1. A free screening of Clueless on a gigantic screen provided by Rooftop Films, in McCarren Park, in the middle of summer, in what will probably be your last time to comfortable lounge underneath that handful of New York stars.
2. A FREE performance from Zambri at 7:30 who sound really cool and were hand-picked by the musical geniuses over at FreeWilliamsburg.
3. A big fat gift certificate from Tortoise & Blonde for some free designer eyewear (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee)
4. A giant game of Yahtzee over at the Southwest Airlines tent, winners get free miles to travel around the country (but hopefully just Vegas).
5. Epix will be giving away a $300 gift certificate to Bloomingdale's in honor of people who have digitized closets that tell you when your plaid skirt mismatches your knee socks and Kangol hat.
6. Cold Sixpoint beer. In CANS. For $4.
7. FREE Vitamin Water samples. As if! (no, they're really free).
8. FREE Pop Chips samples. Because we're keepin' it real.
9. Fiat will be on site showing off their awesome cars for you to horse around in. Careful, you can get a ticket even if you have a permit.
10. Food for sale form Pizza Moto, Coolhaus, The V Spot, and Mexicue!
11. Everyone who comes to the SummerScreen info table (located at the entrance on N12th) can show their checkin on FourSquare and get a FREE subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
12. Summer. In New York. Total Baldwin.
See you all tomorrow!
1. A free screening of Wayne's World on a gigantic screen provided by Rooftop Films, in the middle of summer, underneath that handful of New York stars.
2. A FREE performance from YEllowDogs at 7:30 who sound really cool and were hand-picked by the musical geniuses over at FreeWilliamsburg.
3. A big fat gift certificate from Crossroads Trading for some soft flannels to tie around your waist (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee)
4. The chance to win a briefcase full of Wayne's World themed items courtesy of Film Biz Recycling (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee).
5. A giant game of Yahtzee over at the Southwest Airlines tent, winners get free miles to travel around the country (but hopefully just Vegas).
6. Epix will be giving away iPad2's and seat cushions over at their tent.
7. Cold Sixpoint beer. In CANS. For $4.
8. FREE Vitamin Water samples. As if! (no, they're really free).
9. FREE Pop Chips samples. Because we're keepin' it real.
10. Fiat will be on site showing off their awesome cars for you to horse around in.
11. Food for sale form Pizza Moto, Coolhaus, The V Spot, and newcomer Mexicue!
12. Everyone who comes to the SummerScreen info table (located at the entrance on N12th) can show their checkin on FourSquare and get a FREE subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
13. Rob Lowe.
14. Al Bundy.
13. Summer. In New York. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be.
See you all tomorrow!
Thank you for coming to our screening of Jurassic Park. Next week we'll be showing Wayne's World and enjoying a performance from YEllow Dogs. See you then, same time same place!
1. A free screening of Jurassic Park on a gigantic screen provided by Rooftop Films with an introduction from Film Society of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena, in McCarren Park, in the middle of summer, underneath that handful of New York stars.
2. A FREE performance from Milagres at 7:30 who sound really cool and were hand-picked by the musical geniuses over at FreeWilliamsburg.
3. A big fat gift certificate from Tortoise & Blonde for some free designer eyewear (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee)
4. A giant game of Yahtzee over at the Southwest Airlines tent, winners get free miles to travel around the country (but hopefully just Vegas).
5. Epix will be giving away iPad2's and seat cushions over at their tent.
6. Cold Sixpoint beer. In CANS. For $4.
7. FREE Vitamin Water samples. As if! (no, they're really free).
8. FREE Pop Chips samples. Because we're keepin' it real.
9. Fiat will be on site showing off their awesome cars for you to horse around in.
10. Food for sale form Pizza Moto, Coolhaus, The V Spot, and newcomer Mexicue!
11. Everyone who comes to the SummerScreen info table (located at the entrance on N12th) can show their checkin on FourSquare and get a FREE subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
12. Summer. In New York. Clevah Girl.
See you all tomorrow!
Video by Jessica Yatrofsky.
1. A free screening of Clueless on a gigantic screen provided by Rooftop Films, in McCarren Park, in the middle of summer, underneath that handful of New York stars.
2. A FREE performance from Zambri at 7:30 who sound really cool and were hand-picked by the musical geniuses over at FreeWilliamsburg.
3. A big fat gift certificate from Tortoise & Blonde for some free designer eyewear (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee)
4. A giant game of Yahtzee over at the Southwest Airlines tent, winners get free miles to travel around the country (but hopefully just Vegas).
5. Epix will be giving away a $300 gift certificate to Bloomingdale's in honor of people who have digitized closets that tell you when your plaid skirt mismatches your knee socks and Kangol hat.
6. Cold Sixpoint beer. In CANS. For $4.
7. FREE Vitamin Water samples. As if! (no, they're really free).
8. FREE Pop Chips samples. Because we're keepin' it real.
9. Fiat will be on site showing off their awesome cars for you to horse around in.
10. Food for sale form Pizza Moto, Coolhaus, The V Spot, and newcomer Mexicue!
11. Everyone who comes to the SummerScreen info table (located at the entrance on N12th) can show their checkin on FourSquare and get a FREE subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
12. Summer. In New York. Total Baldwin.
See you all tomorrow!
Last night was pretty much the platonic ideal of Summerscreen: The weather was perfect, with a cool breeze blowing consistently throughout the evening's events; there was what seemed like an inordinate amount of dogs, and my 15-month-old daughter was intent on hanging out with every single one of them; the beer and food were, as always, totally delicious; the movie, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, had a very large crowd in unusually high spirits, and then there was the music: Your Youth got things started with their summery, hook-laden pop, followed by Twin Sister, who are gearing up for a busy few months, with their Domino Records debut, In Heaven, hitting shelves on September 27th. We were treated to a handful of new songs, including the immensely enjoyable, seven-minute "Spain," which our own Sydney Brownstone was kind enough to film for us. And in addition to all that, there was the actual big-screen debut of the video for Twin Sister's "Bad Street," which everyone's saying debuted on the internet this morning. Watch it (again) below.
We'll see you next week for Clueless, in which we'll be giving away more prizes and listening to a lot of Mighty Mighty Bosstones. See you then!
It's one thing to be excited about much buzzed-about locals, the sweetly strange and chameleonic Twin Sister, playing McCarren Park at dusk tonight before Summerscreen presents Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's another to be excited about the prospect of the crowd busting out a spontaneous, Sixpoint-fueled soul train when Twin Sister debuts their new music video for "Bad Street," a single off their first full-length, entitled In Heaven, due in September. "Bad Street" is a definitive summer funk jam with clever indie sensibility rooted in frontwoman Andrea Estella's distinct vocals and solid harmonies. You can listen to the track (and download it) over at Stereogum to get yourself pumped for the exclusive screening. In the meantime, check out the video for "All Around and Away We Go," a single off of Twin Sister's last EP, Color Your Life (above).
1. A free screening of Ferris Bueller's Day Off on a gigantic screen provided by Rooftop Films, in McCarren Park, in the middle of summer, underneath that handful of New York stars.
2. A FREE performance from Twin Sister at 7:30, who may or may be our favorite band right now. Your Youth will open for them at 6:45.
2a. Twin Sister will be debuting their new music video for Bad Street before the film starts. We saw it and it is amazing. Your Youth will open for them, thank you Free Williamsburg for setting that up.
3. A FREE BIKE (Diamondback Outlook 18" Mountain bike) raffle from Ride Brooklyn (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee)
4. A giant game of Yahtzee over at the Southwest Airlines tent, winners get free miles to travel around the country (but hopefully just Vegas).
5. Lots o' ipad2 giveaways at the Epix Tent.
6. Z100 will be giving away tickets to see the Broadway musical Chicago over at their tent.
7. Cold Sixpoint beer. In CANS. For $4.
8. A free $50 gift certificate to LuxEye Optical (sign up with an L mag staffer in a sea foam green tee).
9. FREE Vitamin Water samples. Yes, you heard me.
10. FREE Pop Chips samples. Yes, I did not stutter.
11. Fiat will be on site showing off their awesome cars for you to horse around in.
12. Everyone who comes to the SummerScreen info table (located at the entrance on N12th) can show their checkin on FourSquare and get a FREE subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
13. Summer. In New York.
See you all tomorrow!
In honor of the luxury cars that Cameron and Ferris so love, Fiat will be at this week's SummerScreen with two of their awesome, Italian machines for all of us to marvel at. We're pretty excited and plan on picking up a lot of lucky high schoolers in those babies.