TLD 15 ✨ Fuze & Booze Glassmaking Class, Don't Stop I'm About to Jazz
Hey friends,
Hope ya had a great weekend! I just moved into a new apartment last week so I am feeling EVEN MORE energized to explore this incredible city. Tell me – what has you feeling excited these days? A newly-discovered park? Song? Exhibit? Product? Life hack? I’m here for it all. Some things I want to check out over the next month:
🔥 Fuze & Booze Glassmaking Class
🕯️ Candlelight Spring: A Tribute to Beyoncé
🎹 Don’t Stop I’m About To Jazz
🎵 Waxahatchee [Concert]
🚶 Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue [Walking Tour]
😂 Tiffany Haddish [Comedy Show]
🎭 Dear Mom, Sorry For Being a Bitch [Play]
🍋 Edy Massih: Keep It Zesty w/ Dan Pelosi [Cookbook Talk]
🧠 James Arthur Lecture: The Emergence of Emotionally Modern Minds
📖 Michael Waters: The Other Olympians w/ Hugh Ryan [Book Talk]
🍎 Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters [Exhibit]
🔥 April 25 at Shiny Sparkle Labs: Fuze & Booze Glassmaking Class – “Set in an 1855 warehouse turned hip Brooklyn studio, this 3-hour introductory class brings participants together to create an array of assembled glass creations with a twist - or neat! Forged together with heat and creativity you will be given all the tools and supplies to create your very own work of glass art. Partnering with local purveyors of the finest libations, this class was born out of a passion for glass making and a love for fine wine. ” [$124]
🕯️ April 24 at St Ann’s Church: Candlelight Spring: A Tribute to Beyoncé – “Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in New York. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Beyoncé at St Ann & the Holy Trinity Church bathed in a lush, floral display dedicated to spring.” [$46]
🎹 April 25 at The Bell House: Don’t Stop I’m About To Jazz – “NYC's Best Stand-Up Comedians Perform Their Sets With Live Piano Accompaniment. Hosted by Two Tree Hill & Rose Kelso. Featuring: Cat Cohen (Netflix), Ike Ufomadu (Showtime), Jon Rudnitsky (SNL), Chris Gethard (HBO)” [$15+]
🎵 April 27 at Brooklyn Paramount: Waxahatchee Concert – “Beginning as a solo acoustic project of Katie Crutchfield, formerly of east coast DIY punk faves P.S. Eliot, Waxahatchee grew into a full indie band with a national presence. Crutchfield’s hometown and the locations she’s lived in since, including Philadelphia, have informed her folksy style. Her breakthrough record and first release with Merge Records, Out In the Storm, marked her evolution from lo-fi to carefully crafted, studio-produced sound.” [$118+]
FYI Brooklyn Paramount is a historic theater that recently reopened! “Before restoration began a couple of years ago, the iconic venue—which first opened in the 1920s as a movie theater before it became a concert hall for acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington—was a basketball arena and classrooms for Long Island University.” More here.
🚶 April 27 and 28 around Fifth Ave: Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue [Walking Tour]– “This tour focuses on the design and history of the great mansions of Fifth Avenue and their owners who constructed them as lavish displays of their wealth and status in Gilded Age New York City. The tour starts at East 70th St & Fifth Avenue (at the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial), just down the block from the Frick Collection, and ends at the Cooper-Hewitt (2 East 91th Street), the former homes of two protagonists on this tour – Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) and Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).” [$40+]
☕️ May 5 (and a bunch of other dates!) at Wilcoxson Brooklyn Ceramics: Porcelain Mug Workshop – “Our studio is pleased to offer the workshops at our new studio on West Street, along the Greenpoint waterfront in Brooklyn, New York. Our workshop is 3 hours and is a beginner-level class with no previous experience required. The workshop is a hand-building course using slabs of porcelain to build functional tableware. In the workshop, we will apply colored clay "slips" to the surface of the mugs and create decorative patterns in blue, black, gray, and pink. Workshop participants will make at least 2 mugs that will be finished with glaze. The mugs can be picked up 3-4 weeks after the workshop.” [$85]
😂 May 10 at Apollo Theater: Tiffany Haddish – “Live Nation and Mary J. Blige are bringing the third annual Strength of a Woman Festival and Summit to New York City for a weekend full of activities dedicated to empowering, educating, and elevating, women. One of the annual staples of the festival is the comedy show. This year’s show will feature a headlining set from Tiffany Haddish with support from Don’t Call me White Girl and Paris Sashay.” [$71+]
🎭 May 12-14 at Soho Playhouse: Dear Mom, Sorry For Being a Bitch [Play] – “From the mind of Christine Covode (UCB, SecretNYC, Improv Olympic), Dear Mom, Sorry For Being a Bitch is a one-woman (with guests) love letter and apology to her mom! The show focuses on the arc of Christine’s life and her relationship with her mom at various stops along the way. Starting in elementary school and growing into college and beyond, this coming-of-age show brings you into Christine's distressed teenage mind as she slowly grows to love and understand the person who was always by her side. Speaking into a video diary for the entirety of the performance, our protagonist travels back in time and retells each bitchy phase of life with honesty, humor, and deep apology. You will laugh, you will cry, but most importantly, you will leave the theatre wanting to give your mom a big ol' hug.” [$36]
😆 May 15 at Littlefield: PUNDERDOME® – “NYC’s hilarious cult-favorite pun competition … both an endearingly homemade and impressively high-caliber show during which astute wordsmiths spin clever and very funny puns to a packed house.” [$15]
🌀 May 16-23 around the city: NYCxDesign 2024 – “Taking place across all five of New York City's boroughs, the annual festival NYCxDesign aims to showcase the diverse talent of local artisans and designers. The eight-day event features various activities including talks, installations and showrooms that aim to explore the themes of innovation, culture, inclusivity, sustainability and resiliency.”
🛍️ May 18 and 19 at Invisible Dog Art Center: FAD Market NYCxDesign – “Come celebrate the best of New York’s emerging design scene with FAD Market’s NYCxDESIGN pop-up. They’ll be taking up residence at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, with over 50 cutting-edge designers and makers pushing the boundaries of home furnishing, tableware, apparel, jewelry, and more. Browse their specially curated selection of goods and meet the best new designers from the city and beyond!” [Free]
🍋 Edy Massih: Keep It Zesty w/ Dan Pelosi [Cookbook Talk]– “Born in a small fishing village in Lebanon, Edy Massih grew up eating and cooking alongside his Teitas (grandmothers) Odette and Jacquo, who taught him the secret to delicious Lebanese food, including how to roll garlic labneh balls and bind homemade kibbeh by hand. Growing up in America from the age of ten, Edy steadily built his career as a chef and caterer on these dishes and many more from his native land. But in 2020, the pandemic nearly derailed his dreams. Then a beloved deli in his Brooklyn neighborhood—run by his adopted Teita, Maria—was up for grabs. Maria decided to retire and turn the keys over to Edy. The new sign, Edy's Grocer, went up and the Lemony Corner of Brooklyn was born. In Keep It Zesty, Edy shares his story and more than more than 115 easy-to-follow recipes for some of his favorite dishes—traditional Lebanese fare with a modern twist. Infused with the zestiness and positivity he brings to everyday life, Keep It Zesty offers everything adventurous home cooks need to whip up a delicious weeknight meal and entertain guests.” [$10+]
🧠 May 23 at The Museum of Natural History: James Arthur Lecture: The Emergence of Emotionally Modern Minds – “Why do humans take such an interest in what other humans think—and what other humans think about them? Why are we eager to cooperate and share from an early age? Such prosocial emotions laid the groundwork for bipedal apes in the line leading to the genus Homo to develop unprecedented levels of cooperation and food-sharing. But to get there, our ancestors must have already been more other-regarding, in this sense already ‘emotionally modern.’ In this 93rd James Arthur Lecture, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist and author of Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies, will highlight the role infancy played in the evolution of big brains and our distinctively human prefrontal cortex, drawing on new information from behavioral ecology, developmental psychology, and social neuroscience.” [Free]
🎺 May 30 at Fotografiska: Swinging on the Precipice – “‘Swinging on the Precipice’ is Fotografiska’s free, monthly live music series as part of Carnegie Hall’s Festival Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice. J. Walter Hawkes is an Emmy-winning composer and a skilled trombone/ukulele player and singer ‘providing music in many forms for the greater Earth area.’ His band Weill Style specializes in music of the Hot Jazz era of the 1920’s & 30’s which were so integral to the culture and nightlife of the Weimar Republic. As a member of the Hot Sardines, he was featured at Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2024 (featuring special guest Alan Cumming) as part of Dancing on the Precipice.” [Free]
📖 June 3 at Invisible Dog Art Center: Michael Waters: The Other Olympians w/ Hugh Ryan [Book Talk] – “In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equality became instead, through a confluence of bureaucracy, war, and sheer happenstance, the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming athletes. In The Other Olympians, Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era. With dogged research and cinematic flair, Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany’s atrocities in order to pull off the Berlin Games, a partnership that ultimately influenced the IOC’s nearly century-long obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender.” [Free]
🍎 Through April September 8: Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters – “Poster House, the country's first museum dedicated entirely to the global history of posters, turns its lens on its hometown for its latest exhibit. "Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters," highlights 80 works that capture NYC's landmarks in vibrant color and detail. The exhibit explores how New York City was represented to thousands of travelers, immigrants, and tourists during the 20th century. A 19th-century marketing strategy coined the phrase "Wonder City," and it appeared in dozens of newspaper and magazine advertisements, as well as articles, postcards, and souvenir booklets. New York’s massive growth during this time ultimately led to the creation of more travel posters than were designed for any other city in the world. The images included scenes of the city as seen from the water, from the ground, and, eventually, from the air.” [$12 entry…. or free every Friday!]
Who’s down?!
xx Anna