tuesday
tues 7pm (monthly): brooklyn books + booze: hear established and up-and-coming authors of different genres read from their current works every third tuesday of the month at barrow’s intense tasting room (industry city). tonight’s lineup includes sharang biswas, sarah branson, rebecca baum, and jamilette cintron. hosted by randee dawn. free admission. >>
tues 7pm (monthly): astronomy on tap: ‘news + views’ edition: things are looking up at astronomy on tap, a night where astronomy enthusiasts gather at a local bar for talks by professional scientists and educators—plus themed games and other cosmic fun. tonight’s event features james chan (american museum of natural history) discussing gravitational lensing, and kartheik iyer (center for computational astrophysics at the flatiron institute) on the use of ai in astronomy research. somethin’ else in dekalb market hall (downtown brooklyn), free admission. >>
tues 7pm (monthly): the broad squad: kendra cunningham presents a monthly comedy variety show featuring a female-fronted lineup. tonight’s performers include mel deluca, myka fox, rachel green, amanda van nostrand, fran gordon, nadia quinn, and jeffrey emerson. young ethel’s (south slope), free admission ($10 suggested donation). >>
tues 7pm: the vinyl word music book club: dive into the 33 1/3 book series at this music-minded book club, where each session spotlights a classic album and the short book written about it. tonight’s pick is prince’s sign o’ the times (1987), with a full album listen followed by themed vinyl dj sets. arlene’s grocery (les), free admission. >>
tues 7pm: pressed flowers: an appi heritage month concert by otaku choir: anime themes, video game music, and asian pop hits collide as the nyc otaku choir teams up with the catbus collective for an aapi heritage month concert featuring kpop demon hunters, yakuza: like a dragon, sb19, and more. rutgers presbyterian church (uws), free admission (donations welcome). >>
tues 7:30pm: freedom of speech with christopher m. finan and lee rowland: former executive director of the national coalition against censorship—and the former president of the american booksellers foundation for free expression—christopher m. finan launches freedom of speech: a people’s history of democracy’s most essential right at greenlight bookstore (fort greene) with a reading, discussion, audience q+a, and signing. in conversation with lee rowland, executive director of the national coalition against censorship. free admission. >>
tues 7:30pm: damn the man! i <3 the 90s night!: the 90s return to tv eye (ridgewood) with bands performing music from the singles soundtrack and covering the smashing pumpkins and the cranberries. $15. >>
tues 9:30pm: story-oke: sing and tell: part karaoke, part confessional. story-oke invites performers and audience members alike to share a true story about their connection to a song – or the song itself – and then sing the hell out of it. hosted by shyaporn theerakulstit. caveat (les), $11.55 with promo code ‘skint’ (reg. $18.76-20). >>
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wednesday
weds thru 9/29: outdoor yoga, fitness, and zumba at hunter’s point south park: free yoga (6/2-9/29: tuesdays 7pm and sundays 9am), fitness (6/2-9/29: tuesdays 6pm), and zumba (5/20-9/30: wednesdays 6:30pm) classes return to hunters point south park (lic). >>
weds thru 9/9 (wednesdays): sunrise tai chi + sunset yoga at fort tryon park: start and end your day with outdoor tai chi (6:30am) and yoga (6:45pm) sessions at fort tryon park (washington heights). free admission.
weds 6:30pm (filmmaker mixer at 6pm, screenings at 8pm): artists + beers: pair cinema with cervezas at ‘artists + beers,’ a semi-monthly screening series highlighting short films, docs, and music videos by local filmmakers. hosted by nancy pop, curran banach, and chip parham. cash bar. unruly collective (bushwick), free admission. >>
weds 7pm (quarterly): reading 101: alexis nowicki and maria robins-somerville’s reading series returns to night club 101 (east village) with five-minute readings from five readers across genres. tonight’s edition features avigayl sharp, rachel stone, nik slackman, rachel yang, and clare austen-smith. free admission. >>
weds 7pm (monthly): adam wade: live in new york: 20-time moth story slam winner adam wade returns to under st. marks theater with a storytelling show featuring three to four different stories from his extensive catalog (no two shows will be the same) and a different special guest who’ll kick things off. under st. marks theater (east village), sliding scale admission. >>
weds 7:30pm (season finale): central chamber series: ‘the art of collaboration’: the central chamber series at central presbyterian church (ues) concludes its ninth season with an evening concert featuring works by mozart, prokofiev, shulman, and schumann. $20 general, free for students with id. >>
weds 8pm: riptide x cruel jaws: dive into a night of killer sharks and pulp terror as vintage horror publisher fathom press teams up with brooklyn horror society to celebrate the reissue of donald cheatham’s 1984 novel riptide with a screening of 1995 jaws knockoff, cruel jaws. lucky 13 saloon (gowanus), free admission. >>
weds 8:30pm: what i did for love: improv based on your love story: ucb improvisers interview an audience member about their love life, then turn the stories into a fully-improvised performance. $15 adv, $20 day of. >>
thursday
thurs thru 6/11 (thursdays at 12pm): road to broadway: playbill presents a four-week series of live, open-air performances from 15 broadway shows at the rink at rockefeller center. next up: six: the musical, just in time, + juliet, and death becomes her. free admission. >>
thurs thru 5/27: perspectives on wwii @ momi: the museum of the moving image (astoria) commemorates memorial day with a presentation of films that offer perspectives on world war ii: darkest hour, dunkirk, saving private ryan, and pressure. all screenings are free with rsvp except for saving private ryan, which is $17.50 general, $12 seniors/students, free for veterans and active duty military. >>
thurs 6pm: 18th annual truth be told documentary film festival: the new school’s graduate certificate in documentary media studies presents original short documentary films made by students in the class of 2026. q+a with the filmmakers and faculty will follow. the new school’s john l. tishman auditorium (greenwich village/union square), free admission. >>
thurs 7pm: a reading with the center for fiction / susan kamil 2026 emerging writer fellows: the center for fiction’s nine 2026 emerging writer fellows come together to share their published writing and works in-progress. the center for fiction (fort greene), free admission (donations welcome). >>
thurs 7pm: satrangi stories: a queer south asian storytelling night: queer south asian storytellers share moments of joy, love, grief, and understanding at this evening supporting the safe passage project, which provides free lawyers to immigrant and refugee children under the age of 21 in nyc and long island. fiction bar/cafe (williamsburg), $15 admission. >>
thurs 7pm (monthly): facts machine: science, comedy + trivia: scientists and comedians share the stories behind their favorite facts, ‘conduct experiments’ (i.e. play drinking games), and test their knowledge with a trivia challenge loosely inspired by this month’s theme: birds. hosted by scientists and pub trivia hosts em costa, noah guiberson, and rob frawley. caveat (les), $13.61 with promo code ‘theskint’ (reg. $24-$25). >>
thurs 7:30pm (monthly): pete’s reading series: hear from literary icons and newcomers alike at this long-running reading series, hosted by temim fruchter and brian gresko. tonight’s event features emma copley eisenberg (fat swim), alison b. hart (the work wife), mira jacob (fourteen days), and larissa pham (discipline). pete’s candy store (williamsburg), free admission. >>
thurs 7:30pm: versus: karaoke asia decides: korea vs. philippines: lincoln center turns up the volume for a karaoke showdown where korean and filipino broadway performers face off in musical battles and duet throwdowns. directed by teddy bergman. lincoln center’s david rubenstein atrium (uws), free admission. >>
thurs 8pm: afters: stories of so-called endings: from breakups to breakdowns, ‘afters’ is a comedy storytelling show about the fresh starts that come from life’s endings, with each story backed by a three-piece band improvising a musical score to the twists and turns of the tale. stick around for live band karaoke after the show. hosted by julie piñero. salon on kingston (crown heights), $10. >>
thurs 8pm (monthly): shrek entirely from memory: watch as blindly-cast ten bones theatre company performers attempt to recreate shrek on stage, without the aid of scripts or rehearsals. as chaos ensues, drinks are drunk while the players are challenged to incorporate lines written by the audience and create ‘deleted’ scenes. littlefield (gowanus), $12 adv, $14 day of. >>
thurs 9:30pm: facebook marketplace live!: inspired by facebook marketplace, craigslist, and buy nothing groups, this game show pits comedians in a series of marketplace-themed games to win the title of ‘king of sh*t.’ hosted by amanda melhuish (reductress) and virginia dickens (the onion). caveat (les), $14.64 with promo code ‘skint’ (reg. $22-23). >>
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