 | | Best things to do in New York from August 18 - 24, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, August 18 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., August 18, 7:00pm | | Where: | Housing Works Bookstore | | Price: | $8 | | | It only takes watching one episode of The Bachelor (or Jersey Shore or Desperate Housewives, the list is endless) to see that humans are hardly rational animals. Which is why ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $10 | | | VHS tapes are a lot like booty calls. You hastily throw them out when you feel that they're past their prime, but you can't help but miss them on a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., August 18, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $20 | | | Now that Wolf Parade are in the midst of an open-ended hiatus, you might expect Handsome Furs to become the vehicle of choice for frontman Dan Boeckner's indie-Springsteen guitar anthems. ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, August 19 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., August 19, 7:00pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Carl Theodore Dreyer (1932). Uncanny in its discontinuities, a movie dedicated to working against all generic expectation, Carl Theodore Dreyer’s vision of the undead (as well as his first ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 19, 7:30pm | | Where: | Cameo Gallery | | Price: | $12 | | | The War on Drugs, from Philadelphia, are probably best known for the one-time membership of Kurt Vile, whose Smoke Ring For My Halo has drawn some of this year's most ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., August 19, 7:00pm | | Where: | 3rd Ward | | Price: | free | | | Remember the mind-blowing scenes in Inception, with buildings toppling over each other and the city's landscape unwinding before our eyes? The work of artist Dagmara Genda is very similar to ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, August 20 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., August 20, 10:00am-9:00pm | | Where: | South Street Seaport | | Price: | free | | | Do you like delicious cuisine? Live music? Face painting? If you answered yes to any of these questions, swing by PARKED!, MeanRed’s fourth annual food-truck festival. Held this year at ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 20, 11:00am-4:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bridge Park | | Price: | free | | | Until the 1950s, the site of the Brooklyn Bridge Park was an active waterfront, but the ports there lost out to international ocean shipping just as the construction of the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., August 20, 11:00am-5:00pm, Sun., August 21, 11:00am-5:00pm | | Where: | Governors Island | | Price: | $7–$10 | | | If you always wanted to attend a party at Gatsby’s mansion, the Jazz Age Dance Party happening today at Governors Island is as close as you’re going to get (unless ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, August 21 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., August 21, 12:00pm | | Where: | Littlefield | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | An afternoon performance showcases NYC-via-Holland picker Jozef Van Wissem, easily the world's hippest lutist. This rising talent has plucked (haw!) the instrument from its Ren Faire stigmas in order to ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., August 21, 3:00pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | free | | | Some of the New York metro area’s golden-age hip-hop heroes show off their wares today. Long Island–born Rakim, with then-partner Eric B., turned rap on its ear in 1987 with ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., August 19 until Sun., October 9 | | Where: | New York Theatre Workshop | | Price: | $20-$70 | | | Should someone stage an intervention? It's unlikely that the actors of The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Elevator Repair Service's Ernest Hemingway adaptation, consume actual booze onstage, but the amount ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, August 22 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., August 22, 8:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $20 | | | Atlanta's Deerhunter have been making the international festival rounds this summer, playing Pitchfork in Chicago, Bonnaroo in Tennessee, and Primavera Sound in Barcelona. This weekend they hit New York (fresh ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., August 22, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bryant Park | | Price: | free | | | Inspector Harry Callahan of the San Francisco Police Department has no respect for the rules. “I shoot the bastard, that’s my policy,” he says. Dirty Harry, the 1971 thriller directed ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., August 22, 2:40pm, Mon., August 22, 5:45pm, Mon., August 22, 8:50pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Robert Stevenson (1949). One of Hollywood’s better anti-Communist noirs features Robert Ryan as a now respectable shipping executive forced to confront his Party past in the form of old ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, August 23 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., August 23, 10:00pm | | Where: | Cielo | | Price: | $10-$15 | | | Classic New York house label Nervous is re-branding itself with its forward-looking “Nurvous” sublabel—and Ashley Jones is a drum & bass refugee who’s turned to house. As Treasure Fingers, Atlanta ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., August 23 until Sun., August 28 | | Where: | International Center of Photography | | Price: | $8-$12 | | | Photographing all over the world as a member of the esteemed Magnum photo agency, starting in 1953, Elliott Erwitt developed a keen eye for making celebrities look human and turning ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., June 30 until Sat., August 27 | | Where: | The Kitchen | | Price: | free | | | Once upon a time, before H&M and all the fancy boutiques took over, Soho was home to a little place called the Kitchen, the pioneering home for the avant-garde performing ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, August 24 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., August 24, 7:00pm | | Where: | House of Vans | | Price: | free | | | With 20 years of aggressive, chaotic underground hardcore to their name, Converge are a menacing group to be headlining a show at this pop-up skate park. Each of the group’s ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., August 23, 7:30pm, Tue., August 23, 9:30pm, Wed., August 24, 7:30pm, Wed., August 24, 9:30pm | | Where: | Jazz Standard | | Price: | $20 | | | Colombia-born Edmar Castaneda plays his homeland's "arpa llanera," a diatonic harp he rocks with the virtuosic pizazz of, say, Charlie Hunter. Leading a group consisting of trombonist Marshall Gilkes, drummer ... 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>> | | | | | |  | |
