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Step right up! Come on in! For two nights only join the Museum of Interesting Things for dinner and a show of the fascinating and remarkable at the Hampton Inn SoHo. There will be kooky cameras! Strange medical devices! Weird scientific apparatuses! Crazy mechanical toys! Funky music players! And sooo much more!!! Guests are encouraged to be hands on so don’t hold back. It’ll be a circus of a time! The can’t-miss two-day event is on May 18th and 19th at 7PM. The SoHo Journal is sponsoring so you know we’ll be there rocking our favorite mad scientist attire, strange apparatuses in tow!

 

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Summer is almost here and the best way to make old clothes look brand new is by accessorizing. Check out the sample sale May 14th to May 16th from 10 to 6 PM at Satya Jewelry to find merchandise up to 80% off. Find some gems to make your wardrobe shine! 

 

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Looking for a family fun evening?  Bring the brood to the Children's Museum of Art's 16th Annual Family Benefit, Paintbrushes in Paradise: An Artistic Hawaiian Luau. Join the CMA's traditional Hawaiian Luau, complete with dancing music, and food, to benefit CMA’s community outreach programs.  Taking place on Friday, May 14th from 4 PM – 8 PM, the evening will feature entertainment by Josh Cho & The Hawaiian Dreams Band and Polynesian Dance Productions. Families are encouraged to dress up and will have the opportunity to create traditional headpieces, learn a hula dance, and make tiki masks.

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Never have we met a better ringmaster than Mark Demaio. His mind has always teetered between genius and perverse, so it’s no surprise Demaio’s works do too. Colorful and whimsical with hauntingly dark undertones, Demaio playfully explores the frightening and absurd in the seemingly innocent. His subjects— goblins, dolls, and circus freaks— are the most shocking of oddities, and yet surprisingly beguiling. They almost always smile, but never without an air of sadness. Catch Demaio’s latest show featuring works from his “Absurd Notions” series at VIG27 with the opening reception on May 13th and you will not only get brownie points from us but be privy to a fantastic performance by Corey Tut. It will be a blast!  

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Celebrate yo’ mama by bringing the family to our favorite joint in SoHo. The Cupping Room Cafe’s fashionably homey aesthetic will charm your mother while making you look like a champ. Treat her to yummy pancakes, scrumptious omelets, and lip smacking lattes. Plus you can booze her up with mimosas…. It’s Mother’s Day for the whole family!!

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Curated by Ruben Natal- San Miguel, “The Naked Truth” is a photographic and video visual survey of 50 years of voyeurism, nudity and sex. From Bert Stern's Marilyn Monroe ''Last Sitting'' in 1962 to the Jen Davis’s Skype/Webcam series in 2010 the exhibit celebrates years and years of the risqué. It’s opening May 13, 2010 at Hous Projects Gallery. Sex… I mean see you there!!

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Back off Andrew Loyd Webber, there’s a new Phantom in town. Composer Michael Sgouros and Writer Brenda Bell have interpreted the classic 1911 Gaston Leroux’s novel, The Phantom of the Opera, an to rave reviews.  “Most people have only a vague idea of the true story and that’s what audiences will see at our production, so expect a few surprises,” says Bell. Bring your mom to see the 3pm matinee of “Phantom of the Opera” at the Players Theatre on Sunday and her ticket will be free!! 

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The power of an attentive hand is ages old, but here has a peculiar contemporariness. These images not only represent our world as it looks today, but also reflect our current technological tools for image-gathering and our specific ways of combining old and new. How we see has changed as much as what we see, so even the basic art tools (pencil, oil paint) have new jobs to do to reestablish their validity.

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 DJ Raul Campos of KCRW once called Zigmat’s music is “edgy, rockin’, melodic and dreamy.”  We agree. Fronted by vocalist Monica Rodriguez and bassist Stephen Yonkin, Zigmat brings together an eclectic mix of world, punk, trip-hop and rock in a unique way that has won over critics and fans alike all over the US, Brazil, Mexico and Europe.  Check out their final US show Saturday May 1st, 11:30 PM at Joe’s Pub before they head back to Barcelona, Spain for the famous Sonar Festival in June.

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Urgent!! Urgent!! Check out Shepard Fairey’s exhibition “Mayday” at Dietch Projects opening Satuday May 1st. Not only detailing a distress signal, “Mayday” represents rebirth and also is observed in many countries as an International Worker’s Day. All of these themes are vibrant in Fairey’s collection of portraits of artists, musicians, and political activists that he most admires. 

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