Northside Festival
"The Northside Festival is New York City’s largest and most accessible discovery festival. From June 13-20, 2013, hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over…
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Events for June 20, 2013
All Day
Bushwick Restaurant Week
Bushwick bars and eateries boast dining deals from June 17-22. And the best part: diners will receive a $30 Uber Taxi coupon, so there's no excuse not to make the trek.
Ongoing
Ethiopia in Bushwick
"For three days, Bunna Cafe is going live as a full on restaurant, Ethiopian speakeasy, and performance space in Bushwick's heart-and-soul coffee shop, little skips." - Ethiopia in Bushwick
Hester Nights
On Thursday evenings, the Eventi hotel will host an artisanal food night market in their 12,000-square-foot open air plaza. The offerings include made-to-order pies from Ludlow Pizza, Thai street food from Khao Man Gai NY, Peruvian empanadas and alfajores from Jessy's Pastries and a plethora of bevvies from the on-site Brighton Tiki Bar.
Free Films at Tompkins Square Park: "Rushmore"
The annual festival of free films in Tompkins Square Park returns, with musical acts before each screening. Gates open at 6 p.m., films start at…
Free
The Participants Opening Reception
"The exhibition presents a new generation of queer artists who have developed practices that re-imagine performance art, life-works, and social participation. Their work takes the form of social media, photography, performance events, sculpture, and durational concepts, and it revolves around their dedication to opening their lives to new solidarities and populations." - Denny Gallery. On view through July 21st.
Free
My Little Pony Art Invitational
Unsaddle your inner Brony at the My Little Pony Art Invitational. 12 Brooklyn-based artists were given My Little Pony Dolls that were white with white manes, and they turned them into decorated experimental sculptures. The pieces will be available for bidding, which starts at $20, and remain on display at Champion Coffee through July 18th.
Free
The Boxer Rebellion at Webster Hall
Moving away from the more analog and darker soundscapes that enveloped the band’s previous, Promises is a significant step in a different direction for the London four-piece – a more hi-fi, and soaring work that truly delivers on the band’s widescreen, signature sound." - Bowery Presents
$20.00 – $22.00
The Moth StorySLAM: Lost
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe hosts famed storytelling contest The Moth. Ten participants compete to tell their best stories on the theme "lost."
$8
The Henrietta
"The Gilded Age glitters its brightest, and Wall Street is minting millionaires. A few years after Charles Dow created his average, with New York setting trading volume records, and the latest crash over a decade past, speculation is the in the air like a contagion, and in Bronson Howard's smash comedy, no one is immune." - Metropolitan Playhouse
$25
Deleted Scenes at Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Remember 2003? And then remember how The Shins sounded like the dawn of a new musical era? Deleted Scenes sounds a little like that, but bumps up the sound's musical relevance to 2013. Rediscover that simple, audible pleasure at Knitting Factory Brooklyn.
$10.00
Bella's Dream
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
$18
Bella's Dream
"Bella's Dream follows the true story of Bella and Raymond Boll, who, heeding the advice of a dream, left Gombin, Poland in 1939, mere weeks before the Nazis invaded. The play juxtaposes scenes from their journey with the present day experiences of their grown son, Ronny, fighting prejudices he thought long gone." - CVS Center
$18
Hausu, Turnip King at Death By Audio
Feel the bass line and get your weekly doses of post-punk and post-rock at Death By Audio. Hausu and Turnip King will administer.
$7.00
Little Red Riding Hood: A Burlesque Fairy Tale
"Don't miss the hilarious second installment in the queer fairy tale burlesque series brought to you by JZ Bich and hosted by WOW Cafe Theatre! Ms. Bich (who has produced the wildly popular HyperGender at WOW Cafe for the past 6 years) is thrilled to bring you a show that is as fiercely sexy as it is full of heart." - WOW Cafe Theater
$20
La Brea
"In which two Masshole siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up." - Clubbed Thumb.
$18
Hess is More, Cascading Slopes, Float Fall at Glasslands
Buy in for a night of electronic beats and transcend the next level of feelin' it. Hess is More, Cascading Slopes and Float Fall will take you there.
$10.00
Jazz and Blues Band at Bizarre Bushwick
This gothic Bushwick bar holds a weekly jazz and blues night with Michael Blake.
Clear Plastic Masks, Daytona, Franklin Stein at Union Pool
Sign up for a night of straight up rock 'n' roll with Clear Plastic Masks, Daytona and Franklin Stein.
$7.00
Eastville's All Star Comedy Line-up
Big name comedians like Rachel Feinstein and Wil Sylvince grace the stage at Eastville's for a weekly laugh riot.
Salsa with Hector Martignon
Salsa with New York based-Colombian born Hector Martignon.
Mega Yes and Giant Steps at Pianos
Mega Yes, Giant Steps, A Light Hum, Still Life and Escondido
*Free
Move Your Mule! at Otto's Shrunken Head
DJ Agent Jay hosts an evening of ska, reggae, dub and rock steady, with weekly guest DJs and occasional live acts.
My Chiffon Is Wet at Eastern Bloc
DJ Paisley Dalton mans the turntables at this East Village gay bar's Thursday night shindig.
Lulu's Lets Loose Burlesque
No cover Burlesque shows at Lulu's every Thursday.
Free
DJ ?uestlove presents: Bowl Train
Roots drummer and front man ?uestlove performs a weekly DJ set.
$5 – $8