Your perfect Sunday
June 16
Wed Jun 12 2013
Sud de France Tasting Table at Donna
- Price band: 3/4
Max Sussman (formerly of Roberta's) takes on the cuisine of France's Languedoc-Roussillon region with this boozy brunch at the Williamsburg cocktail drinkery. As part of the fifth annual Sud de France Festival, the chef will offer cassoulet-style
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
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 Aug 17 - Sun Aug 18
Bloomsday on Broadway
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The most vaunted of the ongoing Bloomsday events is the 32nd annual marathon reading of James Joyce's massive, modern and mesmerizing Ulysses. The first production without Symphony Space founding artistic director Isaiah Sheffer is bound to be a
- Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th St, 10025
- Sun Jun 16
If You Build It
- Critics choice
Local Kara Klenk has wit and pluck, but she can also program a stand-up showcase.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The company's first Lincoln Center season in 13 years showcases Four Corners, a new work created by Ronald K. Brown. Other programs include choreography by Garth Fagan, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin and artistic director Robert Battle, as well as
- David H. Koch Theater (at Lincoln Center) 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, at 63rd St
- Until Sun Jun 16
Planet Connections Gala
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity raises money for the victim-services agency Safe Horizon in a benefit evening that features new one-act plays by Neil LaBute, John Patrick Shanley and Winter Miller. Estelle Parsons, Celia Keenan-Bolger and
- Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W 42nd St, at Tenth Ave
- Until Sun Jun 16
Headmaster No. 5 New York Launch Party
- Critics choice
- Free
The Providence-based queer art zine Headmaster returns to town to celebrate its latest edition, which includes work by New Yorkers Slava Mogutin, Ross Bleckner and Chris Bogia. Buddies' DJ Damian spins.
- No Malice Palace 197 E 3rd St, between Aves A and B
- Sun Jun 16
Solange + Petite Noir + Cable + My Midnight Heart
- Critics choice
- Free
Northside Festival. Known for years as Beyoncé’s little sister, Solange finally emerged as a serious musical contender with the release of 2012’s True. Helped by writer-producer Dev Hynes, she created an understated sonic palette that’s part ’70s
- McCarren Park Bayard St to Nassau Ave, between Leonard and North 12 Sts
- Until Sun Jun 16
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
Bang on a Can Marathon
- Critics choice
- Free
Relocated this year due to renovations at its usual haunts, and slightly shortened as a result, the mighty Marathon soldiers on with a nine-hour edition that still covers more stylistic waterfront than almost anyone else's entire season. Among the
- Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University 3 Spruce St, between Gold St and Park Row
- Sun Jun 16
Light Asylum + Young Magic + Psychic Twin + O Paradiso + Adventure
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Northside Festival. Brooklyn’s Light Asylum layers ’80s-style vocals over dreamy synth-pop and recently issued its eponymous debut on Mexican Summer. From its moniker to its lyrics, the band is committed to antagonisms, offering swirling epics that
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