Walk Down to Electric Avenue: Electric Fountain

No reason to lament the loss of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree (especially because its departure thins out the tourists). The Electric Fountain is here! Indulging my primitive instinctual love of blinking lights, the fountain is composed of 3,390 LED bulbs and 576 feet of neon bulbs, coordinated to bubble up like the fanciest champagne [...]

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(Gob)Let’s Drink: MAD talk and wine tasting

This evening, the Museum of Arts & Design (formerly the more colloquial American Craft Museum) raises a glass to the … well, to the glass! Enjoy a talk from associate curator Jennifer Scanlan on the item that makes all our elegantly wasted nights possible, the goblet — that loveliest of stemware.
The evening is part of [...]

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Free Food Alert: Free McSkillet with drink purchase

Eggs, sausage and cheese … oh my! Those tasty morsels, snuggled up with pepper, potatoes, onions and a “special sauce” in a flour tortilla, make up the 610-calorie behemoth that is the McSkillet, McDonald’s latest contribution to the clogging of America’s arteries. Normally $2.50 in Manhattan, get a free McSkillet with medium or large drink [...]

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Must-See TV: New York Philharmonic in North Korea

If you can use (or stand) a night in, tune that dial to PBS tomorrow to watch the New York Philharmonic’s historic performance in North Korea. Over 14,000 people attended the performance in N. Korea, and the Phil stipulated that they would only play if the concert were broadcast nationwide for the enjoyment of the [...]

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