Boom! And all of a sudden, things calmed down. Maybe it’s the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Maybe it’s back-to-school issues. Maybe there’s no explanation. This quiet week includes tremendous circus acts, West Indian music, yoga, gotham secrets, and fishing. Please read on.

Aug. 29, Naming Gotham, 7 pm. Rebecca Bratspies, a CUNY law professor, discusses her book Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names, winner of the 2023 Association of Public Historians of New York Award for Excellence. Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37th Ave., Flushing.

Aug. 30, Down to Earth Festival, Sept. 7. The DTE Festival brings free, world-class, international, contemporary circus and in-situ performances to Culture Lab LIC and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Showtimes vary

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