31 THINGS TO DO IN July

1 PUT IN your oar. The Henley Royal Regatta, that huge hat-wearing convention masquerading a boat race, gets under way on the Thames.

2 RELIVE Romanov Russia—in Santa Fe. The Museum of New Mexico's "Nicholas & Alexandra: At Home with Tsar and His Family" features historical relics from that era.

3 LAMENT your lack of accomplishment. Mozart was 31 when Don Giovanni, one of the greatest operas ever written, was first performed. Opens today at the Santa Fe Opera.

4 BARBECUE, dress in patriotic colors, and admire fireworks bursting in air. It's Independence Day!

5 SCHLEMIEL, SCHLIMAZEL. Eat brats and drink P.B.R.'s as the ultimate midwestern face-off—the Cubs versus the Brewers—is played at Milwaukee's Miller Park.

6 RUN with the bulls. The famous event starts tomorrow in Pamplona, Spain, as part of the annual Fiesta de San Fermin.

7 WRITE the screenplay, already. The Official Movie Plot Generator is a flip-book of hilarious movie premises which, when mixed and matched, offer 27,000 ideas. Available at bookstores.

8 EXPLORE. "Off the Beaten Track" opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London, featuring women travelers over the past three centuries.

9 PREPARE for a mustache renaissance. Anchorman, starring Will Ferrell as a 70s news anchor and co-starring Vince Vaughn, premieres nationwide today.

1O 'CUE UP. Celebrity chefs, live music, and authentic Texas barbecue are the draws at chef Dean Fearing's Barbecue Bash at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, in Dallas.

11 WISH Mr. Armani a "boon compleanno." Today, the man who made silver, black, and gray fashion fabulous celebrates his 70th birthday.

12 GET SERVED. The Mercedes-Benz Cup tennis tournament starts in Los Angeles.

13 PHIL UP. The New York Philharmonic kicks off its Time Warner "Concerts in the Park" series with a performance of Ives, Barber, and Adams in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

14 SCOFF at what fools we mortals be. A Midsummer Night's Dream opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and runs until July 25.

15 BLAME Canada for the dearth of humor in the U.S. over the next 10 days. The Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal starts today.

16 VISIT an American Eden. Chicago's 24.5-acre Millennium Park opens, featuring a new, Frank Gehry-designed music pavilion and a garden with 240 kinds of flowers.

17 TOUCH the sky. "Santiago Calafrava: The Architect's Studio" examines 10 exhilarating works by the architect, engineer, and artist, at the Henry Art Gallery, in Seattle.

18 BE a sport. Jamie Foxx hosts the ESPY Awards on ESPN. His guests: Serena Williams, LeBron James, Andy Roddick, and Mia Hamm, among others.

19 LISTEN. Emanuel Ax and the Emerson String Quartet perform Britten, Chopin, and Beethoven at the renowned Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

20 FEAST your eyes. More than 100 works from the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, make up the exhibition "Palace and Mosque" at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.

21 BAY-WATCH. "Photo San Francisco" opens at the Festival Pavilion tomorrow, representing more than 50 exhibitors and dealers.

22 CONSIDER the effects Viagra has on a life span. Bob Dole turns 81 today.

23 MIX it up. DJ Spooky performs "Rebirth of a Nation," his multi-media remix of Birth of a Nation, at Alice Tully Hall, in N.Y.C., using performance footage of dance legend Bill T. Jones.

24 CHOP, CHOP. The Lumberjack World Championships enter their second day in Hayward, Wisconsin, where competitors win up to $50,000 in events like logrolling and power-sawing.

25 WAVE to the Queen. The Cartier International Polo tournament at the Guards Polo Club, in Windsor, takes place today.

26 OVERLOOK the unfortunate name. The Blue Balls music festival, in Lucerne, Switzerland (July 23 to 31), hosts such music greats as Zucchero, Nina Hagen, Femi Kuti, and India Arie.

27 SPEND the afternoon in East Hampton's new Theory store. It features all sorts of fab labels—Villebrequin, Cosabella, and Selima, among others, in addition to its own brand. theory

28 THINK inside the box. The "Andrew Krieger: Boxes and Constructions" exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., displays mysterious boxlike creations.

29 HIT bottom. Arthur Miller's autobiographical play, After the Fall, opens, starring Peter Krause of Six Feet Under, at the American Airlines Theater, in N.Y.C.

30 REVISIT Lee Bontecou, one of America's most prominent artists in the 1960s and 70s, at MoMA QNS, in N.Y.C.

31 BLAME it on the moon. It's full tonight.