Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 90

"i 7 i rH 'Mi' pari 2 weekend B3 WHERE TO GO WHAT TO DO BY ANNABELLE KERINS flfiVSv IV1 bUOairi MuttuM HnOIO "MANIFEST by Alexis Rockman on display DID YOU EVER SEE A DREAM WALKING? Expect at least 5000 dreams converging at Jones Beach Parking Field 5 and more at Belmont Lake State Park around 10 am Sunday for the wheelchair-accessible MS Walk There's a $20 entry fee which will get you a whole lot of pancakes and other goodies plus some entertainment that will go on until 3 or 4 pm (If you give $100 or more there are prizes) Jones Beach is a 5-mile walk or roll Belmont is 25 miles and you can turn back at any time Call 631-864-8337 or wwwnmssliorg Hey Brooklyn party! WINNING SEASON The prizes are being announced tourists should be coming back to the city and you can expect theater tickets to be a little scarcer and a little more expensive as discounts disappear So it might be time to get tickets to some of the hot plays such as the Pulitzer-winning Am My Own Wife" (wwwtele chargecom) and "bridge which has been nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award (wwwticketmaster com but since it only gives you 2 minutes to complete your order keep the number handy 212-307-4100) from the melting polar icecap (Through Sept 12) Live music gets going at 1 pun Saturday with the Brooklyn-based Balkan group Zagnut Cirkus Orlte-star and continues with the Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band at 5 pjn winding up with a late-evening dance party hosted by the Cuban-Brooklynite ensemble Quimbombd The festivities continue through Sunday afternoon when members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic showcase works by the remarkably rich coterie of composers Interspersed throughout' the weekend are curator talks dance performances film screenings a scavenger hunt and assorted hands-on activities for children The Brooklyn Museum is at 200 Eastern Parkway For information and a foil schedule call 718-638-5000 or visit www brooklynmusenm uug ARIELLA BUDICKAND JUSTIN DAVIDSON the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge This is a work in motion filled with references to the architecture of transportation The designers drew inspiration from the soaring iron-and-glass sheds that sheltered the train quays in McKim Mead old Penn Station The angled steel masts recall both naval past and the dynamic bridges and stations designed by peer Santiago Calatrava A destination and more All these allusions to travel imply that the museum is both a destination and a point of departure The form of transportation on which the new addition focuses most concretely is foot traffic The pedestrian avenue that leads into the brilliant embrace also channels people up and around the facade: along a stainless-steel staircase across a catwalk See MUSEUM on B29 The Brooklyn Museum is celebrating its face-lift with weekend of free events The redesigned Hall of the Americas reopens under the title "Living Legacies: The Arts of the with three temporary bits "Open House: Working in gathers some 300 recent works from 200 of the finest ranging from the eminent Louise Bourgeois to painters and sculptors barely out of art schooL (Through Aug 15) "Patrick Kelly: A is a large-scale homage to the African-American fashion designer who died in 1990 (Through Sept 5) The Brooklyn Museum also is exhibiting "Manifest an 8-by-20-foot mural commissioned from Alexis Rock-man which shows a future Brooklyn drowned in the runoff LOUISE BOURGEOIS' tapestry and aluminum piece 2002 interview "The eastempart was sunless there was nothing on it What done is to make it as user-friendly as possible to provide as many opportunities as we could but at the same time keep the whole composition dignified and respectful Every detail of the design interprets notion of the gregarious museum The entrance canopy violates the scrupulous symmetry of the facade instead offering a sideways salute to a gorgeously refurbished subway station encrusted with pieces from the collection of decorative sculptures rescued from demolished buildings glass half-cupola which floods the interior with sunlight recalls the glass pyramid set in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris by his former boss Lid Pei But where pyramid is angular cool and self-contained Polshek caps his portal with a spiked crown suspended by cables a shorthand synthesis of OPENING A DOOR TO REMEMBRANCE The Suffolk Center on the Holocaust Diversity Human Understanding opens Sunday at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood With a collection of Holocaust artifacts in the background opening ceremonies are 11 am-3 pm there are more programs Monday and Tuesday and all are free Call 631-451-4700 www chdhucom PLAYING FOR LAUGHS Gary Valentine is one of those comics you see here and there Leno and Conan a Central Presents some times in on and a regular gig on Ki of This guy on the go stops at Governor's this weekend tomorrow in Medford at 2320 Rte 112 shows at 8 and 10:30 pm Sunday in Levit-town 90 Division Ave show at 7 pm Tickets are $18 call 516-731-3358 $MMttNKTODAYTS ASK AMY B21 BRIDGE B33 ENTERTAINMENT B6-7 EVENTS B14 FAMILY FILMGOER B4 FUNj GAMES B32-34 IMPULSE B3S HANDEL'S GENIUS his opera $20 a lecture Call LITTLE-HEARD WORK OF He took Venice by storm with about some Caesars When was staged in 1709 he was greeted with cries of il caro (Long live the beloved Saxon) It is now rarely performed But tonight at 8 and Sunday at 2 pm the Stony Brook Opera and the Stony Brook Symphony are loing a version on the Staller Center Main Stage Tickets are $10 students and seniors there's an hour before the curtain 631-632-ARTS or go to www stallercentercom DINNER AJ SILVERSTEIffS Outstanding pastrami in the Smith Haven Mall PLUS: News Notes and Dinner Tonight B31 A MOVIE KILL BILL: VOL 2 Uma Thurman gets her ultraviolent revenge B6 ALSO PLAYING B6B10 Connie and Carla Young Adam The Punisher Gypsy 83 1 I HIGHLIGHT 5 it i.