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| February is Black History Month, and you can celebrate at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, Feb. 4th, with a FREE concert by Brooklyn-based Afro Punk rock group Game Rebellion. The free concert is 5 PM to 7 PM, and because space is limited, tickets are handed out starting at 4:30, and when they are [...]  More than 150 museums in the USA are free this weekend, the first weekend of the month — but only if you are the owner of a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit card. The two companies are once again offering their “Museums on Us” program, which includes such top cultural destinations as [...] Amateur Night at the Apollo has launched hundreds of professional careers, including Michael Jackson. Sit in on performances by future legends and stars, as Amateur Night’s 78th season opens Wednesday, February 1 with the legendary Jennifer Holliday, one of the original Dreamgirls, as a special opening night guest. Tickets start at $19, and [...] Through February 6th, tickets to many off-Broadway productions are just $20, with a special promotion called 20at20. Just go to the box office for the show you want to see 20 minutes before show time and ask for the “20at20” ticket deal. If tickets are still available for that show, you are in for [...] Kids and teens age 6-18 can see a Broadway show for FREE during the annual Kids’ Night on Broadway, sponsored by The Broadway League. Kids get a free ticket when accompanied by an adult paying full price, at participating Broadway shows February 5-9, 2012. The event also includes great family-friendly restaurant and parking deals, a [...] Is there a funny side of crime? Find out at a free lecture by the New York Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, at the NY Public Library. It’s a panel discussion on The Funny Side of Crime. The panelists include authors Nancy Martin, Tom Straw and Lois Winston. The free panel [...] iPhone/iPad/iTouch app Launched last year as NYC Free and Frugal, the app version of NYC on the Cheap has been renamed NYC on the Cheap. Download it now from the iTunes store, and get hundreds of places for cheap eats, stores where you’ll never pay retail, museums that are always free, and lots [...] The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is a long-running comedy improv show on Sunday nights, often with special guests from Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock & The Colbert Report. There are two shows each Sunday — the 7:30 PM show costs $10 and tickets are only available via pre-sale on the Brigade’s website, with no [...] Monaco’s world famous classical ballet company, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo makes a rare appearance in the USA in February, with a week of performances at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea. The company will present two avant-garde productions, Altro Canto I and Opus 40, on the same program, each night, from Wednesday, February 15 to [...] Here’s how to save $45,000 in college tuition — attend the One Day University Sunday, January 21, 2012, and learn from top professors from top colleges and universities including Cornell, Yale and Columbia. Subjects include history, art, philosophy, and include such timely and thought-provoking topics as the changing nature of good and evil. [...] There’s a long list of free and cheap events and activities this weekend, most of which celebrate the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. Saturday – A free screening of the documentary Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, at the New York Public Library, Shomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd at [...] Kids get the opportunity to camp out overnight at the American Museum of Natural History, in the real version of the movie. As the doors close and the lights dim, participants head out with flashlights in search of adventure, which could mean a face-to-face meeting with a 65-million-year-old T. rex in the Hall of Dinosaurs, or [...] |
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