February 15, 2008
Pencil This In
MUSIC: Of course we're going to recommend you come hang out with us tonight at our 5 year anniversary show. Come on by and check out Pattern is Movement and The Forms, along with a special guest band at midnight. On top of all that, you'll get Craig Wedren deejaying between sets. What more could you ask for? Buy tickets here.
Friday // 9pm // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $10
FASHION: With Fashion Week having recently exited the tents at Bryant Park, Brooklyn will fill the void and kick off a weekend of shows tonight. There will be music and fashionable works from Mandate of Heaven, Sovereign Beck, King Gurvy. If you don't OD on style tonight, head back tomorrow for even more!
Friday // 7 to 10pm // Monster Island Building [210 Kent Ave, Williamsburg] // Free
ART: The Museum of the City of New York recently opened their Rudy Burckhardt exhibit. The late photographer's has a cult following and "made images of the city’s architecture, streets, and inhabitants in a singular style—apolitical and seemingly uncomposed—that broke with tradition and influenced younger generations of photographers. From iconic views of New York’s skyscrapers, to close-up architectural details, to storefronts splashed with advertising signage, to New Yorkers walking their streets and riding their subways, the variety of Burckhardt’s subject matter conveys his never-ending fascination with the city’s scale and diversity." The exhibit includes 90 photographs and is titled "Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt."
All Weekend, through April 13th // 10am to 5pm // The Museum of the City of New York [1220 Fifth Ave]
THEATER: Here’s how to manage dinner, drinks and a mysterious, one-of-a-kind show for $20 this Saturday: Every beverage at Williamsburg’s Alligator Lounge [600 Metropolitan Ave] comes with a free personal pizza (toppings extra), so for twelve bucks you can fill up with two pies and drinks. Come 10:30, invest your last eight bones at the Brick Theater down the street, where the sordid fourth installment of the Penny Dreadful serial is sure to dazzle and disorient you. Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the early 20th century, tonight’s episode, Battlin' Bob Ford - Pugilist From the Future!, concerns “the discovery of a bloodless body that has San Francisco abuzz. It’s up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues: a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed.” – John Del Signore
Saturday Only // 10:30pm // The Brick Theater [575 Metropolitan Ave] // Email pennydreadful@thirdlows.com to reserve seats; $8
READING: Stephanie Gray tells us her "films and poems have a lot to do with gentrification, working class, and city themes," and Saturday night she'll be on hand to share them with you. She'll be reading from her collection of novels, Heart Stoner Bingo, while some images on super 8 film are displayed.
Saturday // 7pm // Vox Pop Cafe & Books [1022 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn] // Free
Saturday // 8pm // Glasslands [289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg]
THEATER: A live three piece band sets the tone for The Jazz Age, a new play about larger-than-life literary stars F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemingway. Much of the story spins around Fitzgerald’s disintegration into grotesque alcoholism, debt and writer’s block while trying to churn out movie scripts in Hollywood. Writing for the Times, Neil Genzlinger observes that while “the Fitzgeralds, especially, have been done to death in print and on film, [The Jazz Age] is a chance to see three skilled actors demonstrate that even the familiar can be made very watchable.” – John Del Signore
Sunday // 3:15pm // 59E59 [59 East 59th St.] // Tickets cost $35
The listed events were chosen by Gothamist and brought to you by the 2009 Toyota Corolla.
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