5pm-4am at Parkway Lounge, $10

GO Magazine Nightlife Award-winning DJ Stacy spins you onto the dance floor. Our sexy go-go dancer “Fire” keeping you hot all night long.

4pm-4am at Cubby Hole, No cover

Enjoy $5 Cosmos & Appletinis with a mixed crowd in this super-chill lesbian hangout.

10pm-4am at Nowhere Bar, No cover

Trans people and their allies gather Thursday nights at Nowhere Bar with $5 well cocktails and two-for-one draft beers all night. Come earlier for a two-for-one happy hour until 9pm. Transgender night has finally arrived at this East Village spot!

all times at World Financial Center Winter Garden, Not specified

Through January 9, 100,000 lights will flood the Winter Garden as a series of performers will make their way into your Holiday experience. The New York African Chorus Ensemble to perform today. Check the website for the full schedule.

9pm at Henrietta Hudson, $5

DJ Culi brings back reggaeton and reggae, from the classics to today’s fresh beats, peppered with salsa, meringue & deep house. The sidewalk café and both bars will be open, with resident DJs Kim Dazy and Lisa G tending bar for Hudson’s mixed-age clientele, plus beer pong and flip cup in the... (continued)

8pm-1am at Ginger's, No Cover

Join Ginger’s for rockin’ Karaoke fun with hot hostess Anna. Be seen and heard at Brooklyn’s own G-spot. Cocktail and beer specials served all night by Ginger’s sexy and talented staff.

Ongoing at The Gay and Lesbian Center, Not specified

The Center celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a reception and program honoring volunteers and members who have supported our programs and services, and unveiling the exhibit that will run through Jan.

times vary at The Big Top in Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, from $28

The spectacular Big Apple Circus is back in town for its 31st season with Play On! It’s a circus symphony of astonishing acts and side-splitting laughter, propelled by a jazzy mix of classical, soul and rock & roll from the best circus band in the land! Through Jan 18.

8pm at Studio 54 on Broadway, from $37

Set in Chicago in the late 1930s, this is the story of Joey Evans, a brash, scheming song and dance man with dreams of owning his own nightclub, who abandons his wholesome girlfriend to charm a rich, married older woman in the hope that she’ll set him up in business. Through Feb 15.

9pm-4am at Stone Wall Bar, No cover

Every Thursday Danielle presents Anything Goes, with two-for-one drink specials from 9–11pm. Wet t-shirt contest, tequila body shots on top of the pool table and $3 jell-o shots served all night by beautiful ladies armed with whipped cream. DJ Stacy spins and Danielle has plenty of surprises up her... (continued)

Ongoing at Brooklyn Museum, Not specified

Through May 31, the Fertile Goddess and the ancient female figurines that inspired Judy Chicago’s place setting at The Dinner Party are the focus of this third Herstory gallery exhibition. Although such figurines vary in appearance throughout time and geographical regions, all are characterized by... (continued)

7pm at Moomia Lounge, No cover

Hosted by Mari, every Thursday night this new Brooklyn party brings you the sounds of DJ Stacy and other special guests. Hookah and free bottles of champagne from 8–9pm.

11pm at Sugarland, Not Specified - Drink Specials!

Join DJs Tikka Masala, Lesbian Van Halen, and Cha Cha for a sexy grind at Sugarland every Thursday, along with go-gos and celesbian hostesses.

Ongoing at Tabla Rasa Gallery, Free

An exhibition of sculpture, painting and works on paper, each work complete unto itself. Entitled in the Latin phrase for "By ourselves alone," the artworks that were selected emphasize a unity of concept and process. Through Jan 31.

Times vary at Details online, details on line

A four-day international celebration of the arts with a wide range of activities, from interviews between Times journalists and celebrated guests from the arts, film, music, media and politics, to special offers at cultural institutions around the world.

Ongoing at National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Free

Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian is one part of a two-city career retrospective devoted to the late Fritz Scholder, an expressionist painter and sculptor who reimagined the depiction of Native Americans. Through Aug 16, 2009.

Ongoing at The Museum of Modern Art, Not specified

Through Jan 31, a series which celebrates Douglas Fairbanks's work. He was a thirty-five-year-old veteran of live theater when he made his first films in 1915.

Times vary at Film Forum, Not specified

Through Jan 20, a movie about the inhabitants of a Mexican Mennonite enclave, who speak archaic German and wear traditional attire, nonetheless grapple with a universal dilemma – infidelity.

8pm at The Dorothy Strelsin Theater, Not specified

Chekhov's original story, of how we wish for what we won't get, how we haggled over an unknown future, and of how time ruins us all. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll see something very new and yet very familiar. Through Jan 21.

Ongoing at The Jewish Museum, $12

The Jewish Museum’s biennial exhibition is commissioning a site-specific sound and light installation by the artist Julianne Swartz entitled The Sound of Light. Inspired by the Museum’s collection and interior architecture, select displays and spaces in the Museum will come alive with sounds that... (continued)

9pm-4am at The Stonewall Inn, No cover

Drink and dance where Pride began at this gay and lesbian party. Music by DJ Stacy. 2-4-1 drinks 11pm–1am. Once known as more of a gay men’s hangout, Stonewall has re-emerged as a prime destination for ladies and their friends.

Times vary at Radio City Music Hall, Prices vary

A unique Christmas show the whole family can enjoy starring the world famous Rockettes and many other performances. Through Dec 30.

10pm at BUM BUM BAR, No cover

Come and enjoy this night of love and fantasy at our friendly neighborhood spot! We supply the excellent cocktails, DJs and atmosphere, all we need is you, Queens represent! Karaoke with “La Dominadora.” 7pm.

not specified at Brooklyn Museum, $8

Burning Down the House, drawn solely from the Museum’s collections, features over thirty works by artists that have challenged the narrow roles imposed on women by society, especially within the canons of art history. Through Feb 8.

not specified at The Lifework Studio Gallery, not specified

Now through Nov 22, view an exhibition of original freehand drawings and paintings by visual artist and social activist Adrienne Leban. Limited edition prints are also available.

Times vary at Brooklyn Museum, Not specified

A highly personal documentary that explores being Black in America through portraits and excerpts from a series of filmed interviews by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Through March 29.

Times vary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, prices vary

Now through Feb 16, this exhibition will explore the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance, ranging from exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry to marriage portraits and paintings.

Ongoing at The Jewish Museum, $12

Now through March 22, The Jewish Museum tells the little-known and tumultuous story of this vanguard artistic flowering, which thrived on the stage for thirty years before being brutally extinguished during the Stalinist era.

Not specified at The Jewish Museum, Not specified

Hiller spent three years researching every German street with the prefix "Juden" (Jews). The street signs she found mark the absence of Jewish communities that lived in Germany prior to Nazi rule. Through Feb 1.

Not specified at The Ukrainian Museum, Not specified

David Burliuk is considered the father of Russian and Ukrainian Futurism and a major contributor to modernism in the early decades of the 20th century. View his paintings, drawings, photographs, memorabilia, through March 1.

Times vary at Whitney Museum of American Art, $15

Now through Jan 25, on display is the most comprehensive U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, fifty years of image making by this influential American photographer.

Not specified at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, prices vary

Some two dozen splendid examples from the Museum’s little-known collection of choral manuscript illumination will be exhibited, now through April 12. With jewel-like color and gold, these precious images spring from the unique, artful marriage of painting, text, and music.

not specified at Whitney Museum of American Art, Not Specified

Focusing on Calder's extraordinarily important "Paris Years,"and, on his wire sculptures of this formative period. Through Feb 15.

not specified at Japan Society, not specified

The exhibition is the first to explore the emergence of a new genre in contemporary art, one uniquely rooted in Japanese culture: the use of centuries-old methods of basketry to create startlingly original sculptural forms. Now through January 11.

not specified at Metropolitan Art Museum, $20

In honor of Philippe de Montebello—soon to retire after 31 years as the Metropolitan Museum’s eighth and longest-serving director—this exhibition proposed and conceived by the curators brings together, for the first time, well over 250 masterpieces acquired by the Metropolitan during the director’s... (continued)

not specified at Metropolitan Museum of Art, $20

In this selection of work by Raqib Shaw (b. 1974), the Indian-born, London-based artist responds to the Holbein in England exhibition held in 2006–7 at Tate Britain. This is Shaw’s first solo show at a New York museum, featuring new paintings and works on paper that have never before been on view.... (continued)

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