Drunken Smartass Olympics
2014-07-30 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Get Me a Guy at Under St Marks
2014-07-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2014-07-31 19:00 - 21:00, 2014-08-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Pl., New York, NY, United States
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 and the City, Girls, Hitch, Gossip Girl,Forty Days of Dating, and so on and so forth. Now, Horse Trade Theater Group brings you the rare opportunity to see some disastrous romantic escapades (not your own!) LIVE, at their production of Get Me a Guy. The 80-minute comedy, written by Israela Margalit and directed by John Clancy, is a spirited romp through a series of dating vignettes. Having begun life as a one-act, the play won Margalit plaudits at the New York International Midtown Theater Festival and the New York Short Play Festival, and was subsequently fleshed out into a full-length, eclectic meditation on life and love.

Professor Thom's Trivia Night
2014-07-30 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.

The Big Terrific at Cameo Gallery
2014-07-30 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.

Arrested Development Bingo
2014-07-30 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.

Shaken & Stirred Burlesque
2014-07-30 21:30 | The Delancey, 168 Delancey St, New York, United States
Every Wednesday night, a rotating cast of NY’s hottest burlesque stars take to the stage at The Delancey for a night of dancing and debauchery.

Larry Clark’s “they thought i were but i aren’t anymore…”
2014-07-31 10:00 - 18:00, 2014-08-01 10:00 - 18:00 | Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 West 24th St., new york, United States
Earlier this year Larry Clark practically gave away hundreds of his snapshots and then celebrated his birthday with many rounds of free beer. But this is the main event: on Saturday, Luhring Augustine launches an exhibition of his work from 1961 to the present, starting with his earliest portrait (taken with a camera he borrowed from his mom) and also including his more recent sculptures and paintings.
More: Hey, Kids! Larry Clark and Harmony Korine Are Showing Their Work

Steve Keene's Brooklyn Experience
2014-07-31 11:00 - 17:00, 2014-08-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2014-08-02 11:00 - 17:00 | Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY, 11238, United States
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 Steve’s work will be on display in the Central Library’s grand lobby from June 12th until August 29th, while Steve will painting live (in his trademark, production-line style) in Grand Army Plaza every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between June 19th and August 16th.

Read more:
Steve Keene, Who Did Cover Art For Pavement, Is Painting in the Street

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum
2014-07-31 11:00 - 20:00, 2014-08-01 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.

Women & Trans Bike Repair Class
2014-07-31 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

Bayside! The Musical!
2014-07-31 20:00, 2014-08-01 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

Bingo at Crocodile Lounge
2014-07-31 20:30 - 22:00 | Crocodile Lounge, 325 E. 14th St, East Village, NY, United States
Remember Bad Grampa at the bingo parlor? That’s this. Win bar tabs and shot rounds. Oh, and Croc Lounge will be giving out free pizzas with drinks, as usual.

Questlove's Bowl Train
2014-07-31 23:00 | Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, United States
Questlove (The Roots) was omnipresent even before he got a gig as bandleader of The Tonight Show, but somehow he manages to show up for this weekly dance-a-thon at Brooklyn Bowl. The sprawling dance floor gets packed with older tourists and younger locals.

Seaport Music Festival
2014-08-01 19:00 | South St. Seaport, Fulton and Water Streets, new york, NY, United States
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, and will include performances by Big-Ups (whose frontman we spoke to back in January) Tropicalismo-influenced Boogarins (an Other Music Recordings artist), Black Bananas (featuring Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux), Brooklyn indie-pop outfit Snowmine, Pitchfork darling Torres, and more. Here’s the full schedule:
Friday, Jul 11
PROTOMARTYR, ALVVAYS
7PM
Friday, Jul 18
CALVIN LOVE, LAS ROSAS
Friday, Jul 25
TORRES
7PM
Friday, Aug 1
SNOWMINE, THE CASKET GIRLS
7PM
Friday, Aug 8
BLACK BANANAS, SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ
7PM
Friday, Aug 15
BOOGARINS, JACCO GARDNER
7PM
Friday, Aug 22
DEAD GAZE
Friday, Aug 29
JOANNA GRUESOME, BIG UPS
7PM
More: Seaport Music Festival’s Free Outdoor Shows: Big Ups, Black Bananas and More

Brooklyn Night Bazaar
2014-08-01 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.

Drowners at Brooklyn Night Bazaar
2014-08-01 19:00 - 23:00 | 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 since, helping out Cage the Elephant and SKATERS on their European tours. Now they’re on their first headlining tour, and take the stage at this week’s Night Bazaar. Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Greenpoint, Friday, August 1 at 7 p.m., tickets free

Natalie Eilbert reads from Conversations with the Stone Wife
2014-08-01 19:30 - 22:00 | Mellow Pages, 56 Bogart Street 1S, Brooklyn, 11206, United States
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 will be reading selections to celebrate the debut. If you’re not an aspiring poet and have no idea what a “chapbook” is, the word refers to a small selection of poetry, often saddle-stitched into a manuscript, making it more amenable to a small print-run. Chapbooks frequently focus on one theme, circling around a central image. In Eilbert’s case, that image is supplied by the Venus of Willendorf, a nubile late-Paleolithic statuette found in Austria over a century ago. The poet uses the fleshy figurine as a starting point for meditations on body dysmorphia and the history of food issues, producing poems that are “artifacts of neuroses.” Read an extract here. Eilbert will be ably supported by Morgan Parker, Monica McClure and May-Lan Tan.

Mucca Pazza at Brooklyn Bowl
2014-08-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, United States
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, there you go. If that video above isn’t enough to convince you, we don’t know what is. Brooklyn Bowl, Williamsburg, Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m., tickets $12

Roses at Death by Audio
2014-08-01 20:00 - 23:00 | Death By Audio, 49 South 2nd Street , Brooklyn , 11211 , United States
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 call on influences like Velvet Underground, and do a cover of “Sweet Jane” that’s lo-fi fun at its finest. They play three shows this weekend in Brooklyn. Death by Audio, Williamsburg, Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m., tickets $10

Fool's Gold Presents Nick Catchdubs & Friends
2014-08-01 23:00 | Webster Hall, 125 E 11th St., New York City , 10003, United States
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
2014-08-01 23:00 | le poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker St., New York, NY, United States
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 covers, and they’ve also seen cameos from previous cast members — namely Dustin “Screech” Diamond. Expect heavy doses of Third Eye Blind as the ’90s come flooding back.

Flea Market Betty
2014-08-02 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.

Hester Street Fair
2014-08-02 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
