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This is it. Upon watching a screening of the film Cat People (theme song and music by David Bowie & Giorgio Mooder), faster than you can say toxoplasma gondii, it came to me: CATS! The time has never been more ripe for a cat-themed dance party. It could be the fact that I am the proud parent of three lovely felines. Or it could just be my unabashed devotion to the Cure’s "Lovecats." But I think we’d all enjoy prancing around for a few hours to the world’s slinkiest cat-themed dance songs, doing our best alley cat impressions. Here’s what we’ve got planned:

Quirky 60′s garage rock is re-imagined from the nose of a surfboard, making High Waisted feel like a psychedelic lullaby. NYC surf rockers with pop sensibilities and an affliction for rock and roll. They’ve been called NME Magazine’s "buzz band to watch," declared "the ultimate party band" by GQ and have received praise from Consequence of Sound, Noisey, and Paste. With their sophomore album underway, the band released an interactive 360 degree music video for their track "Hey Hey" in collaboration with Refinery29, performed a live session at Nylon Magazine, as well as a stripped down set for Sofar Sounds. Their debut album, "On Ludlow" was recorded at Dreamland Studio in Woodstock, NY, with renowned producer Bryan Pugh. The group spent most of 2016 touring the country, playing both Riot Fest in Chicago and Denver as well as supporting such acts as Har Mar Superstar, Diarrhea Planet, La Sera, Jessica Hernandez, and La Luz. Dye also performs with The Hold Steady. High Waisted were declared one of the buzziest bands at SXSW 2017 and currently are on tour supporting a split 7" (Little Dickman Records) featuring The Coax. Every show is a party when High Waisted’s lo-fi fuzzy bass, reverb drenched guitars and radiant harmonies mesh to create the melodies of your wave-crashed daydreams.

New Permanent Exhibit: Titanosaur – The American Museum of Natural History Through January 19, 2020 – Upper West Side

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This annual BK Block Party series takes place each month on Albee Square through September. Once a month, bring the kids for live music, face painting, balloon animals and more. May 20 Live music with Jah Pan, Steel drum and calypso musicians from Trinidad and Tobago play island classics and Caribbean-influenced interpretations of today’s hit songs. June 17 Live music with Shira & Friends – an interactive extravaganza combining original tunes with classics for a sing-along, dance-along good time. July 15 Live music with Rolie Polie Guacamole,Rolie Polie Guacamole – parent-friendly music that dresses up original tunes and classic covers. August 19 Live performance with Burdetsky Family Circus, Burdetsky Family Circus –an amazing family circus featuring contortionists and dancing dog acts. September 16 Live music with Astrograss, getting kids and parents dancing and singing together with their unique blend of bluegrass, old-time, and folk music.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY’S DREAM UP FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF "A CRACK UP AT THE RACE RIOTS," ADAPTED BY TONEY BROWN Madness redefined through conflicting race war. WHERE AND WHEN: August 27 to September 14, 2017. Theater for the New City (Johnson Theater), 155 First Avenue. Presented by Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) as part of Dream Up Festival 2017. August 27 at 8:00 PM, August 30 at 9:00 PM, August 31 at 6:30 PM, September 3 at 8:00 PM, September 6 at 9:00 PM, September 11 at 9:00 PM, September 14 at 9:00 PM, September 16 at 5:00 PM. Tickets $12. Box Office: (212) 254-1109, www.dreamupfestival.org Running Time: 65 minutes. Critics are invited to all performances. NEW YORK, August 7 — Toney Brown has fashioned an experimental play based on "A Crack Up at the Race Riots" by Harmony Korine. The play meditates on the Artaudian notion of psychology and suicide, focusing on how the term "mad" is thrust upon those who dare to speak unbearable truths to society. Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival will present the piece August 27 to September 16, directed by Brown. Korine’s novel "A Crack Up at the Race Riots" is comprised of prints, photographs, drawings, news clippings, a poem, diagrams and clip art to tell a story of a race war in Florida. It has been described as a book of fictional set pieces, capturing the fragmented moments of a life observed through the demented lens of media, TV, and teen obsession. A highly experimental montage of scenes that seem both real and surreal, it is a bizarre collection of jokes, half-remembered scenes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas and suicide notes. Korine has described it as his attempt "to write the Great American Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel." The text of the play is taken directly from the novel and is brought to life on stage with a cast of seven performers. The play starts off with Tupac Shakur reading a letter to his mother followed by several vignettes, occasionally with Shakur interrupting with another letter to a different recipient. Each vignette contains a story of a unique individual in the community, ranging from a nineteen-year-old crank dealer discussing literature with his ex-high school librarian to a son recounting the abusive relationship his mother and father had over the years. At the end of the performers kill themselves. Harmony Korine is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, writer and artist who became the youngest credited screenwriter at age 19 for his screenplay "Kids (1995)." He has written and directed the award winning films "Gummo" (1997), "Julien Donkey-Boy" (1999), "Mister Lonely" (2007), "Trash Humpers" (2009) and "Spring Breakers" (2012). He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Rachel and their daughter Lefty. He gave the rights to Toney Brown over a phone conversation. Toney Brown is a creative artist residing in Astoria, Queens. He has worked on productions at Abrons Arts Center, HERE, Theater for the New City, The Brick and with Target Margin Theater and Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he was a recipient of the Rand Scholarship for Directing. Recently he has joined The Living Theater. The cast features Will Healy, Kevin Lynch, Veronica Sisson, Ryan Usher, Kristi Winkelman and Noel Anthony Martinez. Lighting Design is by David Levitt. The eighth annual Dream Up Festival (www.dreamupfestival.org) is being presented by Theater for the New City from August 27 to September 17. An ultimate new work festival, it is dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances. Audiences savor the excitement, awe, passion, challenge and intrigue of new plays from around the country and around the world. The festival does not seek out traditional scripts that are presented in a traditional way. It selects works that push new ideas to the forefront, challenge audience expectations and make us question our understanding of how art illuminates the world around us. A unique and varied selection of productions will again be offered that draw upon a variety of performance specialties including singing, clowning, poetry, street music, magic and movement. The Festival’s founders, Crystal Field and Michael Scott-Price, feel this is especially needed in our present time of declining donations to the arts, grants not being awarded due to market conditions, and arts funding cuts on almost every level across the country and abroad. # # #

St Luke’s Theater upholds a long-standing tradition of fostering exciting new theater with the gothic turn of Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil The Cinema Musical this Fall. Based on the imaginative novel by one half of Romanian American creative duo the Indiggo Twins Michaela Modorcea, the show smacks of Shakespeare and Dante in its existential scope. Starring both twins, the tale follows vampire heroine Michaela. Born as a vampire without memories or hope for the future, the languishing immortal pulls out her fangs and heads from Transylvania to New York to find love and herself. But following closely behind is her twin sister/clone Georgia, determined to bring her beloved sister back to the darkness…

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Who is Jonida Maliqi? Jonida Maliqi is a huge household name – providing your household is in Albania. As well as hosting the country’s version of Dancing with the Stars, Maliqi also served as a coach of The Voice of Albania in 2016.

At the 2017 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Coralie wasn’t the only one having fun. The audience cheered Coralie on with smiles on their faces as she glided across the slick ice in her Copacabana costume. She skated away with the Yvonne M. Dowlen Trophy for being the oldest competitor.

Just did a quick google & found that being female costs the health system 1/3rd more than male.Alemayehu and Warner, The Lifetime Distribution of healthcare costs HSY Jun 2004"Data SourcesClaims data on 3.75 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan members, and data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the Michigan Mortality Database, and Michigan nursing home patient counts."Principal FindingsPer capita lifetime expenditure is $316,600, a third higher for females ($361,200) than males ($268,700). Two-fifths of this difference owes to women’s longer life expectancy. Nearly one-third of lifetime expenditures is incurred during middle age, and nearly half during the senior years. For survivors to age 85, more than one-third of their lifetime expenditures will accrue in their remaining years.OR from the Center for retirement Research at Boston College "Does staying healthy reduce your lifetime health care costs?"The brief?s key findings are:Retirees in good health face higher lifetime health care costs than those in poor health.A typical healthy couple at age 65 can expect to spend $260,000 with a 5-percent risk of exceeding $570,000.A typical unhealthy couple can expect to spend $220,000 with a 5-percent risk of exceeding $465,000.Those in good health live longer, eventually become less healthy, and often need nursing home care.So the healthy who delay buying Medigap or long-term care insurance could face much higher premiums later. Read into these what you will….

Homepage image: "Mid90s" cast members Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia and Ryder McLaughlin. Photo: Tobin Yelland/Courtesy of A24