Tickets to Celebrity-Filled Fashion Week Show Go for $1,000 at Auction

Last week, a pair of tickets to a star-studded UWS fashion show was auctioned off to benefit the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, and the winner paid a pretty penny to be part of the action.  The show, called “The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection Celebrity Fashion Show” and taking place at Lincoln [...]

Upper West Side Openings and Closings

The uptown Lime Leaf Thai restaurant has closed down.  The restaurant, located on Broadway and 108th, closed permanently, while the location on 72nd between Broadway and Columbus still seems operational.  Thanks to My Upper West tipster Noah for the info.
Today’s opening news comes as some information about upcoming eateries comes out in Community Board 7’s [...]

Wednesday’s SciCafe: How Games Make Us Better

Come to the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West at 79th) for another interesting SciCafe.  The regular event offers a combination of social activity and science with a casual evening of cocktails emceed by experts on cutting-edge science topics.  This week’s SciCafe, “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They [...]

Restaurant Week Profile: Dovetail

It’s the second week of Winter 2011 Restaurant Week, the event that lets you try meals from some of the best and fanciest restaurants in town for a prix fixe price of $24.07 (lunch) and $35 (dinner).  To honor the occasion, we will profile a participating Upper West Side restaurant each day and its Restaurant [...]

Today on the Upper West Side: 1/31/2011

Click through to see some events in the neighborhood for Monday, January 31st, 2011…