Summer Restaurant Week 2009
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: July 12th - 31st
Time: lunch and dinner
Location: Various
Cost: $24.07, $35 (not including tip and drinks)
Dating in a recession? Fear not becauseSummer Restaurant Week 2009 starts this week. Grab a 3-course dinner for a mere $35 or a 3-course lunch for $24.07 at some of the swankiest spots in town. Just use my excuse "oh that's awesome, I didn't even know it was restaurant week!" Make your reservations online and save me a seat at David Burke Townhouse.
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Sitelines '09: Untitled Corner
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: July 13, 15, 17
Time: 12:30pm (7:00pm on the 8th and 15th)
Location: One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Cost: Free
"Lower Manhattan Cultural Council continues their site-specific performance series, Sitelines, in July with Untitled Corner by Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz with Daniel Arsham. Celebrating its sixth anniversary, Sitelines 09 brings to life a highly energized program of provocative dance, set to inspiring imagery and unexpected surroundings. Performed at One Chase Manhattan Plaza, Untitled Corner is a collaboration examining memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body in public space. Untitled Corner employs site-responsive architecture, objects, lighting, and other media to create the illusion of an expanded space. Original sound score by Alexis Georgopoulos/ARP.
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Case of the Mondays Stand Up Show
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Monday, July 13th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Manchester Pub (920 2nd Ave bet 48th & 49th St)
Cost: Free
"Case of the Mondays is a new bi-weekly stand-up show in Midtown. This recession-proof show (no cover, no drink minimum) features comics who have performed at Comic Strip Live, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Laugh Lounge, etc. What better way to kick off the week then to watch live comedy while snacking on buffalo wings? And as you take advantage of the Monday night special of 20% off your bill, you can enjoy this week's lineup, which includes Jonathan Powley, Phoebe Robinson, Mark Normand, Harris Bloom, Ray Marshall, and Kyle Senor-Ocasio! Be sure to arrive early as seating is limited."
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"(500) Days of Summer" Screening and discussion
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Monday, July 13th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway @ 68th St.)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summer Scoops Live with The Wall Street Journal presents an advance screening of the 2009 Sundance favorite (500) Days of Summer, followed by a chat with director Marc Webb (in his feature-length directorial debut) and star Zooey Deschanel (“Elf,” “Yes Man”). Wall Street Journal Culture reporters John Jurgensen and Jamin Brophy-Warren will moderate. RSVP is a must, be sure to include name, bday and phone. Seating is limited, so early arrival is recommended.
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It’s About The Numbers, Baby! w/ David Rees
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Monday, July 13th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Pets’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Open City Dialogue (OCD) is a bi-monthly lecture series curated by Greenpoint resident James Hook, and unraveling on alternating Mondays in the backroom of Pete’s. Short (35-40 minute) lectures are woven together from the common thread of people’s obsessions, with guests coming from all over Greater New York. "Join David 'Get Your War On' Rees for a one-of-a-kind tutorial in how to win at games of chance. Mr. Rees will teach you how to win the lottery and how to win local neighborhood numbers games by picking the right numbers. He will explain which numbers pay out the best, which come up most often in lotteries, which numbers to avoid, etc. He will also tell people the 'must-know' nicknames that bookies use for various numbers... 'David Thomas Rees is a freelance wine consultant and budding fashion-industry insider. He used to make a cartoon called 'Get Your War On,' that combined bland clip art with outrageous 'trash talk' to incongruous effect, while baffling or disgusting some readers. He is currently looking for friends and business contacts . His motto is "Make that money, drink that wine."
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Feed Your Head Rock Trivia
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Pianos (158 Ludlow St.)
Cost: Free
"Join hardcore music enthusiasts tonight... for Feed Your Head Rock Trivia, a fun and challenging multi-round contest that tests your knowledge on a wide range of rock and roll topics. The winning teams receive free drinks and bragging rights!" 21+
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Recess
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm
Location: B Bar (40 E. 4th St off Bowery)
Cost: Free
Funnymen Rich Mercier and Jon Lang present a fun, laid-back comedy show at the LES' legendary B Bar. There's no cover and some of the the best comics in NY to perform for your amusement (and drink tickets.) Check Jon Lang out in the clip below. 21+
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How Green Was My Valley
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Monday, July 13th
Time: Films begin at Dusk (about 8ish)
Location: Bryant Park (40th and 42nd Sts & Fifth and Sixth Aves)
Cost: Free
Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. Every Monday throughout the summer HBO dusts off some classic movies and plays them on a big screen in Bryant Park. Tonight, check out the film How Green Was My Valley. "Winner of the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars (over 'Citizen Kane', this beautiful film is about a close-knit family in a Welsh mining village. John Ford directed the story, told through the eyes of a young Roddy McDowell, striking an incredible balance between moral seriousness and elegy.)
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Monday Free Ride
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Monday, July 13th
Time: 8:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Rockstar Bar (349 Kent St, bet S. 4th and S. 5th Sts)
Cost: Free
"This just in: the most decrepit and run-down (and therefore awesome) place in Williamsburg, Rockstar Bar, is having another bike raffle. For just $1 you can get your hands on a French track bike. $2 Pints (16 oz) of PBR till midnight, air hockey, pool, "Titty Touch," a TV, an outdoor patio and free BBQ." [via MyOpenBar]
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Drinking at Happy Ending... 66Sick and Disco Down
FreeNYC Event Flyer Date: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00pm - late
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome St at Forsythe)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: 11 - 12
So Tuesdays seem to to be the day for free boozin lately and Happy Ending seems to take the cake with two separate parties and two separate open bars. First, 66Sick girls take on one floor and bring you electro-glammed out trashyness in the basement with a full hour of open bar from 11-12. While upstairs, the Disco Down crew bring some 80's love to the floor with an open vodka bar to boot. Seems like if you like free boozin, this is the place to be tonight. 21+
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