NYC Life: Celebrate, Renewal, Tickets Giveaway, Music and More
Today on International Women’s Day, we celebrate women everywhere. Central Park offers tours honoring influential women’s legacies. We’re excited to announce new speakers and exhibitors for our Renewal Summit. The Museum of Sex features Carole Feuerman’s empowering exhibit, exploring themes of sexuality and female “interiority.” Celia Berk, one of our favorite cabaret performers, has a new EP and show. Our roving photographer explores old Las Vegas, and we’re giving away tickets to a star-studded benefit.
A Day or Purpose, Promise, and Possibilities
Join us for a captivating day of celebrating women and exploring possibilities with presentations and discussions on groundbreaking topics such as artificial intelligence, your health from head to toe, travel and expatriate0living, our Woman of Purpose award, and special guests. Attendees will also enjoy moments of relaxation with stress-relief techniques, a musical performance, exhibitors with unique products and services and more! GET THE DETAILS.
March 11. Win Tickets to this One Night Star-Studded Benefit
Vape! The Grease Parody** is a funny take on the classic musical Grease, celebrating its memorable moments and characters. It humorously addresses the current youth culture, showing that some things never really change. There’s a special one-night-only benefit concert on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 PM, before its 2025 NYC run. The net proceeds will support the Entertainment Community Fund. Discounted tickets are available, and you can enter to win tickets too! GET THE DETAILS.
Central Park Celebrates Historic Women
Honor Women’s History Month by following in the footsteps of trailblazing women who have made a lasting impact on Central Park and beyond on one of their enlightening walking tours. Discover the Black model who inspired artists during the Gilded Age, the sculptor who created a monumental statue as a young mother, and the queer artist who honored her ill lover with an iconic park commission. Take a tour and discover their remarkable stories through the sites that commemorate their contributions.
- Historic Women of Central Park Walking Tour: This free, hour-long tour is led by the Urban Park Rangers and celebrates Women’s History Month. It covers the stories of trailblazing women like Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- Larger Than Life: Women of Central Park Tour: This 90-minute tour honors women who have made a lasting impact on Central Park and beyond. It includes stories of women who have inspired and created monuments, sculptures, and other landmarks in the park.
- Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument: This self-guided walk highlights the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument, which commemorates Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Get the details of Central Park Tours.
Celia Berk Has a New EP And a New Show
Truly one of our favorite cabaret vocalists, Celia Berk’s unique recording project Four Seasons of Song launched on February 28 with Spring, the first of 4 EPs celebrating the seasons. Spring features gorgeous arrangements & orchestrations by Bálint Varga ). Berk is accompanied by Seoyeon Im on violin, Mario Gotoh on viola, Laura Metcalf on cello and Kevin Kuhn on guitar. You can listen to Spring on Spotify. And she’ll be performing at 54 Below on May 4.
Watch Celia and Bálint Varga at work in the studio.
Celia Berk in “For The Record” plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on May 4 at 7pm. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.org (http://www.54below.org/).
Carole Feurerman Featured at the Museum of Sex
The exhibition “Long Island Girl: The Superrealism of Carole Feuerman” is currently on display at the Museum of Sex in New York City. This exhibition features a series of early sculptures by Carole Feuerman, a renowned hyperrealist sculptor. Her works from the 1970s and ’80s explore themes of sexuality and female interiority, celebrating the human experience with an emphasis on agency and empowerment.
Feuerman’s sculptures are known for their astonishingly lifelike effects, achieved through the manipulation of industrial materials like vinyl and painted resins. The exhibition includes more than 30 sculptures and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Feuerman’s artistic process. Get the details.
Roving in the Old Vegas
Our roving photographer Nicole Freezer Rubens writes:
I visited Las Vegas for the first time in the seventies, returning in the nineties, in 2013 and again just now. The metamorphosis has been exponential!
12 years ago, Vegas offered a mix of the old and the new. Today to my disappointment, I only saw new, new, new… That is until I decided to walk north on the Strip, past the heart of today’s modern hotels and casinos towards the downtown. To my great surprise, the old-school vibe I was searching for and so fondly recalled, unfolded at my feet like a movie set. This is where I found countless motels and wedding chapels to match my interest in Las Vegas of yore.
Las Vegas known for its hospitality and nightlife became the Entertainment Capital of the World. It was established in 1905 and today attracts 41 million tourists a year. After gambling was legalized in 1931 casinos blossomed drawing bold name entertainers and earning the other apt nickname, Sin City.
The marriage laws in the state of Nevada are generally less stringent than in other states which is why couples famously choose Las Vegas as their wedding destination.
Heading north from the congested, completely updated and gentrified, shiny Strip to the downtown area, many of the old parts of the city remain in quiet use. Several beautiful and artful neon signs for establishments that have long closed and been demolished, still stand tall are impeccably preserved by the Neon Museum. This walk down memory lane, is my favorite part of a city that has changed more than most. I am grateful that so much vintage signage and architecture has become an “outdoor museum” that can still flash and glow in the desert night, masking all the changes to this unique US city of fun.
~Nicole Freezer Rubens is the author of “The Long Pause and the Short Breath”
The tomato behind The Three Tomatoes.
Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. She is the author of the novel, "Can You See Us Now?" and co-author of a humorous books of quips, "Martini Wisdom." Because she's lived a long time, her full bio won't fit here. If you want the "blah, blah, blah", read more. www.thethreetomatoes.com/about-the-head-tomato
