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BASEBALL FOR A BUCK

The Brooklyn Cyclones are celebrating their tenth anniversary with cool giveaways and special promotions all season long (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

BROOKLYN CYCLONES vs. BATAVIA MUCKDOGS
MCU Park
1904 Surf Ave., Coney Island
August 4-6, $8-$16
718-449-8497
www.brooklyncyclones.com

The Batavia Muckdogs come into town August 4-6 to take on our beloved Brooklyn Cyclones, now in the midst of their tenth anniversary season, and, as always, each game features a special event and/or giveaway. You can buy one sausage sandwich, get one free on Weiner Wednesday, which is also Office Olympics Night; the first 2,500 fans to show up on Jersey Thursday will receive a jersey in honor of Irish Heritage Night; and the first 2,500 to enter the stadium on Fireworks Friday will get a Cyclones cap. In addition, everyone gets to run around the bases following the Thursday night game, and Friday also is Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance Night. At eight to sixteen dollars apiece, tickets are not that expensive, especially when compared with the prices at Major League ballparks, but you can attend Wednesday’s match-up for a mere one hundred cents if you go the Cyclones’ website and use the code BUCK when ordering August 4 tix. Among the other upcoming promotions are Ladies Night on August 7, with a backpack giveaway, postgame fireworks, and a tribute to Coney Island judo master Rusty Kanokogi; Sunday Funday on August 8, featuring an MCU park model giveaway, a pregame on-field catch, and a salute to sandlot baseball; a blood drive and umbrella giveaway on August 18; and Bark in the Park night on August 24, when you can bring your dog to the game. If you’ve never seen the Mets’ single-A affiliate, it’s a must, even if you’re not a baseball fan.

BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD, VAMPIRES LIVE FOREVER

Bela Lugosi might be dead, but Christopher Lee isn’t about to let a little wooden stake stop him from seeking out his prey

BAMcinématek
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
August 4 – September 30
718-636-4100
www.bam.org

Over the next two months, BAMcinématek will be paying tribute to one of cinema’s greatest and most beloved villains, screening more than thirty films that feature the bloodsucking creatures known as vampires, with nary a twilight in sight. The series begins August 4 with F. W. Murnau’s classic NOSFERATU (1922), accompanied on live piano by Ben Model, followed August 5 by Roy Ward Baker’s 1970 Hammer fave THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and August 6 by the inspired double feature of the French shot-by-shot remake of Tod Browning’s original DRACULA and Jean Painlevé’s nine-minute experimental scientific 1945 short LE VAMPIRE. Bela Lugosi finally shows up September 20, but among the others who don’t necessarily drink . . . wine are Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Walken, Anne Parillaud, Gary Oldman, Vincent Gallo, Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Cage, Béatrice Dalle, and, of course, Robert Quarry as the unforgettable Count Yorga and William Marshall as the one and only Blacula. The list of directors who have made vampire movies is rather remarkable, including Roman Polanski (THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS), Guy Maddin (DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN’S DIARY), Francis Ford Coppola (BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA), Abel Ferrara (THE ADDICTION), Tony Scott (THE HUNGER), Q&A participant Michael Almereyda (NADJA), Kathryn Bigelow (NEAR DARK), Werner Herzog (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE), Mario Bava (PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES), John Carpenter (VAMPIRES), Carl Theodor Dreyer (VAMPYR), and Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY). And vamps are clearly an international concern with films from America, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Sweden, and Denmark. Be sure to bring plenty of garlic and holy water.

ROSEMARY’S BABY

Mia Farrow is in for a rather difficult pregnancy in classic horror flick

ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
41st St. at Sixth Ave.
Monday, August 2, free, dusk
212-512-5700
www.bryantpark.org

No, it’s not about writer-director Roman Polanski’s next potential victim. Based on the frightening novel by Ira Levin, ROSEMARY’S BABY is one of the greatest psychological horror films ever made, and it should be exciting to see it with a large group of people on the lawn at night in Bryant Park, with the movie’s actual setting a mere thirty blocks away. When Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into the fancy Upper West Side apartment complex the Bramford (the Dakota), ready to start a family, Rosemary slowly grows suspicious of Guy’s new friends, particularly the sweet old couple next door (Oscar winner Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer). The paranoid thriller, filled with truly scary scenes, has held up well over the years, so beware if you’re afraid of the dark. And have fun walking home after it’s over.

KING TUT IN NEW YORK

Special King Tut exhibit will be in Times Square through January 2011 (photo by Steve Garrin)

TUTANKHAMUN AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PHARAOHS
Discovery Times Square Exhibition
226 West 46th St. between Broadway & Eighth Aves.
Through January 2, 2011
Tickets: $19.50-$75 (children under four free)
888-988-8692
www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/kingtut

The mystery of the Boy King, Tutankhamun, has continued to grow ever since his tomb was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter for Lord Carnarvon. For the first time in more than thirty years, since “The Treasures of Tutankhamun” was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970s, King Tut (1341-1323 BCE) is back, in two exhibitions. The traveling show “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is currently in Denver and Times Square. The New York exhibit features some 130 artifacts, including burial objects, a childhood chair of Tut’s, a look at the time immediately preceding Tut’s reign, and a video narrated by Omar Sharif. Presented by National Geographic, the show runs through January 2.

Head of Tutankhamun, limestone, ca. 1336-1327 B.C.E. (courtesy Rogers Fund, 1950)

TUTANKHAMUN’S FUNERAL
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Egyptian Special Exhibitions Gallery
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
Tuesday – Sunday through September 6
Recommended admission: $20 adults, children under twelve free
212-570-3828
www.metmuseum.org

About 110 meters from where Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb, American archaeologist Theodore Davis had found storage jars in the Valley of the Kings in 1908, a collection that was later realized to be ritual objects from the mummification of the Boy King. In conjunction with the exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, the Met is showing “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” through September 6, a display of sixty bowls, bandages, jars, floral collars, and other items that give insight into the burial of King Tut and Egyptian funeral rites in general. The Met has also made available Herbert E. Winlock’s “Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tūt-‘ankh-Amūn,” with a new introduction by Dorothea Arnold.

BLACK LIPS

The Black Lips and their rabid fans won’t have quite as much space to roam on board the Rocks Off Concert Cruise on August 2 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

ROCKS OFF CONCERT CRUISES
Pier 81, 41st St. & the West Side Highway
Monday, August 2, $25, 8:00
www.rocksoff.com
www.myspace.com/theblacklips

Over the last few years, Atlanta garage band the Black Lips have put on some of the most outrageous shows in the city, breaking bottles over their heads and catching their own spit at the Bowery Ballroom in March 2007, throwing a TP party at McCarren Park Pool in 2008 with King Khan, and then tearing through a barricade-busting extravaganza last year at the Williamsburg Waterfront in which the crowd lifted Jared Swilley high into the air while he continued playing guitar as other crazed fans were let onto the stage to dance wildly. The band was supposed to play a Boston Rock On Concert Cruise on July 29 but, per their website, “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Black Lips were unable to make their flight from Atlanta to Boston.” We’re hoping they’ll have no such problem for their August 2 show aboard the Temptress as part of the Rocks Off Concert Cruises, although we have no idea what the promoters were thinking when they added the hysterically unpredictable group — and more important, their rabid, unpredictable fans — to the boat series. There’s no raised stage on the Temptress, and the primary viewing area is relatively small and intimate, so we don’t see how all hell can’t break loose. Of course, that could be a good thing too. Also on the bill are DJ Todd O-Phonic Todd, K HOLES, and Natural Child.

RAFAEL SANCHEZ: THE LIMIT AS THE BODY APPROACHES ZERO

Rafael Sanchez's performance series at Exit Art concludes today with a six-hour extravaganza

Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave. at 36th St.
Saturday, July 31, free, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
Exhibition continues through August 25 (closed Sunday & Monday)
212-966-7745
www.exitart.org

Since his solo show “The Limit as the Body Approaches” opened at Exit Art, Newark-born artist Rafael Sanchez has been presenting live performances on weekends, examining street fashion, chaos, masculinity, sexuality, love, and music. The performances conclude today with five pieces beginning at 12 noon and continuing through 6:00 pm, including “Can’t Keep Running Away” about avoidance coping; a reenactment of a Bad Brains song; “Habibi Adid,” in which Sanchez will be in a plexiglas case being filled with sand, honey, and ants; an improvised performance with four acquaintances of Sanchez; and “Diamond Sea (Part Two),” set to the Sonic Youth song.

RUSSELLMANIA!

Oliver Reed gets down to some dirty business in Ken Russell’s down and dirty cult classic THE DEVILS

Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St. at Amsterdam Ave.
July 30 – August 5
212-875-5601
www.filmlinc.com

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating the career of iconoclastic British director Ken Russell by showing nine of his works, ranging from 1969’s classic WOMEN IN LOVE to 1977’s VALENTINO, with the octogenarian in person for at least one screening almost every day. Russell has had quite an up and down fifty-plus-year career (and life — he’s been married four times), mixing biopics of classical composers with psychedelic forays, sexual romps, gothic horror, and deviant delights, scoring such hits as ALTERED STATES (1980) and THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988) along the way. He’s worked with a diverse cast of characters, including Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky, Roger Daltrey as Liszt (and Tommy), Rudolf Nureyev as Valentino, Robert Powell as Mahler, and, numerous times over the years, his onscreen alter ego, Oliver Reed. He’s adapted writings by Bram Stoker, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, and Paddy Chayefsky and is currently making his first feature-length film in six years, a film based on Daniel Defoe’s MOLL FLANDERS. Yet he also appeared on the British edition of CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER back in 2007. The enigmatic and unpredictable Russell, who just turned eighty-three, will be at Lincoln Center for screenings of THE DEVILS (July 30), WOMEN IN LOVE (July 31), THE BOY FRIEND and SAVAGE MESSIAH (August 1), MAHLER (August 2), LISZTOMANIA (August 4), and TOMMY (August 5), which we still consider one of the ten worst films we’ve ever seen. It was quite a period for Russell, and it should be quite a week at the Walter Reade Theater.