Summer in the City: Week 10

REALLY?! How is it already August?!

Where has the summer gone?

Whoever out there has been messing with time, speeding things up just for kicks, you need to stop playin' because I got plans.

Plans like these here adventures:


Boston

Description:  Want striptease with your Settlers of Catan? Lasciviousness with your LAN party? Wantonness with your "Weird Al"? Look no further than the nerd convention of your dreams, hosted by the geeky, sexy ladies of Rogue Burlesque! In their biggest and most dazzling incarnation of TALK NERDY TO M3 yet, Rogue gets wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, AND booby-wooby - accompanied by the gentlemen of Sirlesque! Whether you love or hate cons, you'll feel right at home at Ober-Con, with superheroes, TV icons, skeevy dudes, video games, inflatable swords, epic love stories, and possibly even zombies. Come before the show for games, dress as your favorite character (even as a Rogue!), and learn why nerds are ruling the world!
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location:  Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $15+

Description:  Skip the Cape this weekend and head to our own waterfront escape right here in Boston: lobster rolls, caricatures, awesome DJs, brand new exhibitions and more!
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location:  ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue on Boston’s Waterfront
Price: $15

Description:  a fully-improvised one-act musical. After getting a single suggestion from the audience, the cast of B.U.M.P. creates a musical experience full of heroes, villains, and comic relief and weaves their tale into a broadway-like production all as the audience watches. Everything from the songs to the dancing to the music created by our full band is improvised.  No two shows are ever the same!
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 10:00 PM
Location:  Boston Improv, 40 Prospect Street, Cambridge
Price: $14- $18

Description: If you don’t know them by now . . . . you will never, never, never know them. Kidding this amazing duo of guitar geniuses are taking the Boston stage of the House of Blues. So watch and listen to some virtuoso guitar playing.
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location:  Boston House of Blues, 15 Landsdowne Street, Boston
Price: $39.50+





Description:  At Swingin' on the Charles, you can swing dance outside at sunset to jazz, swing, and soul. No experience or partner is required
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location:  Community Boating Boathouse, 21 David G. Mugar Way, Boston
Price: $15

Description:  Did I ever tell you the story of the day I fell in love with Tony Leung? No? Well I’m certainly not going to now. But you can have your own love affair with the actor by taking in a screening or two of the remarkable films of Wong Kar-wai. In the Mood for Love is still one of the most beautiful films that I’ve ever seen.
Date:  8/1/2013 – 8/25/2013
Time: Varies
Location:  Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Price: $11


Columbus, OH

Description As Central Ohio's largest all-blues festival, this event draws serious rib and blues aficionados from around the state with attendance estimates in excess of 28,000 guests served. It promotes Ohio and regional blues musicians as well as area artists and craftspeople. Sizzling hot ribs and authentic live blues are served up on the streets of historic downtown Canal Winchester. Nineteen bands/acts perform continuously on two stages throughout the festival. 
Date:  8/2/2013 – 8/3/2013
Time: 5: 00 PM – 11:00 PM and 12:00 PM – 11:00 PM  
Location:  Downtown Canal Winchester
Price: FREE

Description: For more than 25 years, the first weekend in August has been reserved for what is now the world's second largest Irish celebration with seven stages and more than 535 performers including 65 music and dance acts. More than 100,000 guests are expected this year.
Date:  8/2/2013 – 8/4/2013
Time: FRI 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM, SAT 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM, SUN 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location:  Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway
Price: $8 - $10


Description: Two words . . . Butter Sculptures. And if you haven’t seen the film Butter, you need to!
Date:  thru 8/4/2013
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM  
Location:  Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Avenue, Columbus
Price: $10


Los Angeles

Description: As one of L.A.’s most dynamic bands, Ozomatli was the natural choice to bring to life the hidden treasures of the Los Angeles Public Library’s sheet music archive. With selections hand-picked in collaboration with USC Professor Josh Kun, Ozomatli and its friends invite you to experience the rich musical tapestry of our city, and to rediscover songs that celebrate the hopes and dreams of L.A.’s future through its late 19th- and early 20th-century songwriters and visionaries. Scheduled to perform: La Santa Cecilia, I See Hawks in L.A., Ceci Bastida, Rob Gonzalez, the Petrojvic Blasting Company, Cheech Marin, and Jackson Browne
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location:  California Plaza, 350 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Price: FREE

Description: Words will be flying fast and furiously tonight at this hip-hop summit featuring the Sacramento duo Blackalicious and local rapper Busdriver. Both acts are distinguished by brainy, rapid-fire tongue twisters that provoke the mind at the same time they get you moving.
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 8:30 PM
Location:  The Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd Los Angeles
Price: $12+

Description: That Cooper Lawrence film about two bipolar characters coming together for our entertainment . . . or something like that. Tonight’s Band Fallen Rivera.
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 5:30 PM Doors, 8:30 PM Film  
Location:  Expostion Park, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles
Price: $10+

Description: Named “Kings of Dot Comedy” by G4, “Top Acts to Watch in 2013” by LA Weekly, and nominated for Comedy Central’s “The Comedy Awards”, The Midnight Show is a dark, fast, fun explosion of live sketch and video. On the 1st Saturday of every month, TMS features a new celebrity host and an hour’s worth of brand-new material. Tonight’s Host Colin Hanks
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 11:59 PM
Location:  5919 Franklin Ave, Los Angeles
Price: $5, wait-list available

Description: Back for its sixth annual edition, Sunset Strip Music Festival is a three-day, multi-venue celebration of this storied stretch of rock & roll history, which lately centers around a Saturday street festival between San Vicente Boulevard and Doheny Drive, features Linkin Park, Awolnation, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wale, Logic, Asher Roth, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Finch, Street Drum Corps, Warren G, Orgy, Bizarre Ride Ft. Fatlip & Slimkid3, 7Lions, Hunter Valentine, Julien-K, Andy Clockwise, Egyptian Lover, Smile Empty Soul, Terraplane Sun, Stolen Babies, UpRooted, The Active Set, Sabrosa Purr, The Dreaming, Sad Robot, The last Internationale, Battle Tapes, The Diamond Light, Girl on Fire, Raheem Cohen, & more!
Date:  8/2/2013 – 8/4/2013
Time: 2:30 PM  -
Location:  Multiple Venues on Sunset Strip between San Vicente Boulevard and Doheny Drive
Price: $79+

Description: Al Pacino directs and performs in a new film of the Oscar Wilde masterpiece SALOMÉ and the documentary WILDE SALOMÉ, which deconstructs the process of mounting the play; we're thrilled to welcome the Oscar-winning actor in person for a discussion about the films. Think the Oscar Wilde version of Looking for Richard
Date:  8/4/2013 + 8/10/2013
Time: 5:00 PM
Location:  Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica
Price: $7 - $11



New York

Description: A line up chock full of musical happiness. The soul-singing, dance music eclecticist JAMIE LIDELL is “the progenitor of his own completely original genre that no one else has been able to recreate” (KCRW) and “a master-craftsman of genre hybrids packing potent lyrical punches of love." (Stereogum) Can’t argue with that! Co-headlining is the Baltimore absurdist composer and party instigator DAN DEACON, wielding a participatory smartphone app (iOSand Android) that turns the crowd into a sound and light show of its own. "If Dan Deacon comes your way, go… It will change your life forever.” (NPR) With the psychedelic soul of THE STEPKIDS.
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location:  Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn

Price: $3 Suggested Donation

Description Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse bands.Nestled in the heart of New York’s bustling urban sprawl lies a sonic oasis in which the sounds of the Indian sarod meet surf rock, West African kora merges with Appalachian mountain tunes, and traditional Afghan melodies mingle with East Coast loft jazz. Here Swedish nykelharpas and Pakistani taxi horns coexist in harmony (and mayhem) alongside thoroughbred jazz horns, driving grooves, exotic strings, and buzzing reeds.
Date:  8/2/2013
Time: 7:00 PM  
Location:  Rubin Museum of Art,
Price: $25 

Description: A traditional line dance, dabke (Arabic for "stomping the ground"), is danced in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine at Muslim weddings and other celebrations and has been adopted, as debka, by Israelis. Rooted in these highly rhythmic and improvisational styles, ZviDance's contemporary dance was created by Israeli-born, New York–based choreographer Zvi Gotheiner, inspired by the Arab Spring to explore issues of identity with a passionate vision of cross-cultural community.
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 6:00 PM Dance Lesson, 7:00 PM Concert
Location:  Damrosch Park Bandshell , Lincoln Center
Price: Free 

Description: The monthly museum party series celebrates Caribbean cultures with music, dance performances and more. Hear calypso band Casplash, Cuban-infused group Los Hacheros and Haitian fusion band Zing Experience. Gallery talks, a screening of 1970 Jamaican film Better Mus’ Come, dance workshops and a discussion with writer Angie Cruz (Let It Rain Coffee and Soledad) round out the night.
Date:  8/3/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location:  Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Price: Free 

Description: WARNING today you are likely to see New Yorkers walking around in their underwear! Strip to your skivvies for this attempt to break the world record for largest gathering of people in their underwear: The current number is 2,270. Be sure to follow the official guidelines if you want to participate. 
Date:  8/5/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM   
Location:  Times Square  
Price: FREE

Description: Every Wednesday this summer El Museo is staying up late with 5ifty5ive and resident DJ Les Carbonell. Start the night off with gallery talks by artists in El Museo’s 7th biennial exhibition La Bienal: HERE IS WHERE WE JUMP and stay for free gallery admission, music, dance, and performances. Watch the sun set over Central Park from El Café's courtyard and dance to 5ifty5ive’s mix of soul, Afro Beat, and House.
Date:  8/7/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM   
Location:  El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York  
Price: FREE

Description: If you missed them in Philadelphia earlier this summer, now you can catch these can do kids at the Joyce for part of the Ballet v6.0 series. BalletX unites world-class choreographers and dancers to forge new works of athleticism, emotion, and grace. The vision of its award-winning founders and artistic directors, Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan, BalletX challenges the boundaries of classical ballet by encouraging experimentation while preserving rigorous technique. Evidenced by the company’s repertoire of over thirty world premieres, BalletX is committed to bringing the combined visions of nationally and internationally renowned artists to life and to cultivating a collective appetite for bold new dance. . . . and my amazing little brother dances with the company.
Date:  8/6/2013 – 8/7/2013
Time: 7:30 PM    
Location:  The Joyce, 175 8th Avenue, New York  
Price: $10+

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