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Allen Toussaint
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Allen Toussaint’s songs were once defined by the kind of slippery funk that could only be found in New Orleans—50 variations of backbeat girding hits by Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, and other regional heroes. On the new Songbook album and DVD, he gives us a one-man career retrospective... More >> |
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| East Village | Music |
Rookie Magazine's Yearbook 2 launch party
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Tavi Gevinson is the ultimate cool girl. In 2008, the 11-year-old started the fashion blog Style Rookie. Three years later, she sported silver hair while chatting up Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld at New York Fashion Week. Now she’s in charge of Rookie, an online magazine written... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music, Literary Events, Fashion and Style, Arts |
Spencer Day
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He’s a lapsed Mormon back in the city that he visits far too infrequently, he’s calling this musical return “Spencer Day’s One-Man Show: Day Trippin’.” Bright and good-looking, he’s drawn his influences from all over the place and gives some hints... More >> |
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| East Village | Music |
Goblin+Secret Chiefs 3
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The Italian progressive rockers formerly known as the Cherry Five entered horror-movie history in 1975 when, Pink Floyd being unavailable, Goblin stepped in at the last minute to score Dario Argento’s ultraviolent giallo classic Profondo Rosso. Combining the technical smarts of bands like... More >> |
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| Brooklyn | Music |
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 |
Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play
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If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
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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 |
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 |
Handball
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| East Village | Recreation |
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 |
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 |
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York
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| East Harlem | Photography, 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 |
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 |
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
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Is the 13th step to create a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? Perhaps not, but Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey have received plaudits for this show about a night in 1935 when a stockbroker and a businessman helped talk each other out of taking a drink. Seth Gordon directs a... More >> |
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| Soho | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
Kinky Boots
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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... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Matilda: The Musical
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Take a celebrated novel about a tiny tot with telekinesis. Add a cult songwriter and a famously dark playwright. And what do you get? Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story, one of the most spiky, tender, and delightful children’s entertainments to... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Once
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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 continues this fine romance, as it includes the original cast and songs in this tale of a... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Pippin
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They’ve got magic to do, just for you. Also tumbling, contortion, acrobatics, trapeze, and silk work. In Diane Paulus’s reimagining of Stephen Schwartz’s echt-‘70s musical, young Pippin (Matthew James Thomas) wanders around a medieval French landscape that looks a lot... More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Rock of Ages
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Rock of Ages, the celebrated hymn based on First Corinthians, will not appear in this Broadway musical. Instead expect the hits of Foreigner, Styx, Pat Benatar, and Journey. The nominal plot centers on a romance conducted in the unsalubrious environs of the Sunset Strip circa 1987. More >> |
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| West 40s | Theater, Broadway: Now Playing |
Fetch Clay, Make Man
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In May 1965, the young heavyweight champ Cassius Clay was nearing one of his most anticipated fights when he invited the washed-up actor Stepin Fetchit into his entourage. But why? Will Power’s new drama, Fetch Clay, Make Man, concerns how this unlikely pair became friends despite their... More >> |
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| East Village | Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing |
