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Things to do this week in NYC Jun 27-Jul 4: Music (06/27) - Jazz, Hip-Hop, Reggae, or the classics ? New York City venues feature music from all cultures. Whether you're catching an aria at Lincoln Center, or checking out a band at Central Park Summerstage, NYC has a gig you won't want to miss. (read the story...)    ACTIVITY PLANNER    Sign up for Our Weekly NYC Activity Newsletter Email    Find out what's happening in NYC when you're planning to visit. Arrival: Departure: Category: All Activities Auditions Awards Shows/Banquets Cabaret Charity Events Comedy Cultural Arts Film Food and Drink Fun for Kids Galleries Holiday Celebrations Lectures/Debates Literary Marathon Museums Music Nature/Outdoors Parades Sample Sales Scavenger Hunts Shopping Signings/Appearances Sports Street Fairs Theater Tours Trade Shows   Date: Activity: Through 8/30/2009 Hours: 10-5:45pm On Feathered Wings: Birds in Flight - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: TW,TE,AD Price: $15 adults, $8.50 children This exhibition brings together over 30 photographs by renowned wildlife photographers whose artistry showcases the majesty of birds in flight. These images, many taken in the New York area, represent fleeting moments revealing behavior that even scientists do not usually see. Through 9/15/2009 Sound Sensations - New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th Street - 718-699-0005 www.nyscience.org Ages: All Price: $11 adults, $8 children Children explore the tools, from audio tape to computers, used to record, play and modify sounds. This fun, interactive exhibit returns to the Hall with a new look, and updated technology. Through 8/09/2009 Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection, 1800-1850 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The porcelain factories of Berlin, Sevres, and Vienna achieved an extraordinary level of both artistic and technical skill in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the quality of painted decoration practiced at these three factories at that time has never been surpassed. This exhibition brings together approximately seventy-five superb exam... (more) Through 8/03/2009 Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses - National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green - 212-514-3700 http://www.americanindian.si.edu Ages: All Fifty-five native dresses from the Plains, Plateau, and Great Basins regions comprise this overview of Native American dresses. Through 8/16/2009 Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All This major new exhibition will explore the science, history, and impact of climate change, and illuminate ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints. Through 12/31/2009 Hours: 12pm; 10am Sat, closed Mondays and Tuesdays It Happened in Brooklyn - Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street - 718-222-4111 www.brooklynhistory.org Ages: All Price: $6; $4 seniors and students 12 and over; under 12 FREE This ongoing exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Visitors meet a range of Brooklyn residents through artifacts in the permanent collection of photographs, artworks, and documents. This includes Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary W... (more) Through 10/02/2009 Taking the Oath: The First Presidential Inauguration - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: YE,TW,TE,AD n honor of the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009, Taking the Oath will revisit the United States' momentous first presidential inauguration and exhibit significant artifacts from that day, including Washington's inaugural chair and the Federal Hall balustrade. Through 3/01/2010 NEW YORK PAINTING BEGINS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PORTRAITS - The New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All The New-York Historical Society holds one of the nation's premiere collections of eighteenth-century American portraits, works that art historian James Thomas Flexner called "the first flowers of our wilderness." This installation provides twenty-first century viewers with ways of understanding these remarkably innovative and engaging paintings, so... (more) Through 8/17/2009 Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style - Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th St. (6-7 Aves.) - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All A painting tradition established in the traveling courts of the great Tibetan Karmapas, most of what we know of the Encampment Style belongs to its 18th-century revival by the great scholar-painter Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-1774). A combination of Indio-Nepali and Chinese artistic influences, the Encampment style was fostered under the tutel... (more) Through 7/12/2009 ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN HIS OWN WORDS: AN INTIMATE VIEW OF OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All More books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other American, yet our most famous president is dominated by a series of iconic images: the son of an illiterate frontier farmer who taught himself to read; the bearded man in the stovepipe hat; the savior of the Union; the Great Emancipator; the martyred leader. This exhibition invites v... (more) Through 12/31/2009 SESSIONS - THE ALGONQUIN THEATER 123 East 24th Street Between Lexington and Park Avenues www.smarttix.com Ages: All Price: Student/Senior w/id $20.00 Through 3/01/2010 Hours: 10-6 Spanish Courses for Adults and Kids - El Taller 2710 Broadway, 3rd flr. - 212-665-9460 www.tallerlatino.org/CalendarOfClasses.html Ages: all ages El Taller Latino Americano teaches Spanish not by text but by sound, intuition and uproarious debate. - (Village Voice). Small classes with a focus on Latin America will get you speaking faster then you ever thought possible. Full schedule of day-time, evening and weekend conversational language courses start every month. Check out the current... (more) Through 7/13/2009 Stable as a Mountain - Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th St. (6-7 Aves.) - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All Portraiture is one of the most powerful and significant expressions of figurative art, and in the Himalayas the subjects of religious portraits are exclusively religious teachers, or gurus. By preserving the physical appearance of a guru, an icon is produced that can charismatically substitute for the teacher in his physical absence. As such these ... (more) Through 8/30/2009 Hours: Mon: 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM; Tues, Wed, Thurs & Sun: 11 AM - 5 PM; Fri & Sat - Closed I of the Storm: Michael Hafftka, Recent Works - Yeshiva University Museum 15 W. 16th St. - 212-294-8330 Ages: All Ages Price: $8 - Adults; $6 - Student/Senior After more than 30 years of portraying the human figure with a neo-expressionist style, Michael Hafftka turns to his Jewish heritage for subject matter and inspiration in his new exhibition, I of the Storm: Michael Hafftka, Recent Work, at the Yeshiva University Museum. Frequently compared to the painters Soutine, Goya and Rouault, Hafftka ... (more) Through 9/06/2009 Living Line: Selected Indian Drawings from the Subhash Kapoor Gift - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All A selection of 58 master drawings representing the distillation of the finest works assembled over two generations of collecting by Subhash Kapoor and his late father, Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor. The exhibition will feature a wide variety of works on paper executed principally in black ink, sometimes enhanced with watercolor, typically on fine lami... (more) Through 8/30/2009 From Plaster to Stone - Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Rd. (Vernon Blvd.), Long Island City, Queens - 718-204-7088 www.noguchi.org Ages: All Beginning in the 1940s, Isamu Noguchi began using small paper models as an aid in creating his larger biomorphic sculptures. Noguchi continued this practice for the rest of his career, using plaster maquettes to envision larger stone or metal works, often including penciled instructions on them to guide different technical effects. In this small ex... (more) Through 9/27/2009 Hours: 10 AM - 5 PM, Tuesday through Sunday Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson - Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street - 212-534-1672 www.mcny.org Ages: All Price: $5-9 "Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson" investigates how Henry Hudson's epic third voyage of exploration planted the seeds of a modern society that took root and flourished in the New World. The exhibition features rare 17th-century maps and globes, navigational instruments, paintings, Native American artifacts, household objects, and... (more) Through 7/05/2009 The Generational - Younger Than Jesus - New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery (Prince St.) - 212-219-1222 www.newmuseum.org Ages: All For "Younger Than Jesus," the first edition of "The Generational," the New Museum's new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" offers a rich, intricate, multidisciplinary exploration of the work being produced by a ... (more) Through 10/18/2009 New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004 - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36 St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All Presenting over one hundred works that underscore the great scope of the Morgan's collecting interests, the exhibition includes old master and modern drawings, literary and musical manuscripts, illuminated texts, and rare printed books and bindings. The selections were drawn from more than 1,200 works acquired since 2004 and include seminal figures... (more) Through 9/06/2009 The Treasure of Ulysses Davis - American Folk Art Museum 45 West 53rd Street - 212-265-1040 www.folkartmuseum.org Ages: All Ulysses Davis (1914 - 1990) was a Savannah, Georgia, barber who created a diverse but unified body of highly refined sculpture that reflects his deep faith, humor, and dignity. His carvings were featured in the seminal 1982 exhibition "Black Folk Art in America, 1930 - 1980" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where they were applau... (more) Through 8/02/2009 The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on "The Pictures Generation," a tightly knit group of New York artists who created some of the most important and influential works of the late-twentieth-century. Born into the media culture of postwar America, their overarching subject was how pictures of all kinds not only depict but ... (more) Through 10/25/2009 Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Giving viewers the sense of being immersed in the midst of a cataclysmic force of nature, Maelstrom (2009) is Paine's largest and most ambitious work to date. The latest in a ... (more) Through 9/20/2009 Klaus Moje: Painting with Glass - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-956-3535 www.madmuseum.org Ages: All A major force in the international studio glass movement, Klaus Moje has pushed the expressive and technical possibilities of glass for more than five decades. In this comprehensive, 30-year survey, the Museum of Arts and Design traces the progression of Moje's work, from his early carved crystal glass pieces, to his intricately patterned vessels o... (more) Through 7/09/2009 Landmarks of New York - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All An exhibition of 83 photographs documenting some of the most significant buildings and public parks in New York City. The exhibition has traveled to 82 countries under the sponsorship of the United States Department of State since 2006 and is now coming home to New York for its final showing. The photographs in the exhibition will then enter the co... (more) Through 8/09/2009 The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion for Spring 2009 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: AD The exhibition explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, and will focus on iconic fashion models of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. Through 9/13/2009 Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-956-3535 www.madmuseum.org Ages: All The first major U.S. museum exhibition to survey contemporary innovation in industrial ceramic production and the renaissance of ceramics in art and design today. The exhibition explores how artists and designers are reviving interest in ceramics through collaborations with industry that enhance and sometimes subvert the industrial process. Through 7/23/2009 Hours: - 5:00pm BFA & MFA Thesis Projects Spring Semester 2009 - New York School of Interior Design 170 East 70th St. - 212-472-1500 www.nysid.edu Ages: All Through 7/18/2009 John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning - Grey Art Gallery New York University, 100 Washington Square East - 212-998-6780 www.nyu.edu/greyart Ages: AD,All John Wood (born 1922) has consistently challenged traditional photography, often incorporating painting, drawing, and collage as well as cliché verre, solarization, and offset lithography. Transgressing the boundaries of "pure photography," his eclectic practice has helped usher in alternative approaches to the medium. With their adroit manipulatio... (more) Through 8/09/2009 Hours: Saturday to Wednesday, 10 AM to 5:45 PM; Friday, 10 AM to 7:45 PM. Closed Thursday. A Year with Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Price: $18 adults, $15 students/seniors (65+) Free for children under 12 years The exhibition presents selections of artwork by second- through sixth-grade students from 16 public schools throughout New York City, who participated in the Guggenheim's Learning Through Art (LTA), a pioneering arts education program now in its 39th year. The colorful and imaginative works on display will include prints, paintings, sculpture, mas... (more) Through 8/23/2009 Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building. The 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residence... (more) Through 1/03/2010 Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All This major new exhibition explores the surprising and sometimes bizarre world of extinct and living mammals. Featuring fossils from the Museum's collections, the exhibition examines the ancestry and evolution of numerous species, ranging from huge to tiny and speedy to sloth-like, and showcases animals with oversized claws, fangs, snouts, and horns... (more) Through 8/16/2009 Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36 St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All Drawn from the Morgan's collection, the exhibition examines the origins of modern scenic design and chronicles the evolution of stage sets during the highly innovative period of ca. 1900 to 1970. On view are over fifty drawings, derived entirely from the Morgan's holdings, principally from the collection formed by the celebrated American set design... (more) Through 9/07/2009 Hours: 10:00AM – 4:30PM Big City Fishing - Hudson River Park Pier 46 - Charles St. at the Hudson River; Pier 84 - W. 44th St. at the Hudson River - 212-889-0808 Ages: any Price: Free Fishing in the Hudson River is better than ever at Hudson River Park! We provide rods, reels, bait and instruction. So come on down and try your luck at fishing while enjoying the warm sun and cool breeze. Two locations: Pier 46 - Charles St. at the Hudson River; Pier 84 - W. 44th St. at the Hudson River Weekends from May 25th through Labor D... (more) Through 9/26/2009 The Collage Aesthetic of Louis Armstrong: 'In the Cause of Happiness' - Jazz at Lincoln Center Peter Jay Sharp Arcade, Broadway at 60th St., 5th flr. - 212-769-5100 www.jalc.org Ages: All This exhibition features large-scale images of collages created by Armstrong from clips of photographs, news stories, postcards, letters, telegrams and other materials that Armstrong artfully affixed to the boxes of his vast private collection of audio tapes. Tues.-Sun., 10am-4pm & 6-11pm; Mon., 6-11pm. Free. Through 1/01/2010 Frogs: A Chorus of Colors - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All A pioneer in modern frog research, the American Museum of Natural History hosts one of the largest frog collections in the world. Brilliant orange, bright blue, dazzling red?this vivid assortment of hues hints at the remarkable diversity that exists among the frog species inhabiting the globe, from lush rainforests to parched deserts, and nearly ev... (more) Through 8/18/2009 Hours: 6:30 – 8:00 PM Stars of Tomorrow - Hudson River Park Pier 45 - Christopher St. at the Hudson River - 212-889-0808 Ages: any Price: Free Enjoy music from Bach to Bebop as students from both the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and Mannes College The New School for Music perform. Tuesdays, June 2nd – August 18th Through 8/21/2009 Hours: 7:00 – 9:00PM Sunset on the Hudson - Hudson River Park Pier 45 - Christopher St. at the Hudson River - 212-889-0808 Ages: any Price: Free Enjoy the gorgeous sunset and mellow sounds of New York's acclaimed Guitar Man David Ippolito while relaxing on this spectacular grass covered pier that stretches 900 feet into the majestic Hudson River. Fridays, June 5th – August 21st Through 9/02/2009 The Sweeney Decade - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Drawn from the paintings and sculpture of this era acquired by Guggenheim director James Johnson Sweeney during his tenure from 1952 to 1960, The Sweeney Decade features examples of international post-World War II trends in abstraction, including Abstract Expressionism, L'Art Informel, CoBrA, and Tachisme. Through 7/05/2009 Encores! Summer Stars - The Wiz - NY City Center 130 W. 56th St. (6-7 Aves.) - 877-581-1212 www.nycitycenter.org Ages: All Ashanti stars as Dorothy in The Wiz, the 1974 rock and soul musical based on the beloved L. Frank Baum story about Dorothy and her adventures in Oz, which won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Choreography. Through 8/31/2009 Hours: 6:30-7:30 pm The Boot Camp by inSHAPE - Bethesda Fountain in Central Park 72nd Street Transverse in the middle of the park - 212.362.1001 Ages: any Price: 20 Are you bored with your routine and want to get outside and add some variety to your workouts? The Boot Camp by inSHAPE is a results-driven total body conditioning workout that utilizes a circuit training format, with innovative and challenging exercises that benefit any fitness level. Combining three elements: cardio, strength, and flexibility,... (more) Through 10/24/2009 Noguchi ReINstalled - Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Rd. (Vernon Blvd.), Long Island City, Queens - 718-204-7088 www.noguchi.org Ages: All A formal commemoration of the reopening of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in its completely renovated state. While the Museum's first floor galleries and indoor/outdoor space have remained relatively unchanged, this exhibition will mark the first time the Permanent Collection will be on view in its entirety since the spring of 2002.... (more) Through 11/29/2009 Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The introduction of esoteric Buddhism to Japan from mainland China in the ninth-century forever changed the visual landscape of Japanese religion and of Japanese art as a whole. The rituals of Mikkyo Buddhism, or the "Secret Teachings" as the newly imported doctrine was called, involve a preponderance of arrestingly beautiful and fearsome images th... (more) Through 9/13/2009 Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36 St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All This exhibition comprises approximately fifty lavish single leaves, dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Pierpont Morgan, the preeminent collector of complete medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, also acquired single pages as did many collectors who developed an appreciation for these orphaned leaves during the nineteenth century. L... (more) Through 9/20/2009 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Ancient Afghanistan -- at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions by great powers and nomadic migrations -- was home to some of the most complex, rich, and original civilizations on the continent of Asia. This exhibition will celebrate the unique role of Afghanistan as a center for both the reception of diverse cultural elem... (more) Through 1/04/2010 The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: AD Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually charged objects and sculptures became central to their concerns. This exhibition features some of the most notorious works, including Salvador Dalí... (more) Through 10/25/2009 Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition - Discovery - Times Square Exposition 226 W. 44th St. (7-8 Aves.) - 866-9-TSXNYC www.discoverytsx.com Ages: All Relive Titanic's fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Discover how the "unsinkable" Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck. Largest collection of Titanic artifa... (more) Through 9/20/2009 Yinka Shonibare MBE - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn - 718-638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All A major midcareer survey of work by the UK-based Nigerian artist. Shonibare's artwork explores contemporary African identity and its relationship to European colonialism through painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Shonibare is best known for his work with visual symbols, especially the richly patterned Dutch wax fabric produced in ... (more) Through 7/04/2009 Sylvia - American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.abt.org Ages: All A ravishing fast-paced fantasy set amid verdant forests and majestic temples, Sir Frederick Ashton's mythological love story unites the huntress Sylvia and a lovelorn shepherd with the divine intervention of the deity Eros. The splendid score by Leo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed a... (more) Through 7/11/2009 Umbilical Brothers - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (18-19 Sts.) - 212-242-0800 www.joyce.org Ages: All Equipped with one microphone, two twisted imaginations and some seriously amped up vocal cords, the kings of theatrical action comedy bring the best of their worst in SPEEDMOUSE. These toon-like troublemakers effortlessly mimic every sound imaginable, creating a warped world where they whip up another "uproarious fiesta of carefully choreographed m... (more) Through 10/19/2009 Hours: 9:30 PM Erotic Broadway - The Triad 158 W. 72nd St. - 212-362-2590 Ages: 16 + Price: $50, $35, $30 plus 2 drink minimum This stimulating variety show series features the hottest and most exciting Broadway talent offering their own interpretation of dance, slinky love songs, risqué stand-up comedy, and steamy storytelling. For ticket information please visit www.smarttix.com www.theatermania.com 7/03/2009 Hours: 6:00-7:30 PM New York City Trivia Rumble! - East Village Visitors Center @ Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery - 212-614-8702 Ages: 18 & up Price: $6.00 New York City Trivia Rumble! Popular Monthly Trivia Night Returns July 3, 6:00pm What subway line would you take to get from Yankee Stadium to Coney Island? On what street was Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album cover shot? Which direction does traffic flow on Central park East? What current world leader gave a campaign speech at Cooper Unio... (more) 7/04/2009 New York Fireworks Dinner Cruise - Spirit Cruises Chelsea Piers - 866-399-8439 www.spiritofnewyork.com Ages: AD Join Spirit of New York and celebrate America's Birthday with a six-hour event featuring a five-hour cruise. This great value includes a premium open bar, bountiful buffet, engaging entertainment, and spectacular views of the fireworks display at the Statue of Liberty, all for one price! Get out on the water this year and make a dazzling memory. Cl... (more) 7/04/2009 Hours: 5:00pm - 11:00pm Spirit of New York July 4th Fireworks Dinner Cruise - Spirit of New York Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, West 23rd Street - 866.483.3866 Ages: 21+ Price: $207.90 or $299.90 pp Food, Fun and Front-Row Fireworks this 4th of July! Have a blast this Independence Day and celebrate America’s birthday with a six-hour cruise event aboard the Spirit of New York. Come aboard for our tantalizing buffet, live solo performances, DJ entertainment, dancing, and spectacular views of the fireworks display at the Statue of Liberty, all... (more) 7/04/2009 Hours: 5:00pm - 11:00pm Bateaux New York July 4th Fireworks Dinner Cruise - Bateaux New York Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, Suite 200, West 23rd Street - 866.817.3436 Ages: 21+ Price: $376.90 pp Ultimate Independence Day Sophistication. Celebrate in style. Spend America’s Birthday with a six-hour cruise experience aboard Bateaux New York. You’ll be treated to a few hours of sophisticated elegance featuring a premium open bar, delicious cuisine, fine wine, live soft jazz, dance music and a magnificent view of the fireworks beneath the ... (more) 7/04/2009 Fireworks Celebration - Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises Pier 83, W. 42nd St. & 12th Ave. - 212-563-3200 www.circleline42.com Ages: All This July 4th make it extra special with a festive 4th of July Cruise. See the awesome Macy's Fireworks on the Hudson River. The location has been changed in honor of the celebration of the 400 year anniversary since HENRY HUDSON step foot in what we know today as NYC.The fireworks will light up the night sky as you create your own sparks dancing t... (more) 7/04/2009 The 3th of July Fireworks IndepenDANCE Cruise - Paddle Wheel Queen SakyPort Marina: 23rd Street & FDR Drive-East Side of Manhattan - 917-567-7459 www.nypartycruise.com Ages: 21 Price: 125.00 Lower Deck Productions Presents "The 4th of July Fireworks IndepenDANCE Cruise" Saturday, July 4, 2009 Aboard The Multi-Leveled and Climate-Controlled PADDLE WHEEL QUEEN Docking from the Skyport Marina, 23rd Street & FDR Drive, (East Side of Manhattan) Boarding begins at 5:00PM and Docks at 10:00pm ADMISSION INCLUDES SUCH ... (more) 7/04/2009 Hours: 5pm-10:30pm July 4th Dance Cruise - The Star of Palm Beach Pier 40 West Side Highway - 212-987-9200 ext 305 Ages: 21+ Price: $70 July 4th Dance Cruise • 2 Live DJ’s Spinning your favorite Top 40 dance music and 70s, 80s & 90s hits on the Upper Level • Lower Level DJ playing a mix of R & B, Old School Hip Hop, Salsa, Merengue and more • Enjoy Fireworks display in the harbor. • Buffet Included: (Herb Roasted Chicken, Pasta, Mixed Green Salad & Roasted Vegetables) • ... (more) 7/04/2009 Hours: 5pm-10:30pm Queen of Hearts July 4th Dance Cruise - Queen of Hearts Pier 40 West Side Highway - 212-987-9200 ext 305 Ages: 21+ Price: $125 Queen of Hearts July 4th Dance Cruise • 3 Hour Top Shelf Open Bar • Buffet Included: (Herb Roasted Chicken, Pasta, Mixed Green Salad & Roasted Vegetables) • Enjoy Fireworks display in the harbor. • 2 Dance Floors & 2 Live DJs Spinning Top 40, 70s, 80s, 90s, Hip Hop, R&B, Salsa • Live Performance by Sizzling Samba Dancers • Dress to impre... (more) 7/04/2009 Hours: 12pm-5pm 4th of July Hot Dog Contest & BBQ Brunch - Village Pourhouse 64 3rd Ave - 212-228-2000 Ages: 21+ Price: $0 Watch Coney Island's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on ESPN And when they’re done...it's your turn! Then stay for our BBQ Brunch Special! Our $25 price-fixed menu includes authentic backyard BBQ fair and All You Can Drink Bud Light Draft, Brunch Punch, and Sagatiba Lemonade pitchers for 2 hours! 7/05/2009 - 9/06/2009 Hours: 8pm Baseball Bingo - Village Pourhouse Uptown 982 Amsterdam Ave - 212-228-2000 Ages: 21+ Price: $0 Play along with the game at Baseball Bingo! It's free to play and you can win free drinks, gift certificates, and other Yankees/Mets giveaways! Never miss a game with MLB Extra Innings presented on one of our 19 HD screens. Score free shots with every Grand Slam and $2 shots with every Home Run! 7/06/2009 - 7/11/2009 Romeo and Juliet - American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.abt.org Ages: All Sir Kenneth MacMillan's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT's signature productions. Against a sumptuous setting in Renaissance Italy, MacMillan weaves a dance tapestry rich in character nuance and sensuality, and Sergei Prokofiev's stirring music underscores the lyric beauty and passion of this... (more) 7/07/2009 - 7/26/2009 Lincoln Center Festival - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: All Surround yourself with stunning theater, music, and dance at Lincoln Center Festival 2009. For three exciting weeks in July, artists from around the world share their stories on the human experience, ranging from tragic to enraged, from poignant to hopeful and joyful. This year's world-class theater features the return of visionary director Aria... (more) 7/07/2009 - 7/25/2009 Midsummer Night Swing - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: All Midsummer Night Swing, now in its 21st season, heats up Damrosch Park with the rhythms that keep New York dancing. This year brings out the very best of swing, salsa, soul, tango, rockabilly, and much more, showcasing some of the finest musicians and DJs from this country and abroad. For dance fanatics, enthusiastic beginners, and everyone in betwe... (more) 7/08/2009 Hours: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. MDA's Wings Over Wall Street (R) Bar Night - Public House New York 140 E. 41st St. - 212-689-9040 Price: $100 for 3 hours of open bar! Proceeds benefit ALS research. On behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Co-Chairs of Wings Over Wall Street 2009, Matt DeSalvo of Credit Suisse and Ray Tierney of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, invite you to attend Bar Night 2009. Here is your chance to be waited on by executives and colleagues including DeSalvo and Tierney. Other guest bartenders include colle... (more) 7/08/2009 - 7/15/2009 Hours: 1PM The Growing Rock - The Shadow Box Theatre 45 Bleecker St. - 212-724-0677 Ages: 3-8 Price: $12.50 advance/$15 at door In this magical tale about Mama Bluefeather, her babies who haven't yet learned to fly, and a jealous crow- the children in the audience help bring the baby birds to safety! 7/08/2009 - 8/12/2009 Hours: 7pm Booze and Schmooze - SideBAR 118 E 15th St - 212-228-2000 Looking to switch careers, out of work, or just interested in meeting others in your field to network with? Join us every Wednesday night at SideBAR (Voted 2008's Best After Work Bar) to Booze & Schmooze at our Social Networking Events. These events are great for consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, professionals and the unemployed. Each wee... (more) 7/08/2009 Hours: 7pm Board Games and Beer - Village Pourhouse 64 3rd Ave - 212-228-2000 Ages: 21+ Price: $0 Grab your friends for a game night to remember Choose from a variety of games including Taboo, Cranium, Catchphrase and many more ...and don' forget Village Pourhouse boasts over 100 beers to choose from while you squash the competition! 7/08/2009 - 11/15/2009 Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009 - National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts 1083 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-369-4880 www.nationalacademy.org Ages: All An exhibition that examines the critical role the human figure has played in the Nation's art for the past 189 years. Transcending chronological, stylistic, and generational boundaries the exhibition will present 160 works drawn from the National Academy's important and wide ranging collection of American art, as well as an intriguing selection of ... (more) 7/09/2009 - 8/16/2009 Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile - Japan Society 333 E. 47th St. - 212-832-1155 www.japansociety.org Ages: All Drawn from a previously unknown private Tokyo collection, Buriki presents seventy miniature masterpieces that track the glory days of the Big Three automakers. These faithful models of Cadillacs, Buicks, Chryslers, Pontiacs, Chevrolets, Studebakers, and Fords chronicle a unique epoch in relations between Japan and the United States and will delight... (more) 7/09/2009 - 7/26/2009 Fresh Fruit Festival - Various locations - 212-352-3101 www.freshfruitfestival.com Ages: All A nearly month-long celebration of the arts and culture that champions the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in song, theater, poetry, dance, and music. Taking place at various venues throughout the city, the festival will highlight an eclectic look at dance, featuring artist Ian Archer-Watters' comedic rendition of The Swan, a jazz... (more) 7/09/2009 Paul Potts - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (74-75 Sts.) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All The first winner of "Britain's Got Talent," and YouTube sensation, Paul Potts takes the stage. 7/09/2009 106.7 Lite fm Presents Broadway in Bryant Park 2009 - Bryant Park Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets www.1067litefm.com Ages: All The best of Broadway is FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with this lunchtime series featuring live performances excerpted from big-name on- and off-Broadway shows for open-air enjoyment during lunch hour. Performers on July 9th include the casts of Phantom of the Opera, Stomp, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and The Joe Iconis Rock and Ro... (more) 7/09/2009 - 8/16/2009 Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile - Japan Society 333 E. 47th St. - 212-832-1155 www.japansociety.org Ages: All Drawn from a previously unknown private Tokyo collection, Buriki presents seventy miniature masterpieces that track the glory days of the Big Three automakers. These faithful models of Cadillacs, Buicks, Chryslers, Pontiacs, Chevrolets, Studebakers, and Fords chronicle a unique epoch in relations between Japan and the United States and will delight... (more) 7/09/2009 - 8/16/2009 Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile - Japan Society 333 E. 47th St. - 212-832-1155 www.japansociety.org Ages: All Drawn from a previously unknown private Tokyo collection, Buriki presents seventy miniature masterpieces that track the glory days of the Big Three automakers. These faithful models of Cadillacs, Buicks, Chryslers, Pontiacs, Chevrolets, Studebakers, and Fords chronicle a unique epoch in relations between Japan and the United States and will delight... (more) 7/10/2009 Frankie Beverly & Maze - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (74-75 Sts.) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All Dubbed the "best kept secret in the industry," Frankie Beverly and Maze have gained world-wide appeal through their unique sound and legendary sold-out live performances. For over 30 years, the group has yielded a string of chart-topping hits including "We Are One," "I Can't Get Over You," "The Morning After," and "Joy and Pain." In 2004, Maze r... (more) 7/10/2009 Night at the Museum - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All This summer, families are invited to spend a real night at the Museum with a unique after-hours opportunity at the American Museum of Natural History. These nocturnal adventures are designed to thrill kids ages 8-12 and their caregivers. They include a screening of the IMAX film Dinosaurs Alive!, a spooky dinosaur-fossil exploration by flashlight a... (more) 7/10/2009 - 7/12/2009 Hours: Vary CitySol - Solar1 2420 FDR Drive, Service Road East - 212-922-5885 Ages: All Price: Free CITY SOL, Solar 1's annual 3-day, sustainability festival gives NYC residents and visitors the opportunity to experience a zero-waste, carbon-free event where all materials are recycled or reused and all electronic equipment is powered by the photovoltaic panels on the Solar 1 roof. Festival-goers can dance, listen to bands, drink beer, play games ... (more)