June 1, 2006

February 2010 New York City calendar of events

Monday, February 1
18th annual Hot Chocolate Festival begins at City Bakery with lemon hot chocolate (through Feb. 28)
Pancake Month begins at Clinton Street Baking Company & Restaurant
Restaurant Week soup truck parks on Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“Carmen” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Victor Herbert 150th Birthday Celebration at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra with James Levine at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Django Reinhardt/Les Paul tribute at Iridium Jazz Club at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. 8 and 10 p.m. (through Feb. 3)
Opera at the Schomberg, New York City Opera and Opera Noire of New York perform excerpts from “Treemonisha,” “Ouanga,” “Four Saints in Three Acts,” “Till Victory is Won,” “Troubled in Mind,” and “I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky” at 7 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Aventura at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Broadway pit players perform as The Pit Stop Players at Symphony Space at 7 p.m., performing Bolcom, Messiaen, Moravec, Shostakovich, Rosenblum and Elfman, as well as the world premiere of Michael Starobin’s “dream dream confronting”
Free performance and CD signing by the cast of “Finian’s Rainbow” — including Kate Baldwin, Christopher Fitzgerald and Cheyenne Jackson — at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle at 5 p.m.
Coney Island Circus Sideshow at B.B. Kings at 8 p.m.
Brown-bag lunch lecture at MoMA on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in New York at 12:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library presents: “In the Air and on the Streets: Women Photographers in the “New” New York, 1890s-1940s,” with Mary Norman Woods at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Free lecture: Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History at 7 p.m. at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Film screening: An Evening with Jim Finn at the Museum of Modern Art at 7 p.m.
Social Media Week begins in NYC (through Feb. 5)
New York Center for Independent Publishing’s The Next Chapter in Publishing conference
Tickets go on sale to the general public for the Broadway revival of “La Cage Aux Folles” with Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge
Tickets go on sale for this month’s Project Shaw reading, “The Philanderer” on Feb. 15 at The Players on Gramercy Park South

Tuesday, February 2
Gates open at 7 a.m. for Groundhog Day at the Staten Island Zoo with Staten Island Chuck (Update: No shadow in Staten Island - “spring is coming.”)
Empire State Building Run-Up at 10:30 a.m.
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 9)
Homegrown Hip Hop program at the Museum of the City of New York with Joe Conzo, Jorge “Popmaster Fabel” Pabon and DJ Disco Wiz at 6 p.m.
Food Forum: Wasabi On A Hot Dog?! - Rethinking Japanese Ingredients at the Japan Society at 6:30 p.m.
Staten Island Museum history lecture: Historic Movie Houses/Movies Made on Staten Island at 7 p.m.
Plácido Domingo in “Simon Boccanegra ” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Radu Lupu plays Beethoven, Schubert and Janacek at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Betty Buckley at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Feb. 27)
Christine Ebersole with John Odo at The Carlyle (through Feb. 20)
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty” at 7:30 p.m.
Kids’ Night on Broadway with buy-one, get-one-free tickets
Dixieland Jazz concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Free one-hour concerts by Juilliard artists at 180 Maiden Lane at 12:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society’s weekly 90-minute Downtown: Where New York Began tour at 12:30 p.m.(suggested donation: $10)
Previously on Lost plays the “Lost” viewing party at the Bell House at 7 p.m.
Aventura at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Restaurant Week soup truck parks on Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parsons Dance Opening Night Gala at 7:30 p.m. at the Joyce Theater
Image credit: Staten Island Zoo.

Wednesday, February 3
SNØHETTA architecture – landscape – interior exhibition opens at Scandinavia House (through April 3)
Beyonce in-store at Macy’s Herald Square from 5 to 7 p.m.
Sarah Silverman in-store at Apple SoHo at 7 p.m.
Tom Colicchio, Dan Barber, Jacques Torres and Andre Soltner at 92Y for Doing What You Love talk at 8 p.m.
Free author event for James T. Fisher’s “On The Irish Waterfront” at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
The Death and Life of American Journalism: A Conversation at 7 p.m. at the NY Society for Ethical Culture with John Nichols, Robert McChesney, David Carr, Pamela Newkirk and Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mashable NextUp NYC: The Future Journalist at 7 p.m. with Sree Sreenivasan at 92YTribeca
American Museum of Natural History’s SciCafe cocktail night on the topic “Valentine’s Day 101: Why Humans Have Sex”
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty” at 7:30 p.m.
Free neighborhood concert Young People’s Chorus of New York City at 6:30 p.m. at Lehman Stages in the Bronx
Garrick Ohlsson, piano: The Chopin Project at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Jennifer Damiano and Adam Chanler-Berat (of Next to Normal) at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Motion City Soundtrack plays Irving Plaza at 6:30 p.m.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo at 8 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Washington Wizards at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Kids’ Night on Broadway
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m.

Thursday, February 4
The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks opens at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (through May 16)
Encores! production of “Fanny” at City Center (through Feb. 7)
Unsound Festival NY (through Feb. 14)
Sounds Like Brooklyn Musical Festival begins at multiple venues
“Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty” at 8 p.m.
New-York Historical Society panel: Ex parte Milligan–Military Commissions During the Civil War: A Supreme Court Re-enactment with Antonin Scalia, Walter Dellinger, Philip Lacovara and Benno Schmidt
Museum of Modern Art stays open until 8:45 p.m. for MoMA Nights, with DJ, cash bar and gallery tours
?uestlove DJ Set at Brooklyn Bowl at 9:30 p.m.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo at 8 p.m. at BB Kings Blues Club
Jazz & Art program at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 8 p.m.
Korean pop singer Insooni at Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m.
Patti LuPone with Leonard Lopate: The Broadway Life at 8:15 p.m. at the 92nd Street Y
Donna Karan in conversation with Valerie Steele at Parsons The New School for Design, Tishman Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Author @ the Library presents: “Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Artistry and Meaning of Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ Novels,” with John Granger at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Screening of “On the Waterfront” at 6 p.m. with introductory remarks by maritime historian Bill Miller, author of “On the Waterfront - The Great Ships of Hoboken,” at Norwegian Seaman’s Church on East 52nd
Comedy Below Canal: Bro’In Out with Leo & Tony featuring Paul Rudd and more at 9 p.m. at the 92YTribeca Mainstage
Vinatge poster auction form 10 a.m. to noon at Swann
Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, “Dear John” in-store at Apple SoHo at 7:30 p.m.
Book event: Melissa Rivers at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Capitals at 7 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours: Views From the Past at 11 a.m. and The Castle & its Kingdom at 1 p.m.
1st Thursdays Dumbo gallery walk
James Beard Foundation’s Haiti benefit dinner New York Elegance at The Oak Room at 7 p.m.
Restaurant Week soup truck parks on Greenwich Street between Warren and Murray streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Image Credit: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. Tim Okamura, Stay Strong, 2009. Oil, spray paint on canvas, 76 X 84 in.

Friday, February 5
President Barack Obama: The First Year photo exhibition by White House photographer Pete Souza, and Jerry Pinkney’s African-American Journey to Freedom open at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (through April 18)
Outsider Art Fair (through Feb. 7)
“ The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War In Iraq)” begins performances at La MaMa (thrugh Feb. 7)
“Carmen” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty” at 8 p.m.
Beethoven Cycles: Quartets I at Alice Tully Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Leipzig String Quartet at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Cole at City Winery (and Feb. 6)
Art After Dark at the Guggenheim Museum from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with DJ Chromeo
Free Dred Scott Trio concert at BamCafe at 10 p.m.
Jazz & Art at Jazz at Lincoln Center (through Feb. 6)
New Museum program: Urs Fischer’s Film Selections from 5 to 9 p.m.
Turkish Movie Night (with English subtitles) at the Turkish Cultural Center Queens at 7 p.m.
Book event: RuPaul at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Milwaukee Bucks at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
First Friday free hours at Neue Galerie from 6 to 8 p.m. - and elsewhere
Restaurant Week soup truck parks on Greenwich Street between Warren and Murray streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cocktails class: 10 Most Famous Hotel Bars (and their 10 Best Cocktails) at the Astor Center at 6:30 p.m.
Filene’s Basement’s Running of the Brides wedding gown sale at Union Square

Saturday, February 6
Free Winter Jam NYC winter sports festival at the bandshell in Central Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p..m.
“Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997)” exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through July 25)
“ Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques” exhibition opens at Ellis Island (through May 9)
NY Rangers home game vs. Devils at 7 p.m.
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m
Plácido Domingo in “Simon Boccanegra ” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Back to the 80s concert at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m. with José Alberto “El Canario”, Paquito Guzman, Nino Zegarra, and Raulin Rosendo
Slavic Soul Party at the Coney Island Brooklyn Public Library at 2 p.m.
Alessandra Marc, soprano at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Free Sweet Divines concert at BamCafe at 9 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty” at 2 and 8 p.m.
Free performance by the Harlem Gospel Choir at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 11 a.m.
Natalie Cole at City Winery at 9 p.m.
Live WWOW Mystery Radio Play at 6 and 8 p.m. at Partners & Crime bookshop
The Red Book of C. G. Jung Program: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner + Morgan Stebbins at the Rubin Museum of Art at 4 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Wilderness & Wildlife in New York City: Family Workshop program at the Museum of the City of New York at 1 p.m.
Free First Saturday programs at the Brooklyn Museums from 5 to 11 p.m., theme: Black History Month
Art Book Swap NY at Museum of Modern Art from noon to 5 p.m.
Jewish Giants of the American Songbook: Harold Arlen at the 92Y at 3 p.m.
Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir at 8 p.m. at 92YTribeca Mainstage
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival at 92YTribeca Screening Room at 8 p.m.
Great Pianists Play Chopin on Film at 2 and 4 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater
Midnight screening of “Total Recall” at IFC
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Views From the Past at 1 p.m.
Arthur Avenue Walking Tour with the Institute of Culinary Education at 11 a.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s On Aphrodite’s Trail: An Aphrodisiac Walking Tour
Ritz-Carlton Central-Park begins its Valentine Cupcake Tea (weekends through February)
Tickets go on sale to the general public for “All About Me” on Broadway

Sunday, February 7
Florian Boesch, Roger Vignoles concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
Kids’ Night on Broadway
Traveling the Underground Railroad: Family Quilting Workshop at the Kingsland Homestead at 2:30 p.m.
Beethoven Cycles: Quartets II at 5 p.m.
Jennifer 8 Lee on Fortune Cookie Chronicles at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Red Velvet Cake Workshop at 10 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour with Francis Morrone: Three Ways of Looking at Park Slope, 2: Park Slope Northeast at 2 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: The Castle & its Kingdom at 1 p.m.
NYC Ballet dances “The Sleeping Beauty”
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at noon
All-you-can-eat Super Bowl Buffet at B.B. Kings Blues Club at 5:30 p.m.

Monday, February 8
Billy Stritch with The Mike Berkowitz Big Band at Birdland at 7 p.m.
Les Paul Guitar Tribute Mondays featuring Vernon Reid at 8 and 10 p.m. at Iridium Jazz Club
“Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Celebrating the All Write! Adult Literacy Program with a performance by Law & Order cast members Sonia Manzano, S. Epatha Merkerson, Isaiah Sheffer, Sam Waterston, and B.D. Wong, plus musical guests Ivy Austin, Jay Leonhardt, and Lanny Meyers at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space
Richard Meier with Paul Goldberger at 92Y at 8 p.m.
Jan Opalach, baritone; The Mann Quartet; and André-Michel Schub, piano at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Kathleen Battle, soprano at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
The Row House Reborn program at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library presents: “Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure,” with David Freeland at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Culinary Historians of New York lecture: Wine’s Best Kept Secret: Authentic Sherry at the International Wine Center
The Secret Life of War Reporters panel discussion with Donald Margulies at 5:30 p.m. at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Two-for-one Off-Broadway tickets available through On the House (through Feb. 28)
The Drama League’s 26th Annual Benefit Gala: A Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Angela Lansbury, at The Pierre
Michelle Williams (of Destiny’s Child) takes over the role of Roxie Hart in Broadway’s “Chicago” (through March 28)
Yeasayer plays the Bowery Ballroom at 8 p.m.
The top of the Empire State Building lights up black and yellow for the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints

Tuesday, February 9
The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural & Natural History of Cacao with Recipes, a lecture and book signing with Maricel E. Presilla, at 6 p.m. at The Horticultural Society of New York
Author @ the Library “Save the Deli: In Search of the Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen,” with David Sax at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Book event: Ex-POW Shoshana Johnson at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
David Brooks at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
Philip Gourevitch and Jan Gross: Those Who Trespass Against Us: A Dialogue on Murderous Neighbors at 8:15 p.m. at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall
New-York Historical Society panel discussion: Yankee Stadium Forever: Pro Football with Frank Gifford, Dave Anderson and Tony Morante at 6:30 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Sacramento Kings at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Prokofiev Rediscovered, an all-Prokofiev program featuring world premieres of rediscovered works, at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Carmen” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York City Ballet’s All Russian program at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Beethoven Cycles: Quartets IIII at 7:30 p.m.
Christian McBride Big Band at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Dixieland Jazz concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium playing Brahms and Hahler
Freddie Redd Sextet at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Yeasayer plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Equivocation begins performances at City Center (through March 28)
Tickets go on sale to the general public for the Public Theater’s production of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”

Wednesday, February 10
Emanuel Ax plays a “Celebrating Chopin and Schumann at 200” program at Carnegie Hall’s Perelman Stage at 8 p.m.
Shape Lab opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through June 14)
Snow Day in five NYC parks with free hot chocolate and use of sleds
Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony & Sinfonia concertante for winds
NY Rangers home game vs. Predators at 7 p.m.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony & Sinfonia concertante for Winds at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
Lecture: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson at the Fraunces Tavern Museum at 6:30 p.m.
The Red Book of C. G. Jung Program: Composer Meredith Monk + Morgan Stebbins at the Rubin Museum of Art at 8 p.m.
Fashion in Art tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1:45 p.m.
New York Scandia Symphony at 8 p.m. at Scandinavia House
Heart and Soul … A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser with Michael Feinstein, Brent Barrett, Michele Lee and Chris Denny at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
“Swan Lake” at the New York City Ballet at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Master Class: Ani Kavafian, violin and Gilbert Kalish, piano at 11 a.m.
Live music, cash bar at Top of the Rock’s Starlight Music Series from 6 to 8 p.m. with the Beledo Jazz Trio
Dressed to Dance dance performance/runway exhibition for the Flamenco Festival at 9 p.m. at the Guggenheim
Hilary Kole at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m. (through Feb. 14)
Free Cirque du Soleil open house at the Beacon Theatre from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
“White Wilderness” and “The Alaskan Eskimo” screen at the Museum of Modern Art at 4:30 p.m. as part of the Oscar’s Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanity series
amfAR New York Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street with Elton John, Lady Gaga, Rufus Wainwright and others
A Translator’s Discoveries with Alberto Manguel at Symphony Space at 7 p.m.
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series featuring Joshua Ferris, Ron Carlson, Padgett Powell and musical guest Holly Miranda at 7 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
Unconfirmed: Free Central Park walking tours: Views From the Past at 11 a.m. and Cross-Park Promenade at 1 p.m.
Canceled due to snow: Author @ the Library “Appetite City: Culinary History of New York City,” with William Grimes at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Postponed:Dave Davies at B.B. Kings Blues Club

Thursday, February 11
Barneys Warehouse Sale begins (through Feb. 28)
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park (through Feb. 18)
Brooklyn Historical Society opens the exhibition Tivoli: A Place We Call Home (through Aug. 29)
“Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” exhibition opens at the China Institute Gallery (through June 13)
Olafur Eliasson’s “Multiple Shadow House” exhibition opens at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery on West 21st Street (through March 20)
“Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony & Sinfonia concertante for Winds at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
Free Year of the Tiger: A Chinese New Year Celebration at 8:30 p.m. at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Free Dave Douglas Quintet concert at 8 p.m. at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Queens
Free Musica De Camara Concert at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral at 7 p.m.
“Swan Lake” at the New York City Ballet at 8 p.m.
Basie and the Blues at 8 p.m. at Jazz at Lincon Center with Wynton Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut and Gregory Porter (through Feb. 13)
Jane Krakowsi at Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Beethoven Cycles: Violin Sonatas at 7:30 p.m.
Boystown Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Denitsa Laffchieva, Ofer Canetti, and Maria Prinz play works by Debussy, R. Strauss and Zemlinsky at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
“The Turn of the Screw” performance at the Merchant’s House Museum at 7 and 9 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Celebrating Black History Month in Historic Harlem at 1 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m. and Views From the Past at 1 p.m.
Book event: Documentarian Marsha McCreadie at Borders at Columbus Circle at 7 p.m.
Don Delillo at Book Court at 7 p.m.
Steven Van Zandt with Budd Mishkin at 8 p.m. at 92Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall
New York Times Editors: The Art and Science of Opinion Pieces at 92Y’s Warburg Lounge at 7 p.m.
Historical tasting tour: Abraham Lincoln’s Dinner Table at 92Y at 7 p.m.
Valentine’s Day Pajama Party Meatup at The Bell House at 7 p.m.

Friday, February 12
“The Miracle Worker” begins previews on Broadway with Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill (opening night: March 3; through Aug. 1)
Kander & Ebb’s “The Scottsboro Boys” begins performances at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theater (through April 4)
“The Boys in the Band” begins performances in a 26th Street penthouse (through March 14)
“The Turn of the Screw” performance at the Merchant’s House Museum at 7 and 9 p.m.
Lunar New Year Flower Festival from 10 a.m. at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Canal & Chrystie (and Feb. 13)
Tigers in the House exhibition opens at Flushing Town Hall (through March 28)
B.B. King at The United Palace Theatre
Free Tracy Bonham concert at BamCafe at 10 p.m.
Ollabelle plays City Winery with Jim White at 10 p.m.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony & Sinfonia concertante for Winds at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m., followed by a musical supper with Jean-Georges Vongerichten
“Swan Lake” at the New York City Ballet at 8 p.m.
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Symphony Space
Atos Trio at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Riverside Symphony plays Classics Revisited with Alan R. Kay at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
CD signing with Betty Buckley at Barnes & Noble on 86th and Lex at 3 p.m.
Free NEXT New York Conversation Summit 2010 - Haiti’s Future: New York City Speaks at 7 p.m. at the Greene Space with Soraya Darabi, Ryan Charles Mack, Rose Pierre-Louis, April R. Silver, Christopher C. Stout, Farai Chideya and Garry Pierre-Pierre
Harlem Globetrotters at 7 p.m. Madison Square Garden
Canceled: One Step Beyond dance party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the American Museum of Natural History

Saturday, February 13
Free admission at the New-York Historical Society (through Feb. 21)
Free admission at Brooklyn Historical Society from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to coincide with the NY Creates Red Show Craft Fair
The 25th annual New York Sword Dance Festival at the Museum of the City of New York at 1:30 p.m.
Lunar New Year Flower Festival from 10 a.m. at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Canal & Chrystie
Museum of the Chinese in America walking tour: Preparing for the New Year in Chinatown at 1 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Chinatown – The Year of the Tiger at 1 p.m.
Urban Oyster’s Brewed in Brooklyn tour at noon
Municipal Art Society walking tour: In the Footsteps of Abraham Lincoln at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tous: Cross-Park Promenade at 1 p.m., and Views From the Past at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
After-hoursTours for Two at MoMA at 5:30 p.m.
Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic in the U.S. premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
“Carmen” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
“Swan Lake” at the New York City Ballet at 2 and 8 p.m.
Cuba: Songs of Love and Hate at 5:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Asi Matathias and Ivana Ristova at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 2 p.m.
Love Conquers All at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8:30 p.m. with works by Tosti, Verdi, Liszt and Piazzolla
Valentine’s Day Weekend with Judah Friedlander at Comix at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Yes plays Town Hall at 8 p.m.
The Magnetic Fields play BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 8 p.m.
Free Maiysha concert at BamCafe at 10 p.m.
Manhattan Transfer with Jon Hendricks at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Shen Yun at Radio City Music Hall (through Feb. 21)
Disco Valentine at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 8 p.m. with Tavares, France Joli, Evelyn Champagne King, The Trammps, and Carol Douglas and Rochelle Fleming of First Choice
Florence Henderson at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
John Wesley Harding at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
Diane Birch plays NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m.
Melba Moore plays the Metropolitan Room at 9:45 p.m.
El Concierto del Amor at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden
Gemini & Scorpio’s legendary Russian Baths party from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Coney Island
Presidents & African American History events at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx from noon to 4 p.m.
Free El Museo’s Simposio 2010: Nexus New York at 2 p.m.
“The Turn of the Screw” performance at the Merchant’s House Museum at 7 and 9 p.m.
American Magic Lantern Theater at Galapagos Art Space at 3 p.m.
Kids Week begins at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (through Feb. 21)
Traditional English Sword Dancing Performance at 1 p.m. at the Jefferson market Library at 1 p.m.
Free Sword Dance Celebration at 1:30 p.m. at Central Park’s Charles A. Dana Discovery Center near 110th Street
Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll launch party at Nintendo World store from noon to 3 p.m.
Harbor Cruise’s Last Chance Valentine’s Cruise
Valentine Cabaret Concert at 7 p.m. at the NY Society for Ethical Culture
Tavern Concert: Linda Russell & Companie at Historic Richmond Town at 7:30 p.m. (reservations required)

Sunday, February 14
New Year’s Day Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Columbus Park for Year of the Tiger festivities
Bridge Project production of “The Tempest” begins performances at BAM Harvey Theater (through March 13)
Patti Labelle in concert at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Yes plays Town Hall
“Swan Lake” at the New York City Ballet at 3 p.m.
Live music, cash bar at Top of the Rock’s Starlight Music Series from 6 to 9:30 p.m. with The Joan Capra String Ensemble
Emotion & Motion program by dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Valentine’s Day Concert at the Merchant’s House Museum at 5:30 p.m.
Valiumtime’s Day with Adira Amram, John Roberts, Heloise & The Savoir Faire at Galapagos Art Space at 8 p.m.
Valentine’s Day Weekend with Judah Friedlander at Comix at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Valentine’s Day Showcase with Jeff Dye at the Gotham Comedy Club at 8:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at noon and Views From the Past at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The German Dimension of the East Village at 2 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: The Annual Valentine’s Day Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour at 1 p.m.
Valentine’s Chocolate Tour NY at 11 a.m.
Romantic Ghosts of Greenwich Village walking tour at 7:30 p.m.
After-hoursTours for Two at MoMA at 5:30 p.m.
Harbor Cruises’ Valentine’s Day dessert and martini cruise departs 9:30 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. the Lightning at 1 p.m.
Free Rescue Dogs on Duty family program at 2 p.m. at the WTC Tribute Center (reservations required/at capacity)
Lunar New Year Dumpling Workshop at the Museum of the Chinese in America at 2 p.m. (sold out)
Tickets go on sale to the general public for Green Day’s “American Idiot” on Broadway

Monday, February 15
134th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden
Martin McDonagh’s new comedy, “A Behanding in Spokane,” begins previews on Broadway with Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell (opening night: March 4; through June 6)
Project Shaw reading of “The Philanderer” at The Players on Gramercy Park South at 7 p.m.
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. with Scott Adsit, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Florence Henderson, Kristen Johnston, Carol Kane, John Leguizamo, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Mo Rocca, Brooke Shields and Alan Zweibel
We Are Plastic Ono Band Dress Rehearsal at BAM at 8 p.m.
“Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall
An Evening with Tegan and Sara at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 9 p.m.
In Conversation: An Evening with John Cale at 7 p.m. at MoMA
Natalie Weiss in “Offline” at 7 p.m. at Birdland
Andrew Kober at Joe’s Pub at 11:30 p.m.
Les Paul tribute with John Jorgenson and Howard Alden at 8 and 10 p.m. at Iridium Jazz Club
Municipal Art Society walking tour: New York in the Time of George Washington at 2 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 1 p.m.
Emotion & Motion program by dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet at 7:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim Museum
Dorothy Parker Post-Valentine Recovery Night at Barnes & Noble on 86th and Lex at 7 p.m. with authors Marion Meade and Dorothy Parker Society’s Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Free admission at the New-York Historical Society from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Normally closed on Mondays, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum opens today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Met Museum opens for Holiday Monday schedule, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden open for a holiday Monday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Museum of the City of NY open on a holiday schedule from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New York Botanical Garden open for a holiday Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan open for a holiday Monday
Final day to see Gabriel Orozco’s “Mobile Matrix” at the Museum of Modern Art

Tuesday, February 16
134th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden
Previews begin for “Next Fall” on Broadway (opening night: March 11; open-ended run)
Update: Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau are out sick tonight. Leah Partridge and Lawrence Brownlee will sing in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony & Sinfonia concertante for Winds at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8 p.m.
Sonoro Festival on Tour at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
All Balanchine program at the New York City Ballet at 7:30 p.m.
Dixieland Jazz concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Free hour-long concert: Juilliard Artists at 180 Maiden Lane from 12:30 p.m.
We Are Plastic Ono Band at 8 p.m. at BAM
Dave Alvin and a Couple of Guilty Women play City Winery at 9 p.m.
New-York Historical Society talk on The History of the Abyssinian Baptist Church with Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture: America’s Forgotten [Labor] Holiday at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen at 6:30 p.m.
Howard Bloom and Richard Foreman at Strand bookshop at 7 p.m.
World Record Appreciation Society at Joe’s Pub at 9:30 p.m.
New York Public Library cuts hours starting today due to budget cuts
Reservations open at noon for the free Access Restricted Feb 24. lecture ““Rethinking America’s Drug Policy” in the New York City Council Chambers

Wednesday, February 17
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through May 22)
Modernism at Risk (through May 1) and Back on the Map: Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World’s Fair (through March 31) open at the Center for Architecture
185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art opens at the National Academy (through June 8)
“Stew Making It” at St. Ann’s Warehouse (through Feb. 22)
Live music, cash bar at Top of the Rock’s Starlight Music Series from 6 to 8 p.m. with the Paul Meyers Jazz Duo
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Lincoln Center American Songbook concert: Vatnajökull Austurland Iceland: To Billie with Love - A Celebration of Lady Day in The Allen Room at 8:30 p.m.
All Balanchine program at the New York City Ballet at 7:30 p.m.
Chopin Fest at 8 p.m. at at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Eliane Elias at 10 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Paula Cole at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub
PROTEUS performance at Galapagos Art Space at 8 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Chicago Bulls at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m.
Free The Uptown Dance Academy’s Tribute to James Brown and Michael Jackson at 6:30 p.m. at the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center
“Cancelled by Publisher” New date: Book event: Michael Musto’s “Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back” at Barnes & Noble Tribeca at 7 p.m.
Image source: Center for Architecture, Photo: ACL/PennDesign of the New York State Pavilion.

Thursday, February 18
DECODENCE: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie opens at the South Street Seaport Museum (through January 2011)
New-York Historical Society panel discussion on David Ruggles and the NYC Underground Railroad at 6:30 p.m.
The Great Migration & Southern Cooking in New York City program at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30 p.m.
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.: On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System at 92Y at 8 p.m., moderated by Jeffrey Immelt
Panel discussion: Malcolm X: Speaking in the 21st Century at The Greene Space at 7 p.m.
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood reading series at 7 p.m. at Freddy’s Backroom in Prospect Heights
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 11 a.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade at 1 p.m.
Labyrinth Walk opens from 4 to 6 p.m. at Trinity Wall Street
Free performance by Héctor Del Curto’s Eternal Tango Quartet at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center 8:30 p.m.
Free tribute to American girl, World Citizen: A Musical Journey of Nina Simone at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College at 7 p.m.
Free Samita Sinha concert at Drom on Avenue A
Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Kathy Griffin at the Theater at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m. (through Feb. 20)
Tom Green at Comix at 7:30 p.m. (through Feb. 20)
NYC Firefighter Date Auction at the Knitting Factory at 6 p.m.
Robertson & Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand at the New York Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances an All Robbins program featuring “West Side Story Suite” and “Dances at a Gathering” at 8 p.m.
Lincoln Center American Songbook concert: Nellie McKay in The Allen Room at 8:30 p.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Robertson & Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Third annual Dre Day at the Music Hall of Williamsburg at 10 p.m.
African-American Fine Art goes on display at Swann Galleries in advance of the Feb. 23 auction

Friday, February 19
“Looped” begins previews on Broadway with Valerie Harper (opening night: March 14; open-ended run)
Capitol Steps at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Lincoln Center American Songbook concert: Dirty Projectors in The Allen Room at 8:30 p.m.
Richie Havens plays at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 8:30 p.m.
Free East West Quintet concert at BamCafe at 9 p.m.
Stephanie McKay at Galapagos Art Space at 8 p.m.
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
All Balanchine program at the New York City Ballet at 8 p.m.
Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Robertson & Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand at the New York Philharmonic at 2 p.m.
David Aladashvili plays piano works by Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Vlado Kumpan and his Moravian Musicians at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Beethoven Cycles: Quartets IV at 7:30 p.m.
Absolute Ensemble play Bach-Reinvented at (le) Poisson Rouge at 7 p.m.
Showgasm variety show at Ars Nova at 8 p.m. (free with RSVP)
An Evening of Chinese Theater at Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
“I Remember Harlem” screens at the Maysles Cinema plus a Q&A with filmmaker William Miles, researcher Dr. Juanita Howard and Eric Tait Jr.
Free Friday at the South Street Seaport Museum from 5 to 8 p.m. focusing on the 1741 Spanish slave insurrection
Bachata with “El Señor Bolero” (aka Francis Mendez) at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m.
New Museum program: Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium at 7 p.m.
Tumblr Reads: Internet Writers IRL open bar and live performance at 6:30 p.m. at Housing Works
YUN-FEI JI: Mistaking Each Other For Ghosts opens at the James Cohan Gallery (through March 27)
Big-screen Olympics hockey at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Gardens in Queens (through Feb. 21)
Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. for the Animal Collective and artist Danny Perez site-specific performance at the Guggenheim Museum

Saturday, February 20
Flushing’s 14th annual Lunar New Year Parade from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
NY Road Runners benefit Run for Haiti at 9 a.m. in Central Park
NY Knicks vs Oklahoma City Thunder at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Free-admission concert at Bargemusic at 1 p.m.
Free Red Baraat concert at BamCafe at 9 p.m.
Free Super Sabado events all day at el Museo del Barrio
Free 3 p.m. concert at the Queens Central Library by The Harlem Quartet
Lincoln Center American Songbook concert: Leslie Uggams in The Allen Room at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
NYNDK concert at Scandinavia House at 7:30 p.m.
Marina Heredia & Chekara, Arab-Andalusian Orchestra at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Jeff Mills at 7 p.m. at Le Poisson Rouge
Met Opera stages “Ariadne auf Naxos” at 1 p.m., and “La Bohème” at 8 p.m.
Robertson & Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
All Balanchine program at the New York City Ballet at 8 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances an All Robbins program featuring “West Side Story Suite” and “Dances at a Gathering” at 2 p.m.
Takács Quartet at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Juilliard Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Tavern Concerts at 7:30 and 9 p.m. at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island
Tour of the exhibition of “Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie” at the South Street Seaport Museum at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Thomas Keller at Book Court at 1 p.m.
Raku-Go: Traditional Japanese Comic Storytelling at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 2 and 7:30 p.m. (performed in Japanese)
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Views From the Past at noon; and The Castle & its Kingdom at 1 p.m.
Museum of the Chinese in America walking tour: Preparing for the New Year in Chinatown at 1 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Chinese New Year’s Banquet at Mandarin Court at 6 p.m.
Fifth annual Coffee & Tea Festival (and Feb. 21)
Colonial Chocolate Day from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum (advance registration required)

Sunday, February 21
The 11th Lunar New Year Parade & Festival from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (The “best viewing location for the Parade is on Allen Street between Canal and Grand Streets.”)
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars at B.B. Kings Blues Club at 8 p.m.
Anthony Anderson’s MixTape Comedy Show at the Gotham Comedy Club at 8 p.m.
Approach to Innovation an interview with Peter Gelb at 2 p.m. at the Juilliard School
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.
Ask Tong Sing: An Introduction to the Chinese Almanac at the Museum of the Chinese in America at 2:30 p.m.
Washington’s Birthday Ballat the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden at 1 p.m.
Staten Island Woodpecker Walk at 2 p.m.
Free Native American Winter Games at 2 p.m. in Central Park
Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx at 3 p.m.
Tapestry concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
The Takács at Town Hall at 2 p.m.
Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights at 3 p.m.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays Haydn Symphony No. 99 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m.
Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall at 3 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances an All Robbins program featuring “West Side Story Suite” and “Dances at a Gathering” at 3 p.m.
Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts with David Greilsammer on piano at 11 a.m. at the Walter Reade Theater
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Beethoven Cycles: Quartets V at 5 p.m.
Alaria: Spanish Invasion at 2 p.m. at the at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Denis Matsuev on piano at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Fifth annual Coffee & Tea Festival
Hungry in America benefit dinner at Colicchio & Sons
Last day of the season to skate at Battery Park City Ice Rink

Monday, February 22
Free Thelonious Monk tribute at the Museum of the City of New York at 6 p.m. (reservations required)
Free tribute to American Girl, World Citizen: A Musical Journey of Nina Simone at the Illinois Jacquet Performance Space in Queens at 7 p.m.
Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad Theater at 7:30 p.m. with Mike Birbiglia, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Susie Essman, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Michael Riedel, Brooke Shields, Sherri Shepherd and Alan Zweibel
Previews begin on Broadway for “All About Me” with Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein (opening night: March 18; open-ended run)
Opening night for the Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane’s “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch” with John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle at the Second Stage Theater (through April 4)
Broadway Musicals of 1927 at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Broadway Backwards at the Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont
Juan Diego Flórez and Diana Damrau in “La Fille du Régiment” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Opera Cabal at Galapagos Art Space at 8 p.m.
Masterworks Festival Chorus at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Benefit concert for Haiti: Xu Hui and Frank Levy play piano works by Scarlatti, Schubert, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, and Lee Holdridge at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall
Carol Wincenc Ruby Anniversary Series: Les Amies concert at the Morgan Library & Museum at 7:30 p.m.
Les Paul Mondays Feat. Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter And The Les Paul Trio at Iridium Jazz Club at 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Monday Nights, New Voices concert at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre at 7 p.m.
True Colors Cabaret with Sutton Foster and Joey McIntyre at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Arts and Artists at St. Paul’s present “Songbook” , a concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists, at 6 p.m. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
What Makes It Great? series with Rob Kapilow on Osvaldo Golijov’s “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” with the St. Lawrence String Quartet at Walter Reade Theater at 7:30 p.m.
Lecture at the Met Opera: The Nose’s Many Faces - Production Interview at 6 p.m.
The Paris Review: Philip Gourevitch talks with Mary Karr at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m.
Book launch at the Drama Book Shop for Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 34th Series at 5:30 p.m.
Author @ the Library for “America Eats! On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Super Socials and Chitlin Feasts that Define Real American Food,” with Pat Willard at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Dayo Olopade discuss What constitutes an African American classic at Barnes & Noble on 86th and Lex at 7 p.m.
Gotham History Forum event: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places at CUNY Graduate School at 6:30 p.m. (free, reservations required)
Lecture: Early Unheralded Arctic Exploration with Douglas Wamsley at the Explorers Club at 6 p.m.
1969: The Year of Gay Liberation exhibition opens at the Grand Central Library on E. 46th (through March 26)
In Passing: Evelyn Hofer, Helen Levitt, Lilo Raymond exhibition opens at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through May 23)
MoMA gallery talks inlcude Under the Fold: Newspaper Fragments in Modern Art at 11:30 a.m. and Pollock and the New York School at 1:30 p.m.
The Living Mandala Experience at 7 p.m. at the Rubin Museum
IFC Center screens The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Milwaukee Bucks at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 23
Waiting For Lefty: A Staged Reading with Theater 808, directed by Simon McLean at the Tenement Museum at 6:30 p.m. (free with rsvp)
John Standing performing Noel Coward at The Carlyle (through March 6)
“Attila” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House at 7:30 p.m. (through Feb. 27)
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at the Joyce Theater (through March 7)
New York City Ballet dances an All Robbins program featuring “West Side Story Suite” and “Dances at a Gathering” at 7:30 p.m.
Mariinsky Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Beethoven Cycles: Quartets VI at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Free, hour-long performance by Juilliard Artists at 180 Maiden Lane at 12:30 p.m.
Dixieland Jazz concert at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at noon
Jean Sibelius: A Composer’s Life and the Awakening of Finland, a lecture by Dr. Glenda Goss at Scandinavia House at 6:30 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s book talk at 6:30 p.m. with E. L. Doctorow on “ Homer & Langley,” his fictionalized account of the Collyer brothers
Book talk: The Row House Reborn at the Skyscraper Museum at 6:30 p.m.
A Discussion about Pulitzer and Murdoch at Strand bookshop at 7 p.m. with Michael Wolff and James McGrath Morris
André Aciman and Paul LeClerc in conversation at 7 p.m. at the New York Public Library
Freshkills Park staff presentation: Trash to Treasure at Sailors Snug Harbor, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at 6 p.m.
Furthur: Phil Lesh & Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall at 7:30 p.m. (and Feb. 24)
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter and Paul Motian at 8 and 10:30 p.m. at the Blue Note
Hal Galper Trio at Birdland at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Jeremy Sisto plays Cafe Vivaldi at 7:30 p.m.
Susie Essman, Janeane Garofalo, Sherri Shepherd and others perform on “Stand-Ups Give BAC,” a benefit for the Brooklyn Autism Center at Carolines on Broadway at 7 p.m.
African-American Fine Art auction at Swann Galleries at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public for the Broadway production of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” (Previews start April 9; April 29 opening night; through June 27)

Wednesday, February 24
“William Kentridge: Five Themes” opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 17)
“Lives on the Mississippi: Literature and Culture along the Great River” exhibition opens at the Grolier Club (through May 1)
Frigid New York theater festival begins (through March 7)
The Sixties readings at Symphony Space with Cynthia Nixon, Michael O’Keefe, Isaiah Sheffer and Staceyann Chin reading works including Didion’s “The White Album” at 7 p.m.
Free The Stages of Brooklyn: An Illustrated Talk by Cezar Del Valle at 6:30 p.m. at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection Reserve Room, Central Library, 2nd floor
Black Eyed Peas play Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
Constantine Maroulis at the Highline Ballroom at 8 p.m.
Coney Island Sideshow at Gotham Comedy Club at 6:30 p.m.
Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center (through March 14)
“La Bohème” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances an All Robbins program featuring “West Side Story Suite” and “Dances at a Gathering” at 7:30 p.m.
Live music, cash bar at Top of the Rock’s Starlight Music Series from 6 to 8 p.m. with The Mark Berman Jazz Trio
American Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall
American Classical Orchestra’s All Bach Concert at 8 p.m. at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on W. 71st
Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi: An Early Music Benefit for Haiti at Trinity Church at 7:30 p.m.
Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Ami Rogé and Pascal Rogé, play piano works by Fauré, Debussy, Paul Chihara (NY Premiere), Ravel and Dukas at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Olympus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Ensemble ACJW play (Le) Poisson Rouge at 7:30 p.m.
Free performance of The Lais of Machaut at 1:15 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church on E. 88th Street
Pocket Opera of NY’s Cosi Fan Tutte & Handel’s Serse at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City (through Feb. 28)
Meet the artists event at 6:30 p.m. for Marvelous Color, Marvel Comic’s black superheroes exhibition
Free lecture by playwright Lynn Nottage at at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus at 6:30 p.m.
The Looting of the Iraq Museum: An Evening with Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, the former director general of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad, at 6:30 p.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
William Finnegan & Ted Conover discuss “The Routes of Man; How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today” at Strand bookshop at 7 p.m.
Place, Race and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation discussion at 6:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Preservation Center (free but reservations required)
Free colloquium series: Turning the Tide: NY’s Waterfront in Transition: Opening Out Towards the Water”– The Big Picture, at 5:30 p.m. at Hunter College Faculty Dining Room
Author @ the Library event: “From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America,” with Christopher Finan at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
Free Access Restricted lecture at 6:30 p.m.: John Donohue III, Leighton Homer Surbeck on “Rethinking America’s Drug Policy” at New York City Council Chamber
Lecture: How to Do Things with Art—Dorothea von Hantelmann at 6:30 p.m. at the Guggenheim
Free Marilyn Johnson book event: This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at Broadway and W. 82nd
Book event for Amy Bloom at Three Lives & Company at 7 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.
Manhattan Independent Film Festival 2010
Free Bonny Doon Tasting with Randall Grahm at 6 p.m. at Appellation NYC
Retracted by Playbill/wrong night: Opening night for “The Tempest” at BAM
Image source: Museum of Modern Art. William Kentridge. Drawing from Stereoscope 1998–99. Charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil on paper, 47 1/4 × 63” (120 × 160 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, with special contributions from Anonymous, Scott J. Lorinsky, Yasufumi Nakamura, and The Wider Foundation.

Thursday, February 25
Whitney Biennial opens (through May 30)
Meet the Oscars go on display at The Shops at Columbus Circle (through March 7)
Free reading of Lincoln’s “Right Makes Might” speech from 1860 at Cooper Union by Richard Dreyfuss, André De Shields, Kathleen Chalfant, Stephen Lang and others at 6:30 p.m. (free ticket distribution starts at 4 p.m.)
Author @ the Library: “A Guide to Gangsters, Murders and Weirdos of New York City,” with local historian Eric Ferrara at 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-Manhattan NYPL branch
KinoFest emerging cinema from Ukraine and other post-Soviet bloc countries (through Feb. 28)
The New York premiere of “Rise Up” with a live performance by Judah Tribe at the Walter Reade Theater
Loser’s Lounge tribute to Karen Carpenter at Joe’s Pub at 7 p.m. (through Feb. 27)
Jahn Mayer plays Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
Barb Jungr at The Carlyle (through March 6)
Free performance by The Mighty Third Rail at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center 8:30 p.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Gil Shaham Plays Barber’s Violin Concerto; with the regular performance at 7:30 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances the Jewels: Gabriel Fauré’s “Emeralds,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Rubies,” and Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky’s “Diamonds” at 8 p.m.
National Dance Company of Korea performs The Scent of Spring at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
Olga Borodina and Dmitri Yefimov, at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
The Golden Age of the Viola da Gamba and the Lute: Music of Marais, Gallot, Forqueray, S. L. Weiss, Abel, and Lidl concert at the Morgan Library & Museum at 7:30 p.m.
The Lahjan Tytöt Aesthetic Gymnastics Club at Scandinavia House at 5 p.m., free
Institute of Culinary Education historical cooking class: Dining with Michelangelo:Food in the Italian Renaissance at 6 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tour: Cross-Park Promenade at 1 p.m.
Reservations open at noon for the free March 5 Access Restricted lecture: Daniel McClean on “The Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aesthetics” at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Meeting Hall
Delayed again: (New delayed date) Banana Shpeel from Cirque du Soleil at the Beacon Theatre (through May 30)

Friday, February 26
Reception and gallery talk on “Brooklyn in Prints” a special exhibition curated by The Old Print Shop at the Brooklyn Historical Society at 6:30 p.m.
NY Wine Expo at the Javits Center (through Feb. 28)
Tibet House benefit concert at Carnegie Hall at 7:30 p.m. with Philip Glass, Gogol Bordello, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and others
Free Beat Kaestli “Far from Home - A Tribute to European Song” concert at BAMCafe at 9:30 p.m.
Gil Shaham Plays Barber’s Violin Concerto at the New York Philharmonic at 11 a.m.
“Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
John Mayer plays Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m.
The Super 70s Soul Jam at 8 p.m. at The Theater at Madison Square Garden with The Stylistics, The Emotions, Heatwave, The Blue Notes, Main Ingredient, The Delfonics, and Carl Carlton
Dionne Farris at Galapagos Art Space at 10:30 p.m.
Jazz Musician George Mraz and Friends at the Bohemian National Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Rafal Blechacz on piano at 7 p.m. at the Met Museum
Ellis Paul/Naked Soul performance at the Rubin Museum at 7 p.m.
Free Cello Extravaganza at 8 p.m. on Roosevelt Island
New York City Ballet dances the Jewels: Gabriel Fauré’s “Emeralds,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Rubies,” and Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky’s “Diamonds” at 8 p.m.
Champions of the Dance at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Celtic Woman at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m. (and Feb. 27)
New York International Children’s Film Festival (through March 14)
Addicted in Afghanistan screens at MoMA at 4:30 p.m. as part of the series: Documentary Fortnight, 2010: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film
New Museum program: A Proposition by Ute Meta Bauer at 7 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s cooking class: Signature Dishes from Chef Craig Koketzu at 6 p.m.
Canceled: Doom and Mos Def plays Nokia Theatre at 9 p.m.

Saturday, February 27
The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through April 11)
“Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art” exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 5)
Free sledding and hot chocolate in five city parks
12th annual BAM Kids Film Festival (and Feb. 28)
Pre-Oscar 2009 Animated and Live Action Short Film Nominees screen at noon and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International on East 59th Street
NY Times Travel Show at the Javits Center opens to the public (through Feb. 28)
Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition at the World Financial Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“La Bohème” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances the Jewels: Gabriel Fauré’s “Emeralds,” Igor
Stravinsky’s “Rubies,” and Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky’s “Diamonds” at 2 and 8 p.m.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays the Brooklyn Museum at 2 p.m.
American Landmark Festivals’ free 2 p.m. concert at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Memorial
Egyptian Folkloric Dance Troupe Performance at 3 p.m. at the Bruno Walter Auditorium
Astrograss at Symphony Space at 11 a.m.
Jerry Lee Lewis at B.B. Kings Blues Club
English Beat/Fishbone play Irving Plaza at 7 p.m.
Free Eric Person & Metamorphosis concert at BAMCafe at 9:30 p.m.
Royale With Cheese: The Burlesque Tribute to Pulp Fiction at Joe’s Pub at 11:59 p.m.
Celtic Woman at Radio City Music Hall at 8 p.m.
Friends of Celebrate Brooklyn event with Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal and Michael Showalter at 8 p.m. at Bell House
“Attila” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Gil Shaham Plays Barber’s Violin Concerto at the New York Philharmonic at 8 p.m.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at 8 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt play Schubert and Dvořák at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Omara Portuondo at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Free Central Park walking tours: Views From the Past at 11 a.m.; Cross-Park Promenade at noon; and a 1 p.m. tour of Seneca Village, Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour from noon to 2 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Keeping Off Midtown Streets (West Side) at 10 a.m.
Eagle Watch at 10 a.m. at Inwood Hill Nature Center
Tales from the Crypt, a free reading of “Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ships” at 1 p.m. at Fort Greene Visitors Center
Owl Prowl at 6 p.m. at Staten Island’s Blue Heron Nature Center
“Naked” Polar Bear Cruise on Circle Line at 11 a.m.
Harbor cruise with Headcase (departs from New Jersey)
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
New Museum program: A Proposition by Ute Meta Bauer at noon
Tour of the “Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie” exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
Childrens’ Festelavn Workshop at Scandinavia House at 1 p.m.
NY Knicks vs Memphis Grizzlies at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
St. John’s Red Storm vs. Pittsburgh Panthers at noon at Madison Square Garden
National Girls & Women in Sports Day
Postponed due to weather: Stories & Music of the New Year at the Museum of the Chinese in America at 2 p.m.
Canceled: Festival de la Independencia Dominicana at the Theater at Madison Square Garden at 8 p.m. with Johnny Ventura, Fernando Villalona, El Torito, Los Hermanos Rosario, Tono Rosario, Ruby Perez

Sunday, February 28
Last day to ride the Roosevelt Island Tram before it shuts down for renovations (through Aug. 31) - 2 a.m. last ride party
Record Riot at Warsaw in Greenpoint from noon to 8 p.m.
Very Young People’s Concerts: The Four Seasons: Winter at the New York Philharmonic at 12:30 and 3 p.m.
The Artemis Ensemble at Town Hall at 2 p.m.
New York City Ballet dances the Jewels: Gabriel Fauré’s “Emeralds,” Igor Stravinsky’s “Rubies,” and Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky’s “Diamonds” at 3 p.m.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at 2 p.m. at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium
Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt play Schubert and Dvořák at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Simon Keenlyside and Pedja Muzijevic play Schumann, Wolf and Schubert at 5 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall
Only in New York program at the Museum of the City of New York at 2 p.m. with Sam Roberts
A Brooklyn Poetry Slam for Haiti from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Free lecture at 11 a.m. on Evolution of the Field Guide at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Brooklyn
Free program: Raptors: Masters of the Sky at noon in Central Park
Free program: All Things Algonquin at 1 p.m. at Fort Totten
Unearthing History: Part III Archaeological Dig Series at 2:30 p.m.at the Kingsland Homestead
Free Central Park walking tours: Cross-Park Promenade at 11 a.m.; Views From the Past at noon and The Castle & its Kingdom at 1 p.m.
Mike Feller’s Winter Bird Walk at 9 a.m. in Fort Tryon Park
Coney Island Polar Bear Swim at 1 p.m.

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