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Brooklyn Crafts Galore!!...

NYCreates Fall Craft Festival @ Red Hook Promenade

The NYcreates fall craft festival will be running on the weekends up until the end of october. So if you are looking for amazing handmade crafts from Brooklyn's own craftsman than come and check out this remarkable festival!

@Red Hook Promenade
Location: 499 Van Brunt Street (map)
Starts: 1 Pm
Cost: Free

The Fest Kick off..

New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival @ Select Venues 9/23- 10/11

Starting today will be the 2008 Hip Hop Theater Festival that will be going all the way to October 11th! There are some pretty amazing things going down during the next two weeks that are worth checking out!

Tonight, Check out the world premiere of Mark Bamuthi Joseph's The Break/s with is a groundbreaking hip hop performance art piece that explores Joseph's travels around the world making an on stage visual and audio mix tape of life. Sounds pretty awesome, definitely worth checking out.

For more information on upcoming events: CLICK HERE

@ NYU- Skirball Center
Location: 566 Laguardia Place (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $40 GA and $12 NYU Students

Another Arts Fest in Brooklyn...

Last Supper Festival @ 3rd Ward

The Last Supper Festival is an indoor-outdoor film, food, music and art festival celebrating the fall season and NYC cultural cornucopia of creative minds. The night will include 13 short films from emerging directors,13 artworks from budding artists,13 dishes from brilliant culinarians,and Music from 4 bands and 3 djs should be a great time!

More info: www.lambastic.com

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 6:00 pm
Cost: Free

Celebrate Ginsburg classic ..

Howl Festival Punk Panel @ Bowery Poetry Club

Punk rock talks it out as the Howl festival. Richard Lloyd will be participating, and may also play a short set along with several other panel members who may be playing short sets after the panel. The panel includes: Ari Up (Slits), Cynthia Sley, Judy Nylon, Becky Wreck, Walter Lure, Alan Vega, Arturo Vega, Steve Garvey, and moderator Mary Harron.

@ Bowery Poetry Club
Location: 308 Bowery (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: ?

Experience A Wonderful Cultural Event

Bastille Day on 60th Street

Like the Fourth of July, if the bright lights were replaced by an angry mob, Bastille Day commemorates the symbolic crux of the first French Revolution. Today's festival is sure to summon much of New York's 70,000-strong French population, transforming the Upper East Side into a veritable Continental revue. Attractions include a "Tour de France" bike race, street bowling, a variety of musical performances (French gospel?), and those ever-risqué can-can dancers. You can also earn back your winter chub with a rich and creamy culinary tour of Francophone lands.

@ Sunday July 13 (noon–6pm) - 60th St (E 60th St btwn 5th & Lexington Aves)(Map)

Dance Your Ass Off

The House Dance International
Come to the opening day of the 3 day House Dance International, in which dancers and enthusiasts come from around the world gather to view film screenings, watch showcases, participate in workshops, witness great competitions, listen to awesome music, and of course party.
@ 2498 Frederick Douglass Boulevard (map)
Time: 1:00pm – 1:00 am Thursday, July 10th

A Little Italian Tradition...

Giglio Sunday
Come to the first Sunday of the Giglio festival, a tradition started in 410 A.D. and brought to Brooklyn in 1903, created to honor Bishop San Paolino’s return to Nola after saving the children of his town from slavery and offering himself in the place of young men who had been abducted. Today the festival features the Capo parade, the dancing of the Boat, the raising and dancing of the Giglio, and of course great food.
Location: N. 8th and Havemeyer Streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Time: Starting at 9:00 am and lasting all day Sunday, July 6th

Celebrate Brazil...

Brazilian Carnival
Dance! Crie! Ria! Dance the Carnival Dance, craft your own set of rain sticks, and smile at a special story time maravilhosa - Brazilian style.
Location: Bryant Park – Between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Time: 12:00 PM Saturday, June 28th

Cool Festival...

Come to the opening day of the Figment Festival
This nonprofit, ad-free festival on Governors Island lets visitors explore interactive sculptures, take part in community-building games, and participate in various experiments. The event is hosted by the Action Arts League and proceeds go to supporting NYC’s artistic heritage and culture.
When: Friday, June 27th
Location: Governors Island
FREE!

Celebrate the Longest Day of the Year!

Summer Solstice Celebration

Come to this great event with live music by artists including My Barbarian, Mama Donna, and the Ale-Ale Drummers, as well as face painting by Agonstino Arts, food, various live performances, and much more.
Location: Socrates Sculpture Park – 32-01 Vernon Boulevard at Broadway
Time: Sunset
FREE

Awesome Music Festival...

Make Music NYC: URB Alt Festival: Tribute to Sun-RA

Come to the third annual URB ALT Festival, a 7 hour outdoor concert event with an amazing assortment of multi-cultural music and various film artists. The festival, which lasts three days, celebrates the legacy of Sun Ra as fused through the musical and visual creativity of internationally recognized and underground artists.
Time: 12-7pm Saturday, June 21
Location: Harlem Stage Gatehouse Terrace – 150 Convent Ave., Harlem
FREE!

Awesome Parade

Mermaid Parade

Come to Coney Island for the nation’s largest art parade, presided over by a different celebrity King Nepture and Queen Mermaid every year, followed by a post-parade ball. Don’t miss this bizarre spectacle and don’t forget your homemade costume.
Start: 2:00 pm Saturday, June 21
Location: W. 10th St. & Surf Ave. - Coney Island

Cool Festival

Harlem Meer Festival: Los Soneros de Oriente

The sweet vocals and punctuating trumpets of this group form the style known as son, recently popularized by the Buena Vista Social Club recordings. Los Soneros never fail to get an audience up and dancing to the sounds of tropical Cuba, so don't miss your chance to see them today.
Start: 4:00PM Sunday, June 15
Location: Charles A. Dana Discovery Center - 110th & Lenox Ave.

Museum Mile is back...

30th Annual Museum Mile Festival

The Annual Museum Mile Festival has taken place for the past 29 years. It offers free access to nine museums, live music, entertainment, and of course, 23 car free blocks on 5th Avenue.
Start: 5:45 PM Tuesday, June 3rd
Location: 5th Ave between 82nd & 105th with an opening ceremony at Cooper Hewitt – 5th Ave at 91st Street
Free!

Science Badass Fest...

World Science Festival @ American Museum of Natural History

The First Annual World Science Festival will kick off today at the American Museum of Natural History. The festivities will include a variety of scientific and cultural events intended to help connect the
public to science. The festival will host the premiere screening of When We Left Earth, an epic new mini series produced by the Discovery channel to celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary. The screening will be followed by Three Generations in Space, a panel discussion that explores the past, present, and future of space exploration.

Should be an amazing event for for fans of final frontier!

@ The American Museum of Natural History, LeFrak Theater
Location: Central Park West at 79th St (map)
(use the Museum’s 77th Street entrance between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $25.00 for adults, $12.00 for Members, students, and senior citizens

New Market in Harlem....

The Uptown Emerging Designers Market @ Hip Hop Culture Center

On Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th, make plans to attend the grand opening of the Uptown Emerging Designers Market, Harlem's leading bi-monthly hub for unique and stylish clothing and accessories. From 11am - 7pm both days, at the Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem, the UEDM will host up to 50 of the nation's top developing designers showcasing and selling their men's and women's apparel, handbags, jewelry and more, as it creates an unparalleled shopping experience complete with complimentary cocktails, "tastemaker" gift bag giveaways and a live DJ spinning world music, old-school classics, house, and contemporary hip-hop. Meanwhile, the Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem will have on display its one-of-a-kind hip-hop history exhibit.

@ Hip Hop Culture Center
Location: 2309 Frederick Douglass Blvd. & 125th Street (map)
Starts: 11 Am

Dance Like they do in Braveheart..

7TH ANNUAL NYC IRISH DANCE FESTIVAL @ Pier I, Riverside Park South

Come and get your dance on traditional Irish style at the 7th annual Irish dance festival. There will be loads of dancing as well as delicious food from the region and of course BEER!! It should be a great festival to bring in the spring time!

@Pier I, Riverside Park South
Location: 200 Riverside Blvd(map)
Starts: 1 PM
Cost: Free

For All The Music Collectors!!

Music Memorabilia Show @ Tip Top Shoe Building

To all you Music collectors out there, here is the event for you! It will be held at the Tip Top Building on Saturday and it will include LPs, 45rpm, 78rpm, sheet music, photos, posters, books, etc of some of music classic artists for unbeatable prices! There will be over 10,000 items including LPs from all genres of music and rare posters of Miles Davis , John Coltrane and basically any legendary musician you can think of. It's going to be a great event that should not be missed!

@ Tip Top Building
Location: 155 West 72nd Street, 4th Floor (map)
Starts: 10 AM - 2 PM
Cost: Free

Great Brooklyn Market.....

Brooklyn Indie Market Opening Fest @ Carroll Gardens

Today will be the reopening of Brooklyn's Indie Market in Carol Gardens. At this market, you will find handmade goodness such as jewelry by Wabisabi-Brooklyn, hats by Rocks and Salt, kids wear by Wonder Threads, and frocks by Melissa Bell. Please join in on the celebration of spring, community and supporting your local artisans and emerging designers.

The opening day will include unplugged indie musicians, temporary tattoo parlour for kids of all ages, face painting, kiddie artisan-craft workshops by Stars and Sprinkles and BIM's designers, giveaways and meet-and greet with indie designers.

@ Carroll Gardens
Locations: Smith St. between Union and President St (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

A Day of Free Arts....

Fifth Annual Peace Fair @ Long Island University Brooklyn Campus

Come and check out the Fifth Annual Peace Fair today there will be over 100 community organizations. Music. Art. Poetry. Dance. Film. Hip-Hop. Spoken Word performances through out the day. There will also be workshops and discussions. The day will be feature:

Artists & Performers:
Abiodun (Last Poets)
Aja Monet (Def Poet)
Amanda Diva and Friends
Dragons of Zynth
Invincible (Anomolies)
Queen God!s
Ra Hendrix
Remi Hanazi
Spiritchild (Mental Notes)
Stephanie Rooker

So as you see it is a wide array of performers. Should be a great event.

@Long Island University Brooklyn Campus
Location: 1 University Plaza (map)
Starts: 11-6
Cost: Free

Comic Dorks Unite...

NYC Comic Con 2008 @ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

This is the place to be if you want to know what's hip, what's hot and what's next in pop culture. This is far more than a comic book show. This is the place where thousands will get first glimpses, inside scoops and behind-the-scenes buzz on some of the entertainment world's most cutting-edge products, from comics and anime to graphic novels, games, television shows, films and more.

@ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Location: 655 W 34th St (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: $30 Friday and Sunday; $35 Saturday

Comic Dorks Unite...

NYC Comic Con 2008 @ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

This is the place to be if you want to know what's hip, what's hot and what's next in pop culture. This is far more than a comic book show. This is the place where thousands will get first glimpses, inside scoops and behind-the-scenes buzz on some of the entertainment world's most cutting-edge products, from comics and anime to graphic novels, games, television shows, films and more.

@ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Location: 655 W 34th St (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: $30 Friday and Sunday; $35 Saturday

Spring Has Sprung....

Fort Greene Park Conservancy presents: Artisan-Market @ Fort Greene Park

It is spring and that means outside markets galore! Come and check this great market that will selling products ranging from Laurie Olefson's tin can clocks and recycled typewriter key jewelry to Vegan products presented by Breathless Beauty. Everything is environmentally conscience and great prices! Be sure to check it out!

@Fort Greene Park
Location: Dekalb Ave & Washington Park (map)
Starts: 9am - 6pm
Cost: Free

Comic Dorks Unite...

NYC Comic Con 2008 @ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

This is the place to be if you want to know what's hip, what's hot and what's next in pop culture. This is far more than a comic book show. This is the place where thousands will get first glimpses, inside scoops and behind-the-scenes buzz on some of the entertainment world's most cutting-edge products, from comics and anime to graphic novels, games, television shows, films and more.

@ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Location: 655 W 34th St (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: $30 Friday and Sunday; $35 Saturday

Can you Feel it???

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair @ Pier 40

Three days 95 Exhibitors, a children’s VIP lounge, a reading room designed by students at the New School, a performance by Chez Bushwick, and more of the original installations and large-scale sculptures that have become the fair’s trademark. It's a must see event that will blow you away!

@ Pier 40
Location: West Side Highway at West Houston Street (map)
Starts: 12 Pm
Cost: Free

Can you Feel it???

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair @ Pier 40

Three days 95 Exhibitors, a children’s VIP lounge, a reading room designed by students at the New School, a performance by Chez Bushwick, and more of the original installations and large-scale sculptures that have become the fair’s trademark. It's a must see event that will blow you away!

@ Pier 40
Location: West Side Highway at West Houston Street (map)
Starts: 12 Pm
Cost: Free

Winter Festival: Coming in from the Cold

12pm-4:pm

Brooklyn

No TV? No video games? No radio? Ever wonder what folks in the past did during winter?

Come play historic indoor games, help build and repair toys and tools, and view our special winter exhibit of winter tools, historic dolls, and other toys.

Location: Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park
THE ZOO, LEFFERTS HOMESTEAD, CAROUSEL

More Information:
Phone number: (718) 965-8999

MMmm Chili....

Manhattan Chili Takedown @ The Plumm

Here is a night of Chili insanity, come and test out some of the best recipes of Chili that New Yorkers have to offer. Who will have the crowning recipe this? Your taste buds can answer that question! Be sure not to miss this fantastic event!

@ The Plumm
Location: 246 W. 14th St. (map)
Starts: 5-8
Cost: $10

Blip What??

Blip Festival @ Eyebeam

Tonight begins this 4 day not to miss live music and multi media event featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world. This years festival theme focuses on "the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology... the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world."

Also Open Bar for Singha beer from 7:30- 8

For the Lineups and to Purchase Tickets: HERE

@Eyebeam
Location: 540 W 21st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10.00 individual night or $35.00 festival pass (including daytime film screenings) *All ticket purchases include a one-year subscription to Time Out New York

The Blip What...??

Blip Festival @ Eyebeam

Tonight begins this 4 day not to miss live music and multi media event featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world. This years festival theme focuses on "the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology... the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world."

Also Open Bar for Singha beer from 7:30- 8

For the Lineups and to Purchase Tickets: HERE

@Eyebeam
Location: 540 W 21st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10.00 individual night or $35.00 festival pass (including daytime film screenings) *All ticket purchases include a one-year subscription to Time Out New York

Sick poster!!

International vintage poster fair @ Metropolitan Pavilion

Here is your chance to get some classy new wall art, that will visually kick your apartment up a few notches. Over 25 international dealers with more than 10,000 original vintage posters for sale vetted by the IVPDA (International Vintage Poster Dealer Association).

More Info & List of Exhibiting Dealers: Click Here

@Metropolitan Pavilion
Location: 123 w 18th st 5th fl (map)
Starts: 9 am
Cost: $15

Open House NY

openhousenewyork hosts year-round educational programs celebrating New York City’s built-environment, culminating in America’s largest architecture and design event, the Annual openhousenewyork Week

The New yorker Fest...

The New Yorker Festival @ Various Locations

Yes, everything sold out—but this year, they held 10 percent of tickets for door sales. Today Take Sunday easy with Calvin Trillin's brunchtime food tour. Dessert: the unfunny David Denby's discussion with the funny Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen. Which is pretty amazing! But that's not it be sure to check out the schedule figure out what you want to see and get there early!

@Various Location
@ Metropolitan Pavilion (To Pick Up Tickets)
Location: 125 West 18th Street(map)
Starts: diiferent time
For Info and Schedule: Click Here

The New yorker Fest...

The New Yorker Festival @ Various Locations

Yes, everything sold out—but this year, they held 10 percent of tickets for door sales. Today start your day with Ian McEwan,and stick around for Seymour Hersh and alarming Iran scenarios at one or you could check out Neil Labute and John Lahr. For evening music, see Fiona Apple in Brooklyn (Yo La Tengo play after). Which is pretty amazing! But that's not it be sure to check out the schedule figure out what you want to see and get there early!

@Various Location
@ Metropolitan Pavilion (To Pick Up Tickets)
Location: 125 West 18th Street(map)
Starts: diiferent time
For Info and Schedule: Click Here

Food Food Food.....

EAT OUT ’07: Time Out New York’s Feast Fest @ Skylight Studios

This is going to the most delicious night of Food!!

Time Out New York once again brings its Eat Out section to life with Eat Out '07, a unique eating and drinking experience featuring 40 of the magazine's favorite restaurants and bars—all winners 2007 Eat Out Award winners or nominees—serving up a sampling of their specialty fare. Also, Ticketholders will receive a copy of the brand-new 2008 Time Out New York Eating & Drinking guide, and as always, a portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Food Bank For NYC.

@Skylight Studios
Location: 275 Hudson St (map)
Starts: 6:30
Cost: $100 (Get tickets HERE)

Block party what what!!

Animation Block Party @ Galapagos Art Space

Animation Block Party presents Sunday Mix, a monthly series of animated shorts, features and more. Selected videos will include the short films: In Search of Bathroom Graffiti, Animopolis, 777, Super Mouse and The Last Days of Coney Island.

@Galapagos Art Space
Location: 60 N. 6th St (map)
Starts: 7:30
Cost: Free

crazy crazy Ludfest....

LudFest feat. Secret Machines w/ A Place to Bury Strangers, Emok, Dub Trio, Sugar Report, Mofo, Other Passengers, and Ruthless Thomas @ Ludlow St

Street spirit breaks out with the inaugural LudFest, the Lower East Side's Ludlow block party raising funds for the Seventh Precinct Community Council. Recently downsized to a duo, NYC's Secret Machines headline, in preparation for their month-long Wednesday-night residency at the Annex.

@Ludlow St
Location:Ludlow St (btwn Stanton & Rivington Sts)(map)
Starts: 12 PM
Cost: Free

Talib in the house!

Fort Greene Festival feat. Talib Kweli @ Fort Greene Park

Coming strong off his excellent new Eardrum release, BK son Talib Kweli joins local jazz, reggae, and hip-hop acts, as well as two feature films (including Rosie Perez's Yo Soy Boricua) and offerings from scores of restaurants, to celebrate this historically creative community.

@Fort Greene Park
Location: Dekalb Ave & Washington Park (map)
Starts: Fest -12, Music- 2
Cost: Free

Wild festival in the W' Burg..

Monster Island Arts and Music Festival @ 210 Kent Ave

A free day of open-house art shows, BBQ, karaoke, film, and music plays out near the water at tightly knit art and performance spaces in Brooklyn. DIY-rock impresario Todd P showcases a smattering of off-kilter but hard-lining Brooklynite bands, including screechy howlers Big A little a and, for the cuddlier among us, indie outfit Tiger Streifen, who offer electro-fortified anthropomorphic ditties about life in a zoo. If you're still feeling tight after all the head-bopping, catch the kung-fu demo in the subterranean Avant Floor of festival hosts Monster Island, or spend your last few bucks to class up your walls at the building-wide art installation and store, Rainbow Cloud City.

@Wiliamsburg
Location: 210 Kent Ave (map)
Starts: 2 Pm
Cost: Free!

Celebrate!

Celebrate Mexico Now featuring Celso Duarte @ Joe's Pub

The fourth annual Celebrate Mexico Now festival is so dope. It brings everything that’s great about Mexican culture to the (selectively) unaware masses. Harp virtuoso Celso Duarte (who’s known for playing with earthy singer Lila Downs) opens the 12-day fest alongside his group of traditional and classically trained musicians. Enjoy culinary feasts, art exhibitions, discussions, screenings, and much more.

@ Joe's Pub
Location: 425 Lafayette St (map)
Starts: 7:30 and 9:30
Cost: $15

Big head dresses

40th West Indian American Day Carnival @ Eastern Pkwy & Utica Ave to Flatbush Ext & Brooklyn Museum of Art

Celebrate the parade's 40th year with beaded bodices, feather headpieces, and every flavor of shimmy and shake the islands have to offer, along with enough jerk chicken, salt fish, and coco bread to feed the length of Eastern Parkway. All bands are costumed, so the procession will be a bird of paradise, with an extra steely chirp. This morning (9:30am) Kings and Queens Go Forth gathers parade royalty to strut their colors before meeting their bands, while a Dimanche Gras program (7pm) caps off the weekend with a pageant to choose this year's official King and Queen and showcases vintage calypsonians, steel drummers, and stilt dancers.

@ Outside Brooklyn Art Museum
Location: 200 Eastern Pkwy (map)
Starts: 8 am
Cost: Free!

Maybe Drew Carey was right.....

Cleveland Fest @ The Hook

Cleveland Rocks. That’s what the Drew Carey theme song taught us. It’s also a great pretense for this fest, which features 14 bands on two stages, including This Moment in Black History, Coffinberry, Hightower Smtih and Biblical Proof of UFOs (though we can’t confirm or deny that they all actually hail from Cleveland). 100% of the profits will be donated to Cleveland and New York AIDS charities. That’s almost as much of an incentive as the cheap beer. Brooklyn’s chance to prove that it rocks, too.

@ The Hook
Location: 18 Commerce St (map)
Starts: 5 Pm
Cost: $10

Music memorabilia show

10AM - 2PM

Music memorabilia show, including rare LPs and 45-rpms from many genres, posters, historic African American sheet music, books and photos; Tip Top Shoe Building, fourth floor, 155 W. 72nd St., near Broadway.

Arab-American and North African Cultural Street

10 AM - 7 PM

Belly dancing, drumming, whirling dervishes and a hookah cafe are among the features at Arab-American and North African Cultural Street Festival, which kicks off city's Arab Heritage Week; Great Jones Street at Broadway-Lafayette.

Submit Your Shorts!

This event takes place Tuesday, July 17th, but we wanted to give any filmmakers out there the head's up. FunFest! New York's bi-weekly film festival, is now accepting submissions of short films. Submissions will be screened on the day of the event. You can also meet, network, talk with the film makers and there will be prizes and giveaways for everyone attending, plus a winning film at each event!

Submission is FREE & fun!

Tuesday, July 17th
@ Rapture Cafe
200 Avenue A (btw 12 & 13th Sts.)
New York, NY
8 PM
Free to attend!

Fore more info and to submit your film : Click Here!

Opening Night...........

Women Center Stage Festival

A Star Studded celebration of the Women's Movement

From the actress Marisa Tomei to Pulitzer prize winner Samantha Power to the anti-war group Code Pink, leading ladies from all disciplines are putting on the Women Center Stage Festival, a series of performance and conversations focused on women's rights and social change.

For more info on performances: http://cultureproject.org/wcs/

Everybody get your you cheese on...

Smith Street Fair and Stinklyn's First Annual Gourmet Cheese Eating Contest

This Sunday from 11-6 come check out the always amazing Smith Street Fair which will include live performances from Brooklyn bands as well as food from restaurants like Chestnut and Coco Roco, Smith transcends the typical zeppole/tube socks street fair mess. Also:

ATTENTION ALL CHEESE FANS! Come and Sign up for the 1st annual Stinky Brooklyn gourmet cheese eating contest. Registration is Free! and the contest will be going on at 2 pm! So come and check out all the festivities! It's going to a be a blast!

Check out all the info HERE

Location: Smith St from Bergen to Union

Ariel's wildest dreams... landbound Mermaids

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

It's that time of the year and the only way Coney Island knows how to bring in the summer is in Mermaid fashion.....

Unique to Coney Island, the Mermaid Parade kicks off the beginning of swimsuit season with a panoply of homemade sea creatures, attention-seeking Neptunes, and, of course, public nudity! Cross the boardwalk to Childs, where you’ll be seduced by music from fellow Harpies like the Shapes, Jill Cunniff and Mighty Fine. Oh, and did we mention the sweaty burlesque dancers?

June 23, 2007 @ 6 pm – 12 am
Coney Island Boardwalk at West 21st St
www.mermaidparadeball.com/
718-372-5101

All That Jazz and more!

Take your pops out for some fine jazz music - the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival kicks off tonight and lasts through June 30th with performances all over town. Highlights include the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band, India.Arie and Lizz Wright, Eartha Kitt, Casaria Evoria with The Bird and the Bee, and a finale at Carnegie Hall featuring Del McCoury with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones! The schedule details also include ticket info.

Festival season in full swing!

Celebrate Brooklyn starts tonight with a performance from The Neville Brothers! Most performances are either free or $5 - $10 for admission! More highlights throughout the summer include performances from The Stills, The Hold Steady, and Manu Caho. Here's the full schedule.

March the Museum Mile

MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL

When: June 12 from 6 - 9pm

Where: The street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street

One day a year, for the past 28 years, nine of the country's finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music-and-art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually.

This year's 29th annual festival kicks off at The National Academy Museum with an opening ceremony, at 5:45pm, on the steps of its landmark building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd street. Plus, follow the mile with street muralist De La Vega – grab a piece of chalk and make your mark!

Taste of Times Square

WHEN: Monday, June 11th 5:00pm - 8:30pm
(Come early for the best selection of food!)

WHERE: West 46th Street between Broadway and Ninth Avenue, including historic Restaurant Row.

ADMISSION: Admission to the festivities is free. Tickets valued at $1 can be redeemed for "tastes" at each of the booths. Tickets are available beginning at 3pm on at the ticket trailer on 46th Street on the day of the event.

For full details on Taste of Times Square, including the growing list of participating restaurants and performers, please visit www.timessquarenyc.org

Art Along Atlantic

BROOKLYN’S 4TH ANNUAL ATLANTIC AVENUE ARTWALK
JUNE 9 & 10, 2007
Free Event Showcases Established and Emerging Artists in Open Studios, Exhibits, Public Art Spaces and Local Merchants Along Historic Atlantic Avenue

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk is a self-guided tour of open artist studios and area exhibitions, a range of public art projects, special events, and extensive local merchant participation. The tour provides a relaxed setting for dialogue, collecting, and for artists to discuss current bodies of work, while offering a glimpse into the creation process.

Get your 'que quota this weekend!

A baby of the North and a college girl of the South, I still lack the acquired taste for barbecue that so many of my UGA co-eds have come to endorse. To all you New Yorkers who don't (or maybe do) know what you're missing, the BBQ is coming to YOU this weekend.

5TH ANNUAL BIG APPLE BARBEQUE BLOCK PARTY
Sat. Jun 9 - Sun. Jun 10
Noon at Madison Square Park

Festival Fare in Manhattan

If crossing to Brooklyn isn't the the cards for ArtWalk, The West Village has quality to offer too:
Christopher Street Festival
Christopher St between Seventh and Greenwich Aves
646-230-0489
11:00am – 6:00pm.

Hip Hop's Heartbeat

Last week hosted the Hip Hop Film Festival and this week, the hip hop hardly stops. The genre's birthplace starts a celebration for the ages this weekend with the Third Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. Films, parties, panels, and exhibitions all begin tonight and end Saturday with an all day show headlined by Ghostface. The best news - as far as we can tell, everything is free! All it takes is a quick online registration with Brooklyn Bodega.

The fest kicks off tonight with a party celebrating the 50 year legacy and recent relaunching of Stax Records. Stax was home to legendary acts such as Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG’s, The Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, The Emotions and apparently a ton of others. Drinks are complementary care of Brooklyn Brewery and music will be provided by Large Professor, The Bridge, and Video Music Box host Ralph McDaniels.

6:00pm - 9:00pm
21+ / FREE with Brooklyn Bodega Registration
powerHouse Arena
37 Main St. - Brooklyn
718-666-3049

AsiaFest

Noon to 5PM.

AsiaFest; Pier 17,
South Street Seaport, Manhattan.

I predict a RIATS!

Some of What's Up NYC's dearest friends happen to be coming together in Williamsburg for what's going to be a RIAT-ous celebration of music, art, film, and quality adult beverages from Europe. Prepare your eyes, ears, and dancing shoes for RIATS Fest 2007!

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Ave at the corner of Stagg Street
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Schedule:
5PM - Open Art Program - "A Zeitgeist in Brooklyn - a collaborative discussion about the state of collective arts in New York City, and specifically Brooklyn, in the 21st century."
7PM - Gallery Opening - beverages provided by Stella Artois and Myopenbar.com
9PM - Film Screening
Here's the list of participating visual artists and filmmakers.

*Featuring Music by The Vandelles and special guest DJs Rob Hitt and our very good friend The Husky Gentleman
*After Party and Free BBQ at 3rd Ward Hosted by The Danger

Sponsored by The Onion, Block Magazine, ARRI/CSC, Tekserve, MYOPENBAR, Stella Artois, FREENYC, Block Magazine, and Indiewire -- it's going to be beautiful!

Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival

10 AM - 7 PM

The Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival;
Louis J. Valentino Jr. Park & Pier,
Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Martha Graham Dance Company

12:30 p.m.

The Martha Graham Dance Company street performance outside the New York Stock Exchange as part of the River To River Festival; intersection of Wall and Broad streets, Manhattan.

7PM - Roky Erickson and Alejandro Esovedo concert;
Castle Clinton National Monument, Battery Park.

8PM - Bank on a Can Marathon;
World Financial Center Winter Garden.

SCAMPER TO SEAPORT! Animal Collective & Danielson: Live Pick of the Day

YES!!! The Seaport Music Festival starts tonight! This Friday, and nearly every Friday this summer, some of indie rock's best invade South Street Seaport for FREE! The lineups are killer, beginning with tonight's show featuring Animal Collective, Danielson, and opener XXXChange. Find the music at Pier 17 - South & Fulton Streets.

Here's all the details for tonight:
The River to River Festival Launch!
6pm - XXXChange (from Spank Rock) opens things up
7pm - Danielson
8pm - Animal Collective

And for the rest of the summer:
Seaport Music Festival Homepage
June 16 - Brooklyn Philharmonic
June 29 - Snowden, Ra Ra Riot
July 6 - Fujiya & Miyagi, Ulrich Schnauss
July 13 - Menomena, Beat the Devil
July 20 - Bishop Allen, Rock Plaza Central
July 27 - TBA
August 3 - A Night of Billie Holiday Remixed and Reimagined
August 10 - Au Revoir Simone, Metronomy
August 17 - The National, The Forms, Takka Takka
August 24 - Camera Obscura
August 31 - Battles, Deerhunter

Can't beat it! See you on the river.

IDENTIFY with the Brooklyn International Film Fest

Tonight starts the Brooklyn International Film Festival! This year's festival comes with a beautifully poignant mission statement:

"The 10th Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) has been titled IDENTITY. Since 1998, we have been searching for our own identity and for filmmakers with unique traits. On the 10th anniversary, BiFF turns inquisitive in the search for a refined identity and a new balance. BiFF 07 is about revelations. It’s about uncovering the truth that lies beneath. It is about revisiting and coming out of the shelf to leave a mark. It’s about being transparent in an opaque system. Ultimately, BiFF 07 is about individuality, personality, distinctiveness, uniqueness, and the courage to be oneself."

Our film pick is Slippery Slope by Sarah Schenck. A film professor at Hunter College and film advisor at The New School, she is presenting this film - her first feature as a writer/director - and is participating in a Q&A with the cast in crew following each screening! Here's the synopsis: "In the comedy Slippery Slope, a fierce young feminist filmmaker who is desperate for cash to finish her documentary Feminism for Dummies secretly takes a job directing a porn film after her other moneymaking schemes don't pan out. She brings her feminist ideals to the porn set, and the experience unexpectedly awakens her slumbering sexuality, arousing the suspicions of her politically-correct husband and threatening her marriage."

Showings of Slippery Slope:
Cobble Hill Cinema
265 Court Street, Brooklyn
9:30 pm | Sunday June 3
6:00 pm | Thursday June 7
You can get more info and check out the trailer while you're at it!

Fine Arts Abound in Bushwick

This weekend's Bushwick Open Studios Festival looks simply incredible. Taking place is "a self-organized art festival including artists opening their studios to the public, an art parade and the Cabaret ¡Art Spectacular! at Nutroaster Saturday night. To end the weekend participants are invited to unwind at a film screening and community BBQ on Sunday night. Anyone in the community is welcome to participate by presenting art work, organizing activities, or by helping to produce the event. The purpose of the festival is to create an open and inclusive event that benefits the entire community by sharing artistic projects and encouraging community interaction and dialogue."

Here's a list of individual festival events including times and locations. Celebrate free culture and community at BOS 2007 this weekend!

Short Films for Social Consciousness

The Media That Matters Film Festival is the premiere showcase for
short films on the most important topics of the day. Local and
global, online, and in communities around the world, Media That
Matters engages diverse audiences and inspires them to take action.

From gay rights to global warming, the jury-selected collection
represents the work of a diverse group of independent filmmakers,
many of whom are under 21. The films are equally diverse in style and
content, with documentaries, music videos, animations, experimental
work and everything else in between. What all the films have in
common is that they spark debate and action in 8 minutes or less.

$11 - 7:00pm
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street, Manhattan
http://www.myspace.com/mediathatmattersfest7