 | | Best things to do in New York from June 16 - 22, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, June 16 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., June 16, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $50-$150 | | | Remember when Davy Jones started crooning "Girl" in The Brady Bunch Movie, then was alarmed when power-ballad guitars kicked in, then shrugged and went full Steve Perry with it? That ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., June 16, 8:30pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $8-$12 | | | Happily shambolic punk-rockers Mr. Dream stomp hometown boards this week as part of the Northside Festival, that teeming spray of shows happening across Williamsburg and also the exact bar you ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., June 16 until Sat., June 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | Pete's Candy Store | | Price: | various | | | The manic, high-profile Northside Festival may hit Pete's this week, but it won't affect the laid-back charm of this neighborhood haunt. Watch a loose, rotating cast of local acts in ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, June 17 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., June 17, 6:45pm | | Where: | Asia Society | | Price: | $11 | | | Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2002). Two couples enter the state of nature in Thai director Weerasethakul’s deadpan, self-consciously primitive gloss on Renoir’s rueful A Day in the Country. Bad filmmaking or ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 17, 7:00pm | | Where: | Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George | | Price: | $8 | | | If you're a Yankees fan, a Mets fan, or just love baseball, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees give us a personal and affordable venue to follow the organizations. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 17, 9:30pm | | Where: | Rubin Museum of Art | | Price: | free with $7 bar minimum | | | Dir. Wong Kar-wai (1995). The acme of neo new-wave-ism is a wildly stylized, garishly soulful gangster film with almost no narrative and a surplus of shaggy-dog digression—a reverie erupting periodically ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, June 18 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., June 18, 7:00pm | | Where: | St. Cecilia's Convent | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | Eleanor Friedberger has a solo disc due out next month called Last Summer, on which the female half of the Fiery Furnaces dials down her main band's jumpy art-pop mania ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 18, 11:30am | | Where: | Governors Island | | Price: | $95-$150 | | | "No overlapping sets!" trumpet the ads for this weekend's inaugural Governors Ball Music Festival, and you have to admire the organizers' marketing strategy: At a moment when most American summer ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 18, 2:00pm | | Where: | Coney Island | | Price: | $10-$75 | | | Cue Ariel's theme song—a bevy of sea creatures are taking to land once again for the annual pageant of tridents and pasties known as The Mermaid Parade. This year, your ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, June 19 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., June 19, 11:00am | | Where: | World Financial Center Winter Garden | | Price: | free | | | A constantly surprising and ridiculously fun acid test of modern, experimental, and inside-out sounds, the Bang on a Can Marathon also unofficially kicks off New York's annual summer orgy of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 19, 9:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | $15 | | | Established groups masquerading as cover bands? Isn't that already called Guns N' Roses? Deer Tick do their best to bring the acidic grunge levity back to cover shows with Deervana, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 17 until Sun., June 19, 11:00am | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Akira Kurosawa (1963). Kurosawa creates his own double-bill in this engrossing policier set against Japan’s economic miracle. The first half is a morally-complex kidnapping drama in which the wrong ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, June 20 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., June 17, 1:00pm, Fri., June 17, 3:15pm, Fri., June 17, 5:30pm, Fri., June 17, 7:45pm, Fri., June 17, 10:00pm, Sat., June 18, 1:00pm, Sat., June 18, 3:15pm, Sat., June 18, 5:30pm, Sat., June 18, 7:45pm, Sat., June 18, 10:00pm, Sun., June 19, 1:00pm, Sun., June 19, 3:15pm, Sun., June 19, 6:00pm, Sun., June 19, 8:10pm, Mon., June 20, 1:00pm, Mon., June 20, 3:15pm, Mon., June 20, 5:30pm, Mon., June 20, 9:10pm, Tue., June 21, 1:00pm, Tue., June 21, 3:15pm, Tue., June 21, 5:30pm, Tue., June 21, 7:45pm, Tue., June 21, 10:00pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Howard Hawks (1938). The leopard is set loose and the dinosaur reconstruction crumbles. This most romantic of Howard Hawks screwball comedies also provided Katherine Hepburn (in mad debutante mode) ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., June 20, 8:00pm | | Where: | Peter Norton Symphony Space | | Price: | $40 | | | What makes a great speech? According to tips from Toastmasters, you should "know the audience," "realize that people want you to succeed," and "practice, practice, practice." We're sure that the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., June 20, 5:00pm | | Where: | Bryant Park | | Price: | free | | | Looking for a fun (and free) way to spend your Monday nights? The annual tradition of packing a picnic basket and blanket and heading to the HBO Bryant Park Summer ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, June 21 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., June 21, 9:00pm | | Where: | Maxwell's | | Price: | $15 | | | Maybe there are some indie rock fans who'll care that Art Brut's last album was produced by Frank Black. Maybe not. But Eddie Argos and company have mellowed a bit ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., June 21, 8:00pm | | Where: | 92Y | | Price: | $29 | | | Neil Gaiman, the author of the bestselling graphic-novel series The Sandman and novels Stardust and Coraline, which were both turned into major feature films, certainly has a knack for making ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., June 21, 11:00am | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | New York City's about to get a little bit louder with its fifth annual Make Music New York celebration. Spanning all five boroughs with more than a thousand concerts featuring ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, June 22 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., June 10, 7:00pm, Wed., June 22, 7:00pm, Wed., June 29, 7:00pm | | Where: | Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Price: | $15-$20 | | | The ringmaster/actor/director has been singing Craig Carnelia's songs for some time but not as regularly nowadays, so it's a treat to hear his take on them again. The show is ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., June 22 until Sat., July 30, 7:00pm | | Where: | 3LD Art & Technology Center | | Price: | $18 | | | It was certainly troubling to see the Ohio Theatre, run by Soho Think Tank, lose its longtime home on Wooster Street last summer when the building was sold. After all, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., April 26 until Mon., September 5 | | Where: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Price: | $20 | | | Time was when taking a photo of your friends in a dimly lit club was not as easy as clicking your iPhone. Night Vision, a photography exhibition featuring 40 black-and-white ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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