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NYC Living This Week

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Enjoy some found time on Leap Day and find a week of ways to experience some New York City culture.NYC apartment living, east midtown events

East Midtown
Panel Discussion: The Real Mad Men and the Golden Age of Advertising in NYC
Join Andrew Cracknell, author of The Real Mad Men, and other ad experts for their revelations on life on Madison Avenue in the 1950s and 1960s—and how that world was even stranger than its fictional counterpart. Panelists also include popular culture writer Barbara Lippert and ad exec Amil Gargano.
Thursday, March 1, 6:30PM-8PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, near 35th Street
$10 (Call or reserve online.)

Chelsea
New York City Vegetarian Food Festival
Vegetarian food companies, restaurants, and health and wellness vendors meet to celebrate vegetarian food and cruelty-free living at this two-day festival. Enjoy food from NYC’s top vegetarian restaurants, live entertainment and more. A portion of proceeds will be donated to For the Animals Sanctuary.
Saturday March 3 - Sunday March 4; 10AM-5PM
The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street
Tickets: $5, See event site for more information.

Hell’s Kitchen/West Midtown
Warhol: Confections & Confessions, Photographs from The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
View 53 of Warhol's vintage gelatin silver prints that have never been seen outside The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh at this new exhibition. It presents Warhol as fine art photographer rather than pop art prankster (via ArtCat).
Opening: Friday, March 2, 6-9PM; Exhibition: March 3-May 5
(See gallery site for hours.)
Affirmation Gallery, 523 West 37th Street