Your perfect Friday
June 21
Wed Jun 19 2013
Air Sex World Championships
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Just like in an air-guitar tourney, this competition lets you test your skills playing your imaginary…um…instrument. Pick out a tune, hop on stage and show the hundreds of spectators just how you do it. Comedian Chris Trew hosts. To compete, e-mail
- The Cutting Room 44 E 32nd St, between Madison Ave and Park Ave South , 10016
- Fri Jun 21
Make Music New York
- Critics choice
- Free
The first official day of summer gets off to a tuneful start, with musicians swarming sidewalks, parks and other outdoor spots to serenade New Yorkers in all five boroughs throughout the day. Notable shows this year include a performance of Song
- Various locations
- Fri Jun 21
Summer Solstice Garden Tour
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Discover the green spaces between the city’s concrete edifices at this tour. Explore the hideaways of the East Village, where participants can get the buzz on NYC’s beekeeping community from Green Oasis or learn how Gothamites compost with
- Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space 155 Ave C , between 9th and 10th Sts , 10009
- Fri Jun 21
Greg Johnson: One Night Only
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Prolific blogger, gleeful Twitterer and funny local fixture Greg Johnson exhibits a combo of smarts and amiability every time he steps onstage. Anyone unfamiliar might start with Web series Stand Up Apartment, which began as a sort of Shit Comics
- Union Hall 702 Union St, between Fifth and Sixth Aves
- Fri Jun 21
David Johansen
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
David Johansen wears many hats: He became a punk legend singing in the New York Dolls in the ’70s, conceived pop persona Buster Poindexter in the ’80s, and attracted a cult singing folk songs as David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. Having recently
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center 1000 Richmond Terr, between Snug Harbor Rd and Tysen St
- Fri Jun 21
Aberdeen IronBirds vs. Brooklyn Cyclones: “Should Have Stopped at One Night”
- Critics choice
Besides playing baseball, the Cyclones—Brooklyn's Mets-affiliated A League team—send up all sorts of things that should have probably ended after one night. Between innings, catch clips from bad movie sequels, failed second singles by one-hit
Verboten and Fixed: Simian Mobile Disco
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The Verboten crew teams with the Fixed fiesta to host James Ford and James Anthony Shaw—perhaps slightly better known as the U.K.’s Simian Mobile Disco, masters of hook-stuffed, full-throttle indie-electro. They'll be laying down a hybrid live-DJ
- SRB Brooklyn 177 Second Ave, between 13th and 14th Sts
- Fri Jun 21
Man or Astro-Man? + Jacuzzi Boys
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Reunited since 2010, Man or Astro-man? is the Southern surf-rock band that performed through the '90s, often garbed as spacemen and nerds. The group was always funny, in a Devo sense, but its surf songs meant business, and tonight the chaps plug a
- Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Ave, at North 11th St, 11211
- Fri Jun 21
Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
This up-and-coming South African comic, who made a splash on The Tonight Show in January, exhibits an easy and approachable demeanor that's unquestionably sharp. This hour of stand-up presents some of his views on his homeland, race and the
- 45 Bleecker 45 Bleecker St, between Lafayette and Mott Sts, 10012
- Fri Jun 21
Summer Solstice Celebration
- Critics choice
- Free
Pack a picnic and spread out at this year’s solstice bash at Socrates Sculpture Park. Join the drum circle and pound rhythms along with the Toca & Alé Alé Drummers while urban shaman Mama Donna leads a ritual ceremony at sunset. Design your own
- Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Blvd, at Broadway
- Fri Jun 21
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