Date: Sunday, February 1st Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Mott Street from Hester to Chrystie Cost: Free
"The spectacle features elaborate floats, marching bands, lion and dragon dances galore, Asian musicians, magicians, acrobats and procession by local organizations. Over 5,000 people are expected to march in the parade, which will start at Mott Street and promenade through practically every street in of Chinatown, finally dispersing at Worth Street. The parade is expected to conclude at 3:00 pm, at which time an outdoor cultural festival will take place on Bayard Street featuring more performances by musicians, dancers and martial artists."
Date: Sunday, February 1st Time: 2:00pm Location: Walt Whitman Theater at Brooklyn College (2900 Campus Road) Cost: Free (tickets should be picked up at the box office)
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College welcomes The United States Military Academy Band this afternoon. "Based in West Point, N.Y., the United States Military Academy Band has served the Nation and West Point for 190 years, performing for U.S. Presidents, Heads of State, and the American public. Under the direction of Lt. Col. Timothy Holtan, the 48-member band annually attracts thousands of visitors to West Point Military Academy, is committed to being the standard bearer of musical excellence, and now brings its delightful and patriotic repertoire to the Brooklyn community..."
Date: Sunday, February 1st Time: 7:00pm Location: Tea Lounge (837 Union Street, P'Slope) Cost: Free
Polestar Images and The Culture Caravan take over the Tea Lounge in Park Slope today. They offer up a moving showcase and market comprised of indie designers, fashion accessories, art, photography and live performances from Selena Mars, Lillie Ruth Bussey, Joshua Lutz and Brad Nickel.
Date: Mondays through Feb. 2nd Time: 6:30am - 9:30am Location: Various, See below Cost: Free
Over the next month, Dunkin' Donuts is making the morning commute a little brighter for New Yorkers by providing free subway rides at four of Manhattan's busiest subway stations. Pop by the station of the day (listed below) between 6:30 and 9:30 to get your free metro card.
· Monday, January 12th- Lexington Ave/ 53rd Street
· Tuesday, January 20th- 14th Street/ Union Square Station
· Monday, January 26th- Grand Central Station
· Monday, February 2nd- Times Square/42nd Street
Date: Monday, February 2nd Time: 6:30pm Location: Tenement Museum Shop (108 Orchard Street) Cost: Free
"This award-winning documentary is the sweeping story of the Mexican-American migrant experience as well as a personal portrait of generational change in one family.The seven sons of migrant worker Rosa Peña were raised in Texas's Hidalgo County, the poorest in the nation. Six years after Rosa died, her sons Carlos and Armando undertook a road trip to reunite their siblings and return their mother's ashes to the Rio Grande Valley. The brothers' journey, which takes them across the American West and Central Mexico, reveals the complexity of Rosa's legacy for each of her sons and the complexity of cross-cultural life in this country. Discussion follows screening of this hour-long film."
Date: Monday, February 2nd Time: 8:00pm Location: Peter Jay Sharp Theater (155 W. 65th St) Cost: Free
"Grammy award-winning trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, film-score composer and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard is the featured performer when Ted Nash leads the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra in Terence Blanchard: Jazz in Film on Monday, February 2 at 8 PM in the school’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Blanchard’s impact on jazz and film music is considerable, but this concert includes his arrangements of other composers’ music from such film classics as The Man with the Golden Arm; The Pawnbroker; Degas’ Racing World; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Subterraneans; Love Theme from Chinatown; Anatomy of a Murder; and Taxi Driver. All were recorded by him on his CD, also called Jazz in Film. Free tickets are available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard, located in the lobby at 155 West 65th Street."
Date: Tuesday, February 3rd Time: 3:00pm Location: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway at 66th street) Cost: Free
I am not sure how many FreeNYC readers are Liza fans, but for those of you who are, she will be giving a free performance at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center today. The standard in-store process applies... buy the album beginning at 9:00am and get a wrist band to see the show.
Date: Tuesday, February 3rd Time: 6:30pm Location: The Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, Avery Hall, Rm 114 (between 116th and 120th Sts and Broadway and Amsterdam Aves) Cost: Free
What Is Green Architecture is a "new series of conversations, lectures and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as implications for the future." Tonight, the series continues with Diébédo Francis Kéré who will speak on designing prizewinning green buildings in his native Burkina Faso. More info on site and bio below.
Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré (www.kere-architecture.com) will deliver a lecture - "Step by Step: Building Schools in Africa," addressing his current award-winning project in his native Gando Village, Burkina Faso. The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Andres Lepik. Admission is free, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Diébédo Francis Kéré asserts that his fondest desire as an architect is to build projects in his own village, Gando, located in the West African country of Burkina Faso, "which is one of the ten poorest countries in the world and has an illiteracy level of over 80%." To achieve sustainability, he notes that "the projects are based on the principles of designing for climatic comfort with low-cost construction, making the most of local materials and the potential of the local community, and adapting technology from the industrialized world in a simple way."
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a young architect from Burkina Faso who studied in Germany. While in school, he founded Schulbausteine für Gando to create green buildings and support the Burkinabe people in their development. Since 1999, he has spoken internationally about his work. His projects can be found from Burkina Faso to India, and include a primary school in his home village, Gando, which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004). Besides his occupation as a self-employed planner, Francis Kéré has been a lecturer at the Technische Universität Berlin, Habitat Unit, since 2004, focusing on the topics of housing and urban development, strategies of climatically advantageous building, sustainable utilization of materials, integration of local labor force, and local construction techniques. He does not limit his efforts to architecture. With the help of his association, he tries to provide the people of his homeland with innovative development projects and with future prospects in adult education, health care, and economic support for women bearing the greatest share of burdens in his home country. His motto is "Help to self-help," and he asserts that only those who participate in the development process will be able to appreciate, continue, and safeguard the resulting change.
Date: Tuesday, February 3rd Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm Location:Rebar (147 Front Street, Dumbo) Cost: Free
I know it's not just me, I know that some of you people are gettin' old too. And you know what happens to old people, they become responsible and do things like save money and buy houses and gasp, even have to renovate said houses! Darrick Borowski (of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture) and Rob Slifer (of Professional Advantage) help you make your space more livable and how to finance the renovations.
Date: Wednesday, February 4th - Wednesday, March 11th Time: Mon - Wed, Fri - Sat: 11:00am – 5:00pm Location: MAS Urban Center Galleries (457 Madison Ave) Cost: Free
"The Municipal Art Society, a private, non-profit membership organization that fights for intelligent urban planning, design, and preservation, will present a broad-based exhibit on Coney Island featuring 350 design ideas from the public, as well as the results of two public workshops and a design workshop with leading amusement professionals. The designs and ideas will be displayed at MAS Urban Center Galleries...The ImagineConey exhibit includes public submissions from around the world, as well as plans and designs from world-class architects, amusement designers and economists compiled during a charrette, an intense design workshop. The exhibit will include the charette team’s new concept for Coney Island with near-term and long-term programming elements." Free, but reservations are encouraged. Exhibit runs through Wednesday, March 11th.
Date: Wednesday, February 4th Time: 7:30pm Doors, Lecture at 8:00pm Location: Bell House (149 7th St. bet. 2nd and 3rd Aves., Gowanus) Cost: Free
Union Hall brings you your monthly installment of Secret Science Club, one of my favorite events. Come nerd it up with mind-blowing lectures, volatile cocktails, and chemically-altered sounds. Tonight, Intrepid neurobiologist (and scuba diver) Vincent Pieribone lures us into the depths—where ocean research and brain science collide. Dr. Pieribone uncovers the secrets of the seas and technicolor reefs in his quest for biofluorescent creatures—and then shows how they can be used to create glowing proteins that make cells and neurons light up in the lab. The co-author of Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence, Dr. Pieribone asks: What do jellyfish and coral reefs have to do with the human brain and the quest for medical cures? How can biofluorescent technology link the human mind with machines? Groove to glittering tunes and incandescent video, stick around for the tidal Q&A and try the oceanic cocktail: the Sea Shandy, a phosphorescent libation that will snap your synapses.
Date: Wednesday, February 4th Time: 10:00pm Location: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, bet. Bleecker & Houston) Cost: Free
Theatre of Fools is a live music showcase on the first Wednesday of each month. he show is hosted by the incredible BPC Artist in Residence and only two-time Mr. Lower East Side, Moonshine Shorey, who will be at the bar giving out free raffle prizes and serving up drink specials all night long. "It’s a night of non-stop fun featuring live music from Natti Vogel, Jennifer Blowdryer (and friends), Ruben Chess, The Fools and host Sean T. Hanratty
Alan Astor is a remixing machine these days taking top 40 jams from Lil' Wayne to Lionel Richie and putting his personal spin on them. Tonight is the release for his newest mixtape, ATOR106 Love on Air Volute 2. He'll be celebrating along with resident local spinsters Alex English, Kids With Snakes, Bad Decisions, and rekLES. 21+
17 of the world’s best snowboarders converge on the Lower East Side this evening to compete for their piece of the massive $100,000 prize purse at Red Bull Snowscrapers. Featuring a who's who of riding legends - including iconic Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, freestyle / backcountry legend Travis Rice, ultra-progressive phenomenon Pat Moore, and personal hero Terje Haakonsen – the event will feature a 90-foot tall or nine-story hill adjacent to an 80-foot-long landing area. Icing on the cake is a live perfomance by "local thrash heavy metal band" Anthrax between the heats. All Ages!
"ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and percussion quartet Line C3 share a free, joint concert held in the unique industrial (and acoustically pleasing!) space of Smack Mellon Gallery - a former boiler building in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The concert is designed to complement the artwork by Kirsten Hassenfeld that will be on display. Her luminous sculptures crafted from paper play with light and darkness – and so will the performance. Portions of the concert will be performed in darkness, and portions with dramatic lighting. A free beer tasting sponsored by Kelso of Brooklyn starts at 6pm, and the concert starts at 7pm. Part of Press Play First Thursdays"
Date: Thursday, February 5th Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Deitch Gallery (76 Grand Street) Cost: Free
"Interdisciplinary artist Ben Jones of celebrated East Coast art collective Paper Rad presents a solo show of between-media video sculpture, light painting, and 'drawing in the digital age' at Deitch Projects... Entitled The New Dark Age, the exhibition explores new methods of pictoral storytelling through the drawn, projected, and sculpted line. The exhibition consists of five components of equal importance to the artist: Ladders, Minimalism, Cartoon Drawings, Dogs, and Bricks. Buy a pizza and throw it into a dog park. Build a doghouse out of bricks. Draw cartoons to sell to street wear corporations and gorge yourself on soft pretzels. Then come to the exhibition. Jones' menagerie of characters, honed through years of acclaimed comic and video making, appear in The New Dark Age in fresh suits of Neon Aztec Organic Spandex. His signature 2D Flash videos in this new exhibition open up into writhing 3D sacred glowing guts. The storefront room features Mush Robos and 'Travel Berries.' Neon ladders scale gallery walls, as sculptured plexiglass beings and painted neon faces appear out of the blackness. One of the four 'Ben Jones Approved Pattern' covers the silk-screened entryway where the welcome video prepares you for “The New Dark Age.” Exhibit runs through February 28th.
Date: Thursday, February 5th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Fontana's (105 Eldridge St.) Cost: Free with RSVP (by Feb 3rd)
"Comedian and Emmy losing actor Demetiri Martin stars in potentially the most important TV show of all time ever, Important Things With Demetri Martin. An unconventional take on sketch comedy, the series mixes stand-up, animations, studio bits, music and drawings to explore one 'important thing' per episode (like power, safety or chairs)." the series kicks of next week but catch a screening tonight courtesy of The L Magazine.
Date: Thursday, February 5th Time: 7:30pm Location: Ochi's Lounge at Comix (353 West 14th Street) Cost: Free
These days more and more comedians are using web-based projects to achieve their dreams. Host Thomas J. Kelly gives comedians a chance to combine those produced projects with their live work in "Convergence". This weekly stand up comedy / variety show focuses on funny people with unique projects and web-videos. Each week features a combination of surprise guests and live and video taped performances to create a really big show in a really small room. Performances from Sue Funke, Hector Luis, Cara Amore, Geoff Kole, Chris Monty and Thomas Middleditch, plus short films by Kevin Tor and Danny Leavy.
Date: Thursday, February 5th Time: 8:00pm Location: Housing Works Bookstore Café (126 Crosby Street) Cost: Free
Live From Down Home brings you an evening of Americana Music with The Five Deadly Venoms and Jones Street Station... Jones Street Station makes American music that is both contemporary and classic in its scope - veterans of New York City’s roots music community, their debut album, Overcome, was released in October of 2007. They are currently recording a new album due in early 2009... The Five Deadly Venoms have quickly and rightfully earned a reputation at the top of New York City’s vibrant bluegrass scene. The band is comprised of first-call instrumentalists and award-winning pickers who have come together to carve a fresh, exciting and unique vision of American acoustic and Bluegrass music with a sound that is soulful and sincere, adventurous with respect for tradition, playful and serious all at the same time."
Date: Thursday, November 20th Time: 10:00pm Location: Northeast Kingdom (18 Wyckoff Ave at Troutman, Bushwick) Cost: Free
Frank Hoier hosts the bi-weekly Downstairs Dustup tonight at Northeast Kingdom. The evening of "unamplified local music" features performances by Peter Nevins, Eduardo (of Quarto Negro), Corinne Callen, Annie Crane and Holier himself. 21+
Date: Thursday, February 5th Time: 10:00pm Location: Sutra (16 First Avenue) Cost: Free
"There is no denying the musical genius and universal appeal of Bob Marley, one of the most popular and prolific entertainers in music history. They say Bob Marley never wrote a bad song. From Ska, to Rock Steady to Reggae tinged with rock, the blues and R&B. From rude boy anthems to tender love songs to spiritual odes to Rastafarianism to militant, politically charged calls to arms, Bob's music touched on all aspects of the human experience. The world lost him at the young age of 36 during height of his popularity and the apex of his One Love One World movement. His relevance to reggae is obvious, but just as strong is his relevance to Rock, R&B and of course and Hip Hop. He opened the world up to Jamaican music, but more simply, if you love music, you love Bob." Selections by DJs Synapse and Ballantino, plus free giveaways from BAMBU Papers
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: The Stanton Chapter (176 Stanton Street) Cost: Free
"The Stanton Chapter is proud to present the first solo show by emerging photographer Sean Vegezzi. Vegezzi is an 18 year-old New York City native whose powerful subterranean lens work documents Gotham's rarely seen underbelly. Pursuing solo missions into unexplored, remote, and abandoned city architecture or tagging along in subway tunnels with myriad of graffiti writers, Vegezzi fearlessly captures privacy, isolation, and quiet in the face of relentless city life. Before I Die documents the timeless dream world in which Vegezzi finds youthful escape..." Remainder of press release after jump.
New York Comic Con is in town which means so are the friends of Kidrobot. Come to the Kidrobot New York store for an evening with Sket One, Huck Gee, Mr. Shane Jessup, Pon, Clutter, and other amazing artists! Food, drinks, music and art will be provided, plus tons of special items for sale for one night only.
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 6:30pm Location: Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street btwn Walker and White) Cost: Free
"Adult Swim is hosting a free music event especially for fans at the Santos Party House. Hosted by Jon Glaser, New York based writer and star of Adult Swim's new show Delocated!, the event will feature a solo performance by Andrew W.K. and also a performance by New York's very own Cheeseburger."
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 7:00pm Location: Seaport Ice (Ice rink on Pier 17) Cost: Free to watch concert, $5 to skate, $7 skate rental
Seaport Ice, lower Manhattan's only ice rink, has just announced a five-week series of free outdoor concerts. Brooklyn-based, FreeNYC favorites Project Jenny, Project Jan continue the series tonight with a Black Gold DJ set. It's free to watch the concerts, skating is $5 and skate rental is $7. More info here and the full season line-up is below.
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 7:00pm Location: KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street) Cost: Free
"Myths, fairy tales, and real strategies for surviving when your body is your business. In a city recovering from Ponzi schemes, inflated earnings, and rampant exuberance, sex workers struggle to deliver essential pleasures - and pay their bills. Reading, discussion, Q&A, book signing... Meet three local authors who insert the term Sex Worker Literati deep into the 21st century American vernacular. Elisabeth Eaves, author of 'Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping,' is deputy editor of the opinions section at Forbes.com. David Henry Sterry, ex-gigolo, is the author of 'Master of Ceremonies: a True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales.' Tracy Quan's latest novel is 'Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl', her third Manhattan Call Girl adventure."
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 8:00pm & 10:00pm Location: EastVille Comedy Club (85 East 4th Street @ 2nd Avenue) Cost: Free with mention of FreeNYC (2 drink minimum)
Eastville Comedy is bringing a double header tonight to fulfill your comedy needs. On the early side, DEL and Kareem Green host The Blackest Whitest Comedy Show Ever featuring "the funniest – and most diverse – acts from HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central,
BET and NBC. This weeks headliner is Wil Sylvince, The Haitian Bad Boy of Comedy (NBC
Comedy Shortcuts, HBO Def Comedy Jam).
And then on the latenight you've got the TGIF Comedy show (10pm) with special guest Todd Lynn and others. More on that below. 18+
Free admission by calling in a reservations 212-260-2445 and mentioning FreeNYC. 2 drink minimum still applies.
This Friday night we're featuring:
Todd Lynn
David Letterman Show, ABC's My Wife & Kids, Showtime at the Apollo,
Comedy Central Presents, Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, HBO Bad Boyz of Comedy
Joe DeRosa
Last Call w/ Carson Daly, IFC's Z Rock, Comedy Central Presents
Godfrey
Zoolander, 7UP commercials, Last Call with Carson Daly, Comedy Central Presents
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 8:00pm Location: Aji Bar & Lounge (287 9th St off 5th St, Park Slope) Cost: Free
Park Slope Brazilian Lounge, AJi, is brining a little Forro and salsa to your Saturday nights. It kicks off with a free salsa class at 8 and then continues with some live salsa music with Edwin Vazquez afterwards. Aji also makes a some pretty sweet tapas and an even sweeter Pisco Sour so have at it if all that dancing works up an appetite. 21+
Date: Friday, February 6th Time: 9:00pm Location: Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) Cost: Free
Jazz vocalist Robin Aleman sings selections from the Great American Songbook as part of the 1939 Project at Symphony Space. She is joined by pianist David Epstein. No Cover. Just Jazz.
Date: Saturday, February 7th Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm Location: East River Park (Houston Street and FDR Drive) Cost: Free
Ironically, I miss this event every year because I am snowboarding, but if you are in town this weekend be sure to check it out. Winter Jam NYC will feature a 70-foot long Snow Flume for sledding, a winter snowfield with snowshoeing and cross-country skiing*, a snowman making contest, and of course the Snowboarding competition on a 90-foot tall Snowscraper structure. If you get chilled step into their Warming Hut with free samples from NY State farmers and producers, performances from the high flying Skyriders and live music from artists such as Apollo Run and FreeNYC fave Dujeous.
Date: Saturday, February 7th Time: 9:30pm Location: Trophy Bar (351 Broadway between Keap and Rodney) Cost: Free Open Bar: vodka, 9:30 - 10:30
DJs Pete Leonard & Ron Morelli deliver solid, deep, dance music tonight at their monthly W'burg get-together. Come early for some free booze and stay for a guest set from Megan Awesome. 21+
Date: Saturday, February 7th Time: 10:00pm Location: BAM Cafe (30 Lafayette Ave, upstairs, Fort Green) Cost: Free
Tonight at BAM Cafe "trading predictable backbeats and choruses for a strange brew of vertiginous electronic sound, Brooklyn-based band Bear in Heaven lifts the indie aesthetic into the digital sublime. Jon Philpot’s luminous voice along with a bubbling, high-voltage sound begs the listeners to abandon themselves to the vortex. Brooklyn-based electro-pop duo Analogue Transit sets the mood." Part of the Sounds Like Brooklyn music festival.
Date: Sunday, February 8th Time: 7:00pm Doors, 8:00pm Films Location: 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave., BK) Cost: Free with RSVP
Moviehouse turns two years old this evening and, to celebrate, they have asked "filmmakers to make 2-minute shorts following a few special rules: each movie is a sequel (although not necessarily to a real film), has only two characters and takes place on a Tuesday." In addition, "VJ Clay Franklin has mixed up some special birthday beats and Chef J Perelmuter is cooking up some tasty celebratory treats." Come see the results tonight at this monthly events.
Date: Sunday, February 8th Time:8:00pm - midnight Location:Solas (323 East 9th Street bet. 2nd and 3rd) Cost: Free
NYC's live electronic underground rears it head at the bi-weekly Splice party. Back after a six month hiatus, they return as New York City's premier showcases for live, eclectic electronic music and video. Check below for tonight's line-up. 21+
_vectorzero (Brooklyn, NY)
This mysterious Brooklyn-based Peruvian coaxes explosive rhythms and delicately sinister tunes from a tangle of filters, drum machines, and mutant toys.
MAD (Philadelphia, PA)
The maestro of Philly's Broketronica parties, and recently crowned regional Laptop Battle champion, brings deep dub science and fatally infectious riddims.
City Rain (Philadelphia, PA)
Ben Runyan's sweeping, melodic IDM tunes move to a relentless pulse, making him a key player in Philadelphia's instrumental electronic scene.
Visuals: State Grezzi
DJ: Yohei Nishiyama
Hosted by: Maxx Klaxon
Plus: We expand on our "eclectic electronics" theme, with installations by some of NYC's most brilliant new interactive technology artists.
Date: Monday, February 9th Time: 7:30pm Location: Advent Lutheran Church (2504 Broadway at 93rd St) Cost: Free
At "From the Street To The Concert Hall," Classical Jam examines how composers have incorporated their unique heritages, rhythms of their cultures, and what was considered "popular" during their lifetime into concert music. Program will include Gershwin, Piazzolla, premieres by members of Classical Jam, Renaissance Dances, and Middle Eastern inspired music. See below for the full program and more on Classical Jam.
Program: \
Fuga y Misterio (Arranged by Marco Granados) Astor Piazzolla
Serenade (Trio), Op. 68 James Cohn
Devil Dance Payton McDonald
Samaii‚ Shira Justin Hines
Trio in Bb For Violin, Viola, and Cello Franz Schubert
Pavane II. La dona Tielman Susato
Gailiard VIII: La dona
Rondo 1: pour quoy
Bergerette
Hong Kong Jam Wendy Law (world premiere)
Prelude #2 (Arranged by Justin Hines) George Gershwin
Prelude #1 (Arranged by Justin Hines) George Gershwin
"Classical Jam" is a unique ensemble innovative for bringing together performances of the highest caliber in combination with engaging presentations. Members Jennifer Choi, violin; Amadi Hummings, viola; Wendy Law, cello; Marco Granados, flute; and Justin Hines, percussion, perform regularly with „Musicians from Marlboro‰, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fireworks, and the Ritz Chamber Players. Individually, they have soloed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, and the Virginia Symphony, among others. They have performed in venues throughout Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Along with their dedication to highly coveted individual musical careers, members of Classical Jam are teaching artists at such leading organizations as the Lincoln Center Institute, the New York Philharmonic, the 92nd St. Y, and Young Audiences.
Date: Tuesday, February 10th Time: 6:00pm Location:Crash Mansion (199 Bowery) Cost: Free Open Bar: Vodka 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Gotham Rocks is happy to announce Unplugged Tuesdays at Crash Mansion. Every week starting at 6pm there will be an open mic with happy hour specials and a free open vodka bar. After the Open Mic featured rock bands will strap on their acoustics and rock until the sun comes up. This week's line up after the jump.
Tues, Feb 10
6PM – Open Mic
9 PM – Shadows Lie
9:45 - 13th Floor
10:30 - Domi
Tues, Feb 17 Special Event – Meetup with Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby.
This an event for all of the musicians in New York City to meet one another along with industry pros including press, radio and music marketing geniuses. Starting at 10pm - Open Mic.
Date: Tuesday, February 10th Time: 7:00pm Location: Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St. at Bowery) Cost: Free
British Songstress Lily Allen jet set's into town tonight for a special, free, show to celebrate her new album compliments of the good people at MySpace. Secret Show performances are exclusively for MySpace users who friend the MySpace Secret Shows profile and are then notified of all details via a MySpace bulletin. All Ages!
Date: Tuesday, February 10th Time: 7:00pm Location: Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street) Cost: Free
"The long-awaited annual winter film series [New Sounds Live Silent Film Series] returns to the World Financial Center featuring classic silent films set to innovative and energetic scores by Gary Lucas, the BQE Ensemble, and The Cinematic Orchestra. Each night, starting at 7pm, experience a different film and its inventive new music score. On Tuesday night, Feb. 10, Gary Lucas performs ghostly improvisational solo guitar for three surrealist films: 'Entr’acte', 'Ballet Mecanique', and 'The Cameraman’s Revenge.'"
Date: Wednesday, February 11th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: HPGRP Gallery New York (32-36 Little West 12th, 2nd Floor) Cost: Free
More Than A Woman was photographed by Beck Yee in a three-bedroom apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo. The single human occupant, a middle-aged computer engineer. He is the self-proclaimed world's largest collector of "Dutch wives" aka sex dolls. Over 70 Dutch wives - ranging from the cheap vinyl inflatable $50 "Big Sue" doll to the $10,000 a piece, sophisticated, life-sized "Real Doll" and subsequent Japanese imitations - crowd every nook and cranny of his apartment, and not only with their presence but with accessories, clothes, shoes and toys. "More than a Woman" hopes to explore more than the Dutch wives' obvious function of satisfying sexual and physical needs. Visually discovering the basic cravings for companionship, unconditional love, unwavering loyalty and the importance of trust, acceptance and intimacy. All of which he is unable to find in a human relationship, but is somehow satiated with his cast of Dutch wives. Today is the opening, the show runs through March 15th.
Date: Wednesday, February 11th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: apexart (291 Church Street) Cost: Free
"If the secrets to finding true love are often elusive, well, so are the secrets to making films about love. How do you inject humor into a film about heartbreak? How do you portray a happy romance without being too saccharine and oversentimental? Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart, at work on a personal documentary called My Heart Is An Idiot, has asked a collection of talented and eclectic friends to explore these and other challenges by producing short, love-related films of their own." More details here.
Date: Wednesday, February 11th - 14th Time: 7:00pm Location: The Creek (10-93 Jackson Ave, LIC) Cost: Free with Reservation
Written and directed by Dan Moyer, "New Beulah tells the story of a collage of characters from a small town thirty miles north of somewhere in America. Told through vignettes of the town's inhabitants, a cast of eight plays nearly thirty characters who struggle with the simple but overwhelming problems of daily life: love, loss, parents, children, spouses, work, sex, threatening conglomerates and Greenland. It's tender, somber, heartwarming and funny, with unforgettable characters and a show-stopping song and dance at the end, New Beulah is a night of theatre no one will want to miss." Note that there are only 50 seats per performance so make sure to email for a reservation (above). 21+
Date: Wednesday, February 11th Time: 7:00pm Location: Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street) Cost: Free
"The long-awaited annual winter film series [New Sounds Live Silent Film Series] returns to the World Financial Center featuring classic silent films set to innovative and energetic scores by Gary Lucas, the BQE Ensemble, and The Cinematic Orchestra. Each night, starting at 7pm, experience a different film and its inventive new music score. Wednesday evening, Feb. 11, the BQE Project’s palette of exotic instruments from middle eastern drums to mandolin accompanies 'The Golem.'"
Date: Wednesday, February 11th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: The powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, Dumbo) Cost: Free with RSVP
The powerHouse Arena invites you to a panel discussion and Q&A with Faythe Levine and and Cortney Heimerl, authors of Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design. The book explains "today's crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media."
Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: KGB Bar (85 East Fourth Street) Cost: Free
Behind the Book is literacy nonprofit working with low-income students in New York City public schools. Their mission is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working in the 1st-12th grades, they bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and nurture a new generation of book readers. Tonight Daphne Beal and David Ebershoff stop by to read their work. Author Bios below. 21+
Daphne Beal's first novel, In the Land of No Right Angles, was published by Vintage/Anchor in August, 2008. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, McSweeney's, and the London Review of Books. Her work has been anthologized in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers; State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America; and The KGB Bar Reader. Originally from Wisconsin, she lives in New York City with her husband, writer Sean Wilsey, and their two children.
David Ebershoff is the author of three novels—The 19th Wife, Pasadena, and The Danish Girl—and a short-story collection—The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. His books have been translated into fifteen languages to critical acclaim. Ebershoff has taught creative writing at New York University and Princeton and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. For many years he was the publishing director of the Modern Library and now is an editor-at-large at Random House. He lives in New York City.
Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 7:00pm Location: Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street) Cost: Free
"The long-awaited annual winter film series [New Sounds Live Silent Film Series] returns to the World Financial Center featuring classic silent films set to innovative and energetic scores by Gary Lucas, the BQE Ensemble, and The Cinematic Orchestra. Each night, starting at 7pm, experience a different film and its inventive new music score... Thursday night, Feb. 12, the Cinematic Orchestra’s moody, electronica-tinged jazz-funk follows 'Man with a Movie Camera.'"
Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 8:00pm Location: Babeland Brooklyn (462 Bergen St. bet Flatbush and 5th Ave.) Cost: Free with RSVP
"If you're single in 2009, you know that texting, instant messaging and creating a killer online profile are all important aspects of the dating scene. But did you know your search criteria could be killing your success -- or that your shortcomings might be some of your most attractive assets? Here to help is Sherri Langburt - "the champion of singles everywhere" - as she will be speaking about love in the digital world and how to break the yo-yo dating cycle at a special event. Sherri will be on hand to share her tips for finding love online, as well as most-popular questions, concerns and mistakes for the digital lovelorn, including a no holds barred Dos and Don'ts List for Online Dating." This is a free event but space is limited! Please RSVP by February 10th.
Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 8:00pm Location: Mercury Bar (493 3rd Ave, btw 33rd & 34th St) Cost: Free Open Bar: Sam Adams, 8-10
Not much to say on this one but if you find yourself in Midtown East today and working a little late, swing by for two hours of free Sam Adams swillin'. 21+
Date: Thursday, February 12th Time: 8:00pm Location:Christ and St. Stephen's Church (69th Street between Broadway and Columbus Aves) Cost: Free
Tonight nine Juilliard organists, currently studying with master organist Paul Jacobs, will perform on the recently-installed Schoenstein organ at Christ and St. Stephen's Church; the program features diverse selections for this new and grand instrument. More details here. [Photo: Marko Georgiev for The New York Times]
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 6:50pm & 8:05pm Location: Whitney Museum, Lowe Gallery (945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.) Cost: Pay What you Wish
"As part of the 2009 Whitney's Composers' Showcase Series at the Whitney Museum of American Art, “Chance Encounter is a 35-minute site-specific musical work, co-conceived by composer Lisa Bielawa and soprano Susan Narucki, in which Susan and 12 instruments convene, one or several at a time, in and out of the texture and context of public spaces. Susan will sing songs and arias constructed of texts we have collected in transient public spaces, thereby enacting the listener’s private (yet collective) experience of the performance space itself. Each performance ‘venue’ will require a re-mapping of the spatial and movement elements of the piece onto the new location."
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Various locations in Williamsburg Cost: Free
It's a brave new year for Williamsburg and the monthly Every 2nd Friday neighborhood gallery event is kicking it off right as over a dozen galleries stay up late and display new works. Check the site for a neighborhood map and don't forget the afterparty at Cafe Cornichon (251 Grand St btw. Driggs and Roebling).
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location: 717 STUDIO (717 Manhattan Ave 2A, BK) Cost: Free
"Through the curatorial efforts of Laina Karavani, Graham Slick, and Raquel Lauren, 717 Studio brings you 'Mixtape.' Much like a well selected hour - long mix of music, this showing satisfies the desire for everything from the visual to the tactile with sculpture, painting, light, color, and materials from familiar to questionable. We have found the ultimate blend of creativity by contribution of the artists, each arranging a music set
to accompany the expressive works." Participating artists after the jump.
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 8:00pm Location: Stain Bar (766 Grand Street, W'Burg) Cost: Free
"Stain's infamous Bloody Valentine's bash, celebrating the gory roots of this holiday with screening of B horror movies, Diablo’s Blood, red wine specials, vampire biting booth, 7 minutes in Hell, zombies, costume prizes, the music of My Bloody Valentine and more." 21+
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Secret Project Robot (210 Kent Ave, W'burg) Cost: Free
"Secret Project Robot is pleased to present All Aboard Future, a rejection of fear of the future, a celebration of community and music. Curated by Brooklyn/Chicago band These Are Powers (Dead Oceans) for the concurrent release of their album All Aboard Future... Artists were asked to interpret the concept for All Aboard Future — the
possibility, potential and rising of a positive and dynamic New Age, in a medium of their choosing. The result is a diverse and exciting showing of emerging talent from around the world. Works featured in the artwork for the recorded album will be on display in addition to a larger body of contemporary pieces commissioned for the show. Unique to the opening night festivities will be an installation and performance by Los Angeles multimedia wizard Brendan J. Missett, who will be channeling Robert Mitchum in a Big Sur, California circa 1964 site-specific scene where These Are Powers will also perform live." Participating artists after the jump.
Featuring works by Hisham Bharoocha, Cody Critcheloe, Fay Davis-Jeffers, Bea Fremderman, Jessica Hopper, Cody Hudson, Tyler Larson, Brendan J. Missett, Pooper, Shouwang, Holly Stevenson, Alex Valentine, Sarah Wilmer and many more friend.
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 9:00pm Location: Pink Elephant (527 W. 27th St. Btw. 10th & 11th Ave) Cost: Free before midnight with RSVP Open Bar: ???? 9 - 10
We're always a bit suspicious on these but why not go for it... "Join me for this 'star studded' Couture Fashion Show’s After Party produced and hosted by Sally Shan & Gili Lev. We are bringing together models, celebrities, socialites, fashionistas, designers, stylists, fashion industry consultants, and VIPs. press/media will be present. This private party is kicking off at the hottest and very exclusive venue. This is a RSVP ONLY private event. Share this invite with your friends if you would like them to attend." 21+
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 10:00pm - 4:00 am Location: Otto's Shrunken Head (538 East 14th St. btw. Ave A & B) Cost: Free
The monthly RockEM SockEM brings you "crazy cabaret antic from 3 great bands that dress up and put on a show. This is kick ass glam and punk girls and boys so be ready to rock. We are excited and you should be too." DJ Kid Magic on the decks with MC Gray plus live sets from Your Boyfriends Band $u¢k$, Touching you, Voodoo Hussy, Ruffian Arms, and Trama Team 666 starting at 10. 21+
Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 10:00pm Location: BAM Café (30 Lafayette Ave, Ft. Greene) Cost: Free
"Three of the city's most in-demand female DJs come together to perform at BAMcafé. With a collective spinning experience that includes venues like MoMA, Central Park Summerstage, the Smithsonian, and Joe's Pub, DJ Winter Santos, DJ Moni, and DJ Kamala—the Injoy DJ crew—are irreplaceable staples on the spinning scene, mixing deep house tracks with an unpredictable flair and keen-eared authority." 21+
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 11:00pm Location: Downsouth at Southpaw (125 5th Ave at Sterling Pl, Park Slope) Cost: Free with RSVP
We're back for another edition of Play Date, our FREE version of the monthly Crooked Disco party at the Downsouth Lounge at Southpaw. This is a very special Valentines edition and we'll be pulling out our favorite prom jams, dance remixes of cheezy love songs, and even the occasional spontatious slow dance. And, of course, expect that same mixed up party sound of electro, disco, NY house, good hip hop, baile, baltimore club and assorted breakbeats that you usually get from DJ Morsy and DJ Kestar with some personal favorites geared toward the intimate room. (Note: This will be our last Play Date in Park Slope. We'll be moving the party to the awesome (Le) Poisson Rouge starting March 14th!) 21+
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Location: The Hungarian Cultural Center (447 Broadway) Cost: Free with reservation 646-369-4959
"Anna Pasztor studied independent dance in Budapest with, among others, Maria Mirkovszky, and Jozsef Nagy. In 1990 she worked with Ellen Stewart in a theater production in a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Italy. After her move to Lisbon in 1991, she studied with Ann Papoulis, Meg Stuart, and Jeremy Nelson. She is a certified Laban Movement Analyst. Her most recent work consists of multichannel video installations (UDHR-2005, Why didn’t you trust me?) which were presented at numerous festivals in the United States. She lives and works in New York." The workshop is free, but please call ahead to reserve a apsce.
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 6:00pm Location: The Times Square Arts Center (669 8th Ave) Cost: Free
"Every Saturday Stagebuddy.com presents a free, hand-picked, one-hour sampling of performances from our expansive database of NY's Best Live Shows. Each week features a mix of Theatre, Comedy and Music, along with Prizes & Giveaways! Past guests include Grammy, MAC & Tony Award winners/nominees, top televised Comedians, and some of the most fascinating people working in show business today! Come join us and and be part of a live studio audience in the heart of the Broadway district. Warm up comedian: Doug Adler - Speed Dating: A Valentines Special, then Ben Robinson a world renowned Illusionist / Magician, Doc Wasabassco & GiGi La Femme of Revealed Burlesque and Saphin a Singer/Songwriter. Plus the usual set of Quizes, Prizes and Fun! Host Dave Lefkowitz has a weekly radio show, 'Dave's Gone by' which airs Sundays at 11pm."
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 8:00pm Location:The Village Pourhouse (64 3rd Ave. at 11th St.) Cost: Free
"For those of you who think Cupid is Stupid, we're throwing an 'Ex-orcism' party equipped with a dart board for you to mount a picture of your ex on. Free Bud Light for all who bring a photo of their ex with them and if you hit the bulls-eye you'll be rewarded with a free hour open bar courtesy of the Village Pourhouse, because we know everyone has an ex we'd like to…" Valentine's Day drink specials all night! 21+
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 10:00pm Location: BAM Café (30 Lafayette Ave, Ft. Greene) Cost: Free
"Having collaborated with a group of synchronized swimmers at NYU and alongside puppets at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Brooklyn-based band Japanther is still committed to shaking the stage prodigiously with their deliciously poppy brand of low-fi punk. Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek supplement bass, drums, and vocals with everything from old Casio SK-1s to cassette tape sounds, all set up sumptuously beforehand by like-minded punk juggernaut Ninjasonik."
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 10:00pm Location: Bar on A (170 Ave A) Cost: Free
Check out Synctank tonight at Bar On A featuring performances from KRTS and a showcase from COA Records including Soroka, DJ Dore and Nebulla. Hosted by DJ Slouch and Hipstar. Expect breaks, beats, dubstep and more.
Date: Saturday, February 14th Time: 10:00pm Location: Royal Oak (594 Union Ave., Williamsburg) Cost: Free Open Bar:
The Oh Snap! party (not to be confused with the MC/DJ) turns things up for V'day with tons of give-aways and guest DJs "spinning the sweet, sexy and fun dance party music for all you lovers in love and singles for fun. Expect to hear all your favorite party love songs and everything you know and love." Plus... free Raspberry Beret vodka drinks (10-11), Heartees from Evolvedathletic.com and BrooklynRoyalty.com, gifts bags from a secret Soho boutique for ladies, and sexy party photos by Rockmsockmpress.com. 21+
Date: Sunday, February 15th Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm Location: Park Slope Food Co-op (782 Union Street) Cost: Free
"In this free workshop, Claudia Keel, herbalist and flower essence therapist and Angela Davis, holistic health counselor, will discuss what traditional foods are and why they are so essential to our health and well-being as well as for pregnancy and growing children. These traditional foods include enzyme-enriched foods, mineral-rich bone broths, animal fats, and properly prepared whole grains. They will cover the pioneering work of Dr. Weston A. Price, his study of healthy traditional communities, and the underlying factors in a variety of traditional diets that conferred beauty, strength and freedom from disease. Nonmembers welcomed!"
Date: Monday, February 16th Time: 7:00pm Location: Chelsea Market (75 9th Ave bet. 15th & 16th St) Cost: Free
Rooftop films presents Full Battle Rattle tonight. "the story of a real war in a fake town. In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" — a billion-dollar urban warfare simulation — and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role players. Army units spend three weeks living inside the simulation before deploying to Iraq." There will be free Radeberger Pilsner for all in attendance. Trailer Below.
Date: Monday, February 16th Time: 8:00pm - midnight Location: 212 (133 E 65th St. bet Park & Lexington) Cost: Free with RSVP Open Bar: ???, 8-9
"You are cordially invited to the Fashion Presentation of designer Tamara Pogosian...
[a collection] inspired by works of Tamara De Lempicka during the 'Great Depression' in the 1930's. The event kicks off with an open bar at 8, then a presentation at 9, and an afterparty to follow. Don't forget to RSVP." 21+
Date: Monday, October 6th Time: 9:00pm - 1:00am Location: Botanica Bar (47 E Houston St, btw Mott and Mulberry) Cost: Free
It seems as New Yorkers, your apartment is always a finely aligned puzzle. And whenever you add something new, everything has to be reorganized for your new treasures. Well, sometimes things get left out of the adjustment and - if your like me - you end up with that pile of treasures buried in the corner of the room or back of the closet. Thrift On is a great way to share those beautiful bits with perfect strangers. Bring the stuff you don't want anymore, takes someone elses stuff home. Clothing is okay too. DJ Shakey and Man "S" spin 2nd hand records while you rummage and sip drinks. 21+
Date: Mondays Time: 9:00pm - 10:00pm Location: Pine Tree Lodge (326 E. 35 St., btw 1st and 2nd Aves) Cost: Free
Joe Dixon and Calvin Cato give you a short dose of comedy at this weekly evening of "comedians who've been doing it for a while and those just starting out."
"Cinemondays is a weekly short film screening series projecting challenging and inspiring images and stories on the screen. Guest filmmakers engage with audiences one on one in our Q & A after the screening and can network with other filmmakers, musicians, and creative artists. We screen films from local filmmakers as well as from all over the world and all genres: drama, comedy, animation, documentary, experimental, horror, sci-fi, and music videos. Stay for the after-screening party with the chill sounds of our featured DJ, Micro Jackson of basement labs." Tonight's shorts are The J2 Project (with a special Q & A with director Alex Horwitz), Out of the Darkness, Milagro and The Confession. Details on each after the jump.
THE J2 PROJECT – 12 min.
Comedy/Mockumentary– DV
DIRECTOR: Alex Horwitz – USA
If Jesus Christ were cloned, would the clone meet with as much opposition and controversy as did his genetic ancestor? The J2 Project explores the scientific and religious consequences of such an occurrence. Starring: Peter Cambor, William Francisco, F.D. Reeve, William Johnston, and Gabe Dabrowski.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS – 18 min.
Horror/Thriller – 35 mm
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Rucka – USA
Having walked out on a bitter fight with his pregnant wife, Otis wakes up at a pretty woman’s house only to discover that he might have made a deadly mistake. Starring: Tommy Guiffre, Patricia Ageheim, and Kelly McAndrew.
MILAGRO – 5 min.
Music Video – DV
DIRECTOR: Mauricio Arenas - USA
Award-winning trio, Niño Pájaro from Madrid, perform their mix of bulería, funk, and flamenco, in this music video shot in New York City. Guitar/Vocals: Vicente de Andrés, Bass: Gorka Menchaka, Drums: Carlos Lahoz.
THE CONFESSION – 9 min.
Drama – DV
DIRECTOR: Sohnia A. van der Puye - USA
Upon discovering the sensuous and magical world of gypsies, a religiously devout young Spanish woman is torn between tradition and temptation. Starring Sara Jerez and Jason Verayaragon.
Date: Monday, February 16th Time: 10:00pm Location: Lucky 13 Saloon (273 13th Street at 5th Ave, Park Slope) Cost: Free
Burlesque can be hit or miss but sometimes its the perfect way to ease into the work week. "The Lucky 13 Saloon presents Original Cyn, New York's finest up-and-coming burlesque performers in a thrillingly rowdy venue. Along with a host of fresh and sizzling guest performers there are monthly performances by the relentlessly creative Miss Mary Cyn and the unflinchingly fabulous Reckless Abandon... Original Cyn is a roller coaster of hot girls, new blood and extreme debauchery." 21+ Old Flyer.
Date: Tuesday, February 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (2357 Broadway at 95th Street) Cost: Free
"Get 'In the Mood' with the sounds of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and other big band greats for a community dance-along. Come alone or with your dancing partner and swing, swing, swing! Our stage is your ballroom. Hosted and with demonstrations by Mercedes Ellington and Friends."
Date: Tuesday, February 17th Time: 7:00pm Location: Barcade (388 Union Ave at Powers St., W'burg) Cost: Free Entry
Red Hook's finest brewery, Sixpoint Craft Ales, continue their 4th Anniversary celebration tonight by hijacking all 16 the taps at Williamsburg's Barcade and filling them with archival brews (yes, Virginia, there are beer archives.) 14 drafts and two cask beers will be available, many of which you won't find anywhere else. There's even a rumor of cupcakes but there real draws here are rare elixers like Mason's Black Wheat on cask or the anniversary commemorative Dubbel Trubbel brewed with (Brooklyn's own) Mast Bros chocolate Nibs. It bares mentioning that beers are not free, but they are normally price and that makes our little beer-geek hearts flutter over here. Full list of taps below. 21+
Date: Tuesdays Time:10:00pm Location: Rose Live Music (345 Grand St, W'burg) Cost: Free
Exploring pre-fania era latin sounds like Gaita, Bullerengue and Palo and blending them with obscure latintronica sounds like Tribal Guarachero and Digital Cumbia, Que Bajo is putting Columbian music on the NYC scene. DJs Geko Jones and Uproot andy spin all night long along with guest live drum ensemble MariaCachanfa. 21+
Date: Wednesday, February 18th Time: 6:00pm Location: New York School of Interior Design (170 East 70th St. btwn Lexington and Third Avenues) Cost: Free with RSVP
"New York School of Interior Design presents a series of three lectures by Mitchell Owens, executive editor of Elle Décor, on the behind-the-scenes stories of celebrated 20th-century residential projects. He will explore the designer-client relationships that drove them and will separate decorating myth from lifestyle reality. Mitchell Owens has written and lectured widely on interior, landscape, and fashion design as well as social history." Tonight's lecture is "Room, Interrupted: Jean-Michel Frank's Salon for Marie-Laure de Noailles. Jean-Michel Frank—perhaps the most influential interior designer of the 1930s—was known for his minimalist interiors decorated with simple but sumptuous furniture. Marie-Laure de Noailles, along with her husband the Vicomte Charles de Noailles, were leading progressives of their day and well-known patrons of the arts in Paris. Her tempestuous life and eccentric personality paired with Frank's temperamental character made this an electric and notorious duo." Additional lectures after the jump.
Wednesday, March 11, 6pm
Revise, Recycle, Recover: Billy Baldwin and Villa Fiorentina
The renowned American decorator Billy Baldwin designed interiors for the likes of Cole Porter, Jackie Kennedy, Greta Garbo, and Diana Vreeland. He favored clean-cut and colorful interiors, and, unlike most interior designers, he was often inclined to use client's existing furniture. Villa Fiorentina, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harding Lawrence and located at St Jean Cap Ferrat in France, was one of Baldwin's most ambitious projects. His decor for this sprawling estate was inspired by the dazzling blue of the Mediterranean and complimented the Lawrence's eclectic collection of Oriental and European furniture as well as Old Master, 19th-century, and contemporary paintings.
Wednesday, April 8, 6pm
Skill Set: When John Fowler Met Pauline de Rothschild
John Fowler, along with his partners, Nancy Lancaster and Sibyl Colefax founded Colefax & Fowler, the legendary British firm that invented shabby-chic and the English Country House style. Fowler worked with the fashion icon and tastemaker Pauline de Rothschild to decorate her home in London in the 1970s. Her elegance and keen sense of style and his attention to detail and flair for color produced striking results.
Date: Wednesday, February 18th Time: 9:00pm Location: Ochi's Lounge (353 W 14th St. at 9th Ave.) Cost: Free
"In an age where New York City is painted as a place where the streets are paved with condominium developments and water fountains dispense cosmos, Eliot and Ilana invite comedians and performers to share their tales of woe and frustration, reminding us that urban plight has happened before, and will happen again. (As in...now.) Featuring Sean Patton, Aaron Berg, Adam Newman, Liz Miele, Mo Diggs, Ross Hyzer and Tim Martin!"
Date: Wednesday, February 18th Time: 10:00pm Location: Riv 105 (105 Rivington btw. Essex and Ludlow) Cost: Free
Two FreeNYC favorites, Eli Escobar and Cosmo Baker, continue their new weekly Bang! party tonight only the up the anti with special guest DJ AM taking the decks. These boys are taking a break from rocking the meat pack and and general collared shirt midtown crowds to play more personal jams in a more intimate setting (but, readers forewarned, they still serve the equally expensive $10 cocktails). Expect a mixed back of quality music from three of the best. 21+
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 5:00pm Location: 99 Nassau Street Cost: Free
"Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store, an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation, in lower Manhattan. Part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique, the project is a networking model of economic sustenance that can be used in cities worldwide... As evidenced by record lows in consumer confidence in January, consumers have had to curb spending habits, yet still find ways to maintain their lifestyle. Free Store demonstrates how community and mutual support can be used to fulfill some of these needs." Tonight is the opening but the exhibit runs through March 22nd and the hours are Thursday – Saturday 12pm – 7pm and Sunday 12pm to 5pm. More details after the jump.
Free Shopping
Using the barter and exchange system, visitors can give something useful or get something useful at Free Store. Located at 99 Nassau Street (between Fulton and Ann Streets), blocks away from Wall Street, Free Store will accept donations of items such as books and clothing, offer these items for the taking, and stock a few items produced in-house by the artists.
One World Currency
Free Store will distribute World Bills, a global currency that potentially could be used at any free store in the Global Free Store chain. Contributors to Free Store will receive World Bills for goods and services donated to the store. They can then use these bills to trade with other participants or in future free stores in this series.
Events and Performances
Free Store will host special events by invited curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam. These events include a curator's talk, open office hours for artists to get feedback on their work, and interactive artist performances.
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm Location: Various Brooklyn Industries Stores Cost: Free
Brooklyn Industries and Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announce ¡Think Spring!, a first-ever collaboration that highlights the company’s Brooklyn roots and its commitment to the environmental stewardship. "Think Spring! continues with a 'plantastic' in-store event at 10 Brooklyn Industries locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Chicago. Shoppers will have the chance to enjoy refreshments, win BBG memberships, signature plants, and other plant-related prizes."
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 6:00pm Location: Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (547 West 27th Street) Cost: Free
"Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present The Formulaic Nature of Appearances, new paintings by Iranian born artist Nicky Nodjoumi. By speaking literally and figuratively of two worlds simultaneously, the Western Hemisphere and the Middle East, Nodjoumi evokes individual dialogues against a continuous backdrop of ambiguity, allegory and irony. Nodjoumi creates large scale oil paintings using a visual narrative that combines Persian metaphors and Iranian iconography with references of Western and foremost American culture and politics."
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 9:00pm Location: Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd) Cost: Free
Stephanie Rooker performs for free tonight at Shrine. "Drawing from her broad range of musical influences: from singer-songwriter folk of her native Appalachia to her immersion in traditional folk music of Ghana, from her distinctive grasp of the cultural evolution of American gospel--blues--jazz--soul--hip-hop to her passion for the conscious vibes of New Zealand soul and reggae music, Stephanie Rooker's sound is fresh and cultivated. Rooker sings with the careful phrasing of a soulful Eva Cassidy, the wailing of a young, blues- steeped Bonnie Raitt, and the self-affirmative slant of Stevie Wonder."
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 10:30pm Location: Mojito Loco (102 Meserole St., W'burg) Cost: Free Open Bar: Beer 10:30pm - 11:30pm
Looking for an activity for your Thursday night? How about Karaoke and free beer?!? From 10:30pm to 11:00pm tonight get free draft beers while singing your heart out to your favorite karaoke jam!
Date: Thursday, February 19th Time: 11:00pm Location: Beauty Bar (231 E 14th St.) Cost: Free
"Beauty Bar New York and Three Olives Vodka presents the new Boogaloo Shampoo the party where downtown's hardest-working DJ (over 300 gigs in 2008), New York Night Train Soul Proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin, fills the mod-ish newly-redecorated back room dancefloor to ceiling with bubbly 45rpm soul classics, novelties, and obscurities - spanning late-r&b to early funk but centering on mid-60s burners every Thursday. This week they welcome guest DJ James Chance. "The influential JC not only pioneered contemporary music via the formation of the No Wave and Dance punk music genres downtown in the 1970s as the leader of the Contortions, but he also achieved worldwide notoriety as the leader of James White and the Blacks in the 1980s." 21+
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St., W'burg) Cost: Free
The Multifarious Array, a poetry series running eight years strong, host wordsmiths CA Conrad, Ben Malkin, Jennifer Knox & Kristina Hummel tonight. Sommer Browning hosts. More on the poets below. 21+
CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009).
Ben Malkin sings and plays keyboards for the band Gracefully, runs the multi-media label Goodbye Better, has released the poetry chapbook Listen with Robin Mapes, and is the editor & chief of Cock-Now Zine. He has also released albums and a bunch of Ê7"s and EPs with the band So L'il. His new book, The Birthday Poems, contains the new Gracefully album, Follow That Bliss and is coming out on February 20th, 2009.
Jennifer L. Knox hails from Lancaster, California, where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Free Radicals, American Poets Before Their First Books.
Kristina's poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Agni, Colorado Review, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She has a chapbook forthcoming from handheld editions. She teaches writing at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science and at Baruch College.
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 7:00pm Location: Apple Store SoHo (103 Prince Street) Cost: Free
Kick off your weekend after work this evening with a free performance from songwriter, producer, and singer Santi White, better known as Santogold at the Apple Store in SoHo.
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 9:00pm Location: Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar (158 Bleecker St.) Cost: Free
Senari & Teenwolf have come together to bring you a new no-nonsense dance party every third Friday of the month! Expect to hear a high-quality mix of hiphop, club, funk, house, and other dance music from some of the best DJs in New York and up and down the East Coast. This edition features NY favorite Cosmo Baker of The Rub, Turntable Lab's Blu Jemz, Teenwolf of Ninjasonik, and DJ Itch!
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 9:00pm - late Location: Rockstar Bar (351 Kent Ave at corner of S 5. St.) Cost: Free Open Bar: PBR, 9-10
It's the Hidden Treasure Party... a new joint in a tiny nook of Williamsburg proper recently outfitted with a brand new soundsystem. The Straight-Ups crew brings two tag team DJ sets - Midastron (Ry & Young) and IXL & Shiftee dropping "partyrockin/elecro/mash-ups/blends/hip hop/turntablism/dubstep all that good stuff." Plus DJ Lazy L and free PBR to kick things off and $3 beers all night. RSVP for "hidden treasures." 21 +
Midnight 'til Death keeps it up at Cakeshop with their 20th installment of the live music series. Catch sets by Violent Bullshit, Cerbral Ballzy, K-Holes, and Jadewalkers tonight with DJs Ana, Charly and Nicholas between the bands and afterwards. Videos by Yr Friend Matthew and a late night dance contest with Mishka prizes. More here. 21+
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 10:00pm Location: Tribeca Grand Hotel (2 Avenue of the Americas) Cost: Free with RSVP Open Bar: Specialty Cocktail, 10-12
Surface To Air, Rendez-Vous NYC & hintmag.com bring you another swanktastic event at the Tribeca Grand. Featuring DJ sets by Mattie Safer (The Rapture/Throne Of Blood), A.R.E Weapons (DJ Set), Prince Language (Editions Disco), Frank (Voodoo Funk), Leo Fitzpatrick, Gordon Hull (Surface To Air), and Dave Pacho. Plus, there's a "Specialty cocktail open bar from 10 pm - 12 am." Don't dress like a slouch. 21+
Date: Friday, February 20th Time: 10:00pm Location: Bar Reis (375 5th Ave, Park Slope) Cost: Free
Carmine P. Filthy takes over the decks at Bar Reis for a night of Sordid Standards & Gutter Stompers. Download Carmine's newest mix, Sordid Standards, here. 21+
Date: Saturday, February 21st and Sunday, February 22nd Time: Sat 12:00pm - 5:00pm; Sun 2:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar (158 Bleecker St.) Cost: Free
"Visit the legendary Apollo Theater and take an entertaining, and informative tour – including onstage, backstage and more! Learn the history of Harlem’s iconic jewel and enjoy a mock Amateur Night show, film screenings, discussions, and information about the remarkable community that surrounds and enhances the Apollo."
Date: Saturdays and Sundays Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (last tour at 4pm) Location: Brooklyn Brewery (79 North 11th Street, W'burg) Cost: Free
While we're talking brewery tours this weekend, let's not forget our good friends at the Brooklyn Brewery. One of my favorite things to do with out of town guests... the brewery gives give tours every hour on the hour today and tomorrow and the tap room is open from $4 drafts (or 6 for $20) with some of their special brews you won't find on tap anywhere else.
Date: Saturday, February 21st Time: 4:00pm Location: Union Square (14th Street and Broadway) Cost: Free
Is your birthday suit a little too big? Is that regular gym routine becoming a chore or a snore? Have you always thought it would be fun to run a marathon? Club Animals feels the same way that you do. We are a secret society of mascots and we're getting trim for Spring early. Join us for a Mascot Mini-Marathon around Union Square. You don't need to be in tip top shape or own an animal costume to participate, but if you have one, great! You will sweat more and burn more calories carrying those extra layers of color and fuzz. Buy it, make it, borrow it, draw it on your face. Whatever your inner animal, don't be afraid to wear it on the outside and run around a park in public. Club
Animals helps keep New York that wild, awesome place our parents used to talk about... The grueling Mascot Mini-Marathon will entail four times around Union Square. There will be trophies for first, second, and third place plus a very special award for best homemade costume, as well as cheerleaders and free water. If you didn't have time to come up with a costume, we'll have some animal masks and face paints at pre-race!
Its that time of year again... Mardis Gras! Woo whoo! Mighty Fine invites you to their annual Mardi Gras Mambo at Zebulon. Joining them will be Les San Culottes and DJ Mr. Mikey of Daptone Records.
"Renegade Sufi is a blend of the modern and ancient music of India, Africa, Persia, and Asia upon a foundation of jazz, blues, and hip hop. This is what Dawoud calls Mystic Jaz. One of Dawoud's accomplishment is the development of techniques and innovations on sitar, including the integration of eastern and western techniques; and the development of the sitar synthesizer. Mystic Jaz is a music that produces an enlightening effect upon the mind, body, and spirit of the listener. Audiences from the USA and Europe have attended his performances, and listened to his recordings. All feel that they have participated in a unique musical and spiritual experience."
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 8p
Official Site: http://myspace.com/solomonsporchcafe
Tonight, once more, we are reminded that "there is more to Park Slope than brownstones and baby carriages." The Royale is one of the only places you can actually go out and dance around here. This evening Afrokenetic spins a "cross-pollination of innovative afro-funk, house, soul, broken beat, latin grooves and jazz" at their weekly Brooklyn Bridges event. DJ Chris Annibell and friends host. 21+
Date: Sunday, February 22nd Time: 2:00pm Location: Morgan Library and Museum (225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street) Cost: Free
The Morgan Library & Museum and the Mid-Manhattan Branch of The New York Public Library, in collaboration with MUSE Film and Television, will host screenings of award-winning productions from the 26th annual Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) during the month of February 2009. On Sundays at 2:00pm, the Mid-Manhattan Library will show films on music, dance, and photography... The series wraps up with Jimmy Rosenberg—The Father, the Son & the Talent, a moving profile of the Gypsy guitar prodigy whose talent is compromised by his troubled life." Click here for more info.
Date: Sunday, February 22nd Time: 6:30pm Location: Comix (353 West 14th Street) Cost: Free with RSVP
"Instead of watching the Oscars at home on the couch, why not come to Comix and watch the awards for free on our projector screen and flat screen televisions in our 300 seat showroom or our bar. We show nothing but the Oscars and enjoy discounted food and drinks all night long! Enjoy food specials such as 'Calamarlee Matlin', 'Lord of the Wings' and a 'Whoopi Goldburger' and delicious drink specials that include 'There Will be Bloody Marys' and 'Margarita Hayworth'! Ballots will be for sale with chances to win lots of great prize packages given out during commercial breaks. Even if you show up late, you won't be out of the running to go home with a prize! Brush up on your trivia too and play Buzz Time in our bar"
Date: Sundays Time: 10:00pm Location: Bowery Electric (327 Bowery @ 2nd St.) Cost: Free with flyer printout Open Bar: ???, 10-11
Jack Walls, Ryan McGinley, Crispy, and Johnny T host this sunday arty party with DJ Avi, Bands, Disco, RocknRoll music & other delights! There's a "select open bar" to kick it off and a late night happy hour from 2-3... More details and flyer for free admission here. 21+
Date: Monday, February 23rd Time: 7:00pm Location: Harvestworks Digital Media Center (596 Broadway at Houston, #602) Cost: Free
Harvestworks Artists-In-Residence, Joseph DeLappe and Sawako, present their latest works tonight in a series of back to back lectures. "DeLappe will discuss a work in progress that seeks to create an interactive system that facilitates performative reenactments by 'walking' famous routes of protest and pilgrimage through diverse data co-mingled from Flickr, YouTube and live in-studio cameras. Sawako will present A Breath in the Cities, a new 5.1 surround-sound journey about two megalopolises, New York City and Tokyo. Field recordings and other sounds representing the artist's personal memories are amplified, mixed, layered, processed and mutated with digital signal resulting an a work the artist describes as 'a journey resonating between tiny breaths and large cities.'"
Date: Monday, January 12th Time: 8:00pm Location: The Living Theatre (21 Clinton Street) Cost: Free
Tonight, The Living Theatre presents a free reading of Peter Papadopoulos' new script: Lost Love. "Papadopoulos shows us a stage on which the mundane mingles with the bizarre… A young bride stands on mountaintop watching the Great Apocalypse beneath her. As she watches the world below consumed in water and fire, she muses: There are many things to consider when considering a wedding cake. Juxtaposed to her dilemma we find feuding partners kicking their way through their relationship in a rural ranch house. Their company is a Frenchman who steps out of the television. “As mankind hurtles through its final one hundred years,” he says, 'many questions arise…'" All Ages
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: All Day Location: Southern Hospitality (1460 Second Avenue btwn 76th & 77th Streets) Cost: Free
Southern Hospitality Presents Mardi Gras 2009, The Biggest Fat Tuesday Party In New York City! Specials All Day & Night! Cash Prizes for Best Mardi Gras Spirit! Thousands & Thousands of Custom Beads! Plus, live Performance By Mike Preen & The Hot Six!
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Aspen (30 w. 22nd st., btw. 5th and Ave of the Americas) Cost: Free Open Bar: Dooley's, 6-8
There's a lot of serious talk on the site for today. Why not wash it down with the intriguing delight of a toffee-vodka liquor or six after work at this midtown joint. 21+
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: 6:00pm Location:Mercury Bar (493 3rd Ave, btw. 33rd and 34th St) Cost: Free Open Bar: Cazadores and 42 Below Vodka, 6-7
So much free booze today and no free Hurricanes in site. Perhaps settle for - or pregame with - the next best thing; Free Cazadores tequila and 42 Below Vodka. 21+ (note: MyOpenBar has a different special then their site so if you're picky on your swag booze, you may want to call ahead)
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: 7:30pm - 11:00pm Location: South Paw (125 5th Avenue, P'Slope) Cost: Free
A new monthly event where New Yorkers can come to have all their solar power questions answered, get involved in local solar activism, enjoy great music, dance, drink and make new friends... Thinking about buying a solar system but don't know if you can or what to do? Our local solar installers can answer any question you have, one-on-one about purchasing, installing and owning a solar system in New York... Take your first refreshing step into local solar advocacy by writing a letter to your legislator in Support of pro-solar legislation, be lavished with great drink specials... Design, build and take home your own little bundle of solar powered fun. A blue ribbon and bragging rights goes to the most original design."
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: 8:00pm Location: Peter Jay Sharp Theater (155 W. 65th St) Cost: Free
Come out and see who’s taking the podium next during the Juilliard Conductors’ Orchestra concert... Conducting students of James DePreist – Dane Lam, Stilian Kirov, and Joshua Tan each take a turn leading the orchestra in a program that includes Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Prelude, Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks, Shoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70.
Date: Tuesday, February 24th Time: 9:00pm Location: Ochi’s Lounge at Comix (353 W. 14th Street) Cost: Free
"Tuesdays have just gotten sweeter! Dykes on Mics will perform at Ochis Lounge in Comix every other Tuesday at 9PM beginning on February 10th. Dykes on Mics is made up of four hilarious New York based comedians: Leah Dubie (HERE TV), Jackie Monahan (LOGO), Amy Beckerman (MTV) and Gloria Bigelow (LOGO). The ladies have performed at Provincetown’s Women’s Week, sold out shows across the Northeast and their NYC show has been billed as a 'best bet' in Time Out New York. Recently, the group was featured in the LOGO documentary 'Out In the City.' Come join them for a blend of stand-up, improv and controlled nonsense. Its estrogen fueled hilarity without the cramps and bloating!"
Date: Wednesday, February 25th Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center (120 Warren Street) Cost: Free
In the May there is going to be a pageant and parade featuring giant handmade puppets. Why am I telling you about this now you ask? Well today kicks off the first in a series of workshops to help you make the said giant puppets... "Workshops engage community participants (teens & adults)- to create spectacular giant paper-mache puppets with artist/puppeteers’ Lucrecia Novoa and Spica Wobbe & River Species Costumes with ecological artist, MicheleBrody and Chris Rumery. Workshops culminate in The Hudson River Pageant on Sat May 9th (raindate; Sun. May10th), to raise awareness for the restoration of the Hudson River and address the effects of climate change." Costume Wworkshops: Wednesdays 6-9pm, Puppet Workshops: Saturdays 12-4pm.
Date: Thursday, February 26th - Saturday, February 28th Time: Various Location: Various Cost: Free
"The Fusion Film Festival, New York University's student-run film festival at Tisch School of the Arts’ Kanbar Institute of Film and Television celebrating the work of women filmmakers marks its sixth year Feb 26 to 28, 2009. The expanding festival includes among its honorary board Julie Taymor ('Frida'), Barbara Kopple ('Shut Up and Sing'), Amy Heckerling ('Clueless'), Miranda July ('Me and You and Everyone We Know'), Penny Marshall ('A League of Their Own'), Lauren Zalaznik (CEO, Oxygen Media and President, Bravo) and producer Denise Di Novi ('Edward Scissorhands')." Festival schedule here.
Date: Thursday, February 26th Time: 6:30pm Location: Tenement Museum Shop (108 Orchard Street) Cost: Free
"Marking the one-year anniversary of this popular Lower East Side storytelling program, H.R. Britton returns with a team of talented performers to share stories of love in a post-holiday tribute to Valentine's Day. As always, guests are encouraged to bring their own three-minute tales of hearts bursting or breaking for the evening's open-mic portion." Performer bios after the jump.
Ophira Eisenberg has appeared on Comedy Central's "Fresh Faces of Comedy" and "Premium Blend" and on VH-1's "All Access." She tours regularly with The Moth, The Liar Show and "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad."
Brad Lawrence is a writer, actor, and storyteller based in Brooklyn. In addition to appearing in several plays and independent films, his one man show, Monsters In The Wood, just made its premiere at this year's New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim.
Regina Ress is an award-winning storyteller, actor, teacher, and writer with programs ranging from world folk tales and mythology to original stories about life and love. She has performed across the US, Latin America, and Europe, telling stories in both English and Spanish in such varied venues as Lincoln Center, homeless shelters, prisons, and the White House.
Adam Wade has appeared on ESPN Classic's "Classic Now", where he interviewed such legends as Mike Ditka and Reverend Run from RUN DMC. He was a featured performer on Comedy Central's "Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn" and is a record eight-time StorySlam Champion at The Moth and a GrandSLAM Champion.
Date: Thursday, February 26th Time: 7:30pm Location: Ochi's Lounge, Downstairs @ Comix (Corner of 14th St. and 9th Ave.) Cost: Free cover but 1 drink minimum
"Grant Gordon and Helen Hong host a hodgepodge of alternative and mainstream comedians who don't quite 'fit in.' The show features 'The Hot Minute', where a volunteer comedy virgin gets 1 minute to make the room laugh for a free round of drinks for their friends. Come witness the often awkward, always entertaining birth of a new comic amongst a sea of NY's funniest!"
False Aristocracy is back with their Ether parties. DJs Mike Dextro, Frances Eugenia, and Lazerb!tch blend arty mixes of hip hop, techno, and whatever else suits there fancy. Tonight our favorite Baltimore kids - Claire Hux - swing by for a special live set with DJ Morsy on the decks. Kevin Vonesper drops visuals and Mlle Lena gives a special burlesque performance. 21+
Date: Thursday, February 26th Time: 10:00pm Location: Fontana's Bar (105 Eldridge St) Cost: Free with RSVP
Good news for all you Brit lovers out there… the All England Club is back with their new series, Gin & Sonic. DJs Cockfosters and DJ Lady Bree spin UK tunes all night and Bulldog Gin provides complimentary cocktails "for part of the evening and drink specials all night." 21+
Date: Fridays Time: 4:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Museum of Modern Art (11 W 53rd St.) Cost: Free
The MoMA kicks its doors open for free every Friday night compliments of the good folks at Target. This is a great chance to see some of the city's best art on the cheap and a nice way to wind down the work week. No tickets are available in advance for this one, just show up. For a list of the current exhibitions, click here.
"China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to "be wired" and in turn, to be connected, the video follows the detailed production process that transforms raw ore into copper wire-in this case, the literal digging of a hole to China-and the generation of waste and of power that grows in both countries as byproduct. Animated from sequences of digital still photographs and ambient sound recorded on location, China Town focuses on the contemporary recycling of the American landscape and industrial economy as raw mineral wealth for a developing nation."
To be honest, I dont really know what all this means, but maybe you do... "Brent Sullivan, Gabe Liedman and Eliot Glazer's monthly foray into 'alternative' gay comedy, which basically just means Ant won't be on the bill. *three snaps* Featuring superstar guests Jessi Klein, Max Silvestri, Noah Garfinkel, and Jesse Popp."
Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 10:00pm Location: Pacha (618 W 46th St. btwn 11th & 12th) Cost:Free with RSVP before midnight ($20 after)
Sometimes you just gotta do it. Suck it up, deal with the B&T folk, and head on over to Pacha to hear some of the best dance music the world has to offer on one of the best sound systems in the world. And tonight, it's Mark Knight of Toolroom M.F. Knights!!! This is some of the best techy proggy house your going to here anywhere and tonight, on the first night of the new residency, you can get in for free! Mind the expensive drinks... 21+ (reduced for the 19+ crowd)
Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 10:00pm Location: Rose Live Music (345 Grand St., W'burg) Cost: Free
DJs Emch (Subatomic Sound), Benny Beats (Nomadic Wax), DJs from KEXP Seattle, & Special guests vocalists and instruments will be throwing down new sounds from around the globe for your to move your dancing feet. Brought to you by KEXP, Radio New York, Mo-Glo, & Sambazon. More info here.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 10:00pm Location: Public Assembly (70 N 6th, W'burg) Cost: $5 with RSVP, $10 without Open Bar: Vodka 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Crooked Disco is back and this month we’ve got jet setting performers from across the country and around the globe. Live and direct from Venezuela and recently relocated in Brooklyn, heavily hyped audiovisual band Todosantos take the stage tonight mashing up the best of Bmore, 4×4, ghettotech, dubstep and live visuals into a whole new sound they like to call “tukky bass.” Anyone who caught their performance at Crooked last year will know that they are not to be missed.
And straight out of the Bay Area we’ve got party heavyweight Vin Sol making a rare NYC performance. With a style and sound as eclectic as the city he calls home, Vin Sol ignites dance floors from behind the decks of the rawest hip-hop parties to the sweatiest indie clubs in America. The San Francisco native has gained recognition for his unique approach to “party-music” blending original mixes ranging from indie to hyphy and club staples creating a highly evolved sound that speaks to the cross pollinated music world of today.
Plus, your hosts and resident DJs, Morsy and Kestar, hold it down with their trademark mix of Disco, Electro, Classic House, Good Hip-Hop, Baltimore Club, and Breaks (basically, whatever makes you move.) Paulo will be snapping photos (click here for some shots from last month) and there’s open bar from 10-11.
Date: Saturday, Feburary 28th Time: 10:00am Location: World Financial Center, Winter Garden (220 Vesey St.) Cost: Free
Honoring Black History Month, the Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition will once again bring top choirs to New York City to compete for $10,000 in prizes. Going on its ninth year, the Competition will take place today at the scenic World Financial Center Winter Garden. For the first time, the Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition will be international, with the addition of a choir from Quebec, Canada. Youth Division choirs compete at 10:30 a.m., winners will be announced at 12:30 p.m. Open Division choirs compete from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Click here for more information.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm Location: The Point CDC (940 Garrison Ave., Bronx) Cost: Free
"When discussing the origins of Hip Hop, most agree that it began in the Bronx. Many also agree that it is an African-American artform with many antecedents. It is a known fact that the trinity of Hip Hop DJ pioneers have roots in the West Indies including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash... Dr. Natasha Lightfoot of the Bronx African-American Oral History Project, will lead a discussion featuring Hip Hop pioneers and legends including Kool DJ Herc, Kool DJ Red Alert, Ralph McDaniels (Video Music Box) and VP Records co-founder, Patricia Chin...Carter Van Pelt of Wax Poetics will interview Patricia Chin about the history of VP Records... The discussion will be followed by a presentation on Jamaican and Hip Hop sound systems from the 1970s by DJ Kool Herc and Brother Vincent. The evening concludes with a reception... dance to the music of DJ Just Ice; and purchase West Indian fare..." Full info here.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 7:00pm Location: Parkside Lounge (317 E. Houston St @ Attorney) Cost: Free
"Cold weather got you feeling down? Dowdy? Dull? Delocated? Damaged? Deranged? Death-defying? Dandruffy? Diuretic? Delusional? Ask your doctor about a prescription of Delusions of Spandex! These little blue pills of character and sketch comedy acts will make you right again! In 3 out of 5 cases, Delusions of Spandex has proven to pep you up and make all the pain go away!" Click below for the lineup. 21+
Luke Thayer...He goes to your head!
Abbi Crutchfield...Heart palpitations...and they feel good!
Aaron Glaser...More oomph in your sex drive!
Rachel Mason...go ahead, operate heavy machinery!
Kelly Hudson & Emily Strachan...adrenaline rush!
Cece Lederer & Miles Klee...take them and call me in the morning!
Harry Terjanian...highly addictive.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 8:00pm Location: 717 STUDIO (717 Manhattan Ave 2A, BK) Cost: Free
"Through the curatorial efforts of Laina Karavani, Graham Slick, and Raquel Lauren, 717 Studio brings you 'Mixtape.' Much like a well selected hour - long mix of music, this showing satisfies the desire for everything from the visual to the tactile with sculpture, painting, light, color, and materials from familiar to questionable. We have found the ultimate blend of creativity by contribution of the artists, each arranging a music set
to accompany the expressive works." Participating artists after the jump. The closing party will feature live acoustic sets in the gallery by Dan Bevins of Red Clay River, Billy Wallace of The Wading Girl and John Lennox of Panoramic & True.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 8:30pm Location: Triangulo (35 West 20th St. #301 bet. 6th & 7th Ave) Cost: Free with RSVP
Live out your Take the Lead fantasies with a Free-hour Absolute Beginners Tango Workshop at Carina Moeller's TriANGulO , New York's only dance studio exclusively dedicated to Argentine tango. TriANGulO specializes in Argentine tango, the original, more intimate predecessor to international ballroom-style tango. All Ages.
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 10:00pm Location: The Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher St.) Cost: Free before 11:00pm, $5 after
"To thank you for being a friend, the hosts of faux-drag party Victoria bring you their second annual 'We Love the Golden Girls' tribute night. Win DVDs in the Sophia talent contest or the Dorothy/Blanche/Rose lookalike contest. Enjoy performances from the best senior talent in New York, including legendary drag queens Linda Simpson (emcee) and Lavinia Coop, and bellydancing grandma Susie Q. Violet Temper honors Designing Women, while Dave End, the Martini Twins, MargOH! Channing, Raven Snook and an original faux-drag Golden Girls troupe (Amber Martin, Ann Carr, Cherelynore and Queens Marie) channel the four most sexy geriatric ladies in history. And best of all, free cheesecake! Come dressed like it's 1985 Miami, or let us dress you!"
Date: Saturday, February 28th Time: 10:00pm Location: Arrow Bar (85 Ave A, btwn 5th and 6th) Cost: Free
While I love me some NYC I will always have a special love for Philly! So, I am happy to let you know that tonight Philadelphyinz, the DJ team consisting of Skinny Friedman and Apt One, bring their rap, funk, house, club and disco to Arrow Bar. Plus joining them is Detroit based, Frankie Bank$, who they claim has a "variety of impressive sweaters."
