Events in Lexington KY
Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States. Known as the “Horse Capital of the World,” it is home to a combined statistical area population of 760,528 people.
There are many things going on nightly and on weekends for singles, couples, families and children. However, it is often difficult to find something special.
So we found these 54 websites that regularly publish a calendar of events. Using Google Custom Search we created an algorithm that should confine your search from only these sites. Use multiple keywords in your search (arts and crafts for families with young children), and include an exact or general date (October 31 or this weekend).
https://www.meetup.com/
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ky–lexington/events–this-weekend/
http://www.kentuckymonthly.com/eventssearch
https://www.wkyt.com/community/calendar/?/
https://www.downtownlex.com/events/
http://calendar.kentucky.com/
https://www.kentucky.com/entertainment/
https://lexington.eventful.com/events/this-weekend
https://www.visitlex.com/things-to-do/calendar-of-events/
https://www.yelp.com/events/lexington-thursday-night-live-5
https://www.kentuckyonehealth.org/classes–events-4651
https://lexingtoncommunityradio.org/category/events/
http://www.lctonstage.org/special-events/
https://www.topsinlex.com/calendar.php
https://www.lexingtonky.gov/calendar/events
https://www.lex18.com/community/calendar-of-events#/40505-lexington/all/today
https://www.lexingtonoperahouse.com/events
http://www.lexingtoncenter.com/events
https://10times.com/lexington-us
https://www.lexpublib.org/events/upcomingevents
https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/lexington/blog/2017/top-picks-lexington-events-october/
https://www.lexingtonky.gov/lexington-senior-center
https://lexingtonmarket.com/events/
https://hamburg-pavilion.com/calendar
https://hopcat.com/events/lexington
https://lexington.score.org/content/take-workshop-208
https://kyhorsepark.com/events/calendar/
https://smileypete.com/search/event/tadoo/#page=1
https://infinite.industries/
https://www.meetup.com/
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ky–lexington/science-and-tech–events/
http://www.lexingtoncenter.com/
https://www.commercelexington.com/events.html
https://www.awesomeinc.org/
https://www.rupparena.com/events/all
https://kentuckytsa.org/
https://www.alltech.com/
https://www.lanereport.com/
https://events.govtech.com/kentucky-digital-government-summit.html
https://lexington.eventful.com/events/categories/technology
http://www.transy.edu
https://www.tabky.org/events/
https://www.ket.org/events/
https://lexfun4kids.com/local-events/
https://hulafrog.com/lexington-ky
http://explorium.com/
http://www.lctonstage.org/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g39588-Activities-zft11306-Lexington_Kentucky.html
https://www.lexpublib.org/kids
https://www.lexingtonfamily.com/things-to-do/
https://allaboutkidslclexington.com/
https://lasclex.org/
http://arboretum.ca.uky.edu/gardens/childrens
https://creativemornings.com/cities/lex

Every place has unique success factors, but no other city in America is quite like New York City.
There are about 8.6 million people in the 5 boroughs, each borough larger than most American cities; the smallest — Staten Island at 479,458 — is bigger than Kansas City #35 or Miami #44 (data).
If you are new to the City, here are some tips.
- Find and do the thousands of Free things. Parks, libraries, free Friday Museum night, live performances, lectures at the library or colleges, walking tours, street fairs, etc. By doing the free stuff you save money while experiencing “common” activities that you may never need to do twice (unless your friends and family come to town). List.
- Save money. Per above, do the free things and find the places for great and cheap. Fresh seafood and groceries in Chinatown. Meats at Western Beef ($8/lb filet mignons), Spice shops in Little India (28th/Lex), used Designer clothing at Housing Works, fresh $1 bagel shops everywhere, St. Marks area for dive bars and tattoos, and the list goes on for destination areas with quality, inexpensive goods and services.
Avoid paying full price. TKTS for half price Broadway tickets, Club Free Time for free off Broadway tickets ($19/annual subscription), Groupon, Goldstar, Yelp, Stubhub and other discount sites. With a tiny bit of searching you can save a lot of money.
- Avoid Friday and Saturday dinner or events in favor of weekdays for splurging on expensive things. Locals like Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday so you get better service and quality; tourist and outsiders come in on the weekends and make a mess of things. Cheaper theater and sports tickets are available mid-week.
- Network like crazy. Make new friends with others in your hobby, interest, profession, beliefs and age group. If you are young/20-ish, many of the people you will meet are from outside NYC and are hungry to meet others as well. If you have school age children, get active in the PTA, sport teams and performance classes.
- Work really hard. Regardless of age, but particularly if you are young, you should be working insane amounts of hours to outshine your peers in your job. High performance means high rewards in every NYC company and industry. I went from $15K to $50K in 3 years when I was starting out.
- Be a kid and don’t let the little annoyance get you down. The subway delays, constant noise, stinky smells, dog poop, traffic jams, oblivious tourists, rude people — ad infinitum — are in your face 24/7. Get used to it and “Love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
- Pay attention and learn. Learn Spanish and Yiddish saying and turns of phrase; “Bodega grocery market”; “Bagel with a schmear, please”. Learn shortcuts — even street go east, odd west — and about every 9th street, they go both ways (14,23,34,42, 57, 72). Avenues run North (uptown) to South (downtown) and switch from numbers to names; no local will ever call 6th Ave. the Avenue of the Americas. Download the MTA bus and subway apps.
- Be nice and help others. Very quickly you will see people that are perplexed and confused, generally tourist, Seniors, and homeless. Smile at them and they will either respond or not, then do what is right.
- Carve out personal rewards. Chocolate, truffles, ice cream, shoes, jewelry, music, theater, classes, cocktails, craft beer, sushi, whatever. NYC has everything and you should make a list of what to get when you deserve a reward.
Enjoy this? Here are a few other NYC focused articles I’ve written:
The Best Zoo in NYC. Forget the animals and watch the people.
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Officially, there are 6 Zoos and Aquariums in New York City; at least one in every borough:
- The Bronx Zoo, New York City’s main zoo in the Bronx, and houses over 4,000 animals representing more than 650 species.
- Central Park Zoo, in Manhattan, New York
- The Queens Zoo, located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, New York
- The Prospect Park Zoo is located in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
- The New York Aquarium located in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York
- The Staten Island Zoo, in Staten Island, New York City
- I consider the American Museum of Natural History to be a 7th zoo, albeit one featuring many extinct species like dinosaurs
But in all seriousness, the best zoo in NYC is Times Square. It’s free, open 24/7/365, and features people from everywhere on earth.
You’ll see an amazing cross section of people from around the country and around the world. Tall and short, stick thin and pleasantly fluffy, dressed to kill or make you sick, looking up (buildings) or looking down (poop), walking right (US) or walking left (UK) or walking center (Asian) or walking on the street (local in a hurry). For us locals, these signals tell us where you spawn.
This Times Square Zoo is HUGE. According to the Times Square Alliance, in 2017:
• More than 355,000 pedestrians enter the heart of Times Square each day. For scale, imagine that the entire population of Anaheim, California (pop. 352,497), or Honolulu, Hawaii (pop. 350,395), passed through this ONE square mile every day.
• And on the busiest days, Times Square has pedestrian counts as high as 425,000; imagine all of Minneapolis, Minnesota (pop. 422,331) in the Times Square mile.
• What’s more, Times Square stays busy late, with over 85,000 pedestrians entering between 7pm and 1am.
While this zoo has no flora (plants) to speak of, the fauna (people) are unmatched versus any other place in the world.
Normal out-of-town Americans run in packs and are oddly dressed – meaning not wearing black. Foreigners stand out, stop in the middle of people moving in a hurry, and take all kinds of pictures. Street performers and buskers hustle for your attention, sometimes an inch away from assaulting you. The lights and sounds are overwhelming.
Food is everywhere, you can see it and smell it from restaurants and street carts. You must try at least one dirty water dog with mustard and onions – yummy, tasty.
The visual overload is unique — the billboards, neon, blinky signs, and video surround you everywhere.
While anytime is a great time to visit the Times Square Zoo, I like dusk the best as the sun sets and the lights glow. Sit in Father Duffy Square on the TKTS bleachers or one of the many tables on Broadway. There are always tons of Police and Military so you’ll be safe.
This is not the animal zoo where you go to catch a peek of the lion, tiger or bear hiding in their cave. This is not a place to see rare animals behind glass and jostle with others to wait your turn.
This is the living zoo.
Soak in the city!
Welcome to the Big Apple. There are about 8.6 million people in the 5 boroughs, each borough larger than most American cities; the smallest – Staten Island at 479,458 – is bigger than Kansas City #35 or Miami #44 (data).
According to the New York City Department of Health, in 2017 there were 26,618 restaurants in the whole city.
What’s more, there are thousands of attractions, many of them free or low cost, some permanent and others temporary. Some are easy to find and others require a bit of searching. Try the SirChear NYC page using your favorite keywords and the date; for example Jazz Concerts this Saturday October 31; free music this weekend; Greenwich Village walking tours.
On a budget or not, I suggest you check out StubHub.com and Goldstar.com for event tickets. Then hit up some discount deal sites including Groupon, Yipit, and TravelZoo. You can probably save some serious cash and see a show or game.
If you’re in NYC on a Friday and are ready to go, hit one of a dozen museums between 3pm-8pm for FREE! Click here for a great list. Also check out Upparent for some of the many places in NYC where kids eat free.
AGENDA: DAY 1
Start your Saturday morning with a NYC breakfast at a fancy place though I suggest you save the cash and find a bodega (deli) or street cart and grab a bialy, bagel or fresh Danish.
If you are in Manhattan, your first stop could be to the American Museum of Natural History on the upper Westside at 81st Street. You should start in the Rose Center for the space and science exhibits, then the top floor for the dinosaurs.
For lunch, walk east across Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and eat at one of their 3 restaurants; then see whatever is special plus the “must see” The Temple of Dendur, Chinese Buddhist Sculptures, and the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting.
After a couple hours, I would suggest moving on in one of three directions. The first, easiest is to hit one or more of the 8 other museums on the Museum Mile.
If you want to mix it up and go shopping, walk one block east (even number streets go east, odd west) to Madison Avenue then head south (opposite direction of car traffic). At 59th Street, go back to Fifth Avenue and see the Plaza Hotel, gawk at the Apple Store and visit the Central Park Zoo.
Continue down Fifth Avenue for Tiffany’s, Rockefeller Center Shops, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and the Empire State Building.
By now, you should be exhausted and ready for a nice meal. There are infinite options in cuisine, price, and experience across all price ranges. My only recommendation is to try something unique that you can’t get at home; almost every ethnic cuisine is available so go online and search, or hit a neighborhood like Koreatown (32nd St./5th), Chinatown (Mott/Canal), Little India (2nd Ave/6th St) or Little Italy (Mulberry/Canal) and let your nose pick.
Beware that cocktails, beer, and wine can get very expensive. Like food, prices range dramatically by venue from rooftop bars with $20 specialty cocktails to some of the greatest cheap dive bars with $5 PBRs and a whisky shot.
AGENDA: DAY 2
On day two in NYC, I would go downtown Manhattan and hit a bunch of places; many have long lines in the summer, so you should buy tickets in advance:
National September 11 memorial
Battery Park (free)
Staten Island Ferry (free)
Governors Island (Summer-only, free/fee for ferry)
Trinity Church (free)
Federal Hall (free)
National Museum of the American Indian (free)
All of these places are within a 20-minute walk of each other, and there are many other attractions along the way.
I would suggest having food or at least a quick drink at Fraunces Tavern, opened in 1762 and operating ever since.
If you have more time downtown, head north to:
If these downtown sights are not for you, or you have an extra day, I suggest you hop the subway to the other boroughs.
Queens:
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (World’s Fair) includes these 3 sites, all in nearby walking distance:
Queens Museum – see a scale model of NYC
Brooklyn:
Coney Island – includes NY Aquarium and Brooklyn Cyclones baseball
Bronx:
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Fordam University is also next door to the Zoo and Garden, plus Arthur Avenue for many Italian restaurants and pastry shops.
Staten Island:
Of course this list is not comprehensive. And there is way too much to do in a short time. And there are many places in between these locations that are interesting to browse. So have fun and just visit often.
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SirChear is dedicated to event search — those times and spaces that happen out there, in the real world, when we’re not sitting at our computers or in meetings.
The types and numbers of events in the world is truly vast — there are many millions of events, large and small, professional and amateur, paid and free, business and consumer. This fragmented, transitory world is nearly impossible to keep track of and to nail down. There are some wonderful events-oriented sites that do a good job of cataloging some small subset of the world’s events, but they’re not really good enough to cover all of the possible variations.
We decided that a simple search engine is a good start on getting to the events that matter to you, and the best of them is Google. Under a theory that less is more, we’ve intentionally narrowed our search to just events. This means that your search for “Billy Joel” or “Drones” or “Dental Implants” will not produce articles, reviews, Wikipedia entries, blog posts, Twitter feeds or anything else that you don’t want. It will produce only Events related to your search.
What is an Event?
It is a thing that happens in public — a conference, a trade show, a convention, a concert, a play, a movie, a game or match, a lecture, an exhibition, a parade, a show, a ceremony … That pretty much squares with what you thought it might be, right?
It’s also whatever a webmaster thinks is an event. We say this because we are especially targeting those web pages that the webmaster has described as an “Event” in a web taxonomy known as “Schema.org.” Here is what Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex think an event is comprised of:
How does SirChear Work?
SirChear uses Google’s Custom Search engine to target especially those sites that have Schema markup or other kinds of structured data. This means that it has a very strong bias toward showing those sites that have been declared events by their own webmasters. They worked hard to do this, so we’re confident that they really are events, and not media, products, companies or other kinds of things that exist on the web.
Notice that your search results include a couple of interesting little doo-dads. First, there is a set of tabs just before the search results. They look like this:
This allows you to focus in on results from specific sites. As we grow the SirChear site, new “refinements” like these will be included. This should hopefully help you zoom in on results that are best suited to your needs.
In addition, we allow for certain sorting options:
Honestly, we’re not sure how useful this is to you, so we will experiment with a variety of different approaches (which will undoubtedly make this short description out-of-date).
At SirChear, we’re not the only ones interested in specialized search and a tight focus on a topic area. Here are a few keepers off the usual beaten track.
Zanran is Google for data. It helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page.
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up, what’s now or what other people are feeding on. After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes, then bookmark and return later for updated results.
FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and Yahoo, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages.
Radio-Locator.com is a search engine for finding radio stations in the United States and around the world. They provide links to over 15,000 radio stations’ websites, and over 10,100 stations’ live Internet audio streams. A unique search algorithm finds all the radio stations that can be heard at a specific geographic location and takes into account each radio station’s transmitter power, antenna height, frequency, and antenna pattern, as well as the topography and geology of the surrounding area.
Shodan searches for devices that are connected to the Internet – aka, the Internet of Things — where they are located and who is using them. Systems including traffic lights, security cameras, home heating systems as well as control systems for water parks, gas stations, water plants, and power grids, can be found using Shodan.
https://www.shodan.io
Though a general search engine, we also wanted to shout out to WebCrawler, searching the Web since 1994.
https://www.webcrawler.com
And there are literally hundreds more at the Wikipedia page for search engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Semantic
Thanks for checking in with us at SirChear. We’re hear to help you find events, events like concerts, conferences, trade shows, and all kinds of performances.
Our Big Idea is a small one: be focused, cut our the junk results, and ensure you get just the best events. Using the same search term — free concert in NYC — Google offers you 81 million answers, and SirChear offers you 1 million. And yes we know even 1 million is way to many answers.
Give us a try, and be very specific as to the topic like jazz concert or ComicCon or Travel trade show, the date, time, and location.
Enjoy! And please spread the word to your friends.
So you’re coming to the big Apple. So many things to do, so little time.
After publishing a list of places to visit, I was asked: I’ve only got a little time so how do I see the city.
Start by searching from the SirChear NYC page using your favorite keywords and date: Jazz Concerts Saturday October 31; free music this weekend; Greenwich Village walking tours.
Next I suggest you check out StubHub and Goldstar for event tickets. Then hit up some discount deal sites including Amazon Local , Groupon, Yipit, and TravelZoo. You can probably save some serious cash and see a show.
If you arrive NYC and are ready to go before 4pm on Friday, go to one of a dozen museums because they are FREE. Yup, free after about 4pm on Fridays to kick off the weekend. Click here for a great list.
Important! Many museums are “donation, pay what you want” so do not be intimidated by the ticket master saying the entry price is $25. Places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to the NY Times, average $12 per person so pay what you can afford; spend your savings in their cafeteria or restaurant because all of them have good-to-great places on premise.
Start your Saturday morning with a NYC breakfast like bagel and lox, or fresh Danish from a street cart and make your way to . . .
My first stop would be to the American Museum of Natural History on the upper Westside. You should start in the Rose Center for the space and science exhibits, then the top floor for the dinosaurs.
For lunch, walk across Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and eat at one of the 3 restaurants; then see the The Temple of Dendur, Chinese Buddhist Sculptures, and the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting.
After a couple hours, I would suggest moving on in one of three directions. The first, easiest is to hit one or more of the 8 other museums on the Museum Mile.
If you want to mix it up and go shopping, walk one block east to Madison Avenue then head south (opposite direction of car traffic). At 59th Street, go back to Fifth Avenue and see the Plaza Hotel, visit the Central Park Zoo, and visit the Apple Store. Continue down Fifth Avenue to many more stores including Tiffany’s, Sax and Rockefeller Center Shops, plus Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.
By now, you should be exhausted and ready for a nice meal. There are infinite options in cuisine, price, and experience. My only recommendation is to try something unique that you can’t get at home; almost every ethnic cuisine is available so go online and search, or hit a neighborhood like K-town, Chinatown, Little India or Little Italy and let your nose pick.
Korea Town (K-town), mostly on 32nd Street between Fifth and Broadway, right next to the Empire State Building Observation tower. This street is open 24/7 so you can always visit no matter your time zone.
Chinatown is epic and really inexpensive with dinner for less than $5 per person. My favorite is Wo Hop on Mott Street though there are hundreds of options. Little Italy is nestled in the middle of Chinatown on Mulberry Street, north of Canal Street.
There are two little India locations, the most popular on 6th Street between Second and First Avenues in the Saint Marks neighborhood, which is worth the visit for Irish bars like McSorley’s and tattoo parlors. The second is on Lexington Ave around 28-31st Streets.
The freshest seafood restaurant in the country is at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal and worth a visit. The Oyster pan roast is my favorite.
On day two in NYC, I would go downtown and hit a bunch of places; many have long lines in the summer, so you should buy tickets in advance:
National September 11 memorial
Battery Park (free)
Staten Island Ferry (free)
Governors Island (Summer-only, free)
Trinity Church (free)
Federal Hall (free)
National Museum of the American Indian (free)
All of these places are within a 20 minute walk of one another, and there are dozens of other sites to visit in the area.
I would suggest having food or at least a quick drink at Fraunces Tavern, opened in 1762 and operating ever since.
If you have more time downtown, head north to:
If these downtown sights are not for you, or you have an extra day, I suggest you hop the subway to. . .
Queens:
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (Worlds Fair) includes these 3 sites, all in nearby walking distance:
Queens Museum – see a scale model of NYC
Brooklyn:
Coney Island – includes NY Aquarium and Brooklyn Cyclones baseball
Bronx:
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Fordam University is also next door to the Zoo and Garden, plus Arthur Avenue for many Italian restaurants and pastry shops.
Staten Island:
Of course this list is not comprehensive. And there is way too much to do in a short time. And there are many places in between these locations that are interesting to browse. So have fun and just visit often.
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Google doesn’t want to let us use their AdSense service. We’re too lazy to sell it direct.
So could you pitch in and donate a dollar or two.
Thank you!
When you search for NYC tourist attractions, you get a few million choices that all rehash the top 10 or 15 places. Here is a simple list that you can save and bookmark with just the name and link to the official site. No ads, no pop-ups. Enjoy.
Statue of Liberty – http://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm
Ellis Island – http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/peopling-of-america-center
Battery Park – http://www.thebattery.org/
Staten Island Ferry – http://www.siferry.com/
One World Trade Observatory – https://oneworldobservatory.com/
Empire State Building – http://www.esbnyc.com/
Metropolitan Museum of Art – http://www.metmuseum.org/
Museum of Modern Art – http://www.moma.org/
New York Public Library – http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman
New-York Historical Society – http://www.nyhistory.org/
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – http://www.guggenheim.org/
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral – http://www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/
Cathedral of Saint John the Devine – http://www.stjohndivine.org/
Trinity Church – https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/
Green-wood Cemetery – http://www.green-wood.com/
South Street Seaport – http://www.southstreetseaport.com/
Central Park – http://www.centralparknyc.org/
Carnegie Hall – http://www.carnegiehall.org/
American Museum of Natural History – http://www.amnh.org/
National September 11 memorial – http://www.911memorial.org/
Coney Island – http://www.coneyisland.com/tourist-information
Radio City Music Hall – http://www.radiocity.com/
Grand Central Terminal – http://www.grandcentralterminal.com/
National Museum of the American Indian – www.nmai.si.edu
Japan Society – www.japansociety.org
New York Earth Room – www.earthroom.org
Old Stone House – www.theoldstonehouse.org
African Burial Ground – www.nps.gov/afbg
Brooklyn Brewery – www.brooklynbrewery.com
Museum at FIT – www.fitnyc.edu/museum
Tenement Museum – https://tenement.org
Federal Hall – www.nps.gov/feha
City Hall – www.nyc.gov/html/artcom
Intrepid Air & Space Museum – http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/
Bronx Zoo – http://bronxzoo.com/
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (Worlds Fair) – http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park
Queens Museum – http://queensmuseum.org/
The City Reliquary – http://www.cityreliquary.org/
Top of the Rock Observation deck at Rockefeller Center – http://www.topoftherocknyc.com/
The Highline Park – http://www.thehighline.org/
Bryant Park – http://bryantpark.org/
The Frick Collection – http://www.frick.org/
Apollo Theater – https://www.apollotheater.org/
The Metropolitan Opera House – http://www.metopera.org/
General Grant National Memorial Tomb – http://www.nps.gov/gegr/index.htm
The Little Red Lighthouse – http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-washington-park/highlights/11044
Brooklyn Navy Yard – http://bldg92.org/
Castle Williams – http://www.nps.gov/gois/index.htm
Snug Harbor Cultural Center – http://snug-harbor.org/
Hall of Fame for Great Americans – http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/halloffame/
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