THEATER: We could try to describe Neal Medlyn's Coming In The Air Tonight, but why bother when there’s this: “The show features a variety of Phil Collins and Genesis music and is about how Neal is starting to slowly fall apart due to how he's all torn up inside from getting his heart broken into tiny pieces. It is also about how Neal steals a lot of stuff from people. Like their belongings and house wares but also their thoughts and ideas…Over the course of which Neal gets progressively covered in more and more blood. The end. As if that weren't enough, it features special guest appearances by Kenny Mellman (of Kiki & Herb), Bridgett Everett (At Least It's Pink), and Adrienne Truscott (of the Wau Wau Sisters).” Read ye olde timey 2004 Gothamist interview with Medlyn. - John Del Signore
Friday // 7:30pm // Galapagos Art Space [70 N 6th St, Brooklyn] // Tickets cost $10
MUSIC: The Cold War Kids managed to sell out Bowery Ballroom for multiple nights in a row, if you didn't get tickets for tonight's show - we suggest hitting Webster Hall for Loney, Dear. Tickets are still on sale, and this band is guaranteed to make you feel all warm inside. Did we mention Low is also on the bill?
Listen: I Love You (In With The Arms).mp3 - Loney, Dear
Friday // 6:30pm // Webster Hall [125 East 11th St] // $20
ART: Want2bSquare is here! Scion gathered together seven contemporary artists to create original artwork inspired by and in celebration of...the square. Check out the Astor Cube COMING TO LIFE!
Friday // 7 to 11pm // Skylight Studios [275 Hudson Street] // Free
EVENT: It's another First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum, and in celebration of the opening of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, it’s all about the ladies. Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls the Black Rock Coalition will rock you silly. Meanwhile JD Samson of Le Tigre will be at the decks.
Saturday // 5pm // Brooklyn Museum [900 Eastern Parkway] // Free
TRIVIA: A geographical trivia-based game? Why not. Come see what the Panorama Challenge is all about, as knowledgeable New Yorkers duke it out for prizes. "Directed by laser-wielding Game Controllers, teams of ten will identify landmarks, parks, neighborhoods, bridges, bodies of water and more out of the Panorama’s almost one million structures.”
Saturday // 6 to 8pm // Queens Museum of Art [Flushing Meadows Corona Park] // $25
THEATER: Had enough of banal Monday morning chats with coworkers about what everyone did over the weekend? Here’s a sure-fire conversation killer: Tell them you spent your Saturday night at Requiem Aeternam Deo: A Play for Everyone & Nobody. It’s a fusion of painting, dance, music, and ceremonial rites, based on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Written & directed by Fulya Peker, this “expressionistic work reaches out to breathe with the spectator, opening up possibilities for discovery through the experience of a communal journey, which may in fact inspire its audience to gain what Emerson called ‘an original relation to the cosmos’.” This is the kind of highbrow thing we always totally mean to check out, only to be sidetracked by episode after episode of Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency; this weekend’s going to be different. - John Del Signore
Saturday // 7:30pm // The Kraine Theater [85 E 4th St] // Tickets cost $15
MUSIC: What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than at some underground-ish venue on the southside of Williamsburg? Come check out Meneguar, Pterodactyl, Gowns and The Golden Error at Woodser. From what we can gather, the venue is similar to a loft apartment, so it'll be just like going home for Easter.
Note the early start time!
Sunday // 4pm // Woodser [141 S 5th St, Williamsburg] // Free (?)