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Things to do this week in NYC Feb 6-Feb 13: Music (02/06) - 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 12/31/2012 Hours: Saturday 5pm; Tuesday 8pm Sam Eaton Presents THE QUANTUM EYE Magic & Mentalism Show - Bleecker Street Theatre 45 Bleecker St. - 347-294-0092 www.TheQuantumEye.com Ages: +8 Price: $47-$77 THE QUANTUM EYE is Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show that you will never forget. Professional magician and m... (more) 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 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 2/28/2010 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 2/21/2010 Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Although lacquer is used in many Asian cultures, the art of carving lacquer is unique to China. In this technique, multiple layers (as many as 200) are applied onto a substructure in the shape of a box or some other container and individually dried and carved to create lush geometric motifs, lively representations of figures in landscapes, or birds... (more) Through 4/12/2010 Monet's Water Lilies - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All The Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914–26) and a single-panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated... (more) Through 6/08/2010 Hours: 7:30 - 10:00pm Reel Jewish Sports Film Series - The Suffolk Y JCC 74 Hauppauge Road - 631-462-9800 www.suffolkycc.org Ages: All ages Price: Y members $5.00/movie; non-members $7.50 Each month a different film will explore Jewish sports experiences in a variety of sports from a number of different countries. the films will be shown on the second Tuesday of the month, beginning at 7:30p.m. The first film to be shown, "Orthodox Stance," is about Orthodox boxer Dmitriy Salita. The films will be followed by a question and answer ... (more) Through 5/16/2010 Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Photographs are often perceived as transparent windows onto a three-dimensional world. Yet photographs also have their own material presence as physical objects. Contemporary artists who exploit this apparent contradiction between photograph as window and photograph as object are featured in Surface Tension. This exhibition presents 30 works that p... (more) Through 3/21/2010 Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the Sta... (more) Through 3/07/2010 Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter - American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-265-1040 www.folkartmuseum.org Ages: All Obscure in his own lifetime, Thomas Chambers found fame in the twentieth century with the discovery of The "Constitution" and the "Guerriere," a rare signed painting of his that unlocked the identity of the artist behind a singularly flamboyant group of mid-nineteenth-century American marine and landscape paintings. Chambers's expressive style and ... (more) Through 9/13/2010 Up Close: Henry Darger and the Coloring Book - American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-265-1040 www.folkartmuseum.org Ages: All Henry Darger (1892-1973) adopted countless images from popular-media sources, such as newspapers, magazines, comics, and cartoons, but no single source influenced him as steadily as the coloring book. This intimate exhibition features nine examples culled from the museum's extensive Henry Darger Study Archive, illustrating the primary role the colo... (more) Through 9/06/2010 Approaching Abstraction - American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-265-1040 www.folkartmuseum.org Ages: All It is commonly assumed that contemporary self-taught artists work solely in a representational style, eager to engage in storytelling and personal memory. But while the narrative tradition often is a primary impulse, a significant number exhibit a tendency to be seduced by material, technique, color, form, line, and texture, creating artwork that o... (more) Through 2/21/2010 Pablo Bronstein at the Met - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (b. 1977) will create two new bodies of work addressing the nature of the museum. Several large ink drawings will portray a mythical history of the Metropolitan Museum, imagining the building under construction and giant artworks being transported or installed. Running in parallel, a series of smaller digital im... (more) Through 4/04/2010 Slash: Paper Under The Knife - Museum of Arts & Design 2 Columbus Cir. (near Eighth Ave. & W. 58th St.) - 212-956-3535 www.madmuseum.org Ages: All Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional han... (more) Through 3/07/2010 Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks - Museum of the City of New York Fifth Ave. & 103rd St. - 212-534-1672 www.mcny.org Ages: All Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks presents the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz, who has spent more than three years recording wild places in New York City's parks. Located in all five boroughs, these escapes to the woodlands, streams, waterfronts, marshes, and beaches are among the city's greatest assets, yet they a... (more) Through 3/25/2010 Lincoln and New York - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All New York's role as the Union's prime provider of manpower, treasure, media coverage, image-making, and protest, some of it racist -- the 1863 Draft Riots and the robust effort to unseat Lincoln in 1864 -- are traced alongside Lincoln's concurrent growth as a leader, writer, symbol of Union and freedom, and ultimately as national martyr. Through all... (more) Through 5/31/2010 The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All Celebrating its twelfth year at the Museum, this highly popular winter attraction transforms the iciest day into a magical summer escape, inviting visitors to mingle with up to 500 fluttering, iridescent butterflies among blooming tropical flowers and lush green vegetation in 80-degree temperatures. Through 2/15/2010 From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection - Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Ave. (86 St.) - 212-628-6200 www.neuegalerie.org Ages: All With this exhibition, Neue Galerie New York pays tribute to its co-founder, Serge Sabarsky. A tireless advocate for German and Austrian art, Sabarsky was the driving force behind the creation of the museum. He was also a dedicated collector, who acquired numerous masterworks by the artists he cherished. The exhibition demonstrates the range and qua... (more) Through 4/04/2010 Design USA: Contemporary Innovation - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 E. 91st St. (5 Ave.) - 212-849-8400 www.cooperhewitt.org Ages: All Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Dev... (more) Through 3/28/2010 Anish Kapoor: Memory - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Memory (2008), a new commissioned Cor-Ten steel sculptural installation by Anish Kapoor made its debut at Deutsche Guggenheim in November 2008. The exhibition, part of the Guggenheim's 50th-anniversary celebrations, presents New York audiences with a site-specific adaption of the work, conceived originally for both exhibition locations. Through 3/31/2010 The Life & Legacy of Lieutenant Petrosino - New York City Police Museum 100 Old Slip (Water-South Sts.) - 212-480-3100 www.nycpolicemuseum.org Ages: All Visit the Police Museum's newest installation celebrating one of the most famous officers in the history of the NYPD. Lieutenant Petrosino arrived in New York as a young boy in 1872 and grew to become a pioneer in the fight against organized crime until his murder in 1909 in Sicily. He remains the only New York City Police Officer to be killed in t... (more) Through 11/01/2010 Hours: 4:30-5:30 PM, 7-8:30PM Free Trial Class in Flamenco Dance - Flamenco Latino Studio 244 W. 54th St., 4th fl. - 212-399-8519 Ages: 5 yrs.-Adult Price: Free Discover flamenco by taking a FREE trial class at Flamenco Latino in midtown Manhattan! The first Monday of every month, first time students at Flamenco Latino may take a flamenco class free of charge. This special offer starts November 1st at Flamenco Latino Studio 244 W 54th Street, 4th floor (bet. B-way and 8th Ave.) Adults: Monday 7:... (more) Through 3/14/2010 A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. (36 St.) - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Ages: All This exhibition explores the life, work, and legacy of Jane Austen (1775-1817), regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. Offering a close-up portrait of the iconic British author, whose popularity has surged over the last two decades with numerous motion picture and television adaptations of her work, the show provides tangible intimacy w... (more) Through 3/25/2010 FDR's Brain Trust and the Beginning of the New Deal - New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All In his search for a new national message during the 1932 presidential primary, FDR gathered around him a number of political, economic and legal scholars. The core of this group were Columbia University professors, who knew and trusted each other, and were willing to take risks and work long unpaid hours, to promote a candidate that they believed c... (more) Through 4/25/2010 Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-6pm; Friday 11am-8pm; Closed Monday and major holidays The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC - The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 15 E. 84th St. - 212-992-7843 Ages: All Price: FREE An unprecedented free exhibition brings to the United States for the first time more than 250 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves, towns, and villages of Old Europe, a period of related prehistoric cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, a... (more) Through 7/07/2011 A Song for the Horse Nation - National Museum of the American Indian 1 Bowling Green - 212-514-3700 www.americanindian.si.edu Ages: All A Song for the Horse Nation presents the epic story of the horse's influence on American Indian tribes from the 1600s to the present. Drawing upon a treasure-trove of stunning historical objects -- including ledger drawings, hoof ornaments, beaded bags, hide robes, paintings, and other objects -- and new pieces by contemporary Native artists, the e... (more) Through 8/15/2010 Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All This intriguing exhibition brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history, showcasing the goods, cultures, and technologies from four representative cities: Xi'an, China's Tang Dynasty capital; Turfan, a verdant oasis and trading outpost; Samarkand, home of prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and Baghdad, a fe... (more) Through 9/07/2010 Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition -- the first in an art museum to be devoted exclusively to Oceanic musical instruments -- explores the rich diversity of musical instruments created and used in the Pacific Islands. Drawn primarily from the Met's collections, the exhibition features more than 60 instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whi... (more) Through 10/02/2010 Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All Body Parts features thirty-five objects that represent individual body parts in ancient Egyptian art from the Brooklyn Museum's collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. While traditional exhibitions of ancient art focus on reconstructing damaged works, this exhibition uses fragmentary objects to illuminate the very realistic ... (more) Through 3/19/2010 Hours: 11:00am-6:00pm Ruth Gilmore Langs: Paint - Agora Gallery 530 W. 25th St. - 212-226-4151 www.agora-gallery.com Ages: all Price: free The Agora Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Ruth Gilmore Langs: Paint, a solo exhibition. Scheduled to run from November 20, 2009 through March 19, 2010, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Ruth's new works. Ruth Gilmore Langs approaches painting with an inner passion that becomes evident when one allows oneself to vent... (more) Through 12/31/2011 Hours: 2 Little Italy, Chinatown and Little Ireland History and Tasting Tour - NYC Discovery Walking Tours New York, NY - 212-465-3331 Price: $35 A walk through these ethnic enclaves exploring the trials and triumphs of the American immigrant. Along the way, we will sample ethnic specialties from pizza and cannolli to spring rolls and dumpling. Stops include the Church of the Transfiguration; the site Five Points, made famous in Gangs of New York; Banco Stablile, Confucius Plaza, the residen... (more) Through 4/26/2010 Tim Burton - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imaginat... (more) Through 1/03/2012 Historic Pubs & Taverns of Greenwich Village - NYC Discovery Walking Tours New York, NY - 212-465-3331 Price: $18 (drinks extra) A walking tour of pubs, speakeasies, and taverns -- all with historic associations. Possible stops include New York's third oldest tavern, a haunt of write Dylan Thomas; a pub associated with founding father Thomas Paine; and the tavern where Robert Kennedy and Norman Mailer contemplated their professional futures. Cost: $18 per person (drinks e... (more) Through 3/14/2010 Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop - Discovery - Times Square Exposition 226 W. 44th St. (7-8 Aves.) - 866-9-TSXNYC www.discoverytsx.com Ages: All Explore Leonardo da Vinci's 500 year old inventions from his actual notebooks as they are brought to life in in this world-premiere exhibit. Discover how his visions for an airplane, automobile and bridge would have worked – long before they became the modern world's reality. Plus, uncover the translations and hidden meanings behind the mastermind'... (more) Through 2/14/2010 Omer Fast: Nostalgia - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75 St.) - 800-WHITNEY www.whitney.org Ages: All This exhibition features recent work by Fast, who received the Whitney's 2008 Bucksbaum Award for his widely acclaimed video, The Casting -- the artist's contribution to the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Closed Mon. & Tues. $18. Through 4/30/2010 Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Pier 86, W. 46th St. & 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All This traveling exhibit includes 29 high resolution iris prints of Schulz's original designs for Snoopy as a World War I flying ace. While Schulz was drawing scenes of our beloved Snoopy as a flying ace, USS Intrepid crew members were creating their own original artwork featuring the Peanuts gang. View these original "sailor art" cartoons, as well a... (more) Through 6/13/2010 Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This installation features fourteen bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists. Drawn from a private collection in the U. S., the installation provides an introduction to Aboriginal painting, which has become Australia's most celebrated contemporary art movement and has attained prominence within the internati... (more) Through 6/06/2010 5,000 Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the acquisition of the Packard Collection, showcasing its particular strengths in archaeological artifacts, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings of the Momoyama and Edo periods (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries), and sculptures of the Heian and Kamakura periods (n... (more) Through 7/12/2010 The New Typography - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (fr... (more) Through 3/28/2010 Hours: 11:30AM-3:00PM Presents Endless Mimosas & Bloody Marys - Southern Hospitality 1460 Second Ave. (bet 76th & 77th Sts.) - 212-249-1001 www.southernhospitalitybbq.com Price: $11.95 Southern Hospitality presents endless mimosas & bloody marys for $11.95 with the purchase of any brunch entree every Saturday & Sunday during brunch, 11:30am-3pm. Through 4/11/2010 Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All A diverse selection of European and American works on paper spanning the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. A group of early Italian engravings will be shown, including two masterpieces attributed to the great Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506): Bacchanal with Silenus (ca. 1475) and Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus ... (more) Through 3/02/2010 Hours: 6pm-8pm Ascension: The Journey of John Coltrane - The Harlem School of the Arts 645 Saint Nicholas Ave. - 212-926-4100 Ages: All Price: Free The Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) and its Visual Arts Department presents Hank Paper's Ascension: The Journey of John Coltrane, Thursday, January 14, 2010 through Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The opening reception takes place Thursday, January 21st from 6pm-8pm in the HSA Gathering Space (G-Space). As with all of HSA's art exhibitions, Ascension is ... (more) Through 3/05/2010 Hours: 7pm My Sinatra - A Musical Memoir About Obsessio - The Triad 158 W. 72nd St. - 212-868-4444 www.mysinatra.com Ages: all Price: $20 Cary Hoffman will take his highly acclaimed show My Sinatra, A Musical Memoir About Obsession, to The Triad uptown. After several successful and critically acclaimed workshops at the Algonquin Theater downtown, the show will make its official Triad debut on Friday, January 15th at 9:00 PM for a four performance limited run. My Sinatra, A Musi... (more) Through 11/28/2010 Collecting Biennials - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75 St.) - 800-WHITNEY www.whitney.org Ages: All As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum's fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney's collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Mu... (more) Through 4/18/2010 The Drawings of Bronzino - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), presenting nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, the leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de' Medic... (more) Through 4/26/2010 Ernesto Neto: Navedenga - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Since the late 1990s, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) has created interactive, immersive sculptural environments using translucent, stretchable fabric. Navedenga (1998), acquired for the Museum's collection in 2007 and on view for the first time in the galleries, is one of the earliest pieces from this evolving body of work. With its taut c... (more) Through 3/31/2010 Hours: 12am to 7pm THE ANT - The Invisible Dog 51 Bergen St., Brooklyn - 646-270-2550 Ages: 1 to 99 Price: Free We proudly presents The Ant in the main exhibition hall. Artist Xavier Roux was inspired to create the sixty-foot long sculpture by the poem written by Surrealist Robert Desnos in 1942. This touching piece consists of a giant ant symbolizing the trains transporting Jews and other Nazi victims to concentration camps. The Invisible Dog Art Center www... (more) Through 5/12/2010 Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their diverse customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest creative developments, often fusing novel formal elements with aspects from their respective l... (more) Through 2/16/2010 Hours: 1.5 'Anyone for a Classy Threesome?: A Night of Multimedia Adaptations' - Kraine Theater 85 E. 4th St. btw. 2nd Ave and Bowery - 215-817-1560 Ages: PG13 Price: $15 In three short adaptations, "Anyone for a Classy Threesome" features classic literary works re-told through radio, film, and song. The evening opens with Othello as a wild-western 1940s radio play, segues to a filmed 1001 Arabian Nights set in Illinois, and concludes with a contemporary musical romp through Inferno's Circle of Lust! Tickets are ... (more) Through 2/28/2010 Winter Restaurant Week Menu - Salute! 270 Madison Ave. (39th St.) - 212-213-3440 www.salutenyc.com Ages: All During Winter Restaurant Week, more than 260 restaurants -- encompassing a diverse range of cuisines and including time-honored restaurants and buzz-worthy newcomers -- offer three-course, prix-fixe lunch and dinner offerings for $24.07 & $35 respectively. Among the participating restaurants, Salute! is acclaimed for impeccable hospitality and a di... (more) Through 2/14/2010 Duet for Solo Voice - Theater for the New City 155 1st. Avenue - 212-254-1109 www.voice4vision.org Ages: 18+ Price: $10 Theater for the New City's special production of "Duet for Solo Voice" by David Scott Milton, directed by Stanley Allan Sherman and acted by Jonathan Slaff. The play is a dark comedy about Leonard Pelican, a paranoid night clerk in a seedy Times Square hotel, circa 1970, who thinks that the Russians are coming...for him! He is pursued througho... (more) Through 3/10/2010 Tino Sehgal - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Organized as part of the Guggenheim's 50th-anniversary celebrations, this exhibition comprises a mise-en-scene that will occupy the entire Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. One facet of the artist's practice, quasi-sculptural choreographed movement, will transform the ground floor of the rotunda into an arena for spectatorship. On the spiraling ... (more) Through 8/22/2010 Hilla Rebay: Art Educator - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All Hilla Rebay: Art Educator features some of the artist's remarkably progressive efforts to provide a variety of audiences -- from youth and teachers to artists and museum visitors -- with opportunities to learn about nonobjective art, or art without representational links to the material world. Through 2/14/2010 Hours: PROGRAM A: Tue–Wed 7:30pm; Thu–Sat 8pm; Sun 7:30pm PROGRAM B: Sat & Sun 2pm Parsons Dance - The Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Avenue - 212-242-0800 Price: $59, $35, $19 See an all-new version of last season's sold-out, rock dance opera, Remember Me featuring Parsons Dance and the lead vocalists and music of the Grammy-nominated rock opera band, East Village Opera Company. Direct from its first national tour, Remember Me has an entirely fresh look and feel. New choreography, all-new costumes by "Project Runway" d... (more) Through 2/23/2010 Hours: 11:00am-6:00pm Three Part Group Exhibition - Agora Gallery 530 W. 25th St. - 212-226-4151 www.agora-gallery.com Ages: all Price: Free Influenced by a range of sources, from Native American to the masters of Western Art, the works collected in Elemental Realms explore not only the world we live in, but also the world that lives within each of us. In Sensorial Realities, great artists strive towards natural and honest personal expression, knowing well the debt owed to those who hav... (more) Through 2/27/2010 Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6 City and Country Paintings and Biblical Reliefs and other Sculpture - Bowery Gallery 530 W. 25th St. - 646-230-6655 Ages: All Price: Free Two art shows, one painting and one sculpture at the Bowery Gallery during the month of February. Through 3/14/2010 Hours: 11am-4pm Tokens of Love Exhibit - Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden 421 E. 61st St. - 212-838-6878 Ages: All Price: Free with admission This exhibit explores 19th-century traditions of courtship and the ways in which sweethearts could express their feelings. Featured in the display are examples of Valentine's cards popular in the 1800's, including the infamous "vinegar valentine." Before you leave, make your own "token of love," a heart-shaped pin cushion. The exhibit and craft are... (more) Through 2/15/2010 Sesame Street Live: When Elmo Grows Up - WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Ave. & 32nd St.) - 800-745-3000 www.wamuatmsg.com Ages: All When Elmo and his Sesame Street Live friends think about growing up, it's a musical show-and-tell! Bert dreams of becoming a forest ranger, Telly longs to be a cowboy and their newest friend, Abby Cadabby, wants to be a fairy godmother just like her mommy. Elmo thinks about becoming a 'weather monster,' but has a hard time predicting his own foreca... (more) Through 5/30/2010 Banana Shpeel from Cirque du Soleil - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (between W. 74th and 75th Streets) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All Cirque du Soleil is putting a contemporary twist on Vaudeville by infusing this classic form of theatre with a modern flair. Don't miss the World Premiere of Banana Shpeel, a roller-coaster mix of styles that blends comedy with tap, hip hop, eccentric dance and slapstick, all linked by a hilarious narrative that ignites a succession of wacky advent... (more) Through 2/11/2010 14th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival - Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th St. - 212-294-8350 x0 www.sephardicfilmfest.org Ages: Teens-Adults Price: $11.50 Thirteen films, including three U.S. and seven N.Y. premieres, in the only U.S. annual film festival devoted solely to the rich and colorful stories, customs and culture of Sephardic Jewry. Plus, talk backs with directors, gala receptions and more. Books and cds available for purchase. Visit www.sephardicfilmfest.org for schedule of screenings and ... (more) Through 7/25/2010 Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997) - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All This exhibition includes a selection of around one hundred works drawn from a recent gift of more than three hundred paintings, sketches and studies, poetry manuscripts, and artist's seals done by or for Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997), one of modern China's leading traditional artists and connoisseurs. Together, these studies illustrate how Chinese artists... (more) 2/09/2010 Carmen - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All Elina Garanca sings Carmen for the first time at the Met. Roberto Alagna and Jonas Kaufmann share the role of the obsessed Don Jose, Barbara Frittoli is Micaela, and Mariusz Kwiecien is the matador Escamillo. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. 2/09/2010 All Russian: Agon, Cortege Hongrois, New Miroshnichenko Ballet - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, Columbus Ave. & 63rd St. - 212-870-5570 www.nycballet.com Ages: All Russian composers and choreographers have long inspired the ballet stage with their mastery of music and movement. The apex of the Stravinsky/Balanchine collaboration, Agon is an electric masterpiece, ever contemporary in its athletic competitiveness. The Kirov Ballet's Alexey Miroshnichenko introduces a new story to a composition by Rodion Shchedr... (more) 2/09/2010 Hours: 7pm Chocolate & Dessert Cocktail Mixology Class - SideBAR 118 E. 15th St. - 212-677-2900 www.SideBarNY.com Ages: 21+ Price: 50 Join our interactive mixology class where you will learn the basics of mixing like a master and pouring like a pro. Once you've got that down, learn how to make some delicious chocolate and dessert cocktails that will surely assist in getting that special someone in the mood this Valentine's Day. Class will be followed by an hour of open bar. 2/09/2010 Hours: 12:00 pm Melanie Fiona - J&R Music World 23 Park Row - 212-238-9000 Ages: All Price: FREE In-store performance and autograph signing. 2/09/2010 Hours: 12:00PM-2:00PM Celebrate Valentine's Day with Victoria's Secret in New York City - Victoria's Secret Soho Store 591 Broadway - 212-219-3643 Ages: ALL Price: FREE Victoria's Secret shoppers are invited to join newly announced Bombshells Candice Swanepoel and Erin Heatherton to celebrate Valentine's Day in a wild way by creating their own Valentine's Day Card! Create your own Valentine's Day Card by having your photo taken with the Victoria's Secret Bombshells, which you then can give or send online to that s... (more) 2/09/2010 - 2/10/2010 Hours: 7:00 pm 'Searching for the 4th Nail,' a documentary by George Eli - Cinema Village 22 E. 12th St. - 212-924-3363 Ages: all Price: $10.00 A documentary by George Eli. An insider's look at the secret life of an American Gypsy. Follow George Eli, an American Gypsy, as he turns his camera on the secret life of his Romani culture. As we see through his 8mm family footage, growing up Gypsy was 'a pretty good life--' carefree and lawless. Eli’s journey begins when his two sons ask 'what d... (more) 2/10/2010 Hours: 8:00 PM Sacred Music in a Sacred Space: Music of Steffani & Bach - Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 980 Park Ave. at 84th St. - 212-288-2520 Price: Preferred: $50 / General: $40, $30 (students/seniors) STEFFANI: Stabat Mater BACH: Cantata No. 12, "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" BACH: Cantata No. 4, "Christ lag in Todesbanden" Choir & Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola Kent Tritle, conductor Jamet Pittman and Michele Eaton, sopranos Katie Geissinger and Ory Brown, mezzo-sopranos Steven Fox and Michael Steinberger, tenors Peter Stewart, bar... (more) 2/10/2010 La Fille du Regiment - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All New king of the high Cs Juan Diego Florez reprises his headline-grabbing performance in the comic hit from the 2007–08 season. Diana Damrau makes her Met role debut as Marie. Kiri Te Kanawa returns to the Met stage in the speaking role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lo... (more) 2/10/2010 Apollo Amateur Night - Apollo Theater 253 W. 125th St. (7-8 Aves.) - 212-531-5337 www.apollotheater.com Ages: All A phenomenal success since its founding, Amateur Night has always lured audiences with the thrilling prospect of discovering new talent. At 75, Apollo Amateur Night continues to demand and reward greatness, as performers vie to become the next Apollo legend. 2/10/2010 - 2/14/2010 Swan Lake - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, Columbus Ave. & 63rd St. - 212-870-5570 www.nycballet.com Ages: All Peter Martins' bold and provocative full-length staging of Swan Lake features Tschaikovsky's timeless score with turbulent, abstract designs by Per Kirkeby, echoing the conflict in this most famous of psychological dramas. No ordinary fairytale, The New York Times has called this stunning production "the talk of the town." 2/10/2010 - 2/12/2010 Hours: 10am to 7pm Marine Mammals of the Arctic Live Webcasts - Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration 55 Coogan Blvd., Mystic, CT - 860-572-5955 www.mysticaquarium.org Ages: 8 and up Price: Free with aquarium admission Immersion Learning brings the vast and exciting Arctic world live via Webcast to Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration on February 10 to 12. During the week of live Marine Mammals of the Arctic Webcasts, viewers will have the opportunity to interact directly with scientists and trainers who work with marine mammals to better understand their ... (more) 2/10/2010 Hours: 7-9pm Havana Central Valentine's Day Bacardi Cocktail Challenge - Havana Central 2911 Broadway (btw. 113th & 114th Sts.) - 212-662-8830 Ages: 21+ Havana Central is hosting its first-ever Valentine's Day Cocktail Challenge! Mixologists & amateur cocktail enthusiasts are invited to submit original recipes highlighting "aphrodisiac" ingredients mixed with lead spirit, Bacardi Rum. The winning cocktail will be featured @ all 3 Havana Central restaurants during the month of February. ***All en... (more) 2/10/2010 FashionSociete.com Presents “The Hair Goddess Within You, Unleashed' - Studio 353 353 W. 48th St. - 516-353-7550 Ages: 25+ Price: $36 The shining glory every woman wants happens when you pull off the hairstyle that best suits your hair type, bone structure, facial profile and of course, your personality. Whether your "do" runs short and sleek, naturally wild, traditional or au courant, learn about styles and colors options that are strikingly flattering on you. Haven’t you ... (more) 2/10/2010 Hours: 7pm-8:30pm Intro to Couples Massage - SideBAR 118 E. 15th St. - 212-677-2900 www.SideBarNY.com Ages: 21+ Price: 50/couple In this beginner's fun and easy 90 minute class, couples will learn basic massage techniques to help blast away the tension of a hard day's work! Professional Massage Therapist Guy Ardito will prepare you for the best gift you can give your loved one this Valentine's Day- the ability to massage their stress away! Please bring a pair of clean socks ... (more) 2/10/2010 Hours: 7pm Chocolate and Cherry Beer Tasting - Village Pourhouse 64 Third Ave. - 212-979-2337 www.VillagePourhouse.com Ages: 21+ Price: 25 Proof that even beer can be romantic. In honor of Valentine's Day our Beer Sommelier will take you on a journey through the history of the beer we love and a tasting of Chocolate, Cherry & Wheat Beers. We know cupid strikes while you're wearing your beer goggles- but who knew putting them on could be so sweet! 2/10/2010 Starlight Music Series: Beledo Jazz Trio - Top of the Rock 30 Rockefeller Center (W. 50th St. btw. Fifth & Sixth Aves.) - 877-692-7625 www.topoftherocknyc.com Ages: All Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center hosts its celebrated live music program, the Starlight Music Series, on Wednesday evenings, February 10th - February 24th, from 6-8 PM. Access to the musical event is included with the purchase of a Top of the Rock ticket. Visitors can enjoy live music and a glass of wine or refreshing beverage... (more) 2/10/2010 Hours: 8pm - 11pm Touch Foundation's Frosty Fete fundraiser - Marquee 289 10th Ave. at 27th St. - 212-351-0710 Ages: 23 - 35 Price: $50 tickets in advance, $75 at the door, $45 for medical students, residents or nurses. Join the Touch Foundation for our Frosty Fete fundraiser, Wednesday, February 10th at 8 PM! Mix and mingle with other young professionals at one of NYC's trendiest nightclubs, Marquee. The evening includes open select bar for three hours, a melange of mainstream and African beats by DJake, purchase jewelry and a chance to bid on top items at our si... (more) 2/10/2010 - 6/14/2010 Shape Lab - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Make discoveries about shape and art in MoMA's newest interactive space. In Shape Lab, families can experiment, build, draw, read, and create with a variety of kid-friendly materials and activities. Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10:30am-5pm; Friday, 10:30am-6:30pm. 2/10/2010 Hours: 7-9 PM Gen Art Presents 'The New Garde' Fashion Show - Drive In Studios 443 W. 18th St. - 212-584-4275 Ages: 18+ Price: $50 Gen Art, the nation's leading arts and entertainment organization dedicated to showcasing emerging artists, will present its Fall 2010 New York Fashion Week show. Gen Art and title sponsor Plastics Make it PossibleSM will celebrate emerging designers with "The New Garde" show taking place on February 10 at Drive In Studios in New York City . "T... (more) 2/11/2010 - 2/12/2010 Hours: 8PM Jane Birkin in Concert - French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) 22 E. 60th St. - 212-355-6100 Price: $50 ($40 for FIAF members) Two performances! Feb. 11 & 12, 2010. Accomplished singer and actress Jane Birkin returns to FIAF for two wonderful evenings of song. Birkin, who began her career in the 1960s with singer Serge Gainsbourg, will perform songs from her most recent album, Enfants d'hiver, as well as old favorites from her days with Gainsbourg. Enfants d'hiver m... (more) 2/11/2010 Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All Strauss's dual gifts for groundbreaking modernity and classical elegance come together in a smart and fanciful production. The great Swedish diva Nina Stemme makes a rare appearance in the title role and Sarah Connolly as the Composer. Kirill Petrenko conducts. 2/11/2010 - 2/14/2010 New York Flamenco Festival - NY City Center 130 W. 56th St. (6-7 Aves.) - 877-581-1212 www.nycitycenter.org Ages: All New York's annual flamenco celebration, now in its 10th year, features mesmerizing performances with renowned dancers and musicians direct from Spain. 2/11/2010 The Global Cocoa Project - Hudson Terrace 621 W. 46th St. - 718-858-0364 www.globalgivingcircle.org/globalcocoaproject Ages: 21 Price: 40 Celebrate the launch of the Global Giving Circle's Global Cocoa Project by indulging yourself at the Hudson Terrace's not-to-be-missed chocolate and wine tasting. Sample incredible wine-infused chocolates from 2 Chicks with Chocolate, dark chocolate from Madecasse of Madagascar, Pomegranate Acai, Coconut Almond and Cool Pepperment handmade raw vega... (more) 2/11/2010 Hours: 7pm Chocolate & Wine Tasting - Hudson Terrace 621 W. 46th St. - 212-315-9400 www.HudsonTerraceNYC.com Ages: 21+ Price: 40 Indulge yourself during this month's Cocktail Series event at Hudson Terrace! Walk around this informal tasting and treat yourself to all sorts of chocolates paired with Dessert Wines, Ports and Champagnes. Bring a date or your single friends for samplings of chocolate crepes, wine infused chocolates, chocolate martinis and much more! A portion of... (more) 2/12/2010 - 2/14/2010 Couture Fashion Week New York - Waldorf Astoria - 917-749-8421 Ages: 10+ Price: From $85 Since 2003, Couture Fashion Week has presented a series of couture and luxury fashion shows multiple times each year in New York City, Dallas, Palm Beach, and other selected cities. Venues include the Waldorf-Astoria, the St. Regis and others Featuring: Fine designers from around the world presenting exquisite garments and accessories World ... (more) 2/12/2010 Harlem Globetrotters - Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street) - 212-465-5800 www.thegarden.com Ages: All Coming off their most successful year in history, the iconic Harlem Globetrotters are back for their 2010 World Tour. This high-flying, wholesome family show features some of the most extraordinary athletes and entertainers on the planet and has thrilled fans new and old for 83 seasons. 2/12/2010 - 2/14/2010 [heart] by Atlantic City - Harrah's Resort Atlantic City 777 Harrah's Blvd., Atlantic City, NJ - 212-994-7541 Presented by Perrier Jouet and the first in an anticipated year of signature lifestyle events, [heart] will seductively lure visitors to Harrah's Entertainment's four Atlantic City properties, Harrah's Resort, Caesars, Showboat, & Bally's. Visit www.heartac.com for a taste of what you'll experience throughout this indulgent weekend dedicated to lo... (more) 2/12/2010 - 2/14/2010 Valentine's Cruises - World Yacht Pier 81, W. 41st St. - 212-630-8100 www.worldyacht.com Ages: 21+ Price: $125 Celebrate the most romantic day of the year on World Yachts Valentines Day Cruise. Join us, as we sail around Manhattan, enjoy superb cuisine, sip fine wines and listen to romantic ballads. Guests can stroll along the large outdoor sundecks and steal a kiss under the moonlight. The price of this cruise is $125 per person. This includes a 3 hour cr... (more) 2/12/2010 - 2/13/2010 Hours: 4pm to 9pm MOMO in SOHO - Designer Trunk Show 237 Center St. - 212-979-9595 Price: FREE Inspiring artists & designers who make lavish high fashion handmade clothing; coats, jackets, couture dresses, jewelry, accessories & children wearables. A perfect selection for Valentines Day. This is an event you don't want to miss. Immediately after Sunday's event an afterparty, music, wine & cheese. 2/12/2010 - 2/13/2010 Hours: 6:00pm Spirit of New York Smooth Valentine's Cruises with Phil Perry - Spirit of New Yofk Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, West 23rd St. - 866-483-3866 www.spiritofnewyork.com/ny/jazz_cruise.jsp Ages: 11:30pm Price: from only $55.00 Enjoy Valentine's Day all weekend long, beginning with New York's favorite Jazz series aboard the Spirit of New York Friday, February 12th, 2010. There's no better way to celebrate your love than out on the water with this very special, romantic cruise event. The Smooth Jazz Cruise has evolved into one of New York's most popular attractions. Cruise... (more) 2/12/2010 Healing Arts for Haiti - Grand Hyatt Hotel 109 E. 42nd St. www.healingartsforhaiti.org Ages: All Healing Arts for Haiti is where caring citizens can receive services from the healing arts community with donations to help Haiti. Every dollar raised will be donated to UNICEF, directly helping rescue and relief efforts in Haiti. No appointments needed, just come by and de-stress for a great cause. Services and activities include: Massage, Reflexo... (more) 2/13/2010 - 2/21/2010 Shen Yun (All-New 2010 Program) - Radio City Music Hall 1260 Sixth Avenue - 212-307-7171 www.radiocity.com Ages: All Inspired by the spirit of an ancient culture, Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life classical Chinese dance and music in a gloriously colorful and exhilarating show. With an elite company of dancers, singers, and musicians, the New York-based Shen Yun comes to Manhattan in February, performing on and around Valentine's Day, which also happens to ... (more) 2/13/2010 La Fille du Regiment - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All New king of the high Cs Juan Diego Florez reprises his headline-grabbing performance in the comic hit from the 2007–08 season. Diana Damrau makes her Met role debut as Marie. Kiri Te Kanawa returns to the Met stage in the speaking role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lo... (more) 2/13/2010 - 2/21/2010 Kids Week - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Pier 86, W. 46th St. & 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All The Intrepid Museum's annual Kids Week brings together organizations from around the area to provide a fun-filled interactive experience for kids and families. Each day is packed with excitement and filled with educational activities for kids of all ages. Children learn about space and science through various art projects throughout the week. Partn... (more) 2/13/2010 - 2/14/2010 Hours: 11:30am Bateaux New York Valentine's Weekend Cruises - Bateaux New York Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, Suite 200, West 23rd St. - 866-817-3436 www.bateauxnewyork.com/ba/valentines_day_cruise.jsp Ages: 10:00pm Price: From only $55.90 Take your Valentine's breath away with a romantic event on the water this Valentine’s Weekend. Distinctive cuisine. Live entertainment. Dancing cheek to cheek. Stunning views. Laughter and intimate conversation. Create a memory that will last as long as your love. From only $55.90 per person. Your Valentine's Dinner Cruise package includes a bottle... (more) 2/13/2010 - 2/14/2010 Valentine's Weekend Romantic Greenwich Village - NYC Discovery Walking Tours New York, NY - 212-465-3331 Ages: All For upcoming Valentine's Weekend, a Greenwich Village stroll covering sites associated with romance in literature and history, with dessert stops along the way to take in sweets. Sites include Grove Court, which inspired O. Henry setting in The Last Leaf; the Victorian townhouse where Woodrow Wilson proposed to First Lady Edith Galt; and the site o... (more) 2/13/2010 Hours: 10pm Black Hearts Party - Village Pourhouse Upperwest 982 Amsterdam Ave. - 212-979-2337 www.VillagePourhouse.com Ages: 21+ Price: FREE Singles ONLY- No couples allowed! Every girl gets a rose with a heart on it and every guy gets a number- find your match and get a free shot! Hopefully you won't need more than that one shot to spend the rest of your night with your match! 2/13/2010 - 2/14/2010 Hours: Saturday: Boarding: 7:30pm Cruising: 8:00 - 11:00pm; Sunday Boarding:5:30pm Cruising: 6:00 - 9:00pm Valentine Weekend Dinner Cruises - Spirit of New York Chelsea Piers, Pier 61 - 866-483-3866 Price: $129.90 per person "Romance on the River" It's so romantic out on the water, especially with candlelight, our dinner buffet, Manhattan's spectacular skyline view and your favorite dance music echoing across New York Harbor. Our Spirit DJ orchestrates upbeat music for dancing with styles ranging from ballads to contemporary dance sounds. Valentine Diner Cruises • ... (more) 2/13/2010 Hours: 11-6 A Valentine's Fling! - Starting Artists 211 Smith St., Brooklyn - 646-361-8182 Ages: all Price: FREE With 15 designers in categories such as clothing, home decor, jewelry, accessories, paper goods, and bath and body products, the event will give an assist to anyone looking for the perfect gift- for their honey or themselves. Valentine-themed family-friendly arts activities led by Starting Artists. 211 Smith Street. Take the F/G to the Carroll Stre... (more) 2/13/2010 Concierto Del Amor - Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street) - 212-465-5800 www.thegarden.com Ages: All El Concierto del Amor is an annual Valentine's tradition at Madison Square Garden. Don't miss this year's lineup featuring Marco Antonio Solis, Antony Santos and Miriam Hernandez. 2/13/2010 Hours: 2 Eat Your Heart Out! - Cake Alchemy 43 Park Place, 3rd flr. - 212-255-0584 Ages: 12 and up Price: $300 Make a cake with your sweetheart for valentines day. Enjoy the perfect couple experience that's fun and taste great too! You will decorate a heart shaped cake filled with rich chocolate ganache. When your masterpiece is finished, take it home to devour on valentine's Day, YUMMY! Nothing says I love you more than homemade chocolate cake. The cla... (more) 2/13/2010 Hours: 7:30-9:30pm Stars of the Bolshoi Opera - Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center 10 Lincoln Center Plaza - 646-383-7972 Ages: Adults Price: $45-150 International Concerts is proud to present the Stars of the Bolshoi Opera on February 13th at 7:30 pm at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York. Singers include Makvala Kasrashvili, Soprano; Oleg Kulko, Tenor; Anna Aglatova, Soprano; and Dmitry Beloselski, Bass. Also featuring in the concert are Russia's renowned pianists Alexander Ghin... (more) 2/14/2010 Romance Under the Stars - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: AD This Valentine's Day enjoy champagne, hors d'oeuvres, and chocolate-covered strawberries under the starry night sky in the warm and intimate setting of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Then, step inside New York's most romantic theater, snuggle with a loved one, and listen to astronomer Ted Williams re-tell some of... (more) 2/14/2010 Chinese New Year's Day Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival - Columbus Park Intersection of Mulberry St., Park Row, & Bayard St. www.betterchinatown.com Ages: All The first day of the 2010 Lunar New Year will be kicked off with colorful firecrackers, followed by a dozen Lion, Dragon and Unicorn dance troupes marching down the main streets of Chinatown to help ring in the New Year. Featuring all-day cultural performances by traditional and contemporary Asian and Asian-American singers and dancers. 11am-3pm. 2/14/2010 Hours: 6pm & 8pm Pre-Fixe Valentine's Day Dinner - Vintage Irving 118A E. 15th St. - 212-677-6300 www.vintageirving.com Ages: all Price: 100/couple Wine and dine your Valentine with our succulent 3 Course Dinner at Vintage Irving. Complimentary champagne for two and a rose for your significant other! Enjoy the mood setting classical music of a live violinist. 2/14/2010 Hours: 7pm Anti-Valentine's Day Ex-orcism - Village Pourhouse Upperwest 982 Amsterdam Ave. - 212-979-2337 www.VillagePourhouse.com Ages: 21+ Price: FREE Hating someone this Valentine's Day? Hate Valentine's Day in general? You're not alone. Come be a hater with others sharing a similar sentiment. Bring a picture of an ex to pin up on our dart board and receive a Free Bud Light Draft, hit the Bulls Eye and win a Free Hour of Open Bar at Village Pourhouse. 2/14/2010 Hours: 3pm Chocolate Fondue Making Class - SideBAR 118 E. 15th St. - 212-677-2900 www.SideBarNY.com Ages: all Price: 25/person or 40/couple Nothing says Valentine's Day like chocolate fondue! Join us as a chef from Hot Pot Culinary Events demonstrates how to make a variety of chocolate fondues and then make your own unique batch! Enjoy with someone special, a group of friends or come alone to make something sweet with someone new. 2/14/2010 - 2/19/2010 Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bite Week - Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration 55 Coogan Blvd., Mystic, CT - 860-572-5955 Ages: Ages 5 and up Price: Free with aquarium admission: adults $26, kids (3-17) $19, under 3 free Think you know who has the biggest set of chompers at Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration? Guests during February school vacation week may be surprised. In celebration of National Children's Dental Health Month, the aquarium is hosting Bite Week from February 14 to 19. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, kids will learn about the teeth of v... (more) 2/14/2010 Hours: 8pm Couples Beer Pong Tournament - Village Pourhouse 64 Third Ave. - 212-979-2337 www.VillagePourhouse.com Ages: 21+ Price: 40/couple Fancy dinner and over-priced wine not your style? Grab your Valentine and go head to head with other couples this Valentine's Day in our Couple's Beer Pong Tournament. Ticket includes a two hour Bud Light Open Bar & free playing beer. 2/14/2010 Starlight Music Series: The Joan Capra String Ensemble - Top of the Rock 30 Rockefeller Center (W. 50th St. btw. Fifth & Sixth Aves.) - 877-692-7625 www.topoftherocknyc.com Ages: All Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center hosts its celebrated live music program, the Starlight Music Series, on Wednesday evenings, February 10th – February 24th, from 6-8 PM. Access to the musical event is included with the purchase of a Top of the Rock ticket. Visitors can enjoy live music and a glass of wine or refreshing beverage... (more) 2/14/2010 Hours: 5:00-8:00 Hearts for Haiti Valentine's Day Party and Multi-Media Art Exhibit - The Retreat Lounge 37 W. 17th St. - 212-946-2010 Ages: 30+ Price: 15 Share your heart with others that care. Join us and other 30+ somethings for good music, hors d'oeuvres, a complimentary drink and fine chocolate treats. Meet new friends that care about this worthy cause. Proceeds will go to the Hope for Haiti Children's Center. The event will include a special Art Exhibit featuring HairStrokes multimedia renditi... (more) 2/15/2010 - 2/16/2010 134th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show - Madison Square Garden 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street) - 212-465-5800 www.thegarden.com Ages: All The Westminster Kennel Club, America's oldest organization dedicated to the sport of purebred dogs, returns to Madison Square Garden for its 134th annual event. 2/15/2010 Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All Strauss's dual gifts for groundbreaking modernity and classical elegance come together in a smart and fanciful production. The great Swedish diva Nina Stemme makes a rare appearance in the title role and Sarah Connolly as the Composer. Kirill Petrenko conducts. 2/15/2010 - 2/19/2010 Midwinter Recess Drop Off - New York City Police Museum 100 Old Slip (Water-South Sts.) - 212-480-3100 www.nycpolicemuseum.org Ages: YE For ages 6-12. Learn the skills it takes to be a police officer at this fun drop-off program. Each day will be a different theme, with hands-on activity about police. On Monday we will do CSI chemistry experiments including fingerprinting and invisible ink. On Tuesday we will learn about the way police move around the city and build police vehicles... (more) 2/15/2010 - 2/15/2011 Hours: 10AM-5PM Group Dance Classes/Presentations at Flamenco Latino in Midtown - Flamenco Latino Studio 244 W. 54th St., 4th fl. - 212-399-8519 Ages: K-Adults Price: Negotiable Field trip opportunities for schools, senior groups and groups visiting NYC at Flamenco Latino Studio: Group Dance Class- One hour group class in flamenco or salsa dance, or both for up to 40 students at our midtown Manhattan studio. Featuring professional instruction and live music. Scheduling available during late mornings and afternoons. ... (more) 2/16/2010 La Fille du Regiment - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Ages: All New king of the high Cs Juan Diego Florez reprises his headline-grabbing performance in the comic hit from the 2007–08 season. Diana Damrau makes her Met role debut as Marie. Kiri Te Kanawa returns to the Met stage in the speaking role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lo... (more) 2/16/2010 - 2/20/2010 All Balanchine: Liebeslieder Walzer, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 - New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, Columbus Ave. & 63rd St. - 212-870-5570 www.nycballet.com Ages: All One of the greatest 20th-century artists, Balanchine created a ballet repertory stunning for its sheer diversity. The four couples of Liebeslieder Walzer take the waltz to extraordinary heights in a rapturous evening of romance set in an elegant ballroom. A sparkling display of ballet classicism, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, is Balanchine's t... (more) 2/16/2010 - 3/21/2010 YANK! the Musical - The York Theater 619 Lexington Ave. - 212-935-5820 Ages: 16+ Price: $67.50 YANK! begins with a young man in present-day San Francisco who finds an old diary in a junk shop. Through the journal we learn the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted in 1943, and who – like most guys – spends Basic Training wrestling with fears of whether he "has what it takes" to make it in the Army. But unlike most guys, St... (more) 2/16/2010 Carnaval Celebration - SushiSamba 7 87 Seventh Ave. So. (Barrow-Grove Sts.) - 212-691-7885 www.sushisamba.com Ages: AD The Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro is the most famous in the world. Scores of spectacular floats surrounded by thousands of samba dancers, singers and drummers dressed in elaborate costumes, masks and headdresses parade through the enormous Sambódromo Stadium in the heart of the city. SUSHISAMBA will hold its own Carnaval celebration on... (more) 2/16/2010 Carnaval Celebration - SushiSamba Park 245 Park Ave. So. - 212-475-9377 www.sushisamba.com Ages: AD The Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro is the most famous in the world. Scores of spectacular floats surrounded by thousands of samba dancers, singers and drummers dressed in elaborate costumes, masks and headdresses parade through the enormous Sambódromo Stadium in the heart of the city. SUSHISAMBA will hold its own Carnaval celebration on... (more) 2/16/2010 Carnivale - Agua Dulce 802 Ninth Ave. (53-54 Sts.) - 212-262-1299 www.aguadulceny.com Ages: All Celebrate Brazilian Carnivale Agua Dulce style, with two live samba dancers, a live samba drummer, and Brazilian-inspired menu and drink specials.