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Summer Salute to Heroes: Memorial Day Weekend Kickoff
- Free
The Intrepid launches its summer programming over Memorial Day weekend, kicking things off with a free screening of classic Cruise flick Top Gun (May 24 at 7:30pm). On May 25 and May 26, watch demonstrations and performances by the U.S. Coast Guard,
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Pier 86, Twelfth Ave, at 46th St, 10036
- Fri May 24 - Tue May 28
John Strausbaugh
- Critics choice
- Free
Former New York Press editor and "Weekend Explorer" columnist Strausbaugh digs deep into local culture with The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues—A History of Greenwich Village. The wise and chatty text gives highlights
Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector
- Price band: 1/4
This doc profiles a number of cinephiles who like collecting the best of the worst movies that exist on VHS. Filmmakers Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic (also the minds behind trash-loving outlets VHShitfest, Horror Boobs and Lunchmeat magazine) will be
- 92YTribeca 200 Hudson St, at Canal St, 10013
- Fri May 24
Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Settling in at Richard Foreman’s Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) is like stepping into the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church circa 1994. The proportions of the Public may be more generous, but the déjà vu is intense: There’s a
- Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
- Thu May 23 - Sun Jun 2
Escort
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Escort is a full-on disco band that plies its trade with zero irony and infinite talent. And the 17-piece outfit is simply amazing when it plays live, which is what it’ll be doing tonight, along with a clutch of DJs including Deee-Lite's Lady Miss
- Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe Aves
- Fri May 24
Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional
- Price band: 3/4
Brooklyn-born, longtime stand-up Quinn, whose straight-talking persona has always been endowed with a keen, analytical intelligence, took on nothing less than the history of the world in his last one-man outing, Long Story Short, which eventually
- Barrow Street Theatre 27 Barrow St, at Seventh Ave South
- Fri May 24
Mike Reed's People, Places and Things
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Mike Reed's hard-swinging freebop quartet People, Places and Things, which both performs the leader's fresh originals and illuminates obscure chapters in the history of Chicago jazz, hits the Village in support of last year's grittily vivacious
- Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St, between Bleecker and W 4th Sts, 10014
- Fri May 24
Frances Ha
- Rated as: 3/5
Daringly plotless and disconnected (“just like my life!” squeals the target audience), Noah Baumbach’s latest, a breeze, feels a lot less self-absorbed than usual, mainly for not having a neurotic at its core. Greta Gerwig, as the title’s
- Various locations
- Fri May 24
!BadAss! Loves Janis
- Critics choice
The alt-burlesque babes of !BadAss!, led by Velocity Chyaldd, head to the East Village to pay tribute to a lady who was a bit of a badass herself, Janis Joplin. Juliet Jeske channels the Jack-chugging singer as the night's host, with performances
- Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, 10003
- Fri May 24
ReSolute: Bpitch Control Showcase with Ellen Allien + Camea + Thomas Muller + Safety Scissors
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The house and techno lovers of ReSolute are back at a secret location, this time hosting the pioneering Berlin label Bpitch Control. The label's headmistress, Ellen Allien, has a style that fluctuates between introspective moodiness and dance-floor
- Location TBA
- Fri May 24
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