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Huey Lewis and the News Irving Plaza : 8:00 p.m. May 13
Three decades ago, Huey Lewis and the News were as ubiquitous as Cabbage Patch Kids, thanks to upbeat, no-frills-rock singles like “Heart and Soul,” “I Want a New Drug,” and “If This Is It.” They had a sort of family-friendly optimism and their big sax solos... More >>
East Village	Music

Marissa Nadler Saint Vitus : 8:00 p.m. May 13
Although Marissa Nadler’s sparse acoustic folk doesn’t seem like a natural fit for the confines of Brooklyn’s bona-fide metal lair Saint Vitus, she espouses a sort of dark, nightmarish quality, teleported from the backroom some Black Lodge in David Lynch’s imagination,... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington New School : 8:30 p.m. May 13
In 2011, 40-year-old Tim Hetherington was photographing combat in Libya when he was killed alongside fellow photographer Chris Hondros. Known for his attention to people rather than combat, Hetherington brought an artist’s eye to his war photography. His friend, writer-director Sebastian... More >>
Flatiron	Film - Picks

Matthew E. White Bowery Ballroom : 9:00 p.m. May 13
The guitarist-founder of Richmond, Virginia, slipstream jazz combo Fight the Big Bull has morphed into a '70s channeling blue-eyed soul singer—a bearish, white Barry White, if you will. His solo debut was one of last year's best, and his nine-piece group stirs together gospel, reggae, and... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

Iron & Wine Beacon Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 14
Sam Beam has long lingered in the current folk landscape as an example of an artist who is doing it right, drawing on the rich legacy of the genre's past while using softly sung poetics to explore his own subconscious and fight his own demons. On his past two albums, Beam has expanded his... More >>
West 70s	Music

The Killers Madison Square Garden : 8:00 p.m. May 14
From Hot Fuss on, the Killers have explored sounds in massively unique waves more than most bands dare to. The dance-y electropop of their debut somehow bled into the Americana vibe of Sam’s Town before traversing the Bowie space fantasy of Day & Age. In their 2012, appropriately titled... More >>
Chelsea	Music

Nico Muhly Le Poisson Rouge : 9:30 p.m. May 14
The Social Network meets Carmen in “Two Boys,” composer Nico Muhly's Metropolitan Opera debut, which premieres in October 2013 following a several year development process. A true crime story set against a minimalist backdrop in the tradition of Einstein on the Beach, the plot... More >>
Greenwich Village	Music

'Remembering Mabel & Bobby' Town Hall : 8:00 p.m. May 16
Not that long ago they’d have needed no introduction. Perhaps they do now: She’s Mabel Mercer and he’s Bobby Short; together and separately they presided over Manhattan cabaret let it be known with their joint appearance in this room 45 years back. Pay tribute, Mercer-Short... More >>
West 40s	Music

The Killers Barclays Center : 8:00 p.m. May 18
From Hot Fuss on, the Killers have explored sounds in massively unique waves more than most bands dare to. The dance-y electropop of their debut somehow bled into the Americana vibe of Sam’s Town before traversing the Bowie space fantasy of Day & Age. In their 2012, appropriately titled... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Fleetwood Mac Nikon at Jones Beach Theater : 8:00 p.m. June 22
Sure, Fleetwood Mac recently reissued their 1977 mega-hit album Rumours in hundred-dollar deluxe configurations with T-shirts and posters and a couple droplets of the witch juju Stevie Nicks used to withstand the rise of punk. And sure, the Big Mac has served up over 100 million LPs in sales... More >>
Allerton	Music

Jay DeFeo A Retrospective Whitney Museum Of American Art : 11:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun. until June 2; 1:00 p.m. every Fri. until June 2
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... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Food Book Fair Multiple venues : 12:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5
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... More >>
East Village	Literary Events, Food & Drink

Lloyd Ziff Danziger Gallery : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4
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... More >>
West Village	Photography, Arts, Art - Galleries

Cannibal Ferox Nitehawk Cinema : 11:59 p.m. May 3; 11:59 p.m. May 4
“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... More >>
Williamsburg	Film - Repertory & Special Screenings

Ideas City New Museum of Contemporary Art : 10:00 a.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4
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... More >>
East Village	Music, Festivals, Arts, Art - Museums

The Dance of Death Lucille Lortel Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 4; 2:00 p.m. every Sat. until May 4
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,... More >>
West Village	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

The Last Will June Havoc Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until May 5; 2:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu. until May 5
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... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

The Memory Show The Duke on 42nd Street : 7:00 p.m. every Tue. until May 18; 8:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until May 18; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until May 18
You may not think Alzheimer’s is something to sing about. But the Transport Group politely disagrees. This new musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler, described by its creators as a “comic tragedy,” is a two-person tuner about an adult daughter who returns home to care for her... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Finks Ensemble Studio Theater : 2:00 p.m. every Sat. until May 5; 7:00 p.m. every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5; 5:00 p.m. every Sun. until May 5
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... More >>
West 50s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

Rihanna+A$AP Rocky Barclays Center : 8:00 p.m. May 4; 8:00 p.m. May 5
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... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Bill McHenry Quartet Village Vanguard : 9:00 p.m. daily until May 5
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... More >>
West Village	Music

'Lyrics & Lyricists' w/ Jerome Kern 92nd Street Y : 8:00 p.m. May 4; 2:00 p.m. May 5; 2:00 p.m. May 6
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... More >>
East 90s	Music

Gutai: Splendid Playground Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 8
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... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums

Boris Le Poisson Rouge : 7:00 p.m. May 6; 7:00 p.m. May 7
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... More >>
Greenwich Village	Music

Harvey Kurtzman Society of Illustrators : 10:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until May 11; 12:00 p.m. every Sat.
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... More >>
East 60s	Arts