around town today
5pm: music, food, blondes: swedish midsummer celebration @ battery park city, free >>
7pm: time up's coney island cyclone ride = bike ride to coney for fireworks, free >>
today thru 9/6 7pm: minor league baseball fix: brooklyn cyclones season @ keyspan park >>
7:30pm: slam poetry + ‘bob marley of soca’: samantha thornhill, david rudder @ prospect park, free >>
7:30pm: pam tanowitz deconstructs ballet. 'be in the grey with me' + after-show toast @ dtw, $10 >>
8pm: 5 choreographers (inc. deganit shemy, yin yue) present new work @ dmac, $10 >>
8:15pm: insect life doc in amazing close-ups: ‘microcosmos’ (outdoor french ff) washington sq park, free >>
8:30pm: see ‘top gun’ on the intrepid flight deck (!), free >>
9:30pm: first coney island friday night fireworks of the season >>
9:30pm: when roman polanski was funny: ‘fearless vampire killers’ @ rubin museum, free w/ $7 bar min >>
11:30pm: ‘the costello show: a burlesque tribute to the other elvis’ @ joe's pub, $15 >>

sales, deals, freebies
4-6pm every thurs, fri: eat it raw @ water taxi beach: 50-cent clams/oysters/shrimp; beer/cocktails $3 + up. seaport >>
saturdays 12-6pm thru labor day: ava lounge @ the dream hotel has $2 bbq + drink specials >>
outdoor dining on a budget from metromix >>
another $1 slice @ zimari pizza (31 st bet park + lex) >>
thru 6/21: taschen warehouse sale: score gorgeous books 50-75% off >>
fri/sat: rag + bone sample sale starts at 60% off: dresses <$129, jeans <$79, much more. w.v. >>
summery grasshoppers wedges start at $16 @ 6pm.com >>
share a movie musical memory, win tix to lincoln center's movie musical marathon 7/3-5 >>
40% off all cds (incl. box sets) at new b+n @ 86 st/lex. + 20% off one item (thru 6/28) >>
amazon's 50 albums for $5 ea features antony + johnsons, eartha kitt, elvis costello, wrens >>
get electrelane's hazy 'the power out' for < $3 >>
ree mp3 download: juana molina's 'un dia' >>
free mp3 download: wfmu curates 13 ‘country go go’ classics >>