 | | Best things to do in New York from June 30 - July 6, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, June 30 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., June 30, 7:00pm | | Where: | House of Vans | | Price: | free | | | Say what you will about the queasy nature of corporate-sponsored entertainment, but Vans deserves kudos for enlisting L.A.'s FYF for help presenting its series of free summer indie-rock shows. Tonight ... 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 | Wed., June 29, 2:00pm, Wed., June 29, 4:30pm, Wed., June 29, 7:00pm, Wed., June 29, 9:30pm, Thu., June 30, 2:00pm, Thu., June 30, 4:30pm, Thu., June 30, 7:00pm, Thu., June 30, 9:30pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1954). The 3-D craze was over by the time Hitchcock finished and the movie was released flat. Seen as it should have been, it’s a revelation. Others ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, July 01 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., July 1 until Mon., July 4 | | Where: | Governors Island | | Price: | $36-$300 | | | It's not an adventurous lineup, but that's not the point: The four-day Dance.Here.Now Festival is aiming for accessible dance music and an easy day in (hopefully) the sun. Grammy-winning trance ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 1, 7:00pm | | Where: | South Street Seaport | | Price: | free | | | Dirty Beaches main man Alex Zhang Hungtai effortlessly conjures an old-fashioned world in his atmospheric pop, a simulacrum of '50s pleasantry with beachside lo-fi and murmured vocals. Yet the Taiwanese-born, ... 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>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, July 02 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., July 2, 8:00pm | | Where: | John Street United Methodist Church | | Price: | free | | | For many of us, there came a time where our parents looked us straight in the eyes and sternly said, "It's time to stop playing games, boy." Accordingly, we dropped ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 2, 7:00pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | free | | | Further proof that Virgos throw the best parties: estimable vibraphone player and composer Roy Ayers celebrates his 70th birthday with gusto at "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," his global premiere of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 2, 7:00pm, Sun., July 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski (2008). Fluid filmmaking with a surplus of black humor and a lack of dialogue, Skolimowski’s sardonic thriller features a great physical performance by Artur Steranko a seeming ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, July 03 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., July 3, 10:00pm | | Where: | Good Units | | Price: | $15-$25 | | | NYC gets another chance to experience a little bit of the magic of Berghain when the legendarily wild Berlin club's most celebrated resident spins: Ben Klock slings serious, late-night, dead-deep ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 3, 5:30pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Stan Brakhage (1964). The culmination of Stan Brakhage’s first period is a feature-length, psychedelic, psychodrama, which, in the tradition of modernist grandiloquence, treats the filmmaker’s trek up a snowy ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 3, 12:00pm | | Where: | The Peoples Improv Theater | | Price: | $5 per show, $20 for festival pass | | | Celebrate this holiday weekend with 12 hours of indie improv. Just $20 gets you into every single show. The PIT is also throwing in two drinks with each festival ticket ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, July 04 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., July 4, 5:00pm | | Where: | Bryant Park | | Price: | free | | | So maybe watching pyrotechnics, getting belligerently drunk on the Hudson, and spilling barbecue sauce all over your new shirt aren't your things. No big deal. That's why HBO's Bryant Park ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 4, 9:00pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | The skies of New York light up as Macy's treats the City to its 35th annual show with 40,000 fireworks expertly synchronized to a 25 minute musical score. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 4, 11:30am | | Where: | Nathan's Famous | | Price: | free | | | Nothing says "all-American" like eating a copious amount of meat in a short amount of time, so celebrate your Independence Day right by cheering on your favorite competitor at the ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 05 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., July 5, 8:00pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $10 | | | Even for music fans, it might be a little confusing to think that any band that comes out of Manchester doesn't resemble Joy Division, New Order, the Fall, or Happy ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., January 28 until Mon., August 8 | | Where: | MoMA PS1 | | Price: | $10 | | | They say crying is good for you; if that’s true, Laurel Nakadate is doing just dandy. One photographic portion of Only the Lonely chronicles the artist before, during, and after ... 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>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, July 06 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., July 9, 7:00pm, Sun., July 10, 7:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Tue., July 5 until Sun., July 24, 7:00pm, Mon., July 18, 7:00pm, Thu., July 21, 7:00pm | | Where: | Castle Clinton | | Price: | free | | | Today in Battery Park, New York Classical Theatre asks you to pretend not to see the hot-dog vendors and guys dressed like the Statue of Liberty. Instead, for their roving ... 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., July 6, 5:30pm | | Where: | East River State Park | | Price: | $60 | | | Hardcore Kid Cudi fans probably caught the introspective rapper in recent weeks at a Bacardi-sponsored Terminal 5 event and a not-so-secret Brooklyn show by his mentor Kanye West. (Those gigs ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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