Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, May 24.
A clown rave is absurd in the productive way that good deep-cut titles usually are.
A risograph workshop at Pioneer Works is a classic niche-maker event: material, process-heavy, and likely full of the right obsessives.
Danny Krivit and Benny Soto at Knockdown's Ruins is a scene document disguised as a daytime dance event.
A Sunday Spectacle shorts program is a reliable place to find the audience that actually cares about the details.
A bill that stacks bands, burlesque, and drag in Night Club 101 lands exactly in the city's gloriously messy middle.
A title this specific at QED usually means somebody built a real little world around it.
Spectacle plus a title like From the Dead of Night is enough to tell you this is not standard repertory fare.
Skate-night programming this deliberately stacked has more local-scene personality than most weekend party listings.
Video Game Jazz Night is exactly the sort of delightfully over-specific format that deep cuts should protect.
A late Close Up set-and-jam with a lineup this dense feels tailored for people who want the night to get more specific, not less.