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
DIF 2013 - Music from Dublin, Ohio, USA on Vimeo.
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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