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August 5, 2010

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The Arts

9:30 am- 8:00 pm	Madame Tussauds New York. Participate in the action. Mix Music with R&B Megastar Usher, Sing for Simon on American Idol (R) or if you dare enter Chamber o… Madame Tussauds New York. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 800-246-8872
10:00 am	David Schnuckel presents Parenthetical Admission. Parenthetical Admission (Things Eventually Recognized After the Fact.) is an exhibition of work that is inspired by the essence… UrbanGlass. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 718-625-3685
10:30 am- 6:30 pm	Summer Group Show of Innovative Artists. Axelle Fine Arts Galerie presents a summer group installation featuring works by Albert Hadjiganev, Francois Bard, and Brian Ste… Axelle Fine Arts. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-226-2262
11:00 am- 5:45 pm	Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. The acclaimed permanent exhibition tells the unfolding story of Jewish culture and identity through 800 works of art, archaeolog… The Jewish Museum. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 212-423-3337
11:00 am- 6:00 pm	Journey into Art. The exhibition features a captivating selection of original works from emerging and established artists. An impressive selectio… Agora Gallery - Chelsea. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-226-4151
11:00 am- 6:00 pm	Big Picture. Kamrooz Aram, Colleen Asper, Paul Brainard, John Copeland, Holly Coulis, Justin Craun, Van Hanos, Dan Heidkamp, Aaron Johnson, E… Priska C. Juschka Fine Art. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-594-5452
11:00 am- 7:00 pm	Mint&Serf Special Graffiti Unit. An exhibition featuring new work by New York visual artists Mint&Serf. Lyons Wier Gallery. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-242-6220
12:00 pm- 7:00 pm	Marked: A Show of Figure. In the works exhibited during Marked, six artists use the figure to reflect personal narratives of their own design. Opening Re… Like the Spice, Art Studio. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 718-388-5388
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Usable Pasts 2009-10 Artists in Residence. In this year's installment of the much-anticipated Artist-in-Residence exhibition, Mequitta Ahuja (b. 1976), Lauren Kelley (b. 1… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-864-4500
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Zwelethu Mthethwa. The first New York museum exhibition of South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Afri… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-864-4500
12:00 pm- 9:00 pm	Harlem Postcards Summer 2010. Available free of charge in the Museum lobby, the postcards offer intimate views of and new perspectives on this famous neighbor… Studio Museum in Harlem. (Arts - Gallery Walk). 212-864-4500
1:00 pm- 6:00 pm	Nachleben. 'Nachleben,' meaning both "afterlife" and "survival," a display of contemporary art works and a series of related programs. Ope… Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 212-439-8700
5:00 pm	The Quantum Eye - Magic Deceptions. The Quantum Eye features magic, perception and deception in this show.. Bleecker Street Theatre. (Performance - Magic and Illusion). 212-260-8250
6:00 pm- 8:00 pm	Blood Sistas: The Chronicles of Black Uptown Girlz Growing Up in the Hood. A play about four childhood best friends and an alleged betrayal between them which takes their once rock solid friendship on a… Yonkers Public Library. (Performance - Theater). 914-337-1500
6:00 pm- 8:30 pm	"Bebop Brooklyn" Jazz at the Triangle Summer 2010. Offering the community the essence of America's Classical Music. Tonight features Jeff King Sextet. Dr. Ronald E. McNair Park. (Music - Jazz).
8:00 pm	Chicago. This Tony-Award winning musical tells a story of two showgirls who kill their lovers and how their smooth lawyer propels them in… Ambassador Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	South Pacific. The musical is based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, and features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hamm… Vivian Beaumont Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	The Lion King. Disney's Tony Award winning musical about Simba, a young cub, and his journey from childhood to adulthood and eventually the thr… Minskoff Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-869-0550
8:00 pm	The Phantom of the Opera. The unforgettable tale of a mysterious figure haunting the Paris Opera House. Majestic Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Jersey Boys. A new Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito an… August Wilson Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Wicked. The story of two girls born in the Land of Oz. One has green skin as is fiery and misunderstood, the other beautiful and popula… Gershwin Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Stomp. This international percussion ensemble used everyday objects to create amazing sounds and rhythms. Orpheum Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Blue Man Group. Three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percuss… Astor Place Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 800-BLUE-MAN
8:00 pm	Altar Boyz. This musical comedy spoof follows a Christian boy band that includes one Jewish boy. The performances are held at New World Stag… New World Stages. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Billy Elliott: The Musical. This moving new musical is the story of a boy who discovers he has a special talent for dance, while the boys all around him are… Imperial Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. Hair follows a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people. The score includes the musical numbers "Let the Sun Shine In," "Aq… Al Hirschfeld Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Memphis - The Musical. The story of Huey Calhoun, a white radio DJ whose love of good music transcends race lines and airwaves. Set in the turbulent s… Shubert Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Next to Normal. A modern musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. Booth Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Rock of Ages. It's 1987 and the final countdown is on for a legendary Hollywood rock club facing its demise at the hands of eager developers.… Brooks Atkinson Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Fela!. This new musical, based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Directed an… Eugene O'Neill Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	A Little Night Music. A Little Night Music is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, lon… Walter Kerr Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Race. A riveting new play in which three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a… The Barrymore Theater. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Pilobolus. Pilobolus brings a powerful line-up of new and classic works to its 40th anniversary celebration with three separate programs pe… The Joyce Theater. (Performance - Dance). 212-242-0800
8:00 pm	The Addams Family. The Addams Family is an all-new musical comedy starring two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and M… Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Come Fly Away. A new musical from director/choreographer Twyla Tharp. Follows four couples as they fall in and our of love during one song and… Marquis Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
8:00 pm	Lend Me a Tenor. Set in the 1930s, this comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, a famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make… Music Box Theater. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	American Idiot. Follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East, as they seek redemption in a world filled with… St. James Theater. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Promises, Promises. In an effort to advance at Consolidated Life Insurance Company, employee Check Baxter lends executives his apartment for their e… Broadway Theatre. (Performance - Show Comedy). 212-239-6200
8:00 pm	Alejandro Sanz. Performing live in concert. Radio City Music Hall. (Arts - Concerts). 212-307-7171
8:00 pm	Love, Loss, and What I Wore. An intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. A portion of ticket sale… Westside Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-315-2302
8:00 pm	Andrew Bird. Andrew Bird and Ian Schneller present Sonic Arboretum, a site-specific performance involving violin, looped passages, and a land… Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. (Arts - Concerts). 212-423-3500
8:00 pm	The Chocolate Soldier. The Chocolate Soldier is an amalgam of Viennese chamber opera and British wit, being based on George Bernard Shaw's play Arms an… Theater Two. (Arts - Opera).
8:00 pm	The Persuasions. A Cappella legends The Persuasions performing live in concert. B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. (Arts - Concerts). 212-997-4144
8:30 pm	The World Stand Up Comedy. Featuring the best mix of national TV headliners from Letterman, Leno, Conan and Comedy Central as well as the hottest young com… The World at The Broadway Comedy Club. (Performance - Comedic). 646-229-6430
10:00 pm	The World Stand Up Comedy. Featuring the best mix of national TV headliners from Letterman, Leno, Conan and Comedy Central as well as the hottest young com… The World at The Broadway Comedy Club. (Performance - Comedic). 646-229-6430
10:00 pm- 12:00 am	Starshine Burlesque. Starshine Burlesque takes it off every single Thursday night and features some of the best in burlesque entertainment New York h… The Fortune Cookie Cabaret. (Performance - Burlesque).
10:00 pm	Auralfixia: An Erotic Cabaret. Auralfixia takes you to a fantasyland where burlesque becomes poetry, poetry takes its clothes off, & your clothes enter a decad… Bowery Poetry Club. (Performance - Cabaret). 347-441-0771
10:30 pm	A Night in Vegas. An off-broadway production, about the flamboyant Vegas nightlife all through the door of one hotel room. Topics include male pro… Bleecker Street Theatre. (Performance). 212-260-8250
	Mamma Mia!. The story of a forty-something mother planning her daughter's wedding. Incorporating 22 of the band ABBA's songs. Schedule var… Winter Garden Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
	Mary Poppins. Based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the Oscar-winning 1964 Walt Disney film. The show fatures original film score by Rober… New Amsterdam Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-282-2900
	In the Heights. In the Heights is a new musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights. Schedule varies, please check ahead. Richard Rodgers Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-307-4100
	here: remembering 9/11. "here: remembering 9/11" features a selection of photographs from the "here is new york: a democracy of photographs" exhibition,… Ground Zero. (Arts - Photography Exhibit).
	La Cage Aux Folles. Can a camp man (and his lover) pretend not to be gay just to meet his son's prospective parents-in-law? Schedule varies, please… Longacre Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-239-6200
	Million Dollar Quartet. A new musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together four of the most legendary figures in the histo… Nederlander Theatre. (Performance - Musical). 212-921-8000
	Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love. Schedule varies, pl… Helen Hayes Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
	Time Stands Still. Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there's misery in the world? This is one of many questions Pulitzer… Cort Theatre. (Performance - Theater). 212-239-6200
	Literary Lives: The World of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller. Shirley Hazzard unlocks her private collection of personal photographs and books that gives a first-ever look at the life she sh… The New York Society Library. (Arts - Photography Exhibit). 212-288-6900
	Collecting Woodstock: Recent Museum Acquisitions. This exhibition features photographs, objects, and ephemera from the 1969 Woodstock festival. Included are thirty new Woodstock… Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. (Arts - Art Exhibit). 866-781-2922
	Secrets of the Trade. In show business, it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman, a smart, ambitious kid from Long Island dreams of a care… 59E59 Theaters. (Performance - Theater). 212-840-9705

Retail Events

Sports

For Children

11:30 am- 12:30 pm	The Story Museum. Preschool children up to age 5. Step inside a world filled with the magic of stories, crafts, music, dancing and singing. Ever… Historic Richmond Town. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 718-351-1611
3:30 pm	After School Book Club. Junior High School students. Read and discuss selected books covering major periods in history. The collections and historic bu… Historic Richmond Town. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 718-351-1611
7:00 pm	The Gazillion Bubble Show. This Guiness record holder has blown the biggest soap bubble. Fan Yang presents a show filed with lighting effects, maagic and b… New World Stages. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-871-1730
8:00 pm	The Gazillion Bubble Show. This Guiness record holder has blown the biggest soap bubble. Fan Yang presents a show filed with lighting effects, maagic and b… New World Stages. (Kid's - Children's Activities). 212-871-1730

Business

Community

Health & Fitness

Miscellaneous

Dining Specials

Nightlife

6:00 pm	After Work Thursdays at Proof. Join us for happy hour every Thursday with drink specials. Proof Bar and Lounge. (Nightlife - Happy Hours). 212-228-4200
6:00 pm- 10:00 pm	First Thursday's After Work Party. Music by DJ Damon Daz, half price drink specials and buffet. Ages 25 and older, mature crowd only. Real's Lounge. (Nightlife - Parties). 914-564-5355
7:00 pm- 4:00 am	Basement Bhangra. DJ Rekha and her Basement Bhangra party has forced New Yorkers and now music listeners around the world to sit up and take notic… SOB's - Sounds of Brazil. (Nightlife - Live Music). 212-243-4940
7:00 pm- 3:00 am	Euro Afterwork Party. No cover on our list! Mention you're with Marion & Vero at the door person to avoid the cover charge. Dress code collared shir… Empire Hotel Rooftop. (Nightlife - Parties). 917-557-5787
7:00 pm- 10:00 pm	Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word Poetry/Spoken Word. A premier New York City weekly Thursday night poetry/spoken word event featuring the best performers in the country, including m… One and One. (Nightlife - Theme Night). 212-598-9126
7:00 pm	European Afterwork. Admission: $5 on Marion & Vero List. Dress code: collared shirt/pants/leather shoes for guys and dress/heels for girls highly… Hudson Terrace. (Nightlife - Parties). 917-557-5787
8:30 pm- 11:00 pm	Comedy Soap Box. Comedy Soap Box has been producing some of the best standup in New York for four years. Comedians from Leno, Letterman, HBO, Com… Nevada Smith's. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-982-2591
8:30 pm- 10:30 pm	Comedy Hurts. A variety of TV credited comedians perform in an intimate room where you can eat, drink while you enjoy the show. $3 draft beers… Joe Franklin's Comedy Club. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-592-4435
8:30 pm	New York Comedy Show. Stand-Up New York features some of the best comics NY has to offer, many who have appeared on Comedy Central, David Letterman, T… Stand Up-New York Comedy Club. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-595-0850
9:00 pm	Celebrity Thursdays at Rubber Monkey. Resident DJ's Eric Tomasini, David Vasquez and John Creamer spinning on-the-edge house with the once-famous and would be supermo… Rubber Monkey. (Nightlife - Dance). 212-625-8220
9:00 pm	Comedy Showcase. Comics at the New York Comedy Club have appeared on the Tonight Show, Letterman, MTV, Comedy Central, Saturday Night Live, and m… New York Comedy Club. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-696-5233
9:00 pm	Steve Earle & Allison Moorer. Performing Live. City Winery. (Nightlife - Live Music). 212-608-0555
9:00 pm- 2:30 am	Live Funk/R&B at Club Groove. Features live music seven nights a week. Club Groove. (Nightlife - Live Music). 212-254-9393
10:00 pm	Stand Up Comedy. Every night The Broadway Comedy Club features comics who have appeared on Letterman, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, Mad… Broadway Comedy Club. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-757-2323
10:00 pm- 2:00 am	Salsa Night. Come out every Thursday night to NYC's most exciting and only underground Salsa party 4 years and still going strong! ... NYC's… Club Cache. (Nightlife - Theme Night). 646-591-2772
10:00 pm- 3:00 am	Rooftop Party at High Bar!. Dress Code Smart Casual - No Sneakers, Shorts, T-shirts, ages 21 and over. Free Admission on Victoria's Guest list. High Bar. (Nightlife - Parties). 212-229-0010
11:00 pm- 4:00 am	Say Word Thursday. This is a sexy, sexy, sexy, intimate Senegalese/French spot in the East Village. Beautiful decor, great staff, great sound, gre… Nolia. (Nightlife - DJ). 212-228-8103
	Virtual Thursdays at SBNY. SBNY Splash Bar New York. (Nightlife - Gay & Lesbian). 212-691-0073
	Ladies Night at Webster Hall. Don't miss out on the explosive Male Revue from 10pm to midnight for the ladies only. Webster Hall. (Nightlife - Ladies Night). 212-353-1600
	Blues, Jazz, & Rock. Jazz, Blues & Rock Club Crawl in Greenwich Village. Call for reservations & meeting place. $20 includes admission to all clubs… New York Metro Area. (Nightlife - Pub Crawl / Bar Tour). 212-696-6617
	All the Drag with the Asian Dragdolls. Witty drag queens from New York team up with Asian "dragdolls" from Singapore, Japan, India, China, Hawaii, Indonesia, and the P… Lucky Cheng's. (Nightlife - Adult theme). 212-861-2438
	Stand Up Comedy Shows All Night Long. Located in the Heart of Times Square, Ha! Comedy Club presents some of the funniest comedians of today! Daily showtimes are 7:3… HA! Comedy Club NYC. (Nightlife - Comedy). 212-977-3884

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