(Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 West 20th St, New York, NY 10011) Considered to be one of Singapore’s preeminent contemporary artists, Ong has been noted for his large scale, figurative charcoal works on paper since his first solo exhibitions in the 1980s. During the past year, he became fascinated with the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic that recounts the exploits of Rama and his dutiful wife, Sita. Ong has brought his own unique viewpoint to this classic story. Inspired by the Ramayana’s characters and its dramatic themes of love, combat, and heroic adventure, he has created new narratives that are informed by his sensitivity as a gay man to the way gender roles play out in contemporary relationships. Event Website

(Madame Tussauds, 234 West 42nd St btwn 7 & 8th Aves, Times Square, New York, NY 10036) Madame Tussauds is offering a history lesson alongside its wax figurines this month: Beginning on Martin Luther King Day, visitors can participate in a special scavenger hunt, with clues based on African-American icons (like Malcolm X and Rose Parks) whose likenesses are in the wax museum. The clues can be downloaded from the website. ($22.40 - $35) (212-512-9600) Event Website

(Various Locations) Experience Off Broadway at extraordinary prices with On the House's 2-for-1 tickets. Explore the unparalleled diversity, excitement and experimentation that makes Off Broadway unique and electrifying. See 20-plus shows that range from dramatic explorations of such topics as World War II (Signs of Life), early gay activism (The Temperamentals) and national security (Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers) to playful productions, including Avenue Q, The Awesome 80s Prom and Naked Boys Singing! Plus, catch acclaimed stage and screen actors (John Lithgow, Nina Arianda and Wes Bentley, to name a few) as well as the latest productions from playwright Sam Shepard and director Ethan Hawke. When purchasing the tickets online, by phone or at the box office, use the promotional code HOUSE for all shows except where noted. Event Website

(City Bakery, 3 West 18th St, New York, NY 10011) Anything and everything for and about our favorite cold weather comfort beverage. All flavors, cultures, techniques, gear and more. Event Website

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) With over 100 phenomenal dancers and a stunning 62-piece orchestra, every NYCB performance is a thrilling experience. Event Website

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) (See website for schedule) Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, country, rock, and show tunes, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today’s most dynamic contemporary songwriting. ($65+) Event Website

(Theater 80 St. Marks, 80 St. Marks, between 1st and 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003) (Th, Fr & Sa 8PM, Su 3PM) From the comic mind, of GLAAD Award winning playwright, William Wyatt (Peachtree Battle, A Sunday Afternoon At Loehmans, The Limousine Ride and Veranda) comes a tale about gay marriage in an ultra conservative household. Bright-eyed hunk Joey (Matthew Pender) has finally met the man of his dreams and ready to take a plunge into marriage. The thought of a gay wedding has Joey's southern socialite mother Sarah Edwards (Tina McKissick) in quite a tizzy. ($26-$30) (212.388.0388) Event Website

(Located in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, nearest the Parkside/Ocean Ave entrance or the Lincoln Road/Ocean Aven entrance, btwn the Lake & the Concert Grove) Wollman Rink offers fun for all, providing 26,600 square feet of ice. It also serves as home ice for local amateur men’s and women’s hockey teams. Special events include: Jan 23rd Show Tunes Skate: Free your inner Broadway star and have a blast. Jan 31st Michael Jackson Skate: We want to "Rock With You" so "Beat It" to Wollman Rink and get your groove on with the songs from the King of Pop. ($5; Children (ages 14 & under); Seniors: $3; Skate Rental: $6.50) Event Website

(Michael's Apartment, 37 West 26th Street, 12th, New York, NY 10001) (Wd-Sa 8PM, Sa 4PM & Sun 5PM) The Boys in the Band represents a major milestone in American theatre as the first play to openly portray the pleasures, miseries and private lives of gay men. The Boys in the Band is set during Harold's 32nd birthday party. The evening begins as a hilarious and spirited celebration among friends until unexpected guests and games reveal tensions that unravel these men's souls. The party moves to a heart-wrenching, and climactic end. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see one of the theatre's most groundbreaking and important plays. ($38) Event Website

(The Kirk @ Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) The sold out smash sensation returns to NYC! On the run from an arranged marriage, Isabella puts her life and happiness into the hands of her friend Violante. How far will Violante go to keep Isabella’s secret? Fiery brothers, amorous Englishmen, lovers in closets, daring getaways, passionate breakups and tearful reconciliations are but a few of the delights in store. The Queen’s Company’s celebrated all-female cast stars in Susanna Centlivre’s luscious Restoration Comedy of Intrigue. One of the most popular shows of the 1700’s, it played in London and toured the colonies (including NYC) for over 100 years. ($18) Event Website

(Discovery Times Square Exposition, 226 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036) (10am - 10pm) 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’s paintings, sketches and notebooks through innovative digital technology. ($17.50 - $19.50) Event Website

(City Ice Pavilion, 47-32 32nd Place, Long Island City, NY, NY 11101) Whether you’re lacing up skates for the first time, or you’re an experienced skater, you will love ice skating at the City Ice Pavilion, New York’s only roof-top skating facility. There's also ice hockey, figure skating and skating lessons. Santa will be there every Saturday & Sunday until Christmas, and he's bringing his skates! ($5 - $8, $6 skate rental) Event Website

(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) The quintessential modernist, Man Ray recast the concept of artistic identity, working as a painter, photographer, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, poet, and essayist. He perpetually tinkered with material at hand, putting to ingenious use the practical skills learned in a variety of jobs, from advertising to mapmaking to engraving. Event Website

(North end of Central Park near 110th St & Lenox Ave) Get caught up in the joy of the winter season by gliding across Lasker Rink with two oval rinks: one for high school hockey teams and one for all ages. ($6.25 (children under 12 $3.50); skate rental $5.50) Event Website

(Central Park South, 59th St & 6th Ave) Wollman Rink is a popular skating choice and is apt to be crowded during peak times (especially weekends). ($10.25 ($5 children) wkdays; $14.75 wknds ($5.75 children); skate rentals $6.25) Event Website

(Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014) Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, jumps from 1958 to the present and back in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion in this innovative new drama. After taking London by storm last season in an Olivier Award-winning production at the Royal Court, The Pride now makes its American premiere. Tony Award-winning director Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Blackbird) joins playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell (Apologia) to stage this alternately tough and touching look at love. The cast stars Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough, and Adam James. Event Website

(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) (6pm to 8pm) The Leslie/Lohman Gallery presents Drawn Together, a three-part exhibition of well over 500 works on paper. Curated by Rob Hugh Rosen, this show contains both drawings of men together and images of men created by men drawing together. (FREE) ((212) 431-2609) info@leslielohman.org Event Website

(Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002) New Orleans has midwifed every existing form of indigenous American music, from jazz to blues to funk, and hip-hop is the newest manifestation of that tradition. Where They At portrays the founders, architects, and players in New Orleans rap, or Bounce, a community-based phenomenon that gets little attention from the mainstream music press. Photographs, oral histories, and footage document the passing of seminal beats in New Orleans soul to a new generation in the late 1980’s and the creation of a new voice in Southern roots music. A line is traced to the present-day diaspora, as Hurricane Katrina has scattered a once tight-knit Bounce community whose music only existed at home — a home that has been redefined physically and culturally. Event Website

(Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019) 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 handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations. Selected artists will be commissioned to create site-specific or site-referential works, and others will be invited to create work onsite in MAD's three artist studios that will subsequently be installed in the exhibition. ($15/Thur 6-9pm by donation) Event Website

(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents the first exhibition to explore how the "philosophy of beauty" is allied to the craft of dressmaking. Each of the 75 looks on display was chosen to exemplify the relationship between technical ingenuity and artistic excellence. Curator Patricia Mears has focused on approximately 25 American fashion designers, ranging from the obscure, such as Jessie Franklin Turner, whose work dates from the late 1910s, to rising stars of the present day, such as the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte. Other designers featured include Adrian, Bonnie Cashin, Maria Cornejo, James Galanos, Halston, Elizabeth Hawes, Charles James, Charles Kleibacker, Claire McCardell, Norman Norell, Rick Owens, Ralph Rucci, Isabel Toledo, Pauline Trigère, Valentina, Yeohlee, and Jean Yu. (FREE) Event Website

(New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, New York, NY 10019) (Mo,Wd, Thu, Fr & sa 8PM Sa 2PM Su 3 & 7PM) This is the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the United States pre Stonewall. The play weaves together the personal and political to tell a relatively unknown chapter in gay history. It explores the love between two complex men, as their impossible dream of forming such an unheard of organization becomes a reality in this perilous, unpredictable world. It is an intimate portrayal of the men who created history and the epic struggles they overcame. The characters consist of the actual men who founded the Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings), as well as other prominent figures of the time in Hollywood and the film industry as well as the world of fashion. Event Website

(Rockefeller Center, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, 5th to 7th Aves, 47 to 51st Sts, New York, NY 10111) The most famous city rink of them all. ($9.50+, skate rental $8) Event Website

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, is the first project of its kind- a documentary photography exhibition about the herstoric Festival by photographer Angela Jimenez. Opening Reception: Feb 18, 6pm. (FREE) Event Website

(Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) The play presents a dramatic and fictionalized account of the confrontation between Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. Event Website

(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) This major career retrospective on Tim Burton, 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 imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. Event Website

(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (open Tu - Sa 11am to 6pm Th 11am to 8pm closed Su) Miotte’s artistic influences include performance, choreography, jazz music and Ballet, and of these his most seminal influence is Ballet. In London in 1948 he did set design and saw the work of Balanchine, the Diaghilev Ballet and Margot Fonteyn. Being exposed to this variety of art was of profound inspiration to him. Dance is the universal language of non-verbal communication, evident through performance. Miotte would experiment with gesture through painting and hone lyrical movement in his own art. ($8, $4)