Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia ~ The African-American civil rights leader was born on January 15, 1929. His holiday this year is Monday, January 20, 2020.
Martin Luther King Weekend 2020
Things to do in NYC around Martin Luther King Weekend ~ Friday-Monday, January 17-20, 2020
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
Join the Women’s March on NYC 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
UPPER WEST SIDE & MIDTOWN ~ March in the Women’s March for the civil rights of every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed
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More Things to do in NYC on Martin Luther King Weekend
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
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2019 Latin Food Guide
July 22 – August 16, 2019
NEW YORK CITY ~ See which African, Brazilian, Cuban, French, Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish restaurants joined this food festival of prix fixe lunches and dinners
Lincoln Center Out of Doors is Lincoln Center’s summer festival
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican & Puerto Rican art exhibition
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in American art
Taíno culture at the Museum of the American Indian
July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE
Argentine Titanosaur at American Museum of Natural History
Through January 1, 2020
Argentine dinosaur
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC ~ This cast of a 122-foot-long skeleton from Patagonia, Argentina is so big, the head pokes out the door of the dinosaur hall
‘Crown of the Andes,’ Colombian art at the Met Museum
Daily
Colombian Ecuadorian Peruvian Indigenous Inca art
UPPER EAST SIDE, permanent collection ~ This Marion crown from Popayán, Colombia contains the legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
‘Hamilton’ Puerto Rican Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
Open run. Dark Mondays
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ The Broadway musical theatre 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
Open-ended run. Dark Wednesdays.
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ Puerto Rican Broadway legend Chita Rivera originated the role of bad girl Velma Kelly. Italian-American Liza Minnelli played the good girl Roxie Hart in the original production.
2-for-1 Broadway Week Tickets to Latin Shows in Summer 2019
SALE Wed, August 14, 2019
SHOWS Sep 3-16, 2019
Find out which Broadway shows in this Broadway Week have a Latin connection. Then see how to get 2-for-1 Broadway tickets.
‘Filomena Marturano’ is a play about marriage Caribbean style
Sunday, September 8, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Cuban director Leyma López created a Spanish-language adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo’s classic Neapolitan comedy which inspired the movie ‘Marriage Italian Style’. At Repertorio Español.
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
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 ~ One of New York’s legendary jazz clubs has live music nightly
Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, Nightly, Sundays, Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Zinc Bar
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ An old-school underground Greenwich Village jazz club owned by an Argentine family
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
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
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil
HUDSON SQUARE NYC live music night club ~ New York City’s oldest world music night club
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
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ G&G is a Mexican restaurant with dancing to live salsa bands on Fridays and Saturdays, and some Thursdays and Sundays too
La Boom
WOODSIDE, QUEENS ~ New York City’s most popular Latin night club
FRI Touring artists
SAT Tropical party
SUN Noches Mexicanas
Cielo closed in 2018
18 Little West 12th St
Meatpacking District
West Village
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
Le Poisson Rouge
GREENWICH VILLAGE ~ This rock, jazz, Latin, classical and party night club with live music most nights, was the Village Gate where the Salsa Meets Jazz night got jazz legends jamming with salsa legends in the 1970s
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
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
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.