 | | Best things to do in New York from May 5 - 11, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, May 05 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., May 5, 5:30pm | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | Can't afford $250 to see Kanye play the Party in the Garden at MOMA on May 10? Here's your consolation prize: Ad-Rock will perform a DJ set tonight at MOMA ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 5, 9:15pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Robert Frank (1988). A beautiful, autumnal end-of-the-road road film, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and directed by Robert Frank, Candy Mountain was at once point disowned by Frank for being ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., May 5, 7:00pm | | Where: | The Strand | | Price: | free | | | Only a comics artist as brilliant as Daniel Clowes (probably best known for Ghost World) could also be as eloquently ambivalent about his chosen medium, and his self-loathing characters reflect ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, May 06 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., May 6, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Chantal Akerman (1975). Chantal Akerman’s spectacular anti-spectacular (three days in the life of a housewife-prostitute) is a great synthesis—the meeting of structuralist film and feminist theory, one of the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., May 6, 8:00pm | | Where: | Saint Vitus | | Price: | $5 | | | New York City's biggest heavy-metal exports are Kiss and Anthrax: bands that burst out of Queens with catchy choruses, boot-stomping riffs, and unique images. Brooklyn's self-proclaimed "transcendental black-metal" group Liturgy ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., May 6, 6:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $18-$20 | | | Do you miss high school? Well, then, we deeply envy the breadth of your selective memory. Yet if the emotional turmoil of our education had been like the Pains of ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, May 07 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., May 5 until Sun., May 8 | | Where: | 7 West New York | | Price: | free-$20 | | | When the Affordable Art Fair is in town, we're more than thrilled to attend, knowing that we can actually buy something instead of just admiring the works from afar. The ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., May 7, 1:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | free | | | Whether your idea of a well-bred horse is Dialed In (a favorite to win the 137th Run for the Roses) or Craig Ferguson's two-men-in-a-silly-horse-suit Secretariat, Derby Day is cause for ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., May 4 until Sat., May 7 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | For the past year, performance artist Maria José Arjona (who you may have seen in Marina Abramovic's staring contest last year at MOMA), has been memorizing stories that were told ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, May 08 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., May 8, 5:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $15-$18 | | | Some food competitions showcase itsy-bitsy designer plates of garnished foie gras and sorbet, but not this one. Keeping it simple, the second annual Guactacular, presented by Nachosny.com, is a guac'd-out ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., May 8, 2:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | Tickets are first-come, first-served | | | Dir. Todd Haynes (2011). It worked as TV; my hunch is that Haynes 5 ½ hour James M. Cain adaptation, a domestic drama with intimations of historical tragedy, will be ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., May 8, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $14 | | | While an exclamation mark in a band name does not always guarantee mad brilliance (are you still Panicking! at the Disco?), it does serve Movits! of Lulea, Sweden, quite well. ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, May 09 | | | | | | | 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 | Daily from Mon., May 2 until Mon., July 11 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | It has become common practice during these hard times for art museums to run exhibitions culled from their own recession-proof collections, rather than pay big bucks to borrow great international ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., May 9, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $5 | | | Who killed Laura Palmer? Was it the one-armed man or One-Eyed Jacks? Relive the mystery of TV's campiest series ever at TV Party: Twin Peaks. Long before Twilight capitalized on ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, May 10 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., May 10, 8:00pm | | Where: | City Winery | | Price: | $50-$65 | | | Springtime hanging you up the most? Jimmy Carter, the sole original member of this legendary gospel group formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, and his ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., May 10 until Sat., May 14 | | Where: | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | | Price: | $18 | | | It makes perfect sense that an art collective from sunny California wouldn't keep their show indoors. For Intervals, the San Francisco–based Futurefarmers have created a 10-day "thinkery" at the Guggenheim ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Saturday from Sat., April 30 until Sun., June 5, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., May 1 until Sun., June 5, 3:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., April 28 until Sun., June 5, 7:30pm | | Where: | BAM Harvey Theater | | Price: | $25-$95 | | | April showers are ostensibly through, but don’t tell that to Sir Derek Jacobi, who will call down cataracts, hurricanes, lightning, thunder, and assorted extreme weather onto the stage of Brooklyn’s ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, May 11 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., May 10 until Thu., May 12, 6:30pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $20 | | | Co-founded by compositional giant Philip Glass, this year's MATA festival sifted through nearly 500 submitted scores from under-40 composers around the world to present a veritable Tower of Babel of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., May 11 until Sun., May 15 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $15-$35 | | | Think your brilliant snapshots could be even better? Get some inspiration this week at the fourth annual New York Photo Festival, the best event of the year for amateur shutterbugs ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., May 11, 7:30pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $25 | | | After touring hard over the past year, Sleigh Bells are currently making their final rounds in support of Treats, the monster 2010 debut that recently led to Derek Miller working ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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