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This year, the annual holiday includes WorldPride 2019 and the Stonewall 50th anniversary.
Let the bald eagles fly and the red, white and blue bikini tops shine!
Every summer, the Public Theater produces a beloved NYC democratic tradition: Shakespeare in the Park.
For New York music fans, SummerStage is always one of the highlights of the summer-concerts calendar.
The sun is finally out and teasing you to get out and have some fun!
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The perfect 4th of July party in NYC serves scrumptious grub and delicious cocktails—beer and wine, too—on a rooftop with unobstructed views of the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks. Before all you procrastinators make last-minute reservations at bars and restaurants that—by some miracle—still have openings (good luck), let us suggest an epic solution: Reserve your spot on Time Out Market New York's Rooftop Terrace (in Dumbo, Brooklyn) to experience all the above! That’s right, party people. Time Out Market’s Rooftop with stunning waterfront views is taking reservations for an exclusive party during America’s birthday celebration. We offer tables of 4, 8, 10, 12, and 16, which at $200 per person, your guests receive a wristband that grants access to our fifth floor bar and rooftop restaurants ($100 of which goes on a card for you to use on food and drink) between the hours of 6pm and 10pm.Since Macy’s 4th of July fireworks are set off at the Brooklyn Bridge this year (starting at 9:25pm), you and your friends are in for an unreal viewing area for what is expected to be the biggest pyrotechnics display to-date. Interested? Click here to book now. All guests must be 21+ and over. This is going to be epic.
Theater review by Adam Feldman Here’s my advice: Go to hell. And by hell, of course, I mean Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell’s fizzy, moody, thrilling new Broadway musical. Ostensibly, at least, the show is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes to the land of the dead in hopes of retrieving girl, boy loses girl again. “It’s an old song,” sings our narrator, the messenger god Hermes (André De Shields, a master of arch razzle-dazzle). “And we’re gonna sing it again.” But it’s the newness of Mitchell’s musical account—and Rachel Chavkin’s gracefully dynamic staging—that bring this old story to quivering life. In a New Orleans–style bar, hardened waif Eurydice (Eva Noblezada) falls for Orpheus (Reeve Carney), a busboy with an otherworldly high-tenor voice who is working, like Roger in Rent, toward writing one perfect song. But dreams don’t pay the bills, so the desperate Eurydice—taunted by the Fates in three-part jazz harmony—opts to sell her soul to the underworld overlord Hades (Patrick Page, intoning jaded come-ons in his unique sub-sepulchral growl, like a malevolent Leonard Cohen). Soon she is forced, by contract, into the ranks of the leather-clad grunts of Hades’s filthy factory city; if not actually dead, she is “dead to the world anyway.” This Hades is a drawling capitalist patriarch who keeps his minions loyal by giving them the minimum they need to survive. (“The enemy is poverty,” he sings to them i
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Whether you favor beer bars or serious cocktail bars; a beer-and-shot special or a transporting glass of wine, NYC has a game-changing bar to slake your thirst. To narrow down the endless options, we’ve compiled this list of the 50 best bars in NYC right now. From hot new barrooms to tried-and-true staples in every neighborhood, these are the kind of places that beg you to stick around for another round. And if you are looking for more of the best, here are the best restaurants in NYC. Drank somewhere on this list and loved it? Share it with the hashtag #TimeOutDrinkList. You can also find out more about how Time Out makes recommendations and reviews bars here.
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