UWS “Medicaid Millionaire” Sentenced to Fraud

Nineteen people were busted late last year by Manhattan prosecutors for cheating Medicaid, leading to a series of sentencing for the despicable crime.  The latest sentencing comes for artist Steven Colucci, a painter who lives on West 109th Street and allegedly collected $16,112 in Medicaid benefits.  Colucci pled guilty to fraud in December for lying [...]

Symphony Space’s Dance Season Begins Tomorrow

Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th) is proud to be a multi-disciplinary performing arts center, and as part of their wide variety of interesting events, the venue is putting on what is sure to be a great season of dance.  Come to the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space tomorrow to see the kick-off of [...]

Tomorrow: Art Exhibition Opening at GINA Gallery

GINA (the Gallery of International Naïve Art, 82nd and Columbus) is presenting the works of Ben Hotchkiss, and Thursday marks the opening of the exhibition.  Hotchkiss is a self-taught artist with imagery that has been compared to cellular structures and psychological states of being.  Come to the gallery to get a glimpse of his work [...]

Special Event at St. John the Divine: Thank You Tibet!

This Thursday, experience a very special event at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (112th and Amsterdam).  “Thank You Tibet!” will be a celebration of Tibetan culture with a slew of special guests.  Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi join Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, John Giorno, Michael Imperioli, Bobby McFerrin, Robert [...]

Fundraising Art Auction at 25CPW

Come to 25CPW, the Upper West Side’s new contemporary art gallery located on the ground floor of 25 Central Park West (at 62nd), for a fabulous fundraiser.  On March 10th, the gallery will be showing and auctioning off Afghan paintings.  Proceeds will go to the Afghanistan Women Council, which aids women and children inside Afghanistan, [...]

The Sixties at Symphony Space

Come to Symphony Space on Wednesday for a fantastic special event.  “The Sixties” will take a trip to that swinging decade of questioning, experimentation, and change as actors Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), Michael O’Keefe (Caddyshack, Michael Clayton), Selected Shorts Host Isaiah Sheffer,  and Def Jam Poetry artist Staceyann Chin perform stories, poetry and [...]

Thursday: Special Preview of Oscar-Nominated Foreign Film

Come to the Walter Reade Theater (65th between Broadway and Amsterdam, upper level) on Thursday to see the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s special preview screening of A Prophet.  This epic crime drama from France follows an illiterate French-Arab prison inmate’s six-year odyssey from new kid on the cell block to underworld kingpin. The film [...]

Previews of Upcoming Lincoln Center Theater Play Begin Thursday

The Lincoln Center Theater is presenting a great new play, with previews starting tomorrow.  When the Rain Stops Falling is a compelling family saga taking the audience back and forth in time from one generation to another from 1959 to 2039 in Australia.  With four generations of fathers and sons, their mothers, lovers and wives, [...]

New York Historical Society Offers Free Admission for a Week

The New York Historical Society (Central Park West at 76th) has been given a grant that allows the museum to offer free admission for more than a week!  The $12 admission is waived in honor of Presidents’ Day, and starts on February 13th.  On the Presidents’ Day holiday (February 15th), the museum will celebrate the [...]

Indie Night at Film Society of Lincoln Center

Come to the Walter Reade Theater (65th between Broadway and Amsterdam, upper level) this week for a special event of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.  As part of Independents Night, a showcase of NYC premieres of documentaries, the FSLC is screening Kimberly Reed’s Prodigal Sons for one night only.  The award-winning documentary is a [...]