Supporters of Astroland will be gathering tomorrow at the Surf Ave. entrance of Astroland in a rally to save the boardwalk amusement park from shuttering for good. Sunday is the last day of the season for the park and unless Thor Equities extends its lease for another year, Astroland will be closing for good. One supporter recommend showing up early and will be providing foamboard and markers to make signs. PDF posters for printing......

THEATER: The annual Soho Think Tank Ice Factory, arguably New York’s most impeccably curated theater festival, has been hosting an exhilarating array of new shows every weekend since July 4th . Starting tonight you can sink your teeth into Vampire University, in which “a struggling vampire family descends on an evangelical college in the Midwest, the dad’s mid-life crisis of immortality triggers a desire to come back to life and the gulf between first and......

MUSIC: You know summer is just around the corner when the Seaport Music Festival has their first show of the season. Tonight Animal Collective, Danielson and XXXChange (Spank Rock) will all be on Pier 17 for a FREE show! Come, drink, listen. Friday // 7pm // South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // Free THEATER: Critics are loving Passing Strange and now it’s extending its run at The Public Theater to July 1st. The sly yet......

THEATER: Obie Award winner Adam Rapp has just unwrapped (sorry) his new play Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons. Set in a mean Midwestern town called Bloggs, the play has, fittingly, been generating big blog buzz. The “grim fairy tale” revolves around a disgruntled misfit “who takes a job as an attack dummy in a women’s self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to the repressed bookworm who’s beating on him. But all’s not well in......

The Hungry March Band humbly calls itself "the greatest brass march band of all time." The ragamuffin ensemble has played street festivals, political demonstrations, subways, the Staten Island Ferry and Coney Island, with a songbook that draws from jazz great Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to rockers Black Sabbath and Pigbag. This summer are bringing their mix of New Orleans, Gypsy, Indian wedding, Latin, punk, hip-hop mania to Europe. Complete with dancers, hula......

It's hard to believe, but Joey Ramone has been dead for five years. Today is his birthday, and to celebrate and remember him, Ramones super-fans are visiting spots in Queens and Manhattan. Nonsense-NY has the details: 1. Meet around 11:30a in Forest Hills, Queens for the pilgrimage, on foot, from the original Rock and Roll High School into Manhattan. Be prepared to tell stories of punkrock glory (real or imagined) and to participate in......

Ladies and gentlemen, we're proud to report that Coney Island is now open! Yay, hot dogs, Cyclone, fun on the beach! Gothamist headed down to Coney Island earlier today as many of the rides opened up for the first time this year. We could even smell the fresh coats of paint as we stood under the Wonder Wheel. Marty Markowitz, ever the Brooklyn cheerleader was on hand as well. Also at opening day was......

One anti-Bush group that we have a particular fondness for is Billionaires for Bush. They use humor and street theater to show how the current administration has favored the corporate elite at the expense of the rest of Americans. They have staged several events this week, including a croquet party in Central Park (which they stated was the real reason the permits weren't granted to the protestors, because the billionaires needed to enjoy the......

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