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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 7/3/08

Friday: 7/4/08

Saturday: 7/5/08

Sunday: 7/6/08

Monday: 7/7/08

Tuesday: 7/8/08

Wednesday: 7/9/08

All of Today’s Picks All Friday Picks All Saturday Picks All Sunday Picks All Monday Picks All Tuesday Picks All Wednesday Picks

art

Focus: Picasso Sculpture
MoMA

An exhibition of radical, thought-changing sculptural works in cast bronze, plaster, and other materials. More »

event

Macy's 4th of July Fireworks

The 32nd annual fireworks display. More »

classical

imageNew York Philharmonic at Governors Island
Governors Island

The NY Phil gives a free outdoor concert highlighted by Tchaikovsky’s "Overture of 1812," featuring the firing of seven Civil War�era cannons as written into the original score. More »

nightlife

JellyNYC Pool Parties: Ronnie Spector
McCarren Park

The girl-group legend. More »

theater

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Lyceum Theatre

Meta-play on Broadway's backstage--finally opens on actual Broadway. More »

theater

Damn Yankees
City Center

The star-studded (Jane Krakowski, Sean Hayes) Encores! production of this beloved musical about a baseball fan who sells his soul to help his team beat the Yankees. More »

movie

imageFull Battle Rattle
Film Forum

Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss's freaky, amusing, and sickening Iraq war documentary. More »

nightlife

Jon Hendricks
Jazz Standard

The Grammy-winning vocalist performs with his band, L, H, R Redux, a tribute to his vocal-jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. More »

community

Un-American Films
Pier at Solar One

The annual outdoor screening of explosive political shorts, paired with an open bar and live music by Frances, Titus Andronicus, and Aleks and the Drummer. More »

movie

The Wackness
various locations

Hometown director Jonathan Levine's film is an inebriated, thumping paean to being a white hip-hop head on the Upper East Side in the summer of 1994. More »

nightlife

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
SummerStage

The Afro-beat talent leads his father Fela's original twenty-piece band, Egypt 80. More »

art

Ming Fay
Lesley Heller Gallery

Globular, oozing objects created out of urethane foam and paper pulp. More »

nightlife

Midsummer Night Swing
Damrosch Park

The eagerly anticipated annual outdoor series returns. More »

nightlife

Feist
Prospect Park Bandshell

The Canadian singer-songwriter behind the breakout hit "1234." More »

art

Focus: Picasso Sculpture
MoMA

An exhibition of radical, thought-changing sculptural works in cast bronze, plaster, and other materials. More »

community

Afro-Punk Festival
BAM Rose Cinemas

The annual festival, which showcases a series of films representing black rebellion. More »

classical

Summergarden: Attacca Quartet
MoMA Sculpture Garden

The impressive, curious group of Juilliard master's students open the season tonight. More »

classical

American Ballet Theater: Giselle
The Metropolitan Opera

The classic Romantic ballet. More »

art

Carol John
Ivy Brown Gallery

Zesty new paintings. More »

Ongoing

MUSIC

Celebrate Brooklyn!

Brazilian Girls, Cold War Kids, The Philip Glass Ensemble, and The Jealous Girlfriends are among the highlights of the season's free summer concerts in the Bandshell. Through 8/11, Prospect Park Bandshell

Movies

HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival

Bryant Park's picnic-happy Monday evening screenings of classic Hollywood fare. Mondays through 8/18, Bryant Park

Music & Arts

SummerStage

Central Park's popular and (mostly) free annual summer concert series. Various dates through 8/19, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Music & Arts

JellyNYC Pool Parties

Free Sunday-afternoon indie rock concerts in Williamsburg's public-pool-turned-music-venue. Sundays through August, McCarren Park Pool

Ticket Alert

My Morning Jacket

Madison Square Garden, New Year's Eve

Paramore

SummerStage, 8/28

Martha Wainwright

HighLine Ballroom, 7/23

 

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