June 01, 2006

February 2008 New York calendar of events

Feb. 1, Friday
The Chocolate Bar -- all-you-can-eat, $75 per person at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park. Friday and Saturday nights only – plus Valentine’s Day (through March 1)
Hot Chocolate Festival at City Bakery (through Feb. 29)
Porkfest 2008 at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden (through Feb. 3)
Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week begins at Bryant Park (through Feb. 8)
Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through April 13)
Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette opens at the Museum of the City of New York (through May 4)
Opening reception for Jasper Johns: Drawings 1997- 2007 at the Matthew Marks gallery (through April 12)
“Say it Loud! I’m Black & I’m Proud” Celebrating Black History Month: A Tribute to James Brown at the Bronx Museum
Film lecture by Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker and photographer, at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
DVD signing: Joe Pantoliano of “Canvas” at the new Barnes & Noble, Tribeca at 6 p.m.
Trio Wanderer play the Frick
Important Jewels go on exhibition at Sotheby’s in advance of the Feb. 6 auction
Double Feature at NYC Ballet
American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women national casting call (from 10 a.m.) at the Time Warner Center’s Shops at Columbus Circle, hosted by Marie Osmond at noon
$15 Project Shaw tickets go on sale for the monthly reading at The Players on Gramercy Park South (and the fist of every month)
Joanna Newsom at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House
Black Rock Coalition at BAM
Orson Welles Weekend at Loew's Jersey City (and Feb. 2)
Saranac Lake's Winter Carnival (through Feb. 10)
Feb. 2, Saturday
Groundhog Day celebration at the Staten Island Zoo, gates open at 7 a.m.
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas Fifth Annual Lunar New Year Flower Market (through Feb.4)
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas’Preparing for the Lunar New Year in Chinatown Walking Tours
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) at the MetOpera
$25 deal for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, with pre- and after-party
Coney Island Through the Invisible Lens opens at the The 4th Street Photo Gallery (through Feb. 15)
Free Absolute Beginners TANGO Workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO, from 8 to 9 p.m., no partner necessary
Sacred Kurdish Tanbur Music: Ali Akbar Moradi at Symphony Space
Revolutionary heroes and re-enactment troops at New-York Historical Society from 10 a.m.
Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday
Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion opens at the Museum at the Fashion Institute (through April 19)
Book celebration: On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail at 1 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Native American Pathways walk at 1 p.m. at Staten Island’s Blue Heron Park Preserve
Wave Hill garden walk at 2p.m.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach takes part in a post-play discussion of Off-Broadway’s "All Aboard the Marriage Hearse"
Uptown, Downtown: New York is Chocolate Country at the Institute of Culinary Education
Feb. 3, Sunday
SuperBowl Sunday
BBG's Second Annual Lunar New Year Celebration & Flower Market from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall with conductor Xian Zhang
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Satchmo in Corona
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
New York International Children's Film Festival benefit
Free Winter Tree Walk in Central Park
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
Christie’s Prints and Multiples opens for viewing in advance of the Feb. 7 and 8 auction
Photography Workshop at Wave Hill at 10 a.m.
Tours of New York City`s First Control Tower at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn
Adventure Society trip to Winter Horseback Ride w/Optional Wine & Cheese Tasting
Tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
Feb. 4, Monday
Sotheby’s (auction) Red items go on exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street, in advance of the Feb. 14 auction
Free (but reservations required) lecture on how to research the history of a building in NY
Scientific discussion: New Voices on The Gowanus Focus On the Public Place
Lecture: Weeksville Society at Marine Park
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Michael Weller
Lecture: Between Orthodoxy and Heresy: Different Faces of Islam at the Explorers’ Club
Times Talks: "A Raisin in the Sun: The Legacy of Playwright Lorraine Hansberry" with featuring Sean Combs, Kenny Leon, Phylicia Rashad
An evening with Antonio Campos and Cinéfondation as part of MoMa’s Modern Monday film series
Feb. 5, Tuesday
Giants Ticker Tape Parade from the base of Broadway at Battery Park -- to City Hall -- starting at 11 a.m.
"Jasper Johns: Gray" opens at the Met Museum of Art (through May 4)
Voyage dans les Pyrénées, an exhibition of salt prints from 1853 by Joseph, vicomte Vigier, opens at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs (through March 7)
Crittercam: A Wild Point of View with National Geographic’s Greg Marshall, at Cooper Union’s Great Hall at 6:30 p.m.
“INSIDE THE NEWS: Nearly Seven Years After 9/11: Are We Safer Now?” TimesTalk
Normally off-limits to visitors tour of Gracie Mansion Tea Tour
Kids’ Night on Broadway when children ages 6 through 18 can see a Broadway show for free -- when accompanied by a full-paying adult (and Feb. 6, 12
and 13)
CHRISTIE'S INTERIORS auction (and Feb. 6)
The Cooper Union, 6th Floor Lobby Gallery mounts an exhibition of Victoria Ferber’s red wine prints: Femina et Ovum (through Feb. 9)
First session of NYU’s Three Nights at the Opera
Intro to wine class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
Feb. 6, Wednesday
Kids’ Night on Broadway when children ages 6 through 18 can see a Broadway show for free -- when accompanied by a full-paying adult (and Feb. 12 and 13)
Florida Stone Crab Celebration at Oyster Bar at the Grand Central Oyster Bar (through Feb. 8)
Recent Films from Scandinavia series begins at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (through May 24)
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Artist Talk: Agnes Denes at Drawing Center
Lost and Found Music Series: Of Jews and Jazz at the Eldridge Street Project
First session of NYU’s Curator's New York, Instructor: John Tauranac
Feb. 7, Thursday
Christine Ebersole in "Applause" at City Center Encores (through March 10)
Chinatown’s New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival
Union Square Street Sessions snowboarding competition
Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Contemporary Architectural Drawings opens at the National Academy Museum (through April 20)
Recent Acquisitions go on display at the National Academy Museum (through May 4)
California Cabernet wine class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
"Ports of Entry: Richard Morris Hunt’s Architectural Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts and the Gates of Central Park" opens at the at the National Academy Museum (through April 20)
Laco Dezci Jazz Orchestra play the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden
Special Screening — "Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show" with Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley at Apple SoHo at 8:30 p.m.
First session of NYU’s New York City in Film and Literature, Instructor: Mark Noonan
Feb. 8, Friday
Passing Strange begins previews on Broadway (opening night: Feb 28; open-ended run)
Cast members of Broadway's "The Homecoming” – including Ian McShane, Raul Esparza and Michael McKean – appear at Borders, Columbus Circle at 5:30 p.m.
Sarah Ruhl’s new play Dead Man’s Cell Phone begins previews at the Off-Broadway Playwrights’ Horizons – with Mary-Louise Parker. (through March 23)
"Audubon's Aviary: Portraits of Endangered Species" opens at the New-York Historical Society (through March 16)
Impressionist and Modern Art including Russian and Latin American Art go on exhibition at Sotheby’s in advance of the Feb. 13 auction
New York Pops with Marvin Hamlisch at Carnegie Hall
Chinese New Year Celebration at the China Institute
Big Onion’s Historic Chinatown – The Year of the Rat walking tour
Thunderbird American Indian Dancers 33rd annual Dance Concert and Pow Wow at the Theater for the New City (through Feb. 17)
The Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre and Broadcasting presents Shooting a Film in New York City at the Apple SoHo shop at 6:30 p.m.
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Bob Marley Birthday Bash at BB Kings
Lecture/discussion: Breaking Through: Actors Making Their Marks in Film with Ellen Page at TimesTalk
Lecture: Chocolate: Healing Food of the Gods? at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Williamsburg and Greenpoint Monthly Art Guide’s Third annual WAGMAG benefit - $150 guarantees you a piece of art from the auction
Feb. 9, Saturday
Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) at the MetOpera
Winter Jam in Central Park
Museum of the Chinese in the Americas’Preparing for the Lunar New Year in Chinatown Walking Tours
Chinese NY Parade in Flushing Queens
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Financial District Transformed
Czech Film Festival 2008 at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden
Afternoon Tea & Tour – Flowers & Fans: Old Fashioned Languages of Love at the Merchant’s House Museum
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 a.m.
Harlem Spirituals tour: African-American Heritage NYC
Arthur Avenue Walking Tour from the Institute of Culinary Education
Celebrating the Year of the Rat: A Spectacular Chinese New Year's Banquet at Mandarin Court
Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art goes on display in advance of the Feb. 14 auction
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of the area around Belvedere Castle
NYU’s New York: From Frugal to Frivolous
Teddy bear Clinic at the Staten Island Zoo
Adventure Society Learn to Ice Climb field trip
Hudson River EagleFest at Croton Point Park
Tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
NYC Audubon excursion: Soaring Raptors in the Hudson Valley
Feb. 10, Sunday
9th Lunar New Year Parade & Festival 2008
Lion Dance at the China Institute
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Exploring East Side Diversity: Islamic, Christian and Jewish Sanctuaries
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Greenwich Village Orchestra plays Brahms—Violin Concerto; Yosuke Kawasaki, soloist, and Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10, at Washington Irving Auditorium
Year of the Rat celebration at the Staten Island Zoo
Tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
Free Winter Retreat Film Festival at Fort Wadsworth - "Revealing Slaves` Stories - A four part American journey beginning with the origins of slavery, continuing through the Civil War and ending with Reconstruction.
Tours of New York City`s First Control Tower at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn
Class: Spice & Ice - The Art of Spicy Cocktails at the Astor Center
Adventure Society snowmobiling daytrip with optional beer tasting
Feb. 11, Monday
Westminster Kennel Club's 132nd Annual All Breed Dog Show at Madison Square Garden (and Feb. 12)
Project Shaw reading of “Too Good to Be True” at The Players on Gramercy Park South
An Evening of Aphrodisiacs: Oyster dinner at Savoy
Met Opera’s Otello
After hours lecture series: The Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with Alfred Uhry
An evening with Andrea Geyer: Spiral Lands_Chapter 2 as part of MoMa’s Modern Monday film series
Feb. 12, Tuesday
Finals judging for Westminster Kennel Club's 132nd Annual All Breed Dog Show at Madison Square Garden
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" begins previews on Broadway (March 6 opening night; through April 13)
Patrick Stewart in "Macbeth" staged at BAM by the Chichester Festival Theatre (through March 22)
"Paradise Park" plays Off-Broadway at the Signature Theater, where all tickets are $20 (through April 6)
Eddie Izzard workshops his upcoming solo show at Union Square Theatre - Tickets $40. (through Feb. 23)
Kids’ Night on Broadway when children ages 6 through 18 can see a Broadway show for free -- when accompanied by a full-paying adult (and Feb. 13)
"Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 11)
"A Railroad Reborn: Metro-North at 25" opens at the NY Transit Museum gallery annex at Grand Central Terminal (through June 1)
Columbia architectural historian Andrew Dolkhart presents a slideshow: Biography of a Tenement House , at the Tenement Museum
Lecture: The Great Urban Paradigm Shift: Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs and the West Village Houses
10th Annual Dogs in Art auction at Doyle New York
Free curator lecture: Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road at the NY Public Library at 6 p.m.
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
First session of NYU’s Walking and Talking New York; Instructor: Joyce Gold
Feb. 13, Wednesday
Kids’ Night on Broadway when children ages 6 through 18 can see a Broadway show for free -- when accompanied by a full-paying adult
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood at Madison Square Garden
Tibet House’s 18th Annual Carnegie Hall Benefit Concert with Philip Glass , Band of Horses, Ray Davies, Philip Glass, Nawang Khechog, Marisa Monte, Sufjan Stevens, and Tom Verlaine
“Is Love Really Blind? Fine American Pinots vs 2005 Village Burgundies” tasting/class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
Belle Epoque: 19th and 20th Century Decorative Arts at Doyle New York
Film Screening – “The Heiress” at the Merchant’s House Museum
African-American Fine Art goes on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the Feb. 19 auction
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Printed and manuscript African Americana goes on display at Swann Galleries in advanceof the Feb. 21 auction
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
First session of NYU’s Global City: New York Since 1980
Feb. 14, Thursday
"In the Heights" begins previews on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (March 9 opening night)
Valentine’s Day weddings on the Empire State Building
The Chocolate Bar -- all-you-can-eat, $75 per person at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park
An Evening of Romantic Music at Bargemusic
First day of Barneys Warehouse sale (through March 2)
NY Theatre Ballet Carnival of the Animals and The Sleeping Beauty at the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center at 12:30 p.m.
Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Roberta Flack at BB Kings
Ernestine Anderson at Iridium Jazz Club (through Feb. 17)
Cast of Broadway’s Xanadu perform a a free show at Macy’s Herald Square from 6 to 6:30 p.m.
Losers’ Lounge tribute to the Mamas and the Papas at Joe’s Pub
City Bakery’s all-you-can-drink Hot Chocolate Festival Party
Comedy: The Rejection Show’s Valentine’s Day Heartbreak Haven at the Upright Citizens Brigade
Film series: Milos Forman, A Retrospective (through Feb. 28)
Matchbox Twenty at Madison Square Garden
Post-Apocalyptic discussion group at Freebird Books in Brooklyn, focusing on Ray Bradbury's classic short science fiction, "There Will Come Soft Rains," listen to the '50s radio play version, and watch a 9-minute Soviet animated adaptation.
The Lower Manhattan Neighbor Exchange project will be at the Union Square labyrinth from noon
Truffles for Valentine's Day at the Institute of Culinary Education
Feb. 15, Friday
Harlem Globetrotters at Madison Square Garden
New York Flamenco Festival at City Center (through Feb. 17)
Christie’s Photographs go on display in advance of the Feb. 20 auction
Whitney Live dance party at the museum with Nick Didkovsky
Richard Lewis at Comix (and Feb. 16)
Met Opera’s Otello
Macbeth Dialogue at BAM
Favorite Dishes from the E. U. with Executive Chef Akhtar Nawab at the Institute of Culinary Education
Feb. 18, Monday
Washington’s Birthday open house and free admission at Fraunces Tavern Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
Met Museum open on a holiday Monday schedule
Met Opera’s Otello
Spice Girls play Madison Square Garden
Municipal Art Society walking tour: In the Footsteps of Abraham Lincoln
Playwriting master class at the Cherry Lane Theater with David Lindsey-Abaire
Children’s Museum of Manhattan (normally closed for Mondays) is open for Mid-Winter Break
Feb. 19, Tuesday
Lecture: Unearthing the Lost History of the Greek Priestess at the Explorers’ Club
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Flemish “Ex Drummer” plays at Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Selects series at 3:30 p.m.
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Museum of the City of NY panel and book signing: Mansions in the Sky, Geraldine Fabrikant moderates a panel that examines how well-to-do New Yorkers influence interior design, architecture, and real estate
Freebird Books in Brooklyn, kicks off its Russia! Magazine Series
First session of NYU’s The Great New York Collections and Who's Behind Them, Instructor: Francis Morrone
Discussion: The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans at the Tenement Museum
Lecture: The Suburban Option: Garden Apartments in 20th Century New York City at the General Society of of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Feb. 20, Wednesday
Jay Geils Birthday! w/Gerry Beaudoin, Joe Fitzgerald, George Shuller at the Iridium Jazz Club
Dianne Weist in the Classic Stage Company’s production of "The Seagull" begins previews (through April 13)
Boys night at “Xanadu” on Broadway
Book signing: Ed Begley, Jr., author of “Living Like Ed” at 7 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 1 pm
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Urban Genealogy: The Building
World Premiere of The Battleship Potemkin with music composed and performed by David Krakauer and Socalled, at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center (and Feb. 21)
John Oliver at Symphony Space
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Lecture and slideshow on the life of Jacob A. Riis at 7 p.m. at the Jacob Riis Park Bath House Entry Pavilion
First session of NYU’s The Play's the Thing
Feb. 21, Thursday
Opening night on Broadway for "Sunday in the Park with George" (through April 6)
The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley, an Off-Off-broadway play directed by NewYorkology’s own Alexandra Farkas begins performances at the Flamboyan Theater at the CSV Cultural Center. (through March 16)
Free screening of “Cocoanuts” as part of The Early Marx Brothers Film Festival at The City College of New York
Free screening of The Battleship Potemkin with music composed and performed by David Krakauer and Socalled, at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center
The Art Show at the Park Ave. Armory (through Feb. 25)
John Wesley Harding plays Joe’s Pub
Linkin Park at Madison Square Garden
Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Book signing: Robert Knightly, editor of Queens Noir, and Tim McLoughlin, editor of Brooklyn Noir, at Word, 126 Franklin St. at Milton, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The Cookers at Iridium Jazz Club (through Feb. 24)
A Tour of Tuscany Wine Class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
NYU’s Behind the Scenes at Fireside at the Omni Berkshire
Feb. 22, Friday
Two-for-one Friday tickets to “A Bronx Tale” on Broadway
Center for Contemporary Opera: 25th Anniversary Celebration at Symphony Space
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra plays Symphony Space
Met Opera’s Otello
Knicks vs. Toronto at Madison Square Garden
Whitney Live dance party at the museum with So Percussion and Kneebody
James Beard event: Italian Luncheon
Society of Illustrators 50th annual awards gala for book and editorial categories
Julie Brown’s ”Tiaras and Kneepads” at Joe’sPub (and Feb. 23)
Tom Otterness studio tour tickets now on sale for March 16
Great New York Restaurants' Signature Dishes at the Institute of Culinary Education
Feb. 23, Saturday
The Orchid Show opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through April 6)
“Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster” opens at the Whitney Museum (through April 27)
Free 2008 Gospel Music Celebration on Staten Island at 3 p.m.
Lecture: Preserving New York - Then and Now
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
They Might Be Giants perform songs from Here Comes the 1, 2, 3s! at Borders, Columbus Circle
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Harlem Spirituals tour: African-American Heritage NYC
Day-long symposium on “Preserving New York Then and Now” at the Museum of the City of NY
Tickets go on sale to the general public for Thurgood on Broadway with Laurence Fishburne
Tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
Feb. 24, Sunday
Design and the Elastic Mind opens at MoMA (through May 12)
Dominican Independence Day concert at the Museum of the City of NY
Free Maroon 5 concert at Apple SoHo
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 11 am
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour of Seneca Village, Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that would become Central Park
Breakfast with the Beasts at the Staten Island Zoo
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Central Park in Winter
92nd St Y tour of Grand Central Terminal
Lecture: The Life and Art of Marc Chagall at the Society for Ethical Culture
Markus Groh plays the Frick
Tiger Tales puppet show at China Institute
Will Ferrell's Funny or Die Comedy Tour
Tickets go on sale to the general public for John Waters’ Broadway run of Cry-Baby
Final day to register for the chance to buy premium game tickets for this season’s best games at Yankee Stadium
Planners Book Club: Nicole Marwell "Bargaining for Brooklyn" at Bluestockings
Interactive food gala at the Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn
Cupcake Workshop at the Institute of Culinary Education
Adventure Society dogsledding and snowshoeing daytrip
Tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
Tours of New York City`s First Control Tower at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn
Feb. 25, Monday
An evening with Sharon Hayes: On Politics and Desire as part of MoMa’s Modern Monday film series
Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
“Emmy winning Daily Show Producer Rory Albanese presents Friends, Acquaintances and Colleagues” including Rob Riggle, Elliott Kalan and Rich Blomquist at Comix
The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition (which was December 5, 1933) celebrated with classic prohibition-era cocktails at the Black Duck
Reflections of the Gilded Age at the James Beard House at 7 p.m.
Lecture: Spaceward Bound Mojave 2007 at the Explorers’ Club
An Exceptional Private Cellar auction at Sotheby’s
Feb. 26, Tuesday
The Tribute WTC Visitor Center will hold a free public program at 7 p.m. commemorating the 15th anniversary of the February 26, 1993 attack on the World Trade Center
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru" opens at the Met Museum of Art (through Sept. 1)
Met Opera’s Otello
Knicks Poetry Slam at Hammerstein Ballroom
James Beard House dinner: Greatest NYC chefs
Mingus Legacy at the Iridium Jazz Club
Lecture: The Nation: Reflections from the Editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel at the General Society of of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Free NY Transit Museum Lecture: It’s Electric at 6:30 p.m. at The Balcony at Grand Central
Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories opens at the Center for Architecture (through May 31)
Feb. 27, Wednesday
Gustave Courbet exhibition opens at the Met Museum of Art (through May 18)
Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries opens at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (through April 27)
Knicks vs. Charlotte at Madison Square Garden
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
Paul Festa's Apparition of the Eternal Church at St. Bartholomew's Church at 7:30 p.m.
Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Fondue – at 7 p.m.
Book signing: Valerie Bertinelli, signs “Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time” at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue, 555 Fifth Ave.
Central Park Conservancy’s free walking tour - Views from the Past - about the park's history and designers at 1 pm
Municipal Art Society tour: Urban Genealogy: The Client
Staging of "The Wild Duck," by Henrik Ibsen. At the Society for Ethical Culture
Discussion: Don’t Go to College: Roger Rosenblatt, Frank McCourt, Patty Marx and David Rakoff at the 92nd St. Y
Central Park Conservancy’s free Cross-park promenade at 11 am
Feb. 28, Thursday
Opening night for Passing Strange on Broadway (open-ended run)
Free screening of “Duck Soup” as part of The Early Marx Brothers Film Festival at The City College of New York
Bedford Stuyvesant: Neighborhood of Change opens at the Brooklyn Historical Society
“Spotlight on Design: Innovation in New York’s Streets” panel at the Museum of the City of NY
Night School, Public Seminar 2, Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
Wine and Dessert class at the Chelsea Wine Vault
Beertopia beer tasting at the Pourhouse
Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center (through March 16)
Tenement Museum event: Red: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up Their Lives Today
Jessica Lange: American Actress at TimesTalk
Discussion: Mos Def in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis at the 92nd St. Y
Book signing: Kathleen Turner and Gloria Feldt at Drama Book Shop, (RSVP requested)
Book talk: “Comedy at the Edge” by Time magazine's Richard Zoglin, at Freebird in Brooklyn
Chateauneuf Du Pape Wine Class at Morrell & Co. at Rockefeller Center
First session of NYU’s Off- and Off-Off-Broadway Theater
Feb. 29, Friday
Haunted tour of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
John Zorn plays St. Ann’s Warehouse
Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room
Big Onion’s Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour
The Modern Show opens at the 69th Regiment Armory (through March 2)
New York Times Travel Show at the Javits (through March 2)
One Step Beyond dance party with DJ Jazzy Jeff and DJ Dirty Finger at the Rose Center for Earth and Space from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (through March 6)
James Blunt plays the Beacon Theater
Works on Paper at the The Park Avenue Armory (through March 3)
Met Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Whitney Live dance party at the museum with Tristan Perich
TJ Miller of the film "Cloverfield" at Comix
Central Park Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo celebrate Leap Day – with the frogs
Free Absolute Beginners TANGO Workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO, 35 West 20th, #301. From 8:30 p.m., no partner necessary.
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott (through March 2)
Night School, Public Seminar 2, Martha Rosler, Art & Social Life; The Case of Video Art at the New Museum of Contemporary Art
American whiskey class at the Chelsea Wine Vault
Yankees 2008 individual game tickets go on-sale online only at 10 a.m.

Ongoing Events in NYC

Judy Collins plays The Carlyle (through March 1)
"The Farnsworth Invention" on Broadway (through March 2)
Lynn Redgrave stars in Grace Off-Broadway at the The Lucille Lortel Theatre (through March 8)
Eddie Izzard workshops his upcoming solo show at Union Square Theatre - Tickets $40. (extended through March 8)
Mark Twain’s lost comedy "Is He Dead?" plays Broadway (closing early, on March 9)
Come Back, Little Sheba starring S. Epatha Merkerson on Broadway (through March 9)
Tom Stoppard’s new play, "Rock 'N' Roll" on Broadway (extended through March 9)
Christine Ebersole in "Applause" at City Center Encores (through March 10)
MetOpera’s production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” (through March 13)
The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley, an Off-Off-Broadway play directed by NewYorkology’s own Alexandra Farkas at the Flamboyan Theater at the CSV Cultural Center. (through March 16)
Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center (through March 16)
Patrick Stewart in "Macbeth" staged at BAM by the Chichester Festival Theatre (through March 22)
Sarah Ruhl’s new play Dead Man’s Cell Phone plays the Off-Broadway Playwrights’ Horizons – with Mary-Louise Parker. (through March 23)
"39 Steps" on Broadway (through March 29)
Conor McPherson's new play, "The Seafarer" on Broadway (through March 30)
Jim Caruso's "Cast Party" at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through March 31)
"Paradise Park" plays Off-Broadway at the Signature Theater, where all tickets are $20 (through April 6)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in previews on Broadway (March 6 opening night; through April 13)
Harold Pinter’s "The Homecoming" on Broadway with Eve Best, Raul Esparza, Michael McKean and Ian McShane (through April 13)
Dianne Weist and Alan Cumming in the Classic Stage Company’s production of "The Seagull" (through April 13)
Richard Foreman’s Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland plays Off-Off-Broadway (through April 13)
August: Osage County on Broadway (extended through April 13)
"Crimes of the Heart," directed by Kathleen Turner in previews at the Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre (through April 13)
"Rent" on Broadway (through June 1)
"Sunday in the Park with George" on Broadway (extended through June 15)
Gilbert & Sullivan Fest at City Center (through June 15)
Les Paul plays Iridium Jazz Club (every Monday at 8 and 10 p.m.)
Amateur Night at the Apollo every Wednesday night (ongoing)
Sunday gospel brunch with the Harlem Gospel Choir at B.B. King's Blues Club (every Sunday)
"Avenue Q" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Blue Man Group" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Chicago" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"A Chorus Line" revival on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Curtains" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
Off-Broadway’s Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theatre (open-ended run)
"Grease" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Hairspray" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"In the Heights" in previews on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (March 9 opening night; open-ended run)
"Jersey Boys" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Legally Blonde" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Lion King" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney's "The Little Mermaid" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Mamma Mia!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Mary Poppins" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
David Mamet’s new comedy, "November," starring Nathan Lane on Broadway (open-ended run)
New musical "Passing Strange" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spamalot!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spring Awakening" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Stomp" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Wicked" on Broadway (open-ended run) -- plus there are Behind the Emerald Curtain "Wicked" behind-the-scenes tours every Saturday at 10 a.m.
"Xanadu" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Young Frankenstein" on Broadway (open-ended run)

Exhibits:
Identity Theft exhibition at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island (through Feb. 29)
The Modern Show at the 69th Regiment Armory (through March 2)
Works on Paper at the The Park Avenue Armory (through March 3)
Voyage dans les Pyrénées, an exhibition of salt prints from 1853 by Joseph, vicomte Vigier, at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs (through March 7)
“Random Utterness,” works by New York-based artists of Hungarian origin, opens at the Hungarian Cultural Center (through March 8)
"Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007" exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem (through March 9)
"Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings" at MoMA (through March 10)
From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road at the NY Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through March 16)
"Audubon's Aviary: Portraits of Endangered Species" at the New-York Historical Society (through March 16)
From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
“Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Art” at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
Manhattan Noon: Photographs by Gus Powell at the Museum of the City of New York (through March 16)
Repairing the World: Contemporary Ritual Art at the Jewish Museum (through March 16)
Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York at the Municipal Art Society (extended through March 20)
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel at the American Folk Art Museum (through March 23)
New York States of Mind at the Queens Museum of Art (through March 23)
Thread to the Past: Ukrainian Folk Art from the 1933 World's Fair at the Ukranian Museum (through March 23)
Illustrations and prints of John Sloan's New York at the Museum of the City of New York (extended through March 23)
"The Art of Marvin Franklin" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through March 30)
"Collage: The Unmonumental Picture" at the at the New Museum (through March 30)
50 Years of Helvetica at MoMA (through March 31)
"New York Modern" at the Skyscraper Museum (through March)
Dia’s Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the Hispanic Society of America (through April 6)
"Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through April 6)
The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden (through April 6)
Jasper Johns: Drawings 1997- 2007 at the Matthew Marks gallery (through April 12)
“Finnish Art Now” on display at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (through April 12)
“Here is New York: Remembering 9/11/01” at the New-York Historical Society (extended through April 13)
blog.mode: addressing fashion at the Met Museum (through April 13)
Portraits by Irving Penn at the Morgan Library & Museum (through April 13)
Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt at the Museum of the City of New York (through April 13)
"Bon: The Magic Word" at the Rubin Museum of Art (extended through April 14)
Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion at the Museum at the Fashion Institute (through April 19)
"Ports of Entry: Richard Morris Hunt’s Architectural Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts and the Gates of Central Park" at the at the National Academy Museum (through April 20)
Contemporary Architectural Drawings at the National Academy Museum (through April 20)
Jan De Cock: Denkmal 11 at MoMA (through April 21)
"Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Coney Island" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through April 27)
Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (through April 27)
“Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster” at the Whitney Museum (through April 27)
Special Loan: Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice at the Frick (through April 27)
Sex in Design/Design in Sex at the Museum of Sex (through April 27)
"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through April)
“The Collections of Barbara Bloom” and “Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art” at the International Center for Photography (through May 4)
“From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim” at the Guggenheim (through May 4)
Under New York Skies: Nocturnes by Yvonne Jacquette at the Museum of the City of New York (through May 4)
Recent Acquisitions on display at the National Academy Museum (through May 4)
"Jasper Johns: Gray" at the Met Museum of Art (through May 4)
Exoticism at the Museum at the Fashion Institute (through May 7)
"Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 11)
Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA (through May 12)
Gustave Courbet exhibition at the Met Museum of Art (through May 18)
Live Butterfly Conservancy at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 26)
Water: H2O = Life at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 26)
Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories opens at the Center for Architecture (through May 31)
The original "Whitney's Collection" at the Whitney Museum (through June 1)
"A Railroad Reborn: Metro-North at 25" at the NY Transit Museum gallery annex at Grand Central Terminal (through June 1)
Inside the Fence exhibition at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center (through June 9)
"Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" at the Neue Galerie (through June 30)
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now at MoMA (through July 28)
French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to Washington’s America at the New-York Historical Society (through Aug. 10)
Mother Goose in an Air-Ship: McLoughlin Bros. 19th Century Children’s Books from the Liman Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through August)
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru" opens at the Met Museum of Art (through Sept. 1)
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through October 19)
A Life in Whaling exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum (through October)
Ocean Liner Memorabilia exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum (through December)

Film:
"The Spiderwick Chronicles: The IMAX Experience" plays AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX
The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (through March 6)
Recent Films from Scandinavia series begins at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (through May 24)
Produced with MTV2, Sonic Vision at the American Museum of Natural History (every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.)

More:
Hot Chocolate Festival at City Bakery (through Feb. 29)
The Chocolate Bar -- all-you-can-eat, $75 per person at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park. Friday and Saturday nights only – plus Valentine’s Day (through March 1)
Barneys Warehouse sale (through March 2)
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott (through March 2)
New York Times Travel Show at the Javits (through March 2)
Dim Sum Brunch with the Chinese Club in New York (second Sunday of every month)

Deals:
Third-night free hotel packages (through February 29)
$20 Off-Broadway tickets with 20at20 (through March 9)
$99 helicopter shuttle to JFK or Newark from U.S. Helicopter (until an unspecified "limited time")
Print an online coupon to get $10 off the Toys ‘R’ Us Marquee Moment in Times Square (normally $29.99)

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