 | | Best things to do in New York from July 7 - 13, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, July 07 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., July 7, 7:00pm | | Where: | Highline Ballroom | | Price: | $22 | | | For the past few years, the Gaslight Anthem have soaked up what attention the world outside New Jersey has for hard-working punk bands from New Brunswick. Nearly two decades before ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Wed., July 6 until Fri., July 8, 1:30pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1943). Dreyer’s other witch movie is stark and brooding—an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit set in a 17th century ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., July 7, 6:30pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $15 | | | The past few years have seen a virtual caravan of North African bands emerge from the Sahara Desert. Khaïra Arby and her band of Tuareg and Sonrai musicians, however, pack ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, July 08 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., July 8, 7:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $3 | | | This Latin Alternative Music Conference lineup's fathers-and-offspring umbrella is one relaxed fit. East LA's venerable Los Lobos long ago coalesced into a universally satisfying roots-rock party machine, one equally impressive ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., July 8 until Fri., July 15 | | Where: | reRun | | Price: | $7 | | | We know there are few things that shock you, dear Voice readers. But we think we may have found a film series worthy of your deepest admiration. Cheerfully Perverse: Five ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., July 8 | | Where: | Altman Building | | Price: | $85–$115 | | | We’ve all witnessed the abysmal treatment of Belgian imports in New York City. Take, for instance, the belligerent hordes of Bridge and Tunnel creatures thrashing their way through Pommes Frites, ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, July 09 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., July 7 until Sun., July 31 | | Where: | The Brick | | Price: | $10-$15, opening-night preview is free | | | Forever solidifying the Brick as the theatrical destination for nerds, the Williamsburg theater follows up its inaugural Comic Book Theater Festival with the return of Game Play. The third-annual fest ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 9, 9:00pm | | Where: | Death By Audio | | Price: | $7 | | | Brooklyn three-piece Grooms trade the kind of achingly fuzzed-out '90s indie rock that replaces the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's scenester-spotting with sincerity. (One track titled "Prom" mostly repeats ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., July 9, 10:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | free | | | We’re still not sure what the tipping point was; all we know is that around 2004, people forgot their Top 8, their customized glitter layouts, and even Tom himself to ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, July 10 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., July 10, 2:00pm | | Where: | World Financial Center | | Price: | free | | | The iconic Village Voice cartoonist Jules Feiffer can add a new title to his extraordinary résumé—which already includes “author,” “playwright,” and “Pulitzer Prize winner”—and that is “choreographer.” Today, Feiffer’s acclaimed ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday from Tue., May 17 until Sun., July 17, 7:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., May 18 until Sun., July 17, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 21 until Sun., July 17, 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., July 10, 8:00pm | | Where: | The Stone | | Price: | $10 | | | I initially slept on drummer Luther Gray's two-guitar skronkathon when it hit last year, but Lawnmower's West offers aggro action galore and plenty of articulation, too. On paper it looks ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, July 11 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., July 11, 9:00pm | | Where: | The Film Society of Lincoln Center | | Price: | $13 | | | Dir. Tsui Hark (2010). Inspired by last decade of CGI-driver martial arts spectaculars, the veteran Hong Kong pop meister makes a marvelous return to form. The cast includes Tony Leung, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., July 11, 3:00pm | | Where: | Gladstone Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1970). More than a curiosity but less than a fully realized work, Pasolini’s 16mm sketch for a never-made film, transposing Aeschylus’s myth of the first human ... 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>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, July 12 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., July 12, 9:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | $15 | | | New York has finally caught up with Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori, whose bouncy electropop foretold an era in which foodies and bike lanes would flourish. "My bike specializes in ... 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., June 17 until Sun., October 2, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., June 18 until Sun., October 2, 7:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., June 18 until Sun., October 2, 9:30pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., June 19 until Sun., October 2, 5:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., June 19 until Sun., October 2, 7:30pm | | Where: | Soho Playhouse | | Price: | $40-$75 | | | To say that hip-hop has gone through an evolution is like saying that Rakim has occasionally bragged--it doesn't quite capture the enormity. (Hey, if Rev Run had attempted the crooked-wing ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, July 13 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., July 13 until Wed., July 27, 11:00am, Wed., July 13, 7:00pm | | Where: | Fuse Gallery | | Price: | free | | | “Are the only punks left now ‘fashion punks’?” Othelo Gervacio says in a statement about “PostBoredom,” his new art show at Fuse Gallery. “No thanks, I’d rather sit at home, ... 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 | Tue., July 5, 7:30pm, Mon., July 11, 7:30pm, Tue., July 12, 7:30pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., June 22 until Wed., July 13, 7:30pm | | Where: | Red Room | | Price: | $20-$30 | | | Lawdy, Miss Kate, lawdy, ah dun know nuthin' 'bout stagin’ no Shakespeare! Well don’t tell that to director Frank Cwiklik, who has relocated the battle-of-the-sexes comedy to the Deep South, ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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