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Things to do this week in NYC Feb 4-Feb 11: Music (02/04) - Jazz, Hip-Hop, Reggae, or the classics ? New York City venues feature music from all cultures. Whether you're catching an aria at Lincoln Center, or checking out a band at Central Park Summerstage, NYC has a gig you won't want to miss. (read the story...) ACTIVITY PLANNER Sign up for Our Weekly NYC Activity Newsletter Email Find out what's happening in NYC when you're planning to visit. Arrival: Departure: Category: All Activities Auditions Awards Shows/Banquets Cabaret Charity Events Comedy Cultural Arts Film Food and Drink Fun for Kids Galleries Holiday Celebrations Lectures/Debates Literary Marathon Museums Music Nature/Outdoors Parades Sample Sales Scavenger Hunts Shopping Signings/Appearances Sports Street Fairs Theater Tours Trade Shows   Date: Activity: Through 6/24/2012 Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies, an exhibition of more than 20 sets of striking large-format prints, showcases advanced imaging technologies used by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and reveals once-hidden, intricate details of both natural phenomena and cultural artifacts. The exhibition features i... (more) Through 3/04/2012 Jim Henson's Fantastic World - Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, Queens - 718-777-6888 www.movingimage.us Ages: All The exhibition features more than 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, and props, and video material that illustrate Henson's boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments. A special addition to the exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image is a puppet of Miss Piggy from The Muppets Take Manhattan. Among other highlights are fourte... (more) Through 4/01/2012 Remembering 9/11 - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All To commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, the New-York Historical Society will present a special exhibition, Remembering 9/11, which will be free to the public. The exhibition opens on September 8, 2011 and will remain on view through April 1, 2012. The exhibition presents a selection of several hundred photographs taken by professiona... (more) Through 9/01/2012 Hours: 10:00pm - 2:00AM Guilt, The New Masked Ball - Botanica 47 E Houston St - 347-581-7249 Ages: +21 Price: $0 Guilt is a new masked party in Downtown New York. Guilt is an excuse to hide yourself and party without feeling the guilt of next day responsibilities. Guilt is for those who want to remain anonymous. Through 3/04/2012 Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints. The show includes drawings and prints by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enri... (more) Through 2/12/2012 Charles Dickens at 200 - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All This exhibition explores the inspiration and creative energies of Charles Dickens, Britain's first literary superstar. Through 2/12/2012 Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All This focused exhibition demonstrates various artists' engagement with Pop art and the Guggenheim's ongoing interest in the legacy of the style. Through 3/04/2012 CSI: The Experience - Discovery Times Square 226 W. 44th St. (Broadway-8th Ave.) - 866-987-9692 www.discoverytsx.com Ages: All Play the role of a crime scene investigator at CSI: The Experience! As the latest recruit in the world of forensic science, guests are guided by videos featuring CSI: cast members and real-life forensic scientists. Throughout the exhibition you must examine blood types, while matching DNA to potential suspects in order to complete the investigation... (more) Through 2/05/2012 Hours: 10AM - 5PM 'EJECT!' Exhibition - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 46th Street and 12th Avenue - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All ages Price: The exhibit is free with the price of admission to the museum. “Eject!” a new exhibition that explores the history of ejection seats in aviation will open at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 (46th Street and 12th Avenue) in Manhattan, on Saturday, October 1st. “Eject!” will showcase ejection seats used in the Korean War era through the present. The seats will be accompanied by grap... (more) Through 5/28/2012 The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter! - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter!, a perennial favorite visited by millions of children and adults, returns to the American Museum of Natural History. This popular winter attraction invites visitors to mingle with up to 500 iridescent butterflies fluttering among blooming tropical flowers and lush green vegetation in... (more) Through 2/13/2012 Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983 - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All This exhibition examines the history of MoMA's drawings collection through key gifts from donors whose connections with the Museum helped shape the institution from its earliest days. Lillie P. Bliss and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, founders of MoMA, gave numerous masterworks to the new museum, including some of its most prized drawings. In later deca... (more) Through 4/02/2012 The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century/Germany, Austria, and France - Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Ave. (86 St.) - 212-628-6200 www.neuegalerie.org Ages: All Devoted to the extraordinary collection of Neue Galerie co-founder Ronald Lauder, the show will provide a rare glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world. The Ronald S. Lauder collection encompasses a broad range of masterworks. The exhibition will focus on six areas: medieval art, arms and armor, Old Master paintings,... (more) Through 4/15/2012 Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times - Discovery Times Square 226 W. 44th St. (Broadway-8th Ave.) - 866-987-9692 www.discoverytsx.com Ages: All Take a fascinating archaeological journey through the Holy Land. This rare exhibit features the famed Dead Sea Scrolls, a stone from the Western Wall from the Second Temple in Jerusalem and more than 500 never-before-seen artifacts from biblical times. Experience firsthand the traditions, beliefs and iconic objects of ancient Israel that impact wor... (more) Through 2/05/2012 The Making of a Collection - Islamic Art at the Metropolitan - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world. This could not have been achieved without the generosity of dedicated individuals who supported the Museum with gifts and bequests. This exhibition will be a chronological study of some of the Museum's major donor-collectors, whose ... (more) Through 2/19/2012 Korean Eye: Energy and Matter - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All Internationally-acclaimed exhibition Korean Eye: Energy and Matter, sponsored by Standard Chartered, shines a spotlight on new work by contemporary Korean artists. Korean Eye: Energy and Matter reflects a new era of diversity in Korean life, politics, and culture, and offers a unique opportunity for education and appreciation of Korea's rapidly de... (more) Through 8/26/2012 Hours: 1 hour The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical - Marjorie S. Dean Little Theatre 5 West 63rd Street - 2123544660 Ages: 3-9 Price: $34.95 - $59.95 New York: Unlike most bears, The Berenstain Bears LIVE! will not be hibernating this winter, the critically-acclaimed family musical will extend for a third time since it came to New York in June 2011. This open-ended extension will be celebrated in a new, more convenient location at the Upper West Sides’ Marjorie S. Dean Little Theatre (5 West 63r... (more) Through 5/14/2012 Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Diego Rivera was the subject of MoMA's second monographic exhibition (the first was Henri Matisse), which set new attendance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932. MoMA brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the exhibition's opening and gave him studio space within the Museum, a strategy intended to solve the... (more) Through 2/17/2014 Contemporary Art from the Collection - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Reinstalled to continue the historical sequence found on MoMA's fifth (1880-1940) and fourth (1940-1980) floors, the galleries on the second floor will begin with art of the early 1980s and extend to the present moment, interweaving works in all mediums. Individual galleries will focus on particular topics, ranging from specific locales that nouris... (more) Through 2/20/2012 Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) is internationally known for her photographic assemblages constructed from books and magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, and for her video installations, in which film and television footage culled from Greek soap operas, are reshot or re-edited in new sequences with a single soundtrack ... (more) Through 2/12/2012 HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All The first major museum exhibition to focus on themes of gender and sexuality in modern American portraiture, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture brings together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. The exhibition charts the underdocum... (more) Through 8/12/2012 Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All Beyond Planet Earth launches visitors into the exciting future of space exploration as it boldly speculates on humanity's next steps in our solar system and beyond. The exhibition features a full-sized re-creation of a lunar habitat, a model of an elevator reaching up into space, a walk-through diorama of the Martian surface, and challenging intera... (more) Through 5/06/2012 Storytelling in Japanese Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga) and animation. This exhibition will offer particularly stellar examples of illustrated Japanese narrative works from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. Drawn from some of the foremost American collect... (more) Through 5/28/2012 The Coe Collection of American Indian Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Metropolitan during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the exhibition will be comprised of some thirty objects made in natural materials from stone to animal hide. It will feature a wide range of Native American works that come from different times, different places, and numerous di... (more) Through 2/05/2012 Robert Burns and 'Auld Lang Syne' - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All This highly focused exhibition explores the origins of a song that began as an old Scots poem and air and evolved into a globally shared expression of friendship and longing. Through 6/11/2012 Hero, Villian, Yeti - The Rubin Museum 150 W 17th St - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All Comic book storylines have drawn on Tibet's cultural and religious traditions for more than sixty years, mixing reality with myths and long-held stereotypes. Featuring more than fifty comic books from around the world, Hero, Villain, Yeti sheds light on global perceptions of Tibet as reflected in and informed by these diverse narratives. Through 2/17/2012 Scenes from Zagreb: Artists' Publications of the New Art Practice - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All The New Art Practice was a term created for a generation of artists in the former Yugoslavia active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. These artists shifted their practice to spaces outside the traditional studio, onto city streets, into artist-run spaces, and in multimedia performances and experimental publications. Focusing on artists wo... (more) Through 4/29/2012 White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain - Frick Collection 1 E. 70th St. (Madison-Fifth Aves.) - 212-288-0700 www.frick.org Ages: All The Portico Gallery for Decorative Arts and Sculpture opens in late December with an inaugural exhibition of works drawn from Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131 examples of Meissen porcelain from the early years of this Royal Manufactory's production. On view through April 29, 2012, White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Po... (more) Through 2/05/2012 Museum as Hub: Due to Unforeseen Events... - New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All "Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center: Due to unforeseen events…" is an exhibition by the Beirut Art Center that sets out to explore five incidents in which artworks produced in Beirut over the last thirty years were fundamentally altered in the process—and by the process—of being presented to the public. The cases under consideration here concern film... (more) Through 3/26/2012 Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All The first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Ivekovic (b. 1949, Zagreb) covers four decades of the artist's remarkable career. A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the post-1968 period, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipoda... (more) Through 5/06/2012 Duncan Phyfe - Master Cabinetmaker in New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All n the early 1800s, furniture from the workshop of New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) was in such demand that he was referred to as the "United States Rage." This exhibition—the first retrospective on Phyfe in ninety years—will serve to re-introduce this artistic and influential master cabinetmaker to a contemporary audience. Th... (more) Through 3/18/2012 Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 - Museum of the City of New York Fifth Ave. & 103rd St. - 212-534-1672 mcny.org Ages: All Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented "life on the beat" with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed's... (more) Through 3/18/2012 The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. In keeping with this notion, early Renaissance Italy also hosted the first great age of portraiture in Europe. Portraiture assumed a new importance, whether it was to record the features of a family member for future generations, celebrate a prince or warrior, extol ... (more) Through 2/05/2012 Work of Art - The Next Great Artist - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition will spotlight the season two winner of Work of Art, Bravo's hour-long creative competition series among contemporary artists. The series, airing weekly beginning October 12, 2011, brings together fourteen aspiring artists competing for the final prize of a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum. In each episode, the contestants are faced... (more) Through 2/04/2012 Hours: 7pm COIL 2012 - PS122 150 First Avenue - 212-352-3101 ps122.org Ages: All Price: $15-25 "COIL '12 represents a Performance Space 122 of which we are all very proud. Across the city, sourced from around the world. Fully realized, but on the bleeding front edge. As we spend the upcoming seasons outside of our home, we are proud to be embarking on and renewing several catalytic partnerships which help make this festival possible." - Vall... (more) Through 2/19/2012 Rather Unique - Woodward Gallery 133 Eldridge St - 212-966-3411 www.woodwardgallery.net Ages: All New for 2012, Woodward Gallery invites Harlem-based street Artist Royce Bannon as their first-ever guest curator for an exhibition with rather unique art. This exhibition will highlight a group of trendsetting artists who stand out in street and graffiti genres. The artists include: Cassius Fowler, Celso, Chris RWK, Cope2, Darkcloud, H.veng.Smit... (more) Through 6/05/2012 Hours: 7:30-8:30 pm NEW Flamenco Guitar for Beginners! - Flamenco Latino Studio 244 W 54 Street, #404 - 212-399-8519 www.flamencolatino.com Ages: 15 yrs. and up Price: $16-18/class FLAMENCO GUITAR GROUP CLASSES for beginners at Flamenco Latino Studio, with Basilio Georges. Winter/Spring term runs January 7 - June 7, 2012. --NEW Group Guitar Level 1, Tuesday 7:30-8:30 pm. -Learn right hand techniques and hand placement, how to absorb material more quickly -Basic chord shifts for all open position chords -Hammers ... (more) Through 2/04/2012 Performance Space 122 Coil Festival - Baryshnikov Arts Center 450 West 37th Street - 2123523101 ps122.org COIL is an annual winter festival featuring 11 premieres from critical US and international artists that kicks off on January 5, 2012. The presentations are socially engaged, visceral, and groundbreaking. The festival spans 25 days, with all genres of performance, and takes place in 8 different venues across NYC. About Temporary Distortion's Ne... (more) Through 2/04/2012 Performance Space 122 - Performance Space 122 33 Wooster St., Manhattan, NY - 2123523101 www.ps122.org/performances/untitled_feminist_show.html Price: $15 to $20 To Whom It May Concern, PS122 is glad to announce that the COIL Festival has been extended! Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, Temporary Distortion’s Newyorkland, and the TEAM’s Mission Drift will all play through February 4. Tickets for this extension go on sale January 15. This annual winter festival features 11 premieres from... (more) Through 3/30/2012 Hours: 7:30-8:30pm Stone Cold Fox Presents Crisistown: A Choose Your Own Adventure Comedy - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 307 West 26th Street - 212-366-9176 Price: $10 Stone Cold Fox invites you to Crisistown, a little town with a big crisis. “What sort of crisis?” you ask. “And just how big is it?” That’s the thing: YOU get to decide. Crisistown: A Choose Your Own Adventure Comedy is a scripted, interactive comedy show that puts you, the audience, in charge. YOU get to vote on what happens next. And YOU get to d... (more) Through 6/03/2012 Question Bridge: Black Males - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 12 American cities and towns, including New York... (more) Through 2/07/2012 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm Start the New Year with Inspiration at Agora Gallery - Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street - 212-226-4151 www.agora-gallery.com Price: free Agora Gallery dives into the New Year with three exhibitions which explore the rich potential revealed through the creative power of art. Figuratively Speaking investigates the varying sources of inspiration that motivate and direct artists in their imaginative process. Combining a reflection on the most esoteric levels of experience with an unders... (more) Through 4/08/2012 Audubon: National Treasures - The Five Watercolors for the Second Fascicle of 'The Birds of America' - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All Looking at these five watercolors you are enjoying an experience similar to that of John James Audubon's (1785–1851) original subscribers to The Birds of America (1827-1838). In distributing its 435 plates, he followed a nineteenth-century practice of issuing them serially by subscription in 87 fascicles (groups) of five prints. In a brilliant mark... (more) Through 4/15/2012 Who Loves You, Baby? - SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street - 2126911555 www.tellysavalaslive.com Price: $25 Who Loves You, Baby?, written by New York’s own Hunter Nelson, has had everyone from hipsters to hip-replacements rolling in the aisles. Under the direction of Taylor Negron, Tom DiMenna expertly channels the unmistakable chutzpah of long-dead 70’s Hollywood tough guy Telly Savalas. That’s right: The no-nonsense Greek-American actor best known as... (more) Through 3/25/2012 Brian Bress: Status Report - New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition, the latest presentation in the New Museum's 'Stowaways' series, will be the New York premier of Brian Bress's Status Report (2009). In Bress's low-tech video, humorous characters, all played by the artist, struggle with interpersonal relationships, the pursuit of intended goals, and the desire to communicate. Manipulating pictorial... (more) Through 4/22/2012 Enrico David: Head Gas - New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All "Head Gas" is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage that draws upon a rich variety of sources and expresses a range of complex emotional states. Although his work is highly celebrated throug... (more) Through 4/29/2012 Rembrandt's World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All This exhibition focuses on artists who worked in their native Holland during the fertile period of the seventeenth century known as the Dutch Golden Age. Through 8/19/2012 Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-1919 is an exploration of the early journalistic career of American writer and women's rights advocate Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). Though best known for her modernist novels and plays, including Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), Barnes spent the period between 1913 and her depar... (more) Through 9/02/2012 Weegee: Murder Is My Business - International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas - 212-857-0000 icp.org Ages: All For an intense decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee (1899-1968) was one of the most relentlessly inventive figures in American photography. His graphically dramatic and often lurid photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has become known as tabloid journalism. Freelancing for a variety of New York newspapers and pho... (more) Through 5/06/2012 The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet - International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas - 212-857-0000 icp.org Ages: All Forty-five years ago, sixteen states still prohibited interracial marriage. Then, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case of Richard Perry Loving, a white man, and his wife, Mildred Loving, a woman of African American and Native American descent, who had been arrested for miscegenation nine years earlier in Virginia. The Lovings were no... (more) Through 5/06/2012 Perspectives 2012 - International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas - 212-857-0000 icp.org Ages: All Perspectives is an exhibition series that focuses on emerging young artists working in photography and video. The small group exhibitions in the series are nonthematic, highlighting the individual ideas and achievements of an engaging and eclectic group of new faces. Those presented within Perspectives have not been widely exhibited, inspiring conv... (more) Through 5/06/2012 Magnum Contact Sheets - International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas - 212-857-0000 icp.org Ages: All Magnum Contact Sheets reveals how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the present. The contact sheet, a direct print of a roll or sequence of negatives, is the photographer's first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into their working process. It records... (more) Through 4/15/2012 Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China's modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to create haunting images that evoke a mood as much as a place or person. This exhibition will treat Fu's forty-year career with some seventy paintings, including many of the artist's recognized... (more) Through 3/09/2012 Print Studio - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Print/Out, Print Studio is an interactive space that explores the evolution of artistic practices relating to the medium of print. The studio offers a series of drop-in workshops, lectures, and events that emphasize accessible and sustainable models for the production and dissemination of ideas. Drawing ... (more) Through 2/04/2012 Petula Clark - Feinstein's at Loew's Regency Regency Hotel, 540 Park Ave. (61 St.) - 212-339-4095 www.feinsteinsattheregency.com Ages: All FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will continue its 2011-12 season with the debut engagement of Two time Grammy Award winning singing legend, actress and songwriter PETULA CLARK. Making her first New York nightclub engagement ... (more) Through 3/07/2012 Hours: 9 AM to 6 PM Monday to Friday Usdan's 'First Class' free student art exhibit - The Lobby Gallery 430 Park Avenue - 212-772-6060 www.usdan.com Ages: 6 and up Price: Free Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts camp whose alumni include Natalie Portman and Mariah Carey, presents "First Class," the inaugural exhibit of works by teenaged students in its Portfolio Preparation Track pre-professional class. Previous classes (titled the Usdan Honors Art Intensive) have been ... (more) Through 5/21/2012 Hanging Around: Necklaces from MAD's Collection - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All For at least forty thousand years, in virtually all cultures, humans have worn objects of symbolic, decorative, and amuletic value around their necks. Ranging in length from chokers to rope necklaces that hang below the waist, and in form from simple pendants to elaborate sculptural collars and breastplates, necklaces are strategically positioned b... (more) Through 2/04/2012 NEW Musical 'Mission Drift' EXTENDED to FEB 4! - The Connelly Theater 220 E 4th St - 212-352-3101 ps122.org Ages: ALL Price: 25-15 Performance Space 122 would like to invite you to the US premiere of the TEAM's Mission Drift, as part of COIL 2012. Mission Drift is a pioneering journey west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism. In this critically acclaimed contemporary musical with a score that fuses Vegas glitz with Western ballads, seductiv... (more) Through 8/06/2012 9 Scripts from a Nation at War - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All 9 Scripts from a Nation at War (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for which artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne have collaborated. The work responds to knowledge production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the initial invasion by U... (more) Through 6/09/2012 Hours: 12-6:30 pm Children's Dance Classes in Ballet and Flamenco - Flamenco Latino Studio 244 W54 Street, 4th fl. - 212-399-8519 www.flamencolatino.com/class/childafterschoolsatclass.html Ages: 7 years and up Price: $10/class Flamenco Latino offers affordable Flamenco and also Ballet classes for children at their midtown studio. January 7-June 8, 2012. 18 weekly classes plus final recital on June 9, 2012. Wednesday 4:30-5:30 pm, Flamenco, Ages 7-12; 5:30-6:30 pm, Beginner Ballet. Friday 4:00-5:00 pm, Beginner Ballet. 4:30-5:30 pm, Flamenco, Ages 7-12... (more) Through 2/05/2012 Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai - Shanghai Tango - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (19th St.) - 212-242-0800 joyce.org Ages: All Created in 2003 by Jin Xing, one of the most fascinating choreographers and artists performing today, Shanghai Tango includes ten works that she has created over the last 25 years. Set to an eclectic collage of music from Astor Piazzolla to Johann Strauss, the piece uses the sometimes sleazy, sometimes playful, but always sensuous, rhythmic, and pa... (more) Through 2/11/2012 Hours: 8pm The Urban Dictionary Plays - Ars Nova 511 West 54th Street - 212 352 3101 www.arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: 15 Move over Webster, the Ars Nova Play Group is taking on the dictionary – the Urban Dictionary, that is. A night of savvy short plays and hot live music inspired by irreverent, crowd-sourced entries at UrbanDictionary.com. It might just redefine the short play! Written by Joshua Allen, Chad Beckim, Rachel Bonds, Jenny Connell, Kara Lee Corthro... (more) Through 2/29/2012 Hours: 11:30AM - 1PM New Guided Tour “With Bravery and Distinction: The African Journey in Sea, Air and Space” - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 46th Street and 12th Avenue - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All ages Price: Tours are $20 for adults; $15 for children (ages 3-17) The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 (46th Street and 12th Avenue) in Manhattan, introduces the new guided tour With Bravery and Distinction: The African American Journey in Sea, Air and Space that will run daily from Wednesday, February 1 through Wednesday, February 29 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM daily. The tour celebrates the... (more) Through 2/25/2012 Hours: Tues - Sat, 11-6pm 'Resourced: The Influence of Photography in Contemporary Art' - Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th St - 212-242-6220 www.lyonswiergallery.com Artists’ Reception: Thursday February 2nd (6-8pm) Nearest subway: C,E @ 23rd St & 8th Ave Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to present Resourced, an exhibition of eight contemporary artists who use photography to create and sometimes inspire their art making. Each artist appropriates certain aspects and assets afforded by the cam... (more) Through 3/16/2012 CREATE SOMETHING GREAT? RECYCLED SCULPTURE CONTEST - Portledge 355 Duck Pond Road - 516-750-3222 www.portledge.org/createsomethinggreat Portledge School and the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center are proud to co-sponsor the Second Create Something GreatSM Recycled Sculpture Contest. We are encouraging students in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade to build sculptures made out of recycled and/or reusable materials designed around the theme of nocturnal animals, such as... (more) Through 2/25/2012 Hours: 11-6 Greg Haberny: 'Prelude to Mommy's Little Monster' - Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th Street - 212-242-6220 lyonswiergallery.com GREG HABERNY SOLO INSTALLATION Prelude to Mommy’s Little Monster February 2 – 25, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday February 2nd, 2012 6-8pm Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th St., New York, NY 10011 Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11-6pm Nearest subway: C,E @ 23rd St & 8th Ave. Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to feat... (more) Through 3/31/2012 Hours: 10am-5pm Separation Anxiety: Exhibit, Free Reception and Art Workshop - Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue - 914-738-2525 pelhamartcenter.org Ages: All Price: Free A multi-media exhibition examining the various facets of parenthood. Free opening reception and all-age art workshop: Friday, February 3, 6:30-8:00pm. Artists in the exhibition explore the often unacknowledged worry and unease that all parents, traditional or not, must navigate. Through these investigations, cultural anxieties and debates o... (more) Through 2/04/2012 Stravinsky Violin Concerto - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All In 1941, Balanchine choreographed Balustrade for the Ballet Russe to Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D. When he returned to the score three decades later, he could no longer remember his original choreography. But Balanchine was not at all disturbed by the loss. "What I did then was for then," he said, "and what I wanted to do to this music for our... (more) 2/04/2012 DGV: Danse a Grande Vitesse - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Originally created for The Royal Ballet, DGV propels 26 dancers through space with a supercharged, minimalist score by Michael Nyman. 2/04/2012 Firebird - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Balanchine's Firebird was one of the choreographer's first creations for the young New York City Ballet, using elaborate sets and costumes. The story, the choreography, the sets, and the music all integrated many brilliantly colored elements from Russian folklore. Because Balanchine chose to use the orchestral suite rather than the complete three-a... (more) 2/04/2012 New Wheeldon - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All NYCB's former first-ever Resident Choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon now travels the world as one of the most in-demand dance makers. Wheeldon returns to choreograph a world premiere for the New Combinations Evening, which honors Balanchine's birthday each year with the performance of new work. 2/04/2012 Polyphonia - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All "Romantic with comic twists," is how Christopher Wheeldon describes his new work set to ten eclectic piano pieces by Ligeti. Its brief sections run the choreographic spectrum from the bold, neoclassic angularity of Balanchine through playful duets, a dreamy waltz, a gentle, plaintive solo to the intense intertwining of one couple. Anchored by dynam... (more) 2/04/2012 Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Peter Mattei recreates his winning portrayal of the barber in Bartlett Sher's popular production, which propels the comic action right into the audience. Isabel Leonard sings her first Met Rosina, sharing the role with Diana Damrau, and Javier Camarena makes his Met debut as the Count. 2/04/2012 Anna Bolena - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts. 2/04/2012 David Garrett - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (74th-75th Sts.) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All The child of an American mother and a German father, prodigy violin soloist David Garrett, born David Bongartz in Aachen, Germany, reached and surpassed many an important milestone before his matriculation at Juilliard in New York. David's interest in violin began at the age of four, when his older brother received a violin from his father -- who h... (more) 2/04/2012 Beatles Brunch - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All NYC's Longest Running Beatles Show STRAWBERRY FIELDS featuring former members of Broadway's BEATLEMANIA Doors: 11am - Show: 12pm Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip $40 adv, $42.50 door STRAWBERRY FIELDS is a look-a-like, sound-a-like Beatles tribute, dedicated to bringing you as close to a real Beatles concert a... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Asian New Year Celebration - Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo 1875 Noble Avenue - 203-394-6565 Ages: All ages Price: Zoo admission Join your Zoo friends in celebrating the Year of the Dragon with special stories, crafts, a children’s parade, and many more fun activities. Snow date is February 11. 2/04/2012 Gavin Creel & Stephen Oremus - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St. - 212-721-6500 americansongbook.org Ages: All Gavin Creel is a singer/songwriter/actor/activist who has dual careers as a Broadway leading man as well as a pop singer. His sweet, earnest tenor has earned him Tony nominations for both Hair and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Creel and Tony Award-winning music director, arranger, and orchestrator Stephen Oremus � the music supervisor of Wicked, Avenue... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 11am-2pm ARTOPIA! A Free Family Arts Festival - The Anderson School 100 West 77th Street - 2125862330 wingspanarts.org Ages: ALL Price: FREE ARTOPIA is a FREE arts festival for the whole family! There will be arts & crafts, music workshops, dance & movement workshops, performances, face painting and more! Hosted by Winsgpan Arts. 2/04/2012 - 7/08/2012 Hours: 10AM - 5PM Ship-Shape: Nautical Scale Models - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 46th Street and 12th Avenue - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All Price: Free with the cost of admission "Ship-Shape: Nautical Scale Models," a new exhibition that examines the detailed process of building model ships at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and will be on display through Sunday, July 8, 2012. The exhibition consists of dozens of artifacts including model ships, vintage toy ships, a variety of antique model kit boxes, a mock-up of... (more) 2/04/2012 Bob Marley Birthday Show - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All This afternoon's family-friendly Bob Marley Birthday Bash performance will celebrate the life and music of Bob Marley with a performance by the CCB, featuring NYC's hottest reggae artists. Since emerging in 1996, the CCB has been tearing up the underground New York reggae scene with sold-out performances at some of the city's hottest venues. Th... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 2:00pm - 3:30pm 3-Session Glass Painting Workshop - Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 ext 230 queensbotanical.org Ages: 10 and up Price: $120 3-Session Glass Painting Workshop with Cristina Cipriani - Saturdays, January 28, February 4 and 11, 2 to 3:30pm - Fee: $90 class fee + $30 materials fee for a complete glass painting kit Bright colors, transparency, and light: this is what glass painting is all about. Create a unique decoration for your home or a personalized present for... (more) 2/04/2012 The Rewind Show - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom: The Rewind Show with live performances and celebrity DJs. File Under: Rock, Dance, Electronic, Late Night. 21 or over to enter. Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm. $20 at door. RSVP to info@4kent.com. The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs... (more) 2/04/2012 The Rewind Show - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom: The Rewind Show with live performances and celebrity DJs. File Under: Rock, Dance, Electronic, Late Night. 21 or over to enter. Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm. $20 at door. RSVP to info@4kent.com. The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 2-5 pm The JCC In Manhattan Announces: The 2011/2012 Season of R&R @ the JCC – February 4th Innovation Day! - The JCC In Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street - 3476043964 jccmanhattan.org Ages: All Ages Price: FREE The JCC In Manhattan Announces: The 2011/2012 Season of R&R @ the JCC – February 4th Innovation Day! WHO: Create Your Own Stunt Planes!, Celebrate Innovation: Found Object Sculptures, New Composers Workshop with Daniel Bernard Roumain (known as DBR), Adult Crafts: Leonardo Designed a Flying Machine, What Will You Invent?, Improv Acting for All ... (more) 2/04/2012 - 2/25/2012 Hours: 2:30PM - 3:30 PM PARTNER YOGA - The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art 338 Lighthouse Avenue - 718-987-3500 tibetanmuseum.org Ages: All Ages Price: $100 per couple for 3 sessions, or $40 per couple per session. “Join us for a winter yoga program at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Saturday, February 4th, 11th and 25th from 2:30 - 3:30PM. Sean McCann and Lauren Tacconi will present this series of workshops. Connect deeper to your work out, your partner and to your sense of peace with partner yoga. Great for couples, friends and family; p... (more) 2/04/2012 - 2/25/2012 Hours: 2:30PM - 3:30PM Partner Yoga - Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art 338 Lighthouse Avenue - 718-987-3500 Ages: All Ages Price: $100/Couple for 3 sessions, $40/Couple for one session. Join us for a winter yoga program at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Saturday, February 4th, 11th and 25th from 2:30 - 3:30PM. Sean McCann and Lauren Tacconi will present this series of workshops. Connect deeper to your work out, your partner and to your sense of peace with partner yoga. Great for couples, friends and family; par... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 3pm-4:30pm RIOULT brings local Bronx Children to the Stage in a Special Family Matinee Performance of Small Steps, Tiny Revolutions! - Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center at Kingsborough Community College 2001 Oriental Boulevard - 1-718-265-5343 Ages: All Ages Price: FREE! The family matinee performance begins with RIOULT’s famous Fables (based on Jean LaFontaine Fables) and set to the original score of Paul Salerni. Small Steps, Tiny Revolutions is based on a poem about a young boy and his distanced father who disapproves of his son’s love of dance. The audience witnesses the transformative power of love as the ... (more) 2/04/2012 Lunar New Year festival - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The Metropolitan Museum's day-long Lunar New Year festival, a celebration of Chinese arts and culture for visitors of all ages, will take place on Saturday, February 4, featuring a Sesame Street Puppet Show with Alan Muraoka, a dramatic lion dance procession up the Museum's front steps, a youth orchestra performance on traditional Chinese instrumen... (more) 2/04/2012 Hours: 12:15pm - 1:15pm Turbo Bounce - Bounceu Farmingdale 101 Carolyn Blvd - 631-777-5867 bounceu.com Ages: All Ages Price: $7.95/child You don't need a special occasion to get your bounce on. Give us a call and reserve your spot at our next Open Bounce, then come on by and enjoy our awesome inflatables, fantastic games, and wall-to-wall fun. You bring the socks - we'll take care of music, fun, and everything else! 2/04/2012 Hours: 12:15pm - 1:15pm Turbo Bounce - Bounceu Farmingdale 101 Carolyn Blvd - 631-777-5867 bounceu.com Ages: All Ages Price: $7.95/child You don't need a special occasion to get your bounce on. Give us a call and reserve your spot at our next Open Bounce, then come on by and enjoy our awesome inflatables, fantastic games, and wall-to-wall fun. You bring the socks - we'll take care of music, fun, and everything else! 2/04/2012 LEGO Friends Launch N' Build Event - Toys R Us Times Square 1514 Broadway (44 St.) - 1-800-869-7787 www.toysrus.com/timessquare Ages: All Join us for an exclusive opportunity to experience LEGO® Friends - the brand new building craze - and create a complimentary lemonade stand to take home and add to any LEGO Friends set! For each stand built, LEGO will donate $1 to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation* to help fight childhood cancer. Please note: This event is intended for children ... (more) 2/05/2012 DGV: Danse a Grande Vitesse - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Originally created for The Royal Ballet, DGV propels 26 dancers through space with a supercharged, minimalist score by Michael Nyman. 2/05/2012 Donizetti Variations - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All This ballet was created for "Salute to Italy," a New York City Ballet program celebrating the 100th anniversary of Italy's unification. Balanchine felt he needed a "cheerful and sunny work" to offset the more somber tone of the other ballets on the program, which included La Sonnambula. 2/05/2012 Firebird - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Balanchine's Firebird was one of the choreographer's first creations for the young New York City Ballet, using elaborate sets and costumes. The story, the choreography, the sets, and the music all integrated many brilliantly colored elements from Russian folklore. Because Balanchine chose to use the orchestral suite rather than the complete three-a... (more) 2/05/2012 Gospel Brunch - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, join us for GOSPEL BRUNCH THE WORLD FAMOUS HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR Get your dose of the Holy Ghost! Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip Doors: 12:30pm Show: 1:30pm $40 adv, $42.50 door Every Sunday, for the past 9 years, the world famous HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR has brought their experience of Harl... (more) 2/05/2012 The Carmina Burana Choral Project - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All A choir of New York City students joins conductor David Robertson and the Orchestra of St. Luke's for a definitive performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. In addition, three high school–aged composers have been selected to write new works for chorus and orchestra based on the musical themes of Carmina Burana. These new works will be premiered on the ... (more) 2/05/2012 Expanding Tradition and Sino-Japanese Confluences in the Art of Fu Baoshi - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Aida Yuen Wong, associate professor of fine arts, chair of East Asian Studies, Brandeis University. Discover how Fu Baoshi - perhaps the greatest landscape and figure painter of China's modern period - integrated Western and traditional Asian artistic influences to create a new style that was both unmistakably Chinese and undeniably modern. Intro... (more) 2/05/2012 - 2/26/2012 Leave The Balcony Open - 3LD Arts and Technology Center 80 Greenwich Street - 212-352-3101 leavethebalconyopen.com Ages: 16+ Price: $18 New Feet Productions presents Leave the Balcony Open, a hopeful and humorous new play about learning how to live with loss written by Maya Macdonald. Jessica Bauman directs a cast of seven including Heidi Armbruster* (Broadway: Time Stands Still), Wrenn Schmidt* (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba; Nat. Tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf), Jerzy G... (more) 2/05/2012 R&B Spotlight - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All R&B Spotlight is excited about presenting the next great R&B star to the world. Talented artists have come in from all over the globe to showcase their gifts as part of this event. Everyone from Aretha Franklin to Anthony Hamilton has graced the B.B. King stage, and now R&B Spotlight is providing the same platform for other up-and-coming R&B acts t... (more) 2/05/2012 SUPER BOWL XLVI PARTY - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Come watch our very own New York Giants take on the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI! A ticket to the Super Bowl XLVI Party at B.B. King Blues Club includes a reserved seat to watch the game on our giant screens and a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet. Drink specials will also be available. Call the B.B. King Box Office at (212) 997-4144 for more informa... (more) 2/05/2012 Hours: 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. 'Terrace Tailgate Party' At Empire City Casino - Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway 810 Yonkers Ave. - 914-968-4200 Ages: teens and up Price: $12 It’s the Giants vs. the Patriots, and football fans looking for a fun place to celebrate Sunday’s Super Bowl should look no further than Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, the destination for “The Terrace Tail Gate Party” at 4 p.m. in the Empire Terrance Dining Room. Admission is just $12, includes unlimited chicken wings, burgers, hot dogs, ch... (more) 2/06/2012 Ernani - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani and Roberto DeBiasio share the role of her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast. 2/06/2012 - 2/27/2012 Hours: All Day Model Mondays - Unleashed by Petco 81 Seventh Ave - (718) 230-5059 Ages: All Price: Free Brrrr, it’s cold out! Stop in the Park Slope Unleashed by Petco any Monday in February and show off your pets winter fashion. You’ll receive a free photo of your pet making it work, along with free yummy treats fro your 4-legged loved one! Their picture might even make it up on our fashion wall of fame! 2/06/2012 Rocks Off Presents Unchained The Mighty VAN HALEN Tribute - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Unchained is a group of four seasoned musicians who share an appreciation of the unbridled fun, energy, and musicianship of the golden age of Van Halen. Van Halen was THE band in their formative years, and as everyone knows, the group ruled the rock 'n' roll world for a long time. Everyone who lived during those years knows that the band's energy w... (more) 2/06/2012 Hours: 7:30pm - 10:00pm Evening with the Indie Theatre Scene - Under St. Mark’s Theater 94 St. Marks Place - (914) 861-5032 Price: $35.00 - Get insight into the “off-off-Broadway” scene from the founder of Horse Trade - See a performance of “Shotz” at Under St. Mark’s Theater - Meet the cast and crew at their favorite bar after the show - Ticket and drinks before and during the show are on us Between the burlesque shows and sketch comedies, the Downtown Indie Theater scene ... (more) 2/06/2012 Hours: 10:30-11:30 'I Love You' Picture Frame and Picture - Make Meaning 329 Columbus Avenue - 2123620350 Ages: 0-5 Price: $36/$40 Join Make Meaning for "heart” filled morning of paint, handprints, and valentines! In this class, we will use painted fingers and hands to create a loving picture frame sure to make any of your little one’s Valentines hearts flutter. No Walk-Ins, RSVP REQUIRED. 2/06/2012 Hours: 7PM-10PM Patron of the New with DJ Miss Guy – Spring Fashion Week 2012 - Patron of the New 151 Franklin Street - 6465555555 Ages: 18+ Price: 0 Patron of the New with DJ Miss Guy – Spring Fashion Week 2012 Join DJ Miss Guy for a special event at Patron of the New – Spring Fashion Week 2012 Music and Style come together for Fashion Week!!! Monday, February 6th 7 – 10 PM 151 Franklin Street New York, NY 10013 RSVP: afvandevorst@nouveau-pr.com Be sure to che... (more) 2/06/2012 - 4/09/2012 Eugene Atget: "Documents pour artistes" - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All This exhibition presents six fresh and highly focused cross sections through the career of master photographer Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927), drawn exclusively from the Museum's unparalleled holdings of his work. The sign outside Atget's studio read, "Documents pour artistes," -- declaring his modest ambition to create images for other artists t... (more) 2/07/2012 Allegro Brillante - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Allegro Brillante is characterized by what Maria Tallchief (the ballerina on whom the bravura leading role was created) calls "an expansive Russian romanticism." The music's vigorous pace makes the steps appear even more difficult, but the ballet relies on strong dancing, precise timing, and breadth of gesture. Balanchine said: "It contains everyth... (more) 2/07/2012 Russian Seasons - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Alexi Ratmansky's Russian Seasons is an inventive and exciting combination of dance and musical flavors. The ballet uses classical steps with elements of folk and jazz mixed in. There are also many humorous passages for the six male and female dancers. The music is a 12-part composition by Lenoid Desyatnikov for a string orchestra, solo violin and ... (more) 2/07/2012 Stravinsky Violin Concerto - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All In 1941, Balanchine choreographed Balustrade for the Ballet Russe to Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D. When he returned to the score three decades later, he could no longer remember his original choreography. But Balanchine was not at all disturbed by the loss. "What I did then was for then," he said, "and what I wanted to do to this music for our... (more) 2/07/2012 Zakouski - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Zakouski is the Russian term for hors d'oeuvres. This ballet for two dancers set to four short works for violin and piano explores through vernacular gesture and movement the emotional terrain of its musical sources. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a leading Soviet composer and a brilliant pianist. He left Russia in 1918 and lived in G... (more) 2/07/2012 Götterdämmerung - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts. 2/07/2012 - 2/11/2012 Dance Theatre of Harlem II - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (19th St.) - 212-242-0800 joyce.org Ages: All Dance Theatre of Harlem II is comprised of sixteen young dance artists trained in the DTH style and developed in the spirit that transformed perceptions about ballet. Carrying on the legacy begun by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook when they founded Dance Theatre of Harlem forty-two years ago, the company, now under the artistic direction of Virgini... (more) 2/07/2012 Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate: Obesity is the government�s business - NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place - 212-992-8484 skirballcenter.nyu.edu Ages: All With 33% of adults and 17% of children obese, the U.S. is facing an obesity epidemic. A major risk factor for expensive, chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, it costs our health care system nearly $150 billion a year. Should government intervene, or is this a matter of individual rights and personal responsibility? 2/07/2012 Hours: 8pm, Doors at 7:30 Off-off Broadway: FriendAndy.com Staged Workshop Production - TheaterLab 137 W. 14th St - 212-929-2545 FriendAndy.com Ages: 21+ Price: 15 Performance time: 8pm, Doors at 7:30. Pre and Post Reception. Ticket Price: $15 at the door general admission, $25 for show with unlimited reception. Production Company: Forward Flux Productions LLC Author/Creator of Show: Wesley Fruge Show Synopsis: FriendAndy.com is a dark comedy that brings the world of Internet to lif... (more) 2/07/2012 - 2/11/2012 Ruben Studdard - Feinstein's at Loew's Regency Regency Hotel, 540 Park Ave. (61 St.) - 212-339-4095 www.feinsteinsattheregency.com Ages: All FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Winter/Spring 2012 season with the New York nightclub debut of Grammy Award-nominated "American Idol" winner RUBEN STUDDARD from February 7 to February 11. In addition to jazz... (more) 2/07/2012 Hours: 8pm Emily Danger at Arlene's Grocery - Arlene's Grocery 95 Stanton Street - 212) 995-1652 Ages: 21+ Price: $5 Emily Danger is an indie folk rock band from New York City. The band consists of Emily Nicholas (vocals, piano), Ryan Nearhoff (vocals, guitar), Cameron Orr (violin, bass, melodica, vocals), and Colin Lime (drums, bass, vocals). Their music consists of lyrics written by Emily and music and arrangements created by the band. The band’s influences inc... (more) 2/07/2012 Hours: 2 Book Talk by 'Inside This Place, Not of It' authors Ayelet Waldman, Robin Levi; Open House - Columbia University Law School, Rm 701 435 W 116th Street NY - 212.854.7083 Ages: ALL Price: FREE The Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA), Columbia Center for Oral History, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and the Human Rights Institute will host Ayelet Waldman, attorney and author of Red Hook Road and Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace and Robin Levi, human rig... (more) 2/07/2012 Free Admission on Charles Dickens's 200th Birthday - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All On Tuesday, February 7, 2012, any Morgan Library & Museum visitor who mentions Dickens's birthday will receive FREE ADMISSION in celebration of the great writer's bicentennial year. Charles Dickens at 200 - The Morgan is currently showing Charles Dickens at 200, an exhibition that captures the art and life of a man whose literary and cul... (more) 2/07/2012 Helicopter Showdown - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All The four-person Bay Area production force known as Helicopter Showdown has earned the reputation in the underground bass music culture as the "Wu Tang" of dubstep. These West Coast bass monsters have been turning heads and crashing parties worldwide with their unique blend of heavy dubstep and melodic electro house. Having dominated the Bay Area ba... (more) 2/07/2012 "THE SCHOOL OF CORNELL" A Celebration of The Legacy of Cornell Dupree Ft. Steve Cropper, Ray Parker Jr., John Scofield, The Gadd Gang, Stuff, Soul Survivors, Bernard Purdie, Steve Jordan & More! - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Come celebrate the life and legacy of legendary guitarist Cornell Dupree at B.B. King Blues Club! A staple on the jazz, rock, and R&B recording scenes for many years, Dupree lent his distinctive bluesy style to over 2,500 recording sessions over the course of his career. He recorded prolifically with artists like Aretha Franklin as a member of King... (more) 2/07/2012 - 2/11/2012 Hours: 7:30 Dance Theatre of Harlem II - The Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Avenue - 212-242-0800 Dance Theatre of Harlem II is comprised of sixteen young dance artists trained in the DTH style and developed in the spirit that transformed perceptions about ballet. Carrying on the legacy begun by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook when they founded Dance Theatre of Harlem forty-two years ago, the company, now under the artistic direction of Virgini... (more) 2/07/2012 The Seeing Lab - Actors Theater 145 West 28th St. 3rd Fl - 917 319 4354 Ages: 13 + Price: $60 The Seeing Lab is a 3-hour course to learn how to detect and read micro-expressions- small contractions of the facial muscles that last only tenths of a second, but give a window into what someone is feeling. Did you ever talk with someone & get the feeling that there's something more they want to say? Maybe they said they were happy, bu... (more) 2/07/2012 Hours: 10:30-11:30 'I Love You' Picture Frame and Picture - Make Meaning 1501 3rd Ave - 2127440011 Ages: 0-5 Price: $36/$40 Join Make Meaning for "heart” filled morning of paint, handprints, and valentines! In this class, we will use painted fingers and hands to create a loving picture frame sure to make any of your little one’s Valentines hearts flutter.  No Walk-Ins, RSVP REQUIRED.  2/07/2012 Hours: 3:30-4:30 'Sweetheart Candle' - Make Meaning 329 Columbus Avenue - 2123620350 Ages: 6-9 Price: $36/$40 Forget the candy! Come make a Sweetheart candle with us instead and give that special someone a message that keeps on burning! No Walk-Ins, RSVP REQUIRED. 2/07/2012 Hours: 11:00 PM - 4:00AM DROPOUT Pre-Fashion Week celebration of blondes with Deborah Harry and Miss Guy @WiP - WiP 34 Vandam Street - 6465555555 Ages: 21+ Price: 0 DROPOUT Pre-Fashion Week celebration of blondes with Deborah Harry and Miss Guy @WiP February 7th, 2012 Live show by: Deborah Harry @ 12am **And Featuring the World Premiere Music Video from Miss Guy's Debut Solo Album “Dumb Blonde” With resident DJ Miss Guy and special guest DJ Nick Zinner Hosted by New York Fashion Forwa... (more) 2/07/2012 - 5/13/2012 Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting - Frick Collection 1 E. 70th St. (Madison-Fifth Aves.) - 212-288-0700 www.frick.org Ages: All An exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format, which was associated with the official Paris Salon in the decade that saw the emergence of a fully fledged Impressionist aesthetic. The project was inspired by La Promenade of ... (more) 2/07/2012 - 8/26/2012 Spies in the House of Art - Photography, Film, and Video - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Artists are the secret constituency of museums, inspired and challenged not only by the objects and collections they display but also by the spaces in which they are shown and the authority they represent. Most artists aspire to see their works in museums, even if they joke among themselves about how museums are mausoleums, places where art goes to... (more) 2/07/2012 - 5/06/2012 Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857 - Japan Society 333 E. 47th St. - 212-832-1155 japansociety.org Ages: All Delhi has served as a cultural center of North India for more than a millennium in different incarnations. This exhibition focuses on the 18th century to the mid-19th century, the crucial period when Delhi moved from being the heart of the late Mughal Empire to becoming the jewel in the crown of the British Raj. The exhibition examines Mughal art... (more) 2/08/2012 Concerto Barocco - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Balanchine said of this work: "If the dance designer sees in the development of classical dancing a counterpart in the development of music and has studied them both, he will derive continual inspiration from great scores." In the first movement of the concerto, the two ballerinas personify the violins, while a corps of eight women accompany them. ... (more) 2/08/2012 - 2/12/2012 The Seven Deadly Sins - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ballet chant� (sung ballet) has a long association with George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet. Originally commissioned for Balanchine's experimental Les Ballets 1933, it starred Weill's wife, singer/actress Lotte Lenya and dancer Tilly Losch. In 1958, at the suggestion of Lincoln Kirstein, Balanchine reviv... (more) 2/08/2012 Tarantella - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All The nimble quickness of Tarantella provides a virtuosic showcase. The profusion of steps and the quick changes of direction this brief but explosive pas de deux requires typify the ways in which Balanchine expanded the traditional vocabulary of classical dance. Gottschalk, who lived from 1829 to 1869, was one of the first American composers to be r... (more) 2/08/2012 - 2/12/2012 Vienna Waltzes - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All The waltz became popular in the late 1700's. It was banned at first by some authorities who thought it immoral for couples to dance so closely, but by the mid-1800's, it was accepted everywhere. The faster Viennese form, characterized by swift, gliding turns, expressed the vivacity and brilliance of the Hapsburg court. The waltz was a dance form Ba... (more) 2/08/2012 Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Peter Mattei recreates his winning portrayal of the barber in Bartlett Sher's popular production, which propels the comic action right into the audience. Isabel Leonard sings her first Met Rosina, sharing the role with Diana Damrau, and Javier Camarena makes his Met debut as the Count. 2/08/2012 - 2/19/2012 Merrily We Roll Along - New York City Center 131 W. 55th St. - 212.581.1212 nycitycenter.org Price: starting at $25 Tue 7pm, Wed 7:30pm, Thu-Fri 8pm, Sat 2 and 8pm, Sun 2 and 7pm (Exception: Wed 2/15 7pm) Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical runs backwards in time from 1980 to 1955, examines the lives of three people whose friendship is tested by time, ambition and fate. It includes some of Sondheim's most brilliant and bruising songs, inc... (more) 2/08/2012 Amateur Night at the Apollo - Apollo Theater 253 W. 125th St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-531-5337 www.apollotheater.org Ages: All The new Amateur Night season is underway with a whole new line-up of eager contestants who compete for the winning title of Super Top Dog and a cash prize of $10,000! Aspiring musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, rappers and spoken word artists try their best to please the audiences that can make them an Apollo legend. Then get ready to ch... (more) 2/08/2012 - 2/11/2012 The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School present Gluck’s “Armide” - Peter Jay Sharp Theater 155 West 65th St. - (212) 769-7406 www.juilliard.edu Price: $30 The Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School present a semi-staged concert performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Armide,” the second co-production between the two art institutions, on Wednesday, February 8 and Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8 PM in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Tickets at $30 will be available beginning January 11, ... (more) 2/08/2012 - 2/12/2012 Cloud Gate 2 - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (19th St.) - 212-242-0800 joyce.org Ages: All Renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min founded Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in 1973, creating a new form of dance that fused Eastern and Western cultures. In 1999, he founded Cloud Gate 2, a company making its New York debut at The Joyce with the work of remarkable international choreographers Bulareyaung Pagarlava, commissioned by the Martha Gr... (more) 2/08/2012 Fretwork - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All This season, viol ensemble Fretwork celebrates its quarter-century anniversary and makes its Carnegie Hall debut. While Fretwork's repertoire encompasses music that dates from the 16th century to the present day, this concert explores works written specifically for viol by 17th-century English and Italian composers. 2/08/2012 Bill Callahan - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St. - 212-721-6500 americansongbook.org Ages: All The deep voice and sardonic delivery bring to mind Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson, but it's the inventive lyrics that mark Bill Callahan as an original. Callahan recorded for years under the name Smog, perhaps as a need for anonymity and not as a reference to the impact that his music has on the listener. If that is what he wanted to reference, ... (more) 2/08/2012 Dubal: La Belle Epoque - Impressionism: Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All David Dubal, pianist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster. This music talk will synthesize the artistic activity in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century, and will be enhanced with performance by students of The Juilliard School. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso... (more) 2/08/2012 Canby: Persian Paintings - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art. The glorious manuscript illustrations and album pages from the courts of the Safavid rulers of Iran are the subject of this lecture. Dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they show the changes in style that occurred as the dynasty matured and became mor... (more) 2/08/2012 Hours: 6:30-7:30pm Free Puppy Playtime and Potty Training Seminar - Unleashed by Petco 1155 Third Ave - 212-288-1564 Ages: ALL Price: Free Got a new puppy in your life? It's important to get them socialized with other dogs at an early age to avoid aggression issues. At Free Puppy Play Time, your new pup will get to play and socialize with other puppies, as our in house dog trainer gives you tips on training your puppy and dealing with new issues that may arise. Also, get tips and adv... (more) 2/08/2012 Hours: 1:05-1:55PM Wall Street Dialogues - Trinity Church Broadway at Wall Street - 2126020800 trinitywallstreet.org Price: Free Pundits from liberal to conservative host conversations on the moral and ethical dilemmas pushed to the forefront by the Occupy Wall Street movement in Wall Street Dialogues on Wednesdays from January 11 - February 8 at 1 PM at Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. Each week, a new speaker will challenge the audience with provocative questions such a... (more) 2/08/2012 Bernard Fowler & His Rock �n� Roll All-Star Band - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Bernard Fowler�s talents as a singer, songwriter, producer, and instrumentalist have resonated through the span of his extraordinary career in the music industry. He has appeared on over 30 albums, most recently focusing his artistic energy on his solo project Friends with Privileges, which he released in 2006. This critically acclaimed effort draw... (more) 2/08/2012 George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Born in 1941, George Clinton is the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and he is a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been called one of the most important innovators of funk music, next to James Brown and Sly Stone. Clinton is a member of the Rock and Roll ... (more) 2/08/2012 Hours: 5:30-7:30pm LAUNCH OF RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH'S NEWEST BOOK: KOSHER JESUS - Trinity Wall Street - Parish Hall 74 Trinity Place, 2nd Floor - 212-843-9201 Price: 25 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's groundbreaking new book Kosher Jesus (Gefen Publishing) provides the foundation for a new and stronger understanding between Christians and Jews, and a radically new perspective on the world's most famous personality. Kosher Jesus offers a revolutionary new perspective, based on both Christian and Jewish sources, that early ... (more) 2/08/2012 Hours: 8 pm Lily Henley - The JCC in Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St - (646) 505-5708 jccmanhattan.org Ages: All Price: $15/$20 Deeply influenced in traditional American and Celtic music as well as extensive time in Tel Aviv, this powerful singer, songwriter, and fiddler now lives in NYC where she creates new arrangements of Hebrew and Ladino songs -- as well as original songs in English. Truly one of the most passionate voices on the acoustic music scene today. 2/08/2012 - 2/12/2012 Alba amicorum: Friendship Albums at the Morgan - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All The Morgan invites you to explore personal journeys as seen through fourteen rarely-displayed alba amicorum, or Friendship Albums. From the late sixteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century, alba amicorum were a popular way for students, artists, scholars, and gentlemen, mostly from Germany and the Low Countries, to document and... (more) 2/08/2012 Hours: 8pm-9:30 pm Comedy School Dropout: the 8th is the GREATth - Beauty Bar 231 E 14th St. - 5164264129 Ages: all Price: free Free standup Comedy Show - Jared Freid (Bloomberg Sports, Brobible.com, trutv); Jason Burke (Gotham and Stand-Up NY); Jena Friedman (Letterman, SXSW); Matt Graham (Conan, scrabble champion). 2/09/2012 Allegro Brillante - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Allegro Brillante is characterized by what Maria Tallchief (the ballerina on whom the bravura leading role was created) calls "an expansive Russian romanticism." The music's vigorous pace makes the steps appear even more difficult, but the ballet relies on strong dancing, precise timing, and breadth of gesture. Balanchine said: "It contains everyth... (more) 2/09/2012 Aida - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Verdi's vision of ancient Egypt is grandly realized with the help of the Met's unparalleled musical forces -- and every one of its stage elevators. Violeta Urmana and Marcelo Álvarez star as the ill-fated lovers. Stephanie Blythe sings Amneris for the first time at the Met. 2/09/2012 Conductor Jayce Ogren leads the Juilliard Orchestra - Alice Tully Hall 70 Lincoln Center Plaza - (212) 769-7406 www.juilliard.edu Price: free Conductor Jayce Ogren leads the winds, brass percussion of the Juilliard Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ “Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare,” Varese’s “Integrales,” Stravinsky’s Piano Concerto with Juilliard pianist Giuseppe Mentuccia, and Richard Strauss’ Sonatina No. 2 for 16 Winds on Thursday, February 9 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall. FREE tickets availab... (more) 2/09/2012 A Tribute to Motown - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All Ray Chew returns to Carnegie Hall to celebrate this soulful brand of music from the Motor City that has been loved by generations. "Motown touches every American," says Chew, who is also the current music director of American Idol. "It brings you back to a familiar place." 2/09/2012 tUnE-yArDs - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St. - 212-721-6500 americansongbook.org Ages: All New England native Merrill Gerbus' career started in theater, but a trip to Africa changed her. She embraced African rhythms and odd vocal techniques, creating drum loops on the spot and layering them with ukulele and voice. Now fleshed out with a bassist and two saxophone players, tUne-yArDs' musical performances are joyous, complex pieces that sh... (more) 2/09/2012 Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Morrison H. Heckscher, Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman, The American Wing; Peter M. Kenny, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator, Department of American Decorative Arts, and Administrator, The American Wing. For those with even a passing knowledge of American antique furniture, the name is instantly recognizable. Described in his own lifetime as the ... (more) 2/09/2012 Habachy: Arabic Music - The Arab Contribution to Western Music - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Nimet Habachy, lecturer and author; Simon Shaheen, violinist and oudist. Without the brilliant, sophisticated music that informed the courts of Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus, European music as we know it today would be quite different. Arabic music traveled west with Jewish troubadours and took root in Moorish Spain. With musical examples fr... (more) 2/09/2012 Hours: 8pm Love in the Time of Internet: Story Slam - Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge street - (212) 219-0302 x5 www.eldridgestreet.org Ages: 21+ Price: $10; $5 for the Museum’s Facebook friends Thursday, February 9 at 8 pm. Love in the Time of Internet: Story Slam. Got great stories about looking for the one on-line? Bring your friends and share your best, bad dating stories and your triumphs at this Moth-inspired story slam. Prizes awarded for most outrageous stories. Beer and wine will be served. Music from the Joshua Kwassman J... (more) 2/09/2012 Papadosio - Horizon Wireless - Speakerbot - pH Factor - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Some music, because of its originality, timelessness, mass appeal, or perhaps because it is just plain odd, will always be destined for the hallowed halls of cult classicism. No band fits this criteria better than Papadosio. Formed in Athens, OH, the band has been creating a home at the forefront of live electronica for five years, wowing crowds fr... (more) 2/09/2012 Anthony B - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Draped in the rich colors of African cloth, his trademark staff in hand, and his dreadlocks wrapped regally on his head, Anthony B embodies all that it is spiritual and proactive about reggae music. This artist has been steadfast in his mission to represent the poor and oppressed, using sharp lyrics to confront political injustices and bring the is... (more) 2/09/2012 - 2/16/2012 Hours: 8:00pm Minimum Rage - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 307 West 26th Street - 212-366-9176 Price: $5 Sue Smith has an anger problem. In her drug-addicted early 20s, she lost her father and stifled her feelings. But now, in this new solo show, Sue unleashes those years of pent up rage all over your stupid face. If she's ever waited on you, taught you yoga or wiped your snotty nose, there's a good chance you're in this show. Don't worry though, she'... (more) 2/09/2012 - 2/16/2012 Hours: 11am-11:30pm Lincoln Square BID's Fashion Plate Prix Fixe & Crew Cuts Deals - Various Lincoln Square-area restaurants & eateries Upper West Side - 212-581-3774 www.lincolnbid.org/fashionweek Ages: ALL Price: FREE It is time once again for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to bring high fashion to Lincoln Square. As in the past chefs from 25 of Lincoln Square's finest restaurants will be offering New Yorkers sumptuous meals at affordable prices as part of the Lincoln Square BID's very own restaurant week: Fashion Plate Prix Fixe. The Fashion Week Prix Fixe promotio... (more) 2/09/2012 Hours: 9am-8pm Blick Madness! - Blick Art Materials 1-5 Bond Street - (212) 533-2444 Ages: All Price: Free Thursday, February 9, 2012 is Blick Madness at Blick Art Materials! Join us in-store to play our Instant Win Game (while supplies last)! Each piece is a guaranteed winner. You could win discounts up to 50% off of your entire purchase or a $100 Blick gift card! We’ll also be hosting a Valentine Card Making demo and a Screen Printing demo! Take... (more) 2/10/2012 Interplay - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Morton Gould (1913-1996) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger whose lighter works generally drew on American subject matter and music. In his later works Gould concentrated on abstract, as opposed to programmatic or popular, works. His style became more contrapuntal, dissonant, and complex in its treatment of musical materials. Through... (more) 2/10/2012 Ernani - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani and Roberto DeBiasio share the role of her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast. 2/10/2012 - 2/12/2012 Barry Manilow - Radio City Music Hall 1260 Sixth Ave. (50th St.) - 212-307-7171 www.radiocity.com Ages: All Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow will return to Radio City Music Hall in New York City and perform three shows, February 10, 11, and 12, 2012. The announcement of these special concerts coincides with the release of 15 MINUTES, Manilow's first original album in 10 years and will be in stores on June 14. Tickets are on sale now! After having rec... (more) 2/10/2012 Hours: 4p-5p Yoga with Your Dog - Unleashed by Petco 1010 Willis Ave - 516-625-2607 Ages: All Price: Free Brrrr, it’s cold out! Dogs can get restless from being indoors during the cold, winter months. That’s why it’s important to keep them active and physical with yoga! Stop in for our yoga with your dog class and get mentally and physically motivated together. Namaste! 2/10/2012 Elaine Paige - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St. - 212-721-6500 americansongbook.org Ages: All A legend comes to American Songbook. The reigning queen of British musical theater and Olivier Award winner Elaine Paige first astounded theater audiences with her creation of the role of Eva Peron in Evita. Her subsequent roles as Grizabella in Cats, Florenz in Chess, Edith Piaf in Piaf, and the leads in Sweeney Todd, Sunset Boulevard, Anything Go... (more) 2/10/2012 Gallery Talk - Rembrandt's World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All 7 pm. A look at works by some of the preeminent artists of the Dutch Golden Age, including Rembrandt, led by Esther Bell, Moore Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Free. 2/10/2012 Powerless Before Love - Arabic and Persian Poetic Traditions - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Iraj Anvar, cofounder and director, Tehran Theater Workshop, and Visiting Lecturer in Modern Persian, Center for Language Studies, Brown University; Ted and Andree Feghali Gorton, authors. Revel in the beauty, longing, and passion that can be expressed in the spoken word through discussion and readings of Arab and Persian love poetry. This eve... (more) 2/10/2012 - 3/01/2012 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm Fantastic February Exhibitions at Agora Gallery - Agora Gallery 530 West 25th St, New York City - 212-226-4151 agora-gallery.com Price: free Infuse the short winter days with energy and warmth by visiting the exhibitions at Agora Gallery this February. The Substance of Abstraction explores the variety and mystery of the world, diving into the essence of form and shape that make up our lived experience of reality. Intriguing, intelligent and full of fascinating detail and insight, these... (more) 2/10/2012 - 2/11/2012 Hours: 8pm MUNDANE FANTASY curated by Faye Driscoll - BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Ave - 7188320018 bax.org/performances-events/professional/discussion/#driscoll Price: $15 General | $8 Low-Income MUNDANE FANTASY curated by Faye Driscoll as a part of BAX's PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES featuring works by Dages Juvelier Keates, Parted in the Middle, Sacha Yanow, & No Body Art Works "I was drawn to these artists because of their unique creative perspectives and how they are each in very different ways and through their various medi... (more) 2/10/2012 Hours: 6:30 PM BORROW: The American Way of Debt - Author's Talk and Book Signing with Louis Hyman - The Cooper Union-The Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square (entrance on 7th St at 3rd Ave) - 212-353-4195 cooper.edu Price: Free In BORROW: The American Way of Debt—How Personal Credit Created the American Middle Class and Almost Bankrupted the Nation, economist Louis Hyman delivers an accessible and informed history on the rise of personal borrowing in the United States, demonstrating that today’s problems are not as new as we think. Hyman describes the evolution of person... (more) 2/10/2012 - 2/11/2012 Hours: 7:00 pm - 8:00 am Ripley’s Times Square’s Star Wars Extreme Sleepover - Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square 234 W42nd Street - 212 398 3133 ripleysnewyork.com Ages: All Price: $145 per person As Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace returns to theatres in 3D this February, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square is offering fans the ultimate “galactic” overnight experience with Ripley’s Times Square’s Star Wars Extreme Sleepover. Taking place on February 10, 2012, the epic space series themed sleepover will include a character meet a... (more) 2/10/2012 BLOWOFF Featuring the DJ Sounds of Bob Mould & Richard Morel - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Bob Mould and Richard Morel's Blowoff is a DJ event that has become a premier destination for a wide cross-section of appreciative music fans. Originating in 2003 in Washington, DC's Velvet Lounge, Blowoff started as a musical collaboration between Mould and Morel. The two DJ in tandem, laying down a signature mix of indie rock, electro, and house,... (more) 2/10/2012 Al Kooper 68th Birthday Show - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Al Kooper once again returns to B.B. King Blues Club to celebrate his birthday in grand fashion. A legendary keyboardist, songwriter, and producer, Kooper appeared on Bob Dylan's classic albums Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966), and he produced New Morning for Dylan in 1970. He also toured as a member of Dylan's band off and o... (more) 2/10/2012 Hours: 7-930 Crash Into Spring - Brooklyn Industries 801 Broadway - 718-801-8900 brooklynindustries.com Ages: all Price: Free with RSVP Brooklyn Industries Invites You to Celebrate The CRASH INTO SPRING Fashion Presentation and Unveiling of the Special Edition CRASH Handbag February 10, 2012 7-9:30pm at our Union Square Store- 801 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 Spinning Live: DJ SoSuperSam from Los Angeles Live Art Demonstration by BKI Design Team Enjoy Cocktails & Swee... (more) 2/10/2012 Hours: 6pm to 11pm Pet lovers welcomed at the Venetian Masquerade PAWTY - Hotel Pennsylvania 33rd and 7th - 973-506-9364 www.Pre-WestminsterFashionShow.com Ages: all Price: 25 Grab your feathered mask and get ready to PAWTY. Pet lovers welcomed at the Venetian Masquerade themed 2012 Pre-Westminister Fashion Show. Everybody who’s anybody will be dressed to the nines in feathers, sequins, and satin… even the dogs. Pet lovers are encouraged to attend the 2012 Pre-Westminster Fashion Show on February 10th at the Hotel ... (more) 2/10/2012 - 2/14/2012 Hours: 3 Valentine's Day Weekend aboard Bateaux - Bateaux New York Pier 61, Chelsea Piers at West 23rd Street - 866-817-3463 Price: $119.90 Nothing's more magnificent than a Valentine's Day celebration on the water aboard New York's most sophisticated cruising vessel, Bateaux. Distinctive cuisine. Live entertainment. Dancing cheek to cheek. Breathtaking views. Laughter and intimate conversation. Create a memory that will last as long as your love. 2/11/2012 Concerto Barocco - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Balanchine said of this work: "If the dance designer sees in the development of classical dancing a counterpart in the development of music and has studied them both, he will derive continual inspiration from great scores." In the first movement of the concerto, the two ballerinas personify the violins, while a corps of eight women accompany them. ... (more) 2/11/2012 Stravinsky Violin Concerto - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All In 1941, Balanchine choreographed Balustrade for the Ballet Russe to Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D. When he returned to the score three decades later, he could no longer remember his original choreography. But Balanchine was not at all disturbed by the loss. "What I did then was for then," he said, "and what I wanted to do to this music for our... (more) 2/11/2012 Tarantella - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All The nimble quickness of Tarantella provides a virtuosic showcase. The profusion of steps and the quick changes of direction this brief but explosive pas de deux requires typify the ways in which Balanchine expanded the traditional vocabulary of classical dance. Gottschalk, who lived from 1829 to 1869, was one of the first American composers to be r... (more) 2/11/2012 Götterdämmerung - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts. 2/11/2012 Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Metropolitan Opera Amsterdam Ave. btw. W. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org/metopera Ages: All Peter Mattei recreates his winning portrayal of the barber in Bartlett Sher's popular production, which propels the comic action right into the audience. Isabel Leonard sings her first Met Rosina, sharing the role with Diana Damrau, and Javier Camarena makes his Met debut as the Count. 2/11/2012 - 2/12/2012 Hours: Saturday: 10am - 7pm, Sunday: 8am - 5pm MSKCC's Cycle for Survival - Equinox Graybar/Equinox 5th Ave 420 Lexington Ave, / 521 5th Ave. - 2124886500 www.cycleforsurvival.org Ages: All ages welcome Price: $1000 Team Donation Make a difference in the fight against cancer by registering to ride with your friends and family in Cycle for Survival, a nationwide indoor team cycling event that is driving much needed research into rare cancers, including pancreatic cancer, brain cancer and pediatric cancers, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Teams register to ride for... (more) 2/11/2012 Beatles Brunch - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All NYC's Longest Running Beatles Show STRAWBERRY FIELDS featuring former members of Broadway's BEATLEMANIA Doors: 11am - Show: 12pm Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip $40 adv, $42.50 door STRAWBERRY FIELDS is a look-a-like, sound-a-like Beatles tribute, dedicated to bringing you as close to a real Beatles concert a... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 3:30pm-4:30pm Puppy Love Fashion Show - Unleashed by Petco 157 Chambers Street - 212-346-9027 Ages: Free Price: Free Did you get a new puppy this holiday? If so, sign them up for our Puppy Love Fashion Show! Bring your dog in and let them walk the catwalk for a chance to win a special prize. Sign up by February 7th to join in all the fashionable fun. 2/11/2012 Hours: 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Wild at Heart Event 2012 - Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo 1875 Noble Avenue - 203-394-6569 beardsleyzoo.org Ages: Adults Price: $75 per person / $125 per couple Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo invites you to add a little Wild to your Valentine’s Day at our Wild at Heart Event 2012. Indulge yourself with food, drink, animal encounters, entertainment, and a fabulous silent auction with lots of love! Dress up in your finest cocktail attire and treat yourself to tantalizing appetizers served alongside a pasta st... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Bateaux New York Valentine Dinner Cruise - Bateaux New York Chelsea Piers, Pier 61 - 866.817.3463 www.bateauxnewyork.com/New-York/valentines-day Ages: All Price: From $133.90 per person ROMANTIC. Nothing's more magnificent than a Valentine's Day celebration on the water aboard New York's most sophisticated cruising vessel, Bateaux. Distinctive cuisine. Live entertainment. Dancing cheek to cheek. Breathtaking views. Laughter and intimate conversation. Create a memory that will last as long as your love. Boarding: 6:15pm C... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 7:00pm to 10:00pm Spirit of New York Valentine Weekend Dining Cruise - Spirit of New York Chelsea Piers, Pier 62 - 866.483.3866 www.spiritofnewyork.com/New-York/valentinesday Ages: All Price: From $87.90 per person Get out on the water this Valentine's Day! Make a romantic memory aboard the vibrant and festive Spirit and treat the one you love to a bountiful buffet, engaging DJ entertainment, dancing and strolls beneath the stars. On our warm and cozy climate-controlled decks, this special day will be everything you dreamed of, and more. Board: 6:30pm... (more) 2/11/2012 The 70's Soul Jam Valentine's Concert - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (74th-75th Sts.) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All The popular 70's Soul Jam returns with an all new line-up featuring The Stylistics, The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards, The Delfonics, The Main Ingredient featuring Cuba Gooding, & Enchantment. 2/11/2012 Laura Benanti - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St. - 212-721-6500 americansongbook.org Ages: All Her astonishing beauty is matched by a bell-clear soprano and the ability to inhabit characters with total conviction. In her cabaret shows she lets out an antic sense of humor, and on Broadway in Nine, A Little Night Music, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Benanti was the brightest light on stage. Benanti won a Tony Award for her role... (more) 2/11/2012 Romeo - Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Ave. & 32nd St.) - 212-465-5800 www.thegarden.com Ages: All While most 13 year-old boys were out chasing girls and shooting hoops, Romeo opted to stay home, penning his first songs. It is well known that Romeo's idol in bachata is Antony "El Mayimbe" Santos. However, his fascination with the art of the popular song commenced when he discovered the likes of Camilo Sesto, Manuel Alejandro, Juan Gabriel, Omar ... (more) 2/11/2012 Romeo - Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Ave. & 32nd St.) - 212-465-5800 www.thegarden.com Ages: All While most 13 year-old boys were out chasing girls and shooting hoops, Romeo opted to stay home, penning his first songs. It is well known that Romeo's idol in bachata is Antony "El Mayimbe" Santos. However, his fascination with the art of the popular song commenced when he discovered the likes of Camilo Sesto, Manuel Alejandro, Juan Gabriel, Omar ... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 4 Valentine’s Day Cocktail Cruise - Pier #40 West Houston Street - 212-987-9200 Ages: 21+ Price: $25 Valentine’s Day Cocktail Cruise Mix & Mingle with Couples & Singles Live DJ spinning a mix of Top 40, R&B, Salsa & More… Boarding 10pm- 11pm Sailing until 2am Pier #40 West Houston Street & West Side Highway All guests must be 21 & over with photo ID Please note the boat is enclosed & climate controlled. 212-987-9200 www.Af... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 10:30-11:45 Family Program: Valentine's Day Card Creations - The Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Place - 212-945-6324 skyscraper.org Ages: all Price: $5 Give that special someone a structural smooch with a homemade skyscraper card. We'll show you the best way to climb your way to the top of his or her heart! All ages. 2/11/2012 Hours: 2:00pm - 3:30pm 3-Session Glass Painting Workshop - Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 ext 230 queensbotanical.org Ages: 10 and up Price: $120 3-Session Glass Painting Workshop with Cristina Cipriani - Saturdays, January 28, February 4 and 11, 2 to 3:30pm - Fee: $90 class fee + $30 materials fee for a complete glass painting kit Bright colors, transparency, and light: this is what glass painting is all about. Create a unique decoration for your home or a personalized present for... (more) 2/11/2012 - 2/12/2012 Hours: 4hr 2012 Valentine's Day Singles Ball - Southern Hospitality Upper East Side 1460 Second Avenue (Between 76th & 77th Street) - 212-249-1001 Ages: 21+ Price: $45.00 > Southern Hospitality Presents > VALENTINES DAY > 2012 Valentine's Day Singles Ball > > Southern Hospitality: "Valentines Day Singles Ball. Saturday February 11th 2012. VIP 4 hour premium open bar 10pm-2am $45 per person. $6 Drink Specials & Specialty shots All Night!!!!!!!!!! Love Potion #9, Bleeding Heart, Love Bites, Pink Crush, Love Bird,... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 3 Valentine's Day Chocolate - La Perla 803 madison avenue - 973.744.0707 Price: free La Perla – 803 Madison Avenue – Master Chocolate Demo & Shopping Event, Saturday, 2/11 @ 2-5 PM Sampling at other locations: 93 Greene Street (Soho) 425 West 14th Street (Meatpacking District Perugina, known world-wide for its iconic Baci line and its commitment to the art of creating only the highest quality confections, announces the c... (more) 2/11/2012 The Rewind Show - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom: The Rewind Show with live performances and celebrity DJs. File Under: Rock, Dance, Electronic, Late Night. 21 or over to enter. Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm. $20 at door. RSVP to info@4kent.com. The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs... (more) 2/11/2012 The Rewind Show - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom: The Rewind Show with live performances and celebrity DJs. File Under: Rock, Dance, Electronic, Late Night. 21 or over to enter. Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm. $20 at door. RSVP to info@4kent.com. The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs... (more) 2/11/2012 Tramps Like Us: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TRIBUTE - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Tramps Like Us brings more than 2 decades of road-tested musicianship that have won this band the hard-earned distinction of the planet's most revered Bruce Springsteen Tribute band. Rockers and ballads delivered with the raw intensity and swagger reminiscent of the Boss himself. With a repertoire of more than 100 songs, Tramps Like Us has been d... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 9:30pm – 11:00 PM Ghosts Doctors Ghosts of Valentine's Past at Grand Central Terminal NYC - Grand Central Terminal 87 E 42nd St - (212) 227-6134 ghostdoctors.com Ages: All Price: $35.00 Ghosts of Past Valentines still be lingering in this mecca of transportation for well over 100 years?  Join the NYC's own Ghost Doctors (paranormal investigators and licensed tours guides) this Valentine's Day on a supernatural Valentine's love investigation of Grand Central Terminal. This is not your typical "story telling" ghost tour. This is the... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 5:30pm - 8:00pm See the Metropolitan Museum of Art from an Artist’s Perspective - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue - (914) 861-5032 Price: $40.00 - Host Mark Venaglia is an artist with work in corporate and private collections worldwide - Explore the new galleries in The American Wing, complimented with Mark’s commentary - Get to know American art’s “Green Movement” and its origins in the early 1800s - Join Mark for coffee or a cocktail afterwards to debrief the experience The auth... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 7-10pm AsianInNY Fashion Show and Lunar New Year Celebration - Bennett Media Studio 723 Washington Street - 2125631688 www.asianinny.com/?p=16088 Ages: 21 Price: 10 AsianInNY, the New York’s premier online destination for multicultural networking and entertainment, is throwing a festive celebration of the Lunar New Year on February 11th, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The event will be located at Bennett Media Studio on 723 Washington Street. In time with the New York Fashion Week, many outstanding Asian desig... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 7-9:30p Brooklyn Rooted: Enjoy an Artisanal Dinner Party - (location TBA upon purchase of ticket) Brooklyn - (914) 861-5032 Price: $85 - Winter-inspired three course dining experience - Wine pairing with each course - Course Introduction and Commentary from Chef Elise - Take-home recipes In this installment of the popular Brooklyn Rooted dinner series, chef Elise Kornack promises a winter-inspired three course meal in the local Brooklyn style you’ve come to expect. Like ... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 2:00pm - 4:30pm Intuitive Photography Workshop - Outside The American Museum of Natural History Central Park W. & 81st - (914) 861-5032 Price: $60.00 - Learn to follow your intuition to get pictures you’ll love with a fine art photographer - Take photos at the Museum of Natural History, then review them together over a drink - Open to all skill levels and digital cameras There is always something worth photographing in New York. The city has all the extremes — from lush park landscapes t... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 4:00pm - 7:00pm Evening with Falu - (location TBA upon purchase of ticket) West Village - (914) 861-5032 Price: $45.00 - Afternoon of musical performances hosted by Falu, a classically-trained Indian vocalist - Musicians, feel free to bring your instruments and voices - Wine and snacks included Savor a musical experience fit for royalty with Falu, a classically-trained Indian singer-songwriter who has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, and even... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 2-5 pm The JCC In Manhattan Announces: The 2011/2012 Season of R&R @ the JCC - The JCC In Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street - 3476043964 www.jccmanhattan.org/rr Ages: All Ages Price: FREE The JCC In Manhattan Announces: The 2011/2012 Season of R&R @ the JCC WHO: Heidi Latksy Dance, Inclusion Yoga & Meditation, Adult Ability Crafts with Artist Amy Cohen, Introduction to American Sign Language, Rick Giudotti Artist Talk, Reel Encounters: Short Films from the ReelAbilities Film Festival, an A capella performance and much, much more... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 4 Valentine's Day Dinner Cruise - Hornblower Hybrid Pier 40, 353 West Street - 1-888-467-6256 Ages: All Price: $99++ Hornblower Cruises & Events New York is proud to announce its very special Valentine's Day Dinner Cruise aboard New York's newest, sleekest, eco-friendly yacht the Hornblower Hybrid! This romantic evening will include a delicious four-course dinner, including a decadent dessert with a glass of sparkling wine, a cozy table adorned with a fresh rose,... (more) 2/11/2012 Hours: 11:00 Rebirth Brass Band : Pre-Mardi Gras Celebration with 2012 Grammy Nominees w/ spec guests HeyLady plus DJ Cochon De Lait - Hiro Ballroom 88 9th Avenue - 2127270212 Ages: 16 & over Price: 35.00 After The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Rebirth Brass Band is perhaps the best contemporary New Orleans ensemble working in vintage marching band style. The group formed in the early '80s while they were still in school. In the latter half of the decade, the band gained of the critics and the public alike. Since the late '80s, The Rebirth Brass Band ... (more) 2/11/2012 Rebirth Brass Band : Pre-Mardi Gras Celebration with the 2012 Grammy Nominees with Zongo Junction: 12 PC Afro-Beat Band From Brooklyn plus DJ Cochon De Lait - Hiro Ballroom 88 9th Avenue - 2127270212 Ages: 16 & over Price: 50.00 Zongo Junction is generating a well-deserved buzz in NYC’s burgeoning afrobeat scene. The ensemble blends West African rhythms with funk, jazz and soul. True to their inspiration, Nigerian superstar, political activist and afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the outfit excites dance floors wherever they perform. The critics agree. “The only t... (more)