Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, May 4.
A Dylan walking tour is tourist-shaped on paper, but Gramercy-to-downtown music mythology gives it a useful New York specificity.
Alphaville hosting an open mic called Yard Sale is a nicely scrappy Monday comedy bet.
A free Vocaloid opera screening inside a karaoke bar is exactly the sort of odd overlap this list exists to catch.
A masked CircleSing at Arts On Site sounds more like a small ritual than a standard participatory music night.
The Bell House is about the right scale for The George Lucas Talk Show to land as nerd theater rather than pure bit.
Lili Taylor with Christian Cooper in Brooklyn is an off-calendar conversation pick with more personality than the usual author-event lane.
Bowery Palace bills like this tend to read as a scene roll call before they read as marketing.
Sid Gold's showtune singalong is knowingly theatrical without needing a formal stage.
A Lunachicks documentary at Roxy is the punk-history film slot with the clearest local bite.
Smalls just before midnight is where the listing stops being a show and starts becoming a musician hang.