Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, May 25.
An Apple Sewing Club at Purgatory is niche in the correct way: handmade, communal, and a little improbable.
A slam at Bowery Poetry Club is still one of the cleanest ways to find the city's less polished, more alive literary crowd.
Robot Karaoke sounds like somebody's wonderfully specific recurring obsession, which is exactly the point.
Shitty Mozart is a title that already tells you this room has chosen chaos over respectability.
Drag King Bingo is specific enough on its own, and Club Cumming only makes it more correct.
A Spectacle screening of Tish feels like the sort of under-the-radar film recommendation someone gives you after midnight.
Purely Belter at 10 p.m. in Spectacle is exactly the right level of cult and casual for this list.
A late set-and-jam at Close Up reads more like musicians handing the room to each other than a booked show.
Vinyl After Hours stays one of the best late-night answers for people who want a room with taste and not much marketing gloss.
A Smalls jam hosted by Mike Boone is about as direct a route into a real Monday-night music community as you can ask for.