 | | Best things to do in New York from July 14 - 20, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, July 14 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., July 14, 7:00pm, Thu., July 14, 8:00pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $12-$13 | | | Miranda July, the writer-director and star of 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know (a/k/a the film that inspired all those “Poop back and forth. Forever” T-shirts), will be ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., June 30 until Sat., August 27 | | Where: | The Kitchen | | Price: | free | | | Once upon a time, before H&M and all the fancy boutiques took over, Soho was home to a little place called the Kitchen, the pioneering home for the avant-garde performing ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., July 14, 11:00pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $10 | | | Tonight, DJ Jonathan Toubin is creating his own kind of dance revolution with a new party that is going to test your dancing skills. Toubin, who also puts on the ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, July 15 | | | | | | | 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 | Fri., July 15, 7:00pm, Sat., July 16, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission before 4pm | | | Dir. Martin Ritt (1963). Paul Newman was never more beautiful than as the bad boy protagonist of this bitter contemporary Western—the meanest movie of 1963. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., July 6 until Sun., September 25 | | Where: | New Museum | | Price: | $8-$12 | | | Do you pine for the Age Of Reagan, when our enemy was a clearly defined “Evil Empire?” The New Museum’s Ostalgia exhibition derives its title from a German word evoking ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, July 16 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., July 15, 2:55pm, Fri., July 15, 5:50pm, Fri., July 15, 8:45pm, Sat., July 16, 2:55pm, Sat., July 16, 5:50pm, Sat., July 16, 8:45pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Alfred E. Green (1933). The young Barbara Stanwyck runs away from home (a coal town speakeasy where she’s pimped by her degenerate father), arrives in the big city and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 16, 11:00am | | Where: | Governors Island | | Price: | free | | | Are you good at tossing water balloons, playing trivia, or using your iPhone? If you’re the competitive type or have a case of Restless Leg, Come Out and Play Field ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 16, 9:30pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. James Frawley (1973). Dennis Hopper plays an aging outlaw who attempts to go straight in this amiable comic western characterized by its meandering jugband sensibility and plethora of countercultural ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, July 17 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., July 17, 4:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $15 | | | Wish there were more holidays in July to celebrate? You’re in luck! Thanks to Ronald Reagan, the third Sunday of every July is recognized as National Ice Cream Day. If ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 17, 1:00pm, Sun., July 17, 4:05pm, Sun., July 17, 7:10pm, Sun., July 17, 10:15pm, Mon., July 18, 1:00pm, Mon., July 18, 4:05pm, Mon., July 18, 10:25pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Wesley Ruggles (1933). Mae West stunned the bluenoses and saved Paramount with her blatantly suggestive 1933 blockbuster, the movie that, more than any other, brought in Hollywood’s strict production ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 17, 7:00pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | free | | | This quirky Portland-based mini-orchestra just announced the temporary departure of frontwoman China Forbes, who's taking a break to address a medical issue with her voice. As anyone who has seen ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, July 18 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., July 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $20 | | | Singer Miho Hatori and multi-instrumentalist Yuka Honda have kept plenty busy over the decade since they dissolved their late-’90s downtown-pop combo, Cibo Matto. But as Honda recently told me, the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | Union Hall | | Price: | $5 | | | Urgent memo: The Creaghead & Company Mandatory Staff Meeting is going down tonight with the company’s big cheese herself, Caroline Creaghead, in attendance. Creaghead & Company are in the comedy ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 18, 9:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $7 | | | Fronted by two blond siblings, Mother Mother is an eclectic band from Vancouver who deviate between guttural Pixies rock and twangy New Pornographers power-pop, often within the same song. Chopping ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 19 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., May 26 until Sun., September 11 | | Where: | Whitney Museum of American Art | | Price: | $18 | | | In a digital age in which we're constantly logging in, live streaming, and updating statuses, sometimes we wish we lived in technologically simpler times. Brooklyn-based digital artist Cory Arcangel, 32, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., July 19, 1:30pm | | Where: | Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater | | Price: | $13 general | | | Dir. Sidney Lumet (1964). The unfunny analogue to Dr. Strangelove, which it had the misfortune to follow, Sidney Lumet’s thriller is stylish and gloomy—accidental nuclear warfare treated with Antonioni-esque hauteur. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 16, 2:45pm, Tue., July 19, 9:15pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Sergio Corbucci (1966). Sergio Corbucci, the most political of maker of spaghetti westerns, cast Burt Reynolds as a vengeful Navajo. The movie didn’t do much for Reynolds, although it ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, July 20 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., July 20, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of Sex | | Price: | $25 | | | Sometimes we like sex the way we like our favorite frozen pizza: cooked fast, tasting pretty good, and made to satisfy our hunger. Because who wants to go that extra ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., July 20, 7:00pm | | Where: | Whitney Museum | | Price: | $8 | | | New York–born artist Lyonel Feininger may have made a name for himself overseas as a German expressionist and leading figure of the Bauhaus, but it’s his two cartoon strips that ... 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>> | | | | | |  | |
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