 | | Best things to do in New York from July 21 - 27, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, July 21 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., July 21, 8:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $3 | | | Throw your efforts to control the neighborhood aside when West Side Story Dance & Sing-Along rolls into Prospect Park. The 1961 Academy Award–winning musical, filled with equal parts social commentaries, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., July 21, 9:30pm | | Where: | The Peoples Improv Theater | | Price: | $8 | | | Nathan Phillips likes to have sex—so much so that he is trying to sleep with as many people as possible via his comedy show Sex You (I'm Gonna). He must ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., July 21, 7:00pm, Thu., July 21, 9:00pm | | Where: | New Museum | | Price: | $12-$15 | | | The radiant child himself, painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, churned out splitting riffs at CBGB's with late-'70s industrial-rockers Gray. He was joined by an impressive slate of downtown experimentalists: performance artists Michael ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, July 22 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., July 22, 5:30pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | $35 | | | Toronto dance-punks Death From Above 1979 have been in a finicky way lately. They quarreled often and broke up in 2006, following the release of their only album, You're a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 22, 10:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $15-$25 | | | The more sunburn-courting types among us may recall Etienne de Crécy's 2009 set at the Coachella Festival, in which the French DJ/producer resolutely dropped hypno-delic electro beats from within a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 22, 1:00pm, Fri., July 22, 4:35pm, Fri., July 22, 8:10pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Mervyn LeRoy (1933). Warner Bros.’s follow-up to the hard-boiled musical 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 is the movie we see Beatty and Dunaway watching in Bonnie and Clyde—buncha ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, July 23 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., July 23, 3:00pm | | Where: | Dixon Place | | Price: | free | | | B is for Beautiful was originally planned as a fundraiser to help with hospital bills for Cheryl B., the Downtown poet, writer, and performer who was diagnosed with Stage 2B ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 23, 1:00pm, Sun., July 24, 1:00pm | | Where: | Bartitsu Society | | Price: | $20-$50 | | | It's not just in the movies that Sherlock Holmes literally kicks ass. When Holmes meets his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, in a fight to the death in the story "The Adventure ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 23, 7:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $3 | | | Fans of jangly New Jersey indie rock—and who among us evades that description?—can see where the stuff started and where it's going this weekend when the reunited Feelies, from Haledon, ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, July 24 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., July 24, 7:00pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $20-$25 | | | The first half of 2011 was unusually quiet for the prolific Pixies frontman Black Francis. He toured very little and only released a few recordings in dribs and drabs: a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Sun., July 24 until Mon., November 7 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | We communicate with machines all day, whether we're using our computers, smartphones, buying a MetroCard, or taking out cash from the ATM. But what if these machines communicated back? The ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 24, 5:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Errol Morris (1978). Morris made documentary history his first time out with the classical compositions of his monumentally deadpan, anti cinema verité account of a California pet cemetery. More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, July 25 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., July 25, 5:30pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | $47.50 | | | Still touring on their overwhelmingly mediocre self-titled comeback album, the poster children for grunge's bitter aftertaste have somehow kept themselves together and copacetic over the past year. As in their ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 25, 8:30pm | | Where: | Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater | | Price: | $13 general | | | Dir. Sidney Lumet (2009). Lumet’s last movie, a murderous domestic tragedy, grabs hold and runs you through the wringer. Shot like a bleary morning after, full of powerhouse scenes and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 25, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $15-$18 | | | This local alt-rock combo put out a record on Interscope last year, but if you've heard of Carney, it's probably because frontman Reeve Carney is currently starring in Broadway's embattled ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 26 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., July 26, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $20 | | | Remember all the good times you had at Camp Firewood when Janeane Garofalo was your unstable camp director, Paul Rudd was the hot counselor, and David Hyde Pierce kept warning ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., July 26, 7:30pm | | Where: | Southpaw | | Price: | $5 | | | Shakespeare was a master of puns. Take, for instance, the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, who says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., August 24, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., July 31 until Sat., September 3, 3:00pm, Wed., August 31, 2:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Tue., July 26 until Sat., September 3, 7:00pm, Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., July 29 until Sat., September 3, 8:00pm | | Where: | 59E59 | | Price: | $45-$65 | | | At a Passover celebration, guests are made to ask, "Why is this night different from all other nights?" At a Charles Busch play, it isn't hard to find answers: There's ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, July 27 | | | | | | | 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., July 27, 7:00pm | | Where: | Littlefield | | Price: | $5 | | | Tavi Gevinson, who started her blog Fashion Rookie at the ripe old age of 11, quickly became an Internet sensation, scoring front row seats at big runway shows like Marc ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., July 27, 4:00pm, Wed., July 27, 7:30pm | | Where: | Damrosch Park | | Price: | free | | | Billy Bragg, the British folk singer-songwriter and rabble-rouser, returns to his roots playing street corners today when he kicks off the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival with the Big ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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