(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, 841 Barretto St, Bronx, NY 10474) (see website for schedule) An annual cultural festival celebrating the empowerment of women through art, culture and performance. With the stirring documentary ANTONIA PANTOJA: PRESENTE! celebrating the life of the dynamic founder of the ASPIRA educational program and a quintessential BAAD!Ass Woman. (Free - $20) 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

(La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, 74A East 4th St, New York, NY 10003) (Tu, Fr & Sa 8pm, Sa 10pm) An aerialist (Anya Sapozhnikova) and an adult-film star (Justine Joli) appear stripped to the maximus in Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner’s three-ring musical about the notorious Roman emperor Caligula’s final night of debauchery. ($30) Event Website

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) (10AM- 5PM) Experience the tropical beauty of Old Havana in bloom featuring thousands of orchids and native plants in Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Exotic floral displays through architectural scenes transport visitors to the romantic intrigue of Cuba. Chocolate and Vanilla Adventures in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden give families an interactive look the vanilla orchid and the cacao tree. ($20) Event Website

(Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10010) (Tu 7PM, We – Sa 8PM, We & Sa 2PM Su 3PM) Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Unseen. Adapted by Mark Altman Finally, a play for anybody who has ever sinned. With all the lush richness of an Isaac Bashevis Singer short story comes this deceptively simple play complete with devil, demons and infidelity. On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, the Devil and his demons descend on the tiny town of Frampol. Satan has chosen this most solemn of occasions to test the faith of plump and middle-aged Nosn and Royze Temerl and in the process ruin their lives. But in the end who is the victor and who the vanquished? ($60) Event Website

(The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10019) (We, Th, Fr & Sa 8pm, We, Sa & Su 3pm) Come for the music. Stay for the stories. There's a Good Ol' Girl in all of us. Let yours out. "The cast could hardly be better...Lauren Kennedy, Sally Mayes, Teri Ralston, Gina Stewart, and Liza Vann are first-ratesingers and actors!" -Backstage, Critics Pick ($35+) 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

(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (11am-6pm) An extraordinary 24 ft. long “Silent Flower” painting was transported from Tokyo to blanket the walls of the Chelsea Art Museum. Kotaro Fukui is a Japanese artist who created this masterwork by applying gold foil to washi, a handmade Japanese paper, employing brush ink to create stems and leaves, and then superimposing blue lapis lazuli pigment on the result. The precious blue stone powder is simultaneously subtle in application but powerful in affect. (free with admission) 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

(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) (We, Th Sa & Su 11am-6pm Th - 9pm) This year marks the seventy-fifth edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition. While Biennials are always affected by the cultural, political, and social moment, this exhibition, simply titled 2010, embodies a cross section of contemporary art production rather than a specific theme. To demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials, an accompanying installation drawn from the Museum’s collection on view on the fifth floor. ($18) Event Website

(See website for locations) (see website for schedule) Men's Division plays at the Field House at Chelsea Piers, Pier 61 at West 23rd Street in Manhattan. Women's Division plays at the Secondary School for Law, Journalism & Research in Brooklyn (237 7th Avenue between 4th & 5th Streets, Brooklyn, NY (Games are FREE to spectators) Event Website

(Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036) (Tu 7pm, We - Sa 8pm, We, Sa & Su 3pm) ($59.50+)

(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) (Su-Sa 10am- 8pm) Making safe sex sexy again with the launch of “RUBBERS: The Life, History & Struggle of the Condom”. A new exhibition detailing the provocative life of the condom. This exibition takes a fun, fundamental look at the history and progression of the condom from a single object to its role as a multidisciplinary artifact. ($16.50 or see coupon for discount) 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)

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website

(CBST, 296 9th Ave, at 28th St, New York, NY 10001) (7pm) Event Website

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (7:30 - 10pm) Educational, recreational, and social opportunities within the framework of Modern Western square dancing for the gay and lesbian community. Event Website

(Rififi, 332 E. 11th St, Between 1st and 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003) (11pm) The Only Free, Gay AND Lesbian Friday night dance party in NYC. The night at Rififi features hot Go-Gos, the best DJs, crazy drink specials and NO cover charge. (Free)

(Natural Gourmet Institute, 48 W. 21st St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011) (6:30pm) Friday Night Dinner at The Natural Gourmet has become a culinary magnet for savvy New Yorkers and visitors alike. Savor a delicious and unique experience when Chef Instructors and students of our Chef’s Training Program pour their expertise and enthusiasm into a three-course vegetarian dinner that is both innovative and beautifully presented. ($40) Event Website

(Natural Gourmet Institute, 48 W. 21st St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011) (6:30pm) Friday Night Dinner at The Natural Gourmet has become a culinary magnet for savvy New Yorkers and visitors alike. Savor a delicious and unique experience when Chef Instructors and students of our Chef’s Training Program pour their expertise and enthusiasm into a three-course vegetarian dinner that is both innovative and beautifully presented. ($40) Event Website