DON’T MISS!: ON THE RECORD
When lensman Eilon Paz moved to Brooklyn almost 20 years ago, photography jobs were hard to come by. “So I started to look for a personal project,” he says. “I was always a vinyl collector, and there were so many others in New York that it just clicked.” Since then, Paz has traveled from New York to the UK, Ghana, Turkey, Israel and elsewhere, photographing and interviewing fellow obsessives for his “Dust & Grooves” project, whose monthlong exhibition debuts tonight. “I want to get a glimpse on their collecting, the human aspect of it,” says Paz, who often asked his subjects questions such as, “Are there any records that broke your heart?” “Music is medicine for the soul,” he says, and he hopes his show will give an “intimate look at people’s lives.” Plus, with collectors DJing tonight, “it’s gonna be a party,” he adds.
Tropicalia in Furs Record Store, 304 E. Fifth St.; tonight from 7 to 10; dustandgrooves.com
— Charlie Heller
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LAST CHANCE!: HARING TO GO
Time was, you couldn’t go downtown without stepping on something by Keith Haring. An ardent advocate of art for all, he used the sidewalks and later the subway walls as his canvas, filling them with barking dogs and smiling TVs, giddy dolphins and radiant (or possibly radioactive) babies right up until his premature death, in 1990, at 32.
The Brooklyn Museum celebrates that heady time in “Keith Haring: 1978-1982,” a trippy show filled with his early works on paper, plus posters, flyers, journals and videos, including one in which the young, bespectacled artist literally paints himself into a corner. When the show opened in the spring — with a soundtrack that boasts Marvin Gaye and Patti Smith — curator Tricia Laughlin Bloom described it “the love affair between Keith and New York City and the downtown new wave.” Better catch this wave before it recedes for good on Sunday; 200 Eastern Parkway, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org.
— Barbara Hoffman
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LISTEN UP:! IN TUNE
CBGB may have closed in 2006, but this weekend its spirit lives on when the CBGB Festival rocks New York. More than 40 venues will host 300 bands, including the Cro-Mags (tonight at Webster Hall) and Fishbone (Sunday at Brooklyn Bowl).
Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic — who kicked off the festivities yesterday with a keynote address — never played at what he calls “a seminal place in New York.” But, he does have CBGB memories: “I saw the Hickoids there in 1989 and the singer kept grabbing his crotch. I was standing next to [Sonic Youth’s] Kim Gordon, and it was embarrassing.”
Free performances tomorrow include a big Times Square show, starting at noon, with the Hold Steady, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and many others; and Guided by Voices in Central Park at 3 p.m. Details at cbgb.com
— Brian Niemietz
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STEP OUT!: BACK TO THE GARDEN
There’s no more of a magical time to experience the Brooklyn Botanic Garden than summer at dusk. Choreographer Yanira Castro was invited to create an otherworldly dance installation for its gorgeous grounds. First performed last year, “Paradis” takes the audience along as it grows from a solo within the glassed-in Desert House to an octet in the stately Cherry Esplanade.
The piece was inspired by the 2004 Jean-Luc Godard film “Notre Musique” (Our Music) — and by the garden itself. “There was something about the grandeur of the sky and the light at dusk. I fell in love with the Desert House,” Castro says. “It’s a compact world enclosed by glass walls, but inside it feels vast.”
Reservations are strongly suggested — only 60 spaces are available per show, and everyone wants to get into Paradise.
Sunday through Tuesday at 8 p.m.; 990 Washington Ave., Prospect Heights; bbg.org. Tickets are $30.
— Leigh Witchel
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GET REEL!: REACH FOR THE SLY
A violent and colorful time capsule of the hell that was 1981 New York City, “Nighthawks’’ also happens to be the best action thriller that Sylvester Stallone (who wears a goatee and appears in drag in the opening sequence) ever made. He plays an NYPD detective who tracks a European terrorist (an excellent Rutger Hauer) through Manhattan’s discos and subways before an unforgettable, climactic hijacking of United Nations officials on the Roosevelt Island Tram.
Featuring Billy Dee Williams as Stallone’s partner and Lindsay Wagner as his estranged wife, it’s showing tonight at 7:30 at 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. Info: 92YTribeca.org
— Lou Lumenick
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