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Good afternoon, this is W42ST Lifestyle Editor Sarah Beling with \u201cMake Way For The Weekend\u201d \u2014 your curated guide to the best of New York events in one convenient newsletter!<\/p>\n

Well I know that every single one of you spent your week wondering whether I made it back to try the New Absolute Bagels \u2014 and rather than keep you on tenterhooks, I\u2019ll just tell you that the answer is yes. Yes, there was a line around the block. Yes, a man walking by shouted \u201cIT\u2019S JUST BREAD\u201d at us as he passed by. Yes, it was worth it. Get yourself a BEC SPK and have a great time.<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful weekend <3<\/p>\n

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\u2026when you can only think as far ahead as Monday!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfad tin hat time
Maybe it\u2019s because I read the news or because I recently \u201cwatched\u201d (stood in the doorway turned around during the gory bits and asked my husband what happened in) Bugonia, but it seems like conspiracy theorists are a REAL hot topic rn \ud83d\udc40 \u2014 enter Bug<\/a>, a play by Tracy Letts starring Steppenwolf repertory player Namir Smallwood and HBO\u2019s only repertory player Carrie Coon as two people drawn more and more into paranoia, now through February 22. Let\u2019s see it!!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf7f love that dirty water?\u00a0
Interested in the long and winding history of the Gowanus Canal? Check out a documentary about New York\u2019s most notorious Superfund site<\/a> at the Museum of the City of New York, which is screening Gowanus Current<\/a>, a movie shot over the course of a decade about \u201cpeople, pollution, planning and real estate on the most toxic 1.8 miles of water in America\u201d \u2014 January 17.<\/p>\n

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\ud83e\uddd8 let\u2019s get physical
Enjoy a day of free classes and performances at Paul Taylor Dance Center for Education\u2019s\u00a0Winter Wellness Day<\/a> January 18. You can participate in open ballet, Pilates, Taylor technique and functional fitness classes as well as take in showings from the studio\u2019s students and hear wellness talks from authors Kara Tatelbaum and Jenn Trepeck! \u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfad for better or worse
I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of good buzz about Off Broadway\u2019s The Disappear<\/a>, a new show about \u201cfame, ambition, marriage and reinvention in a smoldering comedy about how keeping it together sometimes means letting it all go\u201d starring actors\u2019-actors Miriam Silverman, Hamish Linklater, Dylan Baker, Madeline Brewer, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Anna Mirodin now through February 22 \u2014 take your SO??? Lol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udf7f celebrating jewish cinema
Stay warm and spend your month cozy inside with other cinephiles \u2014 the New York Jewish Film Festival<\/a> is back at Lincoln Center now through January 28 with a wide range of features, shorts and documentaries from around the world exploring Jewish history, culture and experiences!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfd2 they score
OK while apparently there\u2019s a Heated Rivalry night<\/a> (complete with supercuts of the viral enemies-to-lovers couple and themed beverages) at Webster Hall on January 16 that is already sold out \ud83d\ude2d, consider this a PSA to buy your tickets early for January 31 or February 6 and live out your gay hockey fantasy!!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f reduce reuse
Sustainable gallerinas! Head to Fountain House Gallery for their latest exhibit incorporating recycled, upcycled and discarded materials, Re\/Invention<\/a> now through March 4 with an opening reception January 16 from 5-8pm!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2026what\u2019s happening before and just after I hit your inbox next!<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc8e shine bright like a\u00a0
There\u2019s something about the dark depths of winter that makes me want to distract myself with shiny things \u2014 and having previously attended the NYC Jewelry and Object Show<\/a> (next up January 23-25), I can tell you that walking through booths and booths of incredible hand-crafted vintage and new necklaces, earrings, bracelets and brooches (I hear they\u2019re coming back!!!) is very much a window-shopping therapy session (and you can, of course, buy something lol).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa4 honoring mlk jr
Head to BAM for the 40th Annual Tribute to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr<\/a> January 19 with remarks from Reverend Dr William J Barber II;\u00a0 performances by Ronald K Brown\/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company and The Fire Ensemble as well as a screening of Just Mercy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udfb6 wall of sound
While organ music primarily reminds me of The Phantom of the Opera, the many related TikTok mashups<\/a> prove that it\u2019s kind of a VIBE\u00a0 \u2014 and if you want to jam out to some sick organ hits, why not make your way to the Cathedral of St John the Divine to hear pieces from\u00a0The Juilliard Organ Department<\/a> January 20!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcda greed is bad, actually
I often think about which New York decade I wish I had experienced (current top pick, the 1970s at Studio 54), but I\u2019m almost equally as fascinated by the shoulder-pad-Big-Business <\/a>energy of the 1980s. That said, not everything was as cheery as a Bette Midler\/Lily Tomlin comedy\u00a0 (see: American Psycho or Wall Street lol) \u2014 and you can dive into in a discussion of it all in Jonathan Mahler\u2019s new book, The Gods of New York: Power, Culture, and Chaos in the 1980s<\/a> January 21 at the Museum of the City of New York, where Mahler and filmmaker Ric Burns will cover the Greed is Good decade.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa4 mandy and kathryn
Broadway, film and TV actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, fellow actor and writer Kathryn Grody make their way to 92NY for a conversation with Faith Salie about their new podcast, Don\u2019t Listen To Us<\/a>, getting into \u201cits madcap chaos and hard-won wisdom, stories from the couple\u2019s 40+ years of marriage, why we need family to get by in these profoundly fakakta times and much more\u201d \u2014 January 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2026for when you need to secure those hot tickets before they sell out!!!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfad weekly logline appreciation alert
\u201cSt Petersburg, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed, McDonald\u2019s has risen, and Evgeny, a young man at a loss, stumbles into a job working surveillance with his old friend Dmitri. Their target: Katya, a former pop singer with questionable allegiances and a mysterious past. As their lives riotously intertwine, Evgeny finds himself falling in love and losing his bearings, all while grappling with the taste of freedom (and fast food) along the way\u201d in Signature Theatre\u2019s latest, Mother Russia<\/a> by Lauren Yee, playing February 3-March 15. I\u2019m intrigued!!!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfad speaking of superfund sites<\/a>
If you want a follow-up to your Gowanus Canal journey, why not buy your tickets for\u00a0Gooey\u2019s Toxic Aquatic Adventure<\/a> beginning February 4 to see \u201ca new puppet musical about an orphaned sorta mermaid living in Newtown Creek in her search for family amidst the backdrop of a near apocalyptic Brooklyn bought by entertainment and tech giant G\u2019wond\u2019rLand Inc\u201d in a mashup between Sweet Charity, The Sopranos, The Wiz, Pee Wee\u2019s Playhouse and 80\u2019s body horror. Wild!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udd25 Hot tip\u00a0
(Melting) hot tip \u2014 forget your troubles and come on get happy at the National Cheese Lover\u2019s Celebration Weekend<\/a> at Murray\u2019s Cheese, where you can enjoy tastings, temporary tattoos and enter for the chance to win a wheel of cheese (imagine what a conversation piece that would be for your apartment!!!) on January 17. Sounds like a Gouda time (sorry sorry I had to).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd75\ufe0f special end-of-the-newsletter song lyric reveal
This week\u2019s subject-line lyric is from the Talking Heads\u2019 Burning Down the House and seems appropriate for our upcoming winter chill and the general state of things \u2014 stay warm, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n

\u26a0\ufe0f Omg I forgot to tell you
There\u2019s a free Knicks Alumni Fest<\/a> January 17\u00a0
Simple Brewing Company is hosting a trivia night<\/a> at Cafe 424 tonight
Combat your SAD with the Winter Wonderland Bazaar<\/a> January 18\u00a0
Spend your weekend with Dame Julie Andrews at a screening of Mary Poppins<\/a> January 17-18
You can catch Paquita<\/a> at NYCB January 20-February 1<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for now! Call me beep me if you want to reach me! (sarah@w42st.com)<\/p>\n

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