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NYC Restaurant Week

Various Locations NY

For four weeks in July and August, some of the city's finest eateries will offer prix-fixe lunches for around $24, while selected restaurants will also offer dinners for $35. Reservations for this foodie favorite event can be made online starting July 8th.

$24 – $35

Hester Nights

Eventi Hotel 851 Sixth Ave, Midtown West

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.

Vice Magazine Annual Photo Show

Culturefix 9 Clinton Street, Lower East Side, New York

Get an eye full at a reception for Vice Magazine's annual photo show.

Free

Free Films at Tompkins Square Park: "The Big Lewbowski"

Tompkins Square Park East Village

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 sundown. In honor of the Coen Brothers classic, Two Boots will give out slices of its "The Dude" pie.

Free

Six Decades

The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery 417 Lafayette St., Lower East Side, New York

A retrospective on the work of Po Kim, who has lived and painted in New York since the 50’s and specialized in Abstract Expressionism because it “suited his psychological mood.”

Free

The City that Drinks the Mountain Sky

Pier 42 Lower East Side, New York

Part of Paths to Pier 42, which places art installations along part of the Lower East Side’s abandoned waterfront, this one-night-only play uses masks and puppetry to explain why New York’s water comes from the Catskills.

Free

Pickling with McClure's

Brooklyn Kitchen 100 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

"Kendall Holmes from McClure's Pickles will go over the basics of pickling science in this class which is designed for the novice canner as well…

$60

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Game Play 2013

Brick Theater 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A month-long theater festival featuring "cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video-gaming and performance." Shows include Dot, A Video Game with No Winner, in which "synchronized sounds and images, played by a “game console” built and programmed by the artist, and controlled by retro videogame joysticks" tell a story, and That Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy, which is "inspired by post-apocalyptic and dystopian video games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock," and "has bittersweet fun with end of the world." - Brick Theater. Showtimes vary; see schedule.

$15

Party Picks

Salon 94 243 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York

Photographer Jimmy DeSana shot William Burroughs, Terence Sellers, Debbie Harry, and Yoko Ono when he was a New York nightlife staple in the 1970’s and 80’s, before passing away from AIDS in 1990. See a selection of both his surreal party pics and his celebrity portraiture.

Free

Emerging to Established

Krause Gallery 149 Orchard St., Lower East Side, New York

An eclectic combo of work by artists of all genres in all stages of their careers, from Jordan Eagles to Hanksy.

Free

Eastville's All Star Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Big name comedians like Rachel Feinstein and Wil Sylvince grace the stage at Eastville's for a weekly laugh riot.

Eastville's All Star Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Big name comedians like Rachel Feinstein and Wil Sylvince grace the stage at Eastville's for a weekly laugh riot.

Eastville's All Star Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Big name comedians like Rachel Feinstein and Wil Sylvince grace the stage at Eastville's for a weekly laugh riot.

Eastville's All Star Comedy Line-up

Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York

Big name comedians like Rachel Feinstein and Wil Sylvince grace the stage at Eastville's for a weekly laugh riot.

Move Your Mule! at Otto's Shrunken Head

Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th street, East Village

DJ Agent Jay hosts an evening of ska, reggae, dub and rock steady, with weekly guest DJs and occasional live acts.

Move Your Mule! at Otto's Shrunken Head

Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th street, East Village

DJ Agent Jay hosts an evening of ska, reggae, dub and rock steady, with weekly guest DJs and occasional live acts.

Move Your Mule! at Otto's Shrunken Head

Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th street, East Village

DJ Agent Jay hosts an evening of ska, reggae, dub and rock steady, with weekly guest DJs and occasional live acts.

Move Your Mule! at Otto's Shrunken Head

Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th street, East Village

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

Eastern Bloc 505 E 6th St, East Village

DJ Paisley Dalton mans the turntables at this East Village gay bar's Thursday night shindig.

My Chiffon Is Wet at Eastern Bloc

Eastern Bloc 505 E 6th St, East Village

DJ Paisley Dalton mans the turntables at this East Village gay bar's Thursday night shindig.

My Chiffon Is Wet at Eastern Bloc

Eastern Bloc 505 E 6th St, East Village

DJ Paisley Dalton mans the turntables at this East Village gay bar's Thursday night shindig.

My Chiffon Is Wet at Eastern Bloc

Eastern Bloc 505 E 6th St, East Village

DJ Paisley Dalton mans the turntables at this East Village gay bar's Thursday night shindig.

DJ ?uestlove presents: Bowl Train

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

Roots drummer and front man ?uestlove performs a weekly DJ set.

$5 – $8

DJ ?uestlove presents: Bowl Train

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

Roots drummer and front man ?uestlove performs a weekly DJ set.

$5 – $8

DJ ?uestlove presents: Bowl Train

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

Roots drummer and front man ?uestlove performs a weekly DJ set.

$5 – $8