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    Thursday, May 02
  • Too $hort+Greedy
    Stage 48

    When Too $hort, the Oakland legend who started hustling tapes way back in 1983, first performed in New York City, he was almost booed off the stage. Things done changed, of course, and these days $hort classics like “Burn Rubber” and “Blow the Whistle” get play on the Rub and Hot 97 and have been co-signed by 50 Cent and Jay-Z, so expect a warmer welcome when he... Read more about this event >>
  • Johnny Marr and the Healers+Alamar
    Irving Plaza

    Thursday, May 2 Johnny Marr @ Irving Plaza With the release of Johnny Marr’s first true solo album, The Messenger, the alt-rock guitar icon sounds as though he’s finally rediscovered his interest in the jangly, dynamic passion plays he pioneered with the Smiths. And while the record undeniably lacks the tempestuous Shakespearean drama his former foil Morrissey brought to that... Read more about this event >>
  • Jack Ferver
    Abrons Arts Center

    Experimental choreographer-performer Jack Ferver loves to make movies his own. His past works have been inspired by films such as Return to Oz, Cleopatra, and Black Swan (for that one, he camped it up as Mila Kunis). His latest piece, All of a Sudden, is based on the film Suddenly, Last Summer (originally a play by Tennessee Williams), which concerns a young woman (Elizabeth Taylor) who goes... Read more about this event >>
  • Tera Melos+TTNG
    Knitting Factory Brooklyn

    Math rock with prog overtones is this Sacramento trio's forte, and they succeed where many of their contemporaries don't in part because they figured out that ever-shifting time signatures and sublime dynamics mean nothing if the tunes aren't there. On one release after another, its melodic instincts have grown stronger, and there has been a greater willingness to evolve beyond complex... Read more about this event >>
  • Fred Falke+Foals+Chrome Sparks+Jorge Bonjour
    Output

    The BMF of the “Alan Braxe and Friends” featured in the classic french house album The Upper Cuts, Fred Falke’s most known filter art is with his other half. In addition to original work, the duo are deft remixers, accentuating a song’s strengths and turning them into epic dancefloor masterpieces (see: either of their takes on Kelis’ “Bossy”). But... Read more about this event >>
  • Ideas City
    New Museum of Contemporary Art

    New Yorkers love to find things to complain about, but how often do we provide real solutions? For the next four days, the New Museum turns New York City into Ideas City, a biennial festival of conferences, workshops, and more than 100 independent projects and public events where ideas and creative fixes can be shared. It starts today with a keynote address by Joi Ito, director of the MIT... Read more about this event >>
  • Kinky Boots
    Al Hirschfeld Theatre

    Some of us have quite enough trouble 
simply walking in six-inch stilettos. But to sing and dance and act in them? Really, someone should hand out honorary Tonys to the Kinky Boots cast just for trying. This new tuner draws its inspiration from a 
recent British film, itself based on the real-life story of an East Midlands shoe factory that reinvented itself as the chief... Read more about this event >>
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    Friday, May 03
  • Sonia M'barek
    French Institute Alliance Francaise

    This magnificent Tunisian singer performs the Tunisian court music known as mulaf, Arabic classical music, and songs based on the poetry of Tunisia’s Aboulkacem Chebbi, Spain's Gabriel Garcia Lorca, Turkey's Nâzim Hikmet, and France's Jacques Prévert. Philadelphia's Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture ensemble will accompany M'barek, whose appearance kicks off the French Institute... Read more about this event >>
  • Kronos Quartet
    Carnegie Hall

    For the past four decades, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has highlighted works by contemporary classical composers. Tonight, as part of Carnegie Hall’s My Time, My Music program, it’s performing the world premiere of You Know Me From Here, a piece by Brooklyn composer Missy Mazzoli, who has been creating lush, dramatic, and vibrant works for the past decade or so. The... Read more about this event >>
  • El Anatsui
    Brooklyn Museum

    For years, the Nigerian artist El Anatsui was highly regarded for his abstract wood sculptures. But he didn’t really receive the acclaim he deserved in the mainstream until he showed his elegant metal tapestries made from flattened aluminum bottle tops at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Stitched together with copper wire, the impressive works from far away almost look like they're made of... Read more about this event >>
  • Food Book Fair
    Multiple venues

    Though eating is vital to human existence, cookbooks no longer represent the zenith of culinary literature. The Food Book Fair wants to prove, celebrate, and savor the fact that cooking has become so much more than just a joy, or a recipe to be followed. (Sorry, Julia.) Held in three locations in Brooklyn, the fair—in a remarkable display of modesty—features more than 200 books,... Read more about this event >>
  • Jay DeFeo A Retrospective
    Whitney Museum Of American Art

    In 1958, the late artist Jay DeFeo went to work on a new project guided only by, what she called, “an idea that had a center to it.” Eight years and 2,300 pounds later, her enormous painting The Rose, one of her most famous works, was finished. After being forklifted out of her San Francisco studio through the window of her building, the work was shown only a few times until it... Read more about this event >>
  • Collapse
    City Center Theater

    You can’t fault Allison Moore for originality. Few playwrights would consider a deadly bridge collapse and post-traumatic stress disorder as the spark for a comedy, but that’s just what she’s done. In this Women’s Project production, directed by Jackson Gay, Hannah must manage a flailing career, an erratic sister, and a traumatized spouse. Read more about this event >>
  • The Nance
    Lyceum Theatre

    Nathan Lane may number among the most talented of our stage entertainers, but not perhaps the most masculine. This makes him an ideal star for Douglas Carter Beane’s new play, about the world of 1930s burlesque and the men and women called upon to play gay in service of comedy. Jack O’Brien directs the vaudeville frolics. Read more about this event >>
  • Cannibal Ferox
    Nitehawk Cinema

    “The mythical lie of Cannibal Ferox was an alibi created to justify the greed and cruelty of the conquistadores,” preaches the young anthropologist as she and her colleagues sail through the Amazon. Oh how quickly she is proven wrong. Within the next hour, any high-minded ideals about colonial racism are demolished by a visual onslaught of humans chowing on the extracted... Read more about this event >>
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    Saturday, May 04
  • Brooklyn Flea Record Fair
    East River State Park

    In what is becoming a nice complement to Record Store Day at the city’s music shops each April, the semiannual Brooklyn Flea Record Fair returns today to East River State Park (at North 7th Street) with a diverse array of vendors and exclusive releases for music obsessives. Labels like Fatcat and Warp sell rare items, like a cassette from indie rockers Paws that isn’t available in... Read more about this event >>
  • Bust Magazine Spring Craftacular
    Pearl Street Plaza and Manhattan Bridge Archway

    We recommend that you start lining up now for the Bust Magazine Spring Craftacular: The first 300 attendees get a free reusable tote bag full of “crafty swag” from some of the festival participants. Can’t get there early? Not to worry, plenty more adorable goods are available for purchase at this outdoor festival celebrating all things indie, local, and handmade. More than... Read more about this event >>
  • Michael Musto’s ’70s Disco Extravaganza
    54 Below

    After the huge success of Michael Musto’s ’70s Disco Extravaganza in the basement of Studio 54 a few months ago, we knew no one would let him get away without an encore performance. And sure enough, he’s back tonight with fabulous sidekicks Snooky and Tish and the groovy sounds of the Elektrik Company. Special guests include Sarah Dash of ’70s girl group Labelle... Read more about this event >>
  • Akufen+Modesty
    TBA Brooklyn

    Brooklyn positioned themselves as jokesters from the outset, with a venue name that comments directly on independent electronic promoters’ tendency to withhold venue information until the day of show. TBA, meanwhile, remains on an burgeoning stretch of Wythe Avenue, and despite the confusion the name might cause, they've been booking top-tier talent. Montreal's Akufen is no different. A... Read more about this event >>
  • 'The Bunker'
    Public Assembly

    Amid the avalanche of shows brought by Red Bull Music Academy and their generous tentacles of corporate sponsorship, the Bunker stands out for programming a night that traverses the electronic music spectrum from severe to whimsical. Andy Stott and Objekt handle the dark stuff without surrendering to austerity, with desiccated soundscapes and whiplash sub-bass. Meanwhile, the durable German... Read more about this event >>
  • Lloyd Ziff
    Danziger Gallery

    In Patti Smith’s National Book Award–winning memoir, Just Kids, the singer-songwriter wrote about her time living with Robert Mapplethorpe in Clinton Hill, where the two young bohemians experimented with various forms of artistic expression. Photographer Lloyd Ziff, a Pratt student along with Mapplethorpe, captured the first glimpses of that magical period from 1968 to 1969:... Read more about this event >>
  • Harvey Kurtzman
    Society of Illustrators

    If you’ve laughed anytime in the past 50 years, you owe Harvey Kurtzman some thanks. Triple-threat Kurtzman (writer, editor, cartoonist) and publisher William Gaines created Mad magazine in 1952, and Kurtzman’s bloody-knuckle satire inspired everyone from R. Crumb to Terry Gilliam to Jon Stewart. Combine that with his evocative and deglamorized depictions of war in Two-Fisted... Read more about this event >>
  • The Dance of Death
    Lucille Lortel Theatre

    Obviously everyone who wishes to be married should be allowed to do so, but is marriage such a desirable institution? Few portraits of it are more pessimistic than this 1900 play by August Strindberg. Red Bull Theater revives this work of malevolent matrimony with Laila Robbins, Daniel Davis, and Derek Smith. Read more about this event >>
  • Finks
    Ensemble Studio Theater

    Joe Gilford: Are you now or have you ever been a playwright? Indeed, he has and in his latest script—produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed by Giovanna Sardelli—he offers a fictional retelling of his parents, Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were both entertainers, and their years spent surviving McCarthy's blacklist. Read more about this event >>
  • Who's Your Daddy?
    Irish Repertory Theatre

    A few years ago, Johnny O’Callaghan, an unemployed queer actor, decided he had to adopt a Ugandan orphan named Odin. Then he created a one-man show about it, which he now brings to the Irish Rep. He takes a spirited spin on questions of sexuality, parenting, and unlikely forms of family. Read more about this event >>
  • 'Lyrics & Lyricists' w/ Jerome Kern
    92nd Street Y

    Jerome Kern wasn’t a lyricist, but he sure as shootin’ worked with some of the Broadway’s top wordsmiths during the several decades he spent as Broadway’s top composer. Oscar Hammerstein, Yip Harburg, Dorothy Fields, and Johnny Mercer all set words to the tunes he produced and then reminded his collaborators they weren’t to change a single note. Appearing, among... Read more about this event >>
  • Rihanna+A$AP Rocky
    Barclays Center

    Seventeen when she released “Pon de Replay,” 19 for “Umbrella,” Rihanna accomplished more in her first two decades than many do in a lifetime. Now 25, the Barbados-born pop star is touring the world in support of “Diamonds,” the ethereal lead single that spent three weeks at No. 1 on the charts, “Pour It Up,” the Mike Will–produced banger... Read more about this event >>
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    Sunday, May 05
  • 2013 TD Five Boro Bike Tour
    Battery Park

    The 2013 TD Five Boro Bike Tour is the biggest bike ride in the U.S. More than 32,000 cyclists ride 40 miles over five bridges with absolutely no worry about cars, and more than 10,000 riders an hour cross the FDR alone during the peak of the race. The tour starts in Lower Manhattan and goes through Central Park, Harlem, back down the FDR to Queens and Brooklyn, finally taking the... Read more about this event >>
  • Cinco de Mayo 5K
    Prospect Park

    Before indulging in tequila and tacos, shape up at the Cinco de Mayo 5K, and compete for a chance to win a trip to Mexico or Puerto Rico. Read more about this event >>
  • Luncha Libre: Thrillist Taco Knockout
    Villain

    Want more than guac and chips?At the Luncha Libre: Thrillist Taco Knockout, chefs serve up creative tacos, while guests participate in tastings, a DIY hot sauce station, and a margarita bar. Read more about this event >>
  • Guactacular
    The Bell House

    At the fifth annual Guactacular, expect 20 homemade guacamole-tastings, a live recording of the Sporkful podcast, and an evening edition featuring local restaurants, chefs, and members of the food community competing for your vote. Read more about this event >>
  • Krishna Bhatt & Anindo Chatterjee
    Peter Norton Symphony Space

    A longtime student of the late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akhbar Khan, sitarist Krishna Bhatt is a brilliant virtuoso of Hindustani music who blends the gayaki (vocal) and tantrakari (instrumental) styles. He has also appeared on crossover albums with saxophonist George Brooks and keyboardist-composer Terry Riley. Anindo Chatterjee is equally renowned for his impeccable tabla... Read more about this event >>
  • Gutai: Splendid Playground
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    One of the most well-known images of the Gutai movement in Japan is that of Saburo Murakami tearing through a row of large frames covered in paper. His Passing Through (1956) embodied the spirit of the group that believed artwork needed to break free from the canvas in order to speak to a new postwar generation. They used everyday objects, such as wood, light bulbs, smoke, sand—you name... Read more about this event >>
  • The Last Will
    June Havoc Theatre

    How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert Brustein will likely answer this question in the ultimate entry in his William Shakespeare trilogy, which shows Will’s retirement and growing illness. Austin Pendleton directs the Stratford-set drama. Read more about this event >>
  • Bill McHenry Quartet
    Village Vanguard

    Expect the band to have its chemistry refined: This is the final half of the tenor saxophonist’s two-week stint. McHenry is an improviser who goes out of his way to dodge a cliché, and he’s built a remarkable outfit—pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Andrew Cyrille—perfectly suited to follow that lead. What binds the four members is intensity,... Read more about this event >>
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    Monday, May 06
  • The Breeders
    Webster Hall

    Call it the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle that never quite was: Post-Pixies art-rock wrecking crew strikes cultural gold on second try then unravels into relative, willful obscurity. That the original Breeders' lineup is anniversary touring 1993 alt-touchstone Last Splash offers long-suffering fans hope for the bombastic, slithering follow-up that never quite was, but while getting... Read more about this event >>
  • Gutai: Splendid Playground
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    One of the most well-known images of the Gutai movement in Japan is that of Saburo Murakami tearing through a row of large frames covered in paper. His Passing Through (1956) embodied the spirit of the group that believed artwork needed to break free from the canvas in order to speak to a new postwar generation. They used everyday objects, such as wood, light bulbs, smoke, sand—you name... Read more about this event >>
  • Boris
    Le Poisson Rouge

    For more than two decades, Tokyo’s experimental music trio Boris has dabbled in drone-metal, hard rock, shoegaze, and pop, all at the whim of Takeshi Ohtani’s double-necked guitar. And at their two-night New York residency, “From the Past, the Present and Through to the Future,” they can demonstrate their range. Tonight consists of “all-time classics,” and... Read more about this event >>
  • Bunty Berman Presents...
    Acorn Theatre

    The New Group has been enjoying a rather lackluster season, but what better show to shake a company out of its doldrums than a musical that borrows Bollywood’s razzle dazzle. The first-rate Ayub Khan Din’s new work tells of a flailing film studio and the producer struggling to keep the cameras running. Read more about this event >>
  • I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers
    Booth Theatre

    Bette Midler has a fine set of teeth, and she’ll use them to play hardheaded “superagent” Sue Mengers. As scripted by celebrated stage and screenwriter John Logan, this one-woman show demonstrates Mengers’s ruthless rise—from childhood poverty to Hollywood power-broking. Read more about this event >>
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    Tuesday, May 07
  • Blutch+David Mazzucchelli
    McNally Jackson Booksellers

    Long past his bravura performances on Daredevil and Batman, David Mazzucchelli has grown in stature with works like 2009’s Asterios Polyp, a stylistic extravaganza that includes an architect’s descent into the underworld. French cartoonist Blutch has been a leading European creator of bandes dessinées for decades, but his new work, So Long, Silver Screen, is the first... Read more about this event >>
  • Peter Murphy+Ours
    Webster Hall

    Even though goth archetypes Bauhaus officially went the way of Bela Lugosi after a short-lived reunion five years ago, their frontman Peter Murphy is determined to keep the funeral pyre burning. Tonight, he and his solo band are performing a program entitled “Mr. Moonlight: Celebrating 35 Years of Bauhaus,” for which he’s playing only songs he wrote with his sometime mates... Read more about this event >>
  • Le1f+Laurel Halo+Venus-X+Spank DJs+The Peronists+Crazy Bitch in a Cave
    The Glasslands Gallery

    Two questions worth posing during the next few weeks, the period when, after 12 years away, the annual Red Bull Music Academy returns to the city: Of all the great upcoming shows and lectures, which ones should I make a point of catching, and what does it mean that so much independent and avant-garde music is underwritten by an energy drink company? For the former, we recommend... Read more about this event >>
  • Little Boots
    Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Though the music of Little Boots easily sits alongside the likes of Kylie Minogue and Katy Perry, her '80s jams are also delivered both a bit more earnestly and with a bit more complexity. In other words, she's the dancefloor version of the girl-next-door, hashing out her heartbreaks and obsessions within a gem-like framework of shiny synths, her glittering soprano and plenty of edgy beats.... Read more about this event >>
  • Kinky Boots
    Al Hirschfeld Theatre

    Some of us have quite enough trouble 
simply walking in six-inch stilettos. But to sing and dance and act in them? Really, someone should hand out honorary Tonys to the Kinky Boots cast just for trying. This new tuner draws its inspiration from a 
recent British film, itself based on the real-life story of an East Midlands shoe factory that reinvented itself as the chief... Read more about this event >>
  • Tim Berne's Snakeoil
    The Stone

    Released last year and titled after his new quartet, the composer-saxophonist's first studio album in an unbelievable eight years (on ECM, surprisingly) suggested a set of controlled experiments in carefully calibrated emotional and musical extremes. Oscar Noriega (clarinets), Matt Mitchell (piano), and Ches Smith (drums) have become seasoned fellow travelers alongside Berne, whose constantly... Read more about this event >>
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