“A Freebies-For-All” Weekly Calendar (5.03-5.06.2012)
Events/Exhibits/Etc.
One Chance Only:
Thursday, May 3
Þ
@7:00pm: Actor/author Sissy Spacek talks about her new book “My Extraordinary Ordinary Life” with
Kathryn Stockett, author of “The Help”. @Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street
.
Þ @6:30pm: Conversation: “More Powerful than
Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy”
with Thai Jones in conversation with Bill Ayers: 1914 was a year that began
with bright expectations but quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence,
veering NYC and its citizens towards chaos. @The Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard
St.
Þ @7:00pm: Fiction reading featuring Heidi Julavits,
whose new novel is "The Vanishers", and Jesmyn Ward author of
"Salvage the Bones", which won the National Book Award for Fiction.
@Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street.
Þ @8:00pm: “Green/Red” is a
site-specific and immersive audio-visual experience by Peter Burr and Friends.
Scrolling and cascading video “frames” provide the viewpoint into a computer
wilderness, with an accompanying surround-soundtrack. @The Archway under the
Manhattan Bridge,
(Adams Street at Water Street).
(Adams Street at Water Street).
Þ @6:30pm: “Just Law:
Intervention, Reparation, Emancipation” the keynote address examining the notion that “just law” refers
not just to law, but to the ambivalent relationship between law and justice.
International law can be characterized as both constitutive of imperialism and
a necessary context for certain forms of emancipatory political expression, a
tension expressed through the contested claims for legal frameworks such as
human rights, transitional justice, and just war. @The James Gallery, CUNY Grad
Center, 365 Fifth Ave
Þ @6:00-8:00pm: Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP): From Behind the Blue Walls of Silence: a
public forum featuring current and former NYPD officers speaking about their
experiences on the job and presenting their critique of current NYPD policies
and tactics. @The LGBT Community Center, 08 W 13th St.
Þ @7:00pm: Poetry reading: Colombian Czech writer, Eduard Bechara
Navratilova, will be doing a reading of Poems
to Prague in English and Spanish, from his book “Poems to a City, an Insect
and a Woman”. Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73 St
Þ @4:30-6:00pm: Lecture presented by Dr. Bernard Harcourt,
University of Chicago School of Law, entitled: “Resisting the Truth: Challenging the
Received Wisdom on Broken Windows, Criminal Profiling, and American
Neoliberalism”. @John Jay College, 524
West 59th Street, room L.63.
Þ @7:00pm: Authors Kevin Moffett and Adam Wilson will be
discussing their new book “Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events”. They also wrote the popular
“Flatscreen”. @McNally Jackson
Booksellers, 52 Prince St.
Þ @7:00-9:00pm: Great Thinkers of Our Times Series presents
Lisa Randall who studies particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University.
With Raman Sundrum she developed the Randall-Sundrum model. Her work has
improved our understanding of baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark
matter, and she is an expert on the workings of the Great Hadron Collider.
@Writing Center, Hunter.
Þ @12:00-9:00pm: Bike Expo New York will be the largest free
bike expo in the United States! This expo gives residents and visitors an
unprecedented look at urban cycling against the backdrop of New York. Presented
by Eastern Mountain Sports, Bike Expo New York (BE NY) will feature more than
130 vendors, live-performances, etc. @Pier 36—Basketball City, South Street
& Montgomery Street..
Þ @6:00pm: “Just Over Our Shoulder: Writing about the
Recent Past” a panel discussion which answer the question “How does writing
about the recent past differ from history as it is normally understood?” This panel discussion celebrates a new
collection of essays, Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video
Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That
Talks Back, which explores the challenges and pleasures of writing
contemporary American history. @J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room
510.
Þ @7:00pm: A talk with Booker-award winning author
Ludmila Ulitskaya whose works, such as Medea and Her Children and Daniel
Stein, Interpreter, have been translated into countless world languages.
Ulitskaya will be discussing her upcoming nonfiction book, “Sacred Trash,”
about people, places, and things she loves in her life. @Hamilton Hall, room
602, 1130 Amsterdam Ave.
Þ @7:00pm: Author Sean Burns will be discussing “Archie
Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero” which celebrates one of the most
revered labor historians and folklorists of workers’ culture in the twentieth
century. In the spirit of May Day, this
talk will explore the importance of workers’ culture to contemporary
organizing. @Bluestocking Booksellers, 172 Allen St.
Þ @5:00-7:00pm: Beaded Octopus bag making demonstration with
Cody Harjo (Seminole/Otoe). @National Museum of the American Indian, Rotunda,
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green.
Friday, May 4
Þ @6:00-8:00pm: Franca Stozzi: a talk by the legendary Franca Sozzani, the Editorial Director of
Condé Nast Italy and editor-in-chief of iVogue Italia, l'Uomo Vogue, iand
iVogue Gioielloi. One of the world's most influential people in fashion,
Sozzani spearheaded the lauded websitei iVogue.it. @Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Ave
at 27th St.
Þ @6:00-7:00pm: Opening Reception for “Pura Geometria—Pure
Geometry” An Encounter of Latin America and Spain. The artists: José María Yturralde (Spain),
Estuardo Maldonado (Ecuador) and Monica Sarmiento Castillo (Ecuador/Spain) will
be presenting their works in the tradition of the Constructivist Movement and
more specifically the Three-Dimentionalist work. @Mid-Manhattan Library, 455
Fifth Ave.
Þ @8:00-11:00pm: “Poetry Out loud” From 1969 to 1977 Poetry Out Loud served as a “magazine of oral
poetry" issued as a series of ten LPs intended to take poetry "off
the page." Recently digitally
reissued, the group's founders will appear together at Issue Project Room for a
rare live performance. @Issue Project Room, 110 Livingston St, Brooklyn.
Þ @6:30pm:
“The Cosmopolitan Canopy and Trayvon Martin: Racial Fault lines
in American Society” a talk by Yale prof Dr. Elijah who is one of the
nation’s leading urban ethnographers. Under the “cosmopolitan canopy”—a
sheltered place of civil integration in an otherwise segregated society—urban
dwellers restrain their ethnocentric impulses.
Events such as Trayvon Martin threaten this canopy and the thin veneer
of racial civility. @6 East 16th Street, Room 1103.
Þ @12:00-9:00pm: Bike Expo New York will be the largest free
bike expo in the United States! This
expo gives residents and visitors an unprecedented look at urban cycling
against the backdrop of New York. Presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, Bike
Expo New York (BE NY) will feature more than 130 vendors, live-performances,
etc. @Pier 36—Basketball City, South Street & Montgomery Street.
Þ @7:00pm: Opening reception for ”The Tourist Gaze” in
which Copenhagen-based artist duo Randi &
Katrine have created a large-scale installation exploring the context of
the Flux Factory gallery and its history as a former greeting card factory. The
installation is comprised of a grid of buildings, with each rooftop containing
its own world of unique pleasure, seduction, and playfulness. @Flux Factory,
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City.
Þ @6:00-9:00pm: “Trust Art Liberty Launch” a one-night-only
exhibition and party which celebrates public art. Brooklyn collective Trust Art
shares its first round of public art projects, which includes international
portraits of "dreamers," a scented fountain (!), and a "healing
action" for the ever-polluted Newton Creek. @Picture Farm, 338 Wythe Ave,
Brooklyn.
Þ @8:00-10:00pm: May Dance Concert will be an evening of works
including a guest repertory piece and group works choreographed by Hunter
College students. @North Building, Room 543.
Þ @8:30pm: Comedy Show with your host Annie Lederman,
followed by karaoke. @Red Star, 37 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn.
Þ @6:00-7:30pm: “Pen World Voices, Go the F**K To Sleep—A
Translation Event” a panel discussion which examines how writers (of many
nations) use curse words. But what effect—and what challenges—does this pose to
literary writing and translation? Using Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés’s
international bestseller Go the F**k to
Sleep as an entry point, this panel of writers and translators will explore
the swear words we use and how they affect what we read. @41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between
6th and 7th Streets).
Þ @5:00pm: In celebration of publication of Beyond
Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death an international
panel of distinguished critical theorists will discuss the value of the concept
of biopolitics in addressing issues of governance and economy from the latter
decades of the twentieth century to current geopolitical conditions of life and
death. @CUNY Grad Center, James Gallery,
365 Fifth Ave.
Þ @8:00pm: Guitar Ensemble: under the direction of Terry Champlin, Mannes
students explore chamber music repertoire for guitar performing small and large
ensemble works, sometimes in combination with other instruments or voice.
@Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes Building, 150 West 85th Street.
Þ @7:00pm: Jennsylvania Governor and bestselling
author Jen Lancaster talks about her latest book “Jeneration X”. @Barnes & Noble, 33 east 17th St.
Þ @7:30pm: Open Mic with Stu Richards. Bring your works
of poetry, music, thoughts and good vibes. @Barnes & Noble, 8th Street and
6th Ave.
Saturday, May 5
Þ @7:30pm: KYO- SHIN-AN- ARTS is a
performance featuring Kammerraku,
a groundbreaking new chamber music for string quartet with Japanese instruments
– an evocative, exciting sound blending two timeless musical traditions.
@Winter Garden, 200 Vesey St.
Þ @1:00-4:00pm: New York Opera Forum performs the
complete operas Der Schauspieldirecktor by
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), and Don
Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). A live
musical recital performed in concert with piano accompaniment. @96th St Library, 112 East 96th St.
Þ @8:00-10:00pm: May Dance Concert an evening of works
including a guest repertory piece and group works choreographed by Hunter
College students. @North Building, Room 543.
Þ @2:30-4:00pm: The Titanic (1912-2012): Remembering the Era, The Music and The Musicians: this program commemorates the music and
musicians of the Titanic. Metropolitan
Opera Chorus members Constance Green, Ellen Lang, Irwin Reese and Scott
Thomlinson, joined
by Shem
Guibbory, violin, Sam Magill, cello,
Betsy
Plum, banjo/uke and Joan Krueger, piano
will recreate the music performed on board the ship as well as popular songs
and pieces that defined the era and the disaster itself. @New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln
Center Plaza.
Þ @11:00am: “Wall to Wall: Gertrude Stein” A complement to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition “The Steins Collect: Matisse Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde.” Re-live this magical time of art in
life and life in art at our annual free marathon - Wall to Wall: Gertrude’s
Paris. @Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space, Broadway and 94th St.
Þ @noon: A Conversation with Lav Diaz an independent
filmmaker who was born and raised in Cotabato, Mindanao. He has been dubbed the
“ideological father of the New Philippine Cinema” His eight-hour Melancholia won the
Grand Prize-Orizzonti award at the Venice International Film Festival 2008 and
his work Death in the Land of Encantos also competed at the Venice
International Film Festival. @Exit Art,
75 Tenth Ave.
Þ @6:00pm: Screening of “Citizen Havel” Documentary film
directed by Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek, 2007. This truly unique material offers new looks
behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early
twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country
during its transition to democracy. @Boehmian National Hall, 321 East 73 St.
Þ @12:00-5:00pm: Workspace artists- and
writers-in-residence for an open hours, and a reading! Representing all media
and genres—from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video, and
performance; from poetry and fiction to playwriting and creative
non-fiction—artists and writers will present the work they’ve been making since
the start of their residencies in September 2011. Details go to http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/open_studio_weekend.
@125 Maiden Lane, 14th floor.
Þ @10:00am-noon: Tandem Biking for Adults --a tandem bike day
to promote fitness. The two-seater bikes will be provided and participants will
be allowed to ride them around J. Hood Wright Park. @J. Hood Wright Park., NYC
Þ @2:00-3:00pm: New York premier of “Skateboard Nation” a
documentary which explores the underground movement that's helping Native
American youth soar above life's challenges, one half-pipe at a time.
Skateboarding is increasingly popular on Indian reservations, cultivating
athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and mentors. The sport is fueling a new form
of self-expression and pride.
@National Museum of the American
Indian, Diker Pavilion, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One
Bowling Green.
Þ @11:00-12:00noon: Walking Tour of the High Line which is a
great way to learn about the park’s unique history, design, art, horticulture,
and more.@ Gansevoort Plaza, below the
High Line at Gansevoort Street and Washington Street.
Þ @7:00pm: “Ruth
Stone Memorial Tribute” a reading commemorating the late poet Ruth Stone
(author of "In the Next Galaxy" , "What Love Comes To:
New and Selected Poems" ), featuring Toi Derricotte, Sandra
Gilbert, Philip Levine, Gerald Stern, Abigail Stone, Bianca Stone, and Michael
Wiegers. @36 East 8th Street (near University Place), 2nd floor theater.
Þ @noon-5:00pm: Outdoor Open House celebrating the Staten
Island Museum’s expansion to Snug Harbor Cultural Center with a site-wide
extravaganza - Snug Harbor Cultural Center's Harbor in Bloom Spring
Festival. These full days of fun for all include live music, the Snug
Harbor’s annual plant sale, nature walks, archive tours, food and more. @Snug
Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace Building P.
Þ @10:00am-1:00pm: “It’s My Park Day at Rockaway Beach and
Boardwalk: join the Belle Harbor
Property Association as they clean-up the beach and paint benches near 134th
Street and the Beach Wall. @Beach 134th St, near the Rockaway Beach Wall, Rockaway
Beach, Queens.
Þ @12:00-9:00pm: Bike Expo New York will be the largest free
bike expo in the United States! This
expo gives residents and visitors an unprecedented look at urban cycling
against the backdrop of New York. Presented by Eastern Mountain Sports, Bike
Expo New York (BE NY) will feature more than 130 vendors, live-performances,
etc. @Pier 36—Basketball City, South Street & Montgomery Street.
Sunday, May 6
Þ @1:00-2:00pm: Lecture/tour entitled “Secrets of St. John the Divine: Spotlight
on Hidden Images” when you can find out about the existence of a stripper and
the signs of the zodiac doing in the church’s stained glass windows. This tour uncovers other surprising images
in glass and stone. Led by Senior Cathedral Guide Tom Fedorek. @The Cathedral Church
of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue.
Þ @1:00-8:00pm: Irish Arts Center NYC Dance Festival the 11th
annual celebration of traditional Irish dance and music, featuring performances
by stars of the Irish dance world and NY area dance schools. @Pier 1, 71st St
and Riverside Park.
Þ @1:00-6:00pm: Artist-in-Residence Open Studios: artists who will be featured are Artists:
Njideka Akunyili, Meleko Mokgosi, and
Xaviera Simmons. Since 1968, the Studio Museum has earned recognition for its catalytic
role in advancing the work of visual artists of African and Latino descent
through its Artist-in-Residence program. @Studio Museum of Harlem, 114 W
125 St.
Þ @12:00-3:30pm: Ist Annual International Family Equity
Day: Come to Times Square, one of the most internationally recognizable
places in the world, for LGBT family photograph we’ll all remember for many
years to come. We’ll gather at 11am at the TKTS booth. Or, 12pm-3:30pm at LGBT Community Center,
celebration continues with a chance to hear from LGBT families and advocates
during our International Family Equality Day press conference in the Centers
Garden, followed by lunch and dancing. @The LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13th
St.
Þ @12:00-5:00pm: Workspace artists- and
writers-in-residence for an open hours, and a reading! Representing all media
and genres—from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video, and
performance; from poetry and fiction to playwriting and creative
non-fiction—artists and writers will present the work they’ve been making since
the start of their residencies in September 2011. Details go to http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/open_studio_weekend.@125 Maiden Lane, 14th floor.
Þ @6:00pm: Screening of “Havel’s Audience With History”a
documentary which is the first American
film to be made in the about to be formed Czech Republic, chronicles the
remarkable confluence of art and politics during and immediately following the
Velvet Revolution. @Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73 St.
Þ @5:00pm: Concert featuring Lisa Joy Sitjar on the piano, performing works by Bach,
Beethoven, and Schumann. @Nicholas Roerich Museum, 319 W 107th St.
Þ
@2:00-6:00pm: “A Time for Healing” a unique musical message from Batz’i Rock
Band, Sak Tzevul, and a round-table discussion led by Indigenous community
leaders and members. This multicultural and inclusive effort will also engage
the various Mexican Indigenous leaders and peoples of Mixteca, Puebla and other
origins to shed light on their unique experiences. @Queens Museum of Art, New
York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.
Þ
@7:30pm: Community Orchestra, Concert 4: This orchestra concert, under the direction
of Yuri Vodovoz, features students from the Extension Division and members of
the community. @Mannes Concert Hall, Mannes Building, 150 West 85th Street.
Þ @11:00-12:00noon: Walking Tour of the High Line which is a
great way to learn about the park’s unique history, design, art, horticulture,
and more.@ Gansevoort Plaza, below the
High Line at Gansevoort Street and Washington Street.
Þ @noon-5:00pm: Outdoor Open House celebrating the Staten
Island Museum’s expansion to Snug Harbor Cultural Center with a site-wide
extravaganza - Snug Harbor Cultural Center's Harbor in Bloom Spring
Festival. These full days of fun for all include live music, the Snug
Harbor’s annual plant sale, nature walks, archive tours, food and more. @Snug
Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace Building P.
Þ @11:00am: Community Garden Volunteer Work Day where you
can help get this garden cleaned up and ready for plants and community fun.
@Green Oasis Community Garden, 8th Street between Aves C & D.
Þ @8:00-9:00am: Summer on the Hudson: Tai Chi
Join Silvana Pizzuti to learn and practice Tai Chi, a slow moving
martial art with health benefits for all fitness levels. @sailor and Soldiers
Monument, W. 89th St and Riverside Dr.
ONGOING EVENTS:* ++
*slightly off the beaten
track/a little bit different
++newly
added this week:
Þ ++“Pura Geometria—Pure Geometry” An Encounter of Latin America
and Spain through May 31. The
artists: José María Yturralde (Spain), Estuardo Maldonado (Ecuador) and Monica
Sarmiento Castillo (Ecuador/Spain) will be presenting their works in the
tradition of the Constructivist Movement and more specifically the
Three-Dimentionalist work. @Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave.
Þ ++Mi Yuming, “Between Reality and
Virtuality” through June 9:
Mi Yuming's work blends photography and technology in a way that fully
represents the hyper-connectedness of society. Harshly beautiful, her images
simultaneously assault and caress the senses like a cyber-rave fairy tale.
@Artgate Gallery, 520W 27th St, Suite 10.
Þ ++”The Tourist Gaze” through May 14: in which Copenhagen-based artist duo Randi &
Katrine have created a large-scale installation exploring the context of
the Flux Factory gallery and its history as a former greeting card factory. The
installation is comprised of a grid of buildings, with each rooftop containing
its own world of unique pleasure, seduction, and playfulness. @Flux Factory,
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City.
Þ Drew
Friedman: My Way through May 31: Friedman
is the reigning king of the caricature, and for this, his first New York
gallery show, he will be displaying works dating back from 1982 to the
present. His work in such
iconic irreverent magazines like High Times, MAD, or National
Lampoon, or the more high-brow like The New Yorker or The
New York Observer. @Scott Eder Gallery, 18 Bridge St. #2-I, Brooklyn.
Þ ”This Side of
Paradise” through June 3: amazing and unorthodox site-specific installation
Paradise is in a circa 1920s
mansion. A two-month long installation
adorns Andrew Freedman Home, this multimedia exhibit set within this lavish
building, seeks to bridge past and present in the Bronx. Featuring the work of 32 local and
international artists, the show explores such topics as immigration,
transportation, and historical and cultural memory. @Andrew Freedman Home, 1125
Grand Concourse, Bronx.
Þ ”Revolution in
their Eyes: Activist Photography from
Yemen” through June 2012: The images in this show provide a
glimpse of the reality—both brutal and beautiful—of daily life inside Change
Square, the heart of the revolution in Yemen’s capital, San’a. @CUNY Grad
Center, 365 Fifth Ave, MEMEAC space.
Þ Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art through May 19: their final exhibition which chronicles the
history of Exit Art from its founding in a loft apartment on Canal Street to
its current location in Hell’s Kitchen and celebrates the vibrant non-profit
founded in 1982 by Papo Colo and the late Jeanette Ingberman. @Exit Art, 475
Tenth Ave.
MUSIC VENUES
Editor’s
Note:
The following includes numerous clubs/bars,
etc which regularly offer free music…either live musical appearances or a special
DJ as guest. Since my taste in music is
most likely not the same as yours, this list will not be updated weekly, but is
a more generic list of places you can hear music for free…and I’m guessing the
music at these places is more to your taste than mine. From time to time this
list may be updated…so feel free to pass along any suggestions and feedback.
Manhattan
**
KGB
Bar, 85 East 4th Street
Rodeo
Bar, 375 Third Ave
Pianos**, 158 Ludlow Street
West
Bank Café **, 407 W 42 St.
Botanica,** 47 E Houston.
200
Orchard, 200 Orchard St
Googie’s
Lounge Over the Living Room**
154 Ludlow St
The
Sutra Lounge**, 16 First Ave
S.O.B.’s**, 204 Varick Street
Three
of Cups Lounge**, 83 First Ave
Glamnesia (over Three of Cups), 83 First Ave.
Other
Music, 15 East 4th St
The
Monster**, 80 Grove St
Otto’s
Shrunken Head**, 538 E 14th
St
Pacha, 618 W 46th St, bet 11th and 12th
The
Porch, 115 Avenue C, bet 7th and
8th
Solas**, 232 East 9th St.
55 Bar**, 55 Christopher St
The
Duplex, 61 Christopher St
Lakeside
Lounge**, 162 Avenue B
Beauty
Bar**, 213 East 14th
St.
Hill
Country, 30 W 26 St.
Fat
Cat, 75 Christopher St (Fri/Sat
after 10:30pm only 21+ admitted; before 10:30, 18 ok)
Katra**, 217 Bowery
Jimmy’s
No 43, 43 East 7th St
Kenny’s
Castaways, 157 Bleecker, (note: occasional cover charge)
Williamsburg/Brooklyn
Zebulon**, 258 Wythe St
Pete’s Candy Store**,
709 Lorimer Ave NOTE: sometimes there is
a cover charge
Beauty
Bar**, 921 Broadway at Melrose
St, Bushwick
**21 +
COMEDY CLUBS
Another Editor’s Note: Last year many of you requested more comedy
clubs, so over the summer I (with a lot of help from Ivana) prepared the
following listing. As you explore the
city if you come upon other, even funnier free venues, please send me info so I
can update my list.
ASSSSCAT 3000 @ Upright Citizens Brigade
Theatre. 307 W 26th
St between Eighth and Ninth Aves.
@Sunday, 9:30pm (a limited number
of tickets are distributed at 8:15pm). Get
in line early to score free tickets to this indefatigable improv show,
featuring stars from Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. 18+
Beauty Bar Comedy @ 231 E 14th
St between Second and Third Aves @ Sunday,
9:00pm
Over several years, Vince Averill and Jesse Popp have built a following at this East Village bar, which books some of the local scene’s brightest rising stars. 21+
Over several years, Vince Averill and Jesse Popp have built a following at this East Village bar, which books some of the local scene’s brightest rising stars. 21+
Big Black Car @ Peoples Improv Theater, 154 W 29th
St between Sixth and Seventh Aves, second floor. @Wednesday, 8:00pm.
The PIT’s best and oldest group improvises every week, with a different house team opening. Book early—or just come early. The whole night of shows, from 7 to 11pm, is free and sells out fast. 18+
The PIT’s best and oldest group improvises every week, with a different house team opening. Book early—or just come early. The whole night of shows, from 7 to 11pm, is free and sells out fast. 18+
Big Terrific at Cameo, 93 North 6th St between Berry St and Wythe
Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. @Wednesday, 8:00pm.
New-breed darlings of the alt scene Max Silvestri, Gabe Liedman and occasionally Jenny Slate (who’s now on SNL) showcase a collection of cable-familiar faces and solid up-and-comers at their quirky, adorable show. 18+
New-breed darlings of the alt scene Max Silvestri, Gabe Liedman and occasionally Jenny Slate (who’s now on SNL) showcase a collection of cable-familiar faces and solid up-and-comers at their quirky, adorable show. 18+
Comedy at KFBK Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave at Havemeyer St,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. @ Sunday, 9:00pm
The smooth and delightfully understated Hannibal Buress, who’s currently in his first season writing for SNL, finds time to bring friends and cohorts out to this new Brooklyn base of a Manhattan staple. 18+ (comedy show only through Dec 25)
The smooth and delightfully understated Hannibal Buress, who’s currently in his first season writing for SNL, finds time to bring friends and cohorts out to this new Brooklyn base of a Manhattan staple. 18+ (comedy show only through Dec 25)
Comedy as a Second Language @Kabin, 92 Second
Ave between 5th and 6th Sts @Thursday,
9:00pm
Grab a shot of Jameson and a pint for Sean Patton and Chesley Calloway’s down-and-dirty stand-up showcase of new talent: The wilder and more frazzled the audience is, the better. 18+ (ends Dec 28)
Grab a shot of Jameson and a pint for Sean Patton and Chesley Calloway’s down-and-dirty stand-up showcase of new talent: The wilder and more frazzled the audience is, the better. 18+ (ends Dec 28)
Whiplash @ Upright Citizens Brigade
Theatre, 307 W 26th
St between Eighth and Ninth Aves. @ Mon 11:00pm.
This show has no business being free: Leo Allen hosts
some of the biggest names in stand-up, many of whom are in town for high-paying
gigs and come by to surprise audiences unannounced. 18+
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