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On Monday starting at 5:30 p.m., the Upper West Side will be brimming with entertainment and food for the Winter's Eve festival, a celebration put on every year by the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District. The festival starts with a Christmas tree lighting and continues for hours with musical performances, ...

October 19, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 64 Degrees.

Were you waiting with bated breath for the protests that hit Wall Street to come to the Upper West Side? Well, wait no longer.

“Think,” in spite of some visually arresting features, is experienced mostly as didactic telling rather than as immersive showing, a public relations display that defines its own chest-beating in vague terms.

On Friday, the long wait for the Black Eyed Peas to play their big concert in Central Park will be over. The first date was rained out, but the weather looks clear (partly cloudy) for this Friday, so get ready to stomp around the Great Lawn.

The kids from Juilliard are back for the new school year, and that means that Upper West Siders have another venue to enjoy great free music and dance performances again. The music and dance school kicks off the new school year with a free jazz concert Monday at the Peter ...

A new cafe just opened in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, and it could change your feelings about movie theater food forever. Instead of the usual butter-drenched popcorn and soda

September 14, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer is surveying Upper West Siders about their thoughts on the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes. Fill out the survey here. Margaret Marrer, a 7th grade teacher from the Upper West Side, is posting to a blog ...

People in the industry will try to tell you that Fashion Week is not all that glamorous, but they’re lying: it is. Not for me necessarily, though

The 10th anniversary of September 11 is coming up on Sunday, and events are being held throughout the city in remembrance of the terrorist attacks. We've listed 10 events below that give New Yorkers different ways of commemorating the events, almost all of them in and around the Upper West ...

This week, there are lots of free events on the Upper West Side, including the Metropolitan Opera's outdoor screenings of some of its most popular operas in HD. The operas will show right in the middle of Lincoln Center. Also, this week marks the beginning of Human Chess in Riverside ...

For everyone sweating through the hot New York days and nights in late July and early August, Lincoln Center is putting on one hell of a festival over the next three weeks to cure your summertime blues. The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival kicks off tonight at 7:30 in ...

Lincoln Center finished up its 23rd Midsummer Night Swing season last night, and posted a bunch of pictures of the action. We put a few of our favorites below, along with some flickr shots, and you can check out the whole gallery here. The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival ...

July 13, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 87 Degrees. Notices: Lincoln Center has released its official iPhone app. It makes it easier to see what's on the schedule, buy tickets and, most importantly, find the restrooms. Did anyone get nice pictures of Manhattanhenge (where the setting sun aligns perfectly ...

New York City Opera's decision to leave Lincoln Center for its upcoming season was very controversial and union members are still fighting the move. But the opera just announced its schedule for next season, and there's at least one very cool idea in it. The opera company is planning to ...

June 29, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Someone left two pairs of Prada sandals, size 5, in a purple Bergdorf Goodman bag on an an M86 bus traveling from the Upper West Side to the Upper East Side. The person is offering a $50 award for ...

Thursday, May 19, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, high of 67 degrees. Oddities: Tipster GM tells us that last week she was walking near Tavern on the Green when she saw a commotion just North of the restaurant. She noticed people casually fleeing a raccoon that had been sitting under them ...