Byrne, Pamela Laws, Citizen Cope, Kim Gordon, and Thurston Moore and fiction readings by Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, and Colson Whitehead at Bowery Ballroom.
3. Listen to singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer at Joe's Pub.

1. Listen to Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys at the Bowery Ballroom.
2. Get tickets to Intrigue With Faye, the new play starring Julianna Marguiles and Benjamin Bratt, at the Acorn Theater.
3. See Whale Rider, the Sundance Audience Award winner from New Zealand, which opens today.

Tonight's Radiohead concert is causing minor chaos. 405 posts on Craig's List. An update: "The line is already 1000 deep in front of the beacon..I can see it from where I am right now. and from what i have heard, it has been oversold for sure. So if i were you, I would get there immediately if you expect to get in. Also, the afterparty is going to be at Flow on varick then to Pangea on lafayette and 4th....enjoy."
Radiohead information [Craig's List]

1. Hear Radio 4 (yet another "we were influenced by Gang of Four, Mission of Burma..." post-punk band) at the Bowery Ballroom
2. See The Weather Underground at the Film Forum. [Ed.Not to be confused with Haskell Wexler's Underground.]
3. Attend John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lecture at Galapagos.

In the ongoing quest to provide the occasional bit of useful information: the Field Day concert has been cancelled. They fought the law, and the law apparently won. The organizers will announce by end of the day whether the concert will be held at Meadowlands or Giants Stadium. UPDATE: Looks like it's Giants Stadium.
Riverhead: no concert in Calverton this weekend [Newsday]

1. Open bar and readings by Timothy Hutton, Nicole Burdette, Michael Showalter, and Peter Dinklage at the Culture Project to celebrate 50 Years of the Paris Review
2. See Partly Cloudy Patriot Sarah Vowell and other comedians like Judy Gold and Craig Baldo at Eating It at Luna Lounge.
3. The first movie and only silent movie to win an Academy Award, Wings, will get live musical accompaniment at the Ames Theater, Lighthouse International Building, 111E. 59th St., 888-778-7575.

1. See the documentary, Domestic Violence, presented by Amnesty International at Galapagos Art Space.
2. See Rebecca Luker in the play Can't Let Go at the Connelly Theater.
3. Hop on the Burlesque Trend Bandwagon at Heat: Sexy Stories and Burlesque, a series of erotic readings and burlesque at the Culture Project.

1. Attend a Rooftop Screening conceived by artist Robert Whitman at the Rooftop Urban Park Project.
2. Celebrate the Lower East Side at the Orchard Street Block
Party
3. Go to the Seventh Annual Pacific Northwest Beer and Oyster Festival at Blind Tiger Ale House.

1. See the Tin House Page+Stage+Screen reading series at The Housingworks Used Book Café, this time featuring Estep Nagy, Dale Peck, and Joshua Wolfshenk.
2. Hear Suzanne Vega at Bowery Ballroom.
3. Catch a rising star at Eugene Mirman's weekly comedy show, Invite Me Up, at Cinema Classics.

If you were planning on going to the Field Day Festival on Long Island, it may not be happening. (We had a link to it a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I'd pass along the information.) "Suffolk County has denied a mass gathering permit for a two-day rock concert, with Radiohead headling on June 7th in Calverton, meaning for now the event can't go ahead. County health officials denied the permit today after Riverhead Police Chief David Hegermiller said his force wouldn't be able to handle the expected crowd of 50,000." Organizers are saying everything will be straightened out and the event will happen as planned. The city's still saying "no permit."
Suffolk denies permit for Riverhead concert

1. See Juliana Marguiles and Benjamin Bratt in"Intrigue With Faye" at the Acorn Theater.
2. See DJ Pole at Filter 14.
3. Hear The New York Philharmonic's Memorial Day concert.