Sunday:

The Bronx Native American Festival has crafts, storytelling, food and more. 12 p.m.-4 p.m. [Free]

Dr. Hsing-Lih Chou, a pioneer of the Taiwan campus folk song movement, is part of a concert at Flushing Town Hall in Queens. [$10]

— Emmett Lindner

Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages.

And finally: An ode to a singular movie star

Who is New York’s biggest movie star? Perhaps it is New York herself.

“New York is a movie star with Paris as its only serious rival among the world’s great metropolises,” A.O. Scott, the co-chief film critic at The Times, wrote in a recent article. “Its charisma is that of an old-fashioned screen idol, like Bette Davis, Cary Grant or Sidney Poitier.”

Whether glamorous and gussied up, or seemingly weary and broken down, the city, remains “unmistakably itself” and as mercurial, seductive, temperamental and invigorating as any star that has graced her stage, he wrote.

In the article, Mr. Scott discusses archival Times photos that captured the city’s locales as unforgettable characters. Here are five places he mentioned:

—Grand Central Terminal: A film crew took over the train station in 1967 for “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?” The movie was a recreation of the 1965 blackout that happened in the city.

—Roosevelt Island: In 197 1, the director Gordon Parks turned the abandoned City Hospital into a Greenwich Village hotel for “Shaft.”

—Battery Park: In 1984, the director Susan Seidelman used the park as the backdrop for the personal-ad rendezvous scene in “Desperately Seeking Susan.”

—Fifth Avenue: A film crew in 1992 created a fake blizzard on the Manhattan street for “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”

—Stuyvesant Avenue: The entirety of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” was shot on the avenue, in Brooklyn, in 1989. An empty lot became a functional Sal’s Famous Pizzeria.

It’s Friday — aim for the stars.