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New York Fringe Fest 2014
2014-08-22 12:00 - 22:00, 2014-08-21 12:00 - 22:00, 2014-08-20 12:00 - 22:00, 2014-08-19 12:00 - 22:00, 2014-08-18 12:00 - 22:00, 2014-08-17 12:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Multiple venues, NY, United States
It’s that time again, folks. The time when the world’s most avant-garde and experimental theater types descend on the East Village and Lower East Side for a fortnight of moderately insane adventure know as the Fringe Festival. The 18th edition of the Fest will be deluging the metropolis with playful peculiarities from August 8 to 24. Highlights include The Mormon Bird Play, Fatty Fatty No Friends, Fuck You! You Fucking Perv! and much, much more.

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum
2014-08-22 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-21 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-20 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-19 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-18 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-17 11:00 - 20:00 | 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.

Late Night Basement
2014-08-22 09:15 - 23:15 | Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St., Bushwick, NY, United States
This live late-night show at The Pine Box Rock Shop has featured the likes of literary it-boy Gary Sheyngart as well as two of our “Regulars”: Andrew WK and Pat Kiernan. The May 2014 featured Jon Benjamin doing the voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
More: Here’s Jon Benjamin As HAL From 2001: A Space Odyssey

Bishop Allen at Glasslands
2014-08-21 20:30 - 23:50 | Glasslands, 289 Kent Avenue , Brooklyn , 11249, United States
It’s been five years since their last album, but these Brooklyn indie darlings are back, and playing a release party for their latest, Lights Out (out Aug. 19) Watch the video for the album’s instantly catchy first single, “Start Again,” and read a q&a with frontman Justin Rice, the “first heartthrob of the mumblecore era,” here.

Julie Schumacher + Ethan Rutherford
2014-08-21 19:00 - 20:00 | The Strand, New York
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher’s eighth novel, is an epistolary satire of academia that has been earning—as the title of a Slate review puts it, “Strongest possible endorsement.” Made up of letters of recommendation written by a beleaguered literature professor (whose promising career in fiction is now just a fading memory), the book is a bitingly witty portrait of a dying English department and the embittered man who dwells in its decomposing innards. As Professor Fitger writes his oft-counterproductive endorsements, his letters slowly become more unbalanced and autobiographical, giving the reader glimpses into his past. Praised as a “mordant minor masterpiece,” by NPR, it sounds like the sort of book you should perhaps hurry up and finish during the summer—when the worn-out cynicism of the letter-writing professor seems more removed from the reality of your everyday working life. Schumacher will be joined in discussion by Ethan Rutherford, author of The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories.

Women & Trans Bike Repair Class
2014-08-21 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
2014-08-20 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
2014-08-20 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
2014-08-20 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
2014-08-20 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
2014-08-19 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.

Movie Trivia at Videology
2014-08-19 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.

Trivial Dispute at Alligator Lounge
2014-08-18 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!)

Hester Street Fair
2014-08-17 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
2014-08-17 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.

Mr. Choade's Upstairs Downstairs
2014-08-16 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
2014-08-16 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.

Bayside! The Musical!
2014-08-16 20:00 | Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Pl , East Village, NY, United States
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 if you’re not treated to a celeb cameo, this parody is even better than the real thing.
Related: The Saved By the Bell Musical Is Back

Brooklyn Night Bazaar
2014-08-16 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
2014-08-16 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.
