• "Clown Bar" at The Box

    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…

    $25
  • What I Did For Love at UCB East

    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…

    $10
  • Mr. Choade's Upstairs Downstairs

    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…

    $15 – $20
  • Flea Market Betty

    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…

  • Brooklyn Flea

    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…

  • Hester Street Fair

    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…

    Free
  • Sweet Work: Shorts of Labor at the Domino Brooklyn Refinery

    Union Docs 322 Union Ave, NY, United States

    If you’ve stopped by the Domino sugar refinery in the past couple weeks, Kara Walker’s magnificent installation may have given you food for thought regarding the building’s…

    $9
  • The Nels Cline Singers at The Stone

    The Stone Avenue C, at 2nd Street, East Village, New York, United States

    Avant-garde guitar virtuoso Nels Cline performs with Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle and Tomahawk. There's an 8 p.m. show, but the 10 p.m. show promises…

  • Eastville Open Mic Night

    Eastville Comedy Club 85 E. 4th St., East Village, New York, NY, United States

    Among the most popular comedy open mic nights in NYC.  Lists fill up so show up early if you want to take the stage.

  • Williamsburg Spelling Bee

    Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Spelling.Bee.Petes.Candy.9.09.FCB-12Bee 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.

    Free