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04 Jul 2009

"We Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night!"

There a few things going on in NYC today, Conor Oberst and Jenny Lewis at battery Park PS 1’s first installment of “Warm Up” and of course the annual opportunity to gather at the beach on Coney Island and watch sodium enthusiasts race against time to stuff themselves with hot

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03 Jul 2009

FREE: Here We Go Magic at South Street Seaport

Tonight, yet again, South Street Seaport’s Pier 17 is the spot for dope live music.  In this week’s installment of the Seaport Music Festival  Brooklyn’s  Here We Go Magic headlines with openers Bachelorette from New Zealand. A friend of mine had been talking about them for a while and I’d

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01 Jul 2009

FREE: Jay Reatard Show at Stuy Town Oval

This past CMJ season I had the chance to attend a show at one of the most hateful and awful musical venues this side of Terminal 5 at a little place called Santos Party House.  The floor space was cold and weird with its white concrete walls, huge plaster columns

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30 Jun 2009

Automatic Slims, Planning Ahead and Krazy Komedy!

The big summer holiday weekend approaches, folks and in the interest of planning ahead and maximizing fundage before Friday I am taking a three-pronged approach to this post.  First things first…

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29 Jun 2009

FREE: Gold Diggers of 1933 in Bryant Park

The Bryant Park Film Festival is great for chilling outside, enjoying great weather and checking people out. It’s not so great, however, if you’re actually really interested in hearing the films dialogue. Fortunately this week’s selection  should be long on visual impact so even if the noise of the city

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26 Jun 2009

FREE: Paper Magazine Music Festival at South Street Seaport

It takes a certain kind of person to voluntarily travel down to the South Street Seaport. It’s largely an historic site by now so most people down there are either school kids on a field trip, luckless NYU sophomores doomed to a year at the Water Street dorms,  professional balloon-animal

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25 Jun 2009

FREE: Femi Kuti at Prospect Park

When I first learned of this event the listing said “Free Femi Kuti!” and I became immediately alarmed that Femi Kuti had, for some reason, been recently incarcerated and needed my help.  Thankfully (for him, mostly) that won’t be necessary as the alarm was caused by a lack of grammatical

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