 | | Best things to do in New York from August 25 - 31, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, August 25 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., August 25, 7:00pm | | Where: | powerHouse Arena | | Price: | free | | | Does your dog drink all your PBR? Prefer the legs of American Apparel employees to hump? Sneak out at night to go to 285 Kent? If you answered yes to ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 25, 4:30pm, Thu., August 25, 9:30pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Steven Soderbergh (2009). The hardcore teen queen who took the name “Sasha Grey” and refers to her porn films as performance art plays a paid escort, $2,000 an hour. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 25, 7:30pm, Fri., August 26, 7:30pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $35 | | | Chan Marshall hasn’t released a new Cat Power album since 2008’s Jukebox, her second set (after 2000’s The Covers Record) of low-and-slow indie-blues remakes. A recent post on Matador Records’ ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, August 26 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., August 26, 7:00pm | | Where: | New Museum | | Price: | $12 | | | With Alabama’s G-Side making their New York debut last year at the Maysles Cinema and MOMA PS1 introducing Queens to Big Freedia, Odd Future’s Syd tha Kyd, and occasional Main ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 26, 2:00pm | | Where: | Atlantic Stage 2 | | Price: | free | | | Who knew back in 2004, when writer Gustavo Arellano wrote his first “¡Ask a Mexican!” column for our sister paper the OC Weekly, that one day it would be transformed ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 26, 8:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $10 | | | Archaic revivalists clash and coalesce when Los Angeles psychedelic savant Cameron Stallone’s Sun Araw joins Brooklyn avant-Hindi sister act Prince Rama during a promised collaborative set capping an evening-long journey ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, August 27 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., August 27, 4:30pm, Sun., August 28, 4:30pm | | Where: | Commodore Barry Park | | Price: | free | | | With this year’s lineup pushing the pseudo-genre in every direction imaginable, the name Afro-Punk Festival seems more open-ended than ever. On Saturday, Santigold headlines on the strength of a debut ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 27, 12:00pm | | Where: | City Reliquary Museum | | Price: | $30, includes a mid-tour beer at Matt Torrey’s bar | | | What’s better than taking the good ol’ bicycle for a nice ride in Brooklyn? Using alcohol as your fuel. OK, OK, we kid . . . sort of. The Bike ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 27, 12:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park | | Price: | free | | | A little more than two years after Michael Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, and the legal battles and bitterness continue. Most recently, the Michael Jackson Estate has threatened to ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, August 28 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., August 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $15–$18 | | | RuPaul’s Drag Race is all well and good, and we’re happy for gender nonconformists getting all the exposure they can. But even with the rise of men in dresses all ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 28, 12:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Mission | | Price: | free | | | Standing in a tattered dress, holding a rag doll, and staring off into a bleak future with Lillian Gish–like silence, Poor Baby Bree seems to have been born in sepia ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 28, 3:00pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | free | | | After bringing Jon B and Olivia to Brooklyn, Chrisette Michele to Queens, and Ryan Leslie to Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, SummerStage winds down their season of free r&b by showcasing ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, August 29 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., August 29 until Sun., September 11 | | Where: | USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center | | Price: | Starts at $9 | | | The last Grand Slam of the season, the U.S. Open always attracts the top talent looking to flush out their rankings and purses—not to mention their endorsement deals—before the break. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., August 24 until Mon., November 14 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | What if we had a DVR that could record the things we missed in real life? Conceptual artist Carlito Carvalhosa has somehow invented a way for us to experience yesterday ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., August 29, 5:30pm | | Where: | Living Room | | Price: | $20-$25 | | | Despite flannel everywhere, true Manhattan barnstorming hasn’t been possible for at least a century. Nevertheless, the people at Daytrotter are returning to the island with an after-work mega-show that will ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, August 30 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., August 30, 7:00pm | | Where: | McNally Jackson Booksellers | | Price: | free | | | “Many of the women in these stories are farouche—they’re outsiders, they’re troubled, they lack polish, they dream too much,” writes Joy Williams in the introduction to the story collection Fantastic ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 30, 2:30pm | | Where: | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Cullman Center | | Price: | free | | | In 1980, makeup artists performed a cinematic feat by making Angela Lansbury, then 55, look older than she does now, at 85. The British sleuth/murderous baker/singing teapot starred as the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 30, 8:00pm | | Where: | Glasslands Gallery | | Price: | $8-$10 | | | It's gonna be a real high-art hootenanny over at Glasslands for this nine-act strong showcase, presented by the (mostly) Brooklyn-based electronic imprint Moodgadget. One man beat armies Mux Mool and ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, August 31 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., July 16 until Mon., January 16, 10:30am-7:00pm, Sat., July 16, 10:30am-8:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Sat., July 16 until Mon., January 16, 10:30am-5:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $6–$12 | | | With the release last week of Muppets: The Green Album (Muppets songs re-imagined by everyone from Weezer to Andrew Bird) and the forthcoming release of The Muppets (with Jason Segel, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 30, 8:00pm, Tue., August 30, 10:30pm, Wed., August 31, 8:00pm, Wed., August 31, 10:30pm | | Where: | Blue Note | | Price: | $10-$20 | | | After many years of sharing the bandstand, one thing’s sure: There’s deep chemistry between pianist Pilc, bassist Moutin, and drummer Hoenig. You can hear it in the precision of the ... 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>> | | | | | |  | |
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