Friday November 27
Location: Union Square, NYC
Band: Kid Sister
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Webster Hall
Food: Thai Me Up Sandwich Bar
Drink: McSorley’s Old Ale House
Miscellaneous: Mudd Cafe
Chicago rapper Kid Sister just released her debut album Ultraviolet and has been burning up clubs and venues for over a year now. Flosstradamus will be there DJ’ing. Stop by if you want to burn off some turkey. For eats, check out Thai Me Up Sandwich Bar, a sandwich shop offering Thai sandwiches with 7 Steamed Fried Vegetables and a choice of chicken, veggie, tofu or beef on a baguette with 3 types of sauces for $7. One of the city’s oldest bars, you can feel the history when you enter McSorley’s Old Ale House as memorabilia, since its beginnings in 1854, are all over the walls. Aside from it being a frat hangout nowadays, it’s worth the trip. You’ve seen that orange Mudd coffee truck parked on Astor Place and on various other streets, but check out the actual Mudd Cafe on East 9th for coffee and a healthy, vegan, and vegetarian menu.
Friday November 27
Location: Tribeca, NYC
Film: Clueless & Mallrats Double Feature
Show time: 7 PM
Venue: 92Y Tribeca
Food: Pakistan Tea House
Drink: Mocca Lounge
Miscellaneous: Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
What better way to spend the day after Thanksgiving than just relaxing and watching some of your favorite films. In this case, it’s 1995 and two of the best teen comedies of the year Clueless & Mallrats will be screened at 92Y Tribeca. Nearby, Pakistan Tea House is a buffet style Indian restaurant where you can choose between chicken, meat, fish and vegetables. It’s affordable and very good. For drinks, check out Mocca Lounge. With a funky interior and a menu of Italian inspired fare, it’s also a bar with a large list of coffees with or without alcohol, beers, and frozen shots. Smack dab in the heart of Chinatown, the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory makes gourmet ice cream flavors like Black Sesame, Ginger, Durian, and more exotic flavors like Taro and Wasabi. Don’t worry, they have the go-to’s like Vanilla, fruits, and chocolate flavors too.
Saturday November 28
Location: Midtown West, NYC
Bands: Lotus + RJD2
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Terminal 5
Food: Brother Jimmy’s Bait Shack
Drink: BB&R
Miscellaneous: Dylan’s Candy Bar
Lotus join RJD2 on tour and they couldn’t be a better pairing. RJD2 who makes beats combined with his phenomenal taste in music will see Lotus open who are a rock band who add electronic beats to the mix to create music that almost sounds inspired by RJ but have a whole other dimension to them. If you’ve got a craving for barbeque, check out Brother Jimmy’s Bait Shack as the ribs, chicken, beef, and pork are all smothered in some amazing BBQ sauce. BB&R, which stands for Blonde, Brunette, and a Redhead is the brainchild of three best friends. What they’ve created is something between a neighborhood bar and a lounge with leather seats in the front and a pool table, photo booth, and video games in the back. Looking more like it came out of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dylan’s Candy Bar is a colorful place to get lollipops, licorice, and all things sugary. Don’t go crazy or your sweet tooth might melt here!
Saturday November 28
Location: East Village, NYC
Film: L’âge d’or
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Town Anthology Film Archives
Food: Minca
Drink: Common Ground
Miscellaneous: Beard Papa Sweets Cafe
Though many have attempted to figure out the plot of Luis Buñuel’s film L’âge d’or it remains a surrealist masterpiece which can best be described by Buñuel himself “The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.†If you’ve never been to Minca for dinner, go right now! This small noodle bar makes some amazing ramen noodles from scratch. Try the Minca Ramen, a mild broth with pork, chicken & dried seafood ($8.50). One of the newer bars in the East Village, Common Ground has a dark wood interior, a relaxed atmosphere, and excellent cocktails like the Blueberry Pie. If you like pastries filled with cream, check out Beard Papa Sweets Café. They offer cream fillings like earl grey, green tea, coffee, and the standard vanilla, chocolate, strawberry among others.
Sunday November 29
Location: Noho, NYC
Theater: Idiot Savant
Show time: See website for details; Through December 20
Venue: Public Theater
Food: Babbo
Drink: The Dove
Miscellaneous: Café Reggio
In Richard Foreman’s new play Idiot Savant, Willem Dafoe stars in his philosophical comedy which dives head first into the existential, the metaphysical, and the ridiculous. One of the six Italian eateries of celebrity chef Mario Battali, Babbo takes Italian American cooking to another level. While the food can be expensive and reservations would be the best way to get a table, this place is highly regarded among food connoisseurs is is nothing short of amazing. Disguised as a lounge The Dove is really a neighborhood bar dressed up in red, white, and gold décor with a nice selection of beers on tap and a very good mixed drink menu featuring delicious martini’s. One of my favorite coffee houses, Café Reggio has the most literate and West Village atmosphere I have been to. A real slice of New York, it was also in the movie Superfly. Go there or be square!
