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Monk Parrot’s HERE I GO at 59E59, May 22 through June 3

Monk Parrot's Luke Leonard, Here I Go

Monk Parrot’s performs of HERE I GO begins Tuesday, May 22 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 3.

HERE I GO hitches its horse to the emotional roller-coaster of classic country music.  Dolly Parton’s biggest fan Lynette, a cowgirl in her 60s, has lost her husband. After mixing a final batch of her famous banana pudding, Lynette prepares to commit suicide to rejoin him. Will she go?

The cast includes Mariah Ilardi-Lowy, Joey LePage, Gates Leonard, Natalie Leonard, Michael Howell, Julie Nelson and Jessica Pohlman.

Production design by Luke Leonard; lighting design by Eric Nightengale; sound design  by Michael Howell.

Press opening is Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 PM.  The performance schedule is Tuesday – Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday at 8:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. There is an added performance on Saturday, June 2 at 8:30 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or visit www.59e59.org.
Read more at OffBroadway or Visit Monk Parrots.com.

Rembrandt’s World at The Morgan

Rembrandt’s World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection at The Morgan through April 29, 2012.

The Morgan Library and Museum is located at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York, NY 10016.

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MoMA Gift Shop

MoMA, and their wonderful shop and bookstore are open on Mondays.

11 West 53rd Street.

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What to do on Sunday? Support The Bum Phillips Project.

 In 1975, O.A. “Bum” Phillips became head coach of the Houston Oilers, one of the worst teams in the NFL at that time.  Phillips quickly converted the Oilers into a winning franchise resulting in a “Shangri-La” era in the city of Houston and a citywide phenomenon of devoted fans dubbed “Luv Ya Blue”.  This humble hero’s triumphs came with sacrifices, as his obsessions affected his relationship with his family.  A devastating termination from the Oilers in 1980 propelled him toward a spiritual quest that he later said he had avoided his entire life.  Sunday mornings, previously a time for football and the military (Phillips had enlisted after the events of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941) became a time for church.  As such, Bum Phillips uses the question, “What to do on a Sunday?” as a unifying principle in which to examine themes relevant to contemporary audiences, such as ethics, family, faith, and happiness.

Monk Parrots, a New York-based nonprofit performing arts organization is fundraising to produce a world premiere operatic work inspired by the life of retired National Football League coach, O.A. “Bum” Phillips.

Please visit USA Projects and support the effort.

The Steins Collect, on view at The MET through June 3 2012.

Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century. This exhibition unites some two hundred works of art to demonstrate the significant impact the Steins’ patronage had on the artists of their day and the way in which the family disseminated a new standard of taste for modern art. The Steins’ Saturday evening salons introduced a generation of visitors to recent developments in art, particularly the work of their close friends Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, long before it was on view in museums.

On view through June 3, 2012.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street.

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In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan through May 20, 2012.

In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan through May 20, 2012.

The Morgan Library and Museum is located at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
New York, NY 10016.

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Ca del Bosco wine dinner at Morso Restaurant, Tuesday, April 10.

Morso Restaurant Cafe is located at 420 East 59th, between 1st Avenue & York New York, NY 10022
Phone: 212.759.2706

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90-Second Fitness – Get lean at lunch.

If your greatest challenge to staying in shape, or getting in shape, is a lack of time — you will love Pete Cerqua’s fitness program – 90-Second Fitness. After analyzing gym go-ers, Cerqua found that the average person in the gym spent less than 4 minutes actually working. Between waiting for equipment, adjusting equipment, and the arc of weight lifting that doesn’t tax muscles — gym goers waste an inordinate amount of time at the gym.

Cerqua’s method engages a targeted muscle group for an entire 90 seconds. Your muscles are literally spent in a 15 minutes session. You will walk taller, feel stronger, and look visibly more toned in weeks. And to prove his method to readers of My Urban Sherpa — Cerqua is offering one complimentary month of training to our readers. Pay for one month of training, and the 2nd month of training is on the house. *Buyers beware — there will be a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th month of training,…

Visit 90-SecondFitness.com — online — and by appointment at 155 East 55th Street, New York.
E-mail Pete Cerqua for more information.

Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball, at The MET

Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball, on view at The MET through June 17, 2012.

This exhibition includes a selection of baseball cards illustrating some of the earliest and most illustrious players who moved from the Negro Leagues into the Majors, taken from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection. The more than thirty thousand baseball cards collected by Burdick date from 1887 to 1959 and represent the most comprehensive collection outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street.
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The Oral Biography of Billie Jean King

In good time for Women’s History month, Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Shaped our Times e-published the oral biography of Billie Jean King at Apple’s itunes store.

This chapter affords the opportunity to hear about one of life’s greatest agents of change – in her own voice. This oral biography shares the wisdom, tenacity and flexibility we all need to overcome the vicissitudes in life. Billie Jean King made her entree on the tennis court, but she may well be remembered for helping to level the playing field for women in the workplace, and her interest in social justice. Her story is an inspiration.

This is one of 12 chapters to come in the series, Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Changed Our Times; including the oral biographies of Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Tatyana Grosman, Grace Murray Hopper, Louise Nevelson, Agnes de Mille, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Diana Vreeland and Julia Child.

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