This Week In New York by Mark Rifkin

Chicago Group Set to Pull Off City Hat Trick
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir- a break out band of last month's CMJ Music Marathon- gives an astounding performance, with future dates that you should definitely not miss ...

Strolling Through Galleries Offers Rewarding Experience
Come join us a stroll through a few chelsea galleries from Edition Schellmann to Chelsea Market find out which gallery suits you best...

Five Guys Open Their First Manhattan Location a Day Early to Meet Demand
The latest addition to this extremely pleasurable burger joint trend is the Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries...

Two Exhibits Highlight Andreas Feininger’s Photos of New York City and Stockholm
Photographer Andreas Feininger wil be premiring his photos at the Alan Klotz Gallery from now through November 13 and at the Scandinavia House ...

November 3 Is Just Another Night in the Never-Ending Crush of Bands Playing New York City
An extraordinary amount of hot shows are scheduled for Saturday night, mostly featuring homegrown acts that are starting to make their mark on a bigger stage, with a few old-timers back to recapture their old glory...

CMJ Rolls In and Out of Town, Spreading Its Music Across the City
The 2007 CMJ Music Marathon ran through the city in a furious five days, October 16-20, with more than a thousand bands playing dozens of venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and even one in Jersey...

Tunng Plays Union Hall and Mercury Lounge
Union Hall and the Mercury Lounge will showcase the British band, Tunng, who play a unique brand of acoustic folk-based tunes enhanced by little sonic surprises...

All The Wall's A Stage
Artist Jenny Ping has created a fun and fascinating ballet of the mind for her first solo show, “On the Stage,” on view through October 28 at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery...

Dance Theater Meets Quantum Physics
Dance Theater Workshop concludes its performance of "Thin Air," a work combining quantum physics, Buddhist theories and sensual dance...

Cleaning the Psyche With British Artist Mike Nelson
British installation artist Mike Nelson makes his major U.S. debut with “A Psychic Vacuum”...

CMJ Fest Set to Dash Through City in Five-Day Marathon
More than a thousand bands will descend on New York City for the annual CMJ Music Marathon— they'll all be playing their hearts out in an effort to get recognized and reach that next level...

A Fiesty New Take on the Unicorn Tapestries
Multimedia artist Red Grooms re-imagines the Met's famed Unicorn Tapestries using bold colors and dramatic subject matter...

Get Inside the Box With "Hotel Cassiopeia"
The second of Charles L. Mee’s quartet of plays dealing with American artists is "Hotel Cassiopeia," which goes inside the mind of collagist Joseph Cornell...

Festival Alternatives: M.E.A.N.Y. Fest and Evil City Film Festival
M.E.A.N.Y. Fest and Evil City Film Festival offer themselves as alternatives to more well known affairs...

Taiwanese Troupe Celebrates Abstract Characters at Next Wave Festival
Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre kicks off the 25th anniversary of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival with the brilliant "Wild Cursive" from October 2nd-7th...

openhousenewyork: Architecture Wonderland
It's time again for one of the city’s most exciting weekends, openhousenewyork, when many buildings, structures, and landmarks open their doors to the general public, all for free...

Taiwan’s ChthoniC Tours the U.S. Fighting for Their Rights
Taiwanese metal rock group ChthoniC make their debut to the in United States at the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office on September 12th...

Three Nights of Downtown Music Echo Across Ground Zero
The excellent Music Downtown series—three nights of free music held in the plaza outside 7 World Trade Center, in the shadow of Ground Zero—began with Illinois, Old 97’s, and The Hold Steady on September 17th...

Bruce Brings The Magic Home
“I was trying to find my way home,” Bruce Springsteen announces at the beginning of his stunning new record, "Magic," his first studio album with the E Street Band in five years. They'll be playing The Today Show in Rockefeller Center on Friday morning, September 28th...

The Fiery Furnaces at Socrates Sculpture Park
The Fiery Furnaces played an amazing set Sunday afternoon August 26th at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens with the Manhattan skyline visible in the distance behind them...

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
On August 22nd, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars brought their remarkable story to Times Square, where they took the stage at B.B. King’s, rocking the house for two hours of politically tinged music about peace and love, war and poverty, violence and freedom...

U.S. Open Tennis Championships
Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova return to Queens to defend their titles in one of the great New York City events--the U.S. Open. If you’ve never been, you must go, even if you’re not a big tennis fan...

Hot Fun In The Summertime
As the middle of August approaches, so does the end of many of the free music festivals that have been taking place across the five boroughs all summer long. Here is a look at some of the best of the season so far—from Richard Thompson to The New Pornographers to The Hold Steady...

Racing Into Times Square
“For a Georgia boy like me, Times Square in New York City and NASCAR are actually just alike,” country music star Jason Aldean told us before the product launch of the EA Sports video game "NASCAR ’08" at the Hard Rock Café on July 23. “Everything is happening at 100 miles per hour and if you blink, you’ll miss something”...

Ten From TWI-NY: 7-18-07
This week in New York, you can go on a comedy cruise along the harbor, celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Asian American International Film Festival, rock with the Detroit Cobras in Brooklyn and New Jersey, see free Japanese Noh in Dag Hammarskjöld Park, and swing to some great jazz from Vince Giordano at Iridium and Grady Tate at the Blue Note...

Coney Island Capers
Despite all its ups and downs over the decades, Coney Island is still a magical place. If you examine its sites individually, you’ll never understand what the attraction is. But taken as a whole, Coney Island is far greater than the sum of its parts. It is filled with history and mystery, with exhilaration and debilitation, with wonder and blunder....

Ten From TWI-NY: 7-11-07
This week in New York, you can go green at a multimedia outdoor festival, lead the charge of British cinema at Lincoln Center, celebrate Bastille Day, listen to some cool jazz at the 92nd St. Y, catch a new print of Woody Allen’s magical "Manhattan," catch the philharmonic in Central Park, and check out emerging artists in DUMBO...

Ten From TWI-NY: 6-27-07
This week in New York you can admire unique Japanese photography in Chelsea, check out classic world cinema at Lincoln Center, get afro-punky in Brooklyn, dance with Lady Sovereign in a Spiegeltent, have a party on Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, and watch the fireworks blast over the East River...

Ten From TWI-NY: 6-13-07
This week in New York, there are free outdoor movie screenings all over town, the Metropolitan Opera performs in city parks, Human Rights are watched at Lincoln Center, Karen Gibson Roc moves fluidly at Galapagos, horror films are all the rage in Queens, Peaches lets loose at the Highline Ballroom, and U.S. Open tennis tickets go on sale...

TWI-NY's Hot Five: June 21-July 1
The summer music season is heating up, so here is twi-ny’s recommendations for the coming week. Be sure to check out our free summer music guide at twi-ny.com so you don’t miss a single show...

Ten From TWI-NY: 6-6-07
This week in New York, you can hear free music and see cool art in MetroTech Commons, check out a special Chinese edition of the Communist Manifesto,  bring the family to Riverside Church’s annual Family Arts Festival or celebrate Ohad Naharin’s career at Cedar Lake in Chelsea...

Ten From TWI-NY: 5-30-07
This week in New York you can check out the Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival, the Bard running through Central Park, multimedia indoor and outdoor festivals in Bushwick and Chinatown and Italian stereotypes merging with art from Pompeii...

Literary Conventions: BookExpo America
This week, the written word is again celebrated at the Javits Center, at BookExpo America, from May 31st through June 3rd. Whereas New York Comic Con focused more on cutting-edge genres, BookExpo is a more traditional trade-only show, appealing to booksellers across the country and featuring more familiar names holding signings...

Ten From TWI-NY: 5-23-07
This week in New York, you can celebrate African dance at BAM, you can watch Fleet Week sail into town, visit Barcelona at the Met, ample chocolate delicacies on the Upper East Side, listen to the original Wynton Marsalis Septet at Rose Hall and party at an arts festival on the Lower East Side...

Ten From TWI-NY: 5-16-07
This week in New York you can see a great new movie about three friends coming of age in Brooklyn, bike over to the Bicycle Film Festival, check out a unique video installation at Hermès, meet Werner Herzog at Film Forum, and participate in plantings and cleanup at city parks...

NASCAR vs. Traffic
NASCAR's Nextel All-Star will for the first time ever be broadcast on the Astrovision Screen right here in the very heart of the world, Times Square...

Triple Shot: Three Nights of Great Music
You don’t have to wait for the weekend for hot music events in New York. This past week featured a triple play of excellent shows on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Check out our review of LCD Soundsystem, Artic Monkeys, Be Your Own Pet, and !!!...

Ten From TWI-NY: 5-9-07
This week in New York you can get meditative at the Japan Society, dance the night away with the Arctic Monkeys at Hammerstein Ballroom, celebrate the High Line with David Bowie, meet the Sisters Grimm and Winnie-the-Pooh at the library, pig out on barbecue and cool urban design in Brooklyn, and hear eerie tales in historic Green-Wood Cemetery...

Soho Glam: Ian Hunter Debuts New Songs in Special Acoustic Set
Ian Hunter, formerly of glam-rock staple Mott The Hoople, has an uncanny ability to crank out rock anthems, from "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" to "Cleveland Rocks"--any chance to see Hunter perform is an opportunity not to be passed up. We were lucky enough to attend a special invite-only acoustic show on April 25th at John Varvatos’s fashion store in SoHo...

Ten From TWI-NY: 5-2-07
This week in New York, Paul Mazursky is feted at the Walter Reade Theater, Urban Bush Women dance in SoHo, the innovative Cheek by Jowl company does Shakespeare at BAM, the Hoboken Art & Music Festival returns, and  Dave Praeger signs POOP at Galapagos...