Corona Event

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 5:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Katra (217 Bowery)
Cost: Free

"This a one time special event sponsored by corona, the event will include free buffet from 5-6, 2 for1 drinks from 6-8, 2 for 1 coronas from 7-8 and free massages from 7-9. Blac label clothing line is also doing a $500 make over to a lucky lady and also special concert ticket give away to de la soul concert. This is a after work event from 5-11 every one is free all night."

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Seaport Music Festival: Polvo and Obits

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 6:00pm
Location:South Street Seaport, Pier 17 (South Street and Fulton Street)
Cost: Free

Free, summer, concerts roll on tonight as River to River continues their Seaport Music Festival on the East River tonight with a live performance by Polvo. Both alarming and charming, Polvo's eclectic sound and style is absolutely unmistakable. Coming of age in the early 90s, the Chapel Hill noise rock band delivers complex and dissonant guitar harmonies and driving rhythms. After a 10-year hiatus, Polvo reunited in 2008 to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. The reception sparked the group's return to the studio in mid-March to record their first album in 12 years. Opening for Polvo is the acclaimed garage rock quartet Obits. The Brooklyn-based band records on Seattle's Sub Pop, and plays "heavy, driving, meat-and-potatoes rock music" - thus achieving a musical trifecta.

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Celebrate Brooklyn: Soulive w/ John Scofield

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell (Prospect Park West at 9th Street, P'Slope)
Cost: Free

The exceptional jazz-funk trio Soulive celebrates ten years of “simmering instrumental funk” (Entertainment Weekly) by bringing out The Royal Family, a conglomeration of various side projects and special guests that will come together for the ultimate outdoor summer NYC jam. The proceedings will begin with a performance by Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, which Offbeat describes as “musically hard-nosed and rooted in 1970s inner city funk.”

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Star Wars: Clone Wars at RiverFlicks for Kids

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: Dusk (around 8:30pm)
Location: Pier 54 (14th St. and the Hudson River)
Cost: Free

The folks over at Hudson River Park keep calling this RiverFlicks for Kids, but we're really into a bunch of these movies, so either the films are also for grown ups, or we just like kid stuff. Tonight's kid flick is the animated adventure Star Wars: The Clone Wars. "Set in the time between episodes II & III in the Star Wars saga; Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker fight to keep the republic together against formidable odds."

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The Waking Edge: A Nightmare Play

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Morris A. Schapiro Hall Theatre (615 W 115th St)
Cost: Free

The world is changing, and one survivor of a murdered generation makes his way through a landscape distorted by horror and governed by the logic of nightmares.

The Waking Edge is a poetic and striking new play from a group of up-and-coming theater artists. Tickets are free, and no RSVPs are required, so please arrive promptly (or early) to secure a good seat. Please be advised that this play contains violent scenes which may be disturbing. Continues all weekend with performances Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 8pm.

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TGIF Comedy

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Eastville Comedy Club (85 East 4th Street)
Cost: Free with reservation and mention of FreeNYC (call 212.260.2445) or RSVP

Eastville Comedy Club kicks open their door to FreeNYC readers tonight with a free comedy showcase. Catch sets by Todd Barry (Sex and the City), Godfrey (Zoolander), Esther Ku (Last Comic Standing), Todd Lynn, and James Smith. All you have to do is call them up and mention FreeNYC to by pass the usual $20 cover. Keep in mind there is still a 2 drink minimum ($5-$8) but what's a little stand-up with out a few cold ones. 18+

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A-Trak

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Date: Friday, July 31st
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Webster Hall (125 East 11th St bet 3rd and 4th Ave)
Cost: $1 before midnight with RSVP

Girls & Boys continue their takeover of Webster Hall Fridays with another top night of indie-fuel disco-electro. This week its hipster poster-child, DMC Champion, and Fools Gold records honcho A-trak. His recent Duck Sauce colaborations with NYC house legend Armand Van Heldan have been tearing up dancefloors worldwide and tonight he brings it all back to his home turf. Opening the set is nu-disco rising star and recent NYC transplant Treasure Fingers along with equally talented guests Theophilus London &
Jack Beats. 19+

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