Pencil This In
Photo by Eric Brown.
MEETING: Yesterday we talked to Savitri D., director of the Church of Stop Shopping and temporary Mermaid. She's been on a hunger strike since Saturday night, all to urge everyone to attend tonight's Coney Island Community Scoping Meeting. Plans for Coney Island were recently changed, and according to the Department of City Planning, include reducing the amount of mapped parkland from 15 to 9 acres, and increasing the area of Coney East from 9 to 15 acres, which will be zoned for enclosed amusements, entertainment retail, and hotels. More details here; check out the mermaid live cam here...and go to the meeting tonight if you want to Save Coney Island.
6 p.m. // Lincoln High School [2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn]
READING: Just as summer begins, the final Paris Review Summer Salon is being held tonight at NYU. Join non-fiction reading authors Mark Dow, Uzodinma Iweala, Andrew Rice, and Said Sayrafiezadeh (who is currently working on a memoir about growing up in the Socialist Workers Party in New York City). The evening is hosted by The Paris Review's Christopher Cox and Matt Weiland.
6 p.m. // NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House [58 W 10th St] // Free
Check out local author (from Greenpoint) Kate Christensen at WORD tonight. Her latest, The Great Man, was chosen as the winner of the 2008 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction; she'll be discussing the book and reading from it tonight. Bonus: wine and snacks will be served!
7:30 p.m. // WORD [126 Franklin St, Brooklyn] // Free
MUSIC: Have you been to Gantry State Park in Long Island City? It’s got a lot going for it: stunning views of Manhattan, piers jutting out into the East River, high-backed benches perfect for couples. The sunsets are sublime, and tonight the mood will be enhanced with the first concert in the Live at the Gantries summer series. The Tuesday night performances include acts ranging from Japanese punk rockers Noirceur and Uzuhi to the York College Big Band. Tonight vocalist-percussionist Corina Bartra brings her original jazz compositions spiced with Afro-Peruvian and Brazilian blends. – John Del Signore
7 p.m. // Gantry Plaza State Park [Between 49th and 50th Avenues, along the East River] // Free
Ulrich Schnauss, Dorit Chrysler and Chiaki Watanabe play a free show tonight at the World Financial Center. "Creating music that meanders between shoegazer and dance, Berlin-based artist Schnauss opens the summer season. Chrysler beguiles with her unique brand of vocal and theremin, and is accompanied by media artist Watanabe’s video projections."
9 p.m. // World Financial Center, Winter Garden [200 Liberty St] // Free
THEATER: So here’s the deal on standby tickets for the spectacular sold-out production of Macbeth that’s being staged outside in DUMBO next to the Brooklyn Bridge: Our source at St. Ann’s Warehouse (which brought the show over from Poland) says “there are 20 rush tickets given out each night at $20 each. In addition, we sometimes have last minute $35 seats that open up. These tickets are given out at 8 p.m. and people start lining up around 5 p.m. Most if not all people have gotten in, so it is worth taking the chance, but as they say when you get stock advice: past performance not indicative of future success.” Read our review to decide if you want to roll the dice, but remember: your consolation prize if turned away could be the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory just down the street. – John Del Signore
9 p.m. // The Tobacco Warehouse [Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO, Brooklyn] // Ticket prices vary
