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Just Food
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There are thousands of amazing restaurants in New York, and it’s almost impossible to try them all, but Just Food, a nonprofit organization that strives to connect local farms with communities in need, is giving you the chance to taste bites from some of the big names in New York’s... More >> |
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| Flatiron | Food and Drink |
'Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala' w/ the Philadelphia Orchestra+Esperanza Spalding
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Esperanza Spalding’s progression from a Post-Bop prodigy with strong Afro-Latin Jazz chops and an impeccable vocal phrasing to the electric bass-wielding Neo-Soul-Fusion songstress of 2012’s Radio Music Society might have been unexpected, but it was certainly not a fruitless... More >> |
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| Flatiron | Music |
Parquet Courts+The Beets+Yuppies+Future Punx
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The debut release from Texas transplants Parquet Courts fell under the radar, due in no small part to its exclusive release on cassette. Luckily, New York-based What's Your Rupture re-released the Light Up Gold LP, a refreshingly brisk album of snotty-n-stoned punk with crisp guitar breaks and... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
Twin Peaks
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The way this band captures the reckless and joyful energy of being 19, you could probably guess their age even without looking them on Wiki. Playing a mix of garage rock and dream pop that brims with the scuzzy punk vigor of Iggy and suffers neither from immaturity nor sonic acne scars, the... More >> |
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| Lower East Side | Music |
PRELUDE. 13
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You don't have to be an insider to know what's new in the performing arts. PRELUDE. 13 gives you a sneak peek with tickets to work-in-progress presentations, open rehearsals, and conversations with the artists. The best part? It's all free. The incredible lineup of performers includes Taylor... More >> |
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| Murray Hill | Off-Off-Broadway: Opening, Theater, Festivals |
1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?
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If you've never been inside the magnificent Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the artist collective Openings is giving you a fun incentive to drop by. Their new show, 1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?, which will be held at the historic church, features the works of 37 artists... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Pippin
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They’ve got magic to do, just for you. Also tumbling, contortion, acrobatics, trapeze, and silk work. In Diane Paulus’s reimagining of Stephen Schwartz’s echt-‘70s musical, young Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) wanders around a medieval French landscape that looks a lot... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Regina Carter
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The reigning queen of jazz violin has carved a niche for herself by blending the traditionalist style of Stephane Grappelli with the avant-garde bravado of Billy Bang and the dazzling technique of Itzhak Perlman. She studied with the latter at one point as a young classical violin student at... More >> |
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| West 40s | Music |
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Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years
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| West 70s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Breakfast With Mugabe
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Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Final Analysis
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Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Fun Home
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Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
Brooklyn Boulders
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Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Recreation |
Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
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At first glance, Dorothea Rockburne’s works look like straightforward lines on a wall, but they are far from simplistic. They are mathematical solutions. Rockburne has said that “drawing is the bones of thought,” and has applied her studies in math and astronomy to her work... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Ashley Bickerton
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A pioneer of the ’80s Neo-Geo movement (short for neo-geometric conceptualism), along with Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman, Ashley Bickerton suddenly dropped out of the East Village scene in 1993 and moved to Bali, where he remains two decades later. His latest show, and his... More >> |
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| Lower East Side | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages
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As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of... More >> |
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York
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| East Harlem | Photography, Arts, Art - Museums |
Here Is Where We Jump
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It’s been turbulent times at El Museo del Barrio, where they recently cut back on hours and staff and are facing charges of gender discrimination brought by former director Margarita Aguilar. But with their major biennial opening today, all that is put aside to make room for what matters... More >> |
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| East Harlem | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Blek le Rat
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Born in Paris in 1951, Blek le Rat first discovered graffiti in New York in the early ’70s and, a decade later, became one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also credited as the first to use life-size stencils—his signature stencil being a rat silhouette. As critic Carlo... More >> |
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| Chelsea | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Bryant Park Juggling
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“The little trick of getting three objects to dance around in your hands has always managed to keep a small sense of magic,” says instruction book Juggling for the Complete Klutz. As we could all use some magic in our lives, get out today and have some fun with the Bryant Park... More >> |
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| Murray Hill | Recreation |
Kinky Boots
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Some of us have quite enough trouble simply walking in six-inch stilettos. But to sing and dance and act in them? Really, someone should hand out honorary Tonys to the Kinky Boots cast just for trying. This new tuner draws its inspiration from a recent British film, itself based... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Once
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Audiences didn’t fall slowly for New York Theatre Workshop’s adaptation of the much-loved indie film Once. Despite mixed notices, crowds fell quickly, and they fell hard. The Broadway transfer continues this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale of a... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
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Is the 13th step to create a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? Perhaps not, but Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey have received plaudits for this show about a night in 1935 when a stockbroker and a businessman helped talk each other out of taking a drink. Seth Gordon directs a... More >> |
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| Soho | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
