Black Comic Book Festival 2020 at Schomburg Center
HARLEM, Fri-Sat, Jan 17-18, 2020 (unconfirmed) ~ Harlem is Wakanda this weekend. Buy, sell, learn, watch or show your stuff at this family festival.
# african comic book festival cosplay
Martin Luther King Weekend 2020
Things to do in NYC around Martin Luther King Weekend ~ Friday-Monday, January 17-20, 2020
Join the Women’s March on NYC 2020
UPPER WEST SIDE & MIDTOWN, Sun, January 19, 2020 ~ We march for the civil rights of every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed.
# women’s parade
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Free at Last, Free at Last”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Jan 15, 1929 (HOLIDAY JANUARY 20, 2020) ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He taught that we should get educated, vote, stand up for ourselves in a non-violent way, and keep going until we are truly free at last.
# african civil rights leader
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More Things to do in NYC on Martin Luther King Weekend
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cuban Jazz at Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, most Sundays, Cuban jazz live music ~ Multi-Grammy winners carry on the Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Isabel Leonard stars in Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” at the Met
LINCOLN CENTER, Thu, Jan 31 ~ Debussy’s only French opera is a slice of tragedy.
# french opera argentine star
Try new restaurants with friends during NYC Restaurant Week
Jan 21 – Feb 8, 2019 ~ 2-course lunches for $26 and 3-course dinners for $42.
# african brazilian cuban french italian mexican latin & spanish food
Discover Art Brut at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair
CHELSEA, January 17-20, 2019 ~ America’s leading art fair for “Art Brut” or art created outside the art world.
# french art fair
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Try a Restaurant with Friends
Try new restaurants with friends during NYC Restaurant Week
Jan 21 – Feb 8, 2019 ~ 2-course lunches for $26 and 3-course dinners for $42.
# african brazilian cuban french italian mexican latin & spanish food
Da Vinci Drawings and Prints at the Met Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Jan 28-Apr 28, 2019, Italian old masters art exhibition ~ The Met celebrates the Italian master’s 500th anniversary by showing drawings and prints from the permanent collection.
Graciela Iturbide 50 Years of Mexican Photography at Throckmorton
MIDTOWN EAST; Mon-Sat, Mar 28 – May 18, 2019; Mexican photography exhibition ~ 50 years of remarkable images by Mexico’s greatest living photographer. There is nothing as surreal as life itself.
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library
MURRAY HILL, Tue-Sun, Feb 15 – May 19, 2019, Italian Renaissance art exhibition ~ The development of Renaissance drawing practices in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Mundos Alternos, welcome to the Latin world(s) at Queens Museum
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK; Wed-Sun, Apr 7 – Aug 18, 2019 ~ You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens)
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE; Thu-Tue, Apr 12 – Sep 8, 2019; Jewish French-Canadian art exhibition ~ One of the great poets of the last generation knew exactly where the light enters you
Joan Miró: Birth of the World at MoMA
MIDTOWN, daily, Feb 24 – Jun 15, 2019, Spanish modern art exhibition ~ Explore the development of Joan Miró’s visual language
‘Crown of the Andes,’ Colombian art at the Met Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, daily, permanent collection; Colombian Ecuadorian Peruvian Indigenous Inca colonial art exhibition ~ This beautiful religious icon from Popayán contains the legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
Taíno culture at the Museum of the American Indian
FINANCIAL DISTRICT; daily, Jul 28, 2018 – Oct 2019; Indigenous Taíno art exhibition ~ Caribbean communities are reclaiming our roots. FREE
‘Hamilton’ Puerto Rican Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
TIMES SQUARE; open-ended run. Dark Mondays; Puerto Rican Broadway musical theatre ~ The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (‘In the Heights’)
“Phantom of the Opera” Broadway at the Majestic Theatre
MAJESTIC THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Dark Sundays, Ongoing ~ The Paris Opera House is haunted
“Chicago the Musical” Broadway
AMBASSADOR THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Dark Wednesdays, Open-ended run. ~ Puerto Rican Broadway legend Chita Rivera originated the role of Velma Kelly. Italian-American Liza Minnelli added her style.
See Phantom or Chicago during NYC Broadway Week
JAN 21 – FEB 10, 2019 ~ 2-for-1 tickets to popular Broadway shows are on sale now.
# broadway #theatre #sale
“El coronel no tiene quien le escriba” Colombian theatre at Repertorio
KIPS BAY; Fri Apr 26, 2019; Colombian off-broadway theatre in spanish ~ Jorge Alí Triana’s adaptation of the classic Gabriel García Márquez story about how history repeats itself
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Nightly ~ World-class jazz any night in one of the great New York rooms overlooking Central Park
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Blue Note
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly ~ One of NYC’s legendary jazz clubs
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, Nightly, Sundays, Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
The Django
ROXY HOTEL, TRIBECA, Wed-Sat ~ A retro jazz cellar
Zinc Bar
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Sun, December 9 & 16, 2018 ~ Argentine Tango Dancing to live music by the Zinc Tango Trio
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
La Boom weekend Latin night club
WOODSIDE, QUEENS; Latin night club dancing ~ FRI Touring artists, SAT Tropical dance party, SUN New York City’s big Mexican night
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
PUBLIC THEATER, EAST VILLAGE, Nightly ~ A music showcase
House of Yes
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public
Nublu Classic and Nublu 151
EAST VILLAGE, Nightly, Wed Nublu Classic Brazilian night ~ Late night underground experimental world jazz clubs. Young and fun without attitude.
Webster Hall is a popular nightclub in the East Village
EAST VILLAGE, December 2018 ~ Webster Hall is closed for remodeling
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil
HUDSON SQUARE NYC live music night club ~ New York City’s oldest world music night club
Cielo is House music heaven and the home of Louie Vega
18 Little West 12th St
Meatpacking District
West Village
Terraza 7
It’s a tropical experience. Lots of great local Latin Jazz artists play.
40-19 Gleane Street
at Roosevelt Ave
Elmhurst / Jackson Heights, Queens
Nightly
Gonzalez y Gonzalez has dancing to live Salsa bands Friday & Saturday
192 Mercer St
between Bleecker & Houston
Greenwich Village
Closed on Mondays
Le Poisson Rouge
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly ~ Music and art cabaret
#NIGHTCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
DROM is a Turkish Gypsy world music club in NYC’s East Village
85 Avenue A
between 5th & 6th St
East Village, Manhattan
Open nightly
Subrosa is closed (for now)
Closing Party
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
House of Yes
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public
Nublu Classic and Nublu 151
EAST VILLAGE, Nightly, Wed Nublu Classic Brazilian night ~ Late night underground experimental world jazz clubs. Young and fun without attitude.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Nightly ~ World-class jazz any night in one of the great New York rooms overlooking Central Park
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC