(1/20-1/27) Each week, City Guide's Things to Do in NYC brings you the best in special NYC events, the newest exhibits, sightseeing activities, fun for kids, concerts, nightlife, and more. What's a little snow?
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: THE BIG EVENT
(1/22-1/24) The first ever Broadway Con, organized by Rent's Anthony Rapp, takes place at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. The weekend will be filled with seminars, sessions with your favorite Broadway stars, and, best of all, the autographs are free! Day passes still available. broadwaycon.com
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
(just opened) New York’s latest resident is a 122-foot-long dinosaur so new it has yet to be formally named. Going by “titanosaur” for now, it has taken up residence at the American Museum of Natural History, in a cast of 84 fossil bones uncovered in Patagonia in 2014. The find included a colossal 8-ft. thigh bone, whose shape and size indicated a new species—and one of the biggest dinosaurs ever found. The titanosaur is so large, in fact, that it doesn’t fit in the gallery: a 39-ft.-long neck in a new permanent exhibit extends out towards the elevator banks.
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(just opened) Flatlands brings together five painters who experiment with notions of space at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
(now-4/17/16) Celebrate New York's role in the tech revolution at Silicon City at the New-York Historical Society.
(ongoing) New York has had a fascination with the treasures of King Tut since archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed them nearly a century ago. Visitors to Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue can walk in Carter’s footsteps in the remarkable recreation The Discovery of King Tut. Click here for a discount coupon.
(ongoing) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is in theaters now! The Force is strong in New York: visit Star Wars and the Power of the Costume: The Exhibition, now at Discovery Times Square. The interactive exhibit features 70+ costumes, including seven from the new film! Here is a $5 off coupon!
(ongoing) Agitprop! at the Brooklyn Museum connects contemporary art, social change, and historic moments in creative activism.
(now-2/21/16) Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(ongoing) Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 is up at the Brooklyn Museum.
(ongoing) The Secret World Inside You provides an incredible tour of the trillions of micro-organisms living in and on the human body at the American Museum of Natural History.
(now-1/31/16) Final weeks! Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars, the first-ever full exhibit on the author's life and works, now at the Morgan Library & Museum.
(now-2/28/16) Flavor: Making It and Faking It at the brand-new Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in Brooklyn.
(now-2/7/16) Emerging artist (and New Yorker) Rachel Rose at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
(now-2/21/16) Superheroes in Gotham at the New-York Historical Society explores the origins, influences, and culture of beloved NYC-based comic book phenomenons, dating back to the 1930s.
(ongoing) On The Line: Intrepid & The Vietnam War has opened at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Intrepid made three tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966-1969. Here's a coupon!
(ongoing) The Butterfly Conservatory is back at AMNH.
(ongoing) Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism presents vintage furnishings, housewares, and graphics to explore how Jewish émigré and American-born designers and architects helped spark America's embrace of midcentury modernism—forging a bold new direction in design and thought. The Museum of Jewish Heritage.
(ongoing) Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition is open at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue. Get your discount coupon here!
(now-8/16) Pixar: The Design of Story is now open at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: COMEDY
(1/22) Sarah Silverman and Friends at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
(1/21-1/23) Carlos Mencia performs for two special nights at Gotham Comedy Club.
(1/22) Mike Yard, Mike Vecchione, Yamaneika Saunders, Phil Hanley and more at Stand Up NY.
(1/24) Join Joe & Eric as they bring their special brand of humor to the stage for My Big Fat Dysfncational Life at Broadway Comedy Club. Enjoy two for one admission at Broadway Comedy Club!
Enjoy two for one admission to Stand Up NY!
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: KIDS
(1/22-1/31) The Velveteen Rabbit at New Victory Theater (6+).
Star Wars: The Power of the Costume at Discovery Times Square! Here is a $5 off coupon!
(Permanent) Connected Worlds is now open at the New York Hall of Science.
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: SIGHTSEEING
(1/24, every Sunday thorugh 3/10) NYC Audubon Winter Seals & Waterbirds Ecocruise with New York Water Taxi.
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(ongoing) The Rockefeller Center Ice Skating Rink is open!
Check out the new "tour about nothing" When Harry Met Seinfeld with On Location Tours.
The One World Observatory is now open. Click here for a free collectible pin!
Explore NYC's Financial District with Wall Street Walks.
Check out the hottest spots to eat and drink in the Flatiron District and Williamsburg with Like a Local Tours.
Take a selfie with Taylor Swift, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, and countless other famous celebs at Madame Tussauds New York! Here's a coupon!
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK: NIGHTLIFE & MUSIC
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(1/24, 1/27) The Boss is Back! Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: The River Tour comes to Madison Square Garden for two nights.
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Broadway Week is here! Enjoy two-for-one tickets to some of Broadway's hottest shows.
(1/20, 1/23) Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Metropolitan Opera.
(1/20-1/31) Parsons Dance at The Joyce Theater.
(1/21) A Taste of Rutherford at Morton's The Steakhouse.
(1/22) BeerProv at the Highline Ballroom.
(1/23) La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera.
(1/24) Every Sunday, enjoy brunch and feel the spirit with the Harlem Gospel Choir at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.
SNEAK PEEK, NEXT WEEK
(1/25-1/30) Veteran actor, dancer, singer Ben Vereen performs at Feinsteins/54 Below.
(1/25) George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway at Japan Society (sold out, but there's a waiting list).
(1/25) Broadway's runaway hit Rock of Ages Reunion Concert takes place at Highline Ballroom.
(1/27) Joan Baez Celebrates Her 75th Birthday wtih David Bromberg, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, Damien Rice, Nano Stern, and others at the Beacon Theatre.
(1/29) Joe Rogan at the Beacon Theatre.
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