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september 13, 2008 / saturday 
LGBTSocial
Compatibility Game for Men
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (8:00 PM - 10:00 PM) It’s speed-dating with an ingenious twist: answer four questions about your interests, values, and lifestyle, and get assigned to four different groups of men who gave answers similar to yours. Also meet guys one-on-one in a free mingling period. Finally, write a list of the men you want to date, and minutes later you find out your mutual matches. Compatibility Game is a fun, revolutionary way to meet men you are compatible with, thereby increasing your odds that a relationship could take hold. ($20) (212-971-1084) [email protected] Event Website
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"Dating Madness"- Social Mixer for Single Lesbians 30's,40's
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (8-10pm) NYC is packed with available quality, friendly gay women but it is challenging to find them. Tonight you may find them at this fun, dynamic mixer event. No pressure. Meet women one on one in private mini dates, meet in groups based on common interests and values and play a great interactive ice-breaker. Mingle during free refreshment break. Make meaningful connection for friendship,love or romance. Find women you are most compatible with. Exchange numbers. Great success rate. Relaxed, Uplifting, empowering. Run by lesbian comedian/matchmaker. In 2 hours you will have great fun, be entertained and who knows, maybe meet a soulmate. It will be a night to remember. ($20 pre-pd) (212-989-8549) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
Lizz Winstead Headlines
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (8:30 and 10:45 PM) Join co-creator and former head writer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and co-creator of Air America Radio LIZZ WINSTEAD when she headlines four shows! Winstead’s comedic talents have been recognized in Entertainment Weekly's 100 most Creative People issue, and she was nominated Best Female Club Performer by The American Comedy Awards. She has appeared numerous times on television including on HBO's Women of the Night, The US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Comedy Central Presents and both VH-1’s 50 Greatest This and 100 Greatest That’s. ($22.50/$27.50) (212-524-2500) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs September 12 - 13
Arts & Entertainment
GOLDILOCKS
(Duplex, 61 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014) (7:00PM-8:30PM) Opening Doors Theatre presents another staging of a forgotten classic musical - this time 1958's GOLDILOCKS, featuring 3 cut songs! An egotistical film director - about to lose his latest epic's backers - tricks leading lady into starring in one last picture, much to the chagrin of her fiancee. This classic 1959 musical originally starred Elaine Stritch, Don Ameche and Russell Nype. ($20 + 2 drink min.) ((212) 868-4444) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs September 12 - 14
OrganizationsLGBTSocial
Fire Island Roundup
(Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines) (all day and evening) Once again 2008’s Fire Island Roundup will take place in both Cherry Grove and the Pines communities of Fire Island, NY. Expect all the best of 2007’s roundup including meetings at the Whytehall Community Center, dances, BBQ’s, and even more sun, new friends and music coming in 2008! ($40) Event Website
Note: this event runs September 12 - 14
SpiritualYouth & Family
Harvest Fair
(Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, 95 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215) (1 - 4pm) Handpick your own apples, make apple fritters and work the apple cider press. Sept 20 & 21st is the big potato dig harvesting weekend. (Free) (718-789-2822) Event Website
Note: this event runs September 13 - 14, and 20 - 21
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Lucie Blue Tremblay in Concert
(Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington, 109 Browns Rd, Huntington, NY 11743) (7pm) Out and proud Canadian Singer/Songwriter has appeared on the Boston Globe's top 10 list. Benefiting The Breast Exam Project. ($20/$25) (800.838.3006) Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
Circus AMOK! Presents: "SUB-PRIME SUBLIME"
(Your Public Parks of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens &, See website for show locations and times! , New York, NY) (See website schedule for showtimes!) New York's renowned, acclaimed, award-winning, astounding one-and-only CIRCUS AMOK! presents it's 2008 FREE extravaganza: "SUB-PRIME SUBLIME." Dorothy clicks her heels -- but there's no going home! She's the newest victim of predatory lending! In "SUB-PRIME SUBLIME," all manner of mysteries are revealed as atoms smash and crash, spiraling past hulahoopers, headstanders and hairstylists! Stunning stilters, Tenanacious Tenants, Fantastical Free-Falling Free Markets, Querelous Quarks, Neurotic Neutrons and the Spirit of Sylvester come together to help us all find our ways home, home, home from the tornado of foreclosure and debt! SEE WWW.CIRCUSAMOK.ORG FOR SHOW LOCATIO (FREE!!) (718-486-7432) [email protected] Event Website
Note: this event runs September 6 - 8, 10, 12 - 14, 17, 19 - 21, 24, and 26 - 28
Arts & EntertainmentSocial
Jazz-Age Lawn Party and Festival on Governor's Island
(Governor's Island, Ferries leave from Battery Maritime Building, South and Whitehall, Manhattan) (11:30am - 6:30pm) 1920's-clad picnickers will spread blankets under the shade trees among the historic buildings of Governor's Island for two solid afternoons of Gatsby-esque revelry with live jazz by Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra. Activities include: Charleston and Peabody dance lessons, croquet games, 1920's motorcars on exhibit, a Bathing Beauties and Gents Vintage Swimsuit Parade and couture milliners pedaling their chic chapeaux. Ferry schedule: www.govisland.com (Free) Event Website
Note: this event runs September 13 - 14
Starting Today
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The JACKSON HEIGHTS Film & Food Festival
(Various Locations, Jackson Heights, Queens) A full film & food experience encompassing three main programs, plus live entertainment and more. TASTE OF JACKSON HEIGHTS takes place September 13, 12 - 4pm. THE JACKSON HEIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL takes place September 18 - 21. THE JACKSON HEIGHTS KIDS FILM FESTIVAL takes place Sunday, September 21 at 10:30am with a Performance by Opus Ditty at 1pm. Event Website
This event runs through September 21
Ongoing Events
through September 15
Arts & Entertainment
Celebrate México Now
(Various Locations) Celebrate México Now marks its 5th anniversary as the first, and only annual festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture in New York City. Encompassing cuisine, dance, film, literature, music, theater, and visual art, Celebrate México Now provides New York City with a glimpse of the most intriguing artists and ideas pouring out of Mexico today. Event Website
This event runs September 8 - 15
through September 15
Arts & Entertainment
Dalí: Painting and Film
(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers are displayed alongside his paintings and other works, illuminating the ways in which ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums. In conjunction with the gallery exhibition, a series of screenings in the MoMA theaters presents the classic and avant-garde motion pictures Dalí treasured, films on which he collaborated, and examples of his legacy in contemporary cinema. Event Website
This event runs June 29 - September 15
through September 21
Arts & EntertainmentSocial
The JACKSON HEIGHTS Film & Food Festival
(Various Locations, Jackson Heights, Queens) A full film & food experience encompassing three main programs, plus live entertainment and more. TASTE OF JACKSON HEIGHTS takes place September 13, 12 - 4pm. THE JACKSON HEIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL takes place September 18 - 21. THE JACKSON HEIGHTS KIDS FILM FESTIVAL takes place Sunday, September 21 at 10:30am with a Performance by Opus Ditty at 1pm. Event Website
This event runs September 13 - 21
through September 21
Social
San Genarro Festival
(East Houston & Mulberry Sts to Canal & Mulberry Sts) (11:30am - 11:30pm) This year’s Feast will again attract more than 1-million people to the streets of historic Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples – San Gennaro. The street festivities – including religious processions with the statue of San Gennaro, parades. free entertainment, food stands and a cannoli and a cannoli eating contest – are capped on Friday, September 19 – the Official Feast Day -- with a celebratory Mass honoring San Gennaro, followed by a candlelit procession as the Statue of San Gennaro is carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street through the streets of Little Italy. Event Website
This event runs September 11 - 21
through September 21
Arts & Entertainment
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) One of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) endeavored to see what he, a single individual, might do to benefit the largest segment of humanity while consuming the minimum of the earth's resources. Doing "more with less" was Fuller's credo. The results of more than five decades of Fuller's integrated approach toward the design and technology of housing, transportation, cartography, and communication are displayed here, much of it for the first time. Event Website
This event runs June 26 - September 21
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 September 28
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Two Spoons
(Bank Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014) (Thurs.-Sats. at 8pm, Suns. at 3pm) A poignant comedy that follows Steve and Larry, gay dads with a three-year-old son, who are on the verge of getting married until a weekend getaway in the City of Brotherly Love changes everything. What starts as a quiet, relaxing vacation turns into a quest for redefining the rules of the relationship: Should they “hang together” to negotiate a Bill of Rights for themselves or “hang separately” and compromise the state of their union and family? One performance on Monday, September 8 at 7pm benefiting the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Tickets for benefit are $50 general/$100 VIP. All (100%) of proceeds will go to AVP. ($18) (212-696-7847) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs September 5 - 28
through September 28
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Louise Bourgeois
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) A full-career retrospective of one of the most important artists of our time. The exhibition, which fills the entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda and one adjacent gallery, will be the most comprehensive examination to date of Bourgeois’s long and distinguished career. Born almost a century ago, Louise Bourgeois has remained steadfastly at the vanguard of the development of contemporary art for more than 70 years, and continues to create new bodies of work with characteristic energy and restless innovation. Event Website
This event runs June 27 - September 28
through September 28
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JellyNYC Pool Parties at McCarren Park
(McCarren Park Pool, Lorimer St btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211) Mix kids water games like Slip 'n Slide and indie, rock, dance and world bands, and you've got THE coolest way to spend your summer Sundays! (Free) Event Website
This event runs June 6 - September 28
through October 10
Arts & Entertainment
Piano in the Park
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) (12Noon - 1:45pm) Monday through Fridays. New artist every week performing for the public. Including Junior Mance, Armen Donelian, Joel Forrester, Russ Kassoff, Mike LeDonne, Todd Robbins, Yuka Aikawa, Dona Carter, Dan Manjovi, Deanna Witkowski, Roy Eaton, Victor Lin, Frank Owens, Jill McManus, Larry Ham, Luiz Simas, Ayako Shirasaki. Event Website
This event runs May 19 - October 10
through October 13
Arts & Entertainment
The Waterfalls
(Various Locations) (7am - 10pm) Public Art Fund presents The New York City Waterfalls, a major new work of public art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. The exhibition of four man-made 90-to 120-foot-tall waterfalls of monumental scale will be on view at four sites: one on the Brooklyn anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, one between Piers 4 and 5 near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, one in Lower Manhattan at Pier 35 north of the Manhattan Bridge, and one on the north shore of Governors Island. Event Website
This event runs June 26 - October 13
through October 19
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Wig Out!
(Vineyard Theatre, 108 East 15th St, New York, NY 10003) This fierce and intoxicating story tells of competing "houses" of drag queens and the loves, loyalties and dreams within each that draw their members together and apart. Event Website
This event runs September 10 - October 19
through October 25
Arts & Entertainment
Focus on the '70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan
(New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) In the 70s and early 80s, Duncan was a principal photographer for the entertainment magazine After Dark and for Dance Magazine, which chronicled the world of dance and choreography. Photographs by Kenn Duncan also appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Time and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a dozen Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies, and published three volumes of his own photographs: Red Shoes, Nudes, and More Nudes. This retrospective of his 20-year career includes his iconic images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Angela Lansbury, Rudolf Nureyev, Bette Midler, and the cast of Hair, as well as selections from his nudes and his work with hundreds of celebrities. Event Website
This event runs July 30 - October 25
through October 26
Arts & Entertainment
Jeff Koons on the Roof
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St, New York, NY 10028) On view is an installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons, featuring three of the artist’s meticulously crafted works that have never before been on public display. The works are set in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Event Website
This event runs August 25 - October 26
through October 31
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The Woods Campground
(Pocono Mountains, PA) The Woods Campground is a private, members-only, alternative campground catering to LGBT campers 18 years of age and older. Event Website
This event runs May 23 - October 31
through November 2
Arts & Entertainment
Henry Moore Sculpture at the Garden
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) This landmark presentation of monumental works will be the largest outdoor installation of Henry Moore sculpture in one location in the U.S. Event Website
This event runs May 24 - November 2
through November 2
Arts & Entertainment
Absinthe
(South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038) A night-time saunter through the strangest, most sultry circus in town. Event Website
This event runs August 6 - November 2
through November 8
Arts & Entertainment
Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion
(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) This exhibition features work by female designers as well as clothing and accessories worn by female department store executives, influential clients, magazine editors, muses and models. Event Website
This event runs May 21 - November 8
through November 15
Arts & Entertainment
Capri’s Camera on Dance
(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery) Photographer Frank Capri turned his camera on the dance world producing stunning images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Julie Kent, Jennifer Ringer and others. Event Website
This event runs September 9 - November 15
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
through December 31
Arts & Entertainment
A Tale of Two Cities
(Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin August 19, Opens September 18. This is a new musical based on the Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities.” Event Website
This event runs August 19 - December 31
through December 31
Arts & Entertainment
Previews of 25th Anniversary Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
(47th St Theater, 304 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036) Opens October 2. Spoofs of the season include Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Grease: You’re the One That We Want, Legally Blonde and Frost/Nixon. Event Website
This event runs September 4 - December 31
through December 31
Arts & Entertainment
Equus
(Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) Equus tells the story of a stable boy and the psychiatrist who tries to unravel the religious and sexual mystery that ensues when the troubled teenager blinds six horses. Event Website
This event runs September 5 - December 31
through February 21, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
Gothic: Dark Glamour
(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Set in theatrical mise-en-scene suggesting iconic gothic settings, such as the labyrinth, the ruined castle and the laboratory, more than 75 ensembles will be on display. Although popularly identified with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion is represented in this exhibition with looks by designers such as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Anne Demeulemeester, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Ricardo Tischi of Givenchy, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as sub-cultural styles, such as "old-school goth," cyber-goth, and the Japanese look of Elegant Gothic Lolitas. (Free) Event Website
This event runs September 5, 2008 - February 21, 2009
through May 2, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
The Sex Lives of Animals
(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) A male bonobo shrewdly soliciting sex in exchange for sugar cane. Two female bonobos blissfully engaging in genito-genital (G-G) rubbing. The strenuous coupling of endangered Panda bears. Encounter these creatures and others so vivid in their portrayal that they will likely feel as though they have unwittingly begun a voyeuristic journey into the wild. Event Website
This event runs July 24, 2008 - May 2, 2009
Recurring Events this Saturday
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Front Runners New York
Tuesdays at 7pm, 3rd St & Prospect Park West; Wednesdays at 6:45pm, 236 West 73rd St; Saturdays at 9:15am, 236 West 73rd St Event Website
This event runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
LGBTSports
Metro Wrestling Practices
(Fighthouse, 122 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) (5 - 7pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend. Event Website
This event runs Saturdays
Spiritual
CBST Alef-Bet Shabbat Children's Program
(CBST, 57 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014) (11am) Event Website
This event runs every 2nd Saturday
Spiritual
CBST Shabbat Services and Torah Study
(CBST, 57 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014) (10am) Event Website
This event runs every 2nd and 3rd and 4th Saturday
Arts & Entertainment
Guided tours of the Chelsea Art Museum
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (2 PM-3 PM) Join us for docent-led tours of our exhibition galleries. Highlighting works from both our permanent collection and our rotating exhibitions, tours are free with museum admission and start from the bookstore. (Free!) (212 255 0719) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs Saturdays