By Laura L. Griffin 8/20/12 8:30am

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To Do Monday: Toy Story

The little one is back from summer camp, and now he’s demanding presents, attention, food … how brief the respite was! Hand him off to the babysitter for one more precious day and stroll around MoMA’s exhibit Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000, gazing upon the modern objects you once fetishized in fancy toy stores, when children were a mere abstract design concept of your own. Enjoy the institution’s ample air conditioning and peek at a Skippy-Racer scooter from 1933, Bauhaus nursery furniture, Lego building blocks, a Slinky and a selection of original pieces from the set of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. After a couple of hours, you’ll remember why you’ve already starting socking away money for little Junior’s Whiffenpoofs tux rentals (Class of 2031!). Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/15/12 9:00am

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To Do Wednesday: Playing the Fields

The slow season continues with a torpid Wednesday—we really ought to have just taken the week off! Instead, we’ll take the day off and enjoy the luxurious air-conditioning and chemically buttered popcorn—but nothing at the multiplex is appealing. We’re originalists when it comes to both Batman and Total Recall—give us nippled rubber suits, Arnold Schwarzenegger Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/13/12 9:00am

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To Do Monday: Futurist Tense

Monday nights in August are particularly grim—the few people even in the city on weekdays ritualistically applying aloe and flushing the weekend’s gin and tonics out of their respective systems. We’re stopping by the Museum of Modern Art to check out the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, a group show examining the Dada and Futurist Read More