Culture Vulture News

Culture Vulture Returns!

Now Nesting Comfortably at Townsend Harris High School

Assignment is due 1/03/06.

Classes are ecstatic.

Students must complete a Culture Vulture Odyssey.  It has THREE components.  Go to one of the following types of cultural experiences.  Enjoy and get proof of attendance.  Know specific details so that you will be able to write about this experience in class.  You may visit a museum or an art gallery.  You may see a play or a ballet.  You may attend a concert although a “popular” (Read my mind!) music concert is NOT acceptable.  Movies are NOT acceptable.

      The second component of your odyssey requires you to enjoy some food.  If  possible, visit an enticing vendor of something edible.  Try something new but you are free to bring a sandwich from home.

      The final piece of your odyssey is to see a sight.  Look at the building which is the museum.  Stand in Rockefeller Center.  Look up at the Chrysler Building.  Cross Fifth Avenue.  Proclaim, “I am ___’s son/daughter_____....Men hold me formidable for ______.” 

 

So Many Possibilities!

Theater...Broadway...Off Broadway….Off-Off Broadway...Consult the New York Times Friday Weekend Section and the Entertainment Section of Newsday...Bargain priced tickets are available at the TKTS booths.  Go to http://www.tdf.org/ for  information.  TWO-FERS are available in the THHS library.

Use these websites to find out about bargain priced theater tickets and current exhibitions at museums.

                 Play by Play— http://www.playbyplayonline.org/

             NewYork Newsday—http://www.nynewsday.com/  Scroll down to Entertainment; select Museums

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All Time Favorites and Some New Ones

See Line at the 13th Street Theater or the

Armor Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or

Tiffany Glass at the Queens Museum or special effects at

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria.

Call the Jean Cocteau Theater on the Bowery.

Investigate the Pearl Street Theater on St. Marks Place.

The best Egyptian mummies live at the Brooklyn Museum.

BUT

Be sure to plan your day.  Call to check times and prices.  Ask for directions.  Write them down on the back of this sheet.  Take this sheet.

 

 

Visit the High Five Website for information about $5 tickets for students—http://www.high5tix.org/

 

Consider Visiting An Art Gallery.

 

Browse through the New York Times, Time Out, or New York Magazine for ideas.  Half the fun is finding the adventure.  Look for free events. 

 

Have fun!

Fondly,

The Culture Vulture

 

 

 

Happy Holidays, 2005