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Recommended art stuff
Most, but not all galleries are closed Sunday and Monday and usually open 11-6
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Andy Warhol-The Last Ten Years retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. The first Saturday of the Month its free.
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Tension: New Works on the Rise
Kristin Ashley, Eric Kniss, Heath Montgomery, Sam Peck, christian.ryan, Melissa Sullivan, Matthew Thomason and Liliya Zalevskaya
Exhibition dates: August 05–22, 2010
Aug. 23–Sept. 08
Gallery closed
CHRISTINA RAY
30 Grand Street . NYC (map)
A/C/E to Canal Street




Friday, August 20, 2010
HULLABALOO Fri Aug20 w/DEVA, Othermen, Twin Guns, more @ Bruar Falls
245 Grand St
Brooklyn, NY
I hereby trumpet the next occurrence of the most holy and righteous Hullabaloo happening on Friday, August 20th, 2010 at BRUAR FALLS in the burgh of William, Brooklyn City.
We have a literally once-in-a-year bill topped by the excellent DEVA, who are NOT necessarily men (no!) but rather WOMYN fronting an excellent Devo revival band, complete with choreographed jerking and pitching, costumes and god knows what els...e (Booji Girl? Don't be surprised). This will be your only chance in YOOL 2010 to check this experience, so don't you miss it!
Brooklyn's own OTHERMEN will also perform with their fantastical new 'mark 2' lineup featuring the most right reverend HEARTLOCK on keyboards. This show will serve as the opening day of Killer Diller season as the Othermen's first LP on said label of record will be available at this show! Order your pizzas now!
They will be most ably supported by the double-barreled action music of TWIN GUNS, who continue to blast away at the crumbling infrastructure of a sleepy new york scene with their glorious two-headed thrash.
Not to mention that the legendarily impossible-to-book HEADLESS HOOKERS will be opening with gospel-inflected punk fuzz... a booking 3 years in the making!
What more do you want? DJs?
You'll be visited by three:
Shimmy, Charles Gaskins and special guest Seanzi Dirtbag (Othermen) !
They'll be spinning... forever and ever amen!
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Detroit Cobras and Heavy Cream play a rocks off boat cruise.
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http://www.bit.ly/madonnabay
Celebrate: A Madonna Birthday Party with Crooked Disco
It’s time for another Crooked Disco celebration for someone near and dear to our music hearts, someone who has helped defined all things Crooked Disco. I’m speaking of none other than the Queen of Pop, Madonna! Join DJs Kester and Morsy this Friday for an NYC feast of Madonna classics, remixes, mash-ups, influenced artists and associated club-kid classics. There’ll be free drinks for the best Vogue-ers and a special infusion of 80s/90s New York house music to keep you moving to all night long. It’s still free and we’ve still got drink specials (below) for you. Get your requests in now by leaving your favorite Madge songs in the comments below. More details and a proper flyer to come.
DRINK SPECIALS:
$5 wells drinks from 10-11
$3 Rolling Rock Cans all night
$30 Six-pack “bottle service”
+ the very special “Bootsy Collins” cocktail
The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St bet Thompson and Sullivan
10:00pm – 4:00am
Free!
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at brooklyn bowl
Tickets $5.00 - $7.00 MADONNATHON – The 9th Annual MADONNA Birthday TributeLIVE performances by Cathy Cervenka , Amber Martin, Militia, Kiki Hawkins, Bridget Everett,, Tammy Faye Starlite, Mark Rinzel, Emily Strigl, Michal the Girl, The Material Boys + Dozens more TBA Fri 8/20
Brooklyn Bowl
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
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Skateistan Benefit: Alison and Garrison tricked out some boards to raise monies for productive projects in Afghanistan.
The main details:
1. Only 100 tickets for $40 so I imagine they will go quickly and once they are gone, that's it.
2. Event is this Friday night, August 20th, at the Red Bull Space at 40 Thompson in Soho from 9pm-12am.
3. Price includes an open bar.
4. There will be a live band, the Golden Pony, and old school DJ Ted Shred, a well known fixture on the skate and music scene.
To buy tickets, here's the link:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122922
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from the nonsense list
Sky Box End of Summer Variety Show
Monthly Variety Shows are extra special because they happen every month. After a huge success in July with our largest crowd ever and a write up in the New York Times, we've put together an all new line up of all-star aerial acts for August. Whether your missed last month's epic show or you want to come back for more, August's show is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss about aerial is about. Featuring Sky Box co-founder Jordann Baker and burlesque and trapeze wonder Harvest Moon, this month's show will also include doubles lyra, corde lisse, rope, silk, trapeze and whatever surprises MC Kae Burke has up her sequined sleeves!
The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, at Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
8p doors, 9p show; $10
theskybox.org
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at galapagos in DUMBO
Floating Kabarett
First 25 free / $5 at the door afterward
Hosted by Olga & Bjorn
http://www.theatrereverb.org
FREE HAIRCUTS by Brooklyn stylist SOONJI
Come get your sexy new 'do on your Saturday night out!
Featuring:
Jenny Rocha (dance)
Brian Newman (music)
Lisa Natoli (Aerial)
Madame Rosebud + Marlo (Burlesque)
Sean Blue (Circus)
Doors: 10:00 PM | Show: 10:30 PM
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Free at ottos shrunken Head-
10 PM REBEL NIGHT
NYC's only Rockabilly (50's Rock n' Roll) Party.
Listen to good music, show off your vintage clothing and dance Jive, Bop and Stroll (Beginners who want to learn should come early)!
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Lady Dawn presents:
SUBWAY SOUL CLUB
Friday August 20 - 10 PM to 4 AM
with DJs
Leah Legosi
Ambassador Hazy
Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus
at
THE LOFT
70 N. 6th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC
$6 cover

Saturday, August 21, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 6:00 PM
After Party for the Fort Greene Park Literary Festival
Music, refreshments, and signing with Festival authors and hosts
The 6th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival will present a free outdoor reading on August 21st at 3:00 PM at the top of the park, featuring young writers (seven to eighteen-year-olds) reading alongside six poets who have appeared at the annual Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica and in the anthology So Much Things to Say: Kwame Dawes, Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Carl Hancock Rux, Patricia Smith, and Cheryl Boyce Taylor. Created by the wonderful Fort Greene nonprofit organization New York Writers Coalition, this exciting event brings several generations of writers together to build on the rich literary traditions of the neighborhoods surrounding beautiful Fort Greene Park.
Greenlight is honored to be the alternate "rain venue" for the event, and to welcome all of the authors and audience to the bookstore after the event for music, mingling, refreshments, and a chance to purchase copies of So Much Things to Say and get them autographed by the featured authors.
Greenlight Bookstore | 686 Fulton Street | Brooklyn | NY | 11217
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The Rumblers
Location Union Pool - 484 Union Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
Petrol, Chrome, Flames, Burning Rubber and Rock 'n' Roll!
Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 are stoked to be playing
The Rumblers 10th Annual Kustom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills show.
...with :
The Arkhams,
Al and The Black Cats,
Those Hatred Hearts
Rehab For Quitters
the King Knobs
Gentlemen start your engines!!! Gals blush that booze-wah!
Believe we are on about 7.30pm.... will update you with times as soon as I know...
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SATURDAY AUGUST 21 at 3:00pm
--ZANN (hc-germany!)
--BLACK KITES (hc-nj)
--FULL OF HELL (heavy hardcore-Maryland)
7 buck punk rock matinee at
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697
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Mods Love Rockers
Saturday, August 21 at 10:00pm
Location: Beauty Bar Brooklyn
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SONS & HEIRS (A TRIBUTE TO THE SMITHS & MORRISSEY) PLAYING LIVE
WITH A DJ SET BY ANDY ROURKE OF THE SMITHS
SATURDAY AUGUST 21 AT BROOKLYN BOWL
FREE WITH RSVP: CLICK HERE
http://newyork.going.com/thesmithslive#
When you arrive, tell the doorperson you are on the GBH guest list.
Brooklyn Bowl: 61 Wythe Ave (between N11 and N12)
Doors at 9pm. 21+ with I.D.
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at southpaw
Saturday, 8/21
CouchSurfing Festival with Locksley / Julius C / Raccoon Fighter
18+ w/ ID
admission: $10
door time: 8pm
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8/21 - Sailor Jerry Presents The Giraffes & Fresh Kills @ 217 Houston St.
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from the nonsense ny list
Wonder Wheel Music Marathon
Deb Noble Blue Stingray. With Reverb Galaxy, Sean Kershaw and the Terrible Twos, Strange But Surf, the Octomen, Superbug, and Alien Surfer Babes (debut) with the Octomen.
12th Street, on the boardwalk, in front of Deno's Wonder Wheel, Brooklyn
2-8p; $free
917 748 9205
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ASOBI SEKSU
--- Golden Triangle
--- Food Vendors by Greenpoint Food Market
presented by creators of :
BKLYN YARD
Saturday, August 21st
6pm - 9pm
$15 Adv
383 President St.
Across Street from former BKLYN Yard
Brooklyn, NY
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Free at ottos shrunken Head-
Perhaps the last show of Trauma Team 666? A very fun horror rock punk band
LIVE MUSIC
10PM ANIMAL FARM
11PM AFTERBIRTH
12AM TRAUMA TEAM 666
1AM SASQUATCH AND THE SICK-A-BILLIES
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Banging The Door
The Fifth Estate
506 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
DJ's Mike Dextro, Allan Dias, Ole' Koretsky and guests
1st and 3rd Saturdays every month
The Fifth Estate
506 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Every first and third Saturday, at The Fifth Estate, resident DJ Mike Dextro hosts a night of post punk, electro, disco, pop and rock with rotating resident DJ's Allan Dias and Ole' Koretsky.





Sunday, August 22, 2010
at don pedros-a great show!
Sun 8/22
8:00 PM Electric Tickle Machine, Shark?, Weekends, Food Stamps, Lost Boy, The Runaway Suns, Adult Themes, The Back CCs
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Sadly this show is cancelled....
Sun 8/22
3:00 PM The Specials, Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears, $mall Change
Central Park Summerstage All Ages free
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Volkswagen Traffic Jam Classic VW Car Show
More than 75 vintage Volkswagens roll onto Governors Island for a first-of-its-kind car show and picnic that is open to all. Meet beetles, buses, Things, dune buggies, and other colorful, classic VWs from the 1950s–1970s and the drivers who love them. People's Choice wins this car show and spectators attend free. So come vote on your favorites and picnic with us for a day of VDub love, food, drink, music, events, and more.
Governors Island
Leave from the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan every half hour and from Pier 6 at Atlantic Avenue every 15 minutes
10a-4p, 2:30p awards
718 857 9022
volkswagentrafficjam.com
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jellynyc pool party at east river state park
AUGUST 22nd - Curated by Fools Gold
Chromeo
SECRET SPECIAL GUEST!
The Suzan
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blues and bbq
Sunday, Aug 22, 2-9pm, rain or shine
Hudson River Park’s Pier 54 at W.14th St. FREE
2:30pm
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King Band
3:45pm
Janiva Magness
5pm
Joe Louis Walker featuring
Murali Coryell
6:15pm
Teeny Tucker Review
7:30pm
Cyril Neville
Back for the 11th year, Hudson River Park's Blues BBQ brings the best blues bands from across the country together with the finest New York City BBQ restaurants for a fantastic day on the river!
Program is subject to change.
Brother Jimmy’s BBQ
Char No.4
Dinosaur Bar B Que
Fatty ‘Cue
Telephoned
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Clean out your closets
New York City
SWAP-O-RAMA-RAMA is Here!
http://www.swaporamarama.org
Sunday August 22nd
Nuyorican Poets Cafe: 236 East 3rd Street (B/C)
11am to 4pm
contact: theabomb@superstopandswap.com with any questions or
visit our local blog: http://www.superstopandswap.com/
$10 adults / $5 kids + bag of your clean unwanted clothing (minimum 4 articles of clothes)
Monday, August 23, 2010
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Greenlight Bookstore | 686 Fulton Street | Brooklyn | NY | 11217
Monday, August 23, 7:30 PM
Blogger/Author Pairings Series
Author Marcy Dermansky reads and discusses Bad Marie with blogger Lizzie Skurnick of Old Hag
Introduction by series curator Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com
Our monthly Blogger/Author Pairings series features a noted local blogger interviewing an author whose themes resonate for them. Blogger, author, critic and poet Lizzie Skurnick is the creator of the literary blog Old Hag, a Forbes Best of the Web pick. Author Marcy Dermansky has published short stories and film criticism as well as an acclaimed previous novel, Twins; her new novel Bad Marie is the story of an irresistible, husband stealing, baby snatching, underachieving ex-con, and has been praised by Mary Robison, Frederick Barthelme and Ben Greenman among many others. Marcy and Lizzie talk about transgressive fiction and wearing various writerly hats tonight at Greenlight.
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at mercury lounge
Mon 8/23
Late Show
Doppelganger
10:00
Vs. Antelope
9:00



Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Copycat, a night of cover songs presents
PSYCHO!
A Tribute to the Sonics with the Back C.C.'s, The Dirty Shames, and super duper special guest DJ Phast Phreddie.
$5 Sonic Blue Cocktails all night
Dj Xerox and super special Guest DJ Phast Phreddie spincrazy covers and rocking remixes of all the
hits (Garage, rock, soul, old wave and new)
PLUS Live music acts in the back room. Some
of your favorite artists play cover versions of their favorite songs along with original tunes.
Tonights bands
The Back C.C.'s
The Dirty Shames
NO COVER
Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday!
at Ottos Shrunken Head, 538 East 14 Street, Near avenue B
10 pm to 4 am
L Train to First Avenue
Copycatnyc.com
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book reading
FISH OUT OF AGUA by MicheleC: www.michelecarlo.com
Join us for a reading/signing of the book, plus some surprises! Watch a (short) trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?V-c7FnSEK3W0c
WHAT: Manhattan Launch Party for FISH OUT OF AGUA, hosted by LES Stories' H.R. Britton!
WHEN: Wednesday, August 25th, 6:30-8-30pm
WHERE: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street (off Delancey Street)
PRICE: FREE! Drinks & snacks; including our world-famous Triple X Coquito!
www.tenement.org
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from 3rd ward but not at 3rd ward
All-you-can-eat New Orleans Fare at Goods // Buy your tix today!
Wednesday, August 25, 6 p to 11 p, Corner of Lorimer St. & Metropolitan Ave.
Burgers, hot dogs, fries...we'll pretty much eat anything Chef Alex McCrery of Goods feeds us. But we get a special thrill every time we read a @GoodsFoodBK tweet about food from his hometown of New Orleans.
Now we don't have to obsessively check our phones for these tasty updates because next Wednesday, August 25th, Goods is hosting an all-you-can-eat feast featuring Chef Alex's takes on great NOLA classics.
For just $25, you can get unlimited portions of:
- Bobo Farms chicken & andouille jambalaya
- Juicy corn-fried oysters
- Fresh-from-the-fryer beignets
- Homemade iced tea & lemonade
Plus, New Orleans-style live music. Buy your tickets for this one-night only event here http://tastingtable.com/nyc/sweepstakes.htm?sweepstakesID=132 now. Limited ticket


Thursday, August 26, 2010
TAROT OF THE BOROUGHS by CourtneyW: www.tarotoftheboroughs.com
Join us for an evening of performances by several of our models, including: Imakhu Mwt Shekemet, Francis “Faceboy” Hall, Master Lee and Chink Floyd, and more. Plus readings by dynamic Witches, raffle giveaways of the new deck, and Q & A with the creators. The deck will be there and available for purchase.
WHAT: Launch Party for TAROT OF THE BOROUGHS
WHEN: Thursday, August 26th, 8-9:30pm
WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (btw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.)
PRICE: TBD Sweet snacks by the Queen of Coins herself!
www.bowerypoetry.com
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The August Cannoli Crawl.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144658538899646
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free at ottos
Thu Aug 26
8 PM SUSQUEHANNA INDUSTRIAL TOOL & DIE CO.
8PM SUSQUEHANNA INDUSTRIAL TOOL AND DIE CO.
Tis the last Thursday of the month -- and that means SIT & Die returns to Otto’s for our monthly residency, all shiny and slickered up. Two big and bawdy shows are in store, from 8:00 sharp until 10:00, along with salty snacks, DJ "Son of Scratchy" and no cover charge!