Weekend Vibes: How To Celebrate Cuffing Season

To celebrate cuffing season, we suggest learning how to make pita bread at our upcoming class with Pomp & Circumstance on January 25th. After all, making bread requires patience, and that’s something you’ll want to test out in your new relationship to see if it can last through spring fever. If making pita sounds like a PITA and isn’t your idea of a good time, then change your idea of a good time. Or check out these events. And be sure to bring your new +1.

Photo: NYC Winter Jazz Fest/Facebook

Winter Jazz Fest, Lower Manhattan, Thursday through Sunday

Few musical genres elicit as much love across the board as jazz. Seriously, if your new partner says they don’t like jazz, they are talking out of their ass and is the exact person who needs to come visit this festival. Without jazz, there would be no Post Malone…okay regardless of how you feel about that you should still pay respects to jazz whenever you can. Some of the venues that will be hosting shows include Webster Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Bitter End, so basically pick the one you think has the cleanest bathroom and go from there. A full line up of available shows along with ticket packages can be purchased here.

The No Pants Subway Ride, An Undisclosed Subway, Sunday

You’re not a really a New Yorker unless you’ve participated in or actively avoided the No Pants Subway ride, a longstanding production of Improv Everywhere. And if you’re going to date someone, you may as well make sure your better half doesn’t skip leg day. This Sunday marks the 19th edition of the ultimate almost naked run, so clearly it’s something that has become a tradition that reminds everyone New Yorkers can still get weird when they want to. But not as weird as the Polar Bears who dive into the water on January 1st. That’s just plain crazy talk.

Bond with people over a mutual love of melted cheese, the greatest love of all. Photo: Raclette/Facebook

Switzerland via the East Village, Raclette, 511 E 12th Street, Manhattan, Sunday

We here at Leisurely headquarters, which kind of has a James Bond villain vibe but with less drama, like to keep tabs on the greater food community. That’s why we’re highlighting this meet up at Raclette in case you’re craving new friends AND food. Try melted cheeses from Switzerland along with potatoes and cured meats while discussing your love of different cuisines with total strangers, who then hopefully become friends and will follow you around wherever you go. Learn more here (and let us know if Leisurely should partner with Raclette to teach a class on how to melt giant wheels of cheese)