Monday, June 29

around town today
just opened: photo/video/more thru ‘the female gaze: women look at women’ @ cheim + read gallery, free >>
thru 7/1: see gems from 30 yrs of secret policeman's ball (monty python, eddie izzard, more) @ fslc >>
dusk (lawn opens @ 5pm): ‘gold diggers of 1933’ (ruby keeler, ginger rogers) @ bryant park, free >>
6pm: james gavin on his veil-lifting lena horne bio ‘stormy weather’ @ hue-man books, free >>
6pm: religion-questioning anthology ‘believer, beware’ launches w. party, performances @ lpr, free >>
7pm: ‘rainbow connection: gay muppeteer richard hunt’ on the man + subtext behind elmo, miss piggy, janice… bluestockings, $1-5 sugg >>
7pm: ben greenman reads, signs 'please step back,' about a '60s funk icon @ b&n tribeca >>
7pm: choreographer trisha brown screens, talks about piece ‘for m.g.: the movie’ @ baryshnikov ctr, $10 >>
7pm: party for launch of king killer studios and xtrapulp + music + calexico tacos (1st 50 free!) @ bell house >>
9pm: superstar italian rapper jovanotti gets intimate + experimental on mondays @ nublu, $10 >>

coming up
7/12-31: nyc summer restaurant week. make your reservations now. >>
7/22-8/15: mark twain-inspired play ‘the report of my death’ aboard the docked lilac steamship, pier 40, $18 >>

sales, deals, freebies
buy one sundae, get one free (on mondays) @ ben + jerry's >>
manhattan users guide rounds up sales (3.1 phillip lim, y-3, a.p.c., more) >>
yoko deveraux closing, liquidation sale starts today ($5 t-shirts, $20 knits, $40 outerwear) >>
thru 7/5: clearance at bliss. save up to 75% on products from their line and others. 541 lexington/49th st >>
buy 2 get 1 free @ l’occitane >>
today only: more than 50% off all aerosoles shoes @ 6pm.com >>
pick a color, and glidden sends you a free quart of paint >>
free paper dolls. more than just a wee bit creepy. >>
free download: 16 favorite michael jackson remixes (by daft punk, kanye west…) @ the press play show >>
free mp3 download: school of seven bells' 'chain' >>