 | | Best things to do in New York from May 19 - 25, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, May 19 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., May 19, 9:30pm | | Where: | The Tank | | Price: | $10 | | | FOUND magazine is a delightful publication of found notes, photographs, and other interesting treasures that give a unique look into the private lives of total strangers. While on the road ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 19, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $35-$65 | | | Adele is the hottest singer in the England right now, which only reaffirms the Brits' centuries-long penchant for masochism. As glorious as the young soul diva's voice is—and it is ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 19, 8:30pm, Fri., May 20, 6:45pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Not that one ever needs an excuse to indulge in the music and films of Bob Dylan, but nevertheless here’s a good one—on May 24, Dylan is turning 70! In ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, May 20 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., May 20, Sat., May 21 | | Where: | New York Society for Ethical Culture | | Price: | $35-$45 | | | Radiohead fanatics not busying themselves with YouTube clips of Thom Yorke's recent appearance at L.A.'s Low End Theory will undoubtedly flock this weekend to the American premiere of Jonny Greenwood's ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., May 20, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $12-$14 | | | As Slumberland continues to prove itself the ultimate home for dreamy indie pop, these Jersey boys (who are now Brooklynites) are proving to be one of the brightest jewels in ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., May 19 until Sat., May 21 | | Where: | Eyebeam | | Price: | $20-$52 | | | As mainstream pop gets bigger—heard that new Lady Gaga–Clarence Clemons joint?—the DIY fringe shrinks in response: This weekend's fifth-annual Blip Festival will present dozens of so-called chiptune acts (including Australia's ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, May 21 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., May 21, 9:00am-5:00pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | free | | | Ah, the Brooklyn Flea . . . your favorite Sunday flea-market sanctuary, which fulfills all of your eclectic needs, but, alas, has never fulfilled your taste-buds. That is, until now! ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., May 21, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $13-$15 | | | Fine, we hereby submit to the maddening spelling of tUnE-yArDs and the aggressive spacing of second album w h o k i l l, but only because she is so ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., May 21, 1:00pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | If you love Saturday Night Fever, watch Glee, or dance weirdly when you're home alone, chances are you already have your costume ready for the Dance Parade. Anyone can join ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, May 22 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 17 until Sun., July 3, 7:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., May 12 until Sun., July 3, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 14 until Sun., July 3, 2:30pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., May 15 until Sun., July 3, 7:30pm | | Where: | Playwrights Horizons | | Price: | $75 | | | The bittersweet story of the Shaggs begins with a strict, delusional father who dreamed that his three talentless daughters could be the next big rock band. They, of course, never ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Sun., May 22 until Tue., May 24, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $50-$90 | | | Elvis Costello meets John Cage, sort of, when rock's least boring middle-aged overachiever (do any of his peers host a cool television show and compose classical music?) hits the road ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., May 22, 2:00pm | | Where: | Marble Collegiate Church | | Price: | $25 | | | New York City’s history of the “alternative” is not limited to the musicians, poets, and artists plaque’d and remembered all over downtown. Dark secrets lurk without reference in some of ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, May 23 | | | | | | | 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 | Mon., May 23, 8:00pm | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Ulrike Ottinger (1989). Way too long and just short of fabulous, Ulrike Ottinger’s central Asian extravaganza is still a one-of-a-kind vision—as steeped in campy exotica and excessive mise-en-scene as ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., May 23, 7:30pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Edward Sutherland (1928). Playing a newsreel cameraman, Buster Keaton reflects on his lost independence in this, the first film that he would make under contract to MGM. It’s not ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, May 24 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., May 24, 6:30pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | $35-$43 | | | It's been only five years since young British indie-rock media darlings Arctic Monkeys stormed out of the blogs and into the middlestream. Now the group has gotten its footing. Having ... 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., February 16 until Mon., June 6 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | The Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Sonic Youth—if you missed living in the city in the ’80s and ’90s (or were too young to apprecaite it), Looking at Music 3.0 takes you ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, May 25 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., May 4 until Sun., July 31 | | Where: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Price: | $20 | | | Once a year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art present an illuminating exhibition about fashion. But this year, it shines even brighter with Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a celebration of the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., May 25, 6:30pm | | Where: | Paragraph | | Price: | free | | | When the 2010 VIDA study showed that male writers were published and reviewed far more often in established newspapers, magazines, and literary journals in America and the U.K. than female ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., May 25, 7:00pm | | Where: | Barnes & Noble | | Price: | free | | | Jimmy Fallon isn't short on saying thanks. During his "Thank You Notes" segment on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, he writes thank-yous to various celebrities (like Chris Brown for his ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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