 | | Best things to do in New York from August 11 - 17, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, August 11 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., August 11, 6:30pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $35 | | | Nearly nine months after its release, Cut Copy's "Take Me Over" continues to inspire debate over which '80s-pop nugget it most resembles: Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere," or "Down Under" by fellow ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 11, 6:00pm | | Where: | Pier 54 | | Price: | free | | | Raucous Americana group Deer Tick perform emotional roots-rock rave-ups in the style of the Band and alt-country groups such as Uncle Tupelo--including more-than-sincere, gravelly vocals from frontman John McCauley--but they're ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 11, 9:30pm | | Where: | Walter Reade Theater | | Price: | $13 | | | Anyone can slap new music onto a silent film's blank slate. But it takes love and tact to weave new music into the set dialogue and score of a "talkie"—as ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, August 12 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., August 12 until Sun., August 28 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $15-$18 | | | The middle stretches of the summer are typically a theatrical dead zone, but the New York International Fringe Festival sees to it that we don't have to wait it out ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 12, 5:30pm | | Where: | Williamsburg Waterfront | | Price: | $33 | | | We've been geeking out about Wild Flag for a while—how can we not? They're a supergroup simulacrum of the '90s: Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss (of Sleater-Kinney), Mary Timony (Helium), ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 12, 8:00pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $10 | | | Nicole Kidman may seem very elegant and stately now, but back in 1983, she was a rough-and-tumble tomboy with a thick Australian accent and a mop of curly red hair, ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, August 13 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., August 13, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $13-$15 | | | The local psych-folk dudes of Woods had a momentous July: First they played Pitchfork's annual summer blowout in Chicago alongside Animal Collective and Odd Future, then they put together the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 13, 2:00pm | | Where: | PS 1 | | Price: | $15 | | | Squishes, buzzes, pows, and other assorted comic-book onomatopoeias will reverberate around PS1's concrete walls and subversive sculptures today as Brooklyn experimenters Black Dice do what they do best: make noise. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Sat., August 13 until Sat., August 20 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | For the past 30 years, the Battery Dance Company has hosted their Downtown Dance Festival, bringing some of the world's best dancers to the city for an entire week, completely ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, August 14 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., August 14, 4:00pm | | Where: | Hudson Terrace | | Price: | $20 | | | Danny Howells has defined big-room house for both London and NYC, thanks to residencies including Ministry of Sound and Twilo--as well as a seemingly endless series of mix CDs to ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 14, 7:30pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $35 | | | It's a turntable! It's a drum machine! No, it's the contestants of the 2011 American Beatbox Championships! Tonight, the top 16 beatboxers in the country go head-to-head in an 8 ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., August 9 until Sun., August 14, 9:00pm, Daily from Tue., August 9 until Sun., August 14, 11:00pm | | Where: | Village Vanguard | | Price: | $30-$35 | | | The esteemed saxophonist knows how to balance opposites. There's a sense of cool that is often at odds with the feverish manner usually marking his group's music. The itchy way ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, August 15 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., August 15, 8:00pm, Mon., August 15, 10:30pm | | Where: | Blue Note | | Price: | $10-$20 | | | The Bronx-raised trumpeter's new El Comando de la Clave disc finds him making hay with pals from Madrid, the city he moved to a decade ago. As "Tenderly" and "Love ... 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 | Daily from Mon., August 15 until Sun., August 21 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | various | | | Tired of the mindless summer-blockbuster season? The New York International Latino Film Festival brings us an extensive showcase of thought-provoking films—more than a hundred movies all together (but don't fret, ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, August 16 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., August 16, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $20 | | | Little Dragon's 2009 sophomore album, Machine Dreams, positively burst at the seams with sophisticated yet fractured pop. But it was a little too upbeat, so nothing hit as hard as ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 16, 8:00pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | The warble-boogie of James Pants' 2008 kiss-off "We're Through" still haunts the world's better mix tapes, and two albums for Stones Throw later, dude is still building on that wacko ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 16, 8:00pm | | Where: | Skyport Marina | | Price: | $10-$15 | | | Not to be confused with Ringo Deathstarr, another snub-nosed band of rockers eagerly taunting the Fab Four's litigators, Gringo Star are an affably catchy lo-fi troupe from the balmiest reaches ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, August 17 | | | | | | | Time | 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, Every week Sunday from Sun., July 31 until Sat., September 3, 3:00pm, Wed., August 24, 2:00pm, Wed., August 31, 2:00pm | | 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., August 10 until Fri., August 19 | | Where: | Steven Kasher Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Growing up in New York in the '70s, music photographer Laura Levine got her start by sneaking her camera into concerts and going backstage with a homemade press pass. Before ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., August 17 | | Where: | McCarren Park | | Price: | free | | | Of all the films that were inspired by an SNL skit, which was the highest-grossing at the box office? Here's a hint: Schwing! Yes, Wayne's World raked in $183 million ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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