Pre Covid-19 we searched the internet everyday looking for the very best of What’s Happening, primarily on Manhattan’s WestSide, so that you didn’t have to.
We made it as easy as 1-2-3.

Covid-19 has required some changes for the time being.
Stay Safe.

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For October we are going to try a different format – “Top 10 Corona Culture” – updated info and video especially suited to these difficult times OR NYC related visual info (Instagram and YouTube) OR all the NYC news you need to start your day.

We hope you will come back often to see what’s cooking here.

Today it’s NYC Weekend Corona Culture (sat). NEW STUFF!

7 Things to Do This Weekend NYC

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City. (NYT)

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Virtual Culture This Weekend

We’ve got some weekend livestreams to keep you informed and entertained—across talks, lectures, and performances (with a real life event thrown in as well).  ThoughtGallery

ThoughtGallery is my primo site for “Smart Stuff” – the types of events you will find fascinating if you are just a little curious. Check them out every day – ThoughtGallery

Friday, October 9

Crack open the book of early 19th century literature as the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden explores what people were reading and why.

Saturday, October 10

Image courtesy of Martin Pfeiffer.

Ban the bomb! Or at least think more deeply about it as nuclear anthropologist Martin Pfeiffer talks to artist Andrew Paul Keiper about atomic culture. apexart. Join “direct path” spiritual teacher Rupert Spira as he leads a session on the nature of non-dual understanding. A guided meditation and dialogue take in a range of spiritual traditions, from zen to Sufism to Buddhism to mystical Christianity. New York Open Center. Sunday, October 11 Head behind closed doors as Green-Wood Cemetery gets you out of the virtual realm for their annual Open Doors afternoon, allowing exploration of usually off-limits historic mausoleums. Attend a virtual talk from the Film Society of Lincoln Center as it concludes the 58th New York Film Festival. A roundtable discusses artists and athletes as potential revolutionary agents of change in the context of the festival’s revivals Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris and Muhammad Ali, the Greatest.

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3 NYC Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now – The New York Times

Henni Alftan’s distinctive artistic vision; Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and Ernest Mancoba’s pairings; and Matthew Porter’s pandemic-tinged photographs.

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20 Fun Things you can actually do in NYC right now

How to become a tourist in your own city.   (loving-newyork.com)