 | | Best things to do in New York from June 23 - 29, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, June 23 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., June 23, 7:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $40 advance / $45 day of show | | | This English band is most often described as ex-Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's new project. However, Beady Eye actually features every member of the last version of that Britpop institution minus ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., June 23 until Sat., June 25 | | Where: | 319 Scholes | | Price: | $10-$25 | | | If Mom still has your old Speak & Spell in her attic, this means two things: 1) You have a very generous, patient mother, and 2) You have a fun ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., June 23, 7:00pm | | Where: | The Strand | | Price: | free | | | Were there any gay sailors on Columbus's expedition to the New World? Ask Michael Bronski, the author of A Queer History of the United States, the first book covering LGBT ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, June 24 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., June 22 until Sun., June 26 | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $10-$40 | | | Like many urban cyclists, Brendt Barbur was struck by a bus while riding the busy streets of New York. So what did he do next? Sue the city? Sue the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., June 24 until Sat., August 6 | | Where: | Dixon Place | | Price: | $15 | | | The temperature is rising on the Lower East Side, and for once it has nothing to do with climate change. Yes, Dixon Place's HOT! Festival returns for its 20th year ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., June 23 until Sun., June 26 | | Where: | Socrates Sculpture Park | | Price: | free | | | With all the claims against Urban Outfitters, that the mega hipster-clothing corporation steals designs from local craftspeople, we think it's always best to purchase goods from the source. The Makers ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, June 25 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 24 until Sun., June 26, 11:00am | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Akira Kurosawa (1970). An under-appreciated experiment, Kurosawa’s first color film is something like a Pop Art remake of The Lower Depths—full of stylized perfs and entirely shot on vast ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 25, 12:00pm | | Where: | Fort Greene Park | | Price: | $3 | | | Rapper, actor, and man about town Mos Def is paying honors to his childhood stomping grounds by headlining the third annual Fort Greene Festival. Referred to as the "urban Woodstock," ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 25, 8:00pm | | Where: | Highline Ballroom | | Price: | $20-$25 | | | Amanda Lepore, the striking transsexual nightlife doyenne, is usually spotted in the city long after the witching hour. Tonight, she gets an early start for a concert celebrating the release ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, June 26 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., June 26, 5:00pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Les Blank (1985). Les Blank’s documentary on the making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 jungle epic Fitzcarraldo is a far stronger movie than Herzog’s in part because it has Herzog ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 26, 4:00pm | | Where: | Prudential Center | | Price: | $16-$264 | | | It's too early in the season for predictions, but this may be the year the New York Liberty go all the way. One of the eight original WNBA teams that ... 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>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, June 27 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., June 27, 8:00pm | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Jennie Livingston (1990). Livingston’s lively, fluid documentary of the Harlem ball scene still feels like a scoop. The events infuse the expressive vitality of African-American dance with the imaginative ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., June 27, 7:00pm | | Where: | The Strand | | Price: | $35, ticket holders will receive a signed copy of The Raven, a Strand tote bag, and the opportunity to meet Reed | | | What becomes a legend most? How about combining two of them--Lou Reed and Edgar Allan Poe? Tonight, Reed will be signing copies of the illustrated tome The Raven, derived from ... 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>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, June 28 | | | | | | | 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 | Tue., June 28, 8:30pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $12 | | | Puro Instinct are Los Angeles born-and-bred sisters Skylar and Piper Kaplan. Like their Mexican Summer labelmates Best Coast, Puro Instinct (previously known as Pearl Harbor) definitely ride chillwave, but they ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., June 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $16 | | | Documentary film lovers, rejoice! The Stranger Than Fiction series, which runs in the fall and spring, is now happening all summer long as well, bringing you exclusive screenings of films ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, June 29 | | | | | | | 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 | Wed., June 29, 12:30pm | | Where: | Bryant Park | | Price: | free | | | "Writing a book isn't easy," the comedian Michael Showalter admits in his debut book Mr. Funny Pants. "I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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