My Urban Sherpa

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Except that there won’t be those direct and indirect Xmas bonuses.  The bonus this year is spectacular savings up and down 5th and Madison Avenues. Sales of 30% and 40% are already in place at many of NY’s finest department stores. Looking great for that interview is fortunately, more affordable.

Pinkalicious at the Bleecker Street Theater

Pinkalicious the musical, from Pinkalicious the children’s book by sisters Elizabeth and Victoria Kann, is a delicious day at the theater for all pink lovers, ages 3 and up.

With a 1:00 performance Sunday, November 16.

Reserve tickets here.

LEAGUE OF HUMANE VOTERS 7TH ANNIVERSARY

Join the League of Humane Voters of NYC as they celebrate their 7th anniversary at Jivamukti Yoga School, Saturday, November 15th at 8:00PM.

LOHV-NYC will be honoring Senator Frank Padavan, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal and Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr. for all they have done legislatively for animals. LOHV-NYC will also be honoring Edison Properties/Manhattan Mini Storage CEO Steve Nislick for organizing business leaders in the campaign to ban horse-drawn carriages. Celebrity guests include Emmy Award-winner Kristen Johnson and DJ/rapper Princess Superstar.
Tickets/info online at www.humanenyc.org or call 212-889-0303.

Who is Thelonious Monk? Jazz for Young People at the Rose Theater

Today,  Saturday, November 15, the Jazz for Young People Concert presents “Who is Thelonious Monk?” at the Rose Theater (1 & 3pm). Called the “High Priest of Bebop,” Monk was said to have “charted a new course for modern music few were willing to follow.”

Host: Wynton Marsalis

Buy tickets here

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A Night at the Museum

Imagine yourself sleeping beneath a 65-million-year-old T. rex or a 94-foot-long blue whale or maybe at the base of a volcanic formation. Well, it’s not only possible—it could happen on Manhattan’s Upper West Side because the American Museum of Natural History regularly hosts sleepovers for kids age 8-12.

Details:

Cost: $129 per person

(Members: $119 per person)

Admission Price includes:

•Evening snack and light breakfast

•Cots for all participants

•IMAX film

•Take-home activities

•Fossil exploration by flashlight

•Live-animal special exhibition (seasonal)

Time: 5:45 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Space is limited and dates sell out very quickly. Please call 212-769-5200 for the latest information on available dates.

Available 2008 Sleepover Dates:

•Saturday, December 13

A Bacchanal for American Illustration / American Photography

American Illustration and American Photography celebrate the publication of AP24 and AI27 with reckless abandon tonight, Thursday, November 13th, from 7:00 to 11:00 PM at the Angel Orenz Foundation, 2 Norfolk Street (East Houston and Stanton) New York City’s Lower East Side.

RSVP for Tickets – $50 each.

Greys Papaya King ($)

Illustration by Matt Rota.

Greys Papaya King ($)
179 E 86th St. @ 3rd Ave
212-369-0648

Recommendations
The Original Special. Two frankfurters with kraut, onions or relish and a 16 oz Tropical Drink — try the namesake Papaya. Cheap. Cheap. Cheap. Just 3-cents under $5, including tax.

Other locations include 7th Avenue @ 14th St.

Nearby Attractions
Neue Galerie
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Jewish Museum
Central Park

This entry is an excerpt from a book compiled by Charles Hively, publisher of 3×3 Magazine on the occasion of ICON5, to share some of the wonderful and affordable restaurants in New York. The book is available for purchase at Amazon.

Join John Maeda & Maira Kalman at the ADC

2008 Art Directors Club Hall of Fame laureates John Maeda and Maira Kalman appear tonight, Tuesday, November 11th

&

Wednesday, November 12th, an evening honoring Ray Eames, Eames Demetrios will share his Grandmother’s vision, work and life.

Both evenings share the same schedule and location:

Cocktails 6pm
Event 6:30-8:30pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Reserve Tickets at the ADC.

What’s Up in this Economy?

Not the Dow but down dog.

Attendance at Yoga studios is the only thing soaring in the current economy, aside from the VIX and the Unemployment rates.

We can recommend no practice more highly than Jivamukti –

Here is a Jivamukti offering tonight, November 10 at 8:30.
SHAKTIPAT MEDITATION AND SATSANG WITH GABRIEL COUSENS, MD
Shaktipat is a transmission of grace that activates the inherent spiritual force, the Shakti Kundalini, when one’s system is ready for it.  An awakened Kundalini is the next evolutionary step of the individual and humanity, and can potentially take one to Liberation.

Satsang, or “Hanging out in the Truth,” follows this meditation, and is spiritual questions and answers.

As a whole, please join this community activation of consciousness and spiritual energy.  it is a way to go deeper personally as well as bring light to every level of your lives.

There will be a short talk on what it means to individually and collectively transition from a culture of death mentality to the consciousness of the Culture of Life and Liberation, and the Sevenfold Path of Creating Peace by Being Peace.

Gabriel Cousens, MD, is the founder of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, an Oasis for Awakening in the Patagonia Mountains, AZ.  He is acknowledged as liberated by his two enlightened gurus, Swami Muktananda Paramahansa and Swami Prakashananda.  Gabriel is the author of Creating Peace by Being Peace, Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini, There Is A Cure For Diabetes, Depression-Free for Life, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, and Conscious Eating.  Gabriel has recently developed the Culture of Life Community to support people at the leading edge of consciousness shift and healing the planet.  His work is the founding of projects worldwide that spark spiritual awakening and empowering the fruition of people as our true nature as living sparks of the divine.

Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden

Today is a glorious day to enjoy “The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum”, a flower show and art exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden, through November 16.