Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, May 2.
The title alone gives this Palo Gallery show more bite than the usual all-day art listing.
A rare book fair inside St. Vincent Ferrer is a very particular Saturday errand for people who like paper with provenance.
A noon skate disco at Xanadu is a pleasantly un-serious way to start the day before the night gets crowded.
The Smalls afternoon jam has a working-musician looseness that the evening shows rarely keep.
Metrograph giving John Wick a late slot turns a familiar action movie into a cult-audience check-in.
Wonderville calling something All Night Hyperjoy tells you exactly how little chill to expect.
Dabin Ryu stretching into Close Up's late set-and-session format is a good small-hours jazz bet.
Andrea Domenici at Mezzrow just before midnight is a tiny, focused counterweight to the Saturday crush.
La MaMa pairing BamBam Frost and Ori Flomin points toward performance work with a real body-language vocabulary.
Memory Generation sounds like the La MaMa listing most likely to reward taking a chance.