Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, May 1.
Grace Exhibition Space gives this artist talk a sharper edge than a more institutional panel would.
Lower East Stories at P&T has the neighborhood-memory quality that makes a books event feel less generic.
This Close Up lineup has enough player-to-player charge to make the set feel like a real insider jazz pick.
The title is shameless, but a poetry night at Nook with that much self-awareness is worth noting.
Ghost World with Zwigoff and Illeana Douglas in the building is cult nostalgia with actual witnesses attached.
This Wonderville rave title is so overstuffed it becomes a map of exactly who the night is for.
Caveat can make a premise this blunt feel like social anthropology with jokes.
Under St Marks at 10 PM with a title this theatrical is squarely in downtown oddball territory.
A near-midnight solo piano set at Mezzrow is small, late, and exactly tuned to people who are still listening.
La MaMa keeps titles like The Censorship of Dreams from sounding merely fanciful; there is usually a real experiment underneath.