The Weekend Shortlist August 14 to 16

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Friday August 14

Location: Lower East Side, NYC
Music: The Warlocks Get Tickets Here
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Bowery Ballroom
Food: San Loco
Drink: Max Fish
Miscellaneous: Sugar Sweet Sunshine

Psychedelic rock outfit The Warlocks have a great album out in The Mirror Explodes which spans multiple genres and offers up a wall of psychedelic sound that will put you in a trance. San Loco serves inexpensive Mexican food. You can get a heaping amount of nachos for as little as $3.75, and telling by the heavy traffic, the place is doing just fine. What I like about Max Fish is that it’s a local bar for local artists. It’s walls play host monthly for art exhibitions, there’s a pool table in the back, and drinks aren’t pricey, like many new bars springing up in this neighborhood. For one of the best cupcakes in the city, Sugar Sweet Sunshine has 10 varieties, on top of cakes. Try the Sexy Red Velvet or the Bob, a yellow cupcake with chocolate almond buttercream.

Friday August 14

Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Film: Rooftop Films
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Automotive High School (on the lawn)
Food: Relish
Drink: Radegast Hall & Biergarten
Miscellaneous: Zebulon

Rooftop Films presents Home Movies, short films about moments in time. Also performing are The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. Though Relish looks like a 50s diner or an even larger version of an L train car, this restaurant offers up some gourmet treats for dinner. With influences from all over the globe, Relish features diner classics like burgers and onion rings, and step it up with the likes of Blackened Yellow Fin Tuna ($21). Williamsburg’s first beer garden, Radegast Hall & Biergarten, has a beautiful all-wood interior, an enclosed outdoor backyard, and 12 German/Austrian beers on tap and more than 30 bottles. Another great bar in the area, Zebulon offers free live jazz and afrobeat. The drinks here are inexpensive, and I’ve never seen a bad show here before.

Saturday August 15

Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn
Music: Animal Collective Get Tickets Here
Show time: 9 PM
Venue: Prospect Park Bandshell
Food: Press 195
Drink: Union Hall
Miscellaneous: O’Connor’s

These Baltimore natives who live in New York City now have been putting out some of the most interesting indie rock over the last few years, whether it’s as their solo projects like Panda Bear or Terrestrial Tones, but when they combine as their main unit Animal Collective is really where they shine. The theme at Press 195 is pressed comfort food. A sandwich shop with quite the menu, they offer 30 types of delicious sandwiches like the turkey and fontina cheese sandwich with a cranberry and roasted pear chutney on ciabatta ($7.75). While Union Hall looks like a cabin at a ski resort with a fireplace, stone walls, comfy couches, and inexpensive drinks, you may want to stick around rather than barhop. A low-key bar in this hood, O’Connor’s is a hole in the wall where you can grab a cheap drink and watch the game on their TV, just like your grandpa sitting next to you!

Saturday August 15

Location: Gramercy Park, NYC
Band: Marduk Get Tickets Here
Show time: 8 PM
Venue: Gramercy Theater
Food: Kelley & Ping Gramercy
Drink: Rodeo Bar
Miscellaneous: City Bakery

Swedish band Marduk play straight up black metal and give Cartoon Network band Dethklok a run for their money on being one of the darkest bands out there. Their newest album Wormwood will be released shortly but regardless, expect some heavy music to go down. For dinner, Kelley & Ping Gramercy’s Gramercy location offers a taste of the food stalls from all over Asia including noodles, curries, and of course street food like pad Thai. The food is delish! Though honky tonk doesn’t spell R-O-C-K, the Rodeo Bar offers both. With the bar itself being an old horse trailer and the bartender offering up 10 kinds of margarita’s, this place is white trash awesome! For some of the best bakery goods and hot chocolate in the city, stop at City Bakery and indulge in delectable morsels. Expect to pay for every delicious cent of em’ cause they ain’t cheap, but they’re worth it!

Sunday August 16

Location: West Village, NYC
Theater: Puppetry of the Penis
Show time: See website; Through August 30
Venue: Bleecker Street Theater
Food: Blue Ribbon Downing Street Bar
Drink: Village Tavern
Miscellaneous: Bleeker Bob’s

Not your ordinary night out at the theatre, Puppetry of the Penis is described as “genital origami” and was created by Simon Morley in 1996 as an art calendar. Since then, it has been turned into a stage performance having been shown in 14 countries, including previously in the U.S. For an eclectic menu that mixes upscale and down-home food, Blue Ribbon Downing Street Bar, a wine bar and restaurant, offers lighter fare including foie gras, cheese plates, caviar, and steak tartare. The Village Tavern is a really comfortable neighborhood bar that’s great for catching sports games or just chilling for a drink, which is what I prefer to do when I’m in the vicinity. Also in the area is Bleeker Bob’s. It’s one of the oldest independent record stores in NYC and the selection is deep. The place looks a mess, but the staff is surprisingly friendly and extremely knowledgeable about what they have.

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