Partisan Records
Mackenzie Scott, who performs as Torres, is an explosive singer. She has two shows over the next two months in New York.
GREAT SCOTT
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott, who performs as Torres, sings the praises of Bushwick. She moved there in 2013.
“It’s a chaos, but it’s a good chaos,” Scott says. “The home that I grew up in was morally very black and white. But in the gray area of Bushwick, I’ve learned to be OK with the unknown — the fact that we don’t know anything.”
Scott, 24, launches a world tour at Mercury Lounge on Friday in support of her second studio album, “Sprinter,” which mixes introspection and tumultuous instrumentals. Scott will then tour a bit and return to New York on July 22 for a show at Terminal 5.
Torres at Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St. , (212) 260-4700, June 26, 10:30 p.m.
Chris Sommerfeldt
Greater New York Councils, Boy S
This is the kind of action you’ll see at Sunday’s Pinewood Derby world championship in Times Square.
VROOM WITH A VIEW
Two of the biggest names in small-car racing are poised to face off once again at Saturday’s Pinewood Derby World Championship in Times Square.
Seven-year-old Brooklyn Cub Scout Lerrod “Roddy” Smalls II, has lost two consecutive races to bitter 8-year-old rival Giancarlo Costa — but promises a different outcome this time.
“I want to beat him!” says Smalls. “I’ve gotten this far and I really don’t want to lose. I worked really hard.”
Each year since 1953 participating scouts have received kits containing four plastic wheels, four nails for axles and a block of pinewood. With these materials, and not much else, they create model cars weighing five ounces or less that roll down an inclined track.
“The event celebrates the process of working with your hands and seeing a project from start to finish,” says Boy Scouts spokesman Ethan Draddy.
Times Square, Broadway and 46th St., Sat ., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For info, visit bsa-gnyc.org/championshippinewood.
Chauncey Alcorn
PRIDE AND JOY
Get loud and proud.
New York City Pride Week kicks off on Friday with The Rally featuring Ashanti and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Tituss Burgess at Hudson River Park’s Pier 26 at 7 p.m. Tix start at $ 25.
Cheer on the rainbow-colored racers circling Central Park on Saturday for the five-mile Front Runners New York LGBT Pride Run, starting at 8:30 a.m., followed by a post-race festival. Hudson River Community Sailing and Knickerbocker Sailing Association host the annual Stonewall Sails Regatta on the Hudson River in Chelsea. Then eyeball some real-life “Magic Mikes” at the Masterbeat “We Party: University”event in the Hammerstein Ballroom from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tix start at $ 100.
Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen are grand marshalls for the Pride March on Sunday, running down Fifth Avenue, across 8th Street and finishing along Christopher Street. The postparade PrideFest on Hudson and 14th streets includes live tunes, food and free performances.
Finally, Ariana Grande closes out the celebration at the Pier Dance atop Pier 26 on Sunday night. The party is sold out, but everyone can catch the fireworks.
Pride Week’s “Complete the Dream” theme feels especially fitting as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule on legalizing gay marriage nationwide. “This year embodies the serious yet celebratory nature of where we stand at this crossroads in LGBT history,” said NYC Pride’s managing director Chris Frederick. See nycpride.org for full schedule.
Nicole Lyn Pesce
Gersh Kuntzman
Artist Jonathan Blum works out of a storefront on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope. His work is the subject of a full retrospective this Saturday. It’s also a birthday party, truth be told.
PICTURE THIS
Here’s an artist who is still head and shoulders above everyone else.
Jonathan Blum , known as much for his whimsical forehead portraits as he is for his storefront studio on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, will host a retrospective Saturday. It spans 35 years and covers his work as a cartoonist and quirky portraitist of people and pets.
The show doubles as Blum’s 50th birthday party. “A kid comes into my studio the other day and he looks around and says, ‘So you do kids’ paintings for adults,’” Blum says. “I thought, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad way of putting it.’”
“Fifty Years of Jonathan Blum: A Retrospective,” ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Pl. , opens Sat., 7 p.m.-1 a.m. For info, go to jonathanblumportraits.com.
Gersh Kuntzman
SPLASHY
Everybody in!
A seasonal addition to Brooklyn Bridge Park is all wet — and that’s a good thing. A pop-up pool will be open Friday to Labor Day.
The capacity is 60. Wristbands for 45-minute swim sessions that run 10 a.m.-6 p.m. are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
You can find more info and rules at brooklynbridgepark.org.
Joe Dziemianowicz
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