rooftop films

If you're not listening to some world class jazz at the Vision Festival XV or catching some of our weekend music picks, here are a few more ways to stay cool this weekend. If you have an event you...

Along with some previously mentioned events: The Whiz: Obamaland, our weekly music picks, a couple art gallery events and Yevgeniy Fiks' opening, we have a few more suggestions for a sunny weekend on the Lower East Side.  If you...

Along with previously mentioned anticipation of Keith Hennessy appearance at the New Museum tonight, here are a few suggestions for a fun-filled weekend on the Lower East Side. As we posted in our Weekly Music Picks, NYC icons Joey Arias...

Love  was truly in the air last Friday night as Rooftop Films' evening of romantic shorts at the Open Road Rooftop got under way. Founder and artistic director, Mark Rosenberg delighted the crowd and his girlfriend, Stephanie Skaff (of...

Rooftop Films, the underground movie series that has been showing films on fantastic rooftops around the city for 13 years now, has announced the Summer Series schedule for their 14th season.  This summer, Rooftop Films will screen more than...

Photo by Mark LaRosa © 2009 marklarosaphotography.com Photographer Mark LaRosa is the winner of our "LES Summer Photo" contest and is on the guest list for Rooftop Films closing night of films at Open Road Rooftop. (They have moved the...

Rooftop Films is back on the LES tonight at the Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School (see our video about New Design Students here).  Tonight's films are a series of national and international short films in a...

Head down to the East River Park for some free opera tonight at 7:00pm. (At the bandshell along the East River, between Grand and Jackson Sts.)  The Metropolitan Opera continues it's series of summer recitals in the parks...

Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell. After an eight year respite, performance artist John Kelly has returned to the Abrons Arts Center with his inspired tribute. As the Village Voice noted, even Joni Mitchell said the...

Part of the ongoing Rooftop Films series will feature animated shorts tonight at the Open Road Rooftop at 350 Grand Street. Program notes say these films "defy expectations and bring us images that have never been seen before--kinetic visions...