Guide to the Weekend: Mardi Gras and Midterms
Since Fat Tuesdays is inconveniently placed during the week, carry the festivities into this weekend with these helpful hints:
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
New Voices of Blue Note: A 70th Anniversary Celebration
Nightly 6:30pm-1am, 111 East 27th Street (212-576-2232)
The youngest (and therefore hippest) of the jazz labels, Blue Note, come together to blow you away this weekend. It’ll be that same, sexy jazz with a contemporary twist. It’s supposed to appeal to us young’uns, so check it out!
Price: $15-30
Friday and Saturday
Friday 6-10pm & Saturday 2-6pm, Jacob K. Javits Center 655 W 34 St
600 different kinds of wine, and those are just the varieties available for tasting. Wine producers from all over the world will set up shop to answer your questions and tease your palate. Eat a big lunch before you go (or bringing along plenty of cheese to gnaw on).
Price: $75-95
Friday
The Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt
Friday 6pm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street (877-9-GO-HUNT, ext 12)
This adults-only scavenger hunt uses clues in the art work to piece together the mystery of a (fictional) murdered curator. Teams go up to 6 members, though if you don’t have anyone to go with and you still want to participate, they’ll match you up with other folks that lack adventurous friends.
Price: $34.50 (it’s supposed to include museum admission for students; call to see if there are special prices for CUID carriers)
Friday 12am, 59 West 19th Street at 6th Ave, 3rd Floor (212.414.2903)
Tired of the weekend midnight madness? Check out this midnight chill-ness. Live music and vinyasa flow will even you out as midterms approach.
Price: $16
Saturday and Sunday
The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern
Daily until April 12th 10am-6pm, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard (718.817.8700)
This show celebrates one of nature’s most elegant creations, showcasing some of the world’s rarest specimens. It’s a good excuse to find yourself a date (as if you needed one).
Price: $18 (students with ID)
Saturday
Saturday 10pm-4am, Santos Party House 96 Lafayette St (212.584.5492)
Two experienced German DJs collaborate to bring you the very best in dance tunes. These guys are like musical Siamese twins: friends that turn-table together, stay together!
Price: $15 advance/$20 at the door
3-D Projection Show of World’s Fairs
Saturday 7:30pm, Gershwin Hotel 7 E 27th St between Fifth and Madison Aves (212-545-8000)
400 color images of the world’s fairs will blow you away when they’re popping out at you in craaazy 3D.
Price: $10 (includes 3D glasses!)
Sunday
An Afternoon to Spread the Love
Sunday 2-5pm, Home of Richard Marker and Mirele Goldsmith 174 E 74th St between Madison and Fifth Aves, Apt 14C
Learn about organic cooking and fresh foodie living at this function for like-minded New Yorkers. Make sure to RSVP online!
Price: $15 suggested
6th Annual Folk Feet Traditional Dance Showcase: Dancing the Dead
Sunday 2-5pm, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College 2900 Campus Road (at Hillel Pl (718-951-4600)
Different cultures come together to showcase their cultural modes of mourning, incorporating storytelling and folk dancing.
Price: Free!
Tags: city, guide to the weekend
26 February 2009 @ 4:54 PM · 11 comments
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YOU should call to see if there are special CUID prices!
too much effort?
How could you not mention the Columbia Festival of Winds in this listing? It is a whole day of live of music in Roone Arledge, featuring five community concert bands, and a fundraiser for inner city music education. The program also includes special appearances by the Wycliffe Gordon Quintet and Manhattan Brass Quintet.
if you actually read the event listings, you’d notice that all these notices are off-campus events. but that would stop the self-righteous anger, wouldnt it?
festival of the winds is such an awful name. who came up with that?
sometimes, i silently yet violently flatulate in the anonymity of the library. sometimes i smell others do it as well. taken together, we are a festival of winds.
Let me just say that this is possibly the best comment ever posted on Bwog. Props.
You celebrate Mardi Gras the weekend before Fat Tuesday, not the weekend after. Silly bwog.
sounds like a subtitle to a castlevania game
The entire point of Mardi Gras is that you DO NOT party after Mardi Gras because it is LENT.
I miss the South.
laughing at celebrating mardi gras during lent. This is like the tourists that come down to NOLA to party ON mardi gras and are freaked out when midnight hits.
eta: i am already on king cake withdrawal.
is at 10 pm, not 12 am.
just thought i’d let you know http://www.laughinglotus.com/mainpages/midnight_guests.html