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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 28, 2012?

42 free events take place on Sunday, October 28 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 28 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of October . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, October 28, 2012

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Park Walk | Nature Walk


Learn about the Park’s wildlife by joining experienced naturalists on guided nature walks along the Park’s esplanade. Enjoy a meandering waterfront walk while viewing and learning about the park’s flora and fauna, including some of the 85 different species of birds identified within Park boundaries. Peek into some of our many gardens to discover butterflies, dragonflies and other interesting insects. Get to know the native plants that thrive in unexpected places in and around the river’s edge. Each nature walk is unique and offers a one-of-a-kind treasure hunt-like experience. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress appropriately for the weather. Loud noises and barking tend to startle wildlife and reduce viewing opportunities - please be considerate and leave your dog at home.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Hike | Rockefeller Preserve Hike


12 to 13 miles at a moderate pace. Walk from Philipse Manor through Sleepy Hollow Cemetery to the Rockefeller Preserve. Walk on former carriage roads alongside brooks and the Pocantico River.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:20 am
$3 plus fare

Other | Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus: Visit the Famous Statue Up Close and 70 Feet in the Air


This major new artwork has been created by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. The work places the 13-foot-tall statue of Columbus in the center of an American living room six stories above the city streets, recontextualizing the historical monument and temporarily transforming it into a contemporary artwork. The room will feature many of the trappings of a domestic living room—lamps, a couch, a coffee table, a television, and more—as well as custom wallpaper by the artist. Through large, loft-style windows, visitors will have dramatic views of Central Park and Midtown Manhattan that will be seen from Columbus’s perspective for the first time. Pass holders are asked to climb six flights of stairs to a height of 70 feet above street level and to descend by a second set of stairs. Flat, rubber-soled shoes are strongly recommended. This exhibition is ADA accessible. If a visitor requires the use of a mobility device (e.g. wheelchair, crutches, or a cane) or has a condition that prevents him or her from using the stairs, a hoist is available. Visitors under 13 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Those between the ages of 13 and 18 may visit without an adult, however a parent or guardian must obtain a pass for them. Given the physical demands of visiting the exhibition, it is not recommended for children under the age of 5. Strollers are not permitted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   New York City, NY; NYC
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City Walk | Historic Orchard Street Tour


Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | 11th Annual Pickle Day


A brine dunk tank? Bobbing for pickles? These elements and many more may just be included in the 11th Pickle Day. Pickle Day will feature vendors old and new – including Guss’ who were selling brince-soaked cucumbers over 100 years ago and Asia Dog, new kids on the pickle block, who will be offering a special pickled relish. The blocks will be covered in AstroTurf and the event will also include games, such as badminton and urban croquet, and a stage full of DJs and live music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “Seneca Village” Tour


Seneca Village was Manhattan's first known community of African-American property owners, on land that would become the Park. Tour covers the history of the village, the property owners, and what New York City was like at the time. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Historic Gravesend Walk


2 miles, easy walk. Walk through historic Gravesend—old roads and farms and historic area. Optional dinner at local restaurant. Bring water. Call leader to confirm before 10:00 PM.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$3

City Walk | Lower East Side Food Tour


Where can you find a historic Synagogue next to a storefront Buddhist Temple, trendy boutiques that sit comfortably beside decades-old "Mom and Pop" shops, or tenament apartments interspersed between luxury high rise condos? Look no further than the Lower East Side to discover America's great Melting Pot. Once an insular slum with the one of the world's highest population densities and lowest life expectancies, its streets tell the tales of immigrant struggles and rags to riches stories. Known for a time as Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), this neighboorhood was also the Jewish ward, home today to a mix of foreign-born Latinos and Asians as well as students and hipsters. The result is one of New York City's most dynamic and interesting neighborhoods and a food lover's paradise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Extension Division Chamber Music #1


This informal recital features ensembles from the Extension Division chamber music class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Agency: Thing 000789 (Prince Charming)


Agency convenes an assembly in order to bear witness to Thing 000789 (Prince Charming), a legal dispute between 1980s pop singer Adam Ant, his merchandising company, and Harpbond about a poster which reproduced the facial make-up of the musician's "Prince Charming" look. For the assembly, Agency has invited a group of local individuals from concerned professions to respond to the case in question: a lawyer, a painter, a make-up artist, an anthropologist, and an art historian. Since 1992, Agency has been collecting a growing list of things that resist the split between the classifications of nature and culture. These things are mostly derived from judicial processes, suits, cases, affairs, controversies, and so forth, around intellectual property.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Broadway Bach Ensemble performs works by Mozart and Tchiakovsky


Program: Douglas Townsend, Concerto in the Old Style for Three Solo Violins and String Orchestra, for Three Solo Violins and String Orchestra Mozart, Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, "Haffner" Tchiakovsky, Orchestral Suite No. 4, Op. 61, "Mozartiana" Anatoly Liadov,arr: Arkady Leytush, Waltz on Unchanged Theme 'Tati-Tati' Arkady Leytush leads the orchestra in music of Liadov, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Townsend. Presented in memoriam Douglas Townsend, 1921-2012. Arkady Leytush, guest conductor Douglas Townsend, featured composer Kinga Augustyn, violin Muneyoshi Takahashi, violin Tzu-En Lee, violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Concert | Cynthia Simeone, Soprano


Simeone performs a program called "Prayer in Song."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Learn to Swing Dance: Back 'N the Groove


Jazz and dancing have gone hand in hand since the music's earliest beginnings. Learn to swing dance is the first course of its kind at the center. Developed and led by award-winning swing dancers Christopher Lockhart and Lenore Pemberton Cilmi, this welcoming and innovative course promises to increase your fun on the dance floor and broaden your dance vocabulary through a heightened relationship with jazz music. Classes will be held on 4 Sunday afternoons from 2pm to 4pm as follows: 10/14, 10/28, 11/11 and 11/18, a total of eight hours of instruction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Tim Burton's Oscar Nominee The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): Holiday Mashup


Stars Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon and Catherine O'Hara. Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. 74 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Basics of Digital Audio


Learn the ins and outs of digital audio production, from identifying what hardware and software you need to understanding how digital recording actually works. See how to get the most out of your recording using effects like reverb, EQ, and compression. Learn the differences between MIDI and live audio. And find out how to move recordings off your computer and onto everyone's iPod devices.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | iPhoto for Mac Workshop


See how iPhoto on the Mac makes it easy to find, enhance, and share your entire digital photo collection. In this workshop, they’ll show you how to organize by Events, Faces, Places, and Albums. Discover editing tools that make your photos look their best. And get a look at plenty of ways to share them using photo books, slideshows, Facebook, Flickr, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Leslie Fornino, Vocalist


Vocalist Leslie Fornino presents her new one-woman show, featuring songs and stories that deal with relationships and - of course - love. With Richard Danley, piano; Saadi Zain, bass; and Mike Campenni, percussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade” Tour


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Romeo and Juliet


William Shakespeare's masterful theatrical craft lifts playgoers to the height of euphoria with its tale of forbidden young love before crashing the audience's spirit with its tragic consequences. Romeo and Juliet, considered a masterpiece for its use of comedy and tragedy to heighten the story's dramatic tension, tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers caught in the middle of a family feud which leads to the tragic deaths of the ones they love and their eventual double suicide. A student production. Seating is not provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Jazz | Alwin Jazz Quartet


Jazz for a Sunday afternoon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Workshop | iPhoto for iPad and iPhone Workshop


At this workshop, you'll see how iPhoto for iPad and iPhone gives you everything you love about viewing, editing, and sharing photos, with the power and simplicity of Multi-Touch. See how you can quickly sort through your photos with Smart Browsing. Find out how easy it is to get professional-quality effects and make adjustments right where you need them. And if you want to tell a story in pictures, they’ll show you how to create photo journals and then share them through iCloud.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Parade | Halloween: Parade & Pumpkin Sail


Wear your costume and bring a carved jack-o'-lantern before 5:30 pm for spooky music, marshmallow crafts, live entertainment, a parade, and New York City's largest pumpkin flotilla at twilight. All ages welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Reading | Bellevue Literary Review Poetry & Prose Reading


An evening of poetry and prose to celebrate the Fall issue of the Bellevue Literary Review. Featured readers include Tom Sleigh, Monica Wendel, Edward Hamlin, and Catherine Lewis.
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Concert | Bach Vespers


Featuring Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 192 Nun danket alle Gott Soloists: Jennifer Bates, soprano; Malcolm Merriweather, bass Rick Erickson, cantor
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5:00 pm
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Video | Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 Video Re/trato Projected on the Side of a Building


Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 video Re/trato will be projected on a building to the east visible from the park’s Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk. One of Colombia’s most influential artists, Oscar Muñoz has created an impressive body of work that investigates memory and history, and the ways both intertwine with our contemporary society. Here, Muñoz presents a video in which you see the artist painting a self-portrait on a concrete sidewalk by using a brush and water. The hand continuously paints as the portrait evaporates, creating an endless drawing. Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of identity, the work highlights the liminal space between remembering and forgetting, between an image and its obliteration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano Works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Ravel


With Lisa Joy Sitjar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Renée Anne Louprette, Organist


Louprette is from NYC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Peter King, Organist


Peter King is from Bath, UK.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: The Golden Dove by Laura Hirshberg



   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Pussinomics: A Comedy, a One-Woman Show with Jenice Matias


A truly outrageous and unique collection of comedic character monologues that include original songs and dance, just in time for the election! This multimedia show presents fictional scenarios of politicians exploiting women: prostitution being legalized, the enforcement of ex-gay camps and mandatory registration of genitals at a government agency. Did they neglect to mention prosthetic vaginas are in the mix? Of course these portraits are too extreme to ever become reality...or are they?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music by Handel, Dvořák, Weber, and Telemann


Sylph, represents the element of air and is the paradigm in medieval natural philosophy from which sound and music come forth. The members of Sylph, Nadine Scharman, flutist, Vivian Israel, cellist, Gerard Reuter, oboist and Ann Zalkind, pianist, will perform chamber music by Handel, Ibert, Dvořák, Carl Maria von Weber, Boulanger, Bolling and Telemann.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Student Driver: Indie Road


Watch out! Come revel in the fun, supportive vibe as we celebrate the indie improv community of NYC and beyond! Each week, two kick-ass indie teams dominate the stage, followed by the fast-paced, down-and-dirty moves of hosts Student Driver.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Rabbi Ron Kronish, Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel, and Kadi Iyad Zahalka (a Kadi is a Muslim civil judge) of Shar’i Court in Jerusalem


Rabbi Ron Kronish (Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel) and Kadi Iyad Zahalka (a Kadi is a Muslim civil judge) of Shar’i Court in Jerusalem. Together they will discuss The Other Peace Process, a conversation about the roles and relationships between Jews and Muslims in Israel through the prism of Zahalka’s role as a Muslim judge in the Israeli legal system. Kronish, the director of Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel and Jewish Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, which promotes Interreligious Dialogue and Education in Israel in the service of peace; and Zahalka will share their personal and professional life stories. Zahalka will speak about the new generation of Muslim judges in Israel, and about his field of legal expertise, the Fiqh al Aqalliyyat Doctrine (Muslim Minority Jurisprudence) and its implications for Muslims in Israel. One of only eleven Kadis in the Israeli court system, Zahalka is part of a new generation of Muslim judges; an effective, energetic advocate for his professional work in the Muslim courts of the State of Israel. Zahalka will discuss the “revolution” that has taken place in the Muslim religious courts in Israel. “We will share new thinking about the method of dialogue, as well as the message. We will explain why and how interreligious and intercultural dialogue is essential ingredients for a lasting peace. Politics can only produce the framework for peace. We religious leaders can help people learn to live in peace together.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Comedy: A Charlie Brown Apocalypse


It’s Judgment Day, and Chuck Black can’t wait to meet Jesus! But things seem to go terribly awry when he has a crisis of faith. Who can blame him? All his pals seem a bit more interested in getting presents from ChristCo than trying to save their souls. And don’t even get Chuck started on Mocha Mint Mel, the know-it-all atheist with 2 moms. Inspired by “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” this new comedy by Matt Fried examines what happens when faith, commerce, and Kirk Cameron collide. Directed by Paul Valenti.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | One-Man Show: Peter Michael Marino's Desperately Seeking the Exit


American playwright Peter Michael Marino wrote a huge musical based on the film Desperately Seeking Susan featuring the hit songs of Blondie. It opened on London’s West End…and closed a month later. WHOOPS! Here’s the crazy-true tale of how it all went down; and the journey of an American finding his voice in a country that speaks the same language.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Performance | Voices À La Carte: Celebration


Music by Harvey Schmidt. Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Vicious Cycle


A new Sunday open mic. Names are written, put in the bucket, then picked at random. Comics get 4 minutes. And the next week it happens again. It’s kinda like… a Vicious Cycle. Hosted by Molly Austin and Mike Brown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Concert | The Bones of J.R. Jones, Blues/Folk


The Bones of J.R. Jones is the roots, blues, folk, country project of J.R. Linaberry and a host of demons. This set includes a shadow cast performance to the video for LaLaLiar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 pm
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