Competition
If all other plans fail, remember that nothing is as fun as winning. To satisfy your craving for intellectual sparring, head over to the Bowery Poetry Club for its Book-in-Hand Reading Group, where discussion centers on the classics. It’s not officially a contest to make the smartest comment, but we all know that’s what Read More
Food and Drink
Nothing justifies binge drinking like a little booze knowledge to toss around. And with the wealth of educational options this week, you’ll have no excuse for ignorant drunkenness. For instance, at the Brandy Library, spirit school head Ethan R. Kelley will be giving a seminar on “precious and rare scotch.” Even Read More
Readings
With the summer just about at the halfway point, the future is nearer and scarier than ever. Guiding us through dystopia will be Ray Bradbury, appearing via Skype at McNally Jackson bookstore. The science fiction writer, almost 90 years old, will speak with his recent biographer, Sam Weller, who will read from Listen Read More
Events
We find ourselves with some free-floating festive impulses that the Fourth of July did not satisfy, so thank God for Bastille Day. How better to celebrate than a reading sponsored by Noon and Gigantic, featuring (among others) Witz author Joshua Cohen? We are genuinely uncertain what Bastille Day festivity should involve (beyond cheese, accordions Read More
Movies
This week, “Movies With a View” screens Annie Hall in Brooklyn Bridge Park. There will also be a DJ set, which means: DIANE KEATON DANCE PARTY. Assuming that we’re also allowed to drink white wine, this is basically our ideal night out (Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.). And this is Read More
It’s Pride Week! The annual parade starts at noon Sunday and runs from 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue to Christopher and Greenwich. Heritage of Pride, the organizing body, gently reminds paradegoers: “The law prohibits nudity below the waist. Police will be present at The March and it is assumed that they will enforce Read More
Tilda Swinton produced I Am Love with director pal Luca Guadagnino, and she stars as the Russian-born matriarch of a wealthy Italian family who’s having an affair with her son’s friend. As this is a movie about illicit romance in Italy, there’s outdoor sex; as the son’s friend is a chef, there’s plenty Read More
Fresh off last month’s well-reviewed release of High Violet, formerly moody and mopey the National plays Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday the 16th. The Antlers, who have recorded a highly enjoyable album about cancer, will open (8 p.m., $39.50). As we do not have tickets to this concert, we will instead watch Read More
Summer is too hot for long hair, so let’s just chop it all off, go enjoy some movie theater air-conditioning and wish we looked like Jean Seberg. Film Forum is screening Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless through June 10th in honor of the movie’s 50th anniversary, complete with a restored print. This much we remember Read More
The entertainment of yore haunts Manhattan this week: Sex and the City 2 hobbles into theaters Thursday. This spectacle has nothing to do with our lives and so we plan to avoid it. As a general principle, though, we feel you can never go wrong with people or things of the past. On Wednesday the Read More
