GO OUT! THE LIST//8/1/22//3
The Cure for FOMO
Compiled and Annotated by Barry Michael Okun
WEEK OF AUGUST 1, 2022/3
The weekend!
(Also, Happy Birthday to my brother!!!!!!)
All times Listed are EDT.
RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK
MUSIC
Les Arts Florissants Trio: Les Recettes de l’Amour
Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2022
8:00 PM
$40-$85; 50% off children on select tickets
TICKETS + INFORMATION
If anything is worth schlepping to Katohah for, it’s this recital by a trio offshoot of the world’s greatest Baroque ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, comprising the sapid mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and her regular partner, lutenist Thomas Dunford, together with that International Champion Of Baroque Performance, William Christie, on harpsichord. The all-French program won’t just be French Baroque, though, but will extend to Reynaldo Hahn, Michel Legrand, the great chanteuse Barbara, and who can guess what else.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really all I know that’s good near there is STILL the Bedford Post Inn.
THEATER
inFLUX Theatre Collective: The Choice
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 – 7, 2022
6:30 PM
Subletseries: Co-op
HERE
145 6th Avenue (entrance on Dominick Street), Hudson Square, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The audience participates in three women’s decisions whether to have children.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Altro Paradiso: not the best Italian restaurant in New York, far from the worst — but it’s right there.
MUSIC
Kendrick Lamar
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 – 7, 2022
7:30 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: UBS Arena
2400 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, Nassau County
Dynamic pricing so who the fuck knows (but it’ll cost you)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I don’t usually List arena shows by big pop stars using dynamic pricing. But if there’s any better or more important musician in pop music than Kendrick Lamar, I don’t know about them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday and Saturday, plausible tacos and stuff at Tiny’s Cantina. Sunday, while you’re in Elmont, you might as well find a way to neighboring Floral Park for rare Keralan (from Southern India) food at Kuttandan.
THEATER
Shakespeare: Henry VI: Part 2
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 – 7, 2022 (continuing through AUGUST 14)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
5:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$15 or pay what you will
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Stairwell Theater presents an electro-pop version of the best third of Shakespeare’s overstuffed history play.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican insect cuisine (and they don’t even make it to escamoles) at The Black Ant.
MUSIC
Basement Bhangra’s 25th Birthday Bash
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022
3:00 PM
Summerstage
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s been 25 years since the Basement Bhangra party series, promoting the shaking Punjabi/British dance music style, erupted onto the New York scene. The parties have stopped (the last one was five years ago to the day on this very stage), but I’m sure Bhangra is still shaking.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bet you’ve figured out the specialty at Mission Ceviche.
MUSIC
Ana Tijoux/Meridian Brothers
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022
5:00 PM
Summerstage In Person & Live Stream
Corporal Thompson Park
166 Broadway, West New Brighton, Staten Island
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ana Tijoux is a socially committed French-Chilean rapper turned singer-songwriter, excellent. But even more to this List’s taste are the Meridan Brothers. You might describe their highly conceptualized music as Fake Salsa — but unlike the Fake Music progenitors The Lounge Lizards, their music always works (fantastically) as what it takes off from.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you might not expect a warm welcome at a neighborhood German place in Staten Island, but you’ll get one at Nurnberger Bierhaus. The food and drink are really good — and you won’t leave hungry (or thirsty), that’s for sure. Streaming at home, have a Terremoto: put a scoop of pineapple ice cream at the bottom of a medium-tall drinking glass. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. Grenadine. Top with Pipeño wine (you’ll thank me for inducing you to have some of this around). Finish with a splash of Fernet (some use Pisco instead, but I think Fernet adds a kick to the drink).
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
Electropixel 12: Nature and Cities
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022
7:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 10A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sound art and live cinema combining sounds of nature with found sounds from various cities around the world.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Lots to eat and drink on Governors Island. It’s worth noting that douchey Riviera Maya transplant Gitano Island has opened for the season. I myself have taken to walking over to the wonderful Neo-Red Sauce spot Cafe Spaghetti in Carroll Gardens/Columbia Waterfront from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing after a day on Governors Island.
MUSIC
Drew McDowall: Time Machines
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022
8:00 PM
Ambient Church
Church of the Heavenly Rest
1085 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
These Ambient Church concerts really are great: ambient electronic music in ornate churches, with lights and visuals keyed to the church’s architectural features. They really do take you somewhere. This is an appealing bill, too. Drew McDowall, ex-Psychic TV and Coil collaborator, has moved farther toward the Emperean as his career has progressed. Tonight he’s revisiting Coil (in particular, a longform work intended to recreate the experience induced by hallucinogens). Opener Lucy Liyou is more earth-based, basing her electronic explorations on field recordings.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good tacos at El Paso Taqueria.
PERFORMANCE/MUSIC
Black Bliss Rangers: Every Nigga Is a Star Trek
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022
9:30 PM
Pink Flamingos: Clubs in Flux
the cell theatre
338 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$15-$20 suggested donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bliss! Meditation! VOGUING!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Have more fun eating good Spanish food in New York than you thought possible at El Quijote.
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