11am-4pm: free kayaking at brooklyn bridge's pier 1 >>
2-8pm: pools, slip 'n slide, beach volleyball, dodgeball, bands, djs: it's time for jelly's rock beach @ rockaway. free (rsvp req'd). >>
2-9pm (every sat thru 9/3): the second ps1 warm up party of the summer features four tet, faltydl, sbtkrt, more. $15. >>
3pm (every sat): enjoy an hour-long chamber music concert on a floating barge at the foot of the brooklyn bridge, free >>
3:30-6:30pm: mary tyler moore and bernadette peters host the 13th annual broadway barks dog and cat adopt-a-thon with help from a ton of broadway stars (sutton foster, john larroquette, bebe neuwirth, more). shubert alley, free. >>
5:30, 6:30pm (+ 7/23, 8/6): tappy hour = tap dance class in a bar! jimmy's no. 43. $20 admission includes a free drink. >>
6pm: meshell ndegeocello + muhsinah play this week’s garden party at weeksville heritage center, free ($5 sugg.) >>
6pm: ted leo + the pharmacists bring the rock to the southstreet seaport, free >>
6pm (thru 7/16): tonight's midsummer night swing features ray collins' hot club. lincoln center's damrosch park, $17. >>
6:30pm: harper blynn, elizabeth + the catapult and the bandana splits play mercury lounge, $12. >>
7:30pm: wu-tang clan's raekwon plus smif-n-wessum headline the lyricsists lounge at the prospect bark bandshell. free ($3 sugg. don.) >>
8pm: diamondsnake spit out hard rock at the rock shop’s first anniversary party $10 >>
8pm: play large-scale street arcade game shadowplay solo or as a team. john street church, free. >>
8pm (not 10pm as menitoned on the site): comedians scott moran and sara schaefer perform 30-minute sets at the creek and the cave (l.i.c.), free >>
8pm (thru 8/1): drama desk-nominated radiotheatre put on a ghastly good time at their 2nd h.p. lovecraft festival, featuring 40 of lovecraft's stories told with an elaborate soundscape and original orchestral score. under st. marks theater, $15-18. >>
8pm (+ 8/27): rooftop dance performs selections on an warehouse roof, followed by a dj’d dance party. bushwick, $20. >>
8:30pm: roller derby double header! the brooklyn bombshells vs the dc all-stars, plus the queens of pain vs. philly's heavy metal hookers. hunter college sportplex, $19.99+. >>
ends today: tap dancing master savion glover graces the joyce, $10+ >>
sunday
vive la france! celebrate bastille day (a little early) in manhattan on 60th st and brooklyn along smith street. >>
11am-5pm (every second sunday thru october): the gourmet food truck bazaar returns to the hell’s kitchen flea market. trucks include gorilla cheese, rickshaw dumplings, red hook lobster pound, the cavity shoppe, more. >>
2pm: indie pop band pow wow! performs as part of the sound bite series at the seaport, free >>
3pm (weekly thru 8/14): the seaport music festival kicks off with cheesburger. future shows includes raveonettes, mission of burma, more. beekman beer garden at pier 17, free. >>
3-8:30pm (+ 7/24, 8/14, 9/11): the second 'kings county cookout' at east williamsburg's lady jay's offers $5 bbq plates (entree + 2 sides) and live tunes from eddie clendening + the blue ribbon boys >>
4-8pm: benefit and dictionary drive for books through bars at pete's candy store. donate a paperback dictionary, get a free beer or shot. $10 admission includes a plate of food (veggie and vegan options avail.). >>
7pm (weekly thru 8/7): swing the night away at hudson river park's moondance. dance lesson @ 6:30pm. pier 84 @ w. 44th st., free. >>
8pm: the trinity wall street chorus perform new music by missy mazzoli, nico muhly, and paola prestini. st. paul's chapel, free. >>
10pm: vhs lives! celebrate the format at 'destroy all vhs' with trailers, home movies, screening of friday the 13th: the orphan, more. nitehawk cinema, $11 >>
+ all weekend
7pm (thru 7/13): just in time for when 'it all ends here,' seven nights with harry potter at mmi, $12 >>
7pm (various days thru 7/24): new york classical theatre's free outdoor production of shakespeare's henry v takes you from battery park's castle clinton to governors island. part of the river to river festival. ferry wristbands available starting at 5pm. >>
8:45-11:45pm (thru 7/31): david michalek’s portraits in dramatic time is projected on an outdoor 85-by-45-foot screen at the david h. koch theater at lincoln center. free. >>
thru 7/11: moma looks at the career of filmmaker les blank (j’ai été au bal (i went to the dance), gap-toothed women, werner herzog eats his shoe, more). $10. >>
thru 7/14: a new 35mm print of the original planet of the apes (1968) makes its way to film forum, $12.50. >>
thru 7/14: a punk rock buddhist monk, a boy and his samurai, and king fu cannibals are among the thrills at this year’s new york asian film festival. fslc, $13. >>
thru 7/17: feast of the giglio = 124-year-old italian festival w. carnival rides, cannoli, lifting of a 3-ton statue of st. paulinus, more. our lady of mount carmel, williamsburg. >>
thru 7/17: bamcinématek pays tribute to marilyn monroe with 14 films: gentlemen prefer blondes (1953), the seven year itch (1955), some like it hot (1959), more. $13. >>
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