{"id":7156,"date":"2009-09-18T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:33:44","slug":"connecticut-bike-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/7156\/connecticut-bike-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: A Bike Exhibit, Bourdain in the Outer Boroughs, Obamas Host National Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next week, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut will open <em>Bike Rides: The Exhibition<\/em>, which will celebrate bike culture with artworks and Lance Armstrong and David Byrne bikes. Opening party welcomes the public on October 4. [AldrichArt]<\/p>\n<p>The casino entrepreneur who made a Vegas water fountain dance is taking a gamble on Ozone Park in Queens for his next adult playground. [CrainsNY]<\/p>\n<p>The Red Hook place that packs a mean Watermelon Gin <a title=\"cocktail at Fort Defiance bar\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/09\/08\/cocktail-bars-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punch<\/a> has temporarily closed but will reopen \u201cbigger and better.\u201d [<a title=\"Fort Defiance in Brooklyn is closed \" href=\"http:\/\/newyork.grubstreet.com\/2009\/09\/fort_defiance_captured_by_heal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYMag<\/a>]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the Brooklyn foodie beat, Anthony Bourdain likes chorizo-filled tortillas; a French venue opens; a Dumbo staple moves to the Bowery. [Brownstoner]<\/p>\n<p>The 9th annual National Book Festival next Saturday will be co-hosted by the Obamas and attended by big (J-named) authors like Jodi Picoult, Junot Diaz, Judy Blume, and James Patterson. [Jaunted]<\/p>\n<p>Keep au courant of heritage and culture-based travel in destinations like Boston, D.C., NYC, and PA with the newly launched Gozaic.com. [<a title=\"Gozaic.com travel site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gozaic.com\/gozaic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gozaic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Starting today through Sunday, 60 international and local urban films will be screened for the South Bronx\u2019s 2nd annual SBX Film Festival. [Going]<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut will open Bike Rides: The Exhibition, which will celebrate bike culture with artworks and Lance Armstrong and David Byrne bikes. Opening party welcomes the public on October 4. [AldrichArt] The casino entrepreneur who made a Vegas water fountain dance is taking a gamble on Ozone Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,324,325,271,330],"tags":[40,177,280,226,142,150,125,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-7156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-connecticut-destination","8":"category-new-york","9":"category-news","10":"category-washington-dc-destination","11":"tag-art","12":"tag-bike","13":"tag-cultural-getaway","14":"tag-drink","15":"tag-festival","16":"tag-film-screening","17":"tag-food","18":"tag-obama"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}