Shop N Mingle

Shop N Mingle is back and it’s bigger & better than ever! SHOP the collections of 16 designers & brands. MINGLE with fashion, art & music enthusiasts. Uptown’s Premier Shopping Event, Saturday, Dec 5th – 1pm to 7pm.

Nutcracker (LES) in the Lower East Side

Nutcracker with a twist .Krumping rats and popping soldiers, crooked hats, and the Nutcracker Ballet, think Urban Ballet Theater. Christmas will never be the same. The Abrons Arts Center hosts the re-imagined Nutcracker in the Lower for its ninth consecutive year, establishing a cultural tradition that is as diverse as it is relevant and above all a city story.

Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony

With over five miles of lights are used to decorate the tree every year. The nationally televised tree lighting draws huge crowds and has become a yearly pilgrimage for New Yorkers and Tourists alike .Only the lights and the star decorate the tree. The live telecast of the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony features an impressive line-up of celebrity performances like Beyonce or Tony Bennett .

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

Every year more than a million visitors make the Radio City Christmas Spectacular part of their holiday festivities. The eight-week show has been a sell-out success since its debut in 1933.

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention

Man Ray the quintessential modernist, who continually recast the concept of his artistic identity, working as a painter, photographer, sculptor, printmaker, film maker, poet, and essayist. Man Ray’s fame as a photographer eclipsed his accomplishments as a painter. A conflicted identity, however, was central to an artist who yearned to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish immigrant past.

Museum of Modern Art is holding a major career retrospective on film maker Tim Burton.

Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre film making as a spiritual experience, and influenced a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. Tim Burton was an animator for Disney Studios when he was hired by Paul Reubens to direct Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985). The film a quirky hit, and led to Burton making an the even quirkier hit Beetlejuice 1988, and then blockbuster Batman 1989.

Zoolander Halloween Party & Derelict Fashion Show

Fans of Zoolander unite ,the cult classic is the theme of one of Brooklyns biggest Halloween parties.This party is a fashionable fete of Mugatu proportions. Come dressed as your fav Zoolander character, and enjoy an Orange Mocha Frappuchino cocktail while practicing your best Blue Steel. And yes…there will be a walk-off!

The Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

This became the run down version of Irving Plaza that by the the late 1970′s was one of the focal points the Punk Rock movement. Home a way from home for English Punk bands and later New Wave music ,Irving Plaza hosted a virtual cornucopia of Punk bands like the Buzzcocks,the Stranglers,Souxie and the Banshies,999,Sham 69 and so on.

Profile: Lady Gaga

Musically, Lady Gaga is inspired by Glam rockers and New Wavers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson and some would Debbie Harry of Blondie fame. She is also inspired by fashion, which she claims is an essential component to her songwriting and performances.

Profile: Ivanka Trump

More than just a pretty face or just another spoiled rich kid ,at just 26 Ivanka Trump reigns over her father Donald’s real estate kingdom, runs her own jewelry company and may or may not be dating NYC’s most eligible bachelor Jared Kushner.