 | | Best things to do in New York from July 28 - August 3, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, July 28 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., July 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Studio at Webster Hall | | Price: | $20 | | | On Skying, their third album, the Horrors seem less concerned with the eyeliner, Cousin Itt mooning, and frilly shirts of their past as with trying their damndest to pull off ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., July 28 until Sat., August 13, 8:00pm | | Where: | Municipal parking lot | | Price: | free | | | Something is smoggy in the state of Denmark. In this plein-air Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot production of Hamlet, staged at the Municipal Parking Lot, the Drilling Company offers this ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., July 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Crown Vic | | Price: | $10 | | | Are you ready to rumble? Tonight, come get acquainted with the stars of the semi-pro Millennium Wrestling Federation from Lincolntown, North Carolina, when they make a special appearance at a ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, July 29 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., July 29, 5:30pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | free | | | Pretty Good Friends is an alt-comedy night hosted by the very funny Eugene Mirman most Sundays (except during the summer) at Union Hall in Park Slope for about seven bucks. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 29, 7:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Poetry Club | | Price: | $12 | | | Game-show host Jonny Porkpie is a very clever pervert. He found a way to make trivia nights actually … sexy. We should be fair and say that Grab My Junk ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 29, 8:30pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | He named his Web site after his track "6.4 = Makeout," and no one should blame him, because that's probably the best name ever for a watery, weird pop song ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, July 30 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., July 30, 12:00pm | | Where: | South Street Seaport | | Price: | free | | | Manhattan-based avant-gardes Gang Gang Dance headline the New York installment of this year's multi-city Mad Decent Block Party, the annual party thrown by the record label owned by Diplo. Their ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 30, 7:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Julien Temple (1986). One time punk filmmaker pulls off a lavish old-school musical—a candy-colored extravaganza based on Colin MacInnes’s novel of the late ‘50s London pop scene, with David ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., July 29 until Sun., July 31, 7:30pm | | Where: | Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Price: | $15 | | | Could Mo'Nique get any more flamboyant? Duh, of course she could. Stacey Layne Matthews, one of the breakout queens from RuPaul's Drag Race, sees to it in The HoMo'Nique Show, ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, July 31 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., July 31 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $450 | | | Mickey Melchiondo must be a modest guy. On the "About" page for Mickey's Guide Service, his charter fishing business, he never once mentions his alter ego, i.e., Dean Ween of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 31, 3:00pm | | Where: | Gowanus Grove | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | Among our century's dance legends is a party at the Eagle, one of South London's smaller gay bars. There, Horse Meat collectivists Jim Stanton, James Hillard, Filthy Luka, and Severino ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 31, 2:40pm, Sun., July 31, 6:10pm, Sun., July 31, 9:40pm, Mon., August 1, 2:40pm, Mon., August 1, 8:35pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Josef von Sternberg (1932). Marlene Dietrich's “Hot Voodoo” number more than justifies this mad, mawkish extravaganza in which she plays a single mother (and sometime hooker) in Josef von ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, August 01 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., August 1, 6:30pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | $30 | | | Swedish pop singer Lykke Li grew up a lot on her latest album, Wounded Rhymes, with songs such as the Phil Spector-ish sex anthem "Get Some," the haunting goth-rock of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., August 1, 6:45pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Buster Keaton (1923). Set in the Jackson era and evoking the time of back country feuds, Buster Keaton’s early feature is a unique mixture of fastidious Americana and hyper-modern, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., August 1 until Fri., August 19 | | Where: | Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Painter Erik Parker and street artist and designer toymaker KAWS collaborate for the first time on a riotous new exhibit at Paul Kasmin Gallery titled Pretty on the Inside. The ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, August 02 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., August 2, 5:30pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | $39.50 | | | Ben Gibbard and his mopemeisters turn their frowns upside down on Codes and Keys, the only Death Cab for Cutie album with a song ("Stay Young, Go Dancing") even a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 2, 7:00pm, Wed., August 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $35 | | | Sufjan Stevens hasn't been heard from much around these parts since last fall, when the Brooklyn-based indie-folk bard closed his American tour in support of The Age of Adz with ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 2, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $50-$70 | | | If bluegrass has a singular guardian angel, it must be Alison Krauss--emphasis on the "angel" part, as her pristine voice remains as gently devastating as ever on her superb fourteenth ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, August 03 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., August 3, 6:00pm | | Where: | Bryant Park | | Price: | free | | | Ping-pong—a/k/a table tennis—is not an ancient Oriental sport: It actually originated in Britain in the 1880s as a popular after-dinner game called "wiff-waff." Today, it's an Olympic sport with an ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., August 3, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $5 | | | When Party Down got canceled after a mere two seasons, it quickly became a cult hit just as many other comedy shows that ended way before their time, such as ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., August 3, 7:00pm | | Where: | Fuse Gallery | | Price: | free | | | It was 1986 when photographer Ricky Powell quit his job as a Frozade vendor and joined his buddies the Beastie Boys on the Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell tour bus. Good move, ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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