Backyard Backcountry: Manhattan Adirondacks tour

With crocuses poking up and green buds dotting long dormant trees, Spring is the perfect season to reacquaint yourself with the nooks and crannies of Central Park. This Saturday, explore the less traversed realms of CP with the Central Park Conservancy’s Manhattan Adirondacks tour. Meander for an hour through the North Woods as [...]

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Kids These Days: Kids in the Hall live at the Nokia Theater

Those wise-cracking Canucks The Kids in the Hall bring their hilarious and often off-kilter sense of humor to the Nokia Theater this April. From April 18-20, the comedy troupe of Brain Candy fame present their latest live show “Live as We’ll Ever Be” to audiences craving belly laughs galore. Nab your tickets before they sell [...]

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Art Attack: Art fairs invade NYC

So much art, so little time! Eight international art fairs — including the world famous Armory Art Show — and countless other small shows, auctions and gallery exhibits explode onto the scene with the latest and greatest from the art world.
The plethora of parties and paintings could just make you want to scream. Fear not, [...]

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Just Calm Down: Spa Week 2008

Close your eyes. Relax. Think peaceful thoughts of a blissfully full bank account. Spa Week tiptoes into town in April 14-20, and serenity seekers can find $50 deals on everything from massages to hot stone treatments to facials. Though the even is three weeks away, book early to nab your top treatment choices. Citysearch offers [...]

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Burning Down the House: Paris Is Burning screening at Chelsea Clearview

Think you can work it, girl?! You ain’t seen nothin’ until you’ve seen these fabulous divas work the ball circuit runways in the cult favorite Paris Is Burning. Director Jennie Livingston delved into the 1991 NYC underground that brought us the infamous dance craze, voguing. The at once raw and exhilarating look at drag [...]

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Let There NOT Be Light: Earth Hour

Continue the darkness craze but doing a little something to help our world. This Saturday, March 29th at 8pm, participate in Earth Hour, a global event to raise awareness of energy responsibility and reduction, by powering down those PCs and unplugging your Wiis. Promoted by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, the first Earth [...]

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Darkness Falls: Dark Fair

Blackouts are the new black this weekend. As part of the art fair extravaganza descending on NYC, Dark Fair offers a dimly lit alternative to the blinding fluorescents and carefully positioned spots over at the Armory and elsewhere. Rather than natural or artificial light, artists will use alternative light forms — gas lamps, candles, battery, [...]

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This Tour Stinks: Chinatown garbage taxidermy tour

The wacky world of NYC continues to amazing with the most quirky expeditions I’ve ever encountered. Take, for example, this Thursday’s free Chinatown Garbage Tour (note: the image in the link is a bit foul, but if you are even clicking through, you should know what to expect). Taxidermy artist Nate Hill sifts through half-eaten [...]

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Asian Anthem: Maru karaoke bar

I know Koreatown has been a favorite of mine, but how can it not be!? Table grilled meat, 24 hour spas, and top notch karaoke. We’re talking private room, swank bar, space age bathrooms that sometimes confuddle … but in a good way. Maru has it all.
Tucked in a high floor of a Koreatown multiplex,  [...]

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Eggcellent: Egg hunts around NYC

With no Eggstravaganza in Central Park this year, this bunny wasn’t feeling so sunny. The Bronx Zoo to the rescue! Loads of eggstra cool events make up Eggstreme Weekend. Hop along up to the Boogie Down to meet the man, the myth, the bunny himself. Or indulge in eggciting events such as egg hunts and [...]

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