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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 7/19/08

Sunday: 7/20/08

Monday: 7/21/08

Tuesday: 7/22/08

Wednesday: 7/23/08

Thursday: 7/24/08

Friday: 7/25/08

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

movie

imageThe Dark Knight
various locations

Christian Bale returns as Batman in the much-hyped, Christopher Nolan-directed sequel to "Batman Begins." More »

nightlife

imageSummerStage: Santogold
Central Park

The burgeoning Brooklyn pop phenom. More »

nightlife

imageGeorge Michael
Madison Square Garden

The flamboyant British pop star plays a rare area stop on his first world tour in many years. More »

nightlife

imageFour Tet with Steve Reid
World Financial Center

The U.K. electro rocker with trumpeter Steve Reid perform as part of the River to River Festival. More »

reading

Rachel Kushner
192 Books

Kushner reads from her first novel, Telex From Cuba , a critically-acclaimed evocation of fifties, pre-Castro Cuba. More »

nightlife

Kenny Chesney / LeAnne Rimes
PNC Bank Arts Center

Chesney tours behind his latest album, "Just Who I Am: Pirates and Poets." With LeAnne Rhimes. More »

classical

Philip Glass Ensemble
Prospect Park Bandshell

The iconic minimalist composer and his extraordinary ensemble are joined by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus for a performance of Glass's score to Godfrey Reggio’s renowned film "Powaqqatsi." More »

movie

Lou Reed's Berlin
BAM Rose Cinemas

Julian Schnabel’s documentary follows the musician as he embarks on a series of live performances of his classic album "Berlin at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse." More »

art

After Nature
New Museum

Works by an international group of artists, writers, and outsiders explore the future landscape of a world under the pressure of not-so-distant environmental disasters. More »

reading

Jeffrey Lewis
The Half King

The Hill Street Blues writer and producer reads from the final volume of his �Meritocracy Quartet,� "Adam the King". More »

reading

Is Anti-Catholicism Dead?
Museum of the City of New York

Paul Baumann, editor of the Catholic fortnightly "Commonweal", moderates a panel. More »

nightlife

Martha Wainwright
HighLine Ballroom

Wainwright performs in support of her latest, "I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too." More »

nightlife

Black Kids
Santos' Party House

Infectiously upbeat indie-pop from Jacksonville, Florida. More »

classical

Cityparks Dance: ASE Dance Collective / Dance Theatre X
Von King Park

Brooklyn-based, African dance-influenced ASE Dance Collective and hip-hop troupe Purelements perform.� More »

art

Sigalit Landau
MoMA

Performance artist Landau reinterprets the landscape of her native Israel through video and sculpture. More »

theater

2nd Annual Summer Broadway Festival
The Town Hall

Three weekly programs, the first is a performance of operetta scores, the second rising stars, and the third to music and choreography. More »

classical

Laurie Anderson
Lincoln Center

The always innovative performer presents 'Homeland', her "concert poem" inspired by the political urgency of contemporary American culture. More »

kids

Cinderella Samba
Swedish Cottage Marionette Theat

The classic story of the girl and the glass slipper punched up with a Brazilian beat. More »

movie

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh's tale of the smashup of bright young things. 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

The Royal Ballet of Flanders

Lincoln Center, 7/17-7/30

Eddie Vedder

United Palace, 8/4

 

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