I love cats to death, but there is something so nice about a sunny day in the park with a pup. Today is like the end all and be all of days in the park with a pup as the 4th Annual My Dog Loves Central Park Country Fair barks its way into Central Park. "Come out and enjoy a beautiful autumn day in the Park with thousands of urban pooches and their devoted two-legged pals! This fun, educational, day-long event, presented by the Central Park Conservancy and Central Park PAWS (an advisory group of dog owners who use Central Park) celebrates the Park's amazing dog community. Activities will include agility trials, contests and games, a microchip ID clinic, a guided "Hound Hike", a special dog photographer, "Ask the Vet" advice center, pets for adoption, and much more!"
Date: Saturday, October 1st Time: 11am - 4pm Location: Central Park - mid-park at 72nd Street, between the Bandshell and Sheep Meadow Cost: Free
Meet the captain and crew of the Greeenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, take a free tour of the ship, and participate in an interactive exhibit on the effects of global warming on NYC. Continues Sunday. Advanced registration recommended.
Date: Saturday, October 1st Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm Location: Pier 59, Chelesea (23rd and Hudson) Cost: Free
o2NYC has joined up with Solar1, Bright Power and ConEd Solutions to cohost a solar music party, green power sign up drive and ecodesign market. Part festival, part sustainable product marketplace, this all-day, free outdoor event will connect green designers and entrepreneurs to the public in an energized atmosphere of music, dance and celebration. It will feature an eclectic lineup of accomplished DJs and musical acts, including Matthias Heilbronn (Wave Music); Cato (Turntables on the Hudson); Marc-Allan Gray (LoveSlap); Corey Backer (Unknown People); Natasha DeGraff (KillDJ); Red Robot, and other special guests. Amplification for the event will be powered entirely by Solar One’s 3.5 kWh Photovoltaic array. Bar and refreshments will be provided courtesy of the Brooklyn Brewery, Habana Outpost, and Sambazon. Other partners in the event include some of the city’s most notable green retailers, including 3R Living, IIKH, Build it Green, and Vivavi.com. It will also be host to New York’s first ever Green Power Sign Up Drive, sponsored by ConEd Solutions. The Drive will aim to enlist the maximum number of new clean electricity (wind and/or low impact Hydro) customers throughout the day. Incentives and gifts will be available to those who choose to sign up at the event.
Date: Saturday, October 1st Time: 1:00pm - 7:00pm Location:Solar1 (Stuyvesant Cove Park 2420 FDR Drive at 23rd Street) Cost: Free
Take advantage of the good weather and hit up the Loreley outdoor beer garden for Oktoberfest today. There's a suckling pig roast and beer beer beer. Check the site for full info.
Date: October 1st Time: 3:00pm Location: Loreley (7 Rivington Street) Cost: Free to go.
"For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlocking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory." Come check out the roots of some of NYC's classic street art... through November 1st.
Usually we tend to write about hip hop-hipster rock-"cool kid" music, so here is something a lil different for you to check out... Today check out a concert featuring Nina Maria Lee on cello Asmira Woodward-Page on violin at Flux Factory.
"Concert starts at 9pm sharp, no entry after start of the concert.
* Bach, Sarabande (solo cello suite)
* Anonymous, 3 Sanskrit Mantras to the Goddess for Enlightenment (violin and voice)
* Ravel, Duo for violin and cello
An evening of classical music for violin and cello, with a live video projection of closeups of the musician's hands."
This is a wierd one so I am giving it to you just as I found it... "An exhibition of art by Jack Kevorkian curated by The Fusion Arts Museum and Baird Jones. * Private free wine reception from 10:30 - 11:30PM. Free admission for you and your guests from 10:30 until 12:30 by saying that you are there for this art show."
Date: Saturday, October 1st Time: 10:30pm Location: Spirit Nightclub(540 West 27 St. at 10th Ave) Cost: Free
Tom Bomb and Raul the Magnificent take over The Fix, a little coffeshop bar, in Williamsburg with the sounds of reggae, rockstead, ska, soul, and (perhaps) some punk. You'll see the freeNYC staff making a late night drive through... sitting in the back... in proper "coffee shop" style. Help come out and support so this can become a weekly thing. $2 PBR cans.
Date: Saturday, October 1st Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am Location: The Fix (Bedford and North 11th, behind Sound Fix, Williamsburg) Cost: Free
Slow Food USA does food well... really well. As the name implies, the organization is dedicated to using unprocessed ingredients, time, and care to and it shows. Today is their Urban Harvest, a "festive tribute to the farmers and artisans who provide us with foods that are delicious, ecologically sustainable, and humanely produced." There will be "over 40 regional farmers and artisanal food producers – most of whom do not normally attend the City's Greenmarkets. Offerings will include pastured poultry from the Catskills; traditionally fermented sauerkraut and pickles from the Berkshires; custards and fresh dairy products from western New York; wines from the East End of Long Island; biodynamic apples from the Hudson Valley; and over 30 farmstead cheeses from Vermont." Visitors are welcome to shop the market for tasty treats or try out tasting plates design by NYC chefs at the cost of 6 tastings for $20. There is also a beverage version of this market afterwards dedicated to wine, beer, and cider.
Date: Sunday, October 2nd Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm Location: City Municipal Building (1 Center Street) Cost: Free to attend
You know that scene from Garden State where they are all sitting around the kitchen table with this dude who is a knight at Medieval Times (and then the knight tells Zach Braff that "it says balls on your face" hahaha). Well anyway, you'll see a lot of those Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park today. And by "those" I meant knights, not balls, wait unless your chillin' with the jugglers, ok never mind, just read below...
"The area around the Cloisters Museum in Fort Tryon Park is transformed into a medieval market village where knights in armor, jugglers, jesters, magicians, musicians, storytellers, and puppeteers will perform. A blacksmith, manuscript illuminator, pottery decorator, wood carver and other artisans will demonstrate their crafts. Performers and fairgoers dress in historical costumes. Medieval food is available and craft items will be sold. The afternoon culminates with a jousting event between knights on horseback!"
Date: Sunday, October 2nd Time: 12pm - 6pm Location: Fort Tryon Park, Take either the “A” train to the 190th Street Station or the M4 bus to the park entrance. Cost: Free
Dorothy Parker was the only female founding member of the famous Algonquin Round Table, a literary circle home to other writers such as Robert Sherwood and James Thurber. She wrote things like this:
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
That’s why they’re havin’ a scavenger hunt (because we've put the razors down and we're all alive)! At 5 pm everyone who participates rounds back up at the Algonquin to drink a lot and find out who won. So even if you're not much of a Parker fan, there's drinking involved, and that always makes scavenger hunts extra worthwhile. [swiped from NewRelease]
Date: Sunday, October 2 Time: 1:30 pm Venue: it begins in the Algonquin Hotel Lobby (59 w. 44th St. btw. 5th and 6th avenues) Cost: Free
Being: The culmination of years of hard labor and brutal ritual, the final push that will get the runway done, the ancestors pleased, the planes back, and deliver to us the abundant cargo that we so, so deserve; featuring: merchant marines, brazen brass, exceedingly clever flying machines, cardboard communication, synchronized semaphore, lighthouses, ropework, Melanesia, control towers, morse code, dazzling displays of ritual dance, arbitrary and capricious blood letting, sacred Jello, red crosses, gigantic, gimpy John Frum, sea chanteys, and your helping hands when they are needed the most.
Beware of swashbuckling pirates, unsympathetic Red Cross workers, and John Frum. If you follow the signs and complete the ritual, you will be amply rewarded for your faith. Watch for the arrival of the Vanuatu Air Fleet for your first clue. Be late and you will miss it. Bring libations, a Metro card and be prepared to walk. After party at the Carriage House, 59th St. Bet 2nd & 3rd Ave.
Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 14 Honewy Locusts Part (59th between 1st and 2nd)
Cost: Free
Woah... this is a rare one... a good one... and a "do not miss" one. Heavy, heavy hitters when it comes to beat making are combining live drummers and DJs for a crazy all out night. "For this one night only, witness DJs Madlib, J-Rocc, Cut Chemist and Nuts join forces with Brazilian drummers Paul Humphrey, Joao Parahyba and Derf Reklaw for a show that we can't even begin to describe. Rounding out the talent will be an opening set by Brazilian Beat Brooklyn and additional sounds by DJs Sean Marquand and Greg Caz. There will also be a 10-minute preview screening of Brasil In Time: Batucada com Discos for the attendees." RSVP now, arrive early, and don't sleep on this one!
Date: Sunday, October 2nd Time: 7:30pm - 12:30am Location: Spirit (530 W. 27th St.) Cost: Free with RSVP
"Kelly Slusher plays music to heal the hearts of the broken and soothe the souls of the lonely. She stands somewhere in between the hauntingly beautiful voice of Julee Cruise and the influential, early indie pop groups such as The Clean, The Go-Betweens and The Vaselines."
So I have never actually watched Gummo because I'm scared of the multitude of dead cats that appear in the movie, but I hear its quite good. Check out a free screening tonight at Flux Factory.
Concrescesnce is a combination of live acoustic instruments melding with electronic ones "that can slip into the back of your head or occupy your entire consciousness." A cop out comparison would be Sound Tribe Selector 9 but the diverse musicians here swing a much wider gambit from IDM to Folk. Music is coupled with live visual creating a great way to lay back and ease into the end of the weekend.
If you are stuck being a midtown marauder like me then take a lunchtime break for a little Yankees playoff Rally. Former Yankees Don Larson, Michey Rivers, Graig Nettles, and Jim Leyritz will be on hand and you can enter to win tickets to a playoff game. Free rally towels for all.
Date: Monday, October 3rd Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Bryant Park (41st and 6th Cost: Free
The NYC Karaoke lovin' phenomenon continues with this Piano's weekly. This more intimate setting lets your inner star shine with a dedicated cast of performers that make this a Monday must. Check out what the hype is all about tonight.
Date: Monday, September 19th Time: 10:00pm Location: Pianos (158 Ludlow at Stanton) Cost: Free
I can't tell if we are becoming Synapse groupies over here or he is just spinning records like a mad man lately and playing nearly every party in the city. Either way though, check him out with DJ Gravy at the Retail Mafia Monday night weekly at Sway. As usual, grab some free beer from 10 'til 11:30 and I think this week you can even win some Timbs.
Date: Monday, October 3rd Time: 10pm Venue: Sway, 305 Spring Cost: Free
The first in this season's Women Poets at Barnard College reading series features Carolyn Forche and Honor Moore.
“The hunger to know” in Carolyn Forché’s most recent book, The Blue Hour (2004), “is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time” (Robert Boyers). Her debut collection, Gathering of the Tribes (1976), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.
Honor Moore’s new book of poems, Red Shoes (2005), a series of meditations and elegies, is “a searing exploration of exposure, as the concept impacts all stages of human life and also death” (Jorie Graham). She is a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and is at work on The Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir.
[swiped from Women Poets at Barnard]
Date: Tuesday, October 4 Time: 7:00 p.m. Venue: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall (1 to 116th, walk one block north) Cost: Free
Well it's officially October and you know what that means... FreeNYC starts obsessing about snowboarding. So we figured to kick it off we should start with the Burton World Tour event tonight. There will be a Burton fashion show (hot boys and girls in snowpants and goggles), their video premier, a couple live bands and some riders you may have heard of (Keir Dillon, Trevor Andrew, JP Solberg, Shaun White, Anne Molin Kongsgaard, Hann). Looks like its time for me to bust out the snowboard, strap it on in my living room and await the first snow!
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Time: 9pm - 4am Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th Cost: Free (this is an 18 and over event)
"Stand-up with a twist is yours for the viewing tonight at Starlight Bar & Lounge. PuPu Platter, a comedic troupe featuring four of Gotham’s best and brightest new faces plays to an always-packed house. A winning combination of sketch comedy, stand-up and any other zany antics these loony kids come up with, you’re sure to be rolling in the aisles. This is one PuPu platter where you don’t have to worry about any mystery meat." [Swiped from Paper cuz they write better than I do]
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Time: 9:30pm Location: Starlight Bar & Lounge (167 Ave. A) Cost: Free
Another day, another industry party. This one does sound promising though, its the Vapors issue release party with Stretch Armstrong and Mark Ronson on the bill. Expect the joint to be packed with scenesters and skaters, so show up on the early side.
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Time: 10pm - 4am Venue: Home and Guesthouse, 532 West 27th Cost: Free with RSVP
It's the 2 year anniversary of this classic Tuesday night party. The original crew is in the house and local wonderkids Tommy Sunshine and Spensor Product are comming through for support. Open bar from 10-12 make this the spot to be at tonight.
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Time: 10:00pm Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge) Cost: Free
If the down and dirty dirty of Happy Ending is not your scene tonight, sink into the sweaty, deep bass baile funk and dancehall sounds of Favela Clash. DJs Sujino and Cassiano, better known as Nossa Musica, are back from Brasil and ready to share some fresh wax along side DJ G Brown. Free Brahma Beer from 11 - 12 sweetens the deal while $5 Caipirinhas keep you going.
Listen to DJ Sujino's I [heart] Baile Funk (flash player)
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Time: 11:00pm Location: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St. and West 8th) Cost: Free with RSVP
Kurt Kauper's paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons-Opera Divas, Cary Grant, and hockey players.
Kauper has had several solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He has received numerous awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1999, the Pollack-Krasner, and two Elizabeth Greenshields grants. His work is included in the collections of The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
War, Occupation, and Democracy: American Strategy In The Middle East
Palestinian Member of Israeli Knesset since 1996, Leader of National Democratic Assembly, and Celebrated Writer and Intellectual Azmi Bishara speaks on the current state of America in the Middle east this evening. Introduction by Rashid Khalidi
Date: Wednesday, October 5th Time: 8:00pm Location: Barnard College, 304 Barnard Hall (3009 Broadway at 117th) Cost: Free (?)
_8:00 PM… THE CITY ON FILM: American Diary (Redder Records) (EP)
_8:50 PM… TINY AMPS: Trill & Swagger (Redder Records)
_9:23 PM… LOADED DREAMS: Loveworthy
10:05 PM… THE DOUBLE: Loose In The Air (Matador Records)
10:50 PM… ELK CITY: New Believers
11:35 PM… BLING KONG: Do the Awesome (Redder Records) (EP)
12:00 AM… EARLY MAN: Closing In (Matador Records)
"Kelly Slusher plays music to heal the hearts of the broken and soothe the souls of the lonely. She stands somewhere in between the hauntingly beautiful voice of Julee Cruise and the influential, early indie pop groups such as The Clean, The Go-Betweens and The Vaselines." Tonight is another chance to catch the local riser in an intimate setting for free.
We are going to need to create a weeklies section for parties like Bang that we love so much we post them every week. Its pack with a good time and has an open vodka bar from 10-11. Go for it!
Date: Wednesday, October 5th Time: 10:00pm Location: China 1 (50 Aveunue B at 4th Street) Cost: Free
Pay no attention to this "RSVP by August" madness on the invite because this got dropped in our mailbox this week but the Scion folks are at it again bringing you the best in not-so-underground hip hop. Tonight its Smif 'n Wessun along with Buckshot and Sean Price... the collective boys from Duck Down Records. They are joined by The Bohemian Chocolate Cafe performing live. Expect the usual packed house so RSVP by 6:00pm today and arrive early.
Check out Sean Price's "The Jackal" featuring Professor X and Nardo Ranks (mp3)
Date: Wednesday, October 5th Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am Location: Canal Room (285 West Broadway) Cost: Free with RSVP
We have been tellin you guys about this one from the beging, so try and cath tonights third instalment. Flavela Clash 3 has Brasilian Baile Funk and Jamaican Dancehall from the likes of DJs Sujinho + Cassiano, DJ G Brown and guest, DJ Gravy. Admission is free and so is the beer from 11 'til 12.
Date: Wednesday, October 5th Time: 11pm - 4am Venue: Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Cost: Free with RSVP
Current TV is this new cable network sort of in the vein of Name Your Own Adventure, well at least in the sense that you are both viewer and producer. Anyway, what is actually of relevance here is that to drum up some viewers they are throwing a lil concert called Take Back Tv and giving away free tickets. Set to preform today at Rumsey Field are De La Soul, Fishbone, Slum Village, Simon Dawes, Malene Younglao, Rich Medina and Suffrajett.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 5pm Venue: Central Park, Rumsey Playfield at 69th Cost: Free, but you must sign up for a ticket
"Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (Aperture, September 2005) takes us on a guided tour of the inner workings of artist Vik Muniz’s pyrotechnic imagination. Walking us through each of his major series, Muniz reveals himself as a brilliant writer as well as image-maker. In each chapter, Muniz tickles our minds with amusing anecdotes detailing his working method and unveiling the thinking and historical influences behind his images. His own images explore all possible materials and modes of making photographs, while at the same time making us think about how perception works and what happens in pictures. This book secures Muniz’s role as trickster and philosopher as well as creator of compelling, delightful images." Tonight Muniz speaks and signs.
Date: Thursday, October 06th Time: 6:30pm Location: Apeture Gallery (547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor) Cost: Free
It's time for another listening party. This one is for Living Things'Head of the Lion. The deal is sweetened with a 2.5 hr open bar of Newcastle and a DJ set by Doug Brod.
Social Justice and Entrepreneurship in 19th century New York
Join Barbara Balliet (Rutgers University), Peter Buckley (The Cooper Union), Kenneth Jackson (Columbia University), and Sean Wilentz (Princeton University) tonight for a roundtable discussion on social justice and entrepreneurship in 19th century New York. "For almost 150 years, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has served as a popular stage for educational lectures, political movements, campaigns for social reform and the creative arts. These meetings have embodied what Peter Cooper meant by “civic culture.” The impact of The Great Hall on American society has been immeasurable."
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 7:00pm Location: The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th at 3rd Ave) Cost: Free
If you are tired of discussing this week's episode of Lost (we are obsessed with this show) around the water cooler all day and are looking for topics with a lil more meat and substance, head over to First Thursday at Iona Bar. Essentially a loose collective of designers and artisist get together, grab a beer and discuss relevent topics of interest. Anyone with an interest in design is welcome.
Date: Thursday, october 6th Time: 7pm Venue: Iona Bar, 180 Grand Street, W'burg Cost: Free
Workflow Magazine is having a little release party at Jigsaw tonight. While I know nothing about the magazine, they promise "booze, art, and merriment" and thats cool by me.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm Location: Jigsaw Gallery (526 E. 11th) Cost: Free
It's time for Maximum Joy once again, the free booze invasion of the Adidas store. Maybe this time they'll rememeber the ice! There's an ambitious 3 hour open bar and music by Blu Jemz and Ge-ology who are both fantastic but can be caught any Tuesday for free at Opus22. Why do brands always throw parties with DJs i can see any day of the week? What kind of draw is that? Oh.... 3 hour open bar... got it.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 7:00pm Location: Adidas Originals store (136 Wooster Street) Cost: Free, bring flyer printout
Voices from Death Row is a national speaking tour to raise awareness and end the death penalty. "Hear the stories of men and women who have survived the horrors of death row. Former death row prisoners, family members and activists reveal the truth about the death penalty and the injustices of our criminal justice system. Their stories give voice to the voiceless and put a human face on the death penalty." Speakers include Lawrence Hayes (a former death row prisoner and Black Panther), Monique Matthews (sister of exonerated Louisiana death row prisoner Ryan Matthews), and Billy Sothern (anti-death penalty lawyer from New Orleans.) [found on Contested Terrain]
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 7:30pm Location: City College - Harlem, NAC Building 1st floor (137th Street and Amsterdam Ave) Cost: Free
Sneaker Pimps is back in town this week. No, not the trip hop band, but the touring exhibition of kick ass kicks. If you are a sneaker whore, you need to check them out. Come for the shoes and stay for the Public Enemy preformance with DJ Elle and Robots in a Coma plus a Motug live art instillation featuring FUTURA, LASE, DOZE, GREEN GHOST, SHEPARD FAIREY, TKID 170, EWOK 5MH, CES, DIZMOLOGY, TOOFLY and STASH.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 8pm Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th Cost: $5
Finally, someone combined all of our favorite things into one night... V2 records invades our current favorite venue for a Gang of Four CD release/listening party. Free Red Stripe is on hand from 9-10. In the words of the promoter... "As Gang Of Four is a great and political band, we know it will be an exciting cultural event."
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am Location: Nublu (Avenue 6 between 4th and 5th) Cost: Free
This is FreeNYC's official WTF party of the week. Tonight is a release (and hopefully listening) party for Sinead O'Conners Throw Down Your Arms which is a 12 song collection of reggae (reggae? oh reggae!) songs from the likes of Lee Perry and Pete Tosh. You should come out just to snag a copy of the CD. Featuring DJs J-maz and Free Red Stripe.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am Location: No. 1 Chinese (50 Avenue B at 4th Street) Cost: Free
It took me a while to find some info on this one but it seems that there is a new party at Happy Ending called Maxi-Mal on the first Thursday of the month. The keywords are right up our alley these days (industrial, NRG, acid breaks, freestyle and italo eclectro) and the 2 hr open bar from 10-12 and the giveaways from Lucky Jeans makes it a worth one to check out. Thursdays in NYC have been slacking lately... maybe this is the party to fire this town back up. DJ bio's after the fold curtesy of Repellentzine.
Date: Thursday, October 6th Time: 10:00pm Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street Between Forsyth and Eldridge) Cost: Free
Showing no concern for established dance music boundaries, Brennan Green has become one of the most talented, innovative and prolific producers today. His releases and remixes run the gamut from deep house to minimal electro and italo disco. Not content with confining his talents solely to the studio, Green brings his music directly to the people via the turntables. His DJ repertoire includes not only mixing, but cutting and beat-juggling as well. Upon arriving in NYC from Toronto, Green cut his teeth with the Downstreamers 12" on John Selway's minimal house label CSM. Subsequently, he befriended disco cult hero Daniel Wang and teamed up for a slew of remix productions, among them the infamous Block 16 on Wang's seminal Balihu imprint. Through a regular spot at the Play NYC parties, Green helped pioneer the current deep disco sound. His "Pop Your Funk" party, at meatpacking district dancespot APT, gave Brennan the chance to really display his DJ chops, holding his own among legends like Andrew Weatherall [Two Lone Swordsmen] , Sal Principato [Liquid Liquid], Martin Moscrop [A Certain Ratio], Maurice Fulton [Mu] and Steve Kotey [Chicken Lips]. Recovering from his first bout of serious touring, which included dates around the US, and some globetrotting to Australia and Japan, Green is currently producing and working A&R for Modal Records. He's also in the process of launching his own musical footprint, Chinatown. Expect more of his trademark production, i.e. vibrant instrumentation, atypical beats, and quirky, irresistible
melodies. Brennan Green's past credits include releases and remixes on John Selway's CSM, Balihu, Bear Funk, Francois K's esteemed Wave Music, Hans Peter Lindstrom's Feedelity, Peacefrog, Paper, Nuphonic, Output, CoCo Machete, Romklang, Rushhour, Maya, Courtsquare, Electrik Soul, Mood Music, Icon, and Truffle.
Direct from Vienna, Hannes Baumann brings the secrets of his successful Icke Micke party to the streets of New York. The list of artists that this king of the Viennese scene [alongside partner Tibcurl] have hosted reads like a who's who of current techno and house superstars - DJ Koze, Andrew Weatherall, Apparat, Jennifer Cardini, Luciano, Christopher Just, g.rizo, Justus Kohncke, Mooner, Mu, Patrick Pulsinger, and T. Raumschmiere, to name just a few. Along the way, Baumann learned what it takes to seriously rock the dancefloor, and carry a party into uncharted, deep and sexy territory.
Who goes to South Street Seaport for lunch? Let along get dressed for carnival? But, if you are in the area this afternoon then check out the South Street Seaport Rio-esque carnival (the "esque" is because Bloomberg would never let anything close to an authentic carnival go down) with live music and giveaways. They are even giving away a car and $5000 for those dressed for the occasion
Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm Location: South Street Seaport (Fulton Street at the East River) Cost: Free
I have to admit that we have been light on art events over the past few days. September is kind of like back to school time for the galleries so everything was live and fresh then. Most of that stuff is still up so look through the archives and - if you have not done so already - check out the exhibits by Gary Baseman, Miss Van,Marcel Dzama (all three end Saturday), or Lauri Anderson while they are still up.
But tonight my eye was caught by a 14 minutes video piece, Sodium Fox by Jeremy Blake which examines "internal and external landscapes as similar vessels for subjectivity." The visuals look stunning and the soundtrack is intriguingly created by a Nashville poet/musician named David Berman. While unfamiliar with Blakes work, the press release promises that he creates "formal inventions with a unique and deeply psychological exploration of Pop portraiture." May be worth a visit.
Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Feigen Contemporary Gallery (535 West 20th Street) Cost: Free
"Every artist needs a room of her own; that is, a rec room. In PROJECT PLAYDATE artist Amy Beecher invites three unacquainted emerging artists to create art together for a day. On October 7th Beecher will transform the recently opened bodega cum art gallery Diamonds and Oranges into a play room and workshop for artists Orit Ben-Shitrit, Jen Dunlap and Jess Ryan, supplying them with plastic and audiovisual materials for the most productive play date ever." Milk and cookies will be served.
Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 7:00pm -9:00pm Location: Diamonds and Oranges (156 1st Ave between 9th and 10th) Cost: Free
Every once and a while there is an event that makes me love New York City. Take this for example...
Start with the Whitney, which is showing a fantastic photographic exhibit portraying the effects of the construction industy on the American landscape. Next add DJ Spooky, the genre-free NY native who's turntables are more aligned with delivering deep narratives of hazy beats rather thank epic dance-floor peaks. Now put them together and you have my ideal transition from work week to week end. I mean, I have no idea what its going to soundlike but sometimes you just trust a DJ.
As part of the pay-what-you-wish Friday evening Whitney Live series, DJ Spooky will joint "avant-rock trio PRINT" and "brass collective Tilt" to recast works from experimental modernist composers - and electronic music pioneers - Edgar Varèse, Carl Ruggles, and Carlos Salzedo (International Composers Guild).
Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Whitney Museum of American Art (Madison Ave between 74th and 75th) Cost: Pay-what-you-wish (begins at 6:00pm)
As if there aren't enough things dissauding you from going into the city tonight, like bomb threats, the sketchy L train, and hordes of NYU kids, Savalas is trying to keep you out in the 'Burg with their party, Zero Transportation. Brought to you by DJs Brian Beck, Michael Elkind, Paul Rocha, and this week's guest DJ, Vito, from The Rapture. Now, I haven't been to this one yet but "Zero Transportation supports music that will send you stumbling home - on foot - at 4am" and that is something I'm very much in favor of (plus I really liked their flyer).
Every year as the chill comes back to the air, I tend to notice the considerable beer gut I have built up during an entire summer of binge drinking at BBQs. Every weekend I say "this weekend I'm staying in" but then Friday rolls around and out I go. So its looking like I'm going to have to put off sobriety for another weekend as FreeNYC's favorite party returns tonight. Cut is back! In its new home at 6's & 8's and teamed up with XLR8R magazine, they've got DJ Funk, Stretch Armstrong and The Syrup Girls on the line up. Let the fun begin!
Feel like havin' a few friday night? Stop by Luke and Leroy for 2-4-1 drink specials and open bar from 10 to 11. DJ Mister X will be spinning the likes of The Smiths, Siouxsie, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, etc, etc. You get the idea.
Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 10pm - 4am Venue: luke and Leroy's, 21 7th Avenue South Cost: Free
"Originally founded to commemorate September 11, the Daffodil Project raises the spirits of New Yorkers and beautifies parks and open spaces throughout the five boroughs. Now in its fifth year, the Project assists communities in bringing attention to the needs of neglected parks and unites volunteers" who plant 500,000 yellow daffodil bulbs throughout New York City.Interested individuals, park, civic and neighborhood groups, who are committed to beautifying public spaces, can receive bulbs at the following locations:
Saturday, October 8 (10 am – 1pm)
Brooklyn: Prospect Park/Greenmarket, Grand Army Plaza
Bronx: Joyce Kilmer Park, between Grand Concourse / Walton & E.161-164
Queens: Forest Park/The Overlook, Park Lane
Sunday, October 9 (10 am – 1pm)
Manhattan: Union Square Park, West Side of Park
Staten Island: Paolo Park, S.I. Borough Hall
Date: Saturday, October 8th Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm Location: See above Cost: Free
Its time for the 3rd Annual Open House New York - a celebration of New York Architecture. Finally, you can freely meander through some of the most elequent home's and landmarks in NYC, see how the fancy folks do it up, and check out some of the more historical spots in NYC that you usually have to pay for. High on our list is the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage which usually has an admission charge, but check the site out for a complete list and make an itinerary of your own. Continues Sunday.
Date: Saturday, October 8th Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm Location: Various locations throughout the Boros Cost: Free
At least once a month I have a conversation with a friend about starting our own tee shirt line. About half of those times I am the one that brings it up. All that really ever happens though, is that someone buys a bunch of equiptment, maybe makes that one shirt, and never picks it up again.
So I have to give it up to the guys over at I-Manifest who have managed to build a growing product out of the rest of our whims. On top of being conscious (sweatshop-free tees), and well crafted (each screen is hand pulled), the design voice is well beyond the usual illustrative mimicry and obligatory skull print.
Tonight they are opening their studio for burgers and beers so stop by and ask them all your burning questions about how to do it yourself.
Date: Saturday, October 8th Time: 4:00pm - Late Location: Central and Willoughby, Bushwick (click for map) Cost: Free
Most of us girls are pretty attached to our breasts (literally) and and most of you guys, uh, well, maybe only half of you guys (this is New York after all) like a breast here and there too. Tonight, check out Keep A Breast at the Stay Gold Gallery in the 'Burg. To increase breast cancer awareness in young people Keep A Breast has put together an exhibit of casts of some well known boobies including "Dita Von Tesse, Catherine D'lish, Maya Ford of The Donnas, Rosa Blasi of Strong Medicine, Kelly Hu of X2, Lisa Anderson, Layne Beachley, The Suicide Girls - Brie, Posh, Aiden, Xtine, Bee, and a bevy of beautiful, bold female volunteers from New York, San Diego and Los Angeles." As well as some special guest artists you may have heard of like Foo Fighters, Dj Greyboy, Tom Delonge, Tom Dumont of No Doubt, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Tony Kanal of No Doubt, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, Dj Shadow, Switchfoot, Aaron of Guru Tattoo. There are a whol slew of other artisit involved as well (click here for full list of contributers.) The work will be auctioned off with proceeds benefiting Keep A Breast Youth Awareness Program.
Date: Saturday, October 8th Time: 7pm - 10pm Location: Stay Gold Gallery Cost: Free with RSVP
It's Walk Easy time again... Sonny Ray and crew bring you a good time shake down of hip-hop, soul, and other sweet sounds to warm up your weekend. Free Jever beer from 10:00-11:00 makes this an extra worthy stop off in your nights travels.
Date: Saturday, October 8th Location: Loreley, downstairs lounge (7 Rivington between Bowery and Chrystie) Time: 10:00pm Cost: Free
Its a rainy Saturday, and today is the perfect day to kick back and contemplate the simpler things in life, you know, like this, "Who is the Most Complex Conceptual Artist of Our Time?" Ok fine, thats not a simple one. But if you swing by Avalon (yes, Avalon, thats 3 solid events for them in one week!) tonight you may get an answer to this very question. From 10 'til 12 work from Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Congo The Chimp, Trova, Christo, Robert Rauschenberg,Chris Ofili, and Julian Schnabel will be on view. Admission is free to the mega club for those two hours by saying that you are there for this art show. There is also a "private" open bar from 10 to 11:30, but I'm not really sure what "private" means, so try and get in on that!
Date: Saturday, October 8th Time: 10pm - 12am Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th Ave Cost: Free
Regular or Super - Views on Mies van der Rohe (2005)
Jakub Wagner: Profil Jan Kaplicky (2005)
Bregtje van der Haak: Lagos (2005)
Jeffrey Kipnis: A Constructive Madness (2003)
S. Shahbazi & T. Zolghadr: Tehran 1380 (2002),
Thomas Wartmann & Stefan Tolz: Adobe Towns (2005)
Date: Oct 9
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Venue: Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place
Cost: FREE
French artist Chris Marker recounts a slide collection of memories from Japan, Africa, and Iceland. "Chris Marker's amazing talent is in the timing of the images and sound, you are lulled into his observations." Accompanied by short films by Elisabeth Smolarz and Marie Daubert. Music by Thomas Mery.
Date: Sunday, October 9th Time: ??? Location: Flux Factory (click for directions) Cost: Free
I usually have a rule that if you can not maintain your own site then I really can't reference your event. But it is another slow Monday so we are going to cut the Latin Collector Gallery some slack even though they have not updated since July.
They are having a photo exhibit and auction this week to raise some funds for Katrina relif. I am unfamiliar with most of their huge laundry list of photographers (see above) but this may be a good way to see some new work and support a good cause. The auction and reception are Wednesday from 6-9.
Date: Monday, October 10th Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm Location: Latin Collector (153 Hudson Street between Hubert and Laight) Cost: Free
"EDWARD BURTYNSKY’s photographs, monumental in both scale and subject, capture visions of nature that are outside the realm of ordinary experience. His quest to photograph landscapes which have been reshaped through human industry has taken him to recycling yards, oil refineries, quarries, and shipbreaking beaches." Tonight Burtynsky talks about his current exhibit on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery (537 West 24th Street between 10th and 11th).
Date: Monday, October 10th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Parsons Auditorium (66 Fifth Ave.) Cost: Free (first come first served)
Eyes Wide Open is a powerful exhibit on the cost of the war in Iraq. "The exhibit includes a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty; a field of shoes and a wall of remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict; and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war." Visitors are encouraged to leave "notes of commemoration, photographs of lost soldiers, identification tags, flowers, and American flags to accompany the boots on their journey."
Jean-Luc Godard: Operation Beton (1954)
VDB: Die Kunst mit Beton zu bauen (1993)
The North Carolina Institute of Concrete: The Virtues
of Pre-Stressed Concrete (1967)
Douglas Stanley: Monuments to Man (1991)
Date: Oct 11 Time: 5-7pm Venue: Asphalt Green 555 East 90th Street Cost: FREE
Youth Culture: The Art and Currency of Globalization
"Impermanence may be the only permanent characteristic of the 21st century. New urban landscapes are rapidly evolving in response to tides of immigration; at the same time, new geographies are mapped everyday on the internet. How can we talk about these new cultures?" The Global Issues in Design & Visuality lecture series continues with a look at the works of serveral heavy hitters in the street art game including Jameel Shabazz (NYC), Ryan McGinness (NYC), Shepard Fairey (LA), Os Gemenos (Brazil), Miguel Calderon (Mexico), Los Carpenteros (Cuba), As Four (NYC), Takashi Murakami (Japan), Malik Sadibe (Mali), Larry Clark (NYC/LA), Nick Waplington (UK), Surface to Air (France) and Nicky S. Lee (NYC).
Date: Tuesday, October 11th
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Parsons, Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12th Street)
Cost: Free
Tonight see Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko's award-winning documentary, Girl Trouble. The film shows "the disastrous consequences of poverty, domesetic violence, drug addictions, and homelessness" for teenage girls today who have ended up in the juvenile justice system. Seems like girl trouble to me. Not only will you get a critical look at the the juvenile justice system through the documentary lens of Leban and Szajko, but you'll also get to hear Stephanie Sabini and Marlene Sanchez from the the Center for Young Women's Development talk about girl trouble.
[swiped from bcrw Center News]
Date: Tuesday, October 11 Time: 7 pm Venue: Julius Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College (117th Street and Broadway) Cost: Free
I do not really approve of any of these parties as they are "exclusive" (meaning just another list that you are not on). I do, however, try to give you guys an open bar every night. So here are two that I found on Windchill and another that was floating around on the web. If you need more, check out myopenbar.com as I am sure they will have something to satisfy your thirst.
Date: Tuesday, October 11th Time: 11:00pm Location: Happy Valley (14 East 27th St) Cost: Free with RSVP (or try bringing a printout)
[no flyer] Gotham Magazine's 100 hottest bachelors. "Join us as we celebrate our October Issue with more than just a few good men! Enjoy a special gift from Victorinox Swiss Army and sample signature cocktails from Finlandia Vodka"
Date: Tuesday, October 11th Time: 10:00pm - 12:00am Location: Marquee (289 Tenth Ave bet. 26th and 27th) Cost: Free with RSVP (or call 646.835.5286)
Continuing my "a man's got to drink" posting mentality from yesterday, I need to tell you about this sweet flowing Jameson Whiskey open bar. The Onion magazine is bringing a tastier than usual open bar for the afterwork crowd today to the upper east side - a part of New York I usually reserve purely for doctors visits. Beyond that, I have no idea what to expect out of this one. Open bar from 7 until it runs out.
Date: Wednesday, October 12th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Turtle Bay Lounge (987 2nd Ave between 52nd adn 53rd) Cost: Free with RSVP
At the Happy Ending Reading Series, "Raconteurs, poets, and other cultural phenoms present their work as they showcase their other talents. Each reader is required to take one public risk. Reading in public cannot be one of them. [This is the] only reading series of its kind to combine genres; this series has become the underground hotspot for writers and readers actively taking risks."
Date: Wednesday, October 12th Time: 8:00pm (doors 7:30) Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street) Cost: Free (I assume)
Here are three vices for your Wednesday night, djs, dancing and of course, free drinks. Tonight Movida gives you Neil Aline, Matthias Heilbronn and Jay-J spinning dance, soul and global sounds. And grab a free drink from 10 'til 11.
Date: Wednesday, October 12th Time: 10pm - 4am Venue: Movida, 28 7th Ave S. Cost: Free
Since I don't have any flyer's today for either of my favorite Wednesday weekly parties, I thought I satisfy my inner hipster-frat-boy with this old shot of Bust from Last Night's Party. So look at all the fun you could be having tonight instead of sitting home watching TV. Both of these parties are awesome so pick your poison, Tivo Lost, and get to it! (photo by Merlin Bronques, obviously)
BANG! - Free Svedka Vodka from 10 - 11 Date: Wednesday, October 12th Time: 10:00pm Location: No. 1 Chinese (50 Avenue B between 3rd and 4th Cost: Free
BUST! - Free well drinks from 10:30 - 11:30 Date: Wednesday, October 12th Time: 10:30pm Location: Boys' Room (9 Ave A, bt. 1st and 2nd Streets) Cost: Free
Usually when we write about Triple Five Soul it's cause they are throwin' some sort of drunken hip hop/dj/party night at a bar, but alas, this time we are actually talking about clothes. If you need to stock up on your collection of hoodies, sweaters and cords for the fall stop by the T5S sample sale. While it's not that cheap, its certainly cheaper than retail prices. If you don't have time in your busy schedule to stop by today, no worries, they have set up camp until October 24th.
Date: Thursday, October 13th Time: 10am - 8pm Location: 38 East 30th, btw Park and Madison Cost: Free to enter, clothing varries in price
Dalek, famous for invading the street art world with his crazy space monkeys, will be on hand tonight at Kid Robot to sign his latest creation, the Ice Bot. Consider it a classic collectible or an eBay profit maker.
Date: Thursday, October 13th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Kid Robot (126 Prince Street) Cost: Free
Ricky Powell says the first photo he ever had published was "FUTURA 2000 and Keith Haring hangin’ at some opening in June of ’85. It was in The East Village Eye, for the party people section in the back. It was only about two by two inches but my photo credit lookdeded dope! I was like, “Oh Sssit! Even a lazy bum like me can do something worthwhile.” Now, 20 years later, he "has prowled the streets of his native New York, toured the world with hip hop’s biggest acts, and full-on crashed celebrity-studded parties on both coasts. Equipped with only his wits and an instamatic camera, Powell elbowed his way into the center of the scene with no shame." In honor of their new release, Ricky Powell Photographs 1985–2005, powerHouse books has set up an exhibit of Powell's photography. The opening reception is tonight, but the show will be up until November 11th.
Date: Thursday, October 13th Time: 7pm - 9pm Location: The powerHouse Gallery, 68 Charlton Street Cost: Free with RSVP
Me Magazine is a pretty interesting concept. Each issue is dedicated to one person (except this one, which is a team) and all of the people in their lives. The second issue - and only one that has ever graced my inbox - was all about Miho Aoki from United Bamboo and it was actually pretty interested to get the full insite into someone's life rather then the usual rewritten one sheet. All of this, of course, has nothing to do - really - with the fact that they are having a launch party for issue #5 (the Rivington Arms issue) tonight. Open Red Stripe from 9 - 11.
Date: Thursday, October 13th Time: 9:00pm Location: Happy endings (302 Broome Street) Cost: Free with RSVP
This will most likely be another sweaty LES hipster throw down. James on the tables is always a good time and open bar from 10:30-11:30 will get things going.
Date: Thursday, October 13th Time: 10:30pm Location: No. 1 Chinese (50 Avenue B) Cost: Free
For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.
Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th Time: Various Location: Various Locations in DUMBO Cost: Free
"Deitch Projects is pleased to present installationview, an immersive installation of new works by Ryan McGinness. The exhibition is an environment of wall paintings punctuated by numerous two-sided circular discs of various sizes. McGinness has titled these new pieces “universals” in reference to the contained universes they represent and the iconic universal language for which McGinness is best known. The flat graphic worlds within each universal take the viewer into various scale-shifting landscapes and transform the gallery into a playful candy-like cosmos with these slick, brightly colored works." Tonight is the opening reception, but the show will be up until November 5th.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: 6pm - 9pm Venue: Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand St Cost: Free
"For his exhibition at Invisible NYC, Mr. Howard employs recognizable, painted images and icons from various mass-produced publications and advertisements, merged with his own fantastical characters and symbols. The result is a dream-like world comprised of popular images and imaginary creatures. He re-interprets familiar objects through his use of dazzling and dizzying combinations of pattern and vibrant color, recalling large billboard and neon advertisements. The work is a forceful carnival of images, colors, motifs and symbols. The result is pleasing, yet somewhat absurd. The compositions unconventional."
Joshua Abram Howard was born in Seattle Washington and currently resides in Queens, New York. After graduating in 2003 from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in drawing, he was chosen to attend the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Mr. Howard’s art combines childhood experiences, through his use of electric color and playful subject, with biting commentary on contemporary art and culture. He states:
“It’s a struggle to make something new, like finding something novel and interesting in a junk draw. I want my work to reflect the problems I encounter in making something new. My drawings are based on objects, and images that I have had an ongoing relationship with. Some of the objects/images have been with me since my childhood, while others I have picked up on the way. Totems inspire me. They reuse a system of symbols to make something that is customized. I combine familiar objects to try to create a potent representation of myself and the society that I belong to.”
Eight months ago, a team of seven artists and ten crewmembers left Argentina in seach of a rare species rumored to live on an unnamed island in teh Polar Antartic Circle. The entire adventure was documented on film and will be "reproduced" tonight in Central Park.
"A Journey That Wasn’t is an orchestral musical in Central Park based on this journey to Antarctica. Using ice, atmosphere, light, and an original score - written by composer Joshua Cody and performed live on the ice by a symphonic orchestra [artist Pierre{ Huyghe will transform the distant island in Antarctica into musical form. New York-based composer and guitarist Elliott Sharp will be a featured soloist and musical collaborator on the project."
Oh, one more thing... The whole thing will documented as part of this ongoing process. Spectators are invited to sit and watch as the 30 minute film is played three times in a row with subtle pauses to reshoot. Both the audience and the performance will be filmed. Audience members are encourage to wear dark and neutral tones.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: Dusk Location: Wollman Rink, Central Park (click for map) Cost: Free
It's another heavy art weekend and this is clearly one of the more interesting events. David Willardson, well known for his Disney inspired paintings, will paint live while Michelle Shocked creates and aural backdrop of reinterpereted Disney classics. Check the site for more info.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Animazing Gallery (461 Broome Street between Greene and Mercer) Cost: Free (RSVP is suggested to (212) 226-7374)
Tonight is the launch party for "The Plain of Heaven" with free Pabst and DJ Jonny Cragg. I can't really start to explain this one because there is so much stuff going on but the team over at Creative Time has put together an international art exhibition inspired by the impending redevelopment of the High Line, the disused elevated rail structure that runs up the west side of Manhattan.
“The Plain of Heaven” takes off from this elegiac and exciting moment of transformation to consider how we imagine, and long for, inaccessible spaces; the relationships between transfiguration, destruction and rebirth; the opposition between nature and the urban environment; and more generally, the way in which we re-mystify the world we already know." Check the site for more info, artist talks, and more.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Courtyard at 832 Washington Street Cost: Free
We Care A Lot (less) returns to Luke and Leroy tonight but I'm not sure they actually still care. This was my first tip off... "but this time, we actually care a lot less about pretty much everything, except the guests." So yeah that part is true, they do care about the music as they've got TOK TOK, MICHA KLANG and residents Dirty Jean and Cowboy Mark for the night. There will also be an open bar for an hour at some point in the night, but they don't care to tell us when. And they are also being a lil vague on the whole cover charge thing, so you just may want to keep a couple bucks in your pocket.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: 11pm Venue: Luke and Leroy, 21 7th Ave Cost: Free (maybe)
Don't you love when you have a binge of a good time at night... roll into the office hung over the next day... and have a dozen of your friends email you some embarrasing picture from Last Night's Party? Well tonight you can all enjoy your finer moments at their big projection party at Trash. I am sure some fresh footage will come out of this one so bring you game face and be prepared for a late night of debaucharous fun. Open Vodka/PBR from 11 - 12.
Date: Friday, October 14th Time: 11:00pm Location: Rififi (332 East 11th) Cost: Free
"On the morning of Saturday October 15th, thousands of New Yorkers will be walking through the Lincoln Tunnel. Fresh air will be pumped into the tunnel and cars diverted to the other tubes. Public transport will be available to bring walkers back. The tunnel is just under 2 miles long, so it should take less than an hour. Walk-The-Tunnel is a once in a lifetime opportunity — for New York City history lovers, engineering buffs, those who like unusual events, or those just curious about the world's greatest city's hidden underside. It is also for people who care about ending AIDS, once and for all. Walk-The-Tunnel marks the first day of a march from New York City to Washington, DC, part of the The Campaign To End AIDS (C2EA). Hundreds of people concerned about HIV/AIDS will be walking for three weeks, from the Lincoln Tunnel to the Lincoln Memorial. At the same time, car and van caravans will be winding their way across the country from 8 other locations, converging on the nation's capital for a week of activism. These courageous activists have invited all New Yorkers to join them for the kick off of their historic walk."
Date: Saturday, October 15th Time: 7:30am (kick off party) Location: Meet in Times Square Cost: Free
For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.
Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th Time: Various Location: Various Locations in DUMBO Cost: Free
"Kids of all ages are invited to celebrate the fall harvest! Visitors can make their own costume with Socrates artists; have their face painted with Transformation! Facepainting by Agostino Arts; listen to live Klezmer music from Golem; make a fun project in an artmaking workshop from Materials for the Arts; sample harvest foods from Sage American Kitchen. This year, we'll also feature a Canine Costume Contest! Preregistration required for the contest, contact Tara at
718-956-1819 for details."
Date: Saturday, October 15th Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm Location: Socrates Sculpture Park (32-01 Vernon Blvd, LIC) Cost: Free
I am always excited when someone takes the initiative to create a unique experience in New York City (that's what being here is all about, right). And I am not talking about bringing a really cool dj to a really cool new bar. I am talking about you won't find anywhere else on the planet and - perhaps - something that will not happen here again for a while.
Enter Improv Everywhere; a group of individuals dedicated to bringing improptu events and performances to public spaces such as "No Pants 2K5" where everyone on the subway car was (duh?) without pants. Well, rain be damned, today is their next public extravaganza. Titled The MP3 Experiment 2.0, Improve Everywhere is inviting you to join in the fun. Here's what you need to do...
Go to the website. Download the mp3. Load it into your mp3 player of choice (if you are reading this website, you probably have an iPod but may be considering buying a nano for this special occasion because "everyone is going to have iPods." Mine's broken so I rock a CD player... sorry, I'm bitter... back to the saga). Okay, don't be lame and listen to it ahead of time. That is going to take all the fun away.
Now, Show up at Sheep Meadow and be there by 3pm. Sit on the lawn (important... bring something to sit on as it will still be soaked). There will be a guy with a siren. Once you hear the siren, get your mp3 player of choice fired up. when you here the siren again... hit play and follow the instructions. Madness is guaranteed to ensue.
Since we have been engulfed in Monsoon Manhattan for the past week, the rain date for this event is Sunday and you can check the site today as they will post a "good to go" message by 1pm. Enjoy!
Date: Saturday, October 15th Time: 3:00pm (prompt) Location: Sheep Meadow, Central Park (Enter the [ark at 72nd St and Central Park West. Go south. Sheep Meadow is located on the east side of the West Drive at 67th St) Cost: Free
Okay, I promise this is my last art post for the weekend. And I'll be quick as these guys need no introduction to FreeNYC fans.
In a continued effort to present amazing combination openings, the Jonathan Levine Gallery is presenting new works by Tim Biskup, Dalek, and Plankton all in one night. This is like an east coast / west coast art clash at its best as each artist brings his unique, illustrative characters to the canvas. Check the site for full info if you have no idea what I am talking about.
Date: Satruday, October 15th Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 9E) Cost: Free
In case you were wondering, the Adidas store has been calling Wooster Street home for a whole year now. You may be asking yourself, "Why is she telling me this?" Well kids, our friends over at Adidas are throwing themselves a lil one year anniversary party, and its sounding like a pretty good time. Papaya King is providing the food (yay hotdogs!) and beverages will be courtesy of Dos Equis, Skyy Vodka and 1800 Tequila! (So if any of you see me there do NOT let me drink too much Tequila!) And topping off the party, is DJ Cosmo, from The Rub, on music.
Date: Saturday, October 15th Time: 6pm -10pm Venue: Adidas Store, 136 Wooster Street Cost: Free
Remember watching wrestling as a kid and being like there is no way he survived that! Well he didn't because it didn't happen. But as filmaker Mark Ezovski says, "Just because it's fake doesn't mean it's not real." The Anthology Film Archives is a sweet place, don't miss this free world premiere of "The Absolute Truth About Pro Wrestling," a film by Brooklyn filmmaker Mark Ezovski. More info at The Diabolical Brain.
Date: October 15 Venue: Anthology Film Archives. 32 Secondnd Ave. at 2nd St. Time: Doors open @ 6:30, 7:00PM - 10:00PM Cost: Free
If DUMBO is a little far to travel for your art fix this weekend, then perhaps you should check out the Play show at Jen Bekman. "Coming off of a hot New York summer with the introduction of winter, the photographic exhibition Play will lighten the mood for the darker months to come, while exploring through pictures the idea behind the broad meaning of this timeless word." Continues through November 12th.
Date: Saturday, October 15th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Jen Beckman Gallery (94 Prince St. #2)
Cost: Free
Paper Rad are awesome. Its kind of like what would happen if a zine with rabies was using mac paint and BASIC to create art? Don't believe, check the site. This shit is like Q-Bert on acid. I love it. Best of all they have no contained the madness (genious) to a bound book. Imagine that... all that wild art tamed with simple glue.
Tonight the Paper Rad crew are going to DJ and "perform live" for the book launch after their signing at Printed Matter (5-7). So come down, listen to the crazyness and image what it is like to be inside their heads.
Date: Saturday, October 15th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor Cost: Free
For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.
Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th Time: Various Location: Various Locations in DUMBO Cost: Free
I apoligize on this one, as round 1, the main event, was last night, and I didn't get it up in time. But a last minute decision (and what good decison it was!) brought me to the Tylenol Bowl in Greenpoint last night to hang out with the boys and I caught the premiere. So I reccomned you try to head over to KCDC Skate shop today to catch the new 5Boro video. Expect boys and boards!
Date: Sunday, October 16th Time: 2pm Venue: KCDC Skate Shop, 99 N. 10th, W'burg Cost: Free
Are you a grandmother? Do you know one? If so, the Granmothers for Peace International need your help. This afternoon, Grandmothers from all over New York will invade the Time's Square army recruiting booth and try to enlist in the war in exchange for soldiers currently serving. Not a grandmother and still want to help? A larger group is needed to surround the outside of the recruiting center carrying signs, handing out opt-out material and information about the extreme dangers of depleted uranium having such a devastating effect on our military and their offspring."
Date: Monday, October 17th Time: 12:00pm (arrive early to help protest) Location: Time's Square Army Recruiting Office Cost: Free
Postcards from the Edge is an AIDS benefit in which over 1400 postcard-sized works of art by renowned and emerging artists displayed anonymously and sold for $50 each. You could end up with a card from Sol Lewitt or some sloppy kid from Pratt. No one knows because the names are on the back. So you really have to trust your taste and buy what you like. Or just come and check it out for free and hopefully they will have free cocktails. Buy five cards and get one free. Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS. Continues Tuesday.
Date: Monday, October 17th Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Robert Miller Gallery 524 W. 26th St. Cost: Free
Downtown for Democracy is a political action committee founded by professionals in the arts, music, fashion, film, publishing, advertising, design and other creative media. Our goal is a progressive resurgence in America. To that end, we mobilize America's creative community to engage new voters and elect progressiv candidates." Tonight, however, they drink free Vodka and Red Stripe while listening to the sound of downtown's own James Friedman.
Date: Monday, October 17th Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm Location: Groupe 16sur20 (267 Elizabeth Street) Cost: Free with RSVP
In case you haven't noticed, FreeNYC is a big fan of Blockhead and his first cd, Music By Cavelight, so we're real excited about his new album, Downtown Science. Tonight, swing by The Delancy for his record release party. Its two bucks to get in, but there are two-for-one drinks for a couple of hours, and you got DJ Omega One, DJ Synapse and DJ Colab spinning records. So go down and show some support. Plus, the last I heard, Blockhead was looking for some good rockstar-esque groupies!
Date: Monday, October 17th Time: 8pm Venue: The Delancy, 168 Delancey St Cost: $2
Ok, ok, so I know we write about this party every week, but this time, Philly is all over the place, and you know I cant help but talk about Philly. So on the line up tonight is Philadelphia native and Brooklyn resident, Cosmo Baker followed up by one half of the Hollertronix duo, Low Budget. Now if we could only get them to actually serve cheese steaks.
Date: Monday, October 17th Time: 11pm - 4am Venue: Sway, 305 Spring St Cost: Free
Who’s listening? Who’s talking? with Catherine McCoy
The Global Issues in Design & Visuality series continues with graphic design guru and personal hero Catherine McCoy. McCoy was one of t he founders of the American post-structuralism movement in the US as the head of the graphic design program at Cranbrook. "McCoy argues that designers need new strategies to navigate between their own culture and the heterogeneous audiences they serve. She examines the legacy of modernism in the context of corporate globalism and makes the case—not for abandoning the history and conventions of design—but for evolving what she calls “a more open architecture, to effectively incorporate cultural human factors that respond to diversity, multiplicity and flux.”
Date: Tuesday, October 18th Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location: Parsons, Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12th St.) Cost: Free
You know the saying "once you pop, you can't stop," well, at times, this saying also applies to my tequila drinking practices. If you suffer from a similar affliction, than you may want to check out the private Rolling Stone Cuervo Party. Come by, have a drink and hear The Sights play.
Date: Tuesday, October 18th Time: 7pm - 11pm Venue: Canal Room, 285 W Broadway Cost: Free with RSVP
Anyone who throws a Mike Giant illustration on their flier gets me excited about their party. So when its NYC street staple Mass Appeal... well... you know its gonna be a good time. FreeNYC fav DJ Synapse holds down the tables while Seagrams provides social lube. This is either an early night out or a late day in the office... you be the judge.
Date: Tuesday, October 18th Time: 8:00pm Location: Kabin (94 2nd ave between 5th and 6th) Cost: Free
Unless you have been under a rock in NYC for the last year, you most likely have been in the same room with Bronques, a man whom I envy if only for his ability to get sloppy, drunken girls to get naked for photos. Celebrate his love for the hipster underbelly tonight as the LNP gallery presents a gallery of his last year of adventures. Open Svedka Bar. There is also an afterparty at Happy Ending so click on the flyer for full info.
NOTE: Today is the RSVP deadline (please respond by 4pm). This party takes place on Thursday at 7pm
Triple 5 Soul keeps banging out these artist colab. projects at their Williamsburg location. This time they have teamed up with Maya Hayuk whose soft, ornate illustrative style is unjustified by the flyer above. Tomorrow they are having an obligatory throw down for the project with free bacardi and music by Prefuse 73 and Roxy Pain. You must, however, RSVP by 4pm today in order to get in. Expect the usual crowd of scenesters climbing over one another for free drinks. Prefuse is a great DJ though so he's worth the trip. Info below is for the day of the event.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: T5S Brooklyn (145 Bedford at North 9th, Williamsburg) Cost: Free with RSVP
Heeb, the "New Jew Review," is celebrating the release of their sex issue tonight with a little balagon at 6's and 8's. There's an early open bar from 9-10 and DJs Omega 1, Captain Planet and Japanster will be playing all night as well as VJs and projections. I know my shaygetz a$$ will be in attendance to peep the heeb hotties and - for the ladies - maybe you can finally find that nice Jewish boy that your mother has been nagging you about.
Date: Wednesday, October 19th Time: 9:00pm Location: 6's and 8's (205 Chrystie Street at Stanton) Cost: Free
The Urb Crew is throwing their B-Sides series again tonight at the swanky Joe's Pub... my favorite place to see a show when they do not demand a two drink (about $15 by Joe's standards) minimum. Hopefully the formalities will be set aside tonight since there will be some sort of undisclosed open bar. Regardless, you should roll through just to see J-Live who's flow draws parallels to the Quannum crew (think Gif of Gab or Lyrics Born) but with a New York gritty city edge. Kev Brown, Big Tone, & DJ Center join in. It's gonna be a late night.
No, I'm not talking about the state of the music played on the radio, I'm talking about the band. I saw these guys a couple years back at Irving Plaza for some suicide prevention show that also featured Le Tigre and Northern State (don't laugh!). Now, if my memory serves me correctly (and there is a good chance it doesn't) I.N.C. preformed in typical rock star fashion, climbing things, jumping off things and throwing instruments around. Anyway, the point is, they will be at Virgin today signing and playing songs from their new album, Armed Love.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 6pm Venue: Virgin Mega Store, Union Square and 14th Cost: Free
"Reknowned Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melemedi presents her work, focusing on architecture in the public realm. She will discuss the transformation of public spaces in the urban context and the natural landscape, beginning with the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem through to the recently completed Open University Campus in northern Tel-Aviv."
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 6:15 - 7:30 Location: Parsons (2 West 13th Street - Glass Corner, 2nd Floor) Cost: Free
This is kind of psychogeography on a huge scale. Transio_NYC is a 40 minute video loop of street life in Nanning and Shanghai, China, being projected billboard style on the streets of NYC. The larger life of this project, Solange Fabião, is dedicated to a sort of cross parallel examination of modern city life. The loop can be seen on the corner of Canal and Centre through the end of the month. Tonight is the opening party at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm Location: Storefront for Art and Architecture (97 Kenmare Street between Mullberry and Center) Cost: Free
Joseph Ari Aloi,Kevin Devine,Dan Funderburgh, and more present individual perspectives on both war and nature. The work within the War Making show aims to explore the wars role within humanity and the individuals place within that war.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location:Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Ave between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg) Cost: Free
www.warmaking.com | www.seeyouattheriviera.com/
The serious crate diggers over at Bastard Jazz continue their monthly "ass-shaking excavation" of everything from breaks to funk to dub. This crew is breaking into some new levels with their original productions so it will be intersting to hear them in a selector position. Half price Coronas make the bar managable.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 9:00pm Location: Leopard Lounge (248 East 5th Street) Cost: Free
This one came straight from myopenbar.com... "Free beer of some sort. Also, free copies of Filter Magazine, free RockStar drink and bullshit from Crunch fitness. Bands downstairs, DJ's everywhere including MOB's Rob Hitt. Return of the James Brown hour with live percussionists."
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 10:00pm Location: The Delancey (168 Delancy Street between Clinton and Attorney) Cost: Free with RSVP
The Oxycottontail crew, providers of great staple parties such as the Monday night Sway parties, is starting a new Thursday at (ack!) Glo. Two of the hippest DJs around - Mark Ronson and DJ Jus Ske - provide the backdrop and, judging by the flyer, there should be some sort of open bar (no promises). Expect a packed, sweaty scene.
Date: Thursday, October 20th Time: 10:00pm?, 11:00pm? Location: Glo (431 West 16th between 9th and 10th) Cost: Free with RSVP
The Roundtable Ensemble invites you to a series of live theater readings where professional actors will read both time-honored and modern plays. Tonight's reading features "Vanities" by Jack Heifner. The bittersweet, coming-of-age comedy chronicling the lives of three women who confront adolescence, adulthood and each other - capturing the spirit of a bygone era and the complexities of true friendship.
Staged reading directed by J.V. Mercanti for The Roundtable Ensemble.
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 12:00pm Venue: The Educational Alliance (344 East 14th Street) Cost: Free
Once a month, the South Street Seaport Museum opens its doors for free. Tonight is that night with a special halloween tinged evening. Events include maskmaking and a tour of the hidden secrets of Schermerhorn Row by torchlight. Tour tickets on a first come and first served basis. Tour begins at 6pm sharp.
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 6:00pm Location: South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton Street) Cost: Free
The My Little Pony was a staple in my life as a little girl in the 80s. We're talking ponies here people, and lots of them, plus castles and stables and tiny litle pony maine brushes. Well its good to know that other people share in my nostalgia as The Pony Project opens tonight.
"Hasbro has invited a group of talented women to transform oversized versions of this iconic toy into works of art. Each artist will receive an 18 inch tall blank My Little Pony figure. Using their creativity, the artists are being challenged to customize these figures from their own perspectives. This creative challenge, given to exceptional women in the fields of fashion, fine art, illustration, photography and graffiti, will result in an exhibition set to debut in New York City’s Milk Gallery on October 21st 2005." Tonight is the opening, but the show runs through the 25th.
Date: Friday, October 21 Time: 7pm - 10pm Venue: Mike Gallery, 450 West 15th Cost: Free
"Stay Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition for the artist Cole Gerst. Current and Resistance will feature paintings, prints, t-shirts, and several examples of his commissioned design work. As an independent artist, Gerst paints, makes prints, designs t-shirts, and also has a monthly comic, LaLa Land, appearing in the LA Weekly. He has had solo shows at Koo's Art Gallery in Long Beach, L Salon in Hollywood, Black Market Gallery in Los Angeles, and Magpie in San Diego." After Party with DJ's, dancing, and free Pilsner Urquell from 10 - 11 at Savalas (285 Bedford Ave. btw S. 1st & Grand).
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Stay Gold Gallery (451 Grand St. between Keap & Union, Williamsburg) Cost: Free
Finally... finally someone is bringing a new party to the weekends. All too often I get wind of another hot Tuesday or Thursday party to get excited about. Sooner or later, though, the weekend rolls around,the "What should I do tonight?" emails start pouring in, and more often then not I'm left with the same old drunken bars or massive clubs as a solution.
But tonight there's a new late night deep house party in town to keep you dancing all night without the mess, hassle, and door charge of the city's larger venues. Marlon D and Jellybean Benittez - who have been bringing deep house to NYC since the Paradise Garage and Studio 54 days - are launching a new party tonight aptly titled Ain't Nothin' But A House Party. All I can say is its about #%¡¢#ing time. Join them is special guest Louis "Lou" Gorbea who is more than qualified to share the decks with these legends. This new weekly is poised to pack the Union Square Ballroom with people sweating from the rafter until sunrise.
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 10:00pm - 6:00am Location: Union Square Ballroom (27 Union Square West between 15th and 16th) Cost: Free with printout of flyer ($15 without)
All I know... Dj's Lindsay and Jaclyn rock upstairs while PF Cuttin & DJ Spae hit up the downstairs at sluts and aces. Open Absolute and Sparks upstairs from 10-11. Good jump-off.
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 10:00pm Location: 6's and 8's (corner of Chrystie and Stanton) Cost: Free
Need something to do with your late night after you spent the early part of your evening staring at grown up sized My Little Ponies? Head over to Luke And Leroy for Westside Gangbang's Bmore Gutter cd release party with DJs Lowbudget and Aaron Lacrate. And yeah, it does cost five bucks to get in, but it can be made up for with an hours worth of free vodka from 11 to 12.
Date: Friday, October 21st Time: 11pm - 4am Venue: Luke And Leroy, 21 7th Ave South Cost: $5
You know all those old cell phones and computers you have laying around... well, they have toxic chemicals in them. SO, rather than tossing htem in a dumpster in hopes that some diver will fish them out, bring them to NYCWasteless' electronics collection station. Computer parts, TVs, cell phones, all will be recycled and disposed of in an environmental manner. Long Island City event takes place on the 23rd
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm Location: Mall at Bay Plaza (290 Baychester Avenue, Barnes & Noble Parking Lot, Bronx) Cost: Free
The Brooklyn Peace Fair is a free day of performances, workshops, and children's activities about social justic and piece at the YWCA including an anti war march. Too much to write about so if this is for you then check the site for full info.
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 11:00am Location: YWCA (30 Third Avenue at Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn) Cost: Free
Eyes Wide Open is a powerful exhibit on the cost of the war in Iraq. "The exhibit includes a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty; a field of shoes and a wall of remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict; and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war." Visitors are encouraged to leave "notes of commemoration, photographs of lost soldiers, identification tags, flowers, and American flags to accompany the boots on their journey."
From the same fine people that brought you such events as Santacon and Leprocon comes Zombiecon. Don your best undead garb, practice your zombie walk, and join in the fun that involves a day of bloody mary's, zombie shopping, and tourist terrorizing. This is a participation only event as "spectators will be eaten." RSVP for full info.
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 1pm - 1am Location: TBD Cost: Free... RSVP for full info
"The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality." This years protest will begin at Union Square at 2pm.
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 2pm Location: Union Square Cost: Free
Giant Robot - one of NYC favorite purveyors of cool toys, books, and art "stuff" - has compiled an exhibit of 20 of their favorite comic artists. Included in the line-up is is FreeNYC favorite David Choe amongst many talented others. We are admittedly not very versed in comics because we spend all our time writing for this website. Tonight is a good chance to change that. Continues through November 16th.
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm Location: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th Street) Cost: Free
Beer (not sure if its free though), Art, and Punk Rock... what more do you need to know. Live Music by: Check Your Face, Bombtown, and Bloodshot Hooligans. Dozens of artists. Really, what else are you doing this early on a Saturday.
Date: Saturday, October 22nd Time: 7:00pm Location: East River Bar (96 South 6th Street & Berry) Cost: Free
Sweat is one of my favorite parties in NYC simply because rather than bring in one talented DJ and lots of filler they pack two rooms with amazing DJs all night long. Usually, however, we can't really talk about it on FreeNYC because the cover charge falls out of our "nothing over $5 range."
But when Mr. Choimatic - one half of Robots in a Coma with the equally talented Chasekillz - sent me over the lineup this month, I knew something had to be done. I mean... really... how often do you get a chance to see Baltimore/DC's Tittsworth & Dave Nada rip up a DJ AND Live PA set? This is going to be one of those good time get downs that we love when our fav's like Scottie B or K-Swift come to town.
So what we have done for you - our beloved FreeNYC community - is struck a little deal. You can get our our special FreeNYC list for a reduced reduced entry cost of only $5. And with an open Bacardi bar from 10:30-11:30 your cover will balanced out with your first free drink! It's just our way of keeping those NYC financial barriers at bay. RSVP here and I'll see you Saturday!
Date: Satruday, October 22nd Time: 10:00pm Location: 6s & 8s (205 Chrystie Street at Stanton) Cost: $10, $8 with flyer, $5 with FreeNYC RSVP!
You know all those old cell phones and computers you have laying around... well, they have toxic chemicals in them. SO, rather than tossing htem in a dumpster in hopes that some diver will fish them out, bring them to NYCWasteless' electronics collection station. Computer parts, TVs, cell phones, all will be recycled and disposed of in an environmental manner.
Date: Sunday, October 23rd Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm Location: Next to Long Island City Best Buy store (50th Street between Northern Boulevard and Newtown Road) Cost: Free
This kind of stuff only happens in New York.. "Times Square Alliance is proud to present the first annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade. This special event will show off the dogs of the city (and beyond!) in costumes that evoke Times Square past and present. Dogs will compete in three categories: Historical Hounds (costumes featuring historical figures from Times Square such as the VJ Day Sailor and Nurse, Ladies of the night or a street preacher); Current Canine Characters (current characters that populate Times Square like the Naked Cowboy, tourists or New Years Eve celebrants); and Broadway Bow-Wows (Broadway diva dogs and other theatre impresarios and characters such as Billy Flynn, Phantom of the Opera, or Cats)." See site for full info.
Date: Sunday, October 23rd Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Times Square Recruitment Island (44th St and Broadway) Cost: Free
"School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors Heinz Edelmann, one of the leading art directors, illustrators and designers of our time, with its Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. Every year, SVA bestows the award to a groundbreaking visual artist, designer, photographer or illustrator who, over the course of his/her career, has been recognized as a great visual communicator.
The exhibition will include over 100 posters, screen prints, magazine spreads, book designs, animations and comic books spanning Edelmann’s prolific career. His work is internationally known, and he has been actively working in Germany, England and the Netherlands since the late ‘50s, doing design, illustration, advertising and animation. Unlike many designers working today, Edelmann has never made a clear distinction between the role of the designer and the role of the illustrator, and the majority of his designs for books, magazines and posters use his own illustrations. He was always a solo operation with no assistants, and was able to create a new technique or style for each job, depending upon its needs. 'I was always a one-man band' says Edelmann, 'I was my own art director, illustrator, designer and paster-uper and I also swept the floor and made the coffee.'”
Date: Monday, October 24th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Visual Arts Museum (209 East 23 Street) Cost: Free
To be honest, I don't know anything about Prophecy Magazine, but I do know that they are having their issue release party tonight. Two other key points here though, ?uest Love of The Roots will be DJing and its an open bar all night. (swiped from windchill)
Date: Monday, October 24th Time: 10pm - 2am Venue: The Little Green Lounge, 35 Grand Street Cost: Free with RSVP
It's a very special Sway tonight because Rapid Ric is in town to celebrate Fubz's birthday. Who's Fubz? Show up and ask around... you'll find out. Expect the usual thugga-chic sway way.
Date: Monday, October 24th Time: 11:00pm Location: Sway (205 Spring between Greenwich and Hudson) Cost: Free (may be $5 suggested)
Check out White Box to get an early look at all the art work they will be auctioning off at their benefit auction and seventh birthday party. Starting the 25th about all the work will be on view at White Box. The event will commence on the 29th, with the party kickin' it off at 6 and the final bidding at 8. Come for the art and stay for the birthday cake!
Date: Tuesday,October 25th Time: 12pm - 7pm daily Venue: White Box, 525 West 26th St Cost: Free
The Imaginary Cultures of Online Multiplayer Video Games
The Global Issues in Design & Visuality lecture series continues. "This lecture will look at how video game players build imaginary cultures. Specially-selected examples will be analyzed as harbingers of new global communities in formation, offering new insights into the burgeoning world of virtual vernaculars."
Date: Tuesday, October 25th Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm Location: Parsons, Tishman Auditorium (66 W. 12th St.) Cost: Free
So I have no idea about this one. I don't know Scale, their space, or what their film and video work is all about. I am guessing they are some sort of design studio. I do know that Kudu is playing and they are a hella good dance band. I also know that there is some serious DJ talent and free Brahma Beer. I am assuming that there will be good video projections as well.
Date: Tuesday, October 25th Time: 7:00pm - late Location: Scale (437 Washington Street, 2nd floor) Cost: Free with RSVP
"Syrup invites you to explore your expectations. Stir your thoughts. Wander into a world and take part in an exhibition of inspiration." Okay... sounds interesting at least. Maybe the site has more info? Looks like free Amstel and Heineken.
Date: Tuesday, October 25th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Newspace (530 West 21st Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP
I guess since The L Magazine represents some of the more stylish of borough dwellers, they decided to host a little fashion show. The clothing will all be from Atrium on Broadway. The best part is they will feed you free Moet from 9 to 11.
Date: Tuesday, October 25th Time: 9pm - 11pm Venue: PM, 50 Gansevoort St Cost: Free with RSVP
I really thought that I could not pump the Timewarp party up any more. Ge-ology and Blu Jemz - both master beat makers - spin top notch hip hop in the super comfy Opus22. But tonight, they throw Sadat X and DJ Spinna into the mix. Add an open bar from 10-11 and free givaways and you have one fine Tuesday night.
Date: Tuesday, October 25th Time: 10:00pm Location: Opus22 (559 West 22nd Street at 11th Ave) Cost: Free
Drunken alcoholics, live rock guitars, and dance music make this a potent saturday night affair. Half price drinks up the anti at this worthy weekly. Oh, and there is a flying hammer-penis thing on the flyer... whats that all about?
Date: Tuesday, October 25th Time: 10:00pm Location: Happy Ending, Upstairs (302 Broome between Forsyth and Eldridge) Cost: Free
Ok people, lets talk monkeys. I love monkeys, my neighbor who has a chimp which sits in his window 24/7 loves monkeys, and the world renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall also loves monkeys. She is actually best known for her decades of work with chimpanzees and baboons, but today she is droppin knowlegde not about the state of the animal kingdom, but of human society and the way we produce and consume in hopes of achieving a more sustainable world. In her latest book, Harvet For Hope, she outlines some of where western society has gone wrong and how we can creat positive change.
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 12:30pm Venue: Barnes and Noble, Union Square and 17th Cost: Free
Ariele Eckstut and David Henry, authors of Putting Your Passion Into Print explain the ins and outs of pitching a conceise book idea at this Strand workshop. Select attendees will even get to pitch to real professionals and get critiqued. Some sort of party to follow.
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (party at 7:30) Location: Strand Book Store (828 Broadway) Cost: Free
Stealing words I'm feeling (from Contested Terrain)... "We have just received word that the moment we have been dreading has arrived: 2,000 U.S. servicepeople have now died in Iraq. We grieve for these two thousand men and women, killed in the prime of their lives, for a war based on lies, and we grieve for the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have also died in the chaos and carnage the Bush Administration has brought to their country. It's time to bring the troops home -- now. Not one more U.S. serviceperson should give his or her life to this senseless war. Not one more Iraqi should be killed. Not one more U.S. dollar should be spent sustaining this war and occupation."
"CNN has just reported grim news: 2,000 Americans soldiers have now died in Iraq. Join veterans, military families and United for Peace and Justice-NYC for a solemn vigil. Bring flowers to lay on the doorstep of the Recruiting Center and banners and signs."
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 6:00pm - 7:0pm Location: Times Square Recruiting Center Cost: Free
Enojy your Wednesday night with art, music, good people and of course an open bar. Come celebrate the release of ANIMAL issue 6 and the third bday of The Now Corporation. DJs Spae, Hoe a.k.a. Henery Eshelman, Kerry Hinton and Josh Styles provide the music.
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 7pm - 'til your drunk Venue: BLVD, 199 Bowery Cost: Free with RSVP
Every once in a while, NYU does something really cool. Today they are hosting Handheld, a sort of lecture/exhibition on experimental uses of handheld technology. The event will feature Haeyoung Kim (bubblyfish) who will perform 8-bit symphonies on Game Boy with visual accompanyment, c.h.i.a.k.i who will present low fi 8-bit visuals created out of Ninetendo, and Family Filter who's simpleTEXT program creates music out of audience supplied text messages.
Most important to me, as I was out of town a few weeks back, is the fact that Improv Everywhere will be on hand with another MP3 Experiment. For those of you who missed out on the rainy park fun now is your chance to get on it. So download the mp3 (no pre-listening) load it into your ipod and bring it along. All at once, we will press play and enjoy the ride... together. This will probably be the last MP3 experiment until warmer days so don't sleep.
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 7:30pm Location: NYU, Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South, 8th floor) Cost: Free (please bring ID)
It's a very special halloween version of Corrosion as DJ Mister X presents a tribute to Siousie and the Banshees. Expect the usual joy Division, Cure, Smiths, Ministry, Front 242, etc as well on the decks and an open bar from 9-10.
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 9:00pm Location: Luke & Leroy (21 7th Ave at Leroy) Cost: Free
Its another sweaty nasty electro-cum-indie-cum-drag-cum-hipster-just-cum party at Boys Room. New Wave-Go-Go-Electro keeps you moving all night and an open bar from 10:30 - 11:30 opens your inhibitions. Total hyphen count: 11
Date: Wednesday, October 26th Time: 10:30 Location: Boy's Room (9 Ave A Between 1st & 2nd) Cost: Free
If you're in college or have some college students' ID, you better go ice skating tonight. Come on, it's free. And Wollman Rink in Central Park is beautiful. They say this is their way of promoting the opening for the 2005/2006 season, but you can just see it as "something to do in Central Park at night that won't get you mugged (maybe)." There will be a live DJ so you won't hear any of that lame elevator muzak; plus there will be giveaways and door prizes. Can you beat that?
http://www.wollmanskatingrink.com/wollman.htm
Date: Thursday, October 27 Time: 7-11 pm Venue: Wollman Rink, Central Park (see above for directions) Cost: Free with a "valid" college/university ID
Every once and a while I will brave The Delancey - packed full of tourist hipsters and one of the worst internal layouts I have ever seen - for a good band or a good deal. Tonight kind of has both. Michael Leviton performs, there is a free BBQ from 7-8, and free beer from 9-10. there are also giveaways from Ace Fu Records, Stop Smiling Magazine, and Neighborhoodies making (no, not hoodies!) tee shirts on the spot.
Date: Thursday, October 27th Time: 7:00pm Location: the Delancey (168 Delancey between Clinton and Attorney) Cost: Free
Gala always makes me think of fancy party dresses. Surface Mag always makes me think of stark black suits. Woordford Reserve sponsorship always makes me think of drunken bourbon hooligan activities. Either way, the Avant Guardian is quite a nice representation of high end fashion photography. See and be seen tonight at the opening "gala."
Date: Thursday, October 27th Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm Location: Splashlight Studios (529 West 35th Street) Cost: Free with RSVP
Wow.. big up to this undisclosed promoter for bringing Baltimore's best - Scottie B - to one of the cities best systems. Plus, its rare that a good throw down at APT has no cover... but this one does... and an open bar from 9-10 of Red Bull and Vodka. If you have been hearing me rant about Baltimore Club music for the last month or so and have not gone out to anything then this is your official popping. Start early and stay late.
Date: Thursday, October 27th Time: 9:00pm Location: APT (419 West 13th Street) Cost: Free
Every once and a while the guys at Troma Films - makers of personal favorites such as Class of Nuke'em High and Cannibal! The Musical - throw a really good party. These boys know fake gore better than Gwar so expect dancing zombies, hula hooping goth girls, and all sorts of bloody suprises at this 50's styled "sock hop" throwdown. Free Energy Vodka and Pabst from 10-11 get you ready for the evening while DJs Jumpin' Jorge Fame and Hollidave Mason provide the soundtrack to this perfect Thursday night jump off. Costumes welcome but not mandatory... DVD givaways... Oh, and did I mention the Tromettes?
Date: Thursday, October 27th Time: 10:00pm Location:Supreme Trading (213 North 8th Street, Williamsburg) Cost: Free
Matt from Pay2Cum has put together a pre holloween throw down tonight. There is an open vodka bar from 12-1 and some sort of keg beer action thing going on. Before and after that you can drink 32oz. Buds for $6 which is really not a big deal because thats just 2 $3 pints in one bottle. I can only expect the music will be a sort of booty shaking houston x baltimore throwdown.
Date: Thursday, October 27t Time: 10:00pm Location: Double Happiness (173 Mott between Broome and Grand) Cost: Free with RSVP
Any press release that comes across my virtual desk with the phrase "Come for the puppets and stay for the restoration of the Zombie Slut Princess’s rightful crown!" is okay by me. I am a little skeptical of a "free" fundraiser but who knows...
So tonight is a fundraiser at the Read for "Jack and the Beanstalk:
A new musical with puppets by Natalie Weiss." There is a sneak peak at the show (puppets!), an "ultra-competitive" zombie costume contest, art, djs, open air market, nypho kissing booth, bake sale, $3 beers, and "Hot Girls playing vibraphones and accordions." Talk about an after work extravaganza.
Date: Friday, October 28th Time: 5:00pm, to 10:00pm Location: Read Café (158 Bedford at North 8th, Williamsburg) Cost: "Free for the Undead"
Whats better than riding your bike through the busy streets of New York with a couple hundred people??? Riding your bike through the busy streets with a couple hundred people wearing contumes!
Date: Friday, October 28th Time: 7pm Location: Ride begins in Union Square Cost: Free
This hot new Friday weekly continues with DJ Lindsay on the decks upstairs and free open bar from 10-11. They layout of this joint is terrible (like putting a really small bar downstairs right at the entrance having some dude work a rope to get down there when there is plenty of room) but I am willing to overlook all of that because the music is great and the free drinks are a nice plus. Okay, enough bitter bastard.
Date: Friday: October 28th Time: 10:00pm Location: 6's & 8's (Stanton and Chrystie) Cost: Free with RSVP
I am not sure I am down with this new $5 Friday policy at Luke and Leroy. But I am just going to list all the free crap you may get if you go here and that should be enough this week... Free 1977 x We tee shirts. Free Etnies swag. Free video (watching). 2 hrs of free beer (drinking). Music from Catchdubs and BluJemz.
Date: Friday, October 28th Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am Location: Luke & Leroy (21 7th Ave at Leroy) Cost: $5 with RSVP
Ok, so, ignore the big name corporate sponsorship here and take the family for a fun filled Halloweeny (haha) day in the park!
"Join us on Saturday, October 29th from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., for the [...] Great Halloween Party in Central Park. Come out and see one of New York’s favorite haunts dressed up for the holiday! Rain or shine there will be activities and entertainment that the whole family will enjoy.
Holiday classics including the pumpkin patch, a haunted house and pumpkin carving join the greenmarket, bandshell performances and Puppets in the Park to make this holiday happening a scary must!"
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 11am - 3pm Venue: Central Park - Enter @ 72nd Street
Cost: Free
This one is just reiterating a point that I have made before, bike dudes are crazy. And if you dont believe me watch this video of Bike Kill 2004 so you know what to expect for Black Label Bike Club's Bike Kill 2005. I dont know too many details but the best I can figure people show up on all sorts of bikes, tall ones, small ones, homemade ones, tandem ones, etc, and craziness ensues. Expect races, jousting, bike tossing, beer drinking and a lil bit of mayhem.
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 12:00pm Location: Sandford and Willoughby, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Cost: Free
Haven't you ever wanted to play to a room full of dogs dressed in halloween costumes? No? Well the Ming Dynasty does. This afternoon they are going to be playing in Thompkins Square Park as part of their Dog Run Halloween Parade. I mean, look at that guy above... how cute. It's a dog with man hands! There will be prizes, and trick contests, and people dressed up to match their dogs and (hopefully) dogs dressed like cats. If I had one of those miniature dogs thats what I'd dress him like. Or maybe a subway rat. It cost a $5 raffle ticket to get in but I am sure you can just watch from over the fence. (photo by Diane Cohen)
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 12:00pm Location: Thompkins Square Park (Ave B & 9th Street) Cost: Free to peak over the fence
"Prospect Park celebrates Halloween with good old-fashioned fright. Deep in the Park, where there is no one to hear you scream, the woods are haunted by witches, ghosts and vampires lurking in the dark forest. There’s also a carnival on the Nethermead featuring all kinds of fun, games, seasonal treats, and a puppet parade." Click here for the full day's lineup.
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 12pm - 5pm Location: Prospect Park Cost: Free
Now don't go getting this scary pier confused with the Shakespeare scary pier, this is an entirely different scary pier on the Hudson. This is the 6th Annual Pier of Fear...
"The Pier of Fear will feature the Park's FREE trademark MAZE OF HORRORS. Follow Igor and the creatures of the night as they guide you through tunnels and secret passageways leading to laboratories, graveyards and chambers of terror. See objects move about, hear frightening sounds and see terrifying images as live actors take you on a tour the creepiest maze in New York City. At dark, the maze will become even scarier for older children."
Date: Saturday, October 29th and Sunday, October 30th Time: Noon 'til 9 Venue: Pier 54, Hudson River and 14th st Cost: Free
"take care not / to hurt, you / want so / much so / little. Words / say everything." - Excerpt from The Language
This last year I did a research paper on Robert Creeley (and REALLY got into it) after which my teacher informed me I could go hear him read that week. For one random reason or another I did not. The following poets he worked with, were touched by, and will be present to remember Robert Creeley this Saturday at St. Marks Church: Irene Aebi, Ammiel Alcalay, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, William Corbett, Carolyn Forche, Kathleen Fraser, Peter Gizzi, Allan Graham, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anselm Hollo, Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Alex Katz, Vincent Katz, Basil King, Harry Mattison, Brad Morrow, Simon Pettet, Archie Rand, Tom Raworth, Ed Sanders, Leslie Scalapino, Rod Smith, Anne Waldman, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Elizabeth Willis, CD Wright, and John Yau. Read Creeley poetry here.
Date: Saturday, October 29 Venue: St. Marks Church, 2nd Avenue & 10th St Time: 1:00 pm Cost: Free
"[...]this site-specific theatrical event features the ghost of William Shakespeare himself along with the spirits of his most famous characters. Shakespeare rules his creations with an iron fist, but here they rebel and break out of their scripted destinies. This interactive performance features a cast of 20 performers, leading audiences on a walking tour around scenic Pier 25 and onto the decks of the historic Yankee Ferry. As the audience travels through the "haunted pier," characters such as Macbeth and The Witches, Hamlet, Caliban and Romeo & Juliet will appear, each speaking the words penned over four hundred years ago. Crowds will be led through the Hall of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, examine Julius Caesar's wounds, dip toes into Ophelia's Riverbed of Death (Hamlet), journey through a Shakespearean Chamber of Darkness and dine at the table of Titus Andronicus (where Titus is served a pie with a special filling – his family)."
Honestly, I know this costs five bucks, but really how often do you get to chill with Macbeth and Hamlet at the same time? Preformances are hourly from Saturday through Monday.
Date: Saturday, October 29th - Monday, October 31st Time: Sat. and Sun. 2, 3, 4, & 5 PM, Mon. 4, 5, 6, & 7 PM Venue: Pier 25, NYC West Side Highway & N. Moore Street Cost: Free
Check out White Box to get an early look at all the art work they will be auctioning off at their benefit auction and seventh birthday party. Starting the 25th about all the work will be on view at White Box. The event will commence on the 29th, with the party kickin' it off at 6 and the final bidding at 8. Come for the art and stay for the birthday cake!
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 6pm Venue: White Box, 525 West 26th St Cost: Free
Um... Okay... "The folks at D&S Knitwear are crafting plans for all Hallows Eve. We're opening up all 3500 sq feet of the loft plus the roof deck for an unholy evening of drinking and debauchery. See DJ's tag teaming all night, and we're pouring Brooklyn and Sangria at the bar. We have NO COVER this time, but if liquor does you better than wine or that luscious local Brooklyn brew, feel free provide, we'll give you the ice. Costumes are strongly encouraged, since those who cannot find the spirit of this most sacred of nights, but come to drink our booze anyway, will be punished through taunting and ridicule.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to numerous complaints and a health department investigation after last year, this years ritual sacrifice has been
cancelled. Alternate refreshments will be provided.
Directions: L train to Dekalb Ave. Exit at the rear of the train. Walk one block west (towards Manhattan) down Wyckoff Ave to the corner of Hart St. across from the C Town grocery. 97 Wyckoff Ave. 2nd floor."
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 9:00pm - ??? Location: 97 Wyckoff Ave, 2nd Floor Cost: Free with RSVP?
Apparently one of the best Halloween parties around, Mass Appeal is throwing themselves a lil get together. Costumes are optional but strongly suggested, and there will be tons of candy to help rot your teeth! I mean really, what's Halloween with out a cavity or two?
Our friend Moe Choi is at it again. This time forgoing the cover charge and dropping a free vodka open bar. He's joined on the tables by some additional serious party music DJs and it all goes down at Morrisey Park (which used to be Open Air... RIP) This is a great way to strech the use of that sexy vampire costume you have been waiting to rock all month.
Date: Saturday, October 29th Time: 10:00pm Location: Morrisey Park (122 St. Marks Place at Ave A) Cost: Free
Everyone and a while an event gets sent over to me that I am not exactly sure what to make of, and well, this is one of those times. If you are looking for something to do today, throw on your Halloween costume and head over to the courtyard of St. Marks Church for the 2nd Annual Really Really Free Market.
"Dress up in your CRAZIEST Halloween garb! Best costume wins the best pumpkin pie you've ever had! And it's vegan! Swap goods (You know, the stuff that is too good to throw away but you shouldn�t keep), share skills, give presents, eat food, hang out, dance, sing and have fun! All for free! Nothing will be for sale! There will be Halloween-themed Games! Music! and Food! The Really Free Market is an open-air bazaar and celebration, where we discard capitalist notions of interaction and have fun trying new models of exchange. This will only be as great as you make it. We will provide the framework; you supply the material. Bring free stuff..."
Date: Sunday, October 30th Time: Noon 'til Dark Location: St. Marks Church, 10th st and 2nd Ave Cost: Free
Now don't go getting this scary pier confused with the Shakespeare scary pier, this is an entirely different scary pier on the Hudson. This is the 6th Annual Pier of Fear...
"The Pier of Fear will feature the Park's FREE trademark MAZE OF HORRORS. Follow Igor and the creatures of the night as they guide you through tunnels and secret passageways leading to laboratories, graveyards and chambers of terror. See objects move about, hear frightening sounds and see terrifying images as live actors take you on a tour the creepiest maze in New York City. At dark, the maze will become even scarier for older children."
Date: Saturday, October 29th and Sunday, October 30th Time: Noon 'til 9 Venue: Pier 54, Hudson River and 14th st Cost: Free
"[...]this site-specific theatrical event features the ghost of William Shakespeare himself along with the spirits of his most famous characters. Shakespeare rules his creations with an iron fist, but here they rebel and break out of their scripted destinies. This interactive performance features a cast of 20 performers, leading audiences on a walking tour around scenic Pier 25 and onto the decks of the historic Yankee Ferry. As the audience travels through the "haunted pier," characters such as Macbeth and The Witches, Hamlet, Caliban and Romeo & Juliet will appear, each speaking the words penned over four hundred years ago. Crowds will be led through the Hall of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, examine Julius Caesar's wounds, dip toes into Ophelia's Riverbed of Death (Hamlet), journey through a Shakespearean Chamber of Darkness and dine at the table of Titus Andronicus (where Titus is served a pie with a special filling – his family)."
Honestly, I know this costs five bucks, but really how often do you get to chill with Macbeth and Hamlet at the same time? Preformances are hourly from Saturday through Monday.
Date: Saturday, October 29th - Monday, October 31st Time: Sat. and Sun. 2, 3, 4, & 5 PM, Mon. 4, 5, 6, & 7 PM Venue: Pier 25, NYC West Side Highway & N. Moore Street Cost: Free
Share is the closest thing I've seen to a nob twiddler's 'jam' session. Its an open mic of sorts where musicians are invited to come out, plug in their gear, and jam along with each other. I love impov and this is a perfect example of the beautiful connectivity of man (and man) and machine (and more machines).
Of course, Share goes down every week. So why am I writing about it? Because tonight there is a VERY special live performance by Al Haca sound system this trio create and intertwined soundscape of post-apocolyptic hip hop over electronic dub rhythems. The 3 man set-up is simple... laptop, fx, and mc. The result, mind-bending. They are also playing a pay show at Scenic on Sunday but catch the live show tonight for free. They are joined by Sterotyp who I am unfamiliar with but is on Stephan Dorfmeister's always-amazing G-Stone label
Listen to Al Haca live on Beta Lounge radio (with free account but Beta Lounge is great online radio so you should have one anyway)
Date: Sunday, October 30th Time: 6:00pm - 12:30am Location:Mundial (505 East 12th Street) Cost: Free
"If you look on the IMBD, you’ll find this quote about the movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space: “This movie maybe be awful, but it's the best!” The guys from the Concrescence collective of musicians and visualists (from whence the band Send comes) are going to try to make it even better (worse?). They’re improvising their own score with lap steel guitar (The player is rumored to be able to do a killer theremin impression), a vintage synthesizer, a traditional drum kit played with a viola bow and dowel rods, and a guitar that’s run through something called a ‘space modulator’. If you like Star Trek, or if you like people-watching people who like Star Trek, this one’s for you." [written by Justin from New Release]
Date: Sunday, October 30th Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am Location:Laila Lounge (113 N 7th btw Wythe and Berry) Cost: Free
Free Halloween parties are few and far between. But Bar 13 is coming to the rescue with free Sparks from 10-12 and Stiffed playing live at midnight. Not a bad stop off in your travels tonight.
Date: Sunday, October 30th Time: 10:00pm Location: Bar 13 (35 East 13th Street) Cost: Free
"[...]this site-specific theatrical event features the ghost of William Shakespeare himself along with the spirits of his most famous characters. Shakespeare rules his creations with an iron fist, but here they rebel and break out of their scripted destinies. This interactive performance features a cast of 20 performers, leading audiences on a walking tour around scenic Pier 25 and onto the decks of the historic Yankee Ferry. As the audience travels through the "haunted pier," characters such as Macbeth and The Witches, Hamlet, Caliban and Romeo & Juliet will appear, each speaking the words penned over four hundred years ago. Crowds will be led through the Hall of Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, examine Julius Caesar's wounds, dip toes into Ophelia's Riverbed of Death (Hamlet), journey through a Shakespearean Chamber of Darkness and dine at the table of Titus Andronicus (where Titus is served a pie with a special filling – his family)."
Honestly, I know this costs five bucks, but really how often do you get to chill with Macbeth and Hamlet at the same time? Preformances are hourly from Saturday through Monday.
Date: Saturday, October 29th - Monday, October 31st Time: Sat. and Sun. 2, 3, 4, & 5 PM, Mon. 4, 5, 6, & 7 PM Venue: Pier 25, NYC West Side Highway & N. Moore Street Cost: Free
"The fourth annual BAM Halloween extravaganza brings out Brooklyn's best ghouls and goblins, pirates and princesses for a haunted evening of sweet delights and family entertainment. From free candy to costume contests, trick-or-treaters of all ages can enjoy the festivities happening right in front of BAM and in our neighboring garden."
Date: Monday, October 31st Time: 4pm - 7pm Venue: BAM, Lafayette Avenue between Ashland Pl and St. Felix St Cost: Free
I gotta say kids, I'm almost Halloweened-ed out (don't tell my friend Rosanne though, she'd be really disappointed in my Halloween spirit!) I may be able to squeeze one more in though. And yes it is a school night, but this one will get you all tucked in by 1am. To celebrate Halloween, Luke and Leroy is throwing a litle party with DJ DOOOK-Kay (the brown guy), Mini Bar, Rattle Me Bones (Neil) And Some Other Dude (Christian) spining, plus drink specials all night long.
Date: Monday, October 31st Time: 7pm - 1am Venue: Luke and Leroy, 21 7th Ave South Cost: Free
We have finally reached the finale of this 4 day long Halloween extravaganza that begdan last week. And thank god for that 'cause I dont know how much longer I could go on wearing this Pocahontas outfit. Anyway, put you costume on for one last party. Tonight, Swing by the Cornerstone Promotions Mixtape Monster Bash. Costumes are not required but strongly encouraged and musical treats will be provided by DJ Marley Marl.
Date: Monday, October 31st Time: 10pm - 4am Venue: Stereo, 512 West 29th Street Cost: Free with RSVP
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