ROLL WITH IT

‘We wanted to have a festival that spoke to the neighborhood,” says Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival organizer Hanna Griff-Sleven of the annual fete celebrating its 10th anniversary Sunday. But what other language does one speak to the Chinese and Jewish communities that bring so much character and cuisine to Manhattan’s Lower East Side? From noon to 4 p.m. the Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival will be talkin’ $3 egg rolls and $1 egg creams on the streets outside the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue. Free entertainment includes Chinese opera singers, Yiddish folk music, and language classes in and around the landmark synagogue at 12 Eldridge St., between Canal and Division streets; 212-219-0888, eldridgestreet.org.

— Brian Niemietz

STAR POWER

Those sparkly things in the sky won’t be the only stars you can see tonight after dusk in Battery Park. The biggest star downtown — the size of a tennis court! — is the full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope (above), set to launch in 2014 and photograph far off galaxies. It’s part of this week’s World Science Festival (astronauts and other experts will answer questions tonight at 8). Amateur astronomers can focus on stargazing with one of the 75 real telescopes on site. Science fest co-founder Brian Greene hopes it’ll help get “the average person excited about science.”

On Sunday, the terrific scientifics move to Washington Square Park for the World Science Fair’s Youth and Family Street Fair (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Events include soccer-playing robots, dog IQ tests, spacesuit try-ons and a crash course in crime scene investigation from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

For details, visit worldsciencefestival.com.

— Calla Salinger

BRIDE & SEEK

Say “I do” have something to wear to all your summer weddings — thanks to J.Crew Bridal, the brand’s new Madison Avenue boutique stocked with everything for brides, bridesmaids and wedding guests. Highlights include the new “769” cocktail dress collection exclusive to the Manhattan store and collaborations with jewelry designers Miriam Haskell and Lulu Frost and intimates from Spanx and Cosabella. The store (769 Madison Ave.) is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and the bridal showroom is by appointment only.

— Raakhee Mirchandani

BIG-SCREEN ITALIAN

For fans of Italian cinema, it’s been six months and the coast is clear — you can finally forget about Daniel Day-Lewis and the ersatz Fellini of “Nine.” Refresh your taste for real films from Italy in “Open Roads,” Lincoln Center’s annual celebration of the latest cinema from that sunny land. The fest, which runs until Thursday at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.), features 16 titles including such eagerly awaited offerings as “Baaria,” a film from “Cinema Paradiso” director Giuseppe Tornatore. Other films include “Kiss Me Again,” a sequel to “The Last Kiss,” one of the most beloved Italian films of recent years, the wartime drama about the German occupation, “The Man Who Will Come” (pictured) and John Turturro’s search for his roots, “Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy.” Tickets and schedule at filmlinc.com; post-film discussion-enhancing Chianti not included but strongly recommended at nearby taverns.

— Kyle Smith

SUMMER’S ‘WINTER’

How to describe Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”: comedy, romance, problem play — or the play without Al Pacino? The Public Theater kicks off its free Shakespeare in the Park performances Wednesday with “Winter’s Tale,” which will rotate with “The Merchant of Venice,” the latter starring Pacino as Shylock. And while most of the cast — including Jesse L. Martin and Jesse Tyler Ferguson — will perform in both, there’ll be no Al in “Winter.” What you will find, says the Public’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, is “probably the greatest play ever written about redemption and hope.” That makes it a nice match-up to “Merchant,” with its grim emphasis on money and human worth. “While we want to reflect what’s going on, we feel we have an obligation to optimism,” Eustis says. So be optimistic: The best way to snag a pair of day-of-play tickets to Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre is now, at the start of the season; shakespeareinthepark.org.

— Barbara Hoffman