Your Weekend Starts Now 12/2/10
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NY1's weekly segment "Your Weekend Starts Now" shows entertaining picks for great things to do this weekend all around the city. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.Gingerbread Display
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At Oceana restaurant, the traditional gingerbread house is being reimagined as edible architecture. Just steps from the holiday fervor of Rockefeller Center, pastry chef Jansen Chan has built this masterpiece lighthouse for the holidays. Oceana is located on 49th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The house is up thru early January.
Jose Feliciano In Concert
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This weekend, eight-time Grammy winner Jose Feliciano will perform a special holiday concert Saturday night at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx. Tickets are $30 to $45. The guitar legend will also do a special family concert at 2 p.m. Tickets: $25, children $10.
Robert Fripp Performs "Soundscapes"
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Also on guitar, Friday and Saturday at the World Financial Center Robert Fripp will perform his solo show Soundscapes. Fripp is best known as a founder of the British progressive rock band King Crimson. Showtimes are 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Both are free.
Dennis Wood for Smile Train
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The custom frame shop Galleria on Third is doing a benefit art show this weekend. Selling works by artist Dennis Wood for Smile Train which provides free surgery for chidden born with cleft lips and palates. The Galleria is located on Third Avenue and 35th Street. The show is now thru December 16th.
"Strangers and Other Angels"
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Christmas comes to life on the streets of NYC this weekend with "Strangers and Other Angels" in Morningside Heights. See the Christmas story come to life Saturday from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at Sakura Park at 122nd Street and Riverside Drive. It's put on by the Colombari Theater Company and it's free including refreshments.