Your perfect Saturday
June 15
Wed Jun 12 2013
Jazz Age Lawn Party
- Critics choice
Bust out your flapper gear and brush up on The Great Gatsby: For this outdoor bash, part of Governors Island is transformed into a Prohibition-era soiree, complete with old-timey touches like ’20s motorcars and functional antique gramophones. Over
- Governors Island Governors Island
- Sat Jun 15 - Sun Jun 16
2013 Savor: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience
- Price band: 3/4
Fill your stein with beer from any one of the 76 national craft brewers at this beerfest. Sudsy offerings from locals like Saranac Brewery and Brooklyn Brewery will be paired with specialty bites by San Francisco chef Adam Dulye (Abbot's Cellar,
- Altman Building 135 W 18th St, between Sixth and Seventh Aves
- Sat Jun 15
Mara Hoffman sample sale
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
242 Elizabeth St between E Houston and Prince Sts. Subway: N, R to Prince St. Fashion-forward summer threads and swimwear are 50 to 80 percent off. Embroidered maxidresses are reduced from $363 to $175, printed shifts are $125 (normally $264); and
- Temporary space
- Sat Jun 15
LIC Flea & Food
- Critics choice
Vintage lovers and gourmands alike will enjoy this open-air bazaar, which organizers hope will become Queens’ answer to the megapopular Brooklyn Flea empire, complete with a view of midtown across the East River. Take a train or ferry (a free bus
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Bryan Cook's L.A. comedy show gives the crowd something it never knew it wanted: sexy literature written by comics about favorite characters—say, Theo Huxtable or Bilbo Baggins—or extant fictional universes. The first five performers read a prepared
- Union Hall 702 Union St, between Fifth and Sixth Aves
- Until Sat Jun 15
Alarm Will Sound
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Alan Pierson and his next-generation chamber orchestra champion one of their own, performing selections from Evensong, a new album on the Cantaloupe label devoted to the music of AWS violinist and violist Caleb Burhans. Also a singer, a looper and a
- Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St, at Thompson St
- Until Sat Jun 15
Black Flag + Good for You
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
To hardcore enthusiasts, it’s been clear for years that there’s more than one Black Flag. Much like the Beatles, the Hermosa Beach, California, punk institution underwent a startling evolution during a career that lasted exactly a decade. Spin the
Chance the Rapper
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
No one wants to be late to the party in terms of “discovering” a new music sensation, certainly not in today’s world of panic-pile-on, next-big-thing Internet hysteria. Given that Chance the Rapper has been building hype steadily since his debut
- Club Europa 98–104 Meserole Ave, at Manhattan Ave
- Until Sat Jun 15
Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Major comedic actors prick the bubbles of celeb autobiographical puffery by performing droll, verbatim readings from stars' memoirs in Eugene Pack’s popular series. The cast this week includes Mario Cantone, Janeane Garofalo, Jane Krakowski and Alan
Powerslug: Classixx + Fred Falke
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
We first fell in love with the West Coast duo of Tyler Blake and Michael David, together known as Classixx, via their low-key, gorgeous remix of Yacht’s “Psychic City” (and loads of other great cuts); that relationship was solidified by the release
- Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St, at Thompson St
- Until Sat Jun 15
Turntables on the Hudson's Fifteenth Anniversary
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Turntables on the Hudson revisits the banks of its liquid namesake to celebrate a decade and a half of high-powered, world-music-tinged party jams and dub-funky good vibes. The shindig sees resident Nickodemus spinning alongside his original TOTH
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