The New York Times-20080125-Around Town
Return to: The_New_York_Times-20080125
Around Town
Full Text (1504 words)AROUND TOWN
Museums and Sites
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Central Park West and 79th Street. Through May 26, Water: H2O = Life and The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter. Friday, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., One Step Beyond, a monthly party with music, dancing and a film screening; $20. Saturday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., International Waters, focuses on the practical and cultural importance of water in Chinese and East Indian societies, told with dance, theater, storytelling and discussion; part of the Water exhibition. Wednesday at noon, the first of three lunchtime bird walks (the others are on Feb. 6 and Feb. 13); series is $75. Timed tickets to Water: H20 = Life, Mythic Creatures and The Butterfly Conservatory, as well as tickets to Imax films, include museum admission. (212) 769-5100 or (212) 769-5200. Tickets: $22; $16.50 for students and 60+; $13 for 12 and younger. Suggested general admission: $15; $11 for students and 60+; $8.50 for children. Supersaver tickets, including museum and Rose Center admission, the Hayden Planetarium space show (Cosmic Collisions) and all special exhibitions: $30; $23 for students and 60+; $19 for 12 and younger. Hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. The Rose Center is open until 8:45 p.m. for Starry Nights: Fridays Under the Sphere, with jazz, a cash bar and tapas, on the first Friday of every month. amnh.org.
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., New York Neighborhoods/Development and Preservation, a discussion on the fate of the Far West Side, with Anna Hayes Levin, chairwoman of the land use Committee of Community Board No. 4; Lynne B. Sagalyn, a professor of real estate development at the University of Pennsylvania; Richard Ravitch, a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority; and James Stewart Polshek, of Polshek Partnership Architects; $9, $5 for members: reservations: (212) 534-1672, Ext. 3395. Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (212) 534-1672; mcny.org. Suggested admission: $9; $5 for students and 62+; free for children under 12 and for everyone on Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon; $20 for families. Through Feb. 10, admission is free for those with a paid receipt from a visit to the New-York Historical Society.
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street. Through Feb. 10, Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925. Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., a discussion on the works of Robert Henri and John Sloan with four scholars; $15, $10 and $8. Through Aug. 10, French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to Washington's America, a multimedia exhibition with a video display and items associated with the Marquis de Lafayette. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., a discussion on the history of the French in New York with Count Pierre de Ravel d'Esclapon, a lawyer and a chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur; and Valerie Paley, editor of The New-York Journal of American History; a wine-tasting follows; $18, $12 for students, teachers and 65+, $10 for members. Thursday at 6:30 p.m., a discussion on the relationship of George Washington and Lafayette, with the historians and authors David A. Clary, Thomas Fleming and Harlow Giles Unger; $15, $10 and $8. Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; to 8 p.m. on Fridays. (212) 873-3400; nyhistory.org. $10; $7 for educators and 65+; $6 for students; free from 6 to 8 p.m. on Fridays; free at all times for children under 12. Through Feb. 10, admission is free for those with a paid receipt from a visit to the Museum of the City of New York.
Events
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY, 15 West 16th Street, Chelsea. Sunday at 5 p.m., a screening of the Italian film L'Isola delle Rose. La Tragedia di un Paradiso, about the lives and deaths of the Jews of Rhodes from the start of the Italian colonization in 1912, to the deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 , with a discussion with the journalist Andrea Fiano and Stella Levi, a board member of Centro Primo Levi and a Rhodes survivor. Also sponsored by the Primo Levi Center. Reservations: (917) 606-8200; cjh.org. Free.
GOETHE INSTITUTE/GERMAN CULTURAL CENTER, 1014 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street. Tuesday at 7 p.m., a screening of Monks -- The Trans-Atlantic Feedback, a documentary by Dietmar Post and his wife, Lucia Palacios, about a 1960s rock band made up of five American soldiers stationed in Hamburg; Mr. Post will be on hand to discuss the film. (212) 439-8700. Free.
NIGHT OF MAGIC, The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West, at Second Street, Park Slope. Friday at 8 p.m. Part of the Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor performance series, the event features the magicians Michael Chaut and Eric DeCamps; and Will Shaw, a juggler. (718) 768-2972. $15.
Spoken Word
BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 Bowery, near Bleecker Street, East Village. Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m., a poetry reading by graduate students and faculty from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program, and members of Study Abroad on the Bowery, a program of the Bowery Poetry Club. (212) 614-0505; bowerypoetry.com. Free, with one-drink minimum.
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway. Sunday at 1:30 p.m., Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, will read from his novel, Triple Homicide. (718) 230-2100; brooklynpubliclibrary.org. Free.
COMIX, 353 West 14th Street, Manhattan. Sunday at 7 p.m., Posteriors, a staged reading of a spoof of Woody Allen's film Interiors, presented by the Tweed Fractured Classics Series. (212) 524-2500; comixny.com. $30 ($25 with dinner reservation); two-item minimum. MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET, 12 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side. Sunday at 3 p.m., Rescuing the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a discussion on its preservation. (212) 219-0888. Free.
92ND STREET Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue. Saturday at 4 p.m., Jewish Giants of the American Songbook: The Gershwin Brothers' Broadway Shows, a lecture by the composer Joelle Wallach; $35. Tuesday at 8:15 p.m., a discussion with the artist Jeff Koons and the scholar and critic Katy Siegel; $26. Through January, ticket buyers for many lectures, readings or concerts will receive a free additional ticket when they mention the Y as NYC & Company's Cultural Organization of the Month or use the code NYCO; some events are excluded. (212) 415-5500; 92y.org.
WOODLAWN CEMETERY, Woolworth Chapel, Webster Avenue and East 233rd Street, Norwood, the Bronx. Saturday at 3 p.m., a lecture by Camille Forbes, a scholar and author of Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star. Presented by the Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery. (718) 920-1470; thewoodlawncemetery.org. Free.
Walking Tours
BIG ONION WALKING TOURS Sunday at 1 p.m., a tour of the Jewish Lower East Side, meeting on the southeast corner of Delancey and Essex Streets. (212) 439-1090; bigonion.com. $15; $12 for 63+; $10 for students and members of the New-York Historical Society.
CHINATOWN TOURS Two on Saturday at 1 p.m., Preparing for the Lunar New Year in Chinatown, meeting at the Museum of Chinese in America, sponsor of the walk, 70 Mulberry Street, at Bayard Street; (212) 619-4785; moca-nyc.org. $12; $10 for students and 65+; $6 for members; free for children 5 and younger. The second, a food and tasting tour, is sponsored by NYC Chinatown Tours. Reservations and meeting place: (646) 713-9960; nycchinatowntours.com. $30.
DR. PHIL: NEW YORK TALKS AND WALKS Sunday at 1:30 p.m., Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends of the East Village, meeting on the northwest corner of Tenth Street and Second Avenue. (888) 377-4455. $20, cash; $15, credit card.
HARLEM HERITAGE TOURS Friday and Saturday, 6:30 to 11:30 p.m., Jazz Nights in Harlem Walking Tour, includes stops at jazz spots of the past and a soul food meal, meeting on the southeast corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. (212) 280-7888; harlemheritage.com. $39.
I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN TOURS Saturday at 1 p.m., Chelsea Yesterday and Today, meeting on the northwest corner of 15th Street and Ninth Avenue. (732) 270-5559. $15.
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETYSaturday at 1 p.m., Keeping Off the Streets, a tour of public atriums, passageways and underground walkways in Midtown, meeting at the New York Transit Museum Store, in Grand Central Terminal. (212) 439-1049. $15, $12 for members.
STREET SMARTS N.Y. Saturday at 6 p.m., Pubs and Poltergeists visits haunted taverns in the West Village, meeting in front of St. Luke in the Fields Church, 487 Hudson Street. (212) 969-8262. $10; drinks not included.
URBAN TRAIL CONFERENCE Friday at 1 p.m., a seven-mile walk through the Brooklyn Greenbelt, meeting in Brooklyn, at the Fort Hamilton Parkway stop on the N train, at the exit closest to the last car, arriving from Manhattan. (718) 435-4994. $3.
Recreation
NYRR HALF-MARATHON GRAND PRIX: MANHATTAN, Sunday at 8:30 a.m. in Central Park, beginning on the East Drive at 84th Street; start time for wheelers, 8:20 a.m. Sponsored by the New York Road Runners and Continental Airlines. (212) 860-4455; www.nyrr.org. Advance registration fee: $30; $25 for members; $15 for 18 and younger and 62+. Race-day registration: $35, $25 and $15.
Information about events to be considered for inclusion in Spare Times can be sent to [email protected].
