http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Key NYC Events SMS What's Up is smart text for the wired set. SMS Text Messages NYC Events, New York City Pick events. The right message, at the right time, for the right reason. en-us 2008-09-11T00:10:29-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php Anita's Underground Game Show! @ Under St. Marks A fully-interactive, drinking GAME SHOW, live on stage! This monthly production mixes up a classic television game show with a bit of burlesque and a lot of beer drinking. Hosted by New York City-based burlesque performer and producer, Anita Cookie, Anita's Underground Game Show is chock full of fun, drinking, pricing games and more! Contestants are randomly selected so each audience member has a chance to play and win! Prizes include a bunch of burlesque baked goods, decorative drinking glasses, pretty pasties, free booze, a horse-drawn carriage ride in Central Park, or even tickets to another show! Always accompanied by her live band, "The Kindergarteners" , the dazzling drunk will be joined every month by a different Drinking Buddy, a recognizable New York performer/artist/personality, who will perform a secret special talent. You'll have to come each month to see who it could be and what they can do! @Under St. Marks Location: 94 St. Marks Place (map) Starts: 10:30 Cost: $15... 14034@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-09-11T00:10:29-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php The US Open Live @ Rockefeller Center Fresh sod in the Plaza street and the oversized screen will give visitors to Rockefeller Center, and tennis lovers unable to attend the US Open, a venue to watch the world’s toughest tennis. The broadcast will continue each day until the conclusion of scheduled US Open programming. Come and check it out! @ Rockefeller Center Location: Rockafeller Park (Directions ) Starts: 7 Pm Cost: Free... 13990@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-09-04T00:10:28-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php The US Open Live @ Rockefeller Center Fresh sod in the Plaza street and the oversized screen will give visitors to Rockefeller Center, and tennis lovers unable to attend the US Open, a venue to watch the world’s toughest tennis. The broadcast will continue each day until the conclusion of scheduled US Open programming. Come and check it out! @ Rockefeller Center Location: Rockafeller Park (Directions ) Starts: 7 Pm Cost: Free... 13988@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-09-02T00:10:32-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php 16th Annual Tug Boat Race & Competition @ Pier 84 Would wants to gamble on some tug boat competitions? It would definitely add to this great labor day event! * 10 a.m. Parade of Tugboats starts at Pier 84 * 10:30 a.m. Race begins near W.79th Street & Hudson River * 11 a.m. to Noon - Nose to nose pushing contests and line toss competition * Noon to 1 p.m. - public line toss & knot tying * 1 p.m. Awards Should be interesting @Pier 84 Location: West 44th St. & Hudson River (map) Starts: 10 am Cost: Free... 13974@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-08-31T00:10:25-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php Bike To The Movie- The Shining @ Union Square to Brooklyn Square Park What better way to get to the screening with a view than riding your own bike there! So meet up with the Times Up crew at Union Square and make the trek across the bridge for the classic Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining. Sounds like an awesome night! @ Union Square South (map) Meet: 7 PM Cost: Free... 13957@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-08-28T00:10:27-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php Anita's Underground Game Show! @ Under St. Marks A fully-interactive, drinking GAME SHOW, live on stage! This monthly production mixes up a classic television game show with a bit of burlesque and a lot of beer drinking. Hosted by New York City-based burlesque performer and producer, Anita Cookie, Anita's Underground Game Show is chock full of fun, drinking, pricing games and more! Contestants are randomly selected so each audience member has a chance to play and win! Prizes include a bunch of burlesque baked goods, decorative drinking glasses, pretty pasties, free booze, a horse-drawn carriage ride in Central Park, or even tickets to another show! Always accompanied by her live band, "The Kindergarteners" , the dazzling drunk will be joined every month by a different Drinking Buddy, a recognizable New York performer/artist/personality, who will perform a secret special talent. You'll have to come each month to see who it could be and what they can do! @Under St. Marks Location: 94 St. Marks Place (map) Starts: 10:30 Cost: $15... 13880@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-08-14T00:10:32-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php Brooklyn's Strong Arm Competition @ Coney Island When do you get when you bring together over 150 men & women come to grips for Brooklyn's strongest arm? You get an epic face off beyond that sylvester stallone movie about arm wrestling! Be sure to check it out! @Coney Island Beach boardwalk Location: between 10th and 12th Streets in front of Astroland (map) Amusement Park Starts: 12:30 Pm Cost: Free... 13777@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-07-26T00:10:25-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php Music Trivia Tuesday w/ Mitch @ Soundfix Records Come and put your music trivia knowledge to the test tonight at Soundfix records! Battle other teams in your musical knowledge for bar tabs and many other great prizes. Should be a blast in a half! Some day I hope to venture there and conquer my opponents and rise to the victorious thrown of Soundfix music trivia champion. I feel you all should feel this way. @Soundfix Records Location: 110 Bedford Avenue (map) Starts: 8 PM Cost: Free... 13510@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-06-03T00:10:27-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php PROSPECT PARK MOONLIGHT RIDE @ Prospect Park What better way to celebrate it getting warm than a totally safe :: moonlight ride through Prospect Park. Hopefully it will be a beautiful night that isn't too cold. @Prospect Park Location: Grand Army Plaza, the northern entrance of Prospect Park where Flatbush Ave., Eastern Pkwy, Union St. and Prospect Park West intersect (map) Starts: 9 pm Cost: Free... 13466@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-05-10T00:10:23-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php GAME NIGHT! AT MOONIE AND DIANE''S PLAYGROUND! @ The Bowery Poetry Club Here is the ultimate game night on the Bowery! For only $3, you can win cash prizes, play games, eat popcorn and shake your booty all night long! I would say that is worth the money! So get your game on and your dance on and rock out! @ Bowery Poetry Club Location: 308 Bowery (map) Starts: 10 PM Cost: $3... 13407@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-05-04T00:10:26-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php PEACE RIDE @ Union Square Come and join in on this leisurely "peaceful" ride to some of downtown Manhattan's peace sites, including Point Thank You, Robert Wagner Park, The Labyrinth for Contemplation, Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere", Vietnam Vet Memorial and the site of the Mother AME Zion Church (first church in NYC built and led by Afro-Americans). @ Downtown Manhatten Location: Meet at Gandhi Statue, SW corner of Union Square (map) Starts: 12 PM Cost: Free... 13269@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-04-13T00:10:25-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php PROSPECT PARK MOONLIGHT RIDE @ Prospect Park What better way to celebrate it getting warm than a totally safe :: moonlight ride through Prospect Park. Hopefully it will be a beautiful night that isn't too cold. @Prospect Park Location: Grand Army Plaza, the northern entrance of Prospect Park where Flatbush Ave., Eastern Pkwy, Union St. and Prospect Park West intersect (map) Starts: 9 pm Cost: Free... 13268@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-04-12T00:10:26-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php RIVERSIDE RIDE @ COLUMBUS CIRCLE Spring has sprung (kind of) meaning it is time for extremely pleasant riding conditions when the sun goes down! Tonights ride is along the river and it should be peaceful as hell being that our are in the biggest city in the US of A. So bring out your bike and take the ride of a lifetime! @Columbus Circle Location: SW corner of Central Park (map) Starts: 10 PM Cost: Free... 13172@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-03-29T00:10:30-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_games_sports_activity.php What's My Line? Live In NYC!@ Lucky Cheng's Come and check out this classic game show re-imagined with a East Village twist with your host Jonny Porkpie and the panel featuring Miss Clams Casino, Bastard Keith, Garth Wingfield, Neil O'Fortune and special guest blogger Lindsay Robertson. Watch as special celebrity guests don blindfolds and try to guess the contestants claim to fame. Should be exciting! @Lucky Cheng's Location: 24 1st Ave (map) Starts:8 PM Cost: $5... 11730@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Games, Sports, Activity 2008-03-20T00:10:27-05:00 http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/archives/cat_today.php Noon to 8 p.m. Eighty-foot long ski slope debuts at Central Park's Winter Jam 2008; Naumburg Bandshell, Mid-Park, at 72nd Street.... 12906@http://whatsupnyc.com/blog/ Today 2008-02-09T00:56:58-05:00