Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
At Sour Mouse, computational biologist Akash Parvatikar explains how machine learning finds patterns in digital pathology—and where clinicians should distrust it.
Anthology’s Combat Breathing series presents Laboring Images, Part 1, introduced by Nour Annan.
BRIC’s free Brooklyn Poetry Slam brings a rotating spoken-word showcase into the downtown Brooklyn arts center.
Erika Balsom’s free Light Industry lecture revisits a feminist collective’s censored 1981 Italian video work and its improbable courtroom history.
Purgatory’s free downstairs video-game club makes Tuesday night a low-key chance to play alongside Bushwick’s game community.
Anti-tech activist August Lamm launches You Don’t Need a Smartphone, then discusses practical ways to navigate offline life at Greenlight.
Berlin’s weekly Torture Tuesday hosts Torture and the Desert Spiders for a noisy underground bill; doors open at 7 before the 8 p.m. show.
Dame Stormy Leather’s Erotic City mixes EJ Garlands’ live funk-soul band with burlesque from Audrey Love, Kyla and Jack Barrow.
Alamo’s Terror Tuesday revives the 1988 Blob, a practical-effects creature feature whose gelatinous menace devours a Pennsylvania town.
The Open Mic Downstairs gives performers a Tuesday-night room to try material and gives the audience a close-up of work in progress.