Check ‘em out before the summer’s gone! I’ve bolded the ones I’m most excited about and provided direct links to info.
- August 17, Wayne’s World, McCarren Park SummerScreen (rescheduled)
- August 17, Mars Attacks!, Summer on the Hudson: Movies Under the Stars
- August 17, The Town, RiverFlicks for Grown-Ups
- August 18, Crooklyn, Syfy Movies with a View at Brooklyn Bridge Park
- August 18, Rosemary’s Baby, EPIX Movie Free-for-All (Tompkins Square Park)
- August 19, Jurassic Park, Intrepid Museum
- August 19, Tangled, RiverFlicks for Kids
- August 20, Over the Hedge, Movie Night at Narrows Botanical Gardens
- August 20, TRON: Legacy, Roosevelt Island Outdoor Summer Movie Series
- August 22, Dirty Harry, Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
- August 23, Clueless, McCarren Park SummerScreen (rescheduled)
- August 23, El Cantante, Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
- August 23, The Iron Giant, Red Hook Summer Movies
- August 24, Bird, Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
- August 25, Dreamgirls, Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
- August 25, The Godfather, EPIX Movie Free-for-All (Tompkins Square Park)
- August 25, Rosemary’s Baby, Syfy Movies with a View at Brooklyn Bridge Park
- August 26, Shine a Light, Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
- August 30, Pump Up the Volume, Red Hook Summer Movies
- September 1, Stake Land, EPIX Movie Free-for-All (Tompkins Square Park)
- September 3, The Incredibles, Roosevelt Island Outdoor Summer Movie Series
- September 6, Highlander, Red Hook Summer Movies
- September 8, Two Days in Paris, Films on the Green Festival
- September 13, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Red Hook Summer Movies
Joshua Gross 2010
Friday, August 19, 2011
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
GOWANUS/SLOPE
232 Third St. at 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union
| 8:00PM | Doors Open |
| 8:30PM | Live Music by Sport of Kings |
| 9:00PM | Film Begins |
| 11:00PM | After Party in the Courtyard |
More info/individual schedules and details (courtesy Vimeo blog):
►Rooftop Films (a bunch of indies that you won’t recognize but a great way to discover some new flicks)
►Brooklyn Bridge Movies With a View
►RiverFlicks
►Summer on the Hudson
►Bryant Park
►Celebrate Brooklyn!
►Epix Movie Free-for-All (Hosted in Tompkins Square Park, Coney Island’s Luna Park, McCarren Park in Brooklyn and Socrates Park in Queens)
►Central Park Film Festival: five films from 8/23 – 8/27
►River to River Festival (mostly at The Elevated Acre at 55 Water St.)
►Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Summer Movie Series
Filed under: Go | Tags: Blue Ribbon, bowling, Brooklyn Bowl, free, summer, Williamsburg
Yet another reason why NYC in the summer is so rad: MORE FREE STUFF! This time, free bowling at Brooklyn Bowl. For those of us wage slaves stuck at our offices until 7, this may not be a viable option, but for those of you lucky ducks who can make it to Williamsburg by 6 pm to take full advantage of the offer, please – drink a cold brewski or a White Russian for me.
FREE BOWLING + SHOES, every Monday through Friday from 6-7PM.* Just mention “Summer Bowl” when checking in at the bowling desk to receive the discount. *Door charges for ticketed events still apply. Once the bowling happy hour is over, though, it’s back to $25 per half hour. Then you can take a break and nibble on some Blue Ribbon goodies.
Bowl forth and be merry.
Filed under: Drink, Eat | Tags: Alphabet City, beer, bourbon, burger, Burger Conquest, EVill, free, Idle Hands Bar, sliders, whiskey
I love a good free food with drink deal. And I love Idle Hands Bar – how can you not love a place whose tagline is Bourbon. Beer. Rock.? So this news makes me giddy:
- Who: burger, beer, and bourbon lovers all across NYC
- What: free mini burgers from That Burger Tent
- Where: Idle Hands on Ave. B at 3rd St.
- When: Mondays from 7 to 10 pm
- Why: One of the Idle Hands’ owners also runs Burger Conquest. Need I say more?
- How: Get a free mini burger w/$5 drink purchase, or buy mini burgers for $2 each
Eat/Drink: Idle Hands Bar (Alphabet City/East Village) 25 Avenue B between 2nd and 3rd, downstairs; New York, New York 10009. (917) 338-7090. Miniburger Mondays from 7-10 pm.
Filed under: Drink, Go, Listen | Tags: ANR, cheap, free, happy hour, LES, Lightwaves, live music, Savoir Adore, Tammany Hall, Thursday, Walk the Moon
On the first Thursday of every month, LES nightlife newcomer Tammany Hall hosts three floors of rotating musical guests, dancing, and general debauchery with its monthly Popshop party. Next Thursday, April 7th, Walk the Moon, Savoir Adore, and ANR will be playing live with Lightwaves rocking the DJ booth all night. Free after midnight.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH
Entire Venue
Popshop is back at Tammany Hall. This month, SXSW darlings Walk the Moon headline with help from Brooklyn indie poppers Savoir Adore and Miami psych kids ANR playing live. Lightwaves is back and will be spinning all night long. Like every past Popshop, this event is expected to sell out, so get your tickets NOW!
Doors are at 8pm. Advance Tickets are available here
If you show up early, you might even catch happy hour. $3 beers, $4 cocktails, $5 wines.
Drink-Dance-Listen: Tammany Hall (LES) 152 Orchard Street between Stanton and Rivington. (212) 982-7767. Follow Tammany Hall and Popshop on Twitter.
Filed under: Do, Drink | Tags: Ace Bar, Alphabet City, bar games, beer, darts, East Village, free, pool, skee ball, whiskey
Sometimes it’s just not enough to walk into a bar and order a drink. Sometimes you just want something more. Maybe it’s an early in the game date and you’re not sure if you’re going to have anything to talk about with said date. Maybe you go out every night and the thought of another bottle of wine and another drawn out conversation about life is making you nauseous. Maybe you just feel like being a little more active than sitting on a barstool, but you don’t feel like dancing or yelling over crowds of people. Maybe you just like winning, and you feel like kicking ass and taking names.
Enter Ace Bar in East Village/Alphabet City. You’ll walk into what is a rather expansive space for a bar in the EV. Bar to your left, arcade games and booths to your right. Sidle up to the bar and order a drink. For a $10 deposit, you’ll be handed a set of darts, and as long as you don’t lose them, you’ll get to play for free.
In the back room, there are two dartboards, two skee ball machines, and two pool tables. Skee ball is $1 a game. Just remember that it’s easy to blow through a game in 30 seconds, so bring lots of dollar bills. If you can hit certain scores, you can win free beers. I think it’s MGD or something like that, but you’re playing for victory, not for microbrews.
I don’t remember how much pool is, but I think you pay per game rather than per hour (I could be wrong).
Drink: Ace Bar (East Village/Alphabet City) 531 East 5th Street between A and B. New York, NY 10009. (212) 979-8476.
Every Friday from 4 PM to 8 PM, admission to the Museum of Modern Art is free. FREE! Not $20. Free.
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Filed under: Drink, Go | Tags: Australia Day, Australian, Bondi Road, cheap, Dub Pies, free, holidays, lamingtons, meat pie, NYC, Queensland flood relief, Sunburnt Calf, Sunburnt Cow
It’s January. It’s snowy, slushy, and miserable in New York. But you know where it’s not cold right now? Australia. And since Australia Day is coming up this Wednesday on January 26th, you can plan your escape from this NYC winter (staycation!) and pretend you’re partying down under in warmth and sunshine while doing a good deed.
Australia Day is the Australian national holiday commemorating the arrival of the eleven British ships comprising the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. In Australia, I understand it is a day of boozy mayhem (I say that in the best possible way). You, too, can participate in this boozy mayhem with hordes of impossibly good looking Aussies at any of Australian-themed sister restaurants The Sunburnt Cow (East Village/Alphabet City), The Sunburnt Calf (UWS), or Bondi Road (LES). (Side note: have you SEEN the bartenders and wait staff at these places? What is in the water over there?! And such cute accents. Hubba hubba.)
You may have heard about the widespread flash flooding in Queensland that has been wreaking havoc since Christmas, resulting in evacuations, damaged property, and a state of crisis. This Wednesday, a $2 entry fee will be taken as a donation to the relief and cleanup efforts in Queensland. So then you can reward yourself for being a kind and caring person by guzzling drinks and snacking on free meat pies and lamingtons from Dub Pies in Brooklyn. Doors open at NOON! Specials include $5 milk bar menu items, $20 all-you-can-drink well drinks for 2 hours, or $30 for premium all-you-can-drink madness for 2 hours.
In case you feel like being the Aussie Martha Stewart one afternoon, here’s a recipe for lamingtons for you to try at home.
Party like you’re Australian:
- Sunburnt Cow (EV) 137 Avenue C at 10th St.
- Bondi Road (LES) 153 Rivington between Clinton and Suffolk
- Sunburnt Calf (UWS) 226 W. 79th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam
Filed under: Go, Learn | Tags: Asian American, Chinese American, free, history, Maya Lin, MOCA, museums, Thursday
The Skint is one of my fave deal sources on Twitter. Today, they retweeted Target Free Thursdays at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, or MOCA in NYC, not to be confused with the MoCA in LA (Museum of Contemporary Art). I’m especially intrigued by the “With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America” exhibit in the space designed by Maya Lin, the artist/architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial.
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed by Maya Linon Centre Street. Metaphorically and literally, this “heart” will ground visitors, and be the focal point of the “new MOCA experience.” This presentation is an innovative approach to museum and exhibition design. It will facilitate a new way of interacting with content: through the evocative use of space that stirs visitors’ emotions and breaks down barriers to deeper learning and understanding.
This looks like it’ll be a great space, and an informative and interesting exhibit on Asian American history. I’ve never been, so I think I’ll check it out tonight. If you want to join and grab a bite afterwards, let me know!
Go: MOCA NYC (Chinatown) 215 Centre Street between Howard and Grand, New York, NY 10013. Free Thursday 11 am to 9 pm.
Filed under: Go, Watch | Tags: Blues Brothers, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, free, Indiana Jones, movies, outdoors
Brooklyn Bridge Park runs a fabulous summer outdoor movie series called Movies with a View on Thursday nights in the summer, weather permitting. You get to watch movies under the Brooklyn Bridge against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline… it’s one of those summertime things that makes me feel incredibly lucky to live in the city. I haven’t gotten around to going this summer yet, but there’s a DJ from 6 pm onwards, and the movies go on at sunset, usually around 8:30 or 9 pm. Tonight, I’m going to watch Blues Brothers armed with bread, cheese, grapes, olives, beef jerky, and other delicious snacks. Get there early to stake your claim on some lawn space and picnic until the sun goes down.
Thursday, August 19
Feature Film: The Blues Brothers (R) – 1980, 133 min
Short: Mr. Okra by T.G. Herrington
DJ: Soulstatic
Thursday, August 26
Feature Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PG 13) – 1989, 127 min
Short: Jerrycan by Julius Avery
DJ: DJ Emch
Thursday, September 2
Feature Film: Public Vote! Check back at brooklynbridgepark.org for details
Filed under: Eat | Tags: cheap, Clinton St., deals, dessert, Dessert Truck, DT Works, free, LES, Lil Frankies, prix-fixe, Supper, sweet
If you live in NYC, you like to eat and have an occasional tipple, and you are a sucker for a deal, then you should be reading the Eater NY Dealfeed on a daily basis. Like I do. Then you would know about free food giveaways and special prix-fixe meals – here’s to eating well without breaking the bank! These are the two recent Dealfeeds I am most excited about:
- DT Works, the sleek and playful brick and mortar shop from the folks behind the original Dessert Truck, will be offering free chocolate bread pudding (they usually serve with your choice of vanilla or bacon sauce) or a scoop of one of ice cream or sorbet. (LES) 6 Clinton St. at Houston. When: Thursday, May 20th, 11 AM – 11 PM.
- Early bird specials from Lil’ Frankies’ – a ‘potluck’ dinner (translation: home-cooked, homestyle meal) for $8.95 from 4 – 6 PM on Monday – Thursday. 19 1st Ave. between 1st & 2nd Sts. Early bird special from Supper is a two course meal for $15.95 from 4 – 7 PM on Monday – Wednesday. 156 East 2nd St. between Aves. A & B. When: Mon – Thurs; 212-420-4900 & 212-477-7600. Cash only, by the way.
