Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, June 22.
The Nuyorican slam tradition landing at Bowery Poetry Club keeps the night rooted in competitive performance and a living downtown poetry community.
A fourth week of something called NoFun Fest at Berlin reads like an intentionally abrasive East Village residency, not another polished Monday showcase.
Claire Rousay's intimate experimental sound practice paired with Andrew Farnsworth under the HORT/CULTURE banner makes Nine Orchard an unexpectedly precise listening stop.
Caveat turning economics into a comedy brief should draw policy obsessives and joke writers into the same basement, a properly nerdy Monday collision.
A movie called The Secret of the Mummy at Spectacle needs little prestige framing; the microcinema setting makes its pulp mystery the point.
The stacked title suggests three distinct comedy modes sharing one UCB bill, with Doomscroll supplying an appropriately terminal premise for a Monday night.
Compressing a talk show into one-minute bursts is an appealingly unstable premise, especially at Baby's All Right after the normal concert crowd has settled in.
The deliberately misspelled title and late Spectacle slot mark this as the looser, riskier cinema choice for anyone willing to end Monday at a microcinema.
Close Up's set-and-session format leaves room for the bandstand to open up after the named players finish, aimed squarely at musicians and serious late listeners.
Mezzrow switching from live sets to records at 11:30 is a night-owl jazz proposition for listeners who care about the hang as much as the selections.