 | | Best things to do in New York from April 14 - 20, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, April 14 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., April 14, 8:00pm | | Where: | Zebulon | | Price: | free | | | Bee and Flower, fronted by the multitalented singer/bassist/songwriter Dana Schechter (formerly of Angels of Light with Michael Gira), perform in support of their third album, Suspension. With Sugarlife, Center Divider, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., April 14, 7:30pm | | Where: | WORD | | Price: | free | | | David Foster Wallace, who was 46 at the time of his death in 2008, has achieved a cultlike following as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Numerous ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., April 14, 7:00pm | | Where: | New York Public Library | | Price: | $25 | | | Jennifer Egan, a resident of Fort Greene, did our Brooklyn literary scene proud yet again with her latest, most inventive novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won the ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, April 15 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., April 15, 10:00pm | | Where: | Juniper | | Price: | $10 | | | How many new things can you learn in an hour? Let’s just say you’ll be amazed at how intelligent you’ll feel after all the life-improving lessons you’ll receive at the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., April 15, 7:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $15 | | | Brooklyn hearts are hurting for the people of Japan. To help repair the devastation caused by the Japanese tsunami, the Bell House is teaming up with other Brooklyn businesses for ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., April 15, 9:00pm | | Where: | Good Units | | Price: | $5 | | | Just because the Down & Derby roller-disco party is out West for Coachella doesn’t mean we’re shit out of luck. The Down & Derby crew has teamed up with Famous ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, April 16 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 13 until Sun., June 12, 11:00am | | Where: | Japan Society | | Price: | free | | | Who would want to kill Hello Kitty? Certainly not us. But for many Japanese artists, their country’s obsession with all things childish and cute (or kawaii) can be stifling. Using ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., April 16, 10:30pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $13 | | | The story of John Waters’s Cry-Baby, which follows a cute misfit who’s got it bad for the blonde preppy chick, had us swooning over Johnny Depp in his rockabilly suit, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., April 15 until Sun., April 24 | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $10 | | | Our first encounter with a major fashion statement in film had to have been Jennifer Beals’s slashed-neck graffiti-print T-shirt in Flashdance—it was so exciting, it was like we’d never seen ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, April 17 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., April 17, 7:00pm | | Where: | Southpaw | | Price: | $10 | | | Get down low—lo-fi, that is. Flicker NYC, New York’s only Super 8mm festival, is continuing their ongoing showcase of local and international cinema using that unique film stock with their ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., April 17, 7:00pm | | Where: | Europa Night Club | | Price: | $10 | | | Crossing the fertile soil between heavy metal, ambient noise, and weird, disgusting bullshit, this four-band bill at Europa is like an expressionistic rendering of a thunderstorm or slaughterhouse. Leading the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., April 17, 2:30pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Charles Burnett (1996). It’s a kids’ film but a credible one—dealing explicitly with the domestic life of enslaved people and arguing, between the lines, for the sort of movies ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, April 18 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., April 18, 4:30pm, Mon., April 18, 6:50pm, Mon., April 18, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Brian De Palma (1992). Rising from the ashes of Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian De Palma conjured this criminally unknown exercise in psychosexual delirium—a fractured thriller set in a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., April 18, 2:30pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Joseph Kosinski (2010). Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s intermittently stupendiferous mega-million-dollar 3-D reboot. Eye-catching and brain-numbing, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., April 15 until Sun., May 15 | | Where: | Causey Contemporary | | Price: | free | | | Brooklyn-based artist Melissa Murray creates work like a dream—literally. In her new solo exhibition, What the Birds Saw, the artist blends, almost seamlessly, visions of bright color, various shapes, and ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 19 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., April 19, 7:00pm | | Where: | St. Mark's Bookshop | | Price: | free | | | Johnny Temple, the bassist for post-hardcore rockers Girls Against Boys, has published more than a few musicians since starting Akashic Books in 1996, including Ryan Adams, Lydia Lunch, and Richard ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., April 19, 8:00pm | | Where: | Roseland Ballroom | | Price: | $60-$70 | | | The future is written: Big Audio Dynamite (featuring ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones) are dusting off from a decade-plus absence and returning to our Anglophilic shores. Their one and only East ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 23 until Sun., June 12 | | Where: | Public Theater | | Price: | $75 | | | What's in a name? The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures—a prolix heading borrowed from George Bernard Shaw and Mary Baker Eddy—should in ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, April 20 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., April 20 until Sat., June 4, 8:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., April 24 until Sat., June 4, 3:00pm | | Where: | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater | | Price: | $55 | | | Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega and novelist Carson McCullers are separated by 42 years and the geography of Spanish Harlem and the Deep South, respectively. But the two women miraculously come together ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., March 24 until Sun., May 1, 7:30pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., March 26 until Sun., May 1, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., March 27 until Sun., May 1, 7:00pm | | Where: | Playwrights Horizons | | Price: | $55 | | | David Greenspan is not an artist who is good at staying put—or moving in reverse. He continues to excel as an actor, and nearly every year seems to bring another ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., April 13 until Sun., May 22, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., April 16 until Sun., May 22, 2:00pm | | Where: | Classic Stage Company | | Price: | $70 | | | Is honesty always the best policy? What about when there’s sex involved? In David Ives’s new play The School for Lies, the always-truthful Frank falls for a gossiping society woman. ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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