Bedford + Bowery

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum
2014-09-02 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-09-01 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-31 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-30 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-29 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-28 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-27 11:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New Museum, 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York, NY, United States
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 status of images as instruments of political consciousness. Bringing together 45 artists and collectives from over 15 countries, from North Africa to the Gulf, Here and Elsewhere presents a sweeping, riotous portrait of a heterogeneous region heretofore underrepresented in the NYC art world.

Trivial Dispute at Alligator Lounge
2014-09-01 21:00 | Alligator Lounge, 600 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, NY, United States
Photo: Gavin Thomas
Crocodile Lounge’s Brooklyn brother hosts its weekly trivia night every Monday (free pizza included!)

Williamsburg Spelling Bee
2014-09-01 19:00 | Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
Bee all you can bee! The “original adult spelling bee” was founded in 2004 and is still going s-t-r-o-n-g the first Monday of every month. Show up at 7 p.m. to sign up for the 7:30 p.m. game. Winners get freebies and a chance to compete in the end-of-year finals.

Hester Street Fair
2014-08-31 11:00 - 18:00, 2014-08-30 11:00 - 18:00 | Corner of Hester and Essex Street, Hester and Essex, Lower East Side, NY, United States
Manhattan’s counterpart to Brooklyn Flea has expanded into Seward Park this year, which means more food and vintage and craft vendors. Among those debuting this season are Hudson & Charles (a conscientious West Village butcher shop selling porchetta sandwiches, pork brats, Cubanos, and chili), Zha (the Asian fried riceball spot that popped up at Zucker Bakery on Saturdays, which will offer specials like Korean chicken and waffles), Ssam BBQ (your choice of Korean-style beef, pork, or chicken wrapped in lettuce), An Artistic Taste (a catering chef who’s cooked at The Plaza and Four Seasons does dishes like lobster and truffle mac).
More: Hester Street Fair Returns April 26

Flea Market Betty
2014-08-31 10:00 - 17:00, 2014-08-30 10:00 - 17:00 | NY
This flea market organized by commercial real estate broker Jill Pescatore offers a mix of food, used and locally designed clothing, crafts and accessories. Read more here.

What I Did For Love at UCB East
2014-08-30 22:00 | UCB East, 153 E 3rd St , East Village, NY, United States
Some of Upright Citizens Brigade’s top improvisers grill audience members for love life details then perform comedic versions of their tales. Performers include, 30 Rock writer, Tracey Wigfield, and The Daily Show writer Zhubin Parang among others.

Le Bingo! w/Linda Simpson
2014-08-30 18:45 - 21:30 | le poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker St., New York, NY, United States
Drag queen Linda Simpson, who got her start in the East Village’s Pyramid Club in the ’90s, has been hosting bingo for years. Each evening features multiple rounds of bingo with “goofball prizes” shown off by a drag version of Vanna White. The Wheel of Chance gets spinned for drink specials.

The Quantum Eye at Theatre 80
2014-08-30 17:00 - 18:30 | Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl , East Village, NY, United States
Mentalist Sam Eaton performs in this weekly magic and mentalism show that explores the limits of perception and deception.

LOT LIC Music & Film Fest
2014-08-30 15:00 - 21:00 | LOT LIC, 43-29 Crescent St, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
The LOT LIC Music & Film Series is an eight-week summer party in Long Island City. It’s a free event, with music on Saturdays and film on Thursdays. We know what you’re thinking: no G train service will make it impossible to go. Not true! You can take the 7 to Court Sq. or the N to Queensboro Plaza and it’s a quick jaunt from there. This week’s performers are Sinkane, Takuya Kurodaand DJ D-Felic. 43-29 Crescent St, Long Island City, Saturdays from 3-9 p.m.; Thursdays from 6-10 p.m., tickets free
MUSIC
August 2
SINKANE • TAKUYA KURODA • DJ D-FELIC
August 9
STREETS OF LAREDO • WALKING SHAPES • DJ BRENNAN GREEN
August 16
TAYLOR McFERRIN • JENNAH BELL • DJ RICH MEDINA
August 23
SMALL BLACK • KEVIN MORBY • DJ SPUN
August 30
FREDERICKS BROWN • SILVER feat. EDDIE HENDERSON • DJ NICKODEMUS
September 6
HOLLIS BROWN • JONNY FRITZ • DJ SCOTT EWALT
September 13
WIDOWSPEAK • ALEX BLEEKER AND THE FREAKS • DJ ALEX FROM TOKYO
September 20
SUGARMAN 3 • NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS
& DAPTONE RECORDS FAMILY DJs

FILM
August 7
CHOP SHOP
(2008) USA – Directed by Ramin Bahrani
August 14
POLYESTER
(1981) USA – Directed by John Waters
August 21
STRICTLY BALLROOM
(1992) Australia – Directed by Baz Luhmann
August 28
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
(2003) Canada/Belgium/France – Directed by Sylvain Chomet
September 4
LO QUATTRO VOLTE
(2010) Italy – Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
September 11
PARIAH
(2011) USA – Directed by Dee Rees
September 18
WILD STYLE
(1983) USA – Directed by Charlie Ahearn

PS1 Warm-Up
2014-08-30 15:00 - 21:00 | MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
The lineup of this annual courtyard rave features a lot of new blood. Plus sets from Todd Edwards (a producer on Daft Punk’s last album), techno legend Robert Hood, Norwegian DJ/producer/musician Cashmere Cat (who sold out Music Hall of Williamsburg last year), the great Pantha du Prince, and a live set from industrial act Vatican Shadow of Hospital Productions, which closed its East Village store back in 2011 but soldiers on as a record label.
According to PS1′s release, M. Wells Dinette will serve cocktails and “grab-and-go summer fare,” and there’ll be rotating stage installations by CONFETTISYSTEM, Chen Chen and Kai Williams, Fort Makers, Fort Standard, Nightwood, and The Principals.
Below is the lineup for the parties.
June 28
A/JUS/TED / Under the Shade / New York, NY, USA
Dimitri From Paris / Gomma, Defected Records / Paris, France
Pantha du Prince (live) / Rough Trade Records / Berlin, Germany
DJ Spoko / True Panther Sounds / Atteridgeville, South Africa
Mumdance / Tectonic Recordings / London, England
July 5
DJ EZ / One Recordings / London, England
Todd Edwards / Echo Park Records / Los Angeles, CA, USA
Champion / Formula Records / London, England
Jam City / Night Slugs / London, England
J-CUSH / Lit City Trax / New York, NY, USA
July 12
Mister Saturday Night: Eamon Harkin & Justin Carter / Mister Saturday Night Records / New York, NY, USA
Cibo Matto (live) / Chimera Music / New York, NY, USA
Archie Pelago (live) / Mister Saturday Night Records / New York, NY, USA
Gabriel Garzón Montano (live) / Styles Upon Styles / New York, NY, USA
Auntie Flo / Huntleys & Palmers, Permanent Vacation / London, England
July 19
Robert Hood / M-Plant / Detroit, MI, USA
Objekt / Hessle Audio / Berlin, Germany
Rrose / Eaux / New York, NY, USA
Vatican Shadow (live) / Hospital Productions / New York, NY, USA
Container (live) / Spectrum Spools, Liberation Technologies / Providence, RI, USA
Young Male / White Material / New York, NY, USA
July 26
Cashmere Cat / LuckyMe Records, Pelican Fly / Oslo, Norway
Total Freedom / Fade to Mind / Los Angeles, CA, USA
GoldLink (live) / Squaaash Club / Washington, DC, USA
UNiiQU3 / Lit City Trax / New Jersey, USA
Suicideyear / Software Records / Baton Rouge, LA, USA
August 2
Daniele Baldelli / Eskimo Recordings / Italy
Charanjit Singh (live) / REProduce / Mumbai, India
Simian Mobile Disco (live) / Anti Records / London, England
Hiro Kone (live) / Group Tightener / New York, NY, USA
Maria Chavez / Software Records / New York, NY, USA
August 9
George FitzGerald / Domino, Man Make Music / Berlin, Germany
Martyn / 3024 / Washington, DC, USA
Leon Vynehall / Aus Music / London, England
Aurora Halal (live) / Mutual Dreaming Recordings / New York, NY, USA
Matrixxman / Spectral Sound / San Francisco, CA, USA
August 16
Supa Dups and Willy Chin of Black Chiney Sound / Black Chiney ​Music Inc. / Miami, FL, USA
Special Guest MC to be announced
Dubbel Dutch / Mixpak / New York, NY, USA
Visionist / Lit City Trax, PAN / London, England
Blazer Sound System / Channel Uno / New York, NY, USA
August 23
Kevin Saunderson / KMS Records / Detroit, MI, USA
Éclair Fifi / LuckyMe Records / Scotland, UK
DJ Earl / Teklife / Chicago, IL, USA
Shamir (live) / GODMODE / Las Vegas, NV, USA
The Range (live) / Donkey Pitch / Rhode Island, USA
Gifted & Blessed (live) / Gifted & Blessed / California, USA
August 30
Benji B / Deviation, BBC Radio 1 / London, England
Dām-Funk (live) / Stones Throw Records / Pasadena, CA, USA
DJ Marfox / Príncipe, Lit City Trax / Lisbon, Portugal
Tessela / R&S Records / London, England
Dutch E Germ / UNO NYC / New York, NY, USA
Avalon Emerson / Icee Hot, Spring Theory Records / Berlin, Germany
September 6
Special Guests to be announced
Evian Christ (DJ set) / Tri Angle Records / London, England
Lone (live) / R&S Records / UK
Sophie / MSMSMSM / London, England
Forest Swords (live) / Tri Angle Records / Liverpool, England

The Air Sex World Championships
2014-08-28 21:30 | Drom, 85 Avenue A, East Village, NY, United States
It’s just like the Air Guitar Championships but instead of shredding, you’re bedding. If you’re on the fence about showing a room full of strangers your O face, consider that this year’s (no doubt stiff) competition will be filmed for an upcoming documentary. And if you need a place to practice before the show, there’s always Katz’s.

An Ecclectic Evening of Poetry and Prose
2014-08-28 19:30 - 21:00 | High Horse Saloon, 103 Havemeyer Street, Williamsburg, New York City, NY, United States
Brooklyn-based writer Matthew Hodges hosts an evening of readings with a crew of exciting new voices.Lauren Keils is a Brooklyn-based poet (and painter and possibly a psychadelic singer and definitely an amateur taxidermist) from Detroit.Zan de Parry, too, hails from Michigan. Elizabeth Mikesch is the owner of Brest Pressand the author of Niceties, “a subversive text of lingual dissonance in which vocality precedes sense-making operations.” May-Lan Tan—a young poet whose first book was deemed “an excellent debut about loners and outcasts” by The Guardian—will also be reading, as will Beth Steidle, whose recently published The Static Herd (a starkly lyrical meditation on death) earned praise from Heavy Feather Review.

That’s When the Knives Come Down with Dolan Morgan
2014-08-28 19:00 - 20:00 | WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin St, Greenpoint, New York, United States
Greenpointer Dolan Morgan will read on home turf for the Brooklyn launch of his debut collection That’s When the Knives Come Down. A surrealist glance at cities, relationships and lives gone awry, the stories are billed as simultaneously “absurd, harrowing, and inimitable.” According to Catherine Lacey, “Dolan Morgan queers the every day and leaves a sinister domestic scene behind.” He’ll be joined in discussion by B.C. Edwards (The Aversive Clause) and Chelsea Hodson (Pity the Animal).

Sideshow Goshko
2014-08-28 19:00 - 20:00 | KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post, Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion) hosts this monthly storytelling show, which invariably follows the same format. Goshko invites three top writers and storytellers to join her in sharing true, bizarre tales about their lives for ten minutes apiece. Four challenging trivia questions are asked, and one lucky audience member will receive a portion of “Sideshow Sauce” (aka a delectable bottle of Trader Joe’s vino). This particular evening’s line-up will include stories from Ryan Britt (The New York Times, Gotham Writers’ Workshop), David Crabb (The Moth,Bad Kid), and Gail Thomas (Funny or Die, Tribeca Film Festival).

Women & Trans Bike Repair Class
2014-08-28 18:30 - 19:30 | Time’s Up! Brooklyn
The workshop, held every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Williamsburg, has four classes beginning the first Thursday of the month. During the first class, mechanics like Schiller teach an intro to bikes: types of bikes, parts, safety, and repair. The following week, the class learns about cables, gears, and shifting. The third class teaches all about bearing systems and how to adjust, clean, and replace them. The fourth and final class covers wheels.
Read more:
This Bike Repair Class Puts the ‘Trans’ in Transportation Alternatives

Arrested Development Bingo
2014-08-27 21:00 - 22:00 | Videology, 308 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Calling all never nudes! And just regular AD fans, too. Hang out with your friends (and make new ones–how can you not love a stranger in jorts?) while watching Arrested Development and playing bingo. How it works is you look for things like the stair car and the banana stand, and if that’s on your bingo card, you put down a chip. Win a game and you’ll get either a free drink or frozen banana. But come as a never nude and you’ll get both automatically.

The Big Terrific at Cameo Gallery
2014-08-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Cameo Gallery, 93 North 6th Street , Brooklyn , 11211 , United States
Gabe Liedman, Max Silvestri and Jenny Slate host this weekly standup night featuring big name drop-ins like Aziz Ansari and Zach Galifianakis.

Professor Thom's Trivia Night
2014-08-27 20:00 | Professor Thom’s, 219 2nd Avenue, East Village, NY, United States
Teams of 6 or less compete in this weekly trivia night at Professor Thom’s.

Drunken Smartass Olympics
2014-08-27 19:00 | Dempsey’s Pub, 61 East 2nd Ave., East Village, NY, United States
New York’s longest-running weekly quiz is held every Wednesday at Dempsey’s Pub. The quiz features 51 questions on topics ranging from ancient history to contemporary pop music, as well as “the best-curated audio round in the city.” Bar food and drink specials serve as mental fuel.

Mona's Hot Four
2014-08-26 23:00 | Mona’s, 224 Avenue B, New York, NY, United States
This jazz quartet consisting of Gordon Webster (piano), Nick Russo (banjo/guitar), Jared Engel (bass), and Dennis Lichtman (clarinet) isn’t exactly a well-kept secret anymore (they have two albums), but hearing them perform Prohibition-era jazz at Mona’s, an unassuming East Village spot, feels like a treat every time.

Film screening: We Don’t Like Samba
2014-08-26 21:00 - 23:00 | The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave, NY, United States
Brazil’s meteoric rise as a success-story of the developing world—its shooting-star status as one of the BRIC states—imploded just before the global community turned its eyes to the country during the 2014 world cup. Rioting in the streets, vehement protest art, and police crackdowns went underreported, as the soccer frenzy kicked in. We Don’t Like Samba, which unofficially premiered recently at the Fusion Festival, tracks the protest movement that began in June 2013, after the costs for public transportation rose. That mass movement has inspired hundreds of other, smaller demonstrations: workers on wildcat strikes, women protesting the Papal visit, residents combating urbanization projects. “We are not samba dancers” say the striking garbage workers known as “Garis” in one interview. “We are rebels”.

Movie Trivia at Videology
2014-08-26 20:30 - 22:00 | Videology, 308 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Every Tuesday night, gather your movie-loving friends for six rounds of trivia at Videology in Williamsburg. They present different categories throughout the night, like quotation, tagline and clip identification. Every week the winning team gets a free round of drinks, and at the end of the season the top three teams from the combined rounds win big prizes like a $150 bar tab. Word to the wise: get there early to snag a table.
