January - February

13th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & Festival

11:30 - 4, Sunday, January 29, 2011 - Canal Street South 

Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Chinatown! This year is the year of the Dragon. The parade usually winds throughout Chinatown along Mott, Canal, and Bayard streets, and then along East Broadway.

The festival will feature elaborately decorated floats, marching bands, lion and dragon dances, incredible costumes musicians, magicians, acrobats and more. After the parade there will be an outdoor cultural on Bayard Street with more spectacle and pageantry.

This is such an amazing thing to see, we suggest you bundle up and get out there!

NYC Restaurant Week

20 days of dining out in NYC! And NOT breaking the bank- sounds like the perfect way to beat the mid-winter blues. Check in here with the NYC Official Guide to see who's participating, make reservations, and plan your outings well in advance! You can even get cash back from AmEx for eating up a storm. What a weird world we live in!

Rubin Museum of Art

150 West 17^th Street

"Hero, Villain, Yeti" Tibet in Comics, now through June 11, 2012. The Abominable, yes the big fuzzy scary thing of Christmas cartoon legend in the US is actually a Himalayan monster! Go see him in various cartoon renderings about Tibet at the amazing Rubin Museum of Art. The Rubin Museum of Art is dedicated to art of the Himalayas, so don't stop at Yeti, the place is a complete gem to stroll through. 

PS- as if you needed another reason to head over to this amazing space, Friday nights are FREE 6-10pm at the galleries and there is a Cocktail Lounge w/ a DJ and galleries are open until 10pm! Sexy in South East Asia if you ask us! For times and reservations go to K2 Lounge for info.