Events & Festivals

Your guide to the best events and festivals in NYC

Things to do

The top New York Festivals you should know

From street-shuttering parades to eye-catching art fairs, here are the New York festivals to keep on your radar

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Things to do in New York today

All you could ever need today and more!

Art

The top five New York art shows this week

You won’t want to miss this week's New York art shows

Movies

The best movie events in New York this week

Every week, we round up the best movie events happening outside New York’s multiplexes

Music

The best parties in NYC this week

Check out the best parties in NYC, from club nights to label takeovers

This Week in New York: Critics' picks

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Empress Of

Floating electronic beats, meticulously layered samples and dream-pop melodies—sounds like a common synth-pop formula these days, but as Empress Of,...

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Tessa Skara: High Notes

Tessa Skara takes leave of her duties as intergalactic hard rock superstar and rockets down to Brooklyn for this banging queer variety show. Blast off...

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LGBT

Queerball

Tim Dunn, gay comedy's burgeoning papa bear, welcomes LGBTQ performers from across the spectrum to his magical kingdom of funny delights. Witness musical...

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Comedy

Get Reel

At their monthly show, scream queens Max Wittert and Joe Castle Baker invite comedians to provide live, totally bananas voice overs for movie...

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Webster Hall is set to reopen in late April with these performers

Webster Hall is officially set to reopen in April with some big names. Back in August 2017, the East Village and countless NYU undergrads lost one of their...

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See this year's Best Picture nominees in the theater before Oscars Sunday

Back during 2018's gilded Moviepass age, when we were all popping champagne and seeing movies for practically nothing, we could slide in and out of Oscars...

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If you don't love this pasta, Eataly will give it to you for free

Ordering this pasta is a win-win. Eataly Chef Michael Nogera had five ingredients on his desk—and mind—for the past six weeks: olive oil, salt, jarred...

NYC is becoming a playground for (actually cool) sponsored gigs

Like a lot of music snobs, I used to scoff at the mere idea of sponsored gigs. But that was back when “branded experience” was shorthand for “slapping a logo...