Today’s “Fab 5″/ Selected NYCity Events – THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014
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Happy Bastille Week! – French Restaurant Week (through July 14)
Special deals at select French restaurants in honor of Bastille week.
Participating restaurants offer specials at $17.89 ; $35.78 and/or $178.90
This year discover special pairing with wines of Roussillon!
Shaped like an amphitheater and nestled in the South of France between Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees & the Corbières Mountains, Roussillon, the sunniest region of France, is known for its diversity of wines & terroirs. Thanks to the region’s unique geology and microclimates, each of the 23 authorized grape varieties reaches its fullest expression in these soils. Most of the region’s exports are dry red & rosé wines.
www.frenchrestaurantweek.com/
Various New York City Locations
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band (through July 13)
“Roughly two decades since his death at 75, the irrepressible bebop ambassador Dizzy Gillespie lives on through several generations of inheritors, including Freddie Hendrix and Claudio Roditi, members of the trumpet section in this repertory band. Also on the roster are the saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the bassist John Lee, both Gillespie alumni, along with estimable talent like the pianist Cyrus Chestnut and the drummer Lewis Nash.” (NYT-Chinen)
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village,
212-475-8592, bluenote.net
At 8 and 10:30 p.m., $35 cover at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum.
Savion Glover (through July 12)
The king of tap returns to the Joyce with the new show OM, featuring Marshall Davis Jr., Mari Fujibayashi, Keitaro Hosokawa and Olivia Rosenkrantz.
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St
212-242-0800 / joyce.org
at 8pm / $10-$59
Najee
“A capably suave R&B saxophonist with a clear grasp of his music’s utility — his most recent album, “The Morning After,” opens with tracks titled, respectively, “Anticipation” and “Rendezvous” — Najee headlines this installment of the Smooth Cruise, a leisurely two-hour dinner jaunt around the southern tip of Manhattan.” (Chinen-NYT)
Pier 40, Houston and West Streets, West Village,
866-468-7619, smoothjazznewyork.com;
Departs at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., / $55, $80 with buffet.
New York Asian Film Festival 2014 (last day)
A festival of eyeball-exploding Asian films.
Many of the movies shown here will never get distribution in the United States or even be available in DVD. Even more reason to escape the heat and see some great Asian films now at the Walter Reade and the Film Society’s other theaters.
“From futuristic thrillers to testosterone-fueled soap operas, the 13th annual New York Asian Film Festival showcases popular, eyeball-exploding films coming out of Asian today.
Screening 60 feature films, this edition serves up a tribute to Sir Run Run Shaw, a focus on Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, and a spotlight on resurgent local Hong Kong cinema. A number of star filmmakers and celebrity guests from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are also flying in for the occasion.” (Mindy Bond, Editor-Flavorpill)
Today’s Films:
Aberdeen
Pang Ho-cheung | | 98 mins – 3:30pm
This ensemble family melodrama about expectations of beauty and marital betrayal features Pang’s (Isabella) signature complex performances and magic-realist touch.
Read more »
Aim High in Creation!
Anna Broinowski | 2013 | 97 mins – 8:15pm
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with Anna Broinowski.
This revolutionary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late Dear Leader Kim Jong-il has a groundbreaking experiment at its heart: a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 Manifesto “The Cinema and Directing.”
Read more »
Cold Eyes
Choi Eui-seok | 2013 | 118 mins – 1:00pm
New York Premiere. Q&A with actor Sol Kyung-gu following July 7 screening, who will be presented with the Star Asia Award.
This epic of nonstop suspense is a three-way race against time between a rumpled surveillance guru, a ruthlessly efficient criminal, and a new recruit eager to prove she’s got what it takes.
Read more »
Kenneth Bi | 2013 | 92 mins – 5:40pm
This futuristic thriller follows an insurance salesman coerced to commit criminal acts by an unseen villain, who sends instructions over the phone and has control of the city’s surveillance cameras.
Read more »
www.filmlinc.com/films/series/new-york-asian-film-festival-2014
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♦ Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, dates and times, as schedules are subject to change.
♦ NYCity is a big town with many visitors where quality shows draw crowds. Try to reserve seats in advance, even if just on day of performance.
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A PremierPub – West Village
Corner Bistro / 331 W. 4th St.
Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.
In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town. The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.
Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.
Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening, in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.
For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).
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Website: cornerbistrony.com
Phone #: 212-242-9502
Hours: 11:30am-4am Mon-Sat; 12pm-4am Sun
Happy Hour: NO
Music: Juke Box
Subway: #1/2/3 to 14th St. (S end of platform)
Walk 2 blk W. on 13th St. to 8th Ave.; 1 blk S. on 8th Ave. to Jane St.
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