Sunday, May 27
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Spring has finally arrived, and if you didn’t have enough shows, DJ nights, and television episodes to cram into your weekend before, Sunday afternoon is now officially fair game for a whole season of dance-party brunches. Today, Justin Cartin and Eamon Harkin of Mr. Saturday Night toast the occasion with their first Mr. Sunday, which aims to have the cozy Gowanus Grove dancing until... More >>
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Philip Jung and Patrick Bodmer’s Get Physical dominated the past 10 years with releases by heavyweight artists including Booka Shade, DJ T, and themselves, under the pseudonym M.A.N.D.Y. Either way, the Frankfurt-via-Berlin duo knows how to curate a tech-house set: Tom Middleton is classically trained, well-versed in sound design (most recently setting up Yotel), and has produced... More >>
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The Walking Dead won’t return to TV until the fall, but thankfully for those with a blood-and-guts craving that just won’t quit, they’ll be ambling, slouching, and swaggering their way through Brooklyn this evening. The sixth annual spring edition of the NYC Zombie Crawl returns to Williamsburg, where all the jerky-limbed stumbling, mob mentality, insatiable thirst, and... More >>
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Mark Stewart the guitarist (as opposed to Mark Steward the Pop Group vocalist or Mark Steward the Passing Strange composer) plays to the middle-outside as a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, to the middle-inside as Paul Simon's longtime stagehand, and to the lunatic fringe as half of post-P. D. Q. Bach parodists the Polygraph Lounge. And only last week I espied him toodling a... More >>
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You know when people ask, “Know of any good parties happening tonight?” This time, you can reply with confidence and say, “Um, hell yeah!” Tonight, Oh! You Pretty Things hosts the New Romantic Ball II, its second all-night rager devoted to “the children of glam,” the Blitz Kids, who launched the New Romantic movement in London, which had clubgoers in the... More >>
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This weekly party at tiny Vauxhall bar the Eagle is up there with Optimo (Espacio) and Berghain/Panoramabar on the list of internationally renowned good times. For the past eight years Jim Stanton, James Hillard, Filthy Luka and Severino have been throwing Horse Meat Disco, a “queer party for everyone” that revels in disco, funk, electro and garage. HAWKINS More >>
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Some of the most influential taste-makers since the Medici, the Stein clan—Gertrude, Leo, and Michael, plus his wife, Sarah—collected Cézanne, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among other groundbreaking artists, and introduced Picasso to Matisse, initiating a lifelong friendship and rivalry. The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde will include... More >>
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Prisons are rarely lauded for their kindness, clemency, and fine conditions and Alcatraz certainly wasn’t a model of the form. Dan Gordon’s play, based on his documentary, draws on a law case that helped to reveal the appalling conditions at the prison. Chad Kimball plays an inmate; Guy Burnet the attorney assigned to him. More >>
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Audiences didn’t fall slowly for New York Theatre Workshop’s adaptation of the much-loved indie film Once. Despite mixed notices, crowds fell quickly, and they fell hard. The Broadway transfer should continue this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale of a luckless Irish busker and the Czech immigrant who inspires him. More >>
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