 | | Best things to do in New York from August 4 - 10, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, August 04 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., August 4, 8:00pm | | Where: | Barbes | | Price: | $10 | | | Sort of a homespun Rickie Lee Jones, only odder, this singing accordionist/pianist has given some remarkable appearances lately. With a voice that seamlessly leaps between little-girl frailty and blues-crone mysteries, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 4, 7:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $3 | | | Even if you've already seen Fritz Lang's iconic sci-fi silent film Metropolis countless times, you've never really seen it unless you've attended a screening with live accompaniment by the Alloy ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 4, 6:30pm | | Where: | New York Public Library | | Price: | free | | | Maybe you're a seasoned epicurean who lives to blanch, baste, and braise. Maybe you're a neophyte chef who can barely use the stove without keeping the fire extinguisher and a ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, August 05 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., August 5, 7:00pm | | Where: | Prospect Park Bandshell | | Price: | $3 | | | Ra Ra Riot have always enjoyed a reputation out of sync with their rather ordinary chamber-pop ditties. Both openers, though, are well worth your time: Delicate Steve's recent Wondervisions is ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 5, 7:00pm | | Where: | Izod Center | | Price: | $26-$347 | | | Despite the unease we have about Britney Spears's current Femme Fatale tour – a grueling worldwide trek, scheduled through November and quite a taxation on the troubled pop star – ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., August 5 until Sun., August 7, 11:00am | | Where: | Shinnecock Reservation | | Price: | $100-$275 | | | To some, the Hamptons is not a destination—it's a state of mind, darling, and simply the only place to relax with a glass of chilled prosecco on a fine summer ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, August 06 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., August 6, 8:30pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $15 | | | Devoted Cold Cave fans probably caught the local neo-New Wave outfit when the group launched its North American tour last month at the Knitting Factory. But here it is again, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 6, 11:00am | | Where: | Coney Island | | Price: | $10 | | | All pets in costume are eligible to enter this annual pageant, hosted by Sequinette and Bambi the Mermaid. Last year's winner, Movie Star, will perform before giving up the crown. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 6, 2:45pm, Sat., August 6, 6:25pm, Sat., August 6, 10:05pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernst Schoedsack (1933). No remake can ever equal the crazy grandeur of the original. Imagine Jaws as a love story and you still won’t get ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, August 07 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Sun., August 7 until Sun., August 14 | | Where: | Asia Society | | Price: | $10 | | | A publication in China has been quoted as saying that Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei "likes to do something others dare not do." Indeed, over the years, Weiwei, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 7, 10:00am | | Where: | Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater | | Price: | $6 | | | Dir. Abe Levitow (1962). Several notable talents came together to make this largely forgotten cartoon musical, including animator Chuck Jones, songsmiths Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, and chanteuse Judy Garland, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 7, 2:00pm, Sun., August 7, 4:30pm, Sun., August 7, 6:50pm, Sun., August 7, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Francesco Rosi (1963). Rosi’s dark, post-neo realist comedy of postwar Italian affluence focuses on corrupt politicians and unscrupulous developers in booming Naples—dubbed into Italian, Rod Steiger combines both types ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, August 08 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., August 8, 7:00pm | | Where: | Chelsea Piers | | Price: | $36-$396 | | | Had it with the heat? Here's a literally cool idea for fun and exercise: Monday night classes for adult beginners at the Sky Rink. Ice-skating is one of the oldest ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., August 8 until Sat., September 3 | | Where: | MoMA PS1 | | Price: | $10 | | | Watching clips of Ryan Trecartin's movies Trill-ogy Comp, a trilogy, and Re'Search Wait'S, a quartet, is not unlike witnessing the cast of Cirque du Soleil high on crack. The works, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., August 3, 9:30pm, Mon., August 8, 7:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. John Waters (1990). Johnny Depp gave a courageous early performance in this slight teenage comedy—essentially a warm-up for Waters’s far more substantial and emotionally satisfying Hairspray. More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, August 09 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., August 9, 8:00pm | | Where: | United Palace Theatre | | Price: | $45 | | | Word from the road indicates members of Bon Iver aren't playing their Pitchfork-pimped cover of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" on their current North American tour, which ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 9, 7:00pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $12 | | | Lots of grandparents like to recall their hardships from back-in-the-day ("When I was your age, I walked two miles in the snow . . . with no shoes!"), but only ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., August 8, 8:00pm, Tue., August 9, 8:00pm | | Where: | Terminal 5 | | Price: | $30-$35 | | | For the past few years, vocalist/guitarist Alison Mosshart has been busy gallivanting around the globe with Jack White in the Dead Weather. Luckily, that time period seems mostly not to ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, August 10 | | | | | | | 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 | 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., August 10, 8:30pm | | Where: | Riverside Park | | Price: | free | | | Sometimes you're not quite sure if the New York City Parks Department is pulling a fast one on you. For Wednesday night's screening of The Return of Swamp Thing in ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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