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october 14, 2008 / tuesday 
OrganizationsLGBT
SAGE’s 4th National Conference on LGBT Aging
(New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201) Over 75 workshops related to seniors, including: health & wellness, long term care, housing and more. Event Website
Note: this event runs October 12 - 14
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Sukkot (Jewish)
(CBST, 57 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014) Event Website
Note: this event runs October 14 - 15
OrganizationsLGBT
30th Anniversary Gala and SAGE Awards
(Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th St, New York, NY 10011) (6 - 10 PM) 30th Anniversary Gala & SAGE Awards: Honoring Charlotte Bunch, Nartina Navratilova and Village Care of New York. 6 p.m., Cocktails & Silent Auction 7 p.m., Dinner and Awards Hosted by Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare ($400 and up) (212 741 2247) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS LOS LOL’S
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (8:00 PM) Comedy Central invites you to be a part of the FREE taping of the hottest rising stars in New York's Latino comedy scene! Collectively, the performers have been seen on BET, Last Comic Standing, Premium Blend and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn! (free/ no item min) (212-524-2500) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & EntertainmentLGBTWoman's Interest
HILARITY CLINTON '08'!!
(Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd St (btwn 7 & 8th Aves), New York, NY 10011, 212.367.9000, Venue Website) (8 PM) This presidential year, Kate brings her new show HILARITY CLINTON '08! Kate is like an Andrea Rooney pleasantly kvetching about the news and views of the day. But without the eyebrow problem. ($22.50 Cover + 2 Beverage Minimum per Person) Event Website
Note: this event runs October 7, 14, 21, and 28
Arts & EntertainmentOrganizationsLGBTWoman's Interest
Center Voices presents Author and poet Mayra Lazara Dole's novel Down to the Bone
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6pm) Mayra Lazara Dole’s novel, Down to the Bone, gives us a look at the disenfranchisement of gay and lesbian teens, particularly in the Cuban community. Seventeen year-old Laura has fallen in love with Marlena. They have been involved in a committed relationship for two years, however, neither of their families knows. That all changes when Laura is caught reading a love letter from Marlena by one of the nuns at her Catholic high school. Not only does the nun retrieve the letter, she reads it to the entire class. Down to the Bone was nominated for ALA Best Book 2009, garnered a Starred Booklist review, and was submitted to the National Book Awards. ($10) Event Website
Arts & EntertainmentOrganizationsLGBT
Second Tuesdays presents a Staged Reading of The Castle
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6pm) The Castle is a vividly honest account of how four New Yorkers came to be involved in crime and their transition from prison to society. The play is now enjoying a limited Off-Broadway professional engagement at the New World Stages Theater. The Castle is the residential facility run by The Fortune Society for ex-convicts re-entering society. In the play four formerly incarcerated people tell their stories from childhood to prison to redemption. In conversation with David Rothenberg, cast member Casimiro Torres will tell his own real-life story. ($10) Event Website
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Corpus Christi to Benefit the Center
(Rattlestick Theater, 224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014) (7pm) Terrence McNally's play, Corpus Christi, returns to the stage in remembrance of Matthew Shepard's death, which garnered national attention to violence and hate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This Opening Night Benefit marks the exact date of the show's opening ten years ago. The performance will be followed with a light reception and meet and greet with the cast and Terrence McNally. To benefit the LGBT Community Center. Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
BAM's Next Wave Festival
(BAM Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) (7:30pm) The Next Wave Festival connects some of the most innovative artists around the world with New York City’s most curious and adventurous audiences. Every autumn, the Festival offers an extraordinary range of contemporary performance, artist talks, literature, film, and visual art that celebrates the creative voices that will be leading us into the future. ($20+) Event Website
Note: this event runs October 14, and 16 - 18
Ongoing Events
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 26
SocialYouth & Family
THE AMAZING MAIZE MAZE
(Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Floral Park, New York, NY 11004) (11am - 4:30pm weekends) Enjoy getting lost in our 3 acre interactive corn maze. The adventure begins with a stalk talk to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles and making your way out of the maze. For Maze By Moonlight on Saturday October 18 & 25th, the maze will be open until 9pm. ($8; Children $4; Children under 3 Free) Event Website
This event runs September 20 - October 26
through October 31
LGBTSocial
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 1
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Blake Little The Company of Men
(Wessel O’Connor Gallery, 111 Front St, Brooklyn, NY 11201) A solo exhibition by photographer Blake Little and his attempt to "document a particular type of masculine gay male that I appreciated and related to but that I did not see photographed anywhere else; an alternative to stereotypes or what is usually seen as the physical ideal of a man in the mainstream." Event Website
This event runs September 18 - November 1
through November 1
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
the line of fashion, the great fashion artists
(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) The artists in this long overdue exhibition of fashion drawings -- Antonio, Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Eric among them -- all possess the magic that drives the genre as it waits to be embraced by the world's great museums. The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents The Line of Fashion, an exhibition of more than 50 years of fashion illustration curated by Robert W. Richards, whose own artwork is a familiar presence on the fashion scene. The exhibition includes stunning original works by such luminaries as Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Antonio, Christian Berard, George Stavrinos, Vertes, Mel Odom and many others. The ascendance of photography since the mid 1960s as the preferred medium for depicting fashion in newspapers and magazines makes the hand-drawn and colored works that appear in The Line of Fashion all the more rare and intriguing. Event Website
This event runs September 23 - November 1
through November 1
Arts & Entertainment
The Harvest of Spring Blossoms: Selections from the Shanghai Chinese Painting Acadamy
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (Opening Reception: October 1, 2008, 7 to 9 pm) The Harvest of Spring Blossoms introduces Chinese artists anchored in traditional painting while reinterpreting them in a contemporary fashion. The exhibition brings together some of the masters of Chinese painting, based on more than 100 years of tradition in the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. ($8 adults, $4 students and seniors, free for members and visitors 16 and under) (212 255 0719) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs October 3 - November 1
through November 1
Arts & Entertainment
Blood Manor
(Blood Manor, 542 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) BLOOD MANOR, NYC's Premier Haunted Attraction: The Nightmare on 27th Street, returns with a depraved appetite for gore and a twisted thirst for blood. With louder screams, scarier dreams and more thrills for each moment in its fun-filled darkness, BLOOD MANOR makes your nightmares come to life. ($25+) Event Website
This event runs October 3 - November 1
through November 1
Arts & Entertainment
The Time Of Your Life
(The Storm Theatre, 145 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Eve 7:30 PM, Sat Mat 2:00 PM) Set in the uneasy calm between the Depression and WWII, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life follows the patrons of a San Francisco waterfront bar over the course of a single day in 1939. Uniquely American in its outlook, Saroyan's characters exude a clear-eyed confidence and resiliency as they face the troubles ahead in this funny, dramatic and ultimately touching celebration of existence. Event's Official Website ($20) Event Website
This event runs October 3 - November 1
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 8
Arts & Entertainment
Bad Dreams Come True
(CSV Center, 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002) Five Years Of Fear! “America’s #1 Haunted House” (AOL.com) brings its famed interactive experience back to the Lower East Side. The event has been scaring record-breaking crowds of happy ghost seekers for the past four years, and this one is primed to be the best yet. Event Website
This event runs September 26 - November 8
through November 15
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
PEEP SHOW MALE
(Dionysus Theater's L'il Peach, 270 West 36th St. (at 8th Ave.), 2nd Floor, New York City, NY 10018) (Wens. Thru Sat at 8 p.m.) PEEP SHOW MALE, a new musical comedy by Dave McCracken, is set in a gay New York City go-go boy bar. The bar, “Lip Service,” is filled with a crazy collection of regulars that really let loose, derisively ripping into each other and anyone else who crosses their neon doorway. A Group of Lovable Regulars Meet Nightly To Pump Each Other Up And Tear Each Other Down Along With Any New Faces That Dare To Enter And Play. ($25.00) (646-621-5171) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs October 8 - November 15
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 November 26
Arts & Entertainment
Hugh McMahon's Pumpkin Gallery
(Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Walk through the temporary gallery of Chelsea Market's resident gourd-artist, Hugh McMahon, which is located behind kicokids pop-up store. On Halloween, Hugh will be carving a giant pumpkin before your very eyes. (Free) Event Website
This event runs October 5 - November 26
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
Billy Elliot the Musical
(The Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th St, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin October 1, opens November 13. The story follows Billy’s journey after stumbling across a ballet class while on his way to a boxing lesson, realizing that his future lay not in the boxing ring but on stage. Event Website
This event runs October 1 - 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 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
For the Guggenheim
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) (Fridays, 6:30 - 11pm) In celebration of the three year restoration and as a tribute to Mr. Lewis, artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection entitled For the Guggenheim for the facade of the newly restored museum. This video presents an opportunity to view an excerpt from Holzer’s transformative work, which casts large-scale texts directly onto Frank Lloyd Wright’s curving architecture. Suffused with a play of light and changing language, the building and its surroundings become an environment for looking, discussion, and gathering. Event Website
This event runs September 26 - December 31
through January 4, 2009
Arts & EntertainmentSpiritual
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World
(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) In 1947, a significant discovery of ancient Jewish texts was made in a cave near the Dead Sea. These and other Dead Sea Scrolls found later have shed light on the major transformations and debates that occurred in ancient worship during the first centuries BCE and CE, that contributed to the development of early Judaism and Christianity. This exhibition will present six Dead Sea Scrolls complemented by objects excavated from the site near where they were found. Three of the scrolls have never been exhibited. Event Website
This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 4, 2009
through January 5, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) This exhibit examines Van Gogh's nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. Event Website
This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 5, 2009
through January 7, 2009
Arts & EntertainmentLGBTWoman's Interest
Catherine Opie: American Photographer
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. Event Website
This event runs September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009
through January 11, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
Gilbert & George
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s. Event Website
This event runs October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009
through January 25, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
Street Art, Street Life
(Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St, Bronx, NY 10456) Photography, film, installation art and more by artists including Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler and David Hammons on the subject of the street as a source of inspiration. Event Website
This event runs September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
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 February 22, 2009
Arts & Entertainment
Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940
(Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029) The 1920s and ‘30s witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era’s most creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead to participate in international dialogues that crossed national boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic enterprise. Between the world wars, no two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris, capital of 19th-century refinement, and New York, the upstart challenger that represented 20th-century dynamism. Event Website
This event runs October 3, 2008 - February 22, 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 Tuesday
OrganizationsSports
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
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