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may 1, 2008 / thursday 
: solemnity of the ascension
Alternate Side Parking Suspended
Arts & Entertainment
Tribeca Film Festival
(Various Locations) The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate NYC as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan. Event Website
Note: this event runs April 23 - May 4
Arts & Entertainment
Downtown with Broadband Emmy Nominee John Roberts
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (8:00- 9:30pm) John Roberts is one of the standout performer/writers on YouTube and will wow the audience with his original character work and stellar live performance skills on. John was recently featured on Vice Magazine's VBS.TV and his first viral video "The Christmas Tree" was hailed as an instant comedy classic. It was nominated for a broadband Emmy award and was featured on VH-1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central�s Insider and countless blogs and websites. The follow up "Jackie & Debra" won The Comedy Smalls award in London, was featured on YouTube, and has a huge tween following. Even with all that, John is just getting warmed up! ($17/20 plus a two item minimum) (212-524-2500) Event Website
Organizations
2008 Liberty Awards National Dinner
(Pier 60, 23rd St & the Hudson River, New York, NY 10011) (6pm) This year's award honors Kelli O'Donnell and Gregg Kaminsky, founders of R Family Vacations. The company serves as an incredible role model as it continues to promote acceptance of our families around the world. RSVP by May 1, 2008 at 11:59pm. Event Website
Starting Today
Arts & Entertainment
Playing the Building
(Battery Maritime Ferry Building, 10 South St, New York, NY 10004) David Byrne's massive installation in the historic Battery Maritime Building features an organ that triggers sounds from its metal beams, pipes and electrical conduits that invites you to play along. Event Website
This event runs through August 10
Ongoing Events
through May 3
Arts & Entertainment
Two Men Talking
(Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014) (7:30 pm) Two Men Talking is the live performance of a friendship. Paul Browde and Murray Nossel are a psychiatrist and an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, who have known one another since they were twelve years old. Over a period of ten years this unscripted piece continues to develop through its live performance, shaped by the listening of each audience.It has now been performed in South Africa, London's West End, Edinburgh, Canada and Australia. ($25 (discounts available)) (212 239-6200) Event Website
This event runs February 29 - May 3
through May 3
Arts & Entertainment
Charles Mee's Fire Island
(3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10006) (8pm) Experience a virtual Fire Island with a mixed media performance that replicates the laid back, eclectic surroundings of our favorite gay beach destination, complete with spontaneous dancing and promises of love in the air. ($30) Event Website
This event runs April 10 - May 3
through May 7
Arts & Entertainment
Exoticism
(The Museum at FIT, 295 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Over 40 modern designers featured along with beautiful 18th and 19th-century fashions and textiles that highlight Japanese, Chinese, Indian and North African styles. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - May 7
through May 11
Arts & Entertainment
The Four of Us
(NY City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) A poignant new play about friendship and memory, the gap between our stories and our lives, and what happens when your dreams come true - for your best friend. Event Website
This event runs March 6 - May 11
through May 26
Arts & EntertainmentYouth & Family
The Butterfly Conservatory
(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the 10th annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - May 26
through May 28
Arts & Entertainment
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai�s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Event Website
This event runs February 22 - May 28
through June 1
Arts & Entertainment
2008 Biennial Exhibition
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Event Website
This event runs March 6 - June 1
through June 15
Arts & Entertainment
South Pacific
(Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023) During World War II in the South Pacific, love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart. Event Website
This event runs March 1 - June 15
through June 15
Arts & Entertainment
Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) During this Garden-wide celebration of Charles Darwin's life and his groundbreaking work, explore his theories of evolution and natural selection. Event Website
This event runs April 25 - June 15
through June 22
Arts & Entertainment
Top Girls
(Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) Set at the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, this play tells the story of Marlene, an ambitious career woman who has just been appointed head of the firm. (Top Girls) Event Website
This event runs April 15 - June 22
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Amazonia Design, Fashion and Sustainable Economy
(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281) Objects by contemporary designers from the Amazon region who utilize raw materials in their work. Event Website
This event runs April 17 - July 13
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Sex in Design/Design in Sex
(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) Highlights the best and most compelling sexually inspired contemporary designs from around the world. Event Website
This event runs January 31 - July 13
through July 18
Arts & Entertainment
Takashi Murakami
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist�s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. ($10/$8) Event Website
This event runs April 5 - July 18
through August 10
Arts & Entertainment
Playing the Building
(Battery Maritime Ferry Building, 10 South St, New York, NY 10004) David Byrne's massive installation in the historic Battery Maritime Building features an organ that triggers sounds from its metal beams, pipes and electrical conduits that invites you to play along. Event Website
This event runs May 1 - August 10
through August 31
Arts & Entertainment
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
(Winter Garden, World Financial Center) This colorful crocheted panoply of kelps, corals and anemones is an homage to Earth�s endangered coral reefs. Event Website
This event runs April 5 - August 31
through September 28
Arts & Entertainment
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word and Reality
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - September 28
through December 31
LGBT
Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour
(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - December 31
Recurring Events this Thursday
Organizations
Service & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website
This event runs Monday through Friday
Arts & Entertainment
OUTdancing Open House
(Stepping Out Studios, 37 West 26th St, New York, NY 10010) OUTdancing was the first and continues to be the most comprehensive -sex latin, swing, and ballroom dance program in the U.S. No experience or partner necessary for the Open House. Singles and welcome. Intermediate and advanced classes also. Event Website
This event runs every 1st Thursday
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Chelsea Classics
(Chelsea Cinema, 23rd St btwn 7 & 8th Aves) Revisit your favorite film classics on the big screen. Hedda Lettuce entertains. Fun and prizes throughout the evening. Event Website
This event runs Thursdays
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Homo Comicus
(Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd St (btwn 7 & 8th Aves), New York, NY 10011, 212.367.9000, Venue Website) (8:30pm) The most hilarious gay and gay-friendly comics and entertainers around. (Reservations: 212-36) Event Website
This event runs every 1st Thursday