Steve Keene's Brooklyn Experience

Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York

Steve Keene, speed painter extraordinaire and cover artist for Pavement and Soul Coughing among others, is Brooklyn Public Library's artist-in-residence for the summer. An exhibition of…

Free

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

New Museum 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York

This exhibition is New York's first gallery-wide exhibition of artists from the Arab world, and is appropriately (and devastatingly) dedicated to exploring the ethics of representation and the…

$16

Seaport Music Festival

South St. Seaport Fulton and Water Streets, new york

The festival’s 13th installment, located at Fulton and Water Streets while Pier 17 is redeveloped, will take place Friday nights from July 11 through August 29,…

Free

Brooklyn Night Bazaar

165 Banker Street 165 Banker Street, Brooklyn

It used to be that Brooklyn Flea had the lock on North Brooklyn mega bazaars, but the BK Night Bazaar upped the ante with live…

Free

Get Me a Guy at Under St Marks

Under St. Marks 94 St. Marks Pl., New York

New Yorkers are not only constantly dramatizing their own already rather dramatic love lives, but also adore consuming dramatizations of other such love lives: see Sex…

$18

Drowners at Brooklyn Night Bazaar

Brooklyn Night Bazaar 165 Banker Street, Brooklyn

Drowners are a rock band made up of New York and Welsh musicians. They released their second album in January, and have been touring extensively ever…

Free

Natalie Eilbert reads from Conversations with the Stone Wife

Mellow Pages 56 Bogart Street 1S, Brooklyn

Natalie Eilbert is aBrooklyn-based poet, whose work has appeared in Tin House and Guernica, among other publications. She’s just finished her first chapbook,Conversations with the Stone Wife, and…

Bayside! The Musical!

Theatre 80 80 St Marks Pl , East Village

This super raunchy send-up of everyone's favorite '90s show has seen drop-ins from the actors who played the original Mr. Belding and Screech. But even…

Mucca Pazza at Brooklyn Bowl

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

How much fun are Mucca Pazza? They’re a 30-piece marching band that give riotous performances, and their name comes from the Italian word for “mad cow.” So,…

$12

Roses at Death by Audio

Death By Audio 49 South 2nd Street , Brooklyn

Roses are a Brooklyn-based rock band with a lead singer whose voice you might recognize because he was formerly at the front of Deer Tick. They…

$10

Fool's Gold Presents Nick Catchdubs & Friends

Webster Hall 125 E 11th St., New York City

Williamsburg label Fool's Gold presents this weekly hip-hop party featuring label head Nick Catchdubs. Reduced admission with RSVP.

Saved by the 90s at LPR

le poisson rouge 158 Bleecker St., New York

The Bayside Tigers, a self-described “90s party band” that was formerly a fixture at Canal Room, has been known to rip through 4 Non Blondes…

$12