 | | Best things to do in New York from May 26 - June 1, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, May 26 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., May 26 until Sun., September 11 | | Where: | Whitney Museum of American Art | | Price: | $18 | | | In a digital age in which we're constantly logging in, live streaming, and updating statuses, sometimes we wish we lived in technologically simpler times. Brooklyn-based digital artist Cory Arcangel, 32, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 26, 9:00pm, Fri., May 27, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $20 | | | Two days after Bob Dylan turns 70 years (forever) young, he will be feted by some ardent local fans at Dylan Fest 2011, this year's fond incarnation of the annual ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 26, 8:45pm | | Where: | Cafe Carlyle | | Price: | $40-$115 | | | The '60s soul vet has played all manner of rooms (including the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial) since 2005's I've Got My Own Hell to Raise rescued her from ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, May 27 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., May 27, 8:30pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $12-$14 | | | Like their twist on the ever present font, Columbus' Times New Viking add an unexpected edge to their lo-fi indie rock. Often likened to Guided By Voices (there's the same ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., May 27, 4:30pm, Fri., May 27, 9:15pm, Tue., May 31, 4:30pm, Tue., May 31, 6:50pm, Tue., May 31, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Soulymane Cissé (1987). Known in English as “Brightness,” Souleymane Cissé’s father vs. son tale of sorcery and derring-do in the 13th Mali empire draws equally on oral tradition and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., May 27 until Sun., May 29, 11:00am | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $13 | | | Dir. Akira Kurosawa (1958). Kurosawa’s most elaborate sword film between The Seven Samurai and Kagemusha enjoys a semi-underground reputation inspiring the original Star Wars. As the first Japanese film to ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, May 28 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., May 28, 3:00pm | | Where: | Pete's Candy Store | | Price: | free | | | Proving that there's still nothing quite as satisfying as staying all hours at Kinko's to make a publication you can hold in your hands, the second annual Pete's Mini Zine ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., May 28, 3:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Béla Tarr (1994). Tarr’s seven-hour plus, voluptuously mournful, bleakly comic allegory of social disintegration on the muddy central Hungarian plain is one of the great movie experiences of the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., May 27, 7:30pm, Sat., May 28, 2:00pm, Sat., May 28, 7:30pm, Sun., May 29, 3:00pm, Mon., May 30, 3:00pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $20-$50 | | | Chuck Davis's DanceAfrica festival has celebrated performance, film, and art from the continent and its diaspora for 34 years. This year, the Memorial Day Weekend tradition continues by focusing on ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, May 29 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., May 29, 4:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | free | | | Tourists often confuse hipsters, with their blank expressions and offbeat walking pace, for zombies—and they're partially right. Tonight, it will seem even more evident when the NYC Zombie Crawl returns ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | 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, Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 17 until Sun., July 3, 7:00pm | | 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 | Sun., May 29, 1:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (2007). Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic-novel gave several decades of Iranian history the boldly unmodulated, flat patterning of a “Little Lulu” comic book. Her style ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, May 30 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., May 30 until Mon., August 15 | | Where: | MoMA PS1 | | Price: | $10 | | | You don't need to have an s/m fetish to like the work of veteran artist Nancy Grossman—but it doesn't hurt if you do. Her latest solo exhibition, Heads, features 14 ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., May 30, 7:00pm | | Where: | Birdland | | Price: | $30 | | | If you know what's good for you, you'll get to this one-nighter. This amazing songstress with the infallible instincts reunites with the mentor who taught her much of what she ... More>> | | |
| | | | | 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>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, May 31 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., May 31, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $16-$18 | | | If you've been a fan of their mad, carnivalesque music that ropes in fond memories of Zappa and Tom Waits, you might be put off by their latest album, Life ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., May 31, 8:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | $15 | | | Here's a pleasant surprise. Former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, Austin multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard, New Orleans bassist George Porter Jr., and Crescent City gris-gris growler Papa Mali dip into bayou ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 21 until Sun., July 10, 2:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., May 18 until Sun., July 10, 8:00pm, Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 17 until Sun., July 10, 7:00pm | | Where: | Signature Theatre Co | | Price: | $20 | | | It isn’t an exaggeration to consider Tony Kushner a magician of a sort, able to conjure hilarious, hallucinatory, deeply felt, and politically engaged theater. The Signature caps its Kushner season ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, June 01 | | | | | | | 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., June 1, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $35 | | | There are longer roads from The O.C., but Death Cab for Cutie have wisely kept their sonic roots in the Great Northwest. Despite their great early-'00s success stemming from the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., June 1, 7:00pm | | Where: | The Strand | | Price: | free | | | Amy Breis is having a quarter-life crisis: Her retail job sucks, she broke up with her jerk boyfriend, and the only guy who truly understands her, Michael, has left their ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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