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Audra McDonald
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Anyone sore at Audra MacDonald for bailing on the now-embalmed Private Practice to focus on her singing career really should experience the electric magic that happens when this five-time Tony Award winner takes the stage and approaches a microphone. Simply put, she inhabits and embodies... More >> |
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| Flushing | Music |
Theo Katzman+Joey Dosik
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Brooklyn singer-songwriter Theo Katzman is one to watch, soulfully crooning and writing funky and sweet songs that balance the romance of indie with the fun of pop. Between starring in some infectious music videos for his singles (including the dance break-featuring clip for "Brooklyn") and... More >> |
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| East Village | Music |
Living Colour+Tamar-kali
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Even after guitarist Vernon Reid's forward-thinking metal band Living Colour achieved double-platinum status for their 1988 breakthrough debut Vivid, the Black Rock Coalition founder continues raising awareness about other musicians. His latest endeavor, the Stark, Raving, Sane Music Series at... More >> |
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| Harlem | Music |
'Sun Ra Turns 100'
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Yep, the great one arrived in Alabama a century or so ago, and though he left the planet in ’93, his spectacular music is still getting much play from his feisty lieutenant, Marshall Allen, and the revolving door of musicians who populate the Arkestra on any given night. They know all... More >> |
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| West 50s | Music |
Fun Home
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Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening |
Blek le Rat
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Born in Paris in 1951, Blek le Rat first discovered graffiti in New York in the early ’70s and, a decade later, became one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also credited as the first to use life-size stencils—his signature stencil being a rat silhouette. As critic Carlo... More >> |
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| Chelsea | Arts, Art - Galleries |
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Lil Bub’s Lil Book
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Mike Bridavsky did the only thing he could when he adopted a special kitty who had several genetic mutations: He put her cute mug on the Internet. And there’s no denying Bub’s cuteness, which is why Reddit and other sites embraced this cat with stubby legs, no teeth, and a tongue... More >> |
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| Union Square | Literary Events |
All the Faces of the Moon
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“A living theatrical novel set against a magical vision of New York City,” is how master storyteller Mike Daisey describes his latest show, All the Faces of the Moon. Over 29 consecutive nights, Daisey will perform an entirely different show about NYC’s colorful characters,... More >> |
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| Greenwich Village | Theater |
Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years
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| West 70s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Breakfast With Mugabe
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Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Final Analysis
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Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >> |
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| Garment District | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
Bird Walks
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Bird watching once conjured up images of tramping around in tweeds and breaking for tea and crumpets, but birding is surprisingly popular for a sport that became fashionable in Victorian England. In the late 1980s it was estimated more than 61 million people in North America regularly spent... More >> |
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| Bronx | Recreation, Free Events |
Brooklyn Boulders
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Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Recreation |
1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?
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If you've never been inside the magnificent Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the artist collective Openings is giving you a fun incentive to drop by. Their new show, 1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?, which will be held at the historic church, features the works of 37 artists... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
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At first glance, Dorothea Rockburne’s works look like straightforward lines on a wall, but they are far from simplistic. They are mathematical solutions. Rockburne has said that “drawing is the bones of thought,” and has applied her studies in math and astronomy to her work... More >> |
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| West 50s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
LIC Flea & Food
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You may think that in order to partake in an outdoor flea market you’ll have to head to Brooklyn—well, not anymore. Starting today, and continuing every weekend this summer, Long Island City hosts its very own LIC Flea & Food, with locals offering tasty foods and unique items from... More >> |
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| Long Island City | Shopping, Food and Drink, Fashion and Style, Family Events |
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages
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As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of... More >> |
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| East 80s | Arts, Art - Museums |
Robert Pruitt: "Women"
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In one painting a black woman wears a white, knee-length, feathery skirt paired with red Adidas tennis shoes and a red Adidas windbreaker. She is standing fierce, firm on the ground in a soldier-like pose. This is the work of Houston-based artist Robert Pruitt, which he presents through nearly... More >> |
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| Harlem | Arts, Art - Museums |
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York
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| East Harlem | Photography, Arts, Art - Museums |
Here Is Where We Jump
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It’s been turbulent times at El Museo del Barrio, where they recently cut back on hours and staff and are facing charges of gender discrimination brought by former director Margarita Aguilar. But with their major biennial opening today, all that is put aside to make room for what matters... More >> |
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| East Harlem | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Christian Joy
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When not dreaming up wild outfits for Karen O to rock out in (who could forget the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer in her Indian headdress at the Glastonbury festival?), Christian Joy is busy working on her own outlandish art. The talented designer’s latest show at Secret Project Robot is titled... More >> |
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| Williamsburg | Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries |
Betrayal
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In a recent interview with The New York Times, real-life married couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz seemed as happy as could be: She thinks he’s a great cook, they love to go on luxury vacations, and they relish opportunities to work together. In other words, when they break each... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Opening |
First Date
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Some years ago, composer/lyricist Michael Weiner asked an actress out on a date. She declined (though she later married him) and from this a Broadway musical was born. Weiner has teamed with colleague Alan Zachary and writer Austin Winsberg for this show about all that can go wrong—and... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
