Bedford + Bowery

Manhattan Film Festival
2014-06-23 13:00 - 22:00, 2014-06-22 13:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States
The Manhattan Film Festival was founded in 2006, and showcases the work of independent filmmakers in order to help them reach a broader audience. In 2013, it was named by Moviemaker magazine one of 25 “coolest film festivals in the world.” The MFF also prides itself on coming up with creative solutions to help filmmakers pursue their careers, including a Filmmaker Revenue Sharing Program. This year, the festival boasts an eclectic mix of features, documentaries and short films. See the schedule here.

tUnE-yArDs at Webster Hall
2014-06-22 21:00 - 23:00 | Webster Hall, 125 E 11th St., New York City , 10003, United States
Merrill Garbus heads up tUnE-yArDs, a four-piece project that defies genre: it’s pop, it’s rock, it’s funk, it’s jazz. Garbus, a former puppeteer, uses foot pedals to loop her voice and percussion during shows. The group’s latest album, “Nikki Nack,” made a big splash when it landed this spring, though the band’s been making records since ’09. They perform Sunday and Monday nights at Webster Hall.

Jacob Tomsky at KGB
2014-06-22 21:00 | KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Tomsky is the author of Heads in Beds, a Times bestseller that’s essentially the Kitchen Confidential of the hotel industry.
Read: These North Brooklyn Writers Agree: Stop Talking Shit About Williamsburg

Play/Date
2014-06-22 20:15 - 23:55 | Fat Baby, 112 Rivington St, New York
Interactive and immersive, Play/Date isn’t really a show as much as an experience: it takes place at a lounge (Fat Baby in the Lower East Side), where the audience can either sit or meander while they watch performers move around the bar and perform a series of short plays. Sure, the plays’ subject—New York dating—has been beaten to death. But Play/Date is less about the stories and more about the interaction between the audience and the actors. Did we mention you’re encouraged to drink while you watch? Sold.

Nick Thune Vinyl Release Show
2014-06-22 20:00 - 23:00 | SubCulture, 45 Bleecker St., New York, NY, United States
Comedian Nick Thune, who did this funny bit about his baby’s penis on Conan, celebrates the vinyl release of his latest hour, Nick Thune: Folk Hero, currently available on Netflix. Wyatt Cenac, Hannibal Buress, Ben Kronberg, will be in the house. And rumor has it, a couple of massage therapists (actually comedians) will be giving 90 second massages to audience members. Doors at 7pm.

The Macaulay Culkin Show
2014-06-22 20:00 - 22:00 | Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, United States
This stand-up show is hosted not by Macaulay Culkin but rather by Brett Davis, whose comic alteregos include wrestler Bobby Blayze, singer Craig Evanhalen and others. But just because Mac isn’t actually involved doesn’t mean the show doesn’t get its share of big names (in the comedy world, anyway) like Wyatt Cenac, SNL’s Sasheer Zamata, and Dave Hill. This installment features Gavin McInnes, Leo Allen, Aparna Nancherla, The Lucas Bros, Jo Firestone, Julio Torres, Anthony Atamanuik, John Early, and more.
Read More: The Macaulay Culkin Show Does Not Star Macaulay Culkin. Unless…

I'm Pretty Fucked Up
2014-06-22 20:00 - 21:30, 2014-06-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Clubbed Thumb, 195 Chrystie Street, New York
Written by Brooklyn playwright and New Mexico native Ariel Stess, I’m Pretty Fucked Up is a play about three high school friends who skip class to take a road trip into the New Mexico mountains. The action cuts between the friends and their freedom on the road, and the school, where teachers and students are dealing with an emergency lock-down.

One-Acts for a Cause Gala
2014-06-22 19:30 - 23:00 | Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St., East Village, New York, NY, United States
For the second year, Planet Connections, an eco-friendly arts organization, presents its One-Acts for a Cause Gala. Four renowned playwrights—Israel Horovitz, Erik Ehn, Winter Miller, Wendy MacLeod—have written one-act plays that bring attention to hunger and homelessness in New York City. All proceeds from the show benefit City Harvest, a New York-based food rescue organization. Show-goers are encouraged to bring canned food to donate to City Harvest.

Silencio: A Tribute to David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti
2014-06-22 19:30 - 21:00 | le poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker St., New York, NY, United States
Pittsburgh’s Silencio isn’t your typical cover band: they’ve mastered Angelo Badalamenti’s scores (from Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, and Lost Highway) and are here to take you into the warped world of David Lynch.

Black Flag at Club Europa
2014-06-22 19:00 - 23:00 | Club Europa, 98 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, 11222, United States
Black Flag is on their Victimology Tour, and they’re currently recording material for a forthcoming album. The band’s been around since 1976, and for those who don’t know, they’re arguably the most well-known hardcore punk band. While it’s true that Greg Ginn is the only remaining original member, they still kick major ass at live shows.
Related: Black Flag Annihilated Last Week With a Super Secret Show

"Football Head" at La MaMa
2014-06-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2014-06-21 22:00 - 23:30 | La MaMa, 68 East 4th St. , East Village, New York, NY, United States
Visual artist, performer, and gay stage icon Chris Tanner brings true-life tales, and, in his words, “humiliating stories of the sexual awakening of a nerdy art queen,” to the stage in Football Head. Tanner sings and tells the stories, accompanied on the stage by three doo-wop singers and collaborator Lance Cruce. The show is first and foremost about his family, intermingled with shame, guilt, and celebration thrown in for good measure.

Bushwick Art and Zine Fair
2014-06-22 14:00 - 19:00 | Signal Gallery, 260 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn
BABZ 2014 will feature three whole days of celebration devoted to Bushwick’s zines and local publishing culture. There will be music and poetry readings as well. Fill up on BBQ and PBR too!

“The Party’s Over”
2014-06-22 12:00 - 20:00 | Topless, 90-20 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Beach, NY, United States
The inaugural exhibit of Topless, a new art gallery (that’s right, art gallery) in Rockaway Beach. Features a trio of Brooklyn artists: there are paintings by the prolific Andy Cross, foam forms by Yale painting major Caroline Wells Chandler, and video art by a recent RISD grad, Cindy Ji Hye Kim.
Related: Rockaway’s Art Scene Just Got Topless

Spoons, Toons & Booze
2014-06-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Nitehawk Cinema, 136 Metropolitan Ave, New York, United States
According the Nitehawk, the only thing missing from your weekend morning cartoons and cereal is booze. Compete in short contests with other cartoon-goers to decide which cartoon, out of 80 series from the ’30s to the ’90s, you want to watch. Your price for admission covers an all-you-can-eat cereal bar, replete with marshmallows, chocolate, and sugar poorly disguised as nutrition. And of course, choose drinks from a special selection of cocktails, or if you’re feeling bold, drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in your cereal.

Hester Street Fair
2014-06-22 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

Bushwick History Photo Walk with Meryl Meisler
2014-06-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Bizarre, 12 Jefferson street, Bushwick, NY, United States
We all know Bushwick has changed, but none of us more so than Meryl Meisler. The photographer, who worked as an art teacher in Bushwick from the early ’80s, recalls that at the time the neighborhood “looked like the photographs that I had seen of Beirut.” She set about capturing the life among the ruins. Now, perfectly safely, you can join the photographer for a tour of her current exhibition of “Disco Era Bushwick” photographs, and a walking tour of the neighborhood. Bring a camera.

Brooklyn Flea
2014-06-22 10:00 - 17:00 | 50 Kent, 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States
This sprawling market offers food, clothing, accessories, knick knacks, furniture, bikes, crafts, artisan products and tons more. It’s become so synonymous with New Brooklyn that Marc Spitz opened his book Twee with it.

Related: Brooklyn Flea Returns to Williamsburg (With New Vendors!) This Sunday

Spoons, Toons & Booze
2014-06-21 23:30 | Nitehawk Cinema, 136 Metropolitan Ave, New York, United States
According the Nitehawk, the only thing missing from your weekend morning cartoons and cereal is booze. Compete in short contests with other cartoon-goers to decide which cartoon, out of 80 from the ’30s to the ’90s, you want to watch. Your price for admission covers an all-you-can-eat cereal bar, replete with marshmallows, chocolate, and sugar poorly disguised as nutrition. And of course, choose drinks from a special selection of cocktails, or if you’re feeling bold, drop a shot of Baileys or Kahlua in your cereal.

Mr. Choade's Upstairs Downstairs
2014-06-21 22:00 | Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, Lower East Side, NY, United States
This long-running variety show merges sideshow/vaudeville acts, go-go girls, comedy, and burlesque, often to raunchy effect (performers include Donny Vomit of Coney Island Sideshow fame and Evil Hate Monkey of Bushwick Burlesque fame). Doors open at 8 p.m.

What I Did For Love at UCB East
2014-06-21 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.

The Jezabels at Bowery Ballroom
2014-06-21 21:00 - 23:30 | Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., New York
You may not have heard of alt-rock Aussies The Jezabels, but they’re kind of a big deal down under. They’ve toured with Imagine Dragons, Garbage, and Depeche Mode, and play the festival circuit with aplomb. They label their music “intensindie,” whatever that means; they’re mostly your basic pop-rock group who also happen to have a pretty kick-ass front woman in Hayley Mary. (Note: This show was moved from April 15 to June 21.)

"Mining the Moon" at Comic Book Theater Fest
2014-06-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
From the writer: “It’s fantasy-based story about the president, who is a werewolf, and who has halted the spinning of the moon, so the moon’s always full and he can stay in power. He’s deposed, and with the help of his friend, who’s a talking horse, he tries to find his way back to the moon and to the source of his werewolf people. It’s very much a satire and a fantasy in a humorous way, about power and corruption and environmental themes. It’s a weird blend of puppet theater and kabuki theater.”
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"Clown Bar" at The Box
2014-06-21 19:30 - 23:00 | The Box, 189 Chrystie St, New York
Back for a limited-engagement encore, Clown Bar is a dark-comedy-slash-whodunit about a clown searching for the answers to his brother’s murder. The show is critically acclaimed, and every bit as weird as it sounds. The audience is encouraged to wear full clown regalia to the performance; they’ll get free shots of “extra funny” if they do. We haven’t seen the show, but there’s a “Fight Director” in the crew credits, and that’s all we need to know.

Marxism and Film: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Godin
2014-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, New York City
French writer, academic and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin famously collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard during the latter’s “radical” period. A Leftist influenced by Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, Gorin’s political leanings consistently influenced his film work. He went on to teach as a university professor in California, and continued to make movies. Of one, Poto and Cabengo (1978), he explained: “The singsong of the twins reveals the shaky grounds of institutional power. It relativizes discursive authority from the family to the scientific community in their competitive and ineffectual attempts to ‘define’ the twins who spontaneously flit about the screen exceeding any definition.” If that makes any sense to you, join Gorin for a chat about Marxism and the movies. What better way to spend a Saturday night?

Brooklyn Night Bazaar
2014-06-21 19:00 | 165 Banker Street, 165 Banker Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
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 music, DJs, arcade games, a room full of ping-pong tables, and even mini golf. As for the vendors, you’ll see a lot of jewelry, sunglasses, and crafty incense burners. The bow ties made out of Legos that we once saw here should give you a pretty good idea.

Le Bingo! w/Linda Simpson
2014-06-21 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
2014-06-21 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.
