City Paper’s Winter Guide provides reasons to leave the house
Dippy the Dinosaur doesn’t let the cold keep him from enjoying winter; he just puts a scarf on. And so too should you add another layer or two and get out of the house. In the following pages, we list plenty of things to see and do, from plays and puppies to concerts and crazy…
Winter Art
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events The Frick family enjoyed purchasing art. At the Frick Art & Historical Center, visitors can peruse The Frick Collects: From Rubens to Monet, an exhibit that traces the acquisition of various objects that today comprise the…
Winter Music
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Who better than Mogwai to score something as dramatic as Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, the 2015 documentary exploring the horrors and strange beauty of the Atomic Age? The iconic, (mostly) instrumental outfit performs this…
Winter Stage
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Stage and film actor Michael Phillip Edwards plays multiple roles in I Am Not Sam, including that of Sam, an elderly black man, in this touring one-man show about identity and race. Other characters include Sam’s…
Winter Literary
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events The journalist and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates won accolades including a National Book Award for his 2015 memoir Between the World and Me. Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential…
Winter Outdoors
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Sure, it’s sunny in Miami, but that town can’t host an annual Ice Fest like Ligonier. Lots of frosty family fun, including the popular ice-carving demonstrations that turn giant blocks of frozen water into art. Jan.…
Winter Kids
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events Get healthier the fun (and footballish) way with NFL Play 60, a special one-day indoor training camp, held at the Heinz History Center. Get physical with a 40-yard dash, agility drills and footwork challenges. Feel like…
Other Fun Winter Events
Winter Guide Intro Winter Art Winter Music Winter Stage Winter Literary Winter Outdoors Winter Kids Other Fun Winter Events You know who also needs cheering up in the gloomy winter months? Cat, dogs and even bunnies at animal shelters. Take a dog for a walk; cuddle a cat; foster an animal; or do outreach to…
