Happenings for Week of February 26th

Week of February 26th, 2007

The Orchid Show (C, E)
An exotic world awaits you. Delight in the mesmerizing and seductive wonder of the nation’s premier orchid exhibition, overflowing with the dazzling shapes and breathtaking colors of the world’s most coveted plant. Explore a lush, tropical garden and other spectacular settings steeped in beauty and fragrance. Surround yourself with thousands of orchids of every description delicate, elegant, intriguing, bizarre from all over the world. Come discover the sensual allure of orchids and learn more about these fascinating plants.
February 24th - April 8th, 2007
@ The New York Botanical Garden
200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard
$18
For more information and to buy tickets: nybg

Monday, February 26th, 2007

An Evening of Long Island Wine Tasting And Conversation (E, F/D)
Join the Young Leadership Division of the National Jewish Outreach Council of DCCC for an evening of Long Island Wine Tasting And Conversation with Congressman Steve Israel.
Event will be take place in Midtown, New York. Address provided at time of RSVP.
6:30 - 8:30p
$100 per person
Please RSVP to Lisa Deutsch at 631-434-7500 or email: Israel4Congress@gmail.com

James M. McPherson discusses his new book: The Mighty Scourge (C, E)
In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. McPherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South. Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues such as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. In that capacity, Lincoln invented the concept of presidential war powers that are again at the center of controversy today.
@ Barnes and Noble
2289 Broadway (@ 82nd Street)
7p
Free
For more information: bn



A Conversation with Tamara Tunie (A, C, E)
Tamara Tunie is perhaps best known for playing Medical Examiner Melinda Warner for seven seasons on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She was also a regular on the daytime drama, As the World Turns, and the series, 24, and has appeared on Law and Order, Sex and the City and NYPD Blue. Tunie has worked with screen directors Taylor Hackford, Kasi Lemmons, Brian De Palma, Mimi Leder, Harold Becker and Oliver Stone. Her numerous theater credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington.
@ Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (@ Laight Street)
7 - 9:30p
$15
For more information and to sign up: nywift

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007



Laura's List Event - Cocktail Party (F/D, P)
Let's finish off the month with meeting new folks and a good time.
It will be fun exploring a new restaurant that just opened on the Upper West Side. Some of you might know of their other locations on the East Side. Some come out and join the fun. We will be having 1/2 price house margaritas and 1/2 price glasses of sangria. Light Snacks will be provided.
@ Cilantro
485 Columbus Avenue (between 83rd and 84th Streets)
6p
$20 per person in advance (deadline 2p on Tuesday).
For advanced payment of $20. Please click on provided paypal button below.
IMPORTANT: Please RSVP (even if you plan to pay at the door) with name and email address to: nyckid135@yahoo.com - so I can get a headcount before the event.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a $25 admission day of event, (cash only at door).

Gotham Roller Derby goes to the Movies (E, F, S, P)
Can't wait for the start of the 2007 season? Come spend a night with your favorite speed demons as we present a special program of roller-skating themed shorts, clips, and much more! You'll see clips from classic Derby-exploitation films, shorts from the silent era that capitalized on the then-new roller skating craze, rarely-seen cartoons, and a sneak preview of Joshua Thompson's upcoming documentary about the Gotham Girls, beatdown in the boogiedown.
Come and join the party following the movie.
@ Brooklyn Academy of Music - BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue (between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street), Brooklyn
7p
$10
For more information and to buy tickets: gotham

Book Discussion and Signing with Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin (E, L)
Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher peers into the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher ranges back in time to provide valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzling issues that blocked evolution's acceptance in the early years, and explaining how scientific research eventually found the answers to these conundrums. Kitcher argues that the problem with Intelligent Design isn't that it's "not science," as many critics say, but that it's "dead science," raising questions long resolved by scientists. But after providing a convincing case for evolution, Kitcher points out that it is also important to recognize the cost of Darwin 's success the price of "living with Darwin
@ Labyrinth Books
536 West 112th Street (between Amsterdam and Broadway)
7p
Free
For more information: labyrinth

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007



Art Exhibit: Chelsea de Weeneze by Madsteez (A, C)
Madsteez has turned the gallery into the Wonderful World of Ween completely covering the walls, ceilings and floors in bright colored paints and the artist’s street signature style. The exhibit also showcases an entire wall with Ween!mal portraits.
@ Space Downtown Studio
276 West 25th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
11 - 6p
Free
For more information: madsteez



Art Exhibit:
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook (photographs 1932 - 46) (A, C, E)
Cartier-Bresson's personal scrapbook of his best work from his rich early period (1932-46) provides an extraordinary window onto his process and artistic development, documenting both his travels to Spain and Mexico and his encounters with Surrealism and modern art. At the beginning of World War II, Cartier-Bresson was captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp for three years before he escaped in 1943. To the outside world, Cartier-Bresson was presumed dead, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York was preparing a memorial exhibition (which ultimately took place in 1947). When Cartier-Bresson emerged, alive, he joined the efforts to assemble this retrospective. He selected and personally printed over 300 examples of his best works including many that had never printed before. Upon his arrival in New York in April 1946, he bought a scrapbook into which he meticulously glued all the prints in chronological order. These prints, mostly removed from the scrapbook by Cartier-Bresson in the 1990s, have been reassembled for this occasion.
@ International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd Street)
$12
For more information: photo

Author and Financial Expert, Suze Orman Talks…(E, L)
About Women and Money. Owning the power to control your destiny. And taking charge of your future.
@ Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive (between 120th Street and Riverside Drive)
6p
Free
For more information: suze

How To Kick People "I Coulda Been Someone" (A, C)
A special three-year anniversary show. On this the occasion of its three-year anniversary, How To Kick People is taking a moment to look back on the dreams it once had. Bob, Todd, and their hilarious guests will tell tales of what they used to want to be when they grew up. It will be a night of looking back on when we were young, when everything seemed possible, and when becoming an astronaut meant more than just being able to take a long road-trip in some poopie diapers. Guests include Reggie Watts (winner 2006 Andy Kaufman Award), Ellie Kemper (McSweeneys), and Jack Kukoda (writer for Yankee Pot Roast, The Onion).
@ Mo Pitkins
34 Avenue A (between 2nd and 3rd Streets)
7:30p
$8
For more information and to buy tickets: mopitkins

Thursday, March 1st, 2007



Opening Exhibit and Artists Reception (A, C)
I heart (love) Bed - Stuy: Portraits by Naomi Campbell (not the model)
@ Ex Gallery
872 Kent Avenue (between Park and Myrtle Avenues), Brooklyn
6 - 9p
Free
For more information on artist: naomi

Lecture with Andrew Levy: The First Emancipator (C, E, L)
In 1791, Robert Carter III, one of the richest men in Virginia, a friend, neighbor, and kinsman of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the Lee family, committed an act that even the Revolutionaries of his time believed was impossible: he freed more than 450 slaves. Andrew Levy tells the forgotten story of the man behind the largest single emancipation prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Andrew Levy is the author of The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves.
@ New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West (between 76th and 77th Streets)
6:30p
$15
For more information and to sign up: nyhistory

March Follies: A Preposterous Pre-Purim Pageant (A, C, M)
Join the 'Queen of Judeo Kitsch' and her fabulous friends for a night of live music; stand up comedy, masks and drinks. Costumes are optional - graggers and masks will be provided. The evening will include a cabaret show, open bar, and snacks. Hosted by Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross with comedians Julie Goldman, Seth Herzog, and Lenny Marcus.
@ Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place (between 1st Place and South Street)
7 - 8p pre-show festivities, show begins at 8p
$40
For more information and to buy tickets: purim

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Meredith Blis Performs (M)
Meredith’s instruments are a nimble, jazz-tinged piano and a voice that leaps from a smooth croon to a powerful siren. She has an appealingly bluesy slant to her music.
@ Waltz- Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Boulevard (between 23rd and 24th Streets), Queens
9 - 11p
$5
For more information: meredith

Slink Moss Orchestra performs in Brooklyn (M)
Defined by it's sparce, dark songs with snakey guitars, slithery bass and slinky crafty drums, S.M.O. has a unique sound that is full of rock energy. Influenced by a wide variety of beats and sounds, from now and then, from here and there, S.M.O. cannot be categorized. Their environment (downtown NYC), their songs (strange), their scene (and partys) and their personalities (warped) shape the music.
@ Petes Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street (@ Richardson Street)
10p
For more information: smo

Wine Tasting: Natural Wines and Bistro Delights (E, F/D)
Natural and biodynamic wines from France. Come meet a group of fantastic winemakers from Domaine Binner (Alsace), Clos des Camuzeilles (Fitou), Domaine des 2 Anes (Corbières), and Domaine Rimbert (Saint-Chinian) will be pouring. Food will be provided by Bistro Citron.
@ West Side Wines
481 Columbus Ave. (Corner of 83rd Street)
5 - 8p
Free
For more information: westside

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007



Ski and Snowboard Trip (S)
Take a healthy break from NYC and come ski or snowboard at Mountain Creek. Located in nearby Vernon, NJ, Mountain Creek is only about 1.5 hours away from downtown Manhattan, and offers a variety of terrain for beginner thru advanced skiers and snowboarders. Winter got off to a late start, but the current conditions and weather will make for a great day of riding.
Pick-Up: West 3rd Street between Bleeker Street & LaGuardia Place. Bus will be located behind 70 Washington Square South
@ 7:30a
Cost: $45 (Includes: Roundtrip transportation from NYC, full-day lift ticket). Extra: Rental equipment is not included, but can be purchased for $25 (cash only) on the way to Mountain Creek.
For more information and to sign up: escape

Art Exhibit: Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination (A, C)
For Native people, land has multiple meanings. It is home, culture and identity, but it also represents violence, isolation and loss. The artists in Off the Map reinvent and examine landscape from this complex perspective, creating work that exists outside of Western landscape traditions. Their work also defies common expectations of Native American art in both its form and content. The artists in Off the Map use the landscape as both muse and subject, but none seek to represent a specific place located in a guidebook or on a map. Their work embodies the longing and emotion, connection to and detachment from the land that are universal to contemporary Native experience.
@ The National Museum of the American Indian (The George Gustav Heye Center)
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green (@ State Street)
Free
For more information: americanindian

The MoMA Mania Scavenger Hunt (A, S)
See the best of the Museum of Modern Art on a tour featuring Picasso’s poison, Pollock’s secrets ingredients, Warhol’s soup, Dali’s wilting watches, Chaplin’s antics, and other oddities. The hunt includes paintings, sculptures, household items in the design galleries, photographs, and a motley assortment of contemporary works, plus the sculpture garden (weather permitting).
@ Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Meeting Place: Near the West 54th Street entrance (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
$38 (includes museum admission)
2 - 4:30p
For more information and to sign up: watson



Joe Chvala & The Flying Foot Forum: Flying Feet (Code: T-DP5HP23-01) (A, C, D, M)
Join Minnesota dance artist Joe Chvala and his company for a mesmerizing blend of percussion and percussive dance. His new work Flying Feet is an evening created by four percussive collaborators. Rhythmically complex and compelling, the program is an exciting blend of full body movement with drumming and percussive dancing of all varieties. The result is a visual soundscape that flows from solos, to vocal percussion, to duets and trios. The interplay of light, instrument, movement and sound creates an exciting and always shifting evening of percussion and percussive dance.
@ The Ailey Citigroup Theater - Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street (at Ninth Avenue)
8p
$20
For more information and to buy tickets: 92y

Purim Gala and Venetian Masquerade Ball (C, P)
This event is open to Jewish Professionals seeking a festive and meaningful Purim and in search of a committed relationship. An enchanting evening of merriment, fun, Kosher food, drinks (2 included in price), music, friendships, potential love, raffles and prizes. Feast on an Italian dinner buffet and Purim libations. Costume or mask requested.
Ages: 20 - 40’s
@ University Hall Atrium Union Square
110 East 14 Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
9p
$36 Prepaid (by Friday at 6p), $45 at the door, space permitting.
For more information and to sign up: reallive

Sunday, March 4th, 2007 (Purim)



Remember the Magic Garden (A, C)
Carole and Paula, Sherlock, the Chuckle Patch and more…
Well…now you can relive your childhood.
Carole and Paula are coming to New Jersey with guest star, the original Sherlock.
@ Wyckoff Family YMCA - Carl Pfeifer Performing Arts Stage
691 Wyckoff Avenue (between Switzer Road and Walnut Street W)
Wyckoff, NJ
2p
$20
To make a reservation call: 201.891.2081
For more information: magicgarden
NJ Transit goes to Wyckoff via bus. For bus schedules: njtransit

Wine Tasting (E, F/D)
We will be hosting three winemakers from France who are in town in support of Natural Winemakers Week. This will be your chance to ask all of those burning questions you may have about natural versus organic versus biodynamic, and also to taste some phenomenal small production French wines.
@ Vine Wine
12 - 09 Jackson Avenue (between 47th Road and 48th Avenue), LIC
3 - 5pm
Free
For more information: wine

How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965 (C, E)
Professor Freeman Dyson of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study contributed to the unification of three versions of quantum electro-dynamics. Dyson illustrates a conversation about Project Orion a plan to build a large manned spaceship for interplanetary exploration with the intention to land on Mars with original photographs of the people, experiments, and documents.
Made possible by The Leon Levy Foundation.
@ Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (@ 89th Street)
7:30p
$24
For more information: works. To make a reservation call: 212.423.3587

Monday, March 5th, 2007



Book Discussion: Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols (Code: T-MD5LE61-01) (C, E, L)
Clinical psychologist and sports enthusiast Stanley Teitelbaum works with professional athletes and sports agents. In this discussion, he delves into the psyches of sports figures on and off the field and explores such timely issues as drug and alcohol abuse, gambling and steroid use. His book, Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols, looks at all major sports and the rise and fall of such celebrity athletes as Pete Rose, Tonya Harding and O.J. Simpson.
Makor - Steinhardt Building
35 West 67th Street (between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West)
12 - 1p
$16
For more information and to buy tickets: 92y

Speed Dating (S)
Prey Bar and Lounge,.
Single Jewish Professionals
Ages: women 26 - 37, men 28 - 39
4 West 22nd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
7:30p
Cost: $37.00 (use the name - Laura when registering on-line and save $5.00)
For more information and to sign up: dates

Key to Activities

A Art
C Cultural
D Dance
D/F Drink/Food
F Film
E Education
L Literature
M Music
NP Non-Profit
P Party
S Sport