West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
With the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie gracing its stage since it opened in 1981, Blue Note is one of NYC's premier jazz…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
With the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie gracing its stage since it opened in 1981, Blue Note is one of NYC's premier jazz…
New York City
This tavern, and music and teaching space, at the fringes of Carroll Gardens and Red Hook is a fun, DIY kind of affair, where the beer's cold and you can…
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Chicago’s music insiders fawn over the Empty Bottle, the city’s scruffy, go-to club for edgy indie rock, jazz and other beats that's been a west-side…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
This legendary, intimate comedy club beneath the Olive Tree cafe in the West Village features a cast of talented regulars (Colin Quinn, Judah Friedlander,…
West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
This art-house cinema in NYU land has a solidly curated lineup of new indies, cult classics and foreign films. Catch shorts, documentaries, mini festivals…
Upper West Side & Central Park
Founded in 1937, this traveling company presents a classic selection of ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House every spring (generally in May), with a…
Chicago
It hardly matters what's playing here; the Music Box itself is worth the visit. The restored theater dates from 1929 and looks like a Moorish palace, with…
Wisconsin
The Green Bay Packers play 10 home games (including two pre-season games) at Lambeau Field on Sundays from September through December. Games are…
Philadelphia
One of the finest music conservatories in the world, the Curtis only accepts exceptionally gifted students into its tuition-free programs. If you attend…
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
This exhilarating company presents a mix of quirky, funny, touching shows written by up-and-coming playwrights – magic, music and good old-fashioned…
Upper West Side & Central Park
Every summer the Public Theater heads here to present its fabulous free productions of Shakespeare in the Park, which founder Joseph Papp began back in…
Connecticut
Contemporary-media works find an outlet at this consistently offbeat and adventurous gallery/cinema/performance space/lounge. Sip wine or beer as you…
Boston
Boston’s skillful ballet troupe performs modern and classic works at the Opera House. The program varies every year, but at Christmas they always put on a…
Burlington
This brick-walled, exuberantly frescoed former timber warehouse in Burlington's South End is the venue for myriad events, from live music to storytelling…
Burlington
This cool and quirky place doubles – well, OK, triples – as a lamp shop (witness the amazing, densely packed lighting collection suspended from the walls…
Chicago
Riccardo Muti leads the CSO, one of America’s best symphonies, known for its fervent subscribers and an untouchable brass section. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is the…
South End & Chinatown
This radical theater company strives to be at the 'intersection of art and social change' by offering provocative performances and fostering socially…
Washington, DC
The nation’s foremost Shakespeare company presents masterful works by the Bard, as well as plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill and…
South Beach
Housed in the New World Center – a funky explosion of cubist lines and geometric curves, fresh white against the blue Miami sky – the acclaimed New World…
Cincinnati
Nippert Stadium is home to FC Cincinnati, the city’s new Major League Soccer team. It’s known for its rabid fans cloaked in orange and blue (the team…
Milwaukee
This landmark downtown theatre hosts concerts from artists as diverse as Joe Jackson to Ani DiFranco. The theatre's history dates back to 1895, when it…
West Virginia
One of those great mountain stores where bluegrass culture and hipster day-trippers from the urban South and Northeast mash up into a stomping good time…
West Virginia
Not quite bluegrass. Not quite Scottish. Let's just call it music you might hear on Outlander from a band of traveling minstrels. But whatever the tune is…
New Haven
Yale's Woolsey Hall is home to most performances by this orchestra, whose season runs from October through April. Outside of season, crowds flock to the…
Atlanta
This divey Virginia-Highland blues bar behind a neon alligator is one of the nation's top spots for the world's best down-and-dirty blues. Taj Mahal,…
New York City
The Peter Jay Sharp Building, a 1908 beaux-arts masterpiece that is the main building of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, houses this 2000-seat venue for…
SoHo & Chinatown
This nonprofit cinema shows an astounding array of independent films, revivals and career retrospectives from greats such as Orson Welles. Showings often…
Union Square, Flatiron District & Gramercy
Aglow in red neon, this bustling comedy club serves up top-notch laughs at dirt-cheap prices. The string of nightly acts ranges from stand-up and improv…
Chicago
Set in an old Schlitz brewery building, Schubas presents twangy acoustic artists, plus indie rock acts on their way up (like the National and Janelle…
Chicago
Hubbard Street is the preeminent dance company in the city, with a well-deserved international reputation to match. The group is known for energetic and…
Mississippi
Smoot's Grocery, we like how you sing the blues. Housed in a well-worn former grocery close to the Mississippi, this beer hall loves live music. It's…
South Beach
The Colony was built in 1935 and was the main cinema in upper South Beach before it fell into disrepair in the mid-20th century. It was renovated and…
Chicago
One of the city's newer clubs, Winter's provides an elegant little room for straight-ahead jazz. National and local performers let loose for an audience…
Chicago
Midsize Thalia hosts a cool-cat slate of rock, alt-country, jazz and metal concerts in an ornate 1892 hall patterned after Prague's opera house. A…
New Hampshire
Enjoy a beer with your popcorn at this welcoming indie movie theater not far from the State House. A seven-year community project, the state-of-the-art…
Michigan
If you happen to arrive on a fall Saturday and wonder why 110,000 people – almost the size of Ann Arbor's entire population – are crowding into the…
Chicago
CCT is dedicated exclusively to putting on quality productions for young audiences. Many plays are adapted from children's books, and many use puppets or…
New Haven
Dubbed 'Birthplace of the Nation's Greatest Hits,' the Shubert has, since 1914, been hosting ballet and Broadway musicals on their trial runs before…
Boston
This lavish theater has been restored to its 1928 glory, complete with mural-painted ceiling, gilded molding and plush velvet curtains. The glitzy venue…
Chicago
To boogie with a multiethnic mash-up of locals, head to the Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park for SummerDance. Bands play a wide range of toe-stepping…
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