MUSIC: Scottish indie sensations Camera Obscura bring their pop and their rock to the Seaport tonight. They're joined by The Last Town Chorus. After that, there's only one more show down there this season! Friday // 7pm // South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // Free MOVIE: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is playing tonight, and you've got a golden ticket! Stock up on sweets and enjoy the 1971 classic down by the river. Friday......

MOVIE: It's certainly not the kind of night for an outdoor movie, so we suggest sitting in the cool a/c and watching the 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead. "Gone is the possibility of mankind’s dominance in this sequel to Night of the Living Dead; the zombies are in control now, with a group of AWOL soldiers and TV producers on the run from the staggering hordes. A deserted shopping mall offers a safe hideout,......

FILM: Who doesn't like a rendez-vous? Tonight come to Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. The event is in its 12th year and will introduce you to what's been playing on Parisian movie screens. Tonight is the first night and Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose plays - the film will educate you on French legend Edith Piaf. Through March 11th // Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts [70 Lincoln Center Plaza] // $22......

THEATER: Katharsis Theater Company has been developing The Polish Play for the past two years; it’s a fusion of Macbeth and Ubu Roi, the play by Alfred Jarry that was partially inspired by Macbeth. This work of Grand Guignol fusion, which mixes puppetry with live acting, swerves between broad satire, tragedy and plenty of ultra-violence. (Although puppets are decapitated and disemboweled on-stage, rest assured that no puppets are permanently harmed for this production.) Jordan Gelber,......

Our Movable Hype show is TONIGHT! This is the two year anniversary of the show, so come help us celebrate with... (8pm) The Subjects Listen: Hounds of War.mp3 (9pm) Tall Hands Listen at MySpace (10pm) Bad Veins Listen: Afraid.mp3 (11pm) Apes and Androids Listen: Radio.mp3 BUY TICKETS HERE for $8, or tonight at the door ($10). As always, it's at the Knitting Factory main space, located at 74 Leonard Street. See you tonight!......

Our next Movable Hype show is coming up NEXT WEEK, on Tuesday November 14th. Here's the lineup: (8pm) The Subjects Listen: Hounds of War.mp3 (9pm) Tall Hands Listen at MySpace (10pm) Bad Veins Listen: Afraid.mp3 (11pm) Apes and Androids Listen: Radio.mp3 And check out Apes and Androids doing "Thriller" on Halloween. Complete with zombie dancers! BUY TICKETS HERE!......

Video for "Waiting for the Centipede" With so many bands in this city, there are plenty who drop out each and every day. Call it quits, re-form as another band, move on to something else...you know the drill. This week, Brooklyn band The Fever are bowing out and will play their last show on the high seas. The booze cruise boards at 7pm, shoves off at 8pm and will have you returned safely to......

Video for An Open Letter to NYC - The Beastie Boys Tomorrow night is the "GIMME SHELTER: Rock & Rescue NYC" Benefit. The night will bring together rockers in support of homeless animals. Details: WHO: BEASTIE BOYS, BLUE OYSTER CULT, THE CHOKE, THE DUELLING BANKHEADS, JOE HURLEY AND THE GENTS, MARSHALL CRENSHAW, the band MORE, MURRAY WEINSTOCK NELLIE MCKAY, SIC F*CKS, THE STAR SPANGLES, AND MORE GUESTS T.B.A. With special appearances by DEBBIE HARRY......

The 2006 Bicycle Film Festival is here, kicking off in New York today, and then traveling to nine additional cities across the globe. The BFF began in 2000, started by Brendt Barbur after he was struck by a bus and decided something positive needed to come from this experience. Brendt is also one of the founders of Critical Mass. The BFF brings people together to celebrate two-wheeled transportation, and we love festivals that provide valet......

Movable Hype 7.0, our concert series, is TONIGHT! Come enjoy the music and some drink specials with us, won't you? Here's the lineup: 8pm Stars of Track & Field [Listen: With You.mp3] 9pm Land of Talk [Listen: Sea Foam.mp3] 10pm Cloud Cult [Listen: Living on the Outside of Your Skin.mp3] 11:15pm The Slack Republic [Listen: Wait For Me.mp3] The ladies of Essexy will be deejaying AND there will be DRINK SPECIALS all night long: $3......

Movable Hype 7.0, our concert series, is this Monday April 17th! We couldn't be more excited about this show. Check out the lineup: 8pm Stars of Track & Field [Listen: With You.mp3] 9pm Land of Talk [Listen: Sea Foam.mp3] 10pm Cloud Cult [Listen: Living on the Outside of Your Skin.mp3] 11:15pm The Slack Republic [Listen: Wait For Me.mp3] The ladies of Essexy will be deejaying AND there will be DRINK SPECIALS all night long: $3......

Aziz Ansari and his friends are taking over Pianos tomorrow night. Todd Barry and Nick Kroll are amongst those friends, but we hear there will be more (UPDATE: This just in, other friends include Leo Allen and Merlin and Zach. No last names, how mysterious!). Among the room full of funny there will also be a/v fun, like the debut screening of the new cut of "Illusionators" [watch the trailer here]. This is by the......

So far we've found nothing funny about the month of January, hopefully things will change starting this week. Check out our comedy picks: When something is called Bar Mitzvah Disco (the Variety Show) you just have to go. The BMD is brought to you by the one and only Movable Hype 6.0 host Nick Kroll, who may or may not be going by the name of Enrique Goldfarb - Northern New Jersey's #3 name in......

The city is no longer awash in saffron, but we promise there is still a lot to do this weekend... COMEDY: The "Dark Side of the Moon" Show: Buy, Beg, Borrow or Steal starts tonight at the UCB Theater. This totally psychadelic and surreal theater experience pokes fun at the popular rumor that The Wizard of OZ syncs up perfectly with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (it DOES. Instructions: wait for the 3rd......

Last night was our Movable Hype 1.5 show at Pianos. Thanks to the bands and everyone who came out! We all had a lot of fun despite Pianos double booking problems, but hey, that stuff happens. Luckily, we already have Movable Hype 2.0 all set up and it's back at the Knitting Factory. We're really excited about the lineup which is as follows: Elkland, The Information, Other Passengers and The Cloud Room. Deejay to be......