saturday
free art opening:
ian trask ‘blister pact’ @ the invisible dog (thru 4/11) >>color>
10am-6pm: mike carbo’s 20th annual new york comic book marketplace comes to penn plaza pavilion with 35 vendors, plus panel discussions and guests including roddy piper, jake ‘the snake’ roberts, comic book men, scott shiaffo (clerks), taimak (the last dragon), bill plympton, and more. $20 admission (autographs extra). >>color>
10:30am-6pm: join others for live screenings of tedxmanhattan’s ‘changing the way we eat’ sustainable food conference, which will feature speakers including farmers, restauranteurs, food writers and nutritionists. various locations, free. >>color>
11am-7pm: enjoy free snacks and drinks at the grand opening of the bucketfeet artist-designed footwear studio in nolita. 266 elizabeth st. (bet. houston + prince), free (rsvp). >>color>
12pm: nyt staff reporter mary pilon stops by the uncommons board game cafe to read and discuss her book, the monopolists: the story of obsession, fury, and scandal behind the world’s favorite board game. free. >>color>
12pm: 10 bands play baby’s all right’s first annual wake + bake festival. $5. >>color>
12-2pm (monthly): make a succulent planter at the greenpoint hand skills meetup. materials and tools will be provided, and all skill levels are welcome. greenpoint library, free (rsvp requested). >>color>
12-6pm: 40 artists and small presses gather at the nyc feminist zinefest for zine selling, readings and workshops. barnard college’s barnard hall, free admission. >>color>
12-6pm (monthly): 20+ cruelty-free vendors sell cheese, fudge, donuts, ice cream sammies, hot dogs, sandwiches, skin care products and more at the vegan shop-up pop-up market. pine box rock shop, free admission (under 21 must be accompanied by a parent of guardian). >>color>
5, 7pm: this is your brain on yoga: see how yoga impacts your mind, with brain scans before and class. bring your own mat, cash only. babycastles, $18-20 scan only, $35-40 class + scan. >>color>
5-11pm: this month’s free target first saturdays at the brooklyn museum celebrates women’s history month with an evening of music, film, and more. food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. free admission. >>color>
7pm (monthly): dana rossi’s soundtrack series, where writers, musicians, actors and comics tell stories they associate with songs of their choosing, returns to q.e.d. astoria. $5. >>color>
7pm: stream gallery hosts a free screening of director garry sykes’s uk teen dramedy, drunken butterfliescolor>, along with an exhibition of behind the scenes images and video, art and zines. >>color>
7pm (ends today): the sixth annual avant music festival of experimental music features works from cage, gibson, matthusen, and uzuri. the wild project, $15 general, $10 students. >>color>
7pm doors, 8pm show: comedian dan licata presents a night of comedy + rock n roll at palisades, with live music from low fat getting high, flagland, and washer, plus comedians chris gethard (the chris gethard show), joe pera (comedy central), and shakir standley (last comic standing). $5. >>color>
7pm-1am (fri-sat, weekly): the weekly brooklyn night bazaar night market brings bands, food, drinks, vendors, light installations, mini golf, ping pong and skee-ball to a 24,000 sq ft warehouse. this week’s live music comes from brother joscephus and the love revolution, stumblebum brass band, underground horns, the world, inferno friendship society, runny, joey steel and the attitude adjusters, and penguin. free admission. >>color>
7:30pm: contemporaneous, a 21-member ensemble, marks its fifth anniversary with a program of new music at the dimenna center for classical music. free. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show: glass ghost and stranger cat play knitting factory. $10. >>color>
8pm: iktus percussion hosts the firehouse new music series series at the firehouse space. $10. >>color>
8pm: ekphrasis: a group of ten writers and artists who’ve been paired up will exhibit and read their new works at shoestring press gallery. hosted by emily niland and kate mooney. free. >>color>
8pm: ski lodge, life size maps, mirror kisses, soft spot, and love spread play nola darling. $7. >>color>
8pm doors, 8:30pm show: (weekly): the show/tell show mixes show + tell with stand up comedy at over the eight. tonight’s performers include lukas kaiser (chappelle’s show), steve desiena, sarah tollemache, brandon scott wolf, robert dean, and casey james salengo. hosted by christian polanco. optional: bring something to show + talk about for a chance to win $20 cash (the first five to sign up get a free drink ticket). free. >>color>
8pm doors: the wretched 90s queer party pays tribute to nirvana with bands and dj shomi noise. don pedro, $5 before 10pm, $7 after. >>color>
9pm (weekly): folks relive their most embarrassing sexual experiences at natalie wall’s ‘awkward sex… and the city’ storytelling show. tonight’s tales come from amber nelson (comedy central, time out’s ‘comics to watch’), sabrina jalees (comedy central), will miles, and lucas connolly. the museum of sex, $15 adv or at the door when you mention the skint (reg. $20). >>color>
9pm: hear ‘the dirtiest, most unsafe for prime time jokes, bits, and riffs’ at the dirty show stand-up comedy show. q.e.d. astoria, $5. >>color>
9pm: iris lune plays a free concert at bamcafé. >>color>
9:30pm (monthly thru 7/11): gas station horror: hosts j. w. crump and jordan hirsch show 30-second scenes from b-horror films purchased from gas stations and bodegas, which are then finished by improvisors. plus, giveaways, raffles, and trivia. the pit, $10 general, $1 students. >>color>
10pm-4am: depeche mode fan club new york throws its first dance party of the year at slake. $10 adv, $15 door. >>color>
10:30pm: sex with betsy and alise: an all-female, sex-positive comedy show features stand up from michelle wolf (seth meyers), jena friedman (the daily show), anna drezen (reductress), and halle kiefer, anonymous sex questions answered by jo firestone (‘punderdome 3000 host’, wfmu), girls with brown hair and sandy honig, an interview with retired porn star lisa ann, and a dance performance by cocoon central dance team. hosted by alise morales and betsy kenney. coco66, $3 admission includes a dirty goodies raffle ticket and benefits the reproductive health access project. >>color>
10:30pm: happy karaoke fun time = a musically improvised show where lyrics are made up on the spot. the annoyance theatre + bar, $5. >>color>
11pm-4am (monthly): the glamdammit crew’s party features bands, djs playing punk, rock and glam rock jams, an open pbr bar (11pm-midnight). the grand victory, $7. >>color>
11:30pm-4am (monthly): the mondo dance party rocks out indie, britpop, post-punk, girl group jams, and more at cameo. $3 with facebook rsvp, $5 without. >>color>
midnight-ish movies:
demons @ nitehawk. $11. >>color>
she shoulda said no! (fri) and the master touch (sat) @ spectacle. $5. >>color>
sleeper and the room @ landmark sunshine. $10. >>color>
the babadook @ ifc. $14. >>color>
the duke of burgundy @ ifc. $14. >>color>
the rolling stones – charlie is my darling – ireland 1965 @ ifc. $14. >>color>
ends sat: the 17th annual craic festival of new irish music and film, which includes a liam neeson q+a gala, includes after parties every night with free stella artois beer. tribeca cinemas and mercury lounge, $15-30. >>color>
sunday
2am: bring on the spring! daylight savings time begins today.
11am-5pm: the first ridgewood market of the year returns with 40+ independent and local vendors. free admission. >>color>
11:30am-5pm: brush up on your technique at 92y’s guitar fest. free (rsvp required). >>color>
1-4pm: learn how to make miniature egg dioramas and amigurumi at nyc resistor’s make-along workshop. $10. >>color>
2pm: emerging writers discuss the business of writing — paying the bills, discipline, reading, and more — at ‘the hustle,’ a new discussion series at word bookstore. free. >>color>
2pm (+ 3/9 @ 7pm): for the benefit of miss jennie gourlay: billy hipkins’s one-man serio-comedic production takes a look at the life of jennie gourlay, an actress who was poised to star at ford’s theater when abraham lincoln was assassinated. $9 plus ticket fees herecolor> (reg. $18 general, $10 students/seniors). >>color>
2pm (monthly): the mannes college new school for music’s schneider concerts season continues with the hermès quartet performing haydn, schumann, and schubert. $17.50 general, $15 seniors, $5 students. >>color>
2:30pm: the international women’s day march for gender equality and women’s rights marches from dag hammarskjöld plaza (47th st. @ 2nd ave.) to times square (42nd st. @ 7th ave.). >>color>
4pm doors, 5pm show: alfred hitchock’s rear window (1954), starring james stewart, grace kelly, wendell corey, and raymond burr, screens at the united palace of cultural arts, with an introduction by critic lou lumenick. free. >>color>
5pm: ensemble acjw performs beethoven and brahms at a free carnegie hall-sponsored concert at our saviour’s atonement lutheran church in washington heights. >>color>
5-10pm (monthly): this month’s second sunday open studios at red hook’s pioneer works features site-specific installations, interviews, music and more. free ($10 suggested donation). >>color>
6:30pm doors: desert noises and such hounds play merecury lounge. $10. >>color>
7:30pm: the night shift theater’s drunken shakespeare = shakespeare readings, karaoke-style, in a bar. 310 bowery bar room, free. >>color>
8pm (weekly): the ‘if you build it’ comedy show with host kara klenk features stand-up by sheng wang (john oliver, comedy central), aparna nancherla (conan, last comic standing), kevin mccaffrey (letterman), liza treyger (chelsea lately), brandie posey, jake head, and dwight simmons. ucbeast, $5. >>color>
8pm (thru 3/30): hold on to your butts: two comedic actors and a foley artist perform a one hour shot-for-shot remake of jurassic park. the pit, $18 general (up from $10 in september), $1 students (at the door). >>color>
8pm: red baraat’s festival of colors at brooklyn bowl features live music by the eight-piece band and rupa + the april fishes and brooklyn raga massive. mention ‘bowling special’ at the shoe desk to get 50% off a lane after 8pm. $15 admission. >>color>
8pm: wvfrms, michi kusa, nightdogs, and cobalt cranes play palisades. $7. >>color>
sunday thru 6/7: the museum of modern art presents a björk retrospective, featuring sounds, films, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes from the performer’s career. free with regular museum admission ($25 general, $18 seniors, $14 students, free fridays 4-8pm) >>color>
all weekend
sat-sun: art + feminism wikipedia edit-a-thon: bring your laptop and energy (i.e., power cords) to help create and update wikipedia entries on subjects related to women and the arts. rsvp required. sat 11am-5pm @ moma, free; sat 3-8pm @ brooklyn museum, free with suggested museum admission; sun 1-7pm @ babycastles, free. >>color>
ends sun: reps from 40 companies and incubators located in the brooklyn tech triangle host an entrepreneurship symposium, career panels, open office tours, and a mentorship hackathon during the second annual tech u. various locations, free (rsvp). >>color>
ends sun: happy birthday johnny cash: alex battles + the whiskey rebellion celebrate the man in black’s 83rd at the bell house. $15+. >>color>
ends sun: it’s armory arts weekcolor>! art shows worth checking out:
spring/break. skylight at moynihan station, $10. >>color>
the art show. park avenue armory, $25. >>color>
the (un)scene art show. 549 w. 52nd st., free. >>color>
the armory show. piers 92 + 94, $45 general, $30 students/seniors. >>color>
moving image. waterfront new york tunnel event space, free. >>color>
pulse new york contemporary art fair. the metropolitan pavilion, $25 general, $15 students/seniors. >>color>
volta ny. pier 90, $25 general, $20 students. >>color>
art on paper. pier 36, free-$10 herecolor> (plus ticket fees, reg. $25). >>color>
clio art fair. 508-526 w. 26th st., free. >>color>
independent. 548 w. 22nd st., $20. >>color>
scope. 639 w. 46th st., $30. >>color>
thru 3/12: film forum screens a new restoration of grey gardens, the classic 1976 documentary of jackie o’s reclusive relatives living in a decaying east hampton mansion. $13.50. >>color>
thru 3/15: film festivals and series:
ends sat: cinefest 2015: hispanic film festival. the new school, free. >>color>
thru 3/9: third annual first time fest. various locations, $12+. >>color>
thru 3/12: 20th annual rendez-vous with french cinema. fslc, bam, ifc, various prices. >>color>
thru 3/13: ‘see it big! high and wide.’ momi, $12. >>color>
thru 3/15: screenwriters and the blacklist. anthology, $10 general, $8 students/seniors. >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
ticket deals
get tickets to the coffee + tea festival at brooklyn expo center 3/21-22 for $10 (plus ticket fees, reg. $26). >>color>
admission to the museum of sex thru 4/30 for $9.75 (plus ticket fees, reg. $19.05). >>color>
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