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December 27 - 31

Trek amfAR in Asia (Thailand)

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December 21, 1969

Gay Activists Alliance of New York is founded, becoming a leading gay rights group of the post-Stonewall years

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december 13, 2008 / saturday

Qwik Dates speed-dating for Ages 40+

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (8:00 PM - 10:00 PM) At this Speed-Dating event, meet lots of guys ages 40+ one-on-one for a series of 3-minute dates, then get a free mingling period to meet anyone else in the room. Tell us which men you want a second date with, and minutes later you find out your matches. This is a great opportunity to meet guys for time-efficient face-to-face contact and see what kind of chemistry is there. It’s a lot of fun and could lead to meeting someone special! ($20) (212-971-1084) Event Website

GLBT Art Gallery Tour in Chelsea

(West Chelsea Arts Building, 526 West 26th St. (10th & 11th Ave.), New York, NY 10001) (1:00 - 3:30 PM) Visit 8 exhibits of cutting-edge painting, sculpture, electronic media & photography, of interest to our queer sensibility, led by a former gay studies professor and art critic for the New York Blade. While you’re there, socialize with arts-oriented gay men & lesbians! ($20) (212-946-1548) Event Website

Housing Works Warehouse Sale

(Housing Works Warehousex, 48-49 35th St, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101) (10am - 4pm) Housing Works' beloved twice-monthly warehouse sales make it easier than ever for you to find flawed-but-fabulous designer items among the overstock. For $20, you get a shopping bag to fill with as much of the overstock clothing as will fit. For $30, you get a shopping bag filled entirely with men’s and women’s pre-sorted designer items! To benefit Housing Works. ($20) Event Website

Note: this event runs August 9, 23, September 6, 20, October 11, 25, November 8, December 6, and 13

Liza's At The Palace

(The Palace Theatre, Broadway at 47th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Varies check website) Liza Minnelli will bring her unmatchable magic to Broadway, when she stars in her new show “Liza’s At The Palace…!” The show will be highlighted with many of Liza’s showstoppers such as “Cabaret,” “Maybe This Time,” and “New York New York” – all written especially for her by the legendary Broadway song writing partnership of John Kander and Fred Ebb. ($55-250) Event Website

Note: this event runs December 3 - 14

From Soup to Nuts - A Holiday Feast

(Bound Brook Presbyterian Church, 409 Mountain Ave, Bound Brook, NJ 08805) (8:00 PM) Enjoy an enticing menu of favorites old and new that will excite your senses and whet your appetite for the holiday season. The concert features many of your favorite seasonal songs and a number of songs centered on nourishing the body and spirit. Join the chorus for this uplifting and entertaining concert! ($20 advance, $15 senior/student, $25 at door) (609-396-7774) [email protected] Event Website

LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO

(BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, 841 Barretto St, Bronx, NY 10474) (8 PM) This gay, Latino comedic play centers around a couple, Carlos and Gabriel, who have been together for almost 15 years. Their arguing and fighting has reached the queer heavens from which comes a ghetto thug/diva spirit who guides them on a trip through their lives. ($15) Event Website

Note: this event runs December 5 - 6, and 11 - 13

This is Your Ridiculous Life!!

(Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (7:00 PM) Audience members brave the stage for an impromptu conversation with a therapist. On the spot, the Castillo Players transform their life stories into improvised scenes. Hilarity ensues. Lather, rinse and repeat. Don’t miss the triumphant return of Castillo’s most ridiculous offering! ($15) (212-941-1234) [email protected] Event Website

Note: this event runs December 6, and 13

Young Playwrights from Castillo

(Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (7:30PM & 2:00PM) For the first time ever, Castillo presents a series of new plays by young, socially-engaged playwrights and directors new to the Castillo stage. The five festival scripts were developed in ongoing workshops led by Dan Friedman, Artistic Director of Youth Onstage!, and Fred Newman, Castillo’s artistic director from 1989 to 2005. (Individual Program: $25 / 3-Program Festival Pass: $35) (212-356-8449) [email protected] Event Website

Note: this event runs December 6 - 14

MURRAY HILL: A MURRAY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

(Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018) (8 & 10:30pm) MURRAY HILL, "the hardest working middle-aged man in show business", gives the gift of holiday entertainment to New York City with his legendary Yuletide tradition: A Murray Little Christmas. Everyone is invited as Murray re-creates one of his infamous holiday cocktail parties, live on stage. The show will be a cozy, chestnut warming, homey affair direct from his bachelor pad living room (one large enough to accommodate 10 merry musicians, 6 crooning carolers, 3 strutting Santa showgirls, two singing stars, and one showbiz legend named Murray Hill). A Murray Little Christmas is a cocktail-style variety show packed with silver bells and holiday hi-balls. Featuring guest stars from the "Isle of Misfits": Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman, Evil Hate Monkey & Trixi Little, Carmine Covelli (as Sebastian the Elf), The Peach Tartes, Broadway Brassy, Matt Barnes, Lil Miss Lixx, Mel Huckabee and The Fisherman Xylophonic Orchestra with Brian Newman on trumpet. ($30 - $55) Event Website

Note: this event runs December 13, and 20

STREB AT S.L.A.M. -- INVISIBLE FORCES

(S.L.A.M., 51 North 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11211) (Fridays 7pm; Saturdays 3 & 7pm; Sundays 3pm) Invisible Forces creates the thrills of the circus, the heart thumps of a great adventure movie, and the velocity of the Indy 500 in one big, crowd pleasing Action Event. Beautiful bodies engaging sexy new hardware in show stopping pieces will keep audiences on the edge of their seats, wherever in space those seats happen to be. (Adults $20 & Kids (12 and under) $10) (212-352-3101) Event Website

Note: this event runs December 12 - 14, and 19 - 21

New Century Singers Stars of Wonder Holiday Concert

(Congregational Church of Patchogue, 95 East Main St, Patchogue, NY 11772) (7:30pm) Holiday non-denominational choral concert. ($22.50 adv; $25 door) Event Website

Note: this event runs December 13 - 14

Unsilent Night

(Washington Square Park (5th Ave and Washington Square North)) (7pm) Phil Kline's free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassette tapes, CDs and Mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets. Bring your own boombox and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound that is different from every listener's perspective. After 16 years of performances all over the world and a recording on Bang on a Can's Cantaloupe label, Kline's events now draw crowds of hundreds. (Free) [email protected] Event Website

Starting Today

New York National Boat Show

(Jacob Javits Center, 655 West 34th St, New York, NY 10001) See the latest and greatest in all things nautical, from fishing seminars to family activities, and of course, lots of boats and gear. Event Website

This event runs through December 21

Ongoing Events

through December 13

Gail Thacker The Last Polaroids

(Safe-T Gallery, 111 Front St, Gallery 214, New York, NY 11201) In the 1980’s, Gail Thacker began to use the inherent instability of Polaroid film as an active component in her portrait and landscape images. By deliberately evading the fixing protocols for her negatives, and placing them aside for as long as a year after exposure, her negatives accumulated a series of changes and distortions. Then in early 2008 the Polaroid Corporation announced that it would no longer manufacture its signature self-developing film. This exhibit features some of Thacker's last expressions -- portraits from the theatrical, gay and transgressive worlds of New York -- in this unusually creative and rich medium. Event Website

This event runs November 6 - December 13

through December 13

Maxine Fine A Retrospective

(gallery onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002) Maxine Fine’s painting, sculpture, and photography are brought together for the first time in a memorial exhibition celebrating the artist’s life and dedication to her art. Fine was born in 1942 and lived in NYC in the 70’s and early 80’s. A pioneer of the Feminist and Lesbian Art Movements, Fine’s work, a visual memoir at once achingly intimate and overwhelming in scale, explores concerns of communal significance – gender, childhood, sexuality, illness, spirituality, and mortality – articulating a shift of focus in the art world. Event Website

This event runs November 12 - December 13

through December 20

Shag: Voyeur, A Solo Exhibition

(Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th, 9th Fl, New York, NY 10011) Shag’s signature style of sophisticated figures lounge within lavish interiors, accentuated by the artist’s mid-century modern design aesthetic. The walls within the gallery’s Project Room will be covered in flocked-velvet wallpaper featuring a multi-colored fish motif, created by the artist himself. Event Website

This event runs November 22 - December 20

through December 20

Cindy Sherman

(Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th St, New York, NY 10011) For her first exhibition of new work since 2004, Cindy Sherman will show a series of color photographs that continues her investigation into distorted ideas of beauty, self-image and aging. Typical of Sherman, these works are at once alarming and amusing, distasteful and poignant. As her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has developed an extraordinary relationship with her camera. A remarkable performer, subtle distortions of her face and body are captured on camera and leave the artist unrecognizable to the audience. Her ability to drastically manipulate her age or weight, or coax the most delicate expressions from her face, is uncanny. Opening: Friday, November 14, 6-8pm. Event Website

This event runs November 15 - December 20

through December 21

New York National Boat Show

This event runs December 13 - 21

through December 21

CAKE BOMB

(Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013) Ves Pitts' second solo exhibition at the gallery; Cake Bomb consists of a series of photo collaborations with various New York personalities and artists which fuel the life of the city. As uncertainty grips the current world mindset these photographs offer a portrayal of to the unpredictable state of the world and deriving its theme from Marie Antoinette’s statement; “Let Them Eat Cake”. The work unearths a dark and humorous interpretation and collaboration between Pitts and the subject as they create personas about this crisis-ridden misanthropic time. Pitts has worked with performers like Inbred Hybrid Collective, Taylor Mac, Dynasty Handbag, Flawless Sabrina and Glenn Marla to unveil the turmoil along side the relaxed gender diversity of these varied artists. Event Website

This event runs November 21 - December 21

through December 24

Union Square Holiday Market

(Union Square Park, Broadway to 4th Ave, East 14th St to East 17th St) Unique gifts await shoppers at every turn as they peruse the more than 100 gift boutiques at the popular Holiday Market at Union Square, now in its 13th year. The Market's wares include imported and handmade holiday ornaments and decorations, antique prints, fine art, toys for kids of all ages, gourmet foods, drinks, baked goods, handcrafted jewelry and leather, golf accessories, candles, bath oils, cashmere, French linens, pet accessories, clothing and apparel for all ages. Event Website

This event runs November 22 - December 24

through December 28

The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park

(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) Over 100 boutiques, artisans, designers, and food merchants from around the world. The Holiday Shops and The Pond make Bryant Park the perfect destination for the winter season. Event Website

This event runs November 22 - December 28

through December 30

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular

(Radio City Music Hall, 1260 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020) See the world famous Radio City Rockettes is an unparalleled show featuring the Rockettes signature eye high kicks, and precision choreography in multiple show stopping numbers including; the legendary "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", and "New York at Christmas," a dynamic holiday celebration. Audiences of all ages will delight in this multifaceted spectacular including Santa flying high above the crowd, childhood dreams coming true in the Nutcracker and touched as the true meaning of Christmas is brought to life with the awe-inspiring Living Nativity - the beautiful story of the first Christmas. Event Website

This event runs November 7 - December 30

through December 31

A Tale of Two Cities

(Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin August 19, Opens September 18. This is a new musical based on the Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities.” Event Website

This event runs August 19 - December 31

through December 31

NYC Goes Orange

(All around NYC!) During the Food Bank's annual NYC Goes Orange campaign, individual New Yorkers and our partners come together to "Go Orange" -- the color of hunger awareness -- in support of the 3.1 million New Yorkers who struggle to afford food. Events include food samplings, food drives, auctions and dining events. Event Website

This event runs October 20 - December 31

through December 31

Previews of 25th Anniversary Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening

(47th St Theater, 304 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036) Opens October 2. Spoofs of the season include Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Grease: You’re the One That We Want, Legally Blonde and Frost/Nixon. Event Website

This event runs September 4 - December 31

through December 31

Equus

(Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) Equus tells the story of a stable boy and the psychiatrist who tries to unravel the religious and sexual mystery that ensues when the troubled teenager blinds six horses. Event Website

This event runs September 5 - December 31

through December 31

Billy Elliot the Musical

(The Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th St, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin October 1, opens November 13. The story follows Billy’s journey after stumbling across a ballet class while on his way to a boxing lesson, realizing that his future lay not in the boxing ring but on stage. Event Website

This event runs October 1 - December 31

through December 31

For the Guggenheim

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) (Fridays, 6:30 - 11pm) In celebration of the three year restoration and as a tribute to Mr. Lewis, artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection entitled For the Guggenheim for the facade of the newly restored museum. This video presents an opportunity to view an excerpt from Holzer’s transformative work, which casts large-scale texts directly onto Frank Lloyd Wright’s curving architecture. Suffused with a play of light and changing language, the building and its surroundings become an environment for looking, discussion, and gathering. Event Website

This event runs September 26 - December 31

through December 31

Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour

(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website

This event runs January 1 - December 31

through January 1, 2009

Grand Central Station Kaleidoscope Light Show

(Grand Central Station, 101 East 42nd, New York, NY 10017) (Every half hour 11am - 9pm daily) Come see Grand Central in a whole new light! The Grand Central Kaleidoscope Light Show treats the cavernous space of New York's most famous historic landmark this holiday season into a winter wonderland of colossal snowflakes, stars and more, all set to music. (Free) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009

through January 3, 2009

George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) From the moment the lights dim, you're transported to a mysterious world of magic and fantasy. A rousing snowstorm sends a blizzard of snowflakes across the stage, while tantalizing delicacies from around the world prance about with international flair. You'll meet marching toy soldiers, little Marie, and the valiant Nutcracker who saves her from the nightmarish Mouse King all in a show the New York Post praises as "the Christmas show of all Christmas shows." With 200 performers, a one-ton tree that magically grows from 12 to 40 feet, hundreds of dazzling costumes, and a million watts of illuminated excitement, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™ is the definitive holiday must-see! Event Website

This event runs November 28, 2008 - January 3, 2009

through January 4, 2009

Bronx Zoo’s Wild Winterland

(Bronx Zoo, 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460) This winter, the Bronx Zoo’s annual nighttime holiday event becomes a daytime extravaganza, as the Wildlife Conservation Society continues to lighten our energy output and provide great family traditions. Holiday décor will adorn the zoo and make for a truly festive season. Event Website

This event runs December 6, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 4, 2009

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World

(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) In 1947, a significant discovery of ancient Jewish texts was made in a cave near the Dead Sea. These and other Dead Sea Scrolls found later have shed light on the major transformations and debates that occurred in ancient worship during the first centuries BCE and CE, that contributed to the development of early Judaism and Christianity. This exhibition will present six Dead Sea Scrolls complemented by objects excavated from the site near where they were found. Three of the scrolls have never been exhibited. Event Website

This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 4, 2009

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 50th Anniversary Season

(City Center Main Stage, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) The incomparable Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra play Duke Ellington for a live music celebration of America’s two great art forms -- modern dance and jazz music. Grammy Award-winning vocalists Sweet Honey In The Rock appear live onstage in Hope Boykin’s world premiere Go in Grace. New productions of Blues Suite and Masekela Langage and a special new Anniversary Highlights program bring many of Mr. Ailey’s best-loved gems back to the stage. ($20+) Event Website

This event runs December 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 4, 2009

Wintuk from Cirque Du Soleil

(WAMU Theater, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001) Wintuk is an exciting winter adventure about a boy's quest for snow. This celebration of winter weaves thrilling acrobatics, breathtaking theatrical effects and memorable songs into an extraordinairy journey to an imaginary land called Wintuk. The boy and his companions - a mysterious female shaman, a fearless young girl and a yellow-bellied man - deliver endless excitement, exhilaration and intrigue. Event Website

This event runs October 30, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 4, 2009

Hairspray with Harvey Fierstein

(Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd St, New York, NY 10019) In Hairspray it's 1962 - the '50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion -- to dance. Catch the show before the curtains close on this classic favorite. Event Website

This event runs November 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 5, 2009

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) This exhibit examines Van Gogh's nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. Event Website

This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 5, 2009

through January 7, 2009

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. Event Website

This event runs September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009

through January 9, 2009

Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center

(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

This event runs November 7, 2008 - January 9, 2009

through January 11, 2009

Fifth Avenue Holiday Window Displays

(Fifth Ave from 34th St to Central Park) The only window shopping we wait all year for the chance to slow walk the velvet roped lines and oooh and ahhh the lastest in glitz, glam and santa shazam! See what Bergdorf, Bloomindale's, Bendel, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Saks, Barneys and others have tripped over themselves to wow you with. (Free)

This event runs December 1, 2008 - January 11, 2009

through January 11, 2009

Gilbert & George

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s. Event Website

This event runs October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009

through January 13, 2009

New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) Wrapped in the glow of twinkling lights, model trains and trolleys zip along over bridges and on winding tracks past scaled replicas of New York landmarks made by award-winning designer Paul Busse. Orange slices, cinnamon sticks, poppy pods, pine cones, and other plant parts make a festive brew as the materials used to create the more than 140 architectural reproductions. Among the favorites are the Empire State Building, Little Red Lighthouse, Brooklyn Bridge, and the borough's own Yankee Stadium. The sights and sounds of locomotives with names such as Holiday Steam Engine and the North Pole and Snowflake Railroad are sure to evoke both magic and merrymaking. Event Website

This event runs November 23, 2008 - January 13, 2009

through January 15, 2009

Origami Holiday Tree & Holiday Barosaurs

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) The theme of this year's tree is Fantastic Creatures: Mythic and Real, echoing the Mythic Creatures exhibition. Mythic creatures such as dragons, mermaids, unicorns, as well as real animals like narwhals and peacocks hang from and surround the base of the tree. Volunteers begin folding in July to complete approximately 500 creations displayed on the tree. The two Holiday Barosaurs, which greet visitors to the Museum on the front steps throughout the holiday season, are fabricated of openwork stainless steel and festooned with pine boughs and lights. Illuminated at night, the whimsical dinosaurs flank the John Russell Pope Central Park West staircase and echo the Barosaurus mount in the Roosevelt Rotunda. Event Website

This event runs November 27, 2008 - January 15, 2009

through January 18, 2009

Big Apple Circus

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) From clowning to capering canines and prancing horses, Big Apple Circus is simply tons of fun. Event Website

This event runs October 23, 2008 - January 18, 2009

through January 25, 2009

Street Art, Street Life

(Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St, Bronx, NY 10456) Photography, film, installation art and more by artists including Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler and David Hammons on the subject of the street as a source of inspiration. Event Website

This event runs September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009

through January 27, 2009

The Pond at Bryant Park

(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) (Sun - Thurs: 8am - 10pm; Fri & Sat: 8am - 12am) The Pond at Bryant Park is Manhattan's first and only free admission ice skating rink. Back for its fourth season, The Pond is fast becoming one of NYC's most treasured winter destinations. Whether you enjoy a day of family skating, share a romantic evening spinning under the stars, celebrate the holidays at a company bash, or join us for the many special events and ice activities this season, The Pond truly offers a bit of magic for everyone. (Free) Event Website

This event runs October 27, 2008 - January 27, 2009

through February 21, 2009

Gothic: Dark Glamour

(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Set in theatrical mise-en-scene suggesting iconic gothic settings, such as the labyrinth, the ruined castle and the laboratory, more than 75 ensembles will be on display. Although popularly identified with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion is represented in this exhibition with looks by designers such as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Anne Demeulemeester, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Ricardo Tischi of Givenchy, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as sub-cultural styles, such as "old-school goth," cyber-goth, and the Japanese look of Elegant Gothic Lolitas. (Free) Event Website

This event runs September 5, 2008 - February 21, 2009

through February 22, 2009

Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940

(Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029) The 1920s and ‘30s witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era’s most creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead to participate in international dialogues that crossed national boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic enterprise. Between the world wars, no two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris, capital of 19th-century refinement, and New York, the upstart challenger that represented 20th-century dynamism. Event Website

This event runs October 3, 2008 - February 22, 2009

through February 28, 2009

Abe Stark Ice Skating Rink

(Coney Island Boardwalk, Surf Ave at 19th St, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY 11229) (Saturdays & Sundays 1 - 4pm) Previously the Ravenhall Baths, a once popular saltwater pool, the Abe Stark Rink is now a popular spot for winter skating. ($8; $5 skate rental) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - February 28, 2009

through February 28, 2009

Seaport Ice

(South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038) (10am - 10pm) Seaport Ice is downtown Manhattan’s newest winter attraction. Amid the visual splendor of tall ships, skyscrapers, and New York Harbor, this 8,000 sq. ft. ice skating rink offers a unique skating for the whole family. ($5; $7 Skate Rental) Event Website

This event runs November 28, 2008 - February 28, 2009

through February 28, 2009

Polar Rink at American Museum of Natural History

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) The Museum's new Polar Rink, made from synthetic ice, is located on the Arthur Ross Terrace, with magnificent views of the glowing Rose Center for Earth and Space and the surrounding Theodore Roosevelt Park. Skaters will glide around a 17-foot-tall polar bear made of openwork stainless steel festooned with pine boughs and twinkling lights. Event Website

This event runs November 22, 2008 - February 28, 2009

through March 28, 2009

Aviator Sports and Recreation

(Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Ave South of the Belt Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11234) This facility is no joke, housing two NHL size-specific rinks, competitive hockey leagues and figure skating programs, as well as public skating. Not unlike Chelsea Piers, the huge facility also houses indoor soccer, basketball, gymnastics and rock climbing, along with some schoolyard favorites like dodgeball and wiffleball. ($6 - $8; $4.50 Skate Rental) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28, 2009

Trump Wollman Rink

(Trump Wollman Rink, Central Park at 59th St at 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019) After Rockefeller Center, this is NYC's most popular chill zone. It is also home to the largest learn-to-skate program in the country. ($4.75 - $14; Skate Rental $6.) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28, 2009

Trump Lasker Skating Rink

(Trump Lasker Skating Rink, Central Park at 110th St & Lennox Ave, New York, NY 10022) Competitive hockey leagues rule this rink, but open to all for freestyle skating as well. Winter Skating Camp and Skating Lessons available. ($2.25 - $6; Skate Rental: $5.25.) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28, 2009

Kate Wollman Rink

(Prospect Park near Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave entrance, Brooklyn) Wollman Rink offers fun for all seasons, providing 26,600 square feet of ice for skaters in the winter and pedal boats on the Lake in the summer. Although not a part of the original plan for Prospect Park, the Rink, built in 1960, has added a big dose of winter fun for thousands of skaters, in addition to serving as home ice for local amateur men’s and women’s hockey teams. ($5; Children & Seniors: $3; Skate Rental: $6.50) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through April 6, 2009

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

(War Memorial Ice Skating Rink, 1321 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10301) (Friday: 4pm - 8pm. Saturday: 12pm - 4pm and 7pm -) ($8; $5 skate rental) (718-720-1010) Event Website

This event runs October 31, 2008 - April 6, 2009

through May 2, 2009

NYC Opera 2008 - 2009 Season Begins

(Various Locations Five Boroughs) New York City Opera begins an exciting year of transition as the company’s home at Lincoln Center, the New York State Theater, undergoes major renovations. During the renovations, City Opera will take to the road, bringing live music and provocative cultural conversation to more than fourteen different venues in all five boroughs of New York City. Through concerts, showcases, multi-media presentations, talks, panels, and film screenings, City Opera will celebrate opera’s surprisingly central role in contemporary culture, and will provide a preview of future seasons. Event Website

This event runs November 2, 2008 - May 2, 2009

through May 2, 2009

The Sex Lives of Animals

(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) A male bonobo shrewdly soliciting sex in exchange for sugar cane. Two female bonobos blissfully engaging in genito-genital (G-G) rubbing. The strenuous coupling of endangered Panda bears. Encounter these creatures and others so vivid in their portrayal that they will likely feel as though they have unwittingly begun a voyeuristic journey into the wild. Event Website

This event runs July 24, 2008 - May 2, 2009

through August 16, 2009

Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) This exhibition will examine one of the most pressing scientific issues of our time -- the massive, human-induced warming of Earth, a phenomenon that could lead to drought, rising sea levels, heavy storms, and other events with potentially dire impacts on the health of society and the natural world. Explore the science, history, and impact of climate change, and find out ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints. Event Website

This event runs October 18, 2008 - August 16, 2009

Recurring Events this Saturday

Front Runners New York

Tuesdays at 7pm, 3rd St & Prospect Park West; Wednesdays at 6:45pm, 236 West 73rd St; Saturdays at 9:15am, 236 West 73rd St Event Website

This event runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays

Metro Wrestling Practices

(Fighthouse, 122 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) (5 - 7pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend. Event Website

This event runs Saturdays

CBST Alef-Bet Shabbat Children's Program

(CBST, 57 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014) (11am) Event Website

This event runs every 2nd Saturday

CBST Shabbat Services and Torah Study

(CBST, 57 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014) (10am) Event Website

This event runs every 2nd and 3rd and 4th Saturday

Guided tours of the Chelsea Art Museum

(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (2 PM-3 PM) Join us for docent-led tours of our exhibition galleries. Highlighting works from both our permanent collection and our rotating exhibitions, tours are free with museum admission and start from the bookstore. (Free!) (212 255 0719) [email protected] Event Website

This event runs Saturdays