Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Wednesday, April 22.
The Nuyorican offsite version has exactly the slightly improvised energy that makes a poetry night worth chancing.
A festival with this title in the Pianos showroom already reads like the right sort of small-batch downtown idea.
Anthology is where a title this obscure can still feel social instead of dutiful.
The Bowery still works best when the microphone is doing a little civic duty, and an out-of-town slam gives this some bite.
Seventh Heaven is exactly messy enough for a niche ParaPara night to make instant sense.
Close Up is good for bills that read more like a private chain of recommendations than a normal booking.
Spectacle doing an Earth Day-timed program with a title this blunt has the right activist-curio charge.
Purgatory keeps rewarding events whose titles sound tossed off online and much better once you are actually there.
A late vinyl session at Mezzrow is a better downtown after-hours move than most of the city's official nightlife.