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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 12, 2011?

49 free events take place on Tuesday, April 12 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 12 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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Park Walk | Weekday Fitness Walking Program


One hour of walking, stretching, strengthening, and body toning using only the park, our own bodies, and gravity. All levels welcome; we modify the program to meet your level of ability.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
Free

Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


Jennifer Williams leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Lecture | United Russia and Russian Politics: How Russia's Ruling Party Works and Why It Matters


A talk by John Reuter, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Harriman Institute. Elections, parties, legislatures, and courts all still exist in Russia. While these nominally democratic institutions do not fulfill all of their normal democratic functions, they nonetheless play an important role in Russia's authoritarian regime. One of the most significant of these institutions is the dominant political party, United Russia. This talk will explore United Russia's role in the current regime, particularly the ways in which it influences policy and affects elite advancement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Barbara MacGregor, Organist


Part of the PRISM Organ Recital Series. MacGregor is from Akron, Ohio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Organist Claudia Dumschat performs works by Bach


Program: Bach: Fantasia on Valet ich will dir geben (BWV 735) Fantasia on Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 695) Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BMV 542) Claudia Dumschat is Organist and Choirmaster at the church, a national landmark church in Manhattan, with a professional Choir of Men and Boys. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Alec Wyton, Frederick Swann, McNeil Robinson, John Walker, and Dennis Keene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested contribution

Concert | Piano works by Chopin and Schubert


Juiliiard pianist Jiale Li. Program: CHOPIN Ballade No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 1 and No. 2
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring Cry Rock, ?E?anx/The Cave and Shimásání. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Cell Phone Buying Guide 2: Smartphones


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Phones aren’t just phones anymore. Learn about the latest cutting-edge smartphones, their various operating systems, the required data plans, and the many available applications (apps!) that can turn a good smartphone into a great one.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Theater | 2011 First Light Festival: Big Hungry World by Susan Bernfield


Catherine is a Silicon Valley billionaire who wants to give away her money - she thinks. Always a perfectionist, she is determined that her charity be as efficient and effective as everything else she's done in her life. But feeding the world is an unruly, messy business, where the rules she learned - and invented - don't count anymore. A play in three parts about goodness in the context of great privilege, and the moral value of work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Photographer Anthony Hamboussi discusses his book Newtown Creek: A Photographic Survey of New York's Industrial Waterway


The book extensively documents the forgotten landscape of Newtown Creek over the course of five years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | The Role of Skin Shade in Determining Wage and Marriage Outcomes


A lecture by Darrick Hamilton, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free

Performance | An Evening with Performance Artist Joe Diebes


Joe Diebes creates performance works that fuse sound, visual media, and the human voice into a unique form of contemporary opera. From 1996 to 2003, he was an artist member and the musical force behind the hybrid arts group GAle GAtes et al., described by the New York Times as “an adventurous troupe with one foot in the world of postmodern art and the other in downtown performance.” Since then, he has created sound installations—often with a substantial visual component—for art galleries, museums, and public spaces in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He continues to probe the relationships between technology, art making, and a contemporary culture under the sway of a digital worldview.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala


In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Crisis? Capitalism Is Doing Very Well. And How Is Critical Theory?


A lecture by Albena Azmanova. Drawing on a model of social criticism developed in her new book The Scandal of Reason: a Critical Theory of Political Judgment (forthcoming with Columbia University Press, Professor Albena Azmanova offers an analysis of the recent metamorphosis of capitalism, traces the emergence of a new pattern of social injustice and advances a proposal for an equitable distribution of social opportunity and risk in the early 21st century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Fashion Theory


Valerie Steele, the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, will discuss the origins and development of this influential, interdisciplinary journal and consider its contribution to the development of Fashion Studies as a field.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Super Free Wednesday Comedy Shows


Featuring: Recess, Watson + Tuscarora Fire Company Picnic, The Whiskey Rebellion + Stranger, Local 154 and Borealis, Handsy + The Faculty and Friends, and Improdome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Why Style Matters: First Ladies and Their Impact on American Fashion


Every first lady makes an impression, whether she means to or not. Some arrive at the White House already well versed in the sartorial requirements of the job--what Lady Bird Johnson referred to as the "harness of hairdo and gloves"--and embrace the style-setting authority of the role as Jackie Kennedy did in 1961. Others resent the expectation, failing to grasp why what makes them feel comfortable should be the public's business. During this discussion we look at how first ladies have impacted American style and changed the way women in this country dress for work, for the public spotlight, and for themselves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Wills Unplugged – Why They Are For Everyone


A well-crafted will helps ensure that your assets go where you want them to when you’re gone this session offers pointers on drawing up a will that’s right for you. George L. Bischof is an attorney whose practice focuses on estate planning (wills and trusts) and estate administration (probate).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Spanish Cinema: Alvaro Pastor & Antonio Naharro's Me Too (2009)


At first glance, this is a typical romantic comedy. Daniel meets Laura. She’s attractive, rebellious, and a little trampy. They hang out, have fun together, and he falls hard for her. The unexpected part is that 34-year-old Daniel has Down syndrome. 103 min. In Spanish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:15 pm
Free

Author Reading | Ellen Sue Levy discusses her book Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery and the Struggle Between the Arts


Levy is a visiting associate professor at Pratt Institute. Her articles and poems have appeared in Dissent, Literary Imagination, Modernism/Modernity, Raritan, and The New York Review of Books.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Katy Siegel reads from her book Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art


This illustrated lecture details the collision of American history and modern art. For the more than half-century since World War II, New York has been the center of world art, with an influence that extends well beyond the continent. The author discusses how artists’ preoccupations with issues of race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction have come to find their place in art works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Public Feelings Salon


This engaged dialogue brings together several prominent and influential scholars whose work explores how affect and emotion influence public life. Just as feminism has sought to identify the ways in which the personal and the political are linked, the study of "public feelings" draws our attention to how and why feelings and emotion (assumed to be a private, personal experience) influence politics and notions of social belonging and intimacy. This interactive conversation, moderated by Janet Jakobsen, will focus on how perceptions of citizenship and solidarity are often bound up in emotions—like optimism, rage, and disgust—and how feelings can govern policy and political debates.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Rick Moody and Dale Peck discuss Austrian author Thomas Bernhard


Author Rick Moody and author and critic Dale Peck will come to blows over iconic Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard in a discussion of his latest English-language release, My Prizes: An Accounting. The English volume’s translator and senior vice president at Knopf, Carol Brown Janeway will join the conversation. Award-winning author Daniel Kehlmann will also be on hand to read excerpts from My Prizes. Writer, translator, and Columbia University scholar Susan Bernofsky will moderate the event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | The Bowery: Past, Present and Future


With David Mulkins. An illustrated talk on the legendary street by the chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors. From America's entertainment capital to today's mix of the old (Bowery Mission) and the New (Museum), the Bowery remains one of the great American streets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Reading | The Pen Parentis Literary Salon


Each month, this reading series presents notable authors who successfully balance writing careers with the demands of parenting read from their work in an elegant salon-like atmosphere; readings followed by intimate and inspiring Q&A, networking, and signing sessions. Tonight see Arthur Philips and Whitney Terrell. Philips is the author of Prague, The Egyptologist, Angelica, and The Song is You. Terrell is the author of The Huntsman and The King of Kings County.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Pro Bono Economy: Exploring the Economic and Social Impact of the Skills-Based Volunteer Sector


A cross-disciplinary salon to explore the economic and social impact of the volunteer sector. Pro bono service can help build better businesses, nonprofits, social enterprises, careers and communities. But what how can we quantify the value of volunteerism? Panelists: Diahann Billings-Burford, the nation’s first municipal Chief Service Officer and head of NYC Service; Ali Marano, Vice President for Pro Bono Initiatives at JPMorgan Chase; Susan M. Chambre, Professor of Sociology and research editor at the Center for Nonprofit Management and Strategy at Baruch College; and Rachael Chong, founder and CEO of Catchafire—a scalable online pro bono service platform. Moderated by Shelly Banjo, reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Writing for Children Forum: Elizabeth Winthrop


Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of more than 50 works of fiction for readers of all ages and a winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Winthrop’s books for children include The Castle in the Attic, Counting on Grace, and Dumpy La Rue. She is also the author of short stories and novels for adults, including In My Mother’s House and Island Justice. Her story “The Golden Darters” was published in Best American Short Stories 1992, and her poetry has been published in anthologies and literary reviews.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | 2011 First Light Festival: Separation of Blood by Bridgette Wimberly


Dr. Charles Drew encountered many separations throughout his life. The discoverer of the groundbreaking method of separating and preserving blood for safe transfusions and the driving force behind the first blood bank in the world was himself unable, like all African Americans, to receive a blood transfusion. On the night of April 1, 1950, in a long perilous drive through the south, he set out to change that.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Video | An Album: Hudson Guild (2009): A Video by Kimsooja


A video project produced by More Art involving a group of senior citizens from the Hudson Guild Senior Center in Chelsea, New York City. Artist Kimsooja spent several days at the center and asked the residents about their lives, background, families and memories. She spent time getting to know them, gaining their trust and support and then filmed them over a period of two weeks. Most people at the center are immigrants, coming from Latin and Central America, Europe and Asia; and they range in age from 60 to over 80. The resulting film is a delicate and profound investigation of human emotions, as each of the participants embarks on his/her won psychological journey, solitary at first and then as a group, which leads them from their past to the present and their future. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Kimsooja, Eleanor Heartney and Jane Farver.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jim Rasenberger reads from his book The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs


Author and magazine contributor Rasenberger discusses his engrossing and meticulously researched account of a little understood post-Korea, pre-Vietnam fiasco.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's sister, reads from her children's book Ladder to the Moon


President Obama's sister discusses her children's book, a lyrical story relaying the loving wisdom of their late mother to a young granddaughter she never met.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | National Book Awards Poets


Join the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, for “National Poetry Month: The National Book Foundation Presents National Book Awards Poets." The evening will examine, through discussion and reading, the place poetry occupies in American culture as well as issues specific to the making of modern poetry. Poets Mark Doty (National Book Award Finalist in 1993 and Winner in 2008), Kathleen Graber (National Book Award Finalist in 2010), and Patricia Smith (National Book Award Finalist in 2008) will read from their own work and discuss the challenges and rewards inherent in reading and writing contemporary poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | New York Arabic Orchestra


Featuring Bassam Saba. On Muslim World Music Day, audiences around the globe embrace the diversity and beauty of music, art, and literature of the Islamic tradition. Bassam Saba and the 30-member New York Arabic Orchestra bring the celebration to Harlem with classical Arab-Andalusian vocal and instrumental repertoire on featured traditional instruments, including the oud (Arabic lute) and nay (Arabic reed flute).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Albatrosh, Noewegian Jazz Duo


Altabosh are part of the young generation of jazz musicians from Norway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | German Cinema: Maren Ade's Everyone Else (2009)


Summer in Sardinia and a young German couple is spending their first holiday together. In fact they just barely met, but they have quickly become very close. The man, an aspiring architect staying at his mother’s summer house, is embarrassed by the house's clutter and lack of taste in decor. His girlfriend thinks the personal touch is endearing. As they stumble through increasingly bigger misunderstandings, the couple find themselves at a crossroads, and don't know which way they will choose to go. 119 min. In German with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:15 pm
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Open Mike | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3

Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 pm
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Performance | Bring It! Stand-Up Open Mike


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win "joke of the night" and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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