 | | Best things to do in New York from June 2 - 8, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, June 02 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., June 1 until Thu., June 30 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | various | | | A great jazz song leads with the attack, either rhythmically or evocatively—and the inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival has certainly adopted the same strategy, because their first endeavor is awe-inspiring. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., June 2 until Fri., July 1 | | Where: | The Brick | | Price: | free-$15 | | | The Brick Theater is home to all kinds of wacky festivals—there's been the Moral Values Festival, the Hell Festival, and the Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee. Now, for the first time, ... 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>> | | | | | | | Friday, June 03 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., June 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of Arts & Design | | Price: | $10 | | | Just how well do you know David Bowie? At the Museum of Arts and Design’s film retrospective David Bowie, Artist, get a crash course in the rocker’s career as an ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 3, 9:00pm | | Where: | Highline Ballroom | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | Let this be resolved, once and for all: That song is called "I Need a Dollar," and it's sung by Aloe Blacc. There! Isn't that a weight off? That ubiquitous, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Price: | free with museum admission ($10-$20 donation) | | | Cinema 16 was formerly a popular avant-garde film society in the late 1940s; now it’s the name of artist Molly Surno’s extremely cool film series, which brings together an eclectic ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, June 04 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., June 4, 7:00pm | | Where: | Wellmont Theatre | | Price: | $30-$35 | | | The sweet emotionality of Arizona's Jimmy Eat World arguably set the template for Death Cab For Cutie and Panic! At The Disco. Considered the respected forebearers of the genre, the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 4, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $20 | | | This baby-faced Norwegian's new self-titled disc isn't quite as delightful as 2009's Heartbeat Radio. That said, it's still pretty damn delightful: Even minus the orchestral-pop ear candy he offered up ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., May 4 until Sun., August 7 | | 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>> | | | | | | | Sunday, June 05 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 3 until Sun., June 5, 7:40pm, Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 3 until Sun., June 5, 1:00pm, Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 3 until Sun., June 5, 4:20pm, Mon., June 6, 2:00pm, Mon., June 6, 8:20pm, Tue., June 7, 1:00pm, Tue., June 7, 4:20pm, Tue., June 7, 7:40pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Federico Fellini (1960). The sensation of 1960 and most notorious of Fellini films—evocation of jet-set decadence, source of the term “paparazzi”—collapses beneath its “exposé,” but the sequence where journalist ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 5, 3:00pm | | Where: | Gowanus Grove | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter's newest party promises it all: the great outdoors, food from Montreal-inspired deli Mile End and elsewhere, booze, and the sorts of solid line-ups they've offered ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 5, 8:30pm | | Where: | S.O.B.'s | | Price: | $20 | | | Goapele is an intriguing soulstress: a woman of composed swagger, sharp street style, and a dainty lilt to match neither. But her sweet voice speaks to an element of control, ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, June 06 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., June 6, 9:00pm, Tue., June 7, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $20 | | | Fans of these Northeast sludge-rock, almost-metal legends' '90s output: you're in luck. Their latest tour includes a pair of shows in each city, in which they feature three of their ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., June 6 until Sun., July 31 | | Where: | Delacorte Theater | | Price: | free | | | And so it begins—-the summertime ritual of strategizing your way into scoring a free ticket to the Public Theater's super-popular Shakespeare in the Park. This year, you have your pick ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 3, 3:00pm, Fri., June 3, 6:30pm, Fri., June 3, 9:15pm, Sat., June 4, 3:30pm, Sat., June 4, 6:30pm, Sat., June 4, 9:15pm, Sun., June 5, 3:30pm, Sun., June 5, 6:30pm, Sun., June 5, 9:15pm, Mon., June 6, 6:30pm, Mon., June 6, 9:15pm, Tue., June 7, 6:30pm, Tue., June 7, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1958). Hauntingly perverse, the great film about the lost fetish object is itself a prize fetish object. Vertigo is Hitchcock’s surrealist masterpiece—it might have been titled “Enigma ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, June 07 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., June 7, 8:00pm | | Where: | Terminal 5 | | Price: | $25-$30 | | | Last year, Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff produced an acclaimed comeback album by psych-garage burn-out Roky Erickson, and the experience appears to have impacted Sheff's stuff for the better: On ... 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 | 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>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, June 08 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., June 8 until Tue., June 14 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $30-$150 | | | Wait a sec—didn't Gen Art file for bankruptcy? Yes, it did. But now, a year later, the experimental arts and entertainment group is back and ready to relaunch with the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from Mon., May 23 until Sat., July 2, 7:00pm, Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., May 19 until Sat., July 2, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., May 21 until Sat., July 2, 2:00pm | | Where: | Acorn Theatre | | Price: | $61 | | | Tennessee Williams’s One Arm was not the cinematic sensation of 1972. In fact, the film of his screenplay—based on an early short story about an amputee hustler in New Orleans—was ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., June 8 until Sat., June 11 | | Where: | Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre | | Price: | $10-$100 | | | Once regular performers at the L.E.S. bar Pianos, the Whitest Kids U' Know are now more likely to be seen on the IFC Channel doing their delightfully bizarre sketches (such ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
No comments:
Post a Comment