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Moonlight Bike RIde
2008-06-06 16:00:00
Time's Up, who bring you Critical Mass and other environmentally friendly bike rides invite you to join them for their Moonlight Ride tonight. Every first Friday of the month take a fun, relaxing, automobile free ride through Central Park. Enjoy the tranquillity of the park with bike guides at the front and rear of the group. Meet at 10pm at Columbus Circle, the SW corner of Central Park. And on the first Saturday of the month take a similar moonlight ride through Prospect Park. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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The Panty Raid
2008-06-06 16:00:00
Local wonderkid Cousin Cole (who's remixes are spun by everyone from Diplo to Hot97) celebrates his birthday tonight as his monthly residency, The Panty Raid . Joining in the fun is Chicago's Willy Joy (flybynight) and Erock. A great stop off if you're wondering Bedford Ave tonight and there's even a power hour beforehand (9:30) for like $15. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Beats Release Party
2008-06-06 16:00:00
Stussy and Turntable lab have colab'ed on this little here music/clothing project and tonight is the launch party with left-coast psych-hoppers Gaslamp Killer. Expect some esoteric abstract hip hop rooted in the good old boom-bat. Turntable Lab's own Egg Foo Young spins more accessible Gems. 21+ Kobwebs - The Gaslamp Killer featuring Gonjasufi Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Rockit!
2008-06-05 16:00:00
Tonight, in the seedy basement of Fat Baby Rockit ! will be featuring Bul!m!atron(Era Disco, LA), Zelenka featuring Meliss FX (L.a.), Unknown 23, and resident DJ Electrochris, spinning Electro, House, and Synth Pop. And if you are a late owl, stay out for the PBR open bar at 230 am! Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Music

Turntablist Sessions
2008-06-05 16:00:00
So you think you've got DJ skills. Head uptown tonight as "three decades of legendary party rockers, producers, battle champs and turntablists unite to cut, rock, beat juggle, scratch & transform the park" as this summer's Turntablist Sessions hosted by PopMaster Fabel of the legendary Rock Steady Crew. This week features 5th Platoon with DJs Daddy Dog, Roli Rho, & Neil Armstrong. All Ages Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Secret Hospital- Live from Budapest
2008-06-05 16:00:00
Michael Hartney (who is in every commercial for Spike TV and played a wrestling piece of cheese on a Nickelodeon show) and his hilarious sketch comedy comrades, Secret Hospital , bring a new one time only show to the PIT. Only 5 bucks, and deeply discounted beers at Mustang Sally's afterwards if you mention you were just at the PIT. Advanced tickets advised and available here. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Nerd Nite
2008-06-05 16:00:00
As most of you know from reading FreeNYC, every once and a while I like to nerd out on some science and all around geeky stuff. Lately I am finding more people of a similar dorky mindset. And apparently the people over at Angels and Kings do too as they host Nerd Nite. It's described pretty accurately as "like the Discovery Channel with beer." Tonight's Nerd Nite edition features a lesson what Chinese tattoos do and do not mean as you learn about Chinese characters, and you'll even find out why you should drink even more beer as Adam Kavalier talks about the anti-cancer ability and other healthy qualities of hops and beer. Full details of each discussion below. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Wakozi Open Bar
2008-06-05 16:00:00
Oh Kazaa... how I miss your 3am deliveries of Ben & Jerry's and beer (and a walkman if you needed such thing.) But alas the "get anything you want any time you want" internet delivery biz has been slow in NYC since folks like Kazaa and Urban Fetch went belly up. Enter, Wakozi, a middle man of sorts between you and your local delivery bodega. Celebrate the site launch today with a little party featuring two hours of Miller Lite (which needs to be served for two hours to get the alcohol content of one normal hour of open bar) and Fred Water. I guess that makes for a pretty cheap happy hour. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Open Bar , Open

DJ Vadim Instore
2008-06-05 16:00:00
When it comes to dedication, creativity, and all out skills, few can measure up to DJ Vadim. The man of a hundred styles and a thousand crates will be swinging through Halcyon Records in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO to bless the decks with a taste of his turntable antics. All Ages. Terrorist - Dj Vadim Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Domingo Quiñones y orquesta
2008-06-04 16:00:00
"Domingo Quiñones is considered to be one of the most complete singers in the contemporary salsa scene.  His music is romantic with a natural swing of Caribbean salsa.  In addition to being a well-rounded singer, he is also a composer, producer and actor." Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music

Coin w/ Kid Kameleon
2008-06-04 16:00:00
Yup, let's go through the list of names... Save the Robots, Guernica, Scenic, Midway, and now Rehab (did I miss any). I have a long, sorted history with the spot that is 25 Ave B. Now dubbed "rehab," they've become the home to Mike Dextro's new mid-weeker for techno-leaning electro: Coin . Thisis a special week as the unclassifiable DJ wonderkid, Kid Kameleon, shares the decks. More on Kameleon below. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Sean T. Hanratty Presents: Theater of Fools
2008-06-04 16:00:00
"Every first Wednesday of the month come see the greatest music show ever! Sean T. Hanratty Presents : Theater of Fools is a night of nonstop fun with live music, a multi-prize free raffle between sets and drink specials all night long. It¹s magical. Don¹t miss it... June will feature live music from Ursa Minor, Brook Pridemore, The Fools and Sean T. Hanratty. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music

Kiss and Tell Pretty in Pink Prom
2008-06-04 16:00:00
"Kiss and Tell is a girly after work cocktail party [and] each month has its own theme and guest DJs and performers are invited to perform. The party started three years ago as a place for Seze's coven of gothypants ladyfriends to get together to knit, have a few drinks, and, well kiss and tell. The party attracts a laid back crowd of techno hipsters, witchy ladies, and creative professionals who want to have a few drinks, hear amazing music, and meet like minded folks. Whoever tells the hostesses the sauciest kiss and tell secret of the night wins a fabulous prize. $mall ¢hange DJs and they are screening Pretty in Pink early. Plus photo boot, plus tarot cards. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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What's New Copycat?
2008-06-04 16:00:00
Dj Xerox spins crazy covers and rocking remixes of all the hits (rock, indie, old wave and new) [and] this week he's feelin a it of MJ. Plus, live sets from Von Iva and an all Michael Jackson set from Kindergarden. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music , Copycat

Museum Mile Festival
2008-06-03 16:00:00
Now in its 28th years, The Museum Mile Festival is the one time of year that nine of the country's finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually. Click here for map and schedule. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

The Tuesday Party
2008-06-03 16:00:00
The Tuesday Party weekly may now be called the Rock Party but thats fine, as long as you can get your 4-piece rock fix. Perfect party for when you want to sit down with your boys at the bar, listen to a band, and kick back beers midweek. Plus, open bar makes that easy on your wallet. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music

Pogo in Togo
2008-06-03 16:00:00
We're just gonna go with what we're told on this one but, come on, it's called Pogo in Togo ... how can you go wrong? "Supersonic audiovisual dance party featuring music from the farthest reaches of time and space. International, cinematic and ecstatic. Happens monthly at Cake Shop... and other points 'round the town." With music by Alias Pail, Bradford Reed, Paraguay Lo Fi, & live videos by YrFriendMatthew. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music

Peel it Back
2008-06-03 16:00:00
Gotta hand it to those Dark Room folks.. most places are barren on a Tuesday night but they seem to always have a decent crowd of rowdy LES folks. Maybe its the free mid-week booze, or maybe its the DJ sets. Whatever it is, if your looking to get down with a bunch of strangers tonight then this is the spot. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Open Bar , Back

Taste of Times Square
2008-06-02 16:00:00
The Times Square community takes to the streets this evening for the annual Taste of Times Square. For a mere dollar each you can sample tasting plates from some of the area's finer restaurants while street performers and local acts entertain on 3 stages. There's even a swing band and free dancing lessons from Swing46. All Ages Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Bugz in the Attic: Giant Step at The Hudson
2008-06-02 16:00:00
Those Giant Step cats do it again? bringing some of the worlds finest DJs to you on an otherwise drab Monday evening. Tonight's set features the UKs Daz-I-Kue from the Bugz in the Attic crew. Fan's of broken beat, jazzy breaks, and good old soulful house know that the Bugz - along with other contemporaries such as Jazzanova - have been pioneering these sub-genres across the pond for a while now. Their recent remix of Ruben Blades Plastico on the excellent Fania remix compilation is on constant rotation in my studio and a perfect example of the breath of their work (sample found here). Get your Monday dance on! 21+ Dont Stop The Music - Bugz In The Attic Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Blue Monday
2008-06-02 16:00:00
Blue Monday is a classic southern take on easing in your work week. A bourbon open bar can be dangerous, luckily there's some tasty BBQ available (not free) and live blues to keep you sedated if you can get out of work fast enough to hit the slope. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Open Bar , Blue , Blue Monday

Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
2008-06-02 16:00:00
The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series brings you some a arty short and a feature for your Monday night. The short comes in the form of Art in the Middle, a 30 minute tale that "reveals the unlikely relationship of California sculptor Bret Price and the town of New Bremen, Ohio." And the feature presents Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project which "captures the creative genius of French photographer and installation artist Georges Rousse and follows the artist and hundreds of volunteers during a September 2006 public art residency in Durham, North Carolina. The film reveals the complex process of creating Rousse's signature trompe l'oeil illusions of color and shape that ultimately become the stunning large format color photographs exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide." 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Urban Renaissance
2008-06-02 16:00:00
"The 'Urban Renaissance ' art exhibit will feature three of New York?s blossoming artists (Dister Rondon and Diana Reyes) and three of New York?s emerging photographers (Dwayne Rodgers, Barron Claiborne, Alaric Campbell). The event will be accompanied by a live dance performance from the Sybarite Dancers. The 'Urban Renaissance' will feature The DJ stylings of Tommy Bones, Jaquelyn Sommer and DJ DatKat as well as live paintings by Ibrahim Yahut along with MTV art battles winner, Concep." Oh, and there is some sort of open bar of an undisclosed type for an undisclosed amount of time. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Thrift On!
2008-06-02 16:00:00
It seems as New Yorkers, your apartment is always a finely aligned puzzle. And whenever you add something new, everything has to be reorganized for your new treasures. Well, sometimes things get left out of the adjustment and - if your like me - you end up with that pile of treasures buried in the corner of the room or back of the closet. Thrift On is a great way to share those beautiful bits with perfect strangers. Bring the stuff you don't want anymore, takes someone elses stuff home. Clothing is okay too. DJ Shakey and Man "S" spin 2nd hand records while you rummage and sip drinks. Sorry, 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Fringe

President Jackson
2008-06-02 16:00:00
Joe Dixon and Calvin Cato give you a short dose of comedy at this weekly evening of "comedians who've been doing it for a while and those just starting out." Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: President , Performing Arts , Jackson

Mafrika Music Festival
2008-06-01 16:00:00
"In the dead of winter, when your neighbor is blasting reggae as if the puke-colored slush on the ground were just irie with him, no one would blink if you kicked down his door and put a boot through his subwoofer. But at the third annual Mafrika Music Festival , the multi-culti grooves and riddims just mean that summer is finally here. This year's lineup features Israeli art-rock band Pink Noise, Burkina Fasoan vocalist Mai Lingani, Nigerian ensemble Zozo Afrobeat, Afro-soul Bostonians the Superpowers, hip-hop/rock weirdos Apollo Heights, and many others. There's something for everyone, so kick the season off proper with an all-day bashment in Marcus Garvey Park." All Ages. [via flavorpill] Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Live Music , Music Festival

King Britt at Sunday's Best
2008-06-01 16:00:00
The Sunday's Best series is bringing some pretty heavy hitting DJ names to the lovely Gowanus Canal this summer for a weekly, all ages, dance up with local food and brews. This weekend is a special free afternoon as Ovum's King Britt (original Digable Planets member and purveyor of smooth house and hip hop beats) swings through. Residents DJs Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin and Doug Singer play along. All ages. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

The BBQ
2008-06-01 16:00:00
Note: This party moved from Saturday due to rain. It is now on Sunday. The Subdrive crew has solved my biggest gripe with Hope Lounge (besides dancing on carpeting) the "no music outside during the BBQ problem." The solution... throw a daysidee BBQ jam with the DJs outside! And with a sweet line-up like DC electro-rockers Terror Dactel, HiDeaf, and Bradley D... its sure to be a good time and cheap dinner. And a pretty sweet Crooked Disco pre-party. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

CROOKED DISCO!! TAG TEAM NIGHT!
2008-05-31 16:00:00
Crooked Disco is back with their monthly one-room throw down dedicated to hands-in-the-air electronic goodness. It?s a very special tag team night this time around as Proper Villians (Jon [s] & Jesse Mann) and Sound Advice (K. Ross & Elsewhere) join residents DJ Morsy and DJ Kestar for a night of disco, electro, bmore, funky house, custom blends and who knows what else. Plus, we?re celebrating the release of Sound Advice?s new self-titled 12", so you?re sure to hear some exclusive new club bangers. Good Wood and the FPC guest host and help you get your party on all night and we kick things off with an open vodka bar at 10pm so don?t sleep! Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
More About: Night , Team

The Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic
2008-05-31 16:00:00
Do you ever wake up in the morning and say "Man, I wish I could go to a polo game today." Yeah, me either. But the folks over at Veuve Cliquot have been waiting for 70 years since the last polo match was played in NYC. Ralph Lauren's team, Blackwatch (including Nacho Figueras), is playing against Asprey team. Veuve Clicquot champagne bar will be open field-side during the event and picnics are allowed and encouraged. Free ferries run from Manhattan to Gov Island every 30 minutes. Family friendly! Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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