Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, June 2.
Purgatory's downstairs video-game club sounds small, social, and self-selecting in a way the broader nightlife listings rarely do.
That slashed-up Union Pool bill reads like a local scene stack, the kind of Tuesday lineup people find by knowing the right flyer.
Caveat is the right place for a comedy-science premise that sounds more like a staged curiosity than a normal showcase.
The title alone has cult-night energy, and Nitehawk is a natural landing spot for that kind of repertory troublemaking.
A poetry slam extravaganza at The Bell House has the scale of a show but the odd specificity of a scene dare.
A guest event with that title at The Slipper Room points toward a mixed performance crowd instead of a cleanly packaged night out.
A fifth-anniversary lotería night at C'mon Everybody has enough community ritual baked in to feel sharper than a standard party.
Wilson and Abramovic at Anthology is a very particular overlap of performance-art people and cinephiles.
Late-night vinyl at Mezzrow is more hang than headliner, which is exactly why it feels like a useful after-hours tip.
A Smalls jam near midnight is musician traffic disguised as a listing, with the night likely to change shape set by set.