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SKI BUMS Trip (St. Anton, Austria)

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March 31, 1940

Birthday - Barney Frank (Openly gay Massachusetts Congressman)

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march 2, 2009 / monday

FRIGID New York 2009

(Various Locations) This open and uncensored theater festival will consist of thirty one-hour shows presented in three Horse Trade spaces; including 29 theatre companies featuring almost 250 theater artists from all over the world. Event Website

Note: this event runs February 25 - March 8

Alice Tully Hall Opening Nights Festival

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) The celebration will feature joint programming by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., with Festival tickets available at $25 or less. Event Website

Note: this event runs February 22 - March 8

Paul Taylor Dance Company

(City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) The 2009 season features 19 magnificent dances by Paul Taylor, including two New York Premieres: an untitled new dance, and Changes, which revisits the turbulent 1960s through songs sung by The Mamas and The Papas. Event Website

Note: this event runs February 25 - March 9

New York International Art Expo

(Jacob Javits Center, 655 West 34th St, New York, NY 10001) The world’s largest fine and popular art fair – hosting more than 500 galleries, art publishers and art dealers, and thousands of artists. Event Website

Note: this event runs February 26 - March 2

The Orchid Show

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) Beat the winter blues by immersing yourself amid these magnificent flowers Event Website

Note: this event runs February 28 - April 12

BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup

(Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001) Four of the best women's tennis players in the world will face off in a one-night single elimination event featuring Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Ana Ivanovic, and Jelena Jankovic. Event Website

Ongoing Events

through March 6

Lincoln Center presents American Songbook

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) Some of the most influential and beloved American popular music comes alive when musical-theater director Rob Fisher trains his expert focus on Cole Porter, iconic vocalist Kurt Elling offers a sublime interpretation of the collaboration between saxophone giant John Coltrane and balladeer Johnny Hartman, and the engaging singer-guitarist John Pizzarelli salutes Richard Rodgers. The music of Broadway and beyond is highlighted as South Pacific showstopper Paulo Szot appears in a highly anticipated solo performance, the adored Broadway star Sutton Foster returns to Songbook with songs from her debut album, and award-winning composer Alan Menken plays a selection of his film and theater scores. In addition, the inimitable Scottish performer Alan Cumming captivates the audience with his seemingly limitless talents, and Stew, the creator of the Broadway sensation Passing Strange, returns to the Songbook stage. Also this season, a selection of Andy Warhol’s famous Screen Tests is set to music by alt-rock veterans Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, an all-star lineup of musicians pays tribute to the Grateful Dead with The American Beauty Project, acclaimed and emerging Broadway, R&B, and gospel stars celebrate Black artists’ contributions to popular song in Soul Deep: An Anthology of Black Music, and classically trained composer and arranger Nico Muhly showcases his genre-defying music. Soul-folk artist Amos Lee and charming chanteuse Lizz Wright appear in evenings that mark the ascension of a new generation of singer-songwriters, The Del McCoury Band brings its scorching brand of bluegrass to the Big Apple, and Nashville’s legacy is represented by country-music legends Patty Loveless and Rodney Crowell. Event Website

This event runs January 14 - March 6

through March 15

Paul Taylor Dance Company

(City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) Featuring 19 dances by Paul Taylor, including two New York Premieres: Changes, which revisits the turbulent 1960s through songs sung by The Mamas & The Papas, and Beloved Renegade, which Alastair Macaulay in the New York Times calls "the best new choreography I saw in 2008." Plus the return after 40 years of the legendary Scudorama. ($10+) Event Website

This event runs February 25 - March 15

through March 15

Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s

(American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd St, New York, NY 10019) A remarkable display of quilts made during the Depression era by thrifty women who reused clothing, flour and feed sacks, and other recycled fabrics to create "new" bedcovers in a variety of vibrant patterns. Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 15, 2009

through March 22

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949

(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) The exhibition will bring to light a remarkable period in the early years of the Soviet Union when innovative visual artists, including Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, and Robert Falk joined forces with avant-garde playwrights, actors, and theatrical producers to create a theater experience with extraordinary mass appeal. Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera -- many of which have never been exhibited before -- Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949 will capture an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union. Event Website

This event runs November 9, 2008 - March 22, 2009

through March 22

Tools of the Trade

(New York Transit Museum, corner of Boerum Pl & Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201) See the tools used to build, operate, and maintain New York’s subway, bridges, tunnels, bus and rail systems. This exhibition shows how an obscure function can take on a fascinating form. Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 22, 2009

through March 28

Trump Wollman Rink

(Trump Wollman Rink, Central Park at 59th St at 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019) After Rockefeller Center, this is NYC's most popular chill zone. It is also home to the largest learn-to-skate program in the country. ($4.75 - $14; Skate Rental $6.) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28

Aviator Sports and Recreation

(Floyd Bennett Field, Flatbush Ave South of the Belt Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11234) This facility is no joke, housing two NHL size-specific rinks, competitive hockey leagues and figure skating programs, as well as public skating. Not unlike Chelsea Piers, the huge facility also houses indoor soccer, basketball, gymnastics and rock climbing, along with some schoolyard favorites like dodgeball and wiffleball. ($6 - $8; $4.50 Skate Rental) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28

Kate Wollman Rink

(Prospect Park near Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave entrance, Brooklyn) Wollman Rink offers fun for all seasons, providing 26,600 square feet of ice for skaters in the winter and pedal boats on the Lake in the summer. Although not a part of the original plan for Prospect Park, the Rink, built in 1960, has added a big dose of winter fun for thousands of skaters, in addition to serving as home ice for local amateur men’s and women’s hockey teams. ($5; Children & Seniors: $3; Skate Rental: $6.50) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 28

Trump Lasker Skating Rink

(Trump Lasker Skating Rink, Central Park at 110th St & Lennox Ave, New York, NY 10022) Competitive hockey leagues rule this rink, but open to all for freestyle skating as well. Winter Skating Camp and Skating Lessons available. ($2.25 - $6; Skate Rental: $5.25.) Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - March 28, 2009

through March 29

Ruined

(City Center Main Stage, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) This powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. Event Website

This event runs January 25 - March 29

through March 29

Hedda Gabler

(American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) A new interpretation of Henrik Ibsen's modern classic, Mary-Louise Parker plays a woman of dangerous independence restrained by a conventional marriage. Event Website

This event runs January 6 - March 29

through March 29

The Black List Project

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) This exhibition of twenty-five portraits by internationally renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is a documentary project that explores being Black in America. Sanders also directed a series of filmed interviews conducted by noted film critic Elvis Mitchell that will be presented along with the photographs. Serena Williams, Chris Rock, Colin Powell, Toni Morrison, Russell Simmons, Al Sharpton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Sean Combs are among the many African Americans whose faces are seen and voices heard in The Black List Project. The images, photographic and filmed, are the core of the collaboration between Greenfield-Sanders and Mitchell that has resulted in The Black List: Volume One, an HBO documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and was aired nationally for the first time in August 2008, and a multi-city museum exhibition. Event Website

This event runs November 21, 2008 - March 29, 2009

through March 31

The American Play

(Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) A tentative courtship unfolds at a Catskills summer resort in the 1960’s. This exciting new look at an acclaimed play is from Tony Award winning author of Take Me Out. Event Website

This event runs January 2 - March 31

through April 6

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

(War Memorial Ice Skating Rink, 1321 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10301) (Friday: 4pm - 8pm. Saturday: 12pm - 4pm and 7pm -) ($8; $5 skate rental) (718-720-1010) Event Website

This event runs October 31, 2008 - April 6, 2009

through April 26

Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St, New York, NY 10028) This will be the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the European old master and 19th-century drawings from the distinguished collection of Mr. Jean Bonna in Geneva, Switzerland. Many of the 120 drawings on display are masterpieces, ranging through 500 years of art history, from the Renaissance to 1900, and representing a diversity of artistic schools in Italy, Northern Europe, France, and Great Britain, among other regions. The selection will include works by famous artists -- such as Carpaccio, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Canaletto, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard, Goya, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Manet, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Seurat -- as well as superb and poignant drawings by others less well-known. Event Website

This event runs January 21 - April 26

through May 2

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

through May 2

NYC Opera 2008 - 2009 Season Begins

(Various Locations Five Boroughs) New York City Opera begins an exciting year of transition as the company’s home at Lincoln Center, the New York State Theater, undergoes major renovations. During the renovations, City Opera will take to the road, bringing live music and provocative cultural conversation to more than fourteen different venues in all five boroughs of New York City. Through concerts, showcases, multi-media presentations, talks, panels, and film screenings, City Opera will celebrate opera’s surprisingly central role in contemporary culture, and will provide a preview of future seasons. Event Website

This event runs November 2, 2008 - May 2, 2009

through May 24

On The Money: Cartoons for the New Yorker

(The Morgan Museum & Library, 225 Madison Ave at 36th St, New York, NY 10016) Approximately eighty original drawings by some of The New Yorker's most talented and beloved artists who have tackled the theme of money and the many ways in which it defines us. Included in the show are drawings by such luminaries as Charles Barsotti, George Booth, Dana Fradon, Lee Lorenz, William Hamilton, and J. B. Handelsman. Event Website

This event runs January 23 - May 24

through May 25

The Butterfly Conservatory

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the annual return of this must-see tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live tropical butterflies. Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - May 25, 2009

through June 16

Seduction

(The Museum at FIT, 295 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Seduction will be the first chronological exploration of the role of sexuality in fashion. The exhibition will feature over seventy looks from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, using objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Event Website

This event runs December 1, 2008 - June 16, 2009

through July 5

The Future Beneath Us: Eight Great Projects Under New York

(New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex, Grand Central Terminal, 42nd Street & Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017) (8 am - 8 pm M-F 10 am - 6 pm Sat. & Sun) The New York Transit Museum and the New York Public Library join forces to present a two-location exhibition about New York City's underground infrastructure initiatives in the 21st Century. Examining the magnitude and historical context of eight massive building projects, the exhibition provides New Yorkers a behind the scenes glimpse at their changing city and how these improvements will affect their lives. Join us for free lectures on The Extension of the 7 Line; The Second Avenue Subway and exploring Ea. (Free) (212 878-0801) [email protected] Event Website

This event runs February 15 - July 5

through August 16

Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) This exhibition will examine one of the most pressing scientific issues of our time -- the massive, human-induced warming of Earth, a phenomenon that could lead to drought, rising sea levels, heavy storms, and other events with potentially dire impacts on the health of society and the natural world. Explore the science, history, and impact of climate change, and find out ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints. Event Website

This event runs October 18, 2008 - August 16, 2009

through September 6

Vanities

(Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) Vanities spans the turbulent '60s through the late '80s and explores how important friends are, as one faces life’s defining moments. Event Website

This event runs February 2 - September 6

through September 27

Guys and Dolls

(Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st St, New York, NY 10036) This revival of the classic musical about gamblers, showgirls, and the Salvation Army, stars Oliver Platt and Lauren Graham. Event Website

This event runs February 2 - September 27

through December 31

Hair

(Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) The revival of the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical premiered last summer at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Event Website

This event runs February 13 - December 31

Recurring Events this Monday

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