 | | Best things to do in New York from June 9 - 15, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, June 09 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., June 9, 7:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Rene Daalder (1976). New kid exterminates bullies in this drive-in allegory—pitched somewhere between Animal Farm and High Plains Drifter—a treasured cult film made 20 years before Columbine. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., June 9, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | NYC film students by day, '60s girl-group imitators by night, Cults are the handiwork of couple Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin. The unexpected success of a few leaked demos made ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., June 9, 7:00pm | | Where: | Christopher Henry Gallery | | Price: | free | | | When you’re an underground scenester known among the downtown fashion elite for directing photo shoots, designing outlandish rhinestone-studded trucker hats, and organizing the Bowie Ball like Deryck Todd glamorously does ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, June 10 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., June 10 until Sun., June 12 | | Where: | Governors Island | | Price: | free | | | At last year’s Figment Festival on Governors Island, we wandered through meditation mazes, battled inflatable creatures, and relaxed inside the “Living Pavilion,” a walkway surrounded by greenery. So what can ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 10, 7:00pm | | Where: | LGBT Center | | Price: | free | | | Michelle Handelman's most recent project, Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume, a queer retelling of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, was shut down at a showing at Austin's Arthouse festival ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., June 10, 9:30pm | | Where: | Joe's Pub | | Price: | $15 | | | Theatrical documentarians the Civilians have been chronicling the country's idiosyncrasies, flaws, and public/political sagas for 10 years now. To celebrate its anniversary, the company is reviving its first show, in ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, June 11 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., June 11, 4:00pm | | Where: | Housing Works Bookstore | | Price: | free | | | Looking for something fun, lightweight, and intellectually stimulating to take to the beach? Don't miss the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, where you can load ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 11, 11:00am-7:00pm | | Where: | McCarren Park | | Price: | free | | | Started in 2003 in Chicago, the Renegade Craft Fair is now a traveling marketplace for indie artists and designers held annually in cities from L.A. to London. For the seventh ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., June 11, 5:00pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Todd Haynes (2002). Todd Haynes revisits the high ‘50s through the mirrored scenarios of Douglas Sirk to create a triangle of frustrated longing whose apex is suburban hausfrau Julianne ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, June 12 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., June 12, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | Syrian dance artist Omar Souleyman keeps some ineffably cool company: He was Björk's standout recommendation when the Icelandic dame guest-hosted NPR's "You Must Hear This" series in 2009. They recently ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 12, 5:30pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Milton Moses Ginsberg (1969). A freaked-out shrink (Rip Torn) uses a hidden camera to film his sexual trysts. Milton Moses Ginsberg’s faux Warhol, would-be structuralist skin flick is more ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., June 12, 1:00pm | | Where: | Madison Square Park | | Price: | free | | | One of the few soul revivalist bands doing justice to Jake and Elwood Blues, this eight-piece, Austin-based funk posse is the perfect complement to your all-day beef bender. Bringing the ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, June 13 | | | | | | | 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., June 13, 7:30pm | | Where: | Galapagos Art Space | | Price: | free | | | Just about everybody has already proclaimed the late Roberto Bolaño, who died in 2003, one of the best fiction writers of the last century. But how does the author of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., June 13, 6:30pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. James W. Horne (1927). It’s not as well known as The General or Steamboat Bill, but Buster Keaton was definitely in the zone when he made this small near-flawless ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, June 14 | | | | | | | 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 | Tue., June 14, 5:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $35 | | | The Celebrate Brooklyn festival revs its engines for yet another summer season with a worthy act: Los Angeles garage-poppers Best Coast, whose swell-heavy scraps of surf-rock distortion will sound beautifully ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 17 until Sun., July 10, 7:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., May 18 until Sun., July 10, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 21 until Sun., July 10, 2:00pm | | Where: | Signature Theatre Co | | Price: | $20 | | | It isn’t an exaggeration to consider Tony Kushner a magician of a sort, able to conjure hilarious, hallucinatory, deeply felt, and politically engaged theater. The Signature caps its Kushner season ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, June 15 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Saturday, Sunday, 4:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8:00pm | | Where: | Barrow Street Theatre | | Price: | $36-$50 | | | Sex and the City taught us how much it can suck to be a single woman in the city. And now Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend proves that it's not ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., May 13 until Sun., June 19 | | Where: | Like the Spice Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Artist Jenny Morgan takes the art of portraits to a level that is humorous, disturbing, and moving all at once. Her 2009 show Abrasions at Like the Spice gallery featured ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., June 15 until Thu., June 30 | | Where: | Rouge 58 | | Price: | free | | | While James Murphy was recording LCD Soundsystem’s epic third album, This Is Happening, he decided he’d invite good friend photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya along mostly to stir things up. “He’s comfortable ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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