- TIME: 9:30pm
PLACE: Upright Citizen’s Brigade, 307 W 26th St between 8th and 9th Ave
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: “Four incredibly opinionated comedians join hosts Anthony King & Scott Brown for a brutal and hilarious round table discussion about all the things they hate. It’s like watching The McLaughlin Group, Best Week Ever, and a knife fight all at the same time.”
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- TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY LAST THURSDAY)
PLACE: Otto’s Shrunken Head Tiki Bar & Lounge, 538 E 14th St at Avenue B
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: “The Last Thursday of the month your favorite Hillbilly balladeers are back! These talented young lads will enchant you with their renditions of 50’s rockabilly and hillbilly lovesongs as well as their own originals.”
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- TIME: 8pm
PLACE:Stain, 766 Grand St at Humboldt St, Brooklyn
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: ”Come celebrate the last day of the LUSTY MONTH OF MAY, a middle-ages costume (optional but encouraged) bash with turkey drumsticks, Shakespeare in the garden, mead, wenches and more”
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- TIME: 7:30-9:30pm
PLACE: Galapagos, 70 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: “Woodpecker! plays punk-influenced original bluegrass. They combine pick slides and punk-rock jumps with the banjo licks, mandolin chops, and close harmonies native to bluegrass. The song structures and vocal melodies owe a lot to the energy and irreverence of pop-punk bands like Snuff and the Descendents, and lyrically, their songs flirt with sentimentality before kneeing it in the balls.”
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Honey Space
- TIME: 6-9pm
PLACE: 11th Ave. between 21st and 22nd (east side of the West Side Highway- ground floor space - you won’t miss it)
COST: FREE
- SUMMARY: Opening night of Honey Space by Thomas Beale, “otherworldly food, homemade drinks, one New Orleans circus star, a 9-piece brass band, and the products of years of concentrated effort”
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- TIME: 8pm
PLACE: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston
COST: $8
- SUMMARY: “Stories about blackouts, serial kllers, drugs, blue gelati Italian ice, the Johnny-pump, drugs, under the boardwalk, up on the roof and drugs. IT CAME FROM NEW YORK is a show that celebrates an endangered species: NYC’s native sons & daughters. Each borough has its own accent, its own culture and its own story. So come, and find out what it was like to actually grow up in the place everyone else moves to. Just remember, no matter how long you’ve lived here…no matter how much of a New Yorker you think you’ve become…you can’t know the New York we know…”
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- TIME: 7:30pm
PLACE: Mo Pitkins, 39 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
COST: $8
- SUMMARY: “Todd Levin and Bob Powers, both humor writers, often found themselves in a frustrating place, drifting somewhere between stand-up comedy and literary performance. How to Kick People was conceived as the antitode: a comedy show for bookworms, and a literary show for clowns.” And this is the LAST one!!!
GUESTS: Tom Shillue, Brian Stack, Christian Finnegan, Amelie Gillette, Chris Deluca, Paul Ford and Steve Burns
- RELATED:
- Corey’s Review: “Dry comedy at its best, How to Kick People is a fantastic event at Mo Pitkin’s…”
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- TIME: 7:30pm
PLACE: Mo Pitkins, Downstairs, 39 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
COST:$10 in advance, $12 at door
- SUMMARY:”From the stage to the page and beyond, Mortified stars everyday adults reading aloud their most embarrassingly real teenage diary entries, poems, letters, lyrics and locker notes… in front of total strangers.”
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- TIME: 7pm
PLACE: The Tank at Collective: Unconscious, 279 Church St, between Franklin and White
COST:$5 minimum ($10 suggested)
- SUMMARY:”Fully improvised episodes, based on the original series of Star Trek. Phasers and Sideburns, and Klingons Oh My! Welcome Trekkies, Welcome Noobies, Welcome all those who know funny when they see it… Live Long and…Laugh”
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- TIME: 6:30-8:30pm
PLACE: The Lighthouse International Theater, 111 East 59th St between Park and Lexington
COST: $25
- SUMMARY: “Join award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates for an in-depth conversation about her new novel, “The Gravedigger’s Daughter,” and the many highlights of her 40-year career creating best-selling novels (”them,” “We Were the Mulvaneys,” “Blonde”), short stories, poems and nonfiction, plus mysteries written as Rosamond Smith.”
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- TIME: 6:30pm
PLACE: The Explorers Club, 46 East 70th St between Park and Madison
COST: $20
- SUMMARY: “Join Professor John Chamberlain, Chairman of the Department of Geology at Brooklyn College, as he takes you on a journey through the geological record to explore the history of sharks, searching on land and sea for clues to their ancestry, environments, and role in the ecosystem.”
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- TIME: 11am-8pm
PLACE: Chipotle, 100 Maiden Lane at Pearl St
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: $5 Donation gets you a burrito and drink. 100% of the proceeds go to benefit Futures and Options, Inc, a not-for-profit educational program based in Lower Manhattan, which places New York City high school juniors and seniors in supervised and paid semester internships throughout the city.
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- TIME: 10pm (This event happens EVERY LAST TUESDAY)
PLACE:Galapagos, 70 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg
COST:FREE
- SUMMARY:New York’s baddest ukelele-strumming duo host a monthly Galapagos extravaganza of music and comedy.
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- TIME: 9:30pm
PLACE:The Peoples Improv Theatre, 154 W. 29th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave
COST:$5
- SUMMARY:”Cool Kids Club is a raucous live commentary show on vintage educational shorts. You’ll laugh as you learn about everything from personal hygiene to the rubber industry. It’s a can’t-miss-public-domain-laugh-riot starring Jeff Rubin (CollegeHumor.com), Dan Hopper (A Week of Kindness), Matt Esolda (matthewkpresents.com), Kevin Haulihan (Best Week Ever), and Steve Menegozzi (thisisalow.com). Holy crap have you gotta see this show.”
“From the mind of writer-performer Daniel Raymont whose DNA stems from retail royalty and revolutionary politics, comes a multi-culti panorama of pitch-perfect impersonations. It’s seven characters in 30 minutes. A hilarious tale of fashion, commerce and revolution spiced with incomparable
wit.”
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- TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY LAST TUESDAY)
PLACE: Last Exit Bar, 136 Atlantic Ave, between Clinton and Henry, downtown Brooklyn
COST: $5 suggested donation
- SUMMARY: “Other Means is a reading series that strives to initiate and encourage meaningful relationships between New York City writers, lit fans, and community organizations. Each month, three writers collectively choose a local community organization to support. You’ve never begun such a meaningful relationship in a bar.”
THIS MONTH: Philip Nobel, Karrie Jacobs, Martin Pederson. In Support of the Hester Street Collaborative, a design and build non profit organization created to improve the physical enviornment in underserved NYC communities.
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- TIME: 7pm
PLACE: Linder Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St
COST: $20
- SUMMARY: “Learn about the intertwining of wine and culture in this tasting led by Louisa Thomas Hargrave, Stony Brook University Center for Wine, Food, and Culture. Hargrave, a vintner, wine judge, and author, will discuss the history of winemaking and current trends in production and consumption.” Includes tasting.
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- TIME: 6:30pm (This event happens EVERY LAST TUESDAY)
PLACE: Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St
COST: $12
- SUMMARY: “On the last Tuesday of each month, enjoy a live presentation under the brilliant stars of the Zeiss Mark IX Star Projector. This tour of the heavens offers a view of the constantly changing night sky. Learn about the current positions of the Moon, planets, and stars, as well as visual spectacles such as meteor showers, eclipses, and conjunctions.”
THIS WEEK: Parade of Planets
- RELATED:
- Anthony’s Review: “…the planetarium is a treasure that far too few New Yorkers take advantage of…”
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See an UNCOOLKID take it all off!!!
- TIME: 10pm
PLACE:Galapagos, 70 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: “Gideon [aka Geek on the Street] gets all busy on stage, shaking his man-stuff like its EVERYBODY’S business, set to the rip-roarin’ tunes of Jerry Lee Lewis. Gideon needs YOUR hoots, hollers, squeals of shock and delight and occassional drunken innapropriate comments! Hope to see you there!”
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- TIME: 9:30pm
PLACE:Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St between East 4th and Astor Place
COST:$17 in advance, $20 at door
- SUMMARY:”Real life circus composer Sxip Shirey curates a night of incredible entertainment at Joe’s Pub. Featuring nine acts and 17 performers, the show includes the only all-male double contortion act in the United States, a DJ who spins on Victrolas, The Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad (as seen in a recent Moby video), human beat boxers, a juggler and the amazing impossible music of Sxip Shirey himself.”
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- TIME: 8pm
PLACE: Upright Citizen’s Brigade, 307 W 26th St between 8th and 9th Ave
COST: $5
- SUMMARY: “Twenty years ago, director Menahem Golan and Sylvester Stallone had a dream. Their dream was to tear down the wall between arm-wrestling movies and truck-driving movies. Come to the UCB Theatre this Memorial Day, as the Wednesday Night Brew Crew proudly presents a celebration of all things “Over The Top” featuring live arm wrestling, interviews with co-stars David Mendenhall (Michael Hawk) and Jimmy Keegan (Red-Headed Bully), and lots of love. Yes, there will be audience participation! And yes, there will be prizes! “
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