Are people who FaceTime while walking down the street literally insane?

As part of its 2026 “What Next?” campaign, Netflix is inviting New York fans to discover their year ahead through a larger-than-life fortune-telling experience at Grand Central Terminal. From January 12 through 14, you can enter "a mystical, playful, and surreal exchange" (a.k.a. a 12-foot booth at Vanderbilt Hall) and "let your future unfold, one card, one story, one revelation at a time" via a personalized reading from an animatronic of Golden Globe winner Teyana Taylor in the role of a tarot reader. Each attendee will get to take home a deck of Netflix-inspired tarot cards.

Join mega-famous BFFs Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King in a candid conversation with Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, founding director of the Yale Obesity Research Center, at the 92nd Street Y. On Tuesday, January 13 at 7pm, the women will gather to talk food, fulfillmen, and Jastreboff’s groundbreaking research on obesity, put forward in the doc's new book with Winfrey—who has been famously frank about her own health journey over the decades—entitled Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like To Be Free.

Love The Traitors? You can step into a duplicitous world of competitive gameplay inspired by the hit Peacock reality competition with The Traitors Experience. Set inside Brooklyn's Weylin space from January 14 through 22 from 5pm to 10pm daily, the immersive fan event is "an hour-long multi-sensory adventure" where fans will take on a series of challenges, including a candlelit game of deceit and manipulation, a puzzle-driven deep dive through host Alan Cumming’s iconic wardrobe, and a dramatic finale at the legendary Round Table. Break out your best plaid garb and most convincing poker face, because one (or more) members of your group will carry a treacherous secret.

If you ever lost an afternoon chasing ghosts, the Paley Museum has your next field trip lined up. The midtown mainstay is celebrating one of gaming’s most beloved icons with a new exhibit, “45 Years of PAC-MAN,” opening Friday, January 16 and running through May 31.

The show traces how a simple yellow circle dreamed up in Japan in 1980 by designer Toru Iwatani grew into a global pop-culture heavyweight. From early arcade cabinets to living room consoles and far beyond, PAC-MAN redefined what video games could be, while still welcoming in first-time players.

At the exhibition, visitors can jump straight into the action with classic Pixel Bash arcade cabinets, competitive rounds of PAC-MAN Battle Royale Chompionship and newer titles like PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC. There’s also a chance to tackle what the museum bills as the world’s largest PAC-MAN.

New Yorkers don’t need much of an excuse to line up for a good bagel but, next week, H&H is making it especially easy. To celebrate National Bagel Day on Thursday, January 15, the New York City-born bagel shop is giving away free bagel-and-spread sandwiches to customers. 

If you have an H&H Rewards account on the H&H Bagels app, you can snag your free spread sandwich that day—which includes your choice of bagel, paired with one of H&H’s trademark spreads, including everything from plain cream cheese to spicy scallion to strawberry. The deal is good both online and in-store; just scan the app at the register for your free bagel moment. If you’re not already signed up, this is your sign to download the app and make it official.

The New York Transit Museum is giving the time-honored subway swipe a proper sendoff with a new exhibit called "FAREwell, MetroCard" (see what they did there?), opening on December 17 in Brooklyn.

The exhibit covers the full journey of the little yellow card that changed how the city moved. When the item launched in 1994, the goal was simple: retire the cumbersome token for something more fitting for the modern era. The show explores how that idea grew from clunky magnetic stripe prototypes into the systemwide rollout that reshaped the daily commute. Through early pilot brochures, SubTalk ads and photos of the first activated turnstiles, you'll realize how much work went into convincing riders to trust the new system.

Under the Radar, consistently one of the most exciting theater and performance festivals in New York City since its launch in 2005, will take place in over 20 venues across the city from January 7-25, 2026.

In keeping with the festival’s eye toward the best of U.S. and international experimental performance, it will continue to explore dance, music, theater, film, opera, conversation and stagecraft through works by NY-based artists Narcissister (in her first-ever proscenium presentation), The HawtPlates, Kaneza Schaal, Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein, as well as European virtuosos Cherish Menzo and Mario Banushi.

Movie monsters come in all shapes and sizes, but they’re rarely as diminutive and deceptively cuddly as the pet chimp-turned-brainy-hell​-beast in this endearingly daft B-movie​ horror. With cleverly claustrophobic staging in a walled clifftop house, director and co-writer Johannes Roberts (47 Metres Down) smartly mines the premise for thrills. Though rarely scary, Primate is tense, unpretentious fun. Its antagonist (played by movement specialist Miguel Torres Umba and augmented with VFX) is menacing enough to make you see why a group of swimsuited teens would feel outmatched – especially after a spliff or two. Beneath that fur, after all, this little ape is as hench as peak Stallone.

In US theaters now.

MoMA is opening a grocery store where absolutely nothing is edible—and that’s the point. Launching on January 7, 2026, MoMA Mart is a limited-time pop-up from the MoMA Design Store that turns the mundane task of grocery shopping into a visual prank. Shelves are stocked not with snacks, but with objects that look like food at first glance and then reveal themselves as lamps, clocks, candles, stools and sculptural décor.

MoMA Mart will run from January 7 through March 29 at both MoMA Design Store locations—SoHo (81 Spring Street) and Midtown (44 West 53rd Street)—and will also be featured online, where people will be able to shop for the various items. Consider it grocery shopping for people who already have snacks—and could use a tomato lamp instead.

Don't expect Bryant Park to virtually shut down once the holidays are over—at least not this year. Post New Year's, the park is shifting into full-on winter Olympics mode as Bank of America Winter Village becomes a hub for Winter Olympics–inspired fun.

Bumper cars on ice return from January 9 through February 28, letting visitors bump, spin and slide across the rink in 10-minute sessions that feel more like a carnival ride than a traditional skate (plus you're already seated, so no embarrassing tumbles).