The food is fresh and delicious! Find a "U-Pick" spot to gather some fresh strawberries, blueberries, or other fruit and then Organizations like these are always looking for volunteers. This will be one of the most rewarding things you could do this weekend and can possibly make a difference on your resume!
With today's busy pace, it seems harder to get to know our neighbors. Invite them over for dinner or dessert and make an effort to know more about them. Hit the sandy shores for a little rest and relaxation. Just don't forget to protect your skin! There are many benefits your local library has to offer besides just books. You can rent movies, page through magazines, or surf the net. Invite friends over for a movie marathon featuring all the classics you remember from when you were growing up.
Or, host a money movie marathon! My wife and I did this last weekend. I love the new look and feel of our living room now! Rearranging furniture doesn't cost anything and adds a new flair to your place. I know many parents who would love for someone to offer a chance to take a break from the busyness of life.
Many single parents hardly ever get a chance to get out and unwind. Go through your closets and declutter. Find items you can donate to your local Goodwill or another thrift shop. Go on a star-gazing adventure. Grab a blanket and head to a park to lay and watch the stars. Here's a meteor shower calendar to help. Bike to a location you've never been to before.
Or, bring your bike to a town or city you're unfamiliar with and create your own bike tour. Just be safe on your bike! See also: Bicycle Safety in the City.
There are plenty of free online classes you could take to improve your skills in a certain area. Try your hand at investment classes if that interests you! This one will take some thought but will be well worth it. Here's a great resource from Michael Hyatt for helping you think through your life plan. Related to the life plan is setting three new goals you'd like to accomplish in the new six to twelve months It's not always wise to give money to a homeless person, but you can buy food.
Listen to their stories, and if possible, direct them to an organization that can help. Many elderly folks have great tales to tell. Listen to their stories and see what you can learn from them. You can make a garden box or even an herb garden if you don't have much room. See also: Small Space Garden Ideas. Take your spouse or loved one to a craft store and each purchase a few crafts for a creative project. Or start a pine cone project! Invite a few friends over and challenge each other with some creative games based on the hit TV show.
When is the last time you sat down and wrote a letter? There's something magical and nostalgic about the written word on paper. Send a letter to someone you haven't talked to in a while and tell them how much you love them. Disclaimer: The links and mentions on this site may be affiliate links. But they do not affect the actual opinions and recommendations of the authors. Wise Bread is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.
I love the scavenger hunt ideas, especially the one where all you have to do is take photos. And I was already planning to bake a pie this weekend! I love the scavenger hunt idea also, and did that a few weeks ago. My church has a new youth director and she organized the hunt as a team-building activity for the kids and adult volunteers like me.
The best part was the look on the adult's faces including mine I'm sure when the director told us about taking photos of The photos were very funny btw. I am bored at home all the times so I'm going to actually do something fun like this next week!!!! Our cheapish romantic thing to do is take a really nice bottle of champangne to the beach and order a pizza and watch the sun set.
I actually like the beach and ice cream idea. Put that together with a chair to sit on the beach and that sounds like a good weekend. I am like always bored and it is getting cold out. Can you put up things to do at home when it is cold? These things may seem "boring" now, but in a couple of years you will look back and think 'that was pretty amazing'.
I'm 22 and used to do these "boring" things in my teens. This annual cans-for-a-cause competition pits architecture teams against each other to create larger-than-life Pop Art—installations using more than , cans of nonperishable food, all in the name of ending hunger every can is donated to City Harvest. Admission is free, but do your part by bringing the suggested donation of one canned good per person.
Although most of Hilma af Klint's work is held by the artist's official foundation and isn't currently on view anywhere, New Yorkers will get to browse through a rare set of her watercolors through December 18 at the David Zwirner gallery on 69th Street. Dubbed "Tree of Knowledge," the exhibit focuses on the artist's series of works, which were recently discovered by the art world.
If the success of the Guggenheim's exhibition "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future" is of any indication, we expect many people to flock to the Upper East Side gallery in the next few months. Fair warning: appointments are required to see the work in person, so make sure to schedule a visit right here. No show in town offers as intimate an experience as this interactive experience in Bushwick that has been created to be performed for just five audience members at a time. It is staged at Gymnopedie, a multiroom space that has been created by restoring 5, square feet of the 19th-century basement at Bushwick United Methodist Church.
Take our baseball teams, please. I have half-a-dozen Resy notifications set at any given time and only two have come through in the past several months. As a result, snagging a hot table always feels like a win. Sommelier Yannick Benjamin previously of Le Cirque and Jean-Georges and business partner George Gallego considered these details as wheelchair users themselves. Chef Oscar Lorenzzi the Waverly Inn , Marseille authored the Peruvian-influenced menu that includes some early highlights If you're still reluctant to dine indoors this winter, you might want to consider heading to Nowadays in Bushwick, where the signature large backyard has just been winterized.
And, yes, their usual yurts and heated tables are back for the season as well. Diner by Izakaya, the food operator at the destination, has just unveiled its latest menu, which sounds like it will really hit the spot in the colder months. Inspired by "famiresu" restaurants in Japan that would be family-friendly eateries , the new menu is anchored by two main ramen offerings tonkotsu, made with pork, and tantan, made with soy, sesame and miso broth with tempe.
Other food standouts include an izakaya tempeh sandwich with shredded cabbage, vegan mayo and vegan miso; a wagyu burger with lettuce, tomato, pickles and Japanese BBQ sauce; and a fried chicken zangi sandwich.
Drinks wise, warm beverages take center stage. From hot toddies to spiked hot cocoa, the libations take the cold into account but "regular" cocktails, beer and wine are also available. We'll be honest: we're not always the biggest fans of Fifth. Don't get us wrong: the views from up there are beautiful and the drinks are delicious, but the rooftop gets pretty crowded during the year. Yet, once winter rolls around, we can't help but feel the pull of the midtown destination, when the staff sets up the famous heated igloos that we could spend all season in.
The glowing cocoons, which opened to the public yesterday, will stay in place through April 15 and, as usual, will be able to accommodate up to ten guests at once.
Yes, you'll still find warm red snuggies for use inside each one. Although reservations are suggested—especially if heading there with a group of six or more—the igloos are also accessible by walk-ins pending availability.
You can plan your visit right here. If you're eager to embrace the raging '20s we were promised and not the pandemic '20s we were given , an enormous new nightclub has your back.
Nebula will bring a multi-level 11,square-foot club to W. With a capacity for guests, Nebula will be the largest club to open in Manhattan in years. A 5,square-foot dance floor offers plenty of space to show off your moves, plus a mezzanine level and lower level with three private club rooms dedicated to private groups complete with their own dedicated bathrooms lets you customize your going out experience.
Think: O ver-the-top karaoke nights, a seated dinner for twenty or a small dance party with your closest friends. A new audio tour by the Brooklyn Public Library seeks to explore the lives of the characters and authors that call the borough home in fiction and in real life.
You can also expect to stop at important public libraries the likes of Washington Irving and Clinton Hill, which, according to an official press release, "played an important role in the lives of the featured author[s]. The p erformances are also available to be livestreamed from home. Lower East Side darling Meow Parlour, the famous cat cafe where New Yorkers get to play with adoptable cats while sipping coffee and munching on sweets, has finally reopened following an month-long, pandemic-fueled closure.
Now in "soft relaunch mode," the space at 46 Hester Street is welcoming guests with reservations on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am through 7pm. Visitors will find about 3, new and used books inside the unusual store at any given moment. They run the gamut in terms of genre—from children's to classics, best sellers and more is actually the point of the whole endeavor.
Currently, the bus works by appointment. When hired, DeVaughn drives to schools, temples and shelters and allows visitors to shop inside for free. Other times, she'll head to events like the Bronx Night Market and Riverdale Y Sunday Market free of charge and sell her books to those in attendance. Per her estimates, she has already sold or given out about 7, books this calendar year.
The Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park is back with holiday festivities and shopping and food at its holiday shops. Its 17,square-foot ice-skating rink that's free to use if you bring your own skates is always the highlight, but its Winter Village in all its holiday spirit is a close second. This year more than kiosks will be there to peruse—all at one of the best NYC parks.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a tiara in this new biomusical about Diana, Princess of Wales, whose marriage to Prince Charles came undone in a sea of tabloid ugliness.
The Shed's galleries are being transformed daily with multi-sensory installations that immerse the viewer to inspire reconnection to nature.
Presented by The Shed and Superblue, "Fragile Future" by Amsterdam-based artists DRIFT takes its audiences on a journey through multiple installations that encourage exploring the universal search for origin, destination, and connection, as well as the power to be found in relinquishing control when embracing change.
Set to a soundtrack by ANOHNI, the journey begins with the shimmering lights of "Coded Coincidence" that follow the flight pattern that elm seeds take each spring so that viewers can see the "necessity and beauty of coincidence and its essential role in our natural processes and evolution. Another installation, "Fragile Future," brings nature and technology together to evoke a utopian vision of the future of our planet, "wherein two seemingly opposite evolutions have made a pact to survive.
As the final installation, "Drifters" uses a series of projected films to represent a portal to another world with a group of concrete blocks that float through environments in NYC and other locations and pass through lush nature and dystopian urban settings in search for their origin and destination. Making an arthouse film based on an icon as deeply and emotionally enshrined in the public imagination as Princess Diana takes ingenuity.
These psychological troubles mark her as a liability in an environment where the important thing is to never make a fuss. A portrait of Henry VIII in the dining room serves as a reminder of who — and what — is deemed worthy of worship in this world. Stewart is extraordinary at conjuring up a rarefied form of neurotic energy. A member of the palace staff a gaunt Timothy Spall is deputised to coldly monitor her every move, interfering to exert control with oppressive regularity.
Curtains are sewn shut, dresses labelled per event, nighttime walks are reported. Welcome warmth comes thanks to Sally Hawkins as a dresser and confidante, and from young William and Harry Jack Nielen and Freddie Spry — both wonderful at showing both the discipline of little princes and the sweetness of young boys who are worried about their mummy. There is a delightful archness to the characterisation of the other royals, each rendered in telling vignettes and given lines of burnished gold to utter.
Showing how the dream of being a rich and beautiful princess curdled into a nightmare might sound like a hard sell, but Spencer pulls it off in heightened, claustrophobic and truly decadent fashion.
Yet it is Stewart who pulls off a dervish dance that moves from mania to stillness, from studied composure to emotional abandon, all while keeping control of that voice. In UK cinemas Nov 5. The destination, which calls out to the famous Victorian-era Cabaret de l'Enfer in Paris, is filled with touches of the underworld. Expect skulls, deep red booths and ogre-like statues to adorn the dark space, located directly above Amor y Amargo. A modest storage room at Bushwick's Tiny Cupboard has been transformed into a psychedelic comedy room dedicated to booking female, BIPOC and queer comics.
The Tiny Cupboard was the perfect place to open The Mushroom not only because it offers that much-needed intimate experience but because it is giving comedians from the BIPOC and queer communities a space to perform where they are not in the minority.
Alamo Drafthouse, the cinema known for serving restaurant-quality food and drinks during its screenings, has opened its second New York location in Manhattan. The theater chain is known for its luxury reclining seats with built-in tables and cupholders. It's like being in an elite private screening room, but anyone can buy a ticket. Movie buffs at Alamo's Lower Manhattan location will be treated to 4K digital projection and 7.
The opening screenings include current blockbusters like No Time to Die , and Marvel's Eternals as well as classics like 's original King Kong. First things first. Yes, the sandworms are awesome.
These subterranean nightmares that lurk beneath the surface of the vast desert planet of Arakkis are just one element of this big, thinky blockbuster to seriously exceed expectations.
Read more of our review here. There's a brand-new dumpling destination downtown, and it's over a year in the making. Mackerel Dumplings made with Spanish mackerel, pork, chive and dried shellfish are a menu standout. To embrace the diversity of Tsingtao's culinary culture, Ma also added dumpling flavors like o rganic chicken dumplings with wood ear and corn, plus z ucchini and cucumber dumplings with eggs and vermicelli.
Todd Robbins Play Dead is a sideshow master who combines technical expertise with humor, historical knowledge and good old-fashioned showmanship. As of October 11, Hutong offers Flaming Peking Duck three nights a week Monday through Wednesday , which is a dining experience like no other. It's roasted for 40 minutes before being set on fire with Chinese rose wine and rum, emitting a heavenly scent that wafts through the dining room as the flames rise from the pan right at your table. The c hef delicately carves the duck tableside through fire to release mouthwatering, aromatic flavours with every bite.
The duck is then served with traditional handmade steamed pancakes, and is uniquely paired with shredded papaya, sweet cantaloupe, alongside traditional cucumber and spring onions. Dopl, a technology company that specializes in 3-D technology, printing, and development, is popping up at Chelsea Market to make 3D miniature figures of visitors who come in and take a full-body scan.
Coming in a range of sizes from four to 14 inches, Dopls can be made for everyone including pets. Walk-ins are welcome or reservations can be made. Get a rare glimpse of one of the major art forms of the Hispanic World from to —polychrome sculpture. Among the works on view, visitors will see a monumental relief of the Resurrection attributed to Gil de Siloe, 16th-century reliquary busts by Juan de Juni and "St.
Acisclus" by Pedro de Mena. A section of gilded figures will showcase sculptures from Latin America characterized by an impressive range of scale and emotion, including a 16th-century relief of Santiago Matamoros St.
James the moorslayer from Mexico and the "Virgin of Quito" or "St. The zingy Broadway musical Six celebrates, in boisterous fashion, the union of English dynastic history and modern pop music. On a mock concert stage, backed by an all-female band, the six wives of the 16th-century monarch Henry VIII air their grievances in song, and most of them have plenty to complain about: two were beheaded, two were divorced, one died soon after childbirth. That may be for the best, because Six is not a show that bears too much thinking about.
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss wrote it when they were still students at Cambridge University, and it has the feel of a very entertaining senior showcase. The new look, designed by the returning Milky Way Studio , is intended to evoke the changing flora of the Italian countryside right around this time of year.
The Rubin Museum is offering a unique exhibit that delves into the power of difficult emotions and how to turn them into positive ones—something many of us would benefit from these days. How this is done is through four quadrants across the floor, based on the Sarvavid Vairochana Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist mandala that is used as a visualization tool to help achieve enlightenment.
Each quadrant represents an emotion and has a playful activity to navigate it, including a "gong orchestra," a "breathing alcove" and a "scent library. Giant origami-inspired sculptures now decorate Broadway, bringing a child-like whimsy to the Garment District. The installation, entitled " Hacer: Transformations," features seven massive paper-like animals: two dark turquoise coyotes, two medium turquoise rabbits, a magenta elephant, a yellow dog and a green bear cub.
It's located on the public plazas of Broadway Boulevard in the Garment District between 36th and 39th Streets and will be there through November Photoville is back in its 10th year and the second to bring photography to every borough of New York City. Musicians from Carnegie Hall will serenade the audience with lullabies.
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The offers that appear on this site are from companies from which TheSimpleDollar. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. View our full advertiser disclosure to learn more. Our goal with these weekends was to discover and try new things that we might have overlooked if we simply allowed ourselves to spend money. Challenge yourself to a money-free weekend this weekend. Every weekend has a few have-to-dos, but you want these to take the minimum amount of time possible, Vanderkam explains.
Create a small window for chores and errands, and then banish them from your mind the rest of the time. Trunk agrees. Go out with friends and family, or get involved in the local community.
This is especially important for those cooped up in an office all week. Kurow knows an attorney who uses her weekends to garden and do mosaics and tile work to satisfy her creative side.
Artwork for her is fulfilling in a way that feeds her soul and her need to connect with her spiritual side. Bridge lessons and groups can also sharpen the mind and often create relationships among highly competitive smart professionals, Cohen says.
Theatre, opera and sporting events can also enrich one's spirit, he adds. Wherever they go and whatever they do, they manage to connect with new people.
Egan says truly successful people make time on weekends to appreciate what they have and reflect on their happiness and accomplishments. As Rascoff said, "weekends are a great chance to reflect and be more introspective about bigger issues.
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