Your perfect Saturday
May 18
Thu May 16 2013
Taste of Tribeca 2013
- Price band: 3/4
Celebrate the downtown 'hood's food scene at this alfresco tasting, benefiting arts education in community schools. A ticket gets you six plates from 75 local restaurants, including neighborhood newcomers Dirty Bird to Go (buttermilk-dipped chicken
- Various locations
- Sat May 18
New York Dance Parade
- Critics choice
- Free
From Broadway at 21st St to St. Marks Pl at Ave A. Subway: N, R to 23rd St. Shake your booty while learning about the cultural history of dance at this march, now in its seventh year. With a chronologically ordered showcase of performances, you’ll
- Various locations
- Sat May 18
Sacred Sites Open House Weekend
- Free
History and architecture buffs will relish the special access afforded them by the New York Landmarks Conservancy this weekend, when more than 30 NYC religious institutions throw open their doors. Explore midtown’s Art Deco–style Temple Emanu-El,
- Various locations
- Until Sun May 19
The Great GoogaMooga
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The cool-kid food-and-music extravaganza is back in Brooklyn for its second year, kicking off with a Friday night concert, headlined by NYC alt-rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Flaming Lips, and a marathon lineup of grub from a whopping 85 joints.
- Prospect Park Prospect Park West to Flatbush Ave, between Prospect Park Southwest and Ocean Ave
- Sun May 19
Electric Daisy Carnival
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
The megafest heads east for its second NYC incursion, coming to a stadium near you—specifically, Citi Field—with a dance-music throwdown of gargantuan proportions. The two-day lineup is very much a mixed bag of electronic-dance-music sounds, with
- Citi Field Roosevelt Ave, at 126th St, 11368
- Until Sat May 18
Lit Crawl Brooklyn
- Critics choice
- Free
This gratis event combines two of Brooklynites’ favorite things—literature and booze—into one multivenue fest. This year’s incarnation includes readings, workshops and plenty of imbibing in venues around Cobble Hill, with organizations including
- Various venues
- Until Sat May 18
Anthony Jeselnik
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
This comic regularly proves—in specials such as Caligula and on his new series, The Jeselnik Offensive—that he can make the crowd love him in spite of themselves. Sure, people want to stare because he's handsome; but his one-liners are so sly and
- Carolines on Broadway 1626 Broadway, between 49th and 50th Sts
- Until Sun May 19
Core Values
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Theater review by Jenna Scherer. Ars Nova (see Off Broadway). By Steven Levenson. Dir. Carolyn Cantor. With Reed Birney, Paul Thureen, Susan Kelechi Watson, Erin Wilhelmi. 1hr 30mins. No intermission. Sing, Muse, of the Great Recession: a dramatic
Courtney Act: Boys Like Me
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The Australian Idol semifinalist and Lady Gaga opening act prepares to take over America, starting with this NYC residency. Catch the gender-bent star now so you can say you were there at the start of something big. For more information, go to
- Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Café 407 W 42nd St, between Ninth and Tenth Aves, downstairs, 10036
- Until Sat May 18
Liars
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Building on the momentum of last year’s electronica-drenched WIXIW, this popular, provocative avant-pop trio returns for a glitzy exclusive at the Met’s Temple of Dendur, and a more conventional romp at Le Poisson Rouge.
- Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St, at Thompson St
- Until Sun May 19
Blkmarket Membership Seven-Year Anniversary Party
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Blkmarket's Taimur and Fahad celebrate seven years of top-tier electronics by spinning in Output's main room, along with an as-of-yet unnamed special guest. (Considering the circumstances, you can assume that the guest actually will be special.) In
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