Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Monday, May 4.
Rough Trade acoustic-and-signing sets still work best when the artist has enough grit to make the stripped-down format matter.
Low Cinema screening The Gods of Times Square is a Monday film pick with actual city texture, not just repertory comfort.
Ornithology gives David Bryant's Trismic the right small-club setting for a modern piano night with some edge.
CPR's open lab format keeps this Yuki Kawahisa performance close to the process, which is the point of going.
McNally Seaport gets the sharper talks slot here, with Morgan Radford and Abby Phillip giving the evening some newsroom weight.
BAM revisiting Occupy through a collaborative film has the kind of New York memory that earns one of the film slots.
National Sawdust is the right home for this Bowling Green new-music program, especially on a thinner Monday live calendar.
Ron Carter's 89th birthday run at Blue Note is the obvious jazz event, but it is obvious for a reason.
Will Rawls and Hayley Stahl at The Poetry Project gives the night a downtown performance-poetry option with more bite than the standard reading.
Rev. Vince Anderson at Union Pool remains one of the city's better recurring Monday rituals when you want the week to start less politely.