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Things to do this week in NYC May 12-May 19: Museums (05/12) - Some of the world's most impressive museums and exhibits are in New York?including the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and (of course) the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the great things to do in NYC is to visit these spectacular collections. Whether you're a native New Yorker or here on vacation, NYC's museums have something new and interesting to offer everybody! Here is a list of what's going on this week at museums throughout New York City. (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 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 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 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 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 2/17/2014 Contemporary Art from the Collection - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 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 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 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 5/28/2012 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 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 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 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 Bayete 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 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 5/21/2012 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 8/06/2012 9 Scripts from a Nation at War - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 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 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) Through 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) Through 5/19/2012 Hours: 8am-4:30pm Vignettes from The Queens Project - Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main St. - 914-923-4837 www.queensbotanical.org Ages: 5 and up Price: Free up to 3/31; then free with admission QBG is honored to present the photography of Audrey Gottlieb in the Visitor & Administration Building Gallery. Her best-known images show multicultural America today. Save the date for an Artist's Talk on May 19. Through 2/13/2013 Hours: 7-11 Monday Night Open Mic Joint - One and One/Nexus Lounge 76 East 1st Street - (917) 703-1512 inspiredwordnyc.com Ages: 18+ Price: $10 Looking for special open mic in downtown Manhattan? This is it. Come to one of the hottest open mics in the country - a stage graced by Grammy nominated singers, HBO Def Poetry stars, American Idol finalists, Golden Globe Award-winning actresses, and poets from The Best American Poetry anthology. The Inspired Word's NYC Open Mic Joint, host... (more) Through 6/10/2012 Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All The Museum of Arts and Design is proud to present Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales an extraordinary international gathering of glass sculpture created in Murano at the studio of entrepreneur and mentor Adriano Berengo. Berengo, the founder of Venice Projects, has engaged artists, architects and designers from such diverse coun... (more) Through 7/30/2012 Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new ... (more) Through 7/01/2012 Dan Flavin: Drawing - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman. This first retrospective of his drawings will include over one hundred sheets representing every phase of his career: early abstract expressionist watercolors of the 1950s, studies for light installations, portraits and landscape sketches, and pastels of sail... (more) Through 6/10/2012 Harlem 1970-2009, A Study in Transitions by Camilo Jose Vergara - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All This exhibition of photographs by Camilo Jose Vergara will be shown in two cycles: Harlem: The People and Harlem: The Place. Vergara's images serve as powerful and poignant witness to the changes that have occurred over the past four decades in one of the most famous neighborhoods of New York City. Known as the capital of black America, Harlem is a... (more) Through 5/20/2012 Rembrandt and Degas - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Self-portraits made by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) at the start of their illustrious careers are seen side by side, for the first time, in an exhibition that highlights the Dutch master's guiding influence on the young French Impressionist and offers an intimate look at their unique kinship. Through 8/26/2012 Playing House - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All Playing House is the first in a series of installations that aim to engage visitors with the Brooklyn Museum's period rooms. Artists Betty Woodman, Anne Chu, Ann Agee, and Mary Lucier have been invited to place site-specific artwork in eight of the Museum's historic rooms, which have been interpreted by curators over the years to illustrate how Ame... (more) Through 6/11/2012 Cindy Sherman - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from mov... (more) Through 6/03/2012 The Steins Collect - Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. This exhibition unites some two hundred works of art to demonstrate the significant impact the Steins' patronage had on the artists of their day and the way in which the family disse... (more) Through 5/27/2012 Whitney Biennial 2012 - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. - 800-944-8639 whitney.org Ages: All This year marks the seventy-sixth edition of the Whitney's signature exhibition. Closed Mon. & Tues. $18. Through 7/08/2012 Hours: 10AM - 5PM Women in Aviation: World War II - 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 In 1910, Raymonde de Laroche of France became the first woman to earn a solo pilot's license. Just three decades after de Laroche earned her license, the world was engulfed in a terrible war. Aviation promised to play a critical role in the conflict. Seeing an opportunity to contribute their talents, female pilots lobbied their governments for a ch... (more) Through 5/20/2012 In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36th St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All Drawing from the breadth of the Morgan's collection, this exhibition will explore the ways in which animals have served as inspiration for and subjects of diverse creative works. Through 6/06/2012 Hours: Sun?Wed, 10 am?5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am?5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am?7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish. The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Being Singular Plural - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue - 212 423 3500 guggenheim.org Ages: All Price: Adults $18, students/seniors (65+) $15, members and children under 12 free. The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Being Singular Plural presents new film, video, and sound-based works by seven of the most innovative and visionary contemporary artists, filmmakers, and media practitioners living and working in India today. Expanding on its original 2010 Deutsche Guggenheim presentation, the exhibition presents eight pr... (more) Through 1/28/2013 Born Out of Necessity - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Showcasing objects that adhere to the traditional view of design as a tool for problem-solving, Born out of Necessity offers close examination of the problems themselves -- whether urgent, foreseen, or imagined. From objects that respond to pressing needs in developing countries to new solutions that are tailored to the urban environment, the exhib... (more) Through 7/13/2012 Casting the Divine - The Rubin Museum 150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All A group of 104 sculptures on long-term loan to the Rubin Museum of Art will be exhibited together for the first time in the United States. A selection of the works was previously exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in the United Kingdom, in 1999. The collection is known as the Nyingjei Lam Collection, which means "path of compassion." Through 7/29/2012 Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel - The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave. - 212-423-3200 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large-scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting. Part of a new series exploring the global diaspora, the works in The World Stage: Israel are based on photographs the art... (more) Through 6/26/2012 Hours: 10pm-4am Soul Candy - 5 Ninth 5 Ninth Avenue - 212-929-9460 www.5Ninth.com Ages: 21+ Price: free Every Tuesday night, IaDyne Geffen Weinstein hosts Soul Candy, a Soul genre party designed to create a sexy, warm, soulful experience for impromptu canoodling or a two-step. Soul Candy is the PERFECT find for those looking to escape the pretentious, top 40s scene without sacrificing the aesthetics and exceptionalism expected of your night out and a... (more) Through 7/08/2012 Byzantium and Islam - Age of Transition - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The Eastern Mediterranean, from Syria across North Africa, comprised the wealthy southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire at the start of the seventh century. By that century's end, the region was central to the emerging Islamic world. This exhibition will be the first to display the complex character of the region and its exceptional art and cul... (more) Through 7/08/2012 Keith Haring: 1978-1982 - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All Keith Haring: 1978-1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring's extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely see... (more) Through 6/13/2012 Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish. Francesca Woodman - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue - 2124233500 guggenheim.org Ages: All ages Price: Adults $18, students/seniors (65+) $15, members and children under 12 free. Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. of the artist’s work since Woodman’s untimely death in 1981 at the age of 22, will be presented at the Guggenheim Museum from March 16 through June 13, 2012. Spanning the breadth of her production, the exhibition includes more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selecti... (more) Through 7/16/2012 Projects 97: Mark Boulos - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Boulos's installation All that Is Solid Melts into Air (2008), comprised of two large-scale videos, presents two communities on opposite ends of the world, each locked in a struggle to control oil. Oil surrounds us on a daily basis, and yet we are scarcely aware of its source or presence; when refined into products, petroleum gives no clue as to it... (more) Through 5/21/2012 Sanctuary Spring Escape Package - Sanctuary Hotel 132 West 47th Street - 212 234 7000 www.sanctuaryhotelnyc.com Price: $339 Sanctuary Spring Escape Package - Catch the spring fever in NYC and escape to our urban oasis to enjoy the beautiful weather and happenings in the city! This package includes a refreshing Spring Blossom cocktail (A very fresh mixed martini of Grey Goose La Poire, apple liqueur, muddled cucumber and kiwi with a fresh cherry) upon arrival, a $100... (more) Through 10/14/2012 Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg - Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Pl - 646-437-4200 www.mjhnyc.org Ages: All Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration... (more) Through 9/09/2012 Naked before the Camera - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Since the beginning of art and in every medium, depicting the human body has been among the artist's greatest challenges and supreme achievements, as can so easily be seen by Museum visitors walking through the galleries of Greek and Roman statuary, African and Oceanic art, Old Master paintings, or Indian sculpture. Tapping veins of mythology, carn... (more) Through 9/30/2012 The Rylands Haggadah Medieval Jewish Art in Context - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All From the calling of Moses to the crossing of the Red Sea, the drama of the ancient Israelites' exodus from Egypt is presented in The Rylands Haggadah. This is the third in a series of installations focusing on one masterwork of Hebrew manuscript illumination from a national or international collection. This spring, the featured work comes from ... (more) Through 9/30/2012 Electric Currents, 1900-1940 - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Electricity -- a source of clean, efficient power and brilliant, reliable light -- epitomized the very spirit of modernism in the early 20th century. After decades of research and competitive experimentation following the development of the first arc lamps and incandescent filament bulbs in the mid-19th century, electricity began to transform every... (more) Through 8/26/2012 Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world... - The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave. - 212-423-3200 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All In the collaborative video a small world..., artists Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin juxtapose home movies of their families -- one African American and one Jewish American --- to explore the intersections of middle-class life across racial lines. Originally recorded in silent super-8 film, the video shows the artists as children growing up in ... (more) Through 1/06/2013 Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All The perpetually dark deep ocean comprises the vast majority of the planet's habitable environments where approximately 90 percent of the organisms are bioluminescent and provide the only source of light. Many of these environments are threatened habitats where organisms are in danger of disappearing, some before they have been discovered and studie... (more) Through 6/30/2012 Hours: 8pm LIVE FROM OUTER SPACE with John O'Donnell - Luca Lounge 222 Ave B (btw 13 & 14st) - 212-254-1511 www.livefromouterspace.com Price: $5 LIVE FROM OUTER SPACE 'Live From Outer Space' is John F. O'Donnell's new live weekly comedy show. Building off of his established website, www.livefromouterspace.com, JFOD promises to bring his audience the best in standup, video and conceptual comedy. For those of you who aren't familiar with John F. O'Donnell, the Comedy Central Insider Blo... (more) Through 8/05/2012 The Dawn of Egyptian Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (ca. 4000-2650 B.C.), people living in the Nile Valley began recording their beliefs through paintings, sculptures, and reliefs made for their shrines and tombs. These works of art capture the evolving world view of these early Egyptians. Images of people, animals, and landscapes, some of which give... (more) Through 5/30/2012 Hours: 5pm~2am Food & Wine Paring Every Wednesday - KRISTALBELLI 8 West 36th Street - 2122902211 www.KRISTALBELLI.com Ages: over21 Price: $39 KRISTALBELLI Wine & Food Paring Every Wednesday at the lounge! $39 for three glasses of wine and three dishes. Your Wednesday Night is on us, KRISTALBELLI. KRISTALBELLI The Next Korean BBQ Restaurant www.KRISTALBELLI.com Through 5/31/2012 Hours: 5pm~11pm Ladies Night Out Every Thursday at the Lounge! - KRISTALBELLI 8 West 36th Street - 2122902211 www.KRISTALBELLI.com Ages: over21 Price: free KRISTALBELLI Ladies Night Out Every Thursday at the lounge! Present the ticket issued at the entrance for a complimentary 'Spring Cocktail' at the bar. Also 50% OFF on bottles to the ladies' tables! KRISTALBELLI The Next Korean BBQ Restaurant www.KRISTALBELLI.com Through 6/24/2012 Raw/Cooked: Heather Hart - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All The fourth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant-based artist Heather Hart. Hart built a large-scale structure titled The Eastern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother for display in the Museum's fifth-floor rotunda. She describes the work as "an independent rooftop, removed from its house, and dropped f... (more) Through 4/29/2013 The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements -- with a special emphasis on the medium's relation to Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and Post-Conceptual art -- and in the development of contemporar... (more) Through 5/29/2012 Hours: 12pm to 6pm Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of John William Kennedy - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 212-260-8100 Price: Free BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS offers a rare glimpse into the working studios of Pop Art giants Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, two artists who shaped the direction of American art in the 1960s. This is the collection’s New York City debut. William John Kennedy shot the images of Warhol and Indiana, which had been forgotten in storage in the photog... (more) Through 6/30/2012 Unnatural Formations: Three Contemporary Photographers - Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America 58 Park Ave. - 212-779-3587 www.scandinaviahouse.org Ages: All The American-Scandinavian Foundation celebrates the 100th anniversary of its Fellowship program with an exhibition featuring the work of three recent grant recipients -- Stephen Hilyard, Simen Johan, and Lydia Anne McCarthy – who have emerged as innovators in the field of contemporary landscape photography. The exhibition offers a unique look at hy... (more) Through 8/05/2012 Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzhong - Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave. (70th St.) - 212-288-6400 asiasociety.org Ages: All Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) stands as one of the most important artists of 20th-century China. He was highly prolific both in oil and ink painting and is well known for his eloquent writings on art and creativity. For this exhibition, over 50 paintings spanning the mid-1970s to 2004 have been selected that focus on his best works in the medium of ink.... (more) Through 5/20/2012 Hours: W-F 12-6. S-S 11-6. No Other Medicine - NY Studio Gallery 154 Stanton Street - 916-599-4243 Ages: ALL Price: FREE NO OTHER MEDICINE New York Studio Gallery 154 Stanton Street April 26 – May 19, 2012 Opening: Thursday, April 26, 6 – 8 pm The Fashion Institute of Technology’s Art Market Graduate Class of 2012 is pleased to present No Other Medicine, an exhibition curated by the Art Market class and consisting of works by eight contemporary artist... (more) Through 8/27/2012 Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen - Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Ave. (86 St.) - 212-628-6200 www.neuegalerie.org Ages: All The Neue Galerie New York will present "Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen," an exhibition focusing on the luminous work of this important Austrian photographer. The organizing curator for the project is Dr. Monika Faber, a distinguished scholar of photography. "Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle" a... (more) Through 7/29/2012 Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes - Frick Collection 1 E. 70th St. (Madison-Fifth Aves.) - 212-288-0700 www.frick.org Ages: All Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes is the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Pier Jacopo Alari de Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455-1528). As sculptor to the Gonzaga courts at Mantua and in northern Italy, Antico earned his name, "the antique one," for his creation in the classical style of statuettes, relie... (more) Through 8/26/2012 The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All "The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg" is Djurberg's most ambitious multimedia installation to date. Originally organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Djurberg will adapt this spectacular installation for the New Museum's 'Studio 231' space. In the hands of Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg, animation becomes a medium ... (more) Through 6/24/2012 Phyllida Barlow: siege - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All "Phyllida Barlow: siege" is the first New York solo exhibition of the work of British sculptor. For her New Museum presentation, Barlow will create a new, site-specific sculptural installation in the Museum's fourth floor gallery. This exhibition is part of a series focusing on a single project or body of work within an artist's larger practice. Th... (more) Through 9/03/2012 Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008-11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 "chapter... (more) Through 5/20/2012 Hours: 08:00 pm 'The Chalk Circle' - Theater For The New City 155 First Avenue - 212-868-4444. Ages: all Price: General admission: $25 (Wednesdays: Pay what you can.) Joanna Chan, Artistic Director of Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, has adapted "The Chalk Circle" by Li QianFu into a multilingual play with arias in the style of Cantonese Opera. This thirteenth century Yuan dynasty Chinese classical Zaju verse story is primarily known in the West as the inspiration of Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle." It r... (more) Through 6/02/2012 Hours: Wed - Sat 1-7 pm, Sun 1-5 & by appointment Something - Old, New, Bold, Blue - Gallery Onetwentyeight 128 Rivington Street - 212-674-0244 www.galleryonetwentyeight.org Ages: all Price: free Gallery Onetwentyeight presents Something - Old, New, Bold, Blue, a new group show curated by Kaitlin Martin. The show will feature seven artists working in a variety of media; acetate, acrylic, aluminum, cardboard, cork bark, diamond dust, a first aid kit, found objects, glass, glitter, ink, a miniature wind turbine, paper & plastic, a playboy cen... (more) Through 5/17/2012 Hours: 8-9pm George Kareman: Incredibly Extreme and Extremely Incredible - Upright Citizens Brigade 302 West 26th St - 212-366-9176 Ages: 18+ Price: $5.00 George Kareman asks you to please be advised of the following before purchasing tickets for this show: WARNING: This is an intense sketch comedy show about an outrageous man. CAUTION: The dangerous-ass stunts in this show are NOT performed by professionals. LOOK OUT: Epic failure takes place in this show. So come watch George Kareman prove to the w... (more) Through 6/16/2013 Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn's Faience Manufacturing Company - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway (Washington Ave.) - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American, 1833-1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett's talent and adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faie... (more) Through 6/02/2012 Hours: 11-6 Elder Kinder - Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th Street - 212 242 6220 lyonswiergallery.com Ages: All Price: Free Jason Bard Yarmosky's solo exhibition, "Elder Kinder" pays homage to the idea that age is not a deterrent to living fully, but rather a springboard for exploration. Using his grandparents as both muse and model, Yarmosky's meticulously constructed and strikingly life-like paintings examine the relationship between the limitations of social norm... (more) Through 6/30/2012 Hours: Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm; Sat, 10am-4pm Light Matter: Exhibition, opening reception, and art workshop - Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Ave - 914 738 2525 pelhamartcenter.org Ages: All Price: Free Light Matter, on view May 4 - June 30, 2012. Using luminous new media, the five artists in this exhibition harness and explore light - dazzling and ordinary - as both subject and form. Curated by Lisa Banner. Free opening reception and art workshop exploring the use of light and dark will be on Fri, May 4, 6:30-8:00pm. Through 5/26/2012 Hours: 12pm - 5pm Innovation and Craftsmanship in Metal: Jewelry Artists of Québec Exhibition - Aaron Faber Gallery 666 Fifth Avenue - (212) 586-8411 JewelryofQuebec.lmrpr.com Ages: all The celebration of artistry and creativity is as ingrained in the culture of Québec as it is a calling card for New York City. It was thus inevitable that such a shared principle would lead to the upcoming exhibition, “Innovation and Craftsmanship in Metal: Jewelry Artists of Québec”, opening at Aaron Faber Gallery, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY... (more) Through 5/25/2012 Hours: 10am-5pm Photo Contest: May Flowers - Unleashed by Petco 159 Columbus Ave - 2125794560 Ages: All Price: Free Spring is in the air! Starting May 4th bring a picture of your pet in their best spring or summer costume. There is a board in the store where all the pictures are posted. Best photo wins! Contest end may 25th. Through 9/23/2012 Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 - The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave. - 212-423-3200 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition features key works in various media by Edouard Vuillard, the twentieth-century master whose unique blend of tradition and modernity evokes the refined and sophisticated society of his patrons, many of whom were Jewish. Through 9/23/2012 Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All The New-York Historical Society will present Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York, an exhibition highlighting the histories of 150 notable examples of silver from its collection. Made across the span of four centuries, the objects in the exhibition tell a diversity of stories: many speak to individual accomplishment and family ... (more) Through 10/16/2012 Modernist Art from India - Approaching Abstraction - The Rubin Museum 150 W 17th St - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All Approaching Abstraction is the second exhibition of a three-part series, titled Modernist Art from India, that examines art from post-independence and post-Partition India. Building on the explorations between abstraction and figuration begun in The Body Unbound, the exhibition distinguishes abstraction in modernist Indian art from abstraction in E... (more) Through 7/01/2012 Stanya Kahn - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All Stanya Kahn's videos offer glimpses into alternate worlds populated by bizarre characters, mummified animals, natural forces, and primal impulses. Happy Song for You (2011), made with legendary artist Llyn Foulkes, demonstrates Kahn's unique approach to storytelling in which humor and absurdity function as central forces. Featuring an original song... (more) Through 7/29/2012 The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All China invented both paper and printing and this exhibition presents an outstanding survey of the art of Chinese printing from the time of its inception around the early eighth century through its burgeoning as an artistic medium during the seventeenth century and its continued vitality as a medium for both popular culture and political commentary d... (more) Through 8/27/2012 Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53rd Street - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language is a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of language -- visual, aural, and beyond. The work that these artists create belongs to a ... (more) Through 6/24/2012 Ellen Altfest: Head and Plant - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All This May in the Lobby Gallery, the New Museum will feature the first solo museum presentation of the work of New York-based artist Ellen Altfest. Altfest is a figurative painter whose intimately scaled works convey a distinct approach to realism and a sustained commitment to looking. Her painstaking depictions result in paintings that expand percep... (more) Through 7/01/2012 Tacita Dean: Five Americans - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All This May, the New Museum will present an exhibition of works by British artist Tacita Dean -- the most substantial presentation of the artist's work in New York to date. The presentation focuses on a group of recent pieces that capture five important American artists and thinkers of the last fifty years and features Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg,... (more) Through 7/01/2012 Klara Liden: Bodies of Society - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All This May, the New Museum will present the first large-scale, American museum exhibition of the artist Klara Liden, featuring a selection of works in the Museum's second floor gallery. Liden's exhibition at the New Museum is part of a series of focus shows that began last May with presentations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gustav Metzger. Through 5/19/2012 Hours: 8-9 PM Bayside! The UnMusical! - The Kraine Theater 85 East 4th Street - 917 378 1601 BaysidetheUnMusical.com Ages: All Price: 15 Bayside! The UnMusical!, the hilarious and unauthorized musical parody of TV’s Saved by the Bell, is returning to East Village’s Kraine Theatre on May 9th! Hailed as “New York’s best” by Michael Musto (Village Voice), this entertaining and edgy sendup of everyone’s favorite Saturday morning teen drama will have a limited two week run from May 9th –... (more) Through 5/16/2012 Hours: 6pm Market & Memory: The War of 1812 - Mount Vernon Hotel Museum 421 East 61st Street - 212-838-6878 mvhm.org Ages: 13 and up Price: $10 adults, Free for seniors and students Join us on two consecutive Wednesdays to discover how the War of 1812, essentially the second war for independence, was remembered and celebrated. On May 9th uncover the irony of England producing commemorative ceramics for the New York market. On May 16th hear about the parades, newspaper accounts and other ways New Yorkers celebrated heroes and b... (more) Through 5/31/2012 Hours: Each session is 45 minutes in length inSHAPE Fitness Civilized Boot Camp - Central Park Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, Pioneers Gate - 561-329-2974 Ages: All Price: $25.00 Join popular fitness experts from inSHAPE Fitness, the leader in gym-free fitness, for a high-energy workout that is suitable for both beginners and experienced athletes. Using our company-branded trio of exercise pairing, precision of movement, and proper pacing, your instructor will guide you - not yell at you - through one of the best outdoor wo... (more) Through 6/13/2012 A Year With Children 2012 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All In its 41st year, Learning Through Art (LTA), the pioneering arts education program of the Guggenheim Museum, presents A Year with Children 2012, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum and on view at the museum from May 11 to June 13, 2012. This annual exhibition showcases select artworks by studen... (more) Through 10/21/2012 Hours: 8pm-10:30pm Bike and Roll NYC New York at Night Tour - Bike and Roll NYC Central Park at Columbus Circle intersection of 59th Street and 8th Avenue - 212-260-0400 bikenewyorkcity.com Ages: All Price: Adults: $50.00 | Kids 12 and under - $35.00 Ride through Central Park for a look at some of its most famous sights, especially beautiful when they are illuminated at night. Then ride down famous Fifth Avenue to Grand Army Plaza to see the Belle Epoque architecture of the Plaza Hotel bathed in light and flanked by the contemporary architecture of the Apple Store's glass cube lit from within. ... (more) Through 6/30/2012 Hours: 9AM-5PM Soul Seekers: Interpreting The Icon - Trinity Church Broadway at Wall St - 212-602-0800 www.trinitywallstreet.org Ages: All Price: Free Trinity Museum Looks at Today’s Iconography Iconography has been an integral element of the human quest for spiritual fulfillment for thousands of years. Typically depicting aspects of the life of Christ, the saints, and the heavenly realm, what constitutes iconography today is open to interpretation. There are infinite choices in terms of pu... (more) Through 5/27/2012 Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (19th St.) - 212-242-0800 joyce.org Ages: All Combining voluptuous physicality with classical technique created by the most provocative dance makers in the world, Cedar Lake is one of the most exciting companies performing today. Returning to The Joyce for two weeks this spring with its sixteen magnificent dancers, led by Artistic Director Benoit-Swan Pouffer, the company will perform two prog... (more) Through 11/04/2012 Tomas Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Artist Tomas Saraceno (born in Tucuman, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over t... (more) Through 9/02/2012 BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All The eradication of smallpox, variola major, from the world is one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. For centuries, this highly contagious, disfiguring lethal disease swept through communities, often killing nearly a quarter of its victims and leaving many of the rest blind and deeply scarred. There is still not any known cure for the diseas... (more) Through 9/03/2012 Bellini, Titian, and Lotto North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, is a jewel among Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of the eighteenth century by Count Giacomo Carrara and housed in a beautiful Neoclassical building, it contains a range of masterpieces dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. At its core is a group of outstanding pictures f... (more) 5/16/2012 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. 5/16/2012 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) 5/16/2012 - 5/19/2012 Big Dance Theater - Comme Toujours Here I Stand - New York Live Arts 219 W. 19th St. - 212-924-0077 www.newyorklivearts.org Ages: All Bessie Award winning (2010), Comme Toujours Here I Stand re-invents Agnes Varda's classic New Wave film, CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 for the stage. Shot in Paris in 1961, the film tracks the early evening hours in the life of a marginally talented pop singer as she waits to hear if she has terminal cancer. The Company uses the script as a found object to crea... (more) 5/16/2012 Amateur Night at the Apollo: Top Dog! - Apollo Theater 253 W. 125th St. - 212-531-5300 usopen.org/casting_call/ Ages: All At this special evening of Amateur Night, winners from the beginning of the 2012 season square-off at the Top Dog competition and compete for the chance to move one step closer to the winning title of Super Top Dog and the cash prize of $10,000! Aspiring musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, rappers and spoken word artists try their best to ple... (more) 5/16/2012 - 5/17/2012 Hours: 9PM-12AM THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THESECOND ANNUAL SPRING SOIREE - Trump SoHo 246 Spring Street (corner of Spring Street & Varick Street) - 212-575-4545 Price: $175-$500 You are invited to join hundreds of young philanthropists as they come together for an evening of live music, cocktails and great food in support of The Fortune Society, one of the nation’s most respected nonprofit organizations offering services to formerly incarcerated men and women. The Second Annual Spring Soiree takes place on May 16th, 2012, ... (more) 5/16/2012 Hours: 12pm Guided Exhibition Tour - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Guided Exhibition Tour 5/16/2012 Hours: 12pm Guided Exhibition Tour - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Guided Exhibition Tour 5/16/2012 Hours: 5:00 PM- 7:00PM Mount Sinai's Harlem Heart Healthy Eating Program - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building 163 West 125th Street - 212-241-3271 Ages: all Price: FREE Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Nutrition and Healthy Eating Lecture is the next in the series of Harlem Heart Healthy Workshops. Icilma Fergus, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Disparities at Mount Sinai, will speak at the Nutrition and Healthy Eating Lecture, Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State... (more) 5/16/2012 Hours: 9:30 PM Newsadoozies: A Man-Eating Musical - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 307 W. 26th St. - (212) 366-9176 Ages: 18+ Price: $5 Welcome to New York, circa eighteen something! Uptown, the aristocrats and robber barons think they own the city. Downtown it’s the thieves, pimps, and she-males. But the real kings of the city, the only truly free ones, are the news boys! Or for short, the newsies! Or for even shorter, the newsadoozies! And for some reason, they’re all British! ... (more) 5/16/2012 - 9/09/2012 Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently - New Museum 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All "Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently" is a multipart project that explores the idea of sexual and gender "difference" after four decades of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, and Questioning politics. Through an exhibition, series of events, and an opening symposium, the project seeks to invigorate discussion around a ... (more) 5/16/2012 Hours: 6:30 - 10 PM Tick-Borne Disease Alliance Benefit Gala - The Times Square Building 229 West 43rd Street - 646-490-6446 tbdalliance.org. Price: $300.00 The Tick-Borne Disease Alliance will host it’s first Annual Benefit Gala on Wednesday, May 16 at 229 West 43rd Street to help raise awareness for its quest to eradicate Lyme disease and other vector illnesses caused by ticks. TBDA is a new, national nonprofit that launched last month when the Turn the Corner Foundation and the Tick-Borne Diseas... (more) 5/16/2012 Hours: 9:30pm Free dinner at Veranda with Europeanightlife - Veranda 130 7th Avenue South - 3474841467 Ages: 21+ Price: 0 WEDNESDAY - VERANDA: Description: Dinner & Nightclub party Veranda - Restaurant by day and Lounge - club atmosphere at night Music: Top40 & House Admission fees: Free dinner at 9.30pm (tips $5), free admission on our list before midnight, $20 or bottle services after 12am (at the dorrman discretion) Meeting point: Meeting at 9.30pm insid... (more) 5/16/2012 Hours: 7:00 pm Evening Lecture Series: Dinosaurs - Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo 1875 Noble Avenue - 2033946565 Ages: All ages Price: $5 suggested donation Westminster biology and geology teacher Nick McDonald, who is regarded as the foremost authority on the paleontology of the Connecticut Valley, has written a new book titled "Window Into the Jurassic World." Take a giant leap back in time to visit the land of the dinosaurs. $5 suggested donation. Refreshments will be served. This program, taking pl... (more) 5/17/2012 Andantino - New York Theatre Ballet Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. - 212-679-0401 www.nytb.org Ages: All Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (1840-1893) studied at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where Balanchine later studied piano in addition to his studies in dance. Tschaikovsky is one of the most popular and influential of all Romantic composers. His work is expressive, melodic, grand in scale, with rich orchestrations. His output was prodigious and in... (more) 5/17/2012 The Cage - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) entered law school in 1901, at the age of nineteen. That year he also gave his first public piano recital and began studying piano and composition with Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg. He was to become, before his death, one of the greatest composers and musical innovators of the 20th century, mastering musical styles ... (more) 5/17/2012 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) 5/17/2012 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. 5/17/2012 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All An eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux uses music that the composer belatedly created for Act III of Swan Lake. It was hurriedly composed for Anna Sobeshchanskaya, a Bolshoi prima ballerina who was scheduled to make her debut in the title role at the fourth performance of the 1877 Moscow production, and so... (more) 5/17/2012 New York 9/11 Memorial Lunch Cruises - Spirit Cruises Chelsea Piers, 23rd St. & the Hudson River - 212-727-7768 www.spiritofnewyork.com Ages: All Pay an afternoon visit to the 9/11 tribute of remembrance coupled with a scenic dining cruise aboard Spirit Cruises. The 9/11 Memorial Lunch Cruise departs from Chelsea Piers and ends by docking at the new National September 11 Memorial site. These cruises ends at the 9/11 Memorial with no return service to Chelsea Piers. Boarding: Noon; Cruisi... (more) 5/17/2012 Hours: 6pm 2012 Partners for Life Gala - Grand Hyatt 109 E 42nd St - 561-982-2914 giftoflife.org Price: available upon request The Partners for Life Gala is Gift of Life's signature event. For the twelfth consecutive year, Gift of Life will honor its marrow donors, transplant recipients, volunteers and financial supporters. This year actress Mayim Bialik will serve as the event’s emcee. For more information or to purchase tickets please contact Barby A. Sloven at 561.9... (more) 5/17/2012 Emanuel Ax - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All In 2010, Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax delighted Carnegie Hall audiences with a series of concerts that celebrated the 200th birthdays of Chopin and Schumann. This year, he returns with a program that features another Schumann jewel, the Symphonic Etudes, and works by Copland, Haydn, and Beethoven. 5/17/2012 Hours: 2:30-3:30 Name that Tune Thursday - Unleashed by Petco 157 Chambers St - 2123469027 Ages: All Price: FREE Love music? Guess that tune and win a prize! Bring your pets with you; they might be able to help you out guess the song. 5/17/2012 WALKER & THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE GRAPE - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Enter Walker Hornung and The Brotherhood of the Grape. Hornung, along with the band Q-South, got his start introducing New York City to a new sound: rock attacked by flamenco guitars. In the past, The Brotherhood of the Grape has featured some of New York City's finest musicians, including Ron Zabrocki, Geoff Unger, Mike Devellis, Eddy Joe McCabe, ... (more) 5/17/2012 Hours: 4:00pm Film Screening of Full Circle: Before They Were Famous - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free ore They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy” was conceived as an international tour of Kennedy’s collection of images featuring historic early photographs of Warhol and Indiana, along with multi-city screenings of the documentary "Full Circle: Before They Were Famous." The 40-minute film, starring William John Kennedy, Robert Ind... (more) 5/17/2012 American Museum of Natural History Presents To The Light with Yuanchen Liu - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 2127695200 amnh.org Ages: ALL Price: $12 ($6 Members, students, and seniors) Winner of the 2011 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award Yuanchen Liu comes to the Museum for a special screening and discussion of his film as part of the Margaret Mead Traveling Film Festival. To the Light presents a riveting story about coal mining communities in rural China. This notoriously dangerous profession claims an estimated 5,000 lives annually... (more) 5/17/2012 Hours: 8-9pm George Kareman: Incredibly Extreme and Extremely Incredible - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 307 West 26th St - 212-366-9176 Price: $5.00 George Kareman asks you to please be advised of the following before purchasing tickets for this show: WARNING: This is an intense sketch comedy show about an outrageous man. CAUTION: The dangerous-ass stunts in this show are NOT performed by professionals. LOOK OUT: Epic failure takes place in this show. So come watch George Kareman prove to the w... (more) 5/17/2012 Hours: 11 PM - 4 AM POGO 05/17/12 – the Rock n’ Roll Dance Extravaganza with DJ Miss Guy - Hotel Chantelle 92 Ludlow Street - 6465555555 Ages: 21 and up Price: 0 POGO 05/17/12 – the Rock n’ Roll Dance Extravaganza with DJ Miss Guy Thursday, May 17th Join DJs MISS GUY, MICHAEL CAVADIAS, CAROL SHARKS, PRINCE TERRENCE for the ONLY-PLACE-TO-BE-FOR-FUN-AND-DRINKS-THURSDAY-NIGHTS-IN-NYC POGO!!! In the BASEMENT of the famed HOTEL CHANTELLE, 92 Ludlow St. NYC 10002 Email events@missguy.net and say... (more) 5/17/2012 Rooftop Afterwork Thursday At Empire Hotel - Empire hotel 44w 63rd and brodway - 212-557-5787 Ages: 21+ On Thursday May 17th - Join us at the newly renovated rooftop in the heart of Lincoln Center in New York City on 63rd West Broadway at The Empire Hotel Rooftop for the launch of our new weekly afterwork party - Music by Francis Mercier All evening long _The Empire Hotel has done a great job for the new season renovating the 2 outdoor decks ... (more) 5/18/2012 Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet was the first abstract work Balanchine designed for the stage of the New York State Theater, which replaced the smaller City Center of Music and Drama as the home of New York City Ballet in 1964. Balanchine often said that chamber music was not suitable for large ballets, since chamber pieces typically are "too long, with ... (more) 5/18/2012 Liebeslieder Walzer - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All For this two-part ballet of waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet set to poems by Friedrich Daumer and one, the last, set to a poem by Goethe, the dancers are joined on stage by the musicians and singers. All are dressed in period ballroom costumes. During the first set of 18 waltzes the four couples dance in interweaving combinations in an inti... (more) 5/18/2012 Loudon Wainwright III and Special Guests - The Town Hall 123 W. 43rd St. (Broadway-Sixth Ave.) - 212-997-1003 www.the-townhall-nyc.org Ages: All A singer-songwriter who injects his music with wry humor and piercing insight, Loudon Wainwright III has recorded more than 20 albums, including 2009's Grammy-winning High Wide & Handsome, while frequently composing work for other artists. Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Kate and Anna McGarrigle and son Rufus Wainwright have all performed Wainwright's s... (more) 5/18/2012 The Philadelphia Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All It was over 50 years ago that an 18-year-old Maurizio Pollini won the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, the start of a career that has been marked by distinctive performances of that composer's music. Pollini returns to Chopin's First Piano Concerto on this concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra, its final appearance at Carnegie Ha... (more) 5/18/2012 - 6/07/2012 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm Mind-opening May exhibitions at Agora Gallery - Agora Gallery 530 West 25th St, New York City - 212-226-4151 agora-gallery.com Price: free Discover more about the world you live in and revel in the wonders we too often ignore, through the art on display in the upcoming exhibitions at NYC’s Agora Gallery. Out From Down Under & Beyond: Fine Art from Australia and New Zealand focuses on the wonderful artworks by talented artists from this region who delve into their cultural and geograph... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM-10:00 PM Long Island Singles Speed Dating- WeekendDating Speed Dating- Men 35-47; Women 32-44 - Tavern18 (New Hyde Park) 265-11 Union Tpke New Hyde Park, NY 11040 - 516-908-9638 Ages: Male ages: 35-47 Female ages: 32-44 Price: $35.75 Date & Time: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:00 PM-10:00 PM Male ages: 35-47 Female ages: 32-44 Location: Tavern18 (New Hyde Park) 265-11 Union Tpke New Hyde Park, NY 11040 Cost: $35.75 Description: Speed Dating- Up to 15 dates in one night! We do not mix multiple age groups together. Proof of age required. 40+ Engagements, 30+ marriages, a ... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 7pm-11pm Ladies First - Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street - 917 683-5678 Ages: All Price: $20 May 18, 2012 7-11PM, Bohemian National Hall/Czech Center 321 East 73rd Street, 10021 NYC Contact: Keve Wilson 917 683-5678 ladiesfirstnyc@gmail.com www.wix.com/ladiesfirstnyc/ccr Suggested Donation: $20 RSVP at www.ladiesfirstnyc.eventbrite.com Inspired by adventurous women, musicians Lynn Bechtold, Milica Paranos... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM Juilliard Choregraphic Honors - Peter Jay Sharp Theater 155 W 65th Street - 212-799-5000 juilliard.edu Ages: All Price: FREE A showcase of works created by Dance Division students throughout the year FREE event; no tickets required 5/18/2012 Dana Fuchs - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Dana Fuchs is a phenomenon, a singer whose mesmerizing voice and presence have led critics to compare her to rock legends like Janis and Jagger. Moving to New York City from her hometown of Wildwood, Florida, at just 19, she soon met established guitarist Jon Diamond and formed the Dana Fuchs Band. Within a year, the band was a feature act in New Y... (more) 5/18/2012 - 5/20/2012 Company C Contemporary Ballet - NYU Skirball Center 566 LaGuardia Place - 212.998.4941 nyuskirball.org/calendar/company_c Price: $35-$45 May 18-19, 8:00, May 20, 2:00, $35-$45 Beauty, passion, wit and drama converge in the stunning performances of California’s Company C Contemporary Ballet. Dynamic, adventurous, contemporary choreography is the hallmark of the Company led by founder and Artistic Director Charles Anderson, a former member of the New York City Ballet. The twelve-mem... (more) 5/18/2012 TOOL / ALICE IN CHAINS Tribute Wars 61 ft. SCHISM & FACELIFT - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All SCHISM - Not many cover or tribute bands out there ever attempt to engage in the raw talent, mysticism, and magic that is Tool. But try talking to four brave souls from New York City: vocalist Angelo Rivera, bassist Sean Murray, drummer Donald Pusateri, and guitarist Keith Williams. Their love and passion for the music of this cult icon inspired ... (more) 5/18/2012 RAHSAAN PATTERSON - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Longtime fans have watched Rahsaan Patterson ("Rah" to his friends) grow from the skinny, wide-eyed boy with the big eyes and bigger voice on the classic children's show Kids Incorporated into one of the most influential yet underrated soul men on the planet. (His career is riddled with paradox and irony.) We've watched him sport blonde-streaked ha... (more) 5/18/2012 Verboten & Soul Clap Present The EFUNK Album Tour Soul Clap with Wolf + Lamb - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Cosmic pranksters Soul Clap return to New York in May in support of their new album EFUNK, released in April of this year. Like the sold-out craziness of their last Verboten gig at Williamsburg Music Hall, they've partnered with Brooklyn's Wolf + Lamb and are bringing with them a number of surprise performances and amazing video production by Wakin... (more) 5/18/2012 - 5/19/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM LIVING PROOF at BAX - BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 Fifth Ave - 7188320018 web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9667842 Ages: All Price: $5 LIVING PROOF by DPW III & BAXco Tickets: $5 A year-end culminating performance featuring student and director choreography as well as BAXco repertory. This evening length performance features short works created by the advanced young dancers/choreographers of BAX's Dance Performing Workshop (DPW) Level III. These works incorporate various ... (more) 5/18/2012 Scaryoke with Shequida - Times Scare 669 Eighth Ave. - 212-586-7829 timesscarenyc.com Ages: AD Considering some of the voices they've heard, Times Scare knows Karaoke can be pretty scary. But just wait until sultry Mistress of the Night, Shequida, gets on stage to host Scaryoke live in the crypt every Friday night. Frightfully delicious sing-along fun where you can win special Scaryoke prizes! Sign up at 9pm, show begins at 10pm. 5/18/2012 - 6/10/2012 Hours: 07:30 Playing with fire - New School for Drama 51 Bank Street (West Village). - (212) 868-4444 www.strindberg.org Ages: all ages Price: Tickets $18; groups of 20 and more $13.50; students $9. TDF accepted. Box office SMARTTIX (212) 868-4444, www.smarttix.com. May 18 to June 10, 2012 at New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street (West Village). Presented by August Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company in association with Theater Resources Unlimited. Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Matinees Saturdays at 2:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM, no shows May 26 and 27 (Memorial Day Weekend). ... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 5:00pm to 7:30pm AmyL Design Jewelry Trunk Show - Ripe Art Gallery 67 Broadway - 6318332265 Ages: All Price: Free Young handmade jewelry designer Amy Lin will be showcasing her jewelry at Ripe Art Gallery. Meet this New York based designer and shop the latest collection which features sterling silver, gemstone and Swarovski Crystal in unique shapes and colors. Amy’s jewelry comes in array of colors and styles suitable for work, parties, or formal occasions. Co... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 7:00 pm Pianist Hristo Birbochukov New York Debut Recital - Bulgarian Consulate General 121 East 62nd Street - 718-871-5041 Ages: All Price: Free BV ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS: Internationally acclaimed artists Hristo Birbochukov, pianist with special guest Kalin Ivanov, cellist. The recital is part of the Festival of Bulgarian Culture in NYC. The program will include: Bach: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major, BWV 1028 Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 111 Schumann: Carnaval, Op... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 7-9 pm The JCC In Manhattan Announces: Shabbat Shabbang: Friday Night Dinners at the JCC – MAY 18th - The JCC In Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street - 646-505-5708 www.jccmanhattan.org Ages: All Ages Price: $18 The JCC In Manhattan Announces: Shabbat Shabbang: Friday Night Dinners at the JCC – MAY 18th WHAT: Join us for Shabbat rituals, buffet dinner and a choice of programs. $18 All Young Professionals Slow Shira: A Raucous Rooftop Sing-a-long. Join other Young Professionals for a delicious dinner and a sophisticated evening of mingling, a cap... (more) 5/18/2012 Rooftop Afterwork Friday At XVI - XVI Lounge 251 West 48th Street At 8th Ave - 212 600 1060 Ages: 18+ Price: Free On Friday May 18th - Join us at the newly renovated rooftop in the heart of New York City on 48th And 8th Ave at the exquisite XVI Rooftop for the launch of our new weekly afterwork party XVI Rooftop has done a great job for the new season renovating its 2 floors including the outdoor decks with plush new cabanas, fireplaces, VIP areas,... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 7-9 Music of Syria - Alwan for the Arts 16 beaver street - (646) 732 3261 alwanforthearts.org Ages: All Price: 25 Aleppo is a traditional city that has always cherished its original music, passing from generation to generation such genres as the much-loved “Muwashshahat" and "Qudud Halabiah.” The ancient city has also produced many of the great singers in Arab music, such as Sabah Fakhry, Mouhamad Khairy, Ali Aldarwish, and Bakry Kurdi. The Aleppian Waslah (a ... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 6-7:30PM Family Friday Pizza & Movie Night- Pocahontas - Charlotte's Place 107 Greenwich Street, between Carlisle and Rector - 2126020800 www.trinitywallstreet.org/calendar Ages: All Price: Free It’s Friday night, you made it through the week, the kids are hungry, and you’re too tired to cook. Bring the whole family to Charlotte’s Place (107 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan) at 6 PM on May 18 for free Family Friday Pizza & Movie Night. In the Disney classic Pocahontas, Captain John Smith leads his English soldiers to the New World in s... (more) 5/18/2012 Hours: 10PM EDC NY | The Official Afterparty (Day 1) Friday May 18 @ Pacha NYC - Pacha NYC 618 W.46th St. - 212.209.7500 Ages: 19+ Pacha NYC presents... The Official Electric Daisy Carnival NYC Afterparties at Pacha - Lineups to be announced soon, stay tuned! No proper party ends at midnight. Continue your EDC experience – or start a brand new one – at Pacha tonight, with a few thousand of your closest friends, the Pacha family you know and love, and unannounced superstar... (more) 5/19/2012 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) 5/19/2012 Fancy Free - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the gifted and versatile American conductor and composer of symphonic music and Broadway shows, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. At the age of seventeen he entered Harvard, went on to study at the Curtis Institute, and then to Tanglewood. Serge Koussevitzky took great interest in his talent and promoted his co... (more) 5/19/2012 Liebeslieder Walzer - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All For this two-part ballet of waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet set to poems by Friedrich Daumer and one, the last, set to a poem by Goethe, the dancers are joined on stage by the musicians and singers. All are dressed in period ballroom costumes. During the first set of 18 waltzes the four couples dance in interweaving combinations in an inti... (more) 5/19/2012 New Martins - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Peter Martins' latest creation, premiering at the 2012 Spring Gala, continues his fervent passion for contemporary music with a commissioned score from Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Dalbavie is known for the brilliant color and bold rhythms of his compositions. 5/19/2012 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) 5/19/2012 Symphony in C - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Bizet composed his Symphony in C major when he was a 17-year-old pupil of Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory. The manuscript was lost for decades, and was published only after it was discovered in the Conservatory's library in 1933. Balanchine first learned of the long-vanished score from Stravinsky. He required only two weeks to choreograph ... (more) 5/19/2012 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) 5/19/2012 Saturday Matinee: Schubert, Bartók, and Dvorák - New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All 5/19/2012 Tchaikovsky and Bartok - New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All 5/19/2012 - 5/20/2012 Ninth Avenue International Food Festival - Ninth Avenue Ninth Ave. btw. 42nd & 57th Sts. www.ninthavenuefoodfestival.com Ages: All A New York City tradition you can't miss! Experience the delightful taste of various cuisines from different counrties like Poland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Asia and many others. Games and fun activities for the children. There will be live stage entertainment of international music and dance at 55th Street on Saturday May 19th & Sunda... (more) 5/19/2012 Freedom Lunch Cruise the 9/11 Memorial - World Yacht Pier 81, W. 41st St. & 12th Ave. - 212-630-8100 www.worldyacht.com Ages: All World Yacht's weekly Freedom Lunch Cruise to the 9/11 Memorial allows guests to combine a lunch buffet with a visit to lower Manhattan and the 9/11 Memorial. Tickets for the Freedom Lunch Cruise may be purchased online at www.worldyacht.com and are priced at $69.15 for adults and $36.21 for children. Boarding begins at 11:30am, sailing from 12:00-3... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 10am - 5pm 2nd Annual Lexington Craft Fair - Lexington School and Center for the Deaf 26-26 75th St - 718-350-3027 Ages: All Price: Free Join us for the 2012 Lexington Craft Fair, an early summer sales event! Start the summer right with original, hand-crafted items from local artisans and savor gourmet bites from some of NYC's best food vendors. Lexington's own Hearing Screening Van will be on hand to provide free hearing screenings to Craft Fair attendees. Proceeds will benefit ... (more) 5/19/2012 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) 5/19/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM Long Island Singles Speed Dating- WeekendDating Speed Dating- Men 21-35; Women 21-35 - RC Dugans, East Meadow 2314 HEMPSTEAD TKPE East Meadow, NY 11554 - 516-908-9638 Ages: Male ages: 21-35 Female ages: 21-35 Price: $35.75 Date & Time: Saturday, May 19, 2012 8:00 PM-9:30 PM Male ages: 21-35 Female ages: 21-35 Location: RC Dugans, East Meadow 2314 HEMPSTEAD TKPE East Meadow, NY 11554 Cost: $35.75 Description: *Speed Dating- Up to 15 dates in one night! We do not mix multiple age groups together. Proof of age required. 40+ Engagements, 30+ marriages, a ... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 12 PM Juilliard Pre-College Chamber Music Marathon Part II - Paul Hall 155 W 65th Street - 212-799-5000 Ages: All Price: FREE Paul Hall The Pre-College Chamber Music Marathon takes place over two weekends; this Saturday in Paul Hall from 12pm to 3pm, and in the Willson Theater from 4pm to 8pm FREE concert; no tickets required 5/19/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM Juilliard Choreographic Honors - Peter Jay Sharp Theater 155 W 65th Street - 212-799-5000 Ages: All Price: FREE Peter Jay Sharp Theater A showcase of works created by Dance Division students throughout the year FREE event; no tickets required 5/19/2012 Hours: 8:00 PM Juilliard Choreographic Honors - Peter Jay Sharp Theater 155 W 65th Street - 212-799-5000 Ages: All Price: FREE Peter Jay Sharp Theater A showcase of works created by Dance Division students throughout the year FREE event; no tickets required 5/19/2012 Lady Rizo - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Lady Rizo presents an extravagant festival of raucous songs to raise both the roof and funds for her international debut this summer in Edinburgh, Scotland. Debauchery and merriment are included in the price of admission, as well as special guest appearances and raffle tickets with prizes to tickle every fancy. A proud recipient of the New York Fou... (more) 5/19/2012 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) 5/19/2012 - 5/20/2012 Hours: 6 NEW YORK BABY SHOW - Pier 92 711 12th Ave - 212- Ages: All Price: $10-$20 A grand family-friendly mega-show for new parents and parents-to-be, the New York Baby Show will help parents discover many of the best products for maternity, baby and toddler from national and local companies, along with offering an inspiring menu of lectures, seminars and demonstrations from renowned experts in the world of family and parenting.... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 2-4pm World Dog Party - Unleashed by Petco 159 Columbus Ave - 2125794560 Ages: All Price: Free The World Dog Show is on TV and we want to celebrate and meet breed from around the world. Come meet all types of dogs and learn more about where they are from. Refreshments and treats will be given out! 5/19/2012 Hours: 12-2pm Circus Day Party - Unleashed by Petco 1155 Third Ave - 2122881564 Ages: All Price: FREE Have a ball at the circus! Stop by Unleashed by Petco for a day at the circus for you and your dog. There will be snack and treats for both humans and dogs as well as chance for your dog to show if their tricks for a prize! 5/19/2012 Brian McKnight - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All As an artist who needs no introduction, Brian McKnight has earned himself a spot in contemporary music history. He has released 14 albums to date, with seven of them certified Platinum, and has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. In an industry known for a constantly revolving door of artists, he has easily established himself with an enviable r... (more) 5/19/2012 Mount Sinai's First National Hepatitis Awareness and Testing Day - Mott Haven Community Center 375 East 143rd Street - 212-843-9382 Price: FREE Mount Sinai invites the public to participate in the First National Hepatitis Awareness and Testing Day, Saturday, May 19th from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Mott Haven Community Center, 375 East 143rd Street, between Third and Willis Avenues, in the Bronx. Free Hepatitis C Rapid Tests, that produce results in just 20 minutes, will be provide... (more) 5/19/2012 Andy's Market - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Moderated by Judd Tully, art critic and art market journalist. A look at the remarkable sustainability of Warhol prices, and the reasons behind it. Scheduled to follow the May auctions. RSVP Requested. 5/19/2012 Hours: 3:00pm Guided Exhibition Tour - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Guided Exhibition Tour 5/19/2012 Hours: 7pm American Indian Foundation (AIF) YP NY - 5th Annual Gala! - The Metropolitan Pavillion 125 W. 18th Street - 510-585-6690 Ages: 21+ Price: $115-$150 On Saturday, May 19 2012, American India Foundation’s (AIF) New York Young Professional’s Chapter will be hosting its biggest, most exciting gala ever at the Metropolitan Pavilion to support change and celebrate progress. AIF was co-founded by Bill Clinton in 2001. We have planned an elegant evening of dinner, drinks and dancing with a list of 500+... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hornblower Wedding Showcase - Hornblower Cruises - Pier 40 638 West 47th Street - 212-337-0001 Ages: All Price: Free Hornblower Cruises & Events New York invites brides-to-be aboard the Hornblower Hybrid for a Wedding Showcase on May 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The dockside event on Hornblower Landing at Pier 40 will feature local vendors, yacht tours, and sample settings and arrangements for ceremonies and receptions. Participants have the opportunity to win a reh... (more) 5/19/2012 Dance Parade 2012 - New York City From 21st St. & Broadway to Tompkins Square Park danceparade.org Ages: All Join thousands of dancers for NYC's 6th annual Dance Parade on Broadway. Over 75 diverse dance styles including classical, international, modern & contemporary entertain spectators in a can't-miss combo of vibrant costumes, decorative floats, and high-energy music. Parade begins at 21st Street and Broadway at 1pm and runs until 3pm, when it reaches... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Zoo's 90th Birthday Party! - Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo 1875 Noble Avenue - 2033946565 Ages: All ages Price: Zoo admission It’s our birthday and we’re having a party! Kids of all ages will enjoy activities galore and spectacular surprises all day long. You never know who will be here with special birthday greetings and tasty treats to share… so plan to be here and bring the whole family! 5/19/2012 Hours: 11:00AM-4:00PM SAVE A LIFE, ADOPT A PET AT THE MAYOR’S ALLIANCE FOR NYC’s ANIMALS ADOPTAPALOOZA - Washington Square Park 1 Fifth Ave. worldsciencefestival.com Price: Free More than one hundred adorable cats and dogs will be up for adoption at the 3rd Annual Adoptapalooza sponsored by the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals. The family-friendly, free event will include a pet fashion show, training and agility demonstrations, a demonstration by the world’s only poker playing dog, Jilli Dog, pet portraits, face pain... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 11:00 Free entry at HUDSON TERRACE Saturday with Europeanightlife - Hudson Terrace 46th street between 11th and 12th ave - 3474841467 Ages: 21+ Price: 0 Hudson Terrace, with its magnificent urban vista, is an unparalleled entertainment destination. Discreetly tucked at the edge of midtown along the Hudson River, this spectacular haven of serene opulence offers unforgettable venue amenities. The Hudson Terrace event venue imaginatively unites intimate interiors with all-season exterior spaces. Erect... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 11PM Free Guestlist at MARQUEE Nightclub on EuropeaNightlife's List - MARQUEE 10th avenue between 26th and 27th street - 347-484-1467 Ages: 21+ Price: 0 Marquee - An exercise in guestlist social pecking order from "Page Six" regulars Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss, Marquee is more architecturally stylish than a watering hole needs to be. The dark wood and glass chandeliers take a bit of the bite out of the pricey drinks, not that the moneyed clientele seems to mind -- they’re just happy they man... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 10PM EDC NY | The Official Afterparty (Day 2) Saturday May 19 @ Pacha NYC - Pacha NYC 618 W.46th St. - 212.209.7500 Ages: 19+ Pacha NYC presents... The Official Electric Daisy Carnival NYC Afterparties at Pacha - Lineups to be announced soon, stay tuned! No proper party ends at midnight. Continue your EDC experience – or start a brand new one – at Pacha tonight, with a few thousand of your closest friends, the Pacha family you know and love, and unannounced superstar... (more) 5/19/2012 Hours: 10PM EDC NY | The Official Afterparty (Day 2) Saturday May 19 @ Pacha NYC - Pacha NYC 618 W.46th St. - 212.209.7500 Ages: 19+ Pacha NYC presents... The Official Electric Daisy Carnival NYC Afterparties at Pacha - Lineups to be announced soon, stay tuned! No proper party ends at midnight. Continue your EDC experience – or start a brand new one – at Pacha tonight, with a few thousand of your closest friends, the Pacha family you know and love, and unannounced superstar... (more) 5/20/2012 In G Major - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Ravel composed the Concerto in G Major after a trip to the United States. It has been seen as a reflection on Gershwin and American musical comedy. Ravel described the work as "... written in very much the same spirit as those of Mozart and Saint-Saëns," and that "it uses certain effects borrowed from jazz, but only in moderation." (Arbie Orenstein... (more) 5/20/2012 Liebeslieder Walzer - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All For this two-part ballet of waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet set to poems by Friedrich Daumer and one, the last, set to a poem by Goethe, the dancers are joined on stage by the musicians and singers. All are dressed in period ballroom costumes. During the first set of 18 waltzes the four couples dance in interweaving combinations in an inti... (more) 5/20/2012 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. 5/20/2012 Bamberg Symphony - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: All The "astute and exciting" conductor Jonathan Nott (The New York Times) leads the majestic Bamberg Symphony in performances that juxtaposes Schubert's "Tragic" Symphony with works by Webern and Brahms. 5/20/2012 DanceAfrica 2012 - Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn - 718-636-4100 www.bam.org Ages: All This year marks the 35th anniversary of DanceAfrica! Created in 1977 by Chuck Davis, it is the nation's first festival devoted to African dance and has become one of the largest celebrations of its kind. Uniting dancers the world over to celebrate the cultural vitality of Africa and its diaspora, BAM will welcome a visiting company from Africa as w... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 11AM-6PM Drums Along The Hudson - Inwood Hill Park 218th Street and Indian Road - 212-627-1076 ext. 18 Ages: All Price: Free Drummers and Dancers from around the world, Pow Wow, Environmental Tent, Storytelling, Native Arts and Crafts, International Foods, and Captain Planet 5/20/2012 The MET Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All Last season at Carnegie Hall, Christian Tetzlaff joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as soloist for all three works on a dazzling program The New York Times called "triumphant" and "masterful." The luminary violinist takes center stage with David Robertson and The MET Orchestra on a concert that includes music by Mozart, and violin concertos by Sc... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 4:00 – 5:30 Concert at Fraunces Tavern: The Musical World of Benjamin Franklin - The Fraunces Tavern Museum 54 Pearl Street - (212) 425-1778 www.salonsanctuaryconcerts.org Ages: Adult Price: $25 / $15 students, FT Museum members, SRNY, EMA Julianne Baird, soprano; Allen Whear, cello; John Bailey, harpsichord; Ed Mauger, narrator. Benjamin Franklin’s long and eventful life progressed from a working-class childhood in Boston and the print shops of Philadelphia to the royal courts of Europe. He became the most celebrated author, scientist and diplomat of colonial times. L... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 1:30 PM-5 PM Long Island Singles Charity Event - Brokerage Comedy Club 2797 Merrick Rd Bellmore, NY 11710 - 516-908-9638 Ages: ALL Ages Price: $20.00 Date & Time: Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:30 PM-5 PM Male ages: all Female ages: all Location: Brokerage Comedy Club 2797 Merrick Rd Bellmore, NY 11710 Cost: $20.00 Description: *100% of the event proceeds being donated Animals Cant Talk (ACT)* Note: This event is open to all ages and is not meant to be gender balanced. Two drink minim... (more) 5/20/2012 War Wrestling Presents Chikara - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All Chikara - it's the Japanese word for power and influence, and a perfect choice for an ever-evolving creative powerhouse that is changing the pro wrestling performance genre one character, one story, one breathtaking moment at a time. From humble beginnings to cult favorite status, and ultimately to worldwide critical acclaim both within the industr... (more) 5/20/2012 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) 5/20/2012 Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. FREE Asthma and Allergy Screenings in Flushing - Emporis Building 140-51 69th Road - N/A Ages: All Ages Price: Free Unseasonably warm weather is making this early spring season difficult for millions of Americans who suffer from asthma and allergies. To help adults and children who are experiencing symptoms find out if they are at risk, New York-area allergists will conduct free asthma and nasal allergy screenings as a part of the American College of Allergy, As... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 1pm Kids'N Comedy - Gotham Comedy Club 208 W. 23rd Street - (212) 924-0496 www.kidsncomedy.com Ages: 9-18 Price: 15 Kids 'N Comedy, New York's leading presenter of young comic talent, will conclude its 2011-2012 season with "The Horrible History Show" on May 20 at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street. Charles I of England sent someone else to marry his wife for him. Ancient gladiators were mostly vegetarians. Attila the Hun bled to death from a nosebleed ... (more) 5/20/2012 A Tribute To ELTON JOHN & NEIL DIAMOND YELLOW BRICK ROAD REAL DIAMOND - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Officially endorsed by the International Elton John Fan Club, Yellow Brick Road is a full concert Elton John tribute, complete with an incredible light show and sound system. Every detail of an actual Elton John concert is presented in such a way that will have Elton John fans screaming for more! 5/20/2012 Hours: 3:00pm Film Screening of Full Circle: Before They Were Famous - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free ore They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy” was conceived as an international tour of Kennedy’s collection of images featuring historic early photographs of Warhol and Indiana, along with multi-city screenings of the documentary "Full Circle: Before They Were Famous." The 40-minute film, starring William John Kennedy, Robert Ind... (more) 5/20/2012 Zephyr Hidden Harbor Tours - Newark Bay Tour - New York Water Taxi Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.nywatertaxi.com Ages: All This tour passes by the Red Hook Container Terminal and visits Erie Basin, home of Hughes Brothers Barges and Reinauer Tugs before crossing the harbor toward Staten Island. It then enters Kill Van Kull, the area's busiest waterway dividing Staten Island and Bayonne, passing tug yards, oil docks and marine repair facilities. It then passes under the... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 12:30-2:30 Kiddie Cruise - Queen of Hearts Pier #40 West Houston Street & West Side Highway - 212-987-9200 kiddiecruise.com Ages: 2-9 Price: A: $35 C: $30 Join us for the 6th season of Kiddie Cruise, a Princess & Pirate adventure for parents and children! The event is a perfect way to spend an afternoon with children 2-9 years old. Kiddie Cruise is an all inclusive event which takes place twice a month in lower Manhattan aboard our boat, The Queen of Hearts. Kids enjoy tons of activities like a... (more) 5/20/2012 - 5/24/2012 Hours: 5-11pm POLENTA-PALOOZA - Osteria Il Paiolo 106 N. 6th Street - (718) 218-7080 Ages: all Price: 18.50 POLENTA-PALOOZA Northern Italian Celebration of Polenta comes to Williamsburg May 20 Kicks Off 5-day Salute to Popular Italian Staple May 2012 – Williamsburg, Brooklyn – In the small Piedmont town of Avigliana, May is the month to celebrate the Northern Italian staple, polenta, with the Festival di Polenta. The Main Square is transforme... (more) 5/20/2012 Hours: 10PM EDC NY | The Official Afterparty (Day 3) Sunday May 20 @ Pacha NYC - Pacha NYC 618 W.46th St. - 212.209.7500 Ages: 19+ Pacha NYC presents... The Official Electric Daisy Carnival NYC Afterparties at Pacha - Lineups to be announced soon, stay tuned! No proper party ends at midnight. Continue your EDC experience – or start a brand new one – at Pacha tonight, with a few thousand of your closest friends, the Pacha family you know and love, and unannounced superstar ... (more) 5/21/2012 Bamberg Symphony - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: All The "astute and exciting" conductor Jonathan Nott (The New York Times) leads the majestic Bamberg Symphony in a performance that centers on Schubert's famously "Unfinished" Symphony. 5/21/2012 VONDA SHEPARD - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All With over 12 million album sales to her name, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actor's Guild Awards as well as the Billboard prize for selling the most television soundtrack records in history as the voice of Ally McBeal in the hit television series of the same name, Vonda Shepard is a world-renowned artist who continues to delight au... (more) 5/21/2012 - 6/09/2012 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, noon to 7 p m. (Closed Sundays and Mondays) The Cooper Union End of the Year Show - Cooper Union 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. - 212-353-4200 cooper.edu Ages: All Price: Free More than 300 pioneering student works on view across the disciplines of architecture, art and engineering May 21 - June 9 For more than a century-and-a-half, the Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery. A time honored tradition, the first recorded exhibition... (more) 5/21/2012 Blueprint for Accountability: NYPD's Stop-Question-and-Frisk - Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street - 212-388-0758 Price: 10 Join Culture Project, The Center for Constitutional Rights and Drug Policy Alliance - on Monday, May 21 at 7:30PM - for a critical conversation about NYPD's policy of Stop-Question-and-Frisk. In 2011, in New York City, over 684,000 people were stopped, 87 percent of whom were Black and Latino residents — although they comprise only about 23 per... (more) 5/21/2012 Hours: 8pm LIVE FROM OUTER SPACE with John O'Donnell - UCBeast 153 East 3 rd St - 212-366-9231 www.livefromouterspace.com Ages: 21 & up Price: $5 Comedy Central's Corporate Retreat presents: LIVE FROM OUTER SPACE w/ John F. O'Donnell 'Live From Outer Space' is John F. O'Donnell's live comedy show. Building off of his established website, www.livefromouterspace.com , JFOD promises to bring his audience the best in standup, video and conceptual comedy. For those of you who aren't familia... (more) 5/21/2012 Little Theater, Big Dreams Benefit Cabaret - Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at West Side YMCA 10 W 64th Street - 2129122635 ymcanyc.org Ages: All Price: 20.00+ Come to the West Side YMCA and Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater’s 2nd annual benefit cabaret, Little Theater, Big Dreams and give the gift of music to young people. Experience powerful performances from Broadway’s brightest including Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde, Wonderland: Miss America 1998), Nicholas Rodriguez (Disney’s Tarzan), Tony Lawson (Les... (more) 5/22/2012 Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet was the first abstract work Balanchine designed for the stage of the New York State Theater, which replaced the smaller City Center of Music and Drama as the home of New York City Ballet in 1964. Balanchine often said that chamber music was not suitable for large ballets, since chamber pieces typically are "too long, with ... (more) 5/22/2012 Liebeslieder Walzer - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All For this two-part ballet of waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet set to poems by Friedrich Daumer and one, the last, set to a poem by Goethe, the dancers are joined on stage by the musicians and singers. All are dressed in period ballroom costumes. During the first set of 18 waltzes the four couples dance in interweaving combinations in an inti... (more) 5/22/2012 Tchaikovsky and Bartok - New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All 5/22/2012 New York 9/11 Memorial Lunch Cruises - Spirit Cruises Chelsea Piers, 23rd St. & the Hudson River - 212-727-7768 www.spiritofnewyork.com Ages: All Pay an afternoon visit to the 9/11 tribute of remembrance coupled with a scenic dining cruise aboard Spirit Cruises. The 9/11 Memorial Lunch Cruise departs from Chelsea Piers and ends by docking at the new National September 11 Memorial site. These cruises ends at the 9/11 Memorial with no return service to Chelsea Piers. Boarding: Noon; Cruisi... (more) 5/22/2012 Special Opsail 2012 Tall Ships Hidden Harbor Tour - New York Water Taxi Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.nywatertaxi.com Ages: All See close up several international tall ships from around the world at anchor south of the Verrazano Bridge as they gather in preparation for the big parade on the 23rd. Expert guest narrrators will talk about each vessel, from details to history to inside stories. Adults: $45.00. Children(3-12 yrs): $30.00. Seniors: $35.00. 6:15pm. 5/22/2012 Hours: 7pm-9:30pm “Tech Tools For The Art World” Panel Discussion - General Assembly 902 Broadway - 9173346792 Ages: all Price: $30 The past decade of technological advances has provided tools to expedite and simplify everyday life. With these changes it has become more important than ever for artists to utilize these tools to find creative solutions in presenting their work; dramatically changing the way artists interact with the community, and their art object. Please joi... (more) 5/22/2012 Hours: 12 p.m. Joslin Cup Golf Invitational - Piping Rock Club 150 Piping Rock Rd - 516-750-3220 portledge.org Price: $500 This year's Joslin Cup golf tournament will take place on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.Tee times will begin at 12:00p.m. at the Piping Rock Club. Lunch, caddies, cocktail reception and awards included in entry fee of $500. In 2005, this golf invitational was named the Robert A. Joslin, Jr. Memorial Cup in memory of a former Portledge parent. The s... (more) 5/22/2012 Hours: 6:00 'Don Pasquale & His Trophy Wife,' - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 4 W. 12th Street - : 1-800-838-3006 www.underworldprod.com Ages: All ages Price: Tickets: $45/$40 students, seniors. Includes refreshments. nderworld Productions Opera (www.underworldprod.com) will present "Don Pasquale & His Trophy Wife," an interpretation of Donizetti's 1843 opera buffa, in two site-specific locations May 22 to 24. Performances will be Tuesday, May 22 at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU, 24 W. 12th Street, and Wednesday and Thursday, May 23 and 24, at Abigail Adams ... (more) 5/22/2012 Hours: 6:00pm-8;00pm Shakers and Stirrers NYC - Business Networking Mixer - O'Brien's Irish Pub 134 West 46th Street - 2122276556 Ages: 21+ Price: Online in advance: Members $10, Non-Members $15. At the door: $20 everyone. Cash only at the door. *SPECIAL OFFER* - FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! Sign up now and get a FREE ticket for a friend! See "MORE INFO" link below for details. OVERVIEW * Make quality business connections and mingle with top professionals. * Complimentary Nibbles & Cash bar with drink specials. * The next day we'll email you the list of confirmed attendees ... (more) 5/22/2012 ROOTZ UNDERGROUND - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All Rootz Underground represents Jamaica's most recent contribution to the international reggae and world music scene. While undeniably rooted in reggae, the six-member outfit uses its collective passion to create a sound that pushes boundaries and defies being boxed into a single genre. Electric yet organic, gritty and soulful, the band manages to har... (more) 5/22/2012 Hours: 6-7:30PM WALL STREET DIALOGUES: ENVIRONMENTALIST BILL MCKIBBEN - Trinity Church Broadway at Wall Street - 212-602-0800 trinitywallstreet.org Price: Free Pundits from liberal to conservative host conversations on the moral and ethical dilemmas raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the continuing series, Wall Street Dialogues, at Trinity Church in lower Manhattan (Broadway at Wall Street). Environmentalist Bill McKibben will host the discussion on Tuesday, May 22 at 6 PM. The talk is free an... (more) 5/22/2012 Hours: 5:30pm-8:30pm MIT Enterprise forum of NYC Presents: Driving Consumer Adoption of Mobile Content - Citigroup Center 601 Lexington Ave. 14 Floor - 800-251-4253 Price: 50 Mobile content no longer means simply remote access to digital content from a laptop or browser-based access from a mobile device. Today, it`s technology-enabled content designed from the beginning to deliver an optimized user experience on a smartphone or tablet. And demand for content that is mobile by default is exploding along with demand for s... (more) 5/23/2012 - 5/30/2012 Fleet Week 2012 - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Pier 86, W. 46th St. & 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All Celebrate Fleet Week at Intrepid, and tour other Military ships as they visit New York Harbor. Enjoy special Broadway performances and help kick off our summer movie series on the Flight Deck. Watch the military battle it out in the famous Tug of War. Visit displays from various partners and more on Intrepid's Pier 86. Join us for the annual Memori... (more) 5/23/2012 In the Night - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was born in Poland. He was one of the most important innovators for the piano, both in terms of composition and playing style. As a pianist he was mostly self-taught, and since he did not like to give public performances, his substantial reputation was based on a very few concerts. Chopin wrote 20 nocturnes and during hi... (more) 5/23/2012 New Martins - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.) - 212-721-6500 nycballet.com Ages: All Peter Martins' latest creation, premiering at the 2012 Spring Gala, continues his fervent passion for contemporary music with a commissioned score from Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Dalbavie is known for the brilliant color and bold rhythms of his compositions. 5/23/2012 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. 5/23/2012 Sergey Khachatryan, violin - Lusine Khachatryan, piano - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: All 5/23/2012 Evgeny Kissin - New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All 5/23/2012 Amateur Night at the Apollo - Apollo Theater 253 W. 125th St. - 212-531-5300 usopen.org/casting_call/ 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) 5/23/2012 - 5/25/2012 Hours: 8:00pm Red, The Passion of Tango - MMAC Theater 248 West 60th Street - 212-868-4444 Price: 29.00 Red is the color of beauty, love and passion. The energy of dance, this Night of Passion and Tango promises entertainment and surprises. Come dressed in Red to join in the Fun! 5/23/2012 The Cleveland Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 57th St. & Seventh Ave. - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Ages: All Hear one of America's greatest orchestras perform exemplary music from three centuries. The Cleveland Orchestra and Maestro Franz Welser-Most are joined by eminent pianist Yefim Bronfman for a program that includes the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Laterna magica, a work inspired by the autobiography of Ingmar Bergmann, and works by Brahms ... (more) 5/23/2012 - 5/30/2012 NY Fleet Week & Tall Ships Dining Cruise - Spirit Cruises Chelsea Piers, 23rd St. & the Hudson River - 866-483-3866 www.spiritcruises.com Ages: All Experience a Spirit Lunch Cruise or Dinner Cruise with amazing views of the historic talls ships. Witness firsthand a very special gathering of Class A tall ships from over 25 countries, including representatives from the US Navy, Coast Guard, Army, Marine Corps, visiting foreign navies and more. 5/23/2012 Coors Light Rock Prendido Babasonicos - Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: All With a name that refers partly to the Indian gugu Sai Baba and partly to The Jetsons (Los Supersonicos in Spanish), indie rock collective Babasonicos first emerged in the wave of new Argentine rock bands of the late '80s and early '90s, along with groups like Peligrosos Gorriones and Los Brujos. The outfit quickly became one of the banner groups of... (more) 5/23/2012 Hours: 12pm Guided Exhibition Tour - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Guided Exhibition Tour 5/23/2012 Hours: 12pm Guided Exhibition Tour - Site/109 109 Norfolk Street, Ground Floor - 2122608110 Price: Free Guided Exhibition Tour 5/23/2012 SLUM VILLAGE - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W. 42nd St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All When Slum Village emerged in the late 1990s, the highly regarded Detroit trio of T3, Baatin, and Jay Dee (a.k.a. J Dilla) quickly asserted that their group was a liquid association, with members coming and going freely as the group evolved. This claim has proven true over the years, as the group has undergone a number of lineup changes. After the u... (more) 5/23/2012 Hours: 7 to 8:30PM Iris Ornig - Zinc Bar 82 3rd West Street - 212 243 6467 irisornig.com Price: $10 German native Iris Ornig brings European flair and sophistication to her original jazz compositions. Bassist and composer, Ms. Ornig mixes contemporary music and straight ahead with dazzling results. Featuring Brandon Wright on sax, Billy Test on piano and Nadav Snir on drums. “One of 10 Future Female Jazz Star...” -– jazz.com “...her influ... (more) 5/23/2012 Opsail VIP Parade of Sail Tour - New York Water Taxi Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.nywatertaxi.com Ages: All Optimal viewing of the Parade of Ships, Tall Ships, Smaller Vessels and Fleet Week Navy Ships will be in the parade. Aboard the Zephyr luxury yacht. Adults: $75; Children (3-12 yrs): $55; Seniors: $65. Loading -11 am at South Street Seaport, Pier 16. Sails at 11:15 am. Returns: at 2 pm.