Day: July 2, 2019

Garry Winogrand Color Installation at the Brooklyn Museum
Arts

July Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Comedy Every Tuesday in Williamsburg enjoy some free beer from 8-8:30pm as Ambush Comedy (hosted by Lucas Connolly and David Piccolomini) performs in the back of a Two Boots Pizza joint. Free. 558 Driggs Ave. The Bell House hosts “Oh, Such a Huge Show, Oh!” The Comedy/Variety show returns July 6 for a benefit performance for The Young Center for […]

Entertainment

Recess Under the Arch: Come Out and Play, New York’s long-running festival of street games and general silliness comes to DUMBO

Even by New York standards, Nick Fortugno has a radical idea. In a city where people are notoriously loath to make eye contact or take out their earbuds, he wants New Yorkers to run around and be ridiculous in public. Fortugno, 44, is a co-founder of the Come Out and Play Festival, an annual celebration of street games that’s been […]

Food at Pioneer Works
Food, Pioneer Works, Red Hook News

Pioneer Works’ Community Lunch is the best deal in town

From May to September, typically on the second Wednesday of the month, the arts organization Pioneer Works hosts $5 first-come-first-served lunches in its garden at 159 Pioneer Street. The series started in 2017, but I went for the first time this June. For each gathering, Pioneer Works hires a new chef to cater the event. When I attended, the food […]

Arts, Theater, Uncategorized

Montagues, Capulets, Fords, and Chevys: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot celebrates its 25th season on the Lower East Side

The plays are some of the greatest ever written in the English language. The venue is a product of necessity, opportunism, and the quirks of New York real estate. This July marks the 25th anniversary of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the annual production of the Bard’s plays that is exactly what it sounds like. Produced by local theater group […]

The Bar at Dirty Precious
Bars, Gowanus, Uncategorized

Meet me in Gowanus

Question: “Where should we meet for drinks?” Answer: Gowanus Beat the heat and bask in the toxic fumes of Brooklyn’s best-kept secret. Gowanus exists right between the middle of nowhere and the middle of everything. The constant growl of the F/G train, low-to-the-ground buildings, and a general air of unfinished business has given the sprawling central Brooklyn neighborhood a bad […]

David Sharps
Waterfront

David Sharps on 25 Years of the Waterfront Museum

Red Hook residents know David Sharps as the founder, owner and full-time resident of the Waterfront Museum. Housed on Lehigh Valley Barge #79, docked at the end of Conover Street, the museum celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. What they may not know is that his years on the Red Hook waterfront are just the most recent chapter in an […]

Arts, Film

“Booksmart”: Coming of Age with Matching Jumpsuits and Alanis Morissette Karaoke

We’re all familiar with the “One Crazy Night” format immortalized by classics such as “Dazed and Confused” and “American Graffiti.” The teen movie canon welcomed the newest member of the Class of 2019 this summer, “Booksmart.” Olivia Wilde’s (you know her from “The O.C.”, “Tron,” or a number of semi-forgettable romcom-adjacent films of the 2000s) directorial debut kicks into gear […]

Promo photo from "Yesterday"
Arts, Film

Imagine There’s No Beatles: Review of ‘Yesterday’

Did somebody say High Concept? After a conk on the head (during a mysterious global blackout, no less), Jack Malik, played by th talented Himesh Patel, awakens to a world that never knew The Beatles. He alone, it seems, is aware of their very existence. He even Googles them. Nothing! Jack’s a musician, can play a few Beatles numbers, and […]

Mark Jupiter gallery
Arts

Art Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

It was a beautiful New York early summer day, not too hot with a refreshing light breeze. You know, the kind we have before it gets unbearably hot and sticky. Having finished a quick bite with a friend, we decided to take the long way from Wall Street to check out a new gallery opening in Brooklyn. Crossing the Brooklyn […]

1001sur at the Target Margin theater
Theater

Scheherezade (& Her Sister) Shushed in Sunset Park

Last June, Sunset Park’s Target Margin Theater commissioned the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company, The Million Underscores, to stage “1001SUR” as part of its three-play festival News of the Strange Lab, which reimagines the classic story of The One Thousand and One Nights. “1001SUR” begins as you might expect, with the foundational myth of Scheherezade’s story: royal cuckold gone hunting; horny, […]