Monthly Events

PUNDERDOME 3000 – “NYC’s MOST PUNtastic Competition”

Hosted by a self-proclaimed “Rodney Dangerfield impersonator” and his daughter (Fred and Jo Firestone), this competition is far from anything normal!  Everyone is welcome to compete and/or watch.  Punmasters will be determined through a “human clap-o-meter” system. Great big kitchen appliance prizes guaranteed.  See all the action on YouTube!  http://bit.ly/vKkz9A

In her blog post for The New Yorker, “Battle of Wits: A Report from the Punderdome,” Eileen Reynolds described PUNDERDOME 3000 as “concentrated, unabashed silliness that I longed to bottle and smuggle out in my purse.”  http://nyr.kr/m2983O

“The 5 Best Things To Do In NYC Tonight” – CBS New York

Admission is $5.  Doors open at 7:30PM…competition starts at 8PM.

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Founded by Scribe in the Summer of 2009, with a Dream Team of resident romantics, Wax Poetics, Halcyon, Raw Fusion, Great Weekend, and Fusicology present this all-vinyl oasis. I Love Vinyl: On the B-Side is the Brooklyn extension of the I Love Vinyl franchise. All-stars Ge-Ology, Amir (Kon & Amir), Scribe, The Twilite Tone (Great Weekend),  OP! (Decon) and Jon Oliver (The Main Ingredient/EVR) comprise the Dream Team. The sounds are mind-wide, foot-friendly, and snap crackle popping. Anything is fair game, but you will probably hear some soul, disco, dilla, boogie, hustle, hip-hop, old-school house, no wave, new jack swing, dancefloor jazz, latin, funk, electro, and afrobeat. No pretentious bullshit, no dress code, no commercial radio nonsense, and no laptops allowed. http://ilovevinyl.org/ http://www.facebook.com/ilovevinyl http://www.facebook.com/ILoveVinylTheParty http://twitter.com/i_love_vinyl

The Rub is a classics & hip-hop party held on the first Saturday of every month at Southpaw. We do it Brooklyn style: great dance music mixed well, affordable drinks, and real people; no dress code, no bottle service, no VIPs and no celebrity DJs. The Rub has been widely recognized as the best monthly club night in New York City for the last seven years by The Village Voice, The New York Press, The New York Times and countless other local press and blogs. DJ’s Ayres,  Eleven & Cosmo Baker have also been also featured on MTV Mixtape Mondays and in magazines such as Spin, Vice, XLR8R, Urb, The Wire, Hip-Hop Connection (UK) and more.

The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, The Moth visits SOUTHPAW the first Monday of every month. The Moth believes that everyone has a story. The Moth created StorySLAM to give those stories a forum. Following the wild success of their Mainstage series, The Moth sought to accommodate all the people who asked, “When can I tell my story?” and to encourage those people who doubted they had a story worth telling. The Moth StorySLAM provides a stage and a microphone, a theme to inspire and shape the evening, a lively and supportive audience, and a host to guide the festivities. SLAM stories are limited to five minutes, and ten stories are heard. The stories are scored by three teams of audience-member judges, and a winner is announced at every SLAM. SLAM winners later face off in a Moth GrandSLAM. Since 2001, the raucous, moving, funny and wild quilt of themed stories that emerge during each show has kept the crowds coming back again and again.

Dig Deeper is a new monthly 60′s Soul Party at Southpaw hosted by Mr. Robinson and DJ Honky, generally on the fourth Saturday of the month, with the dancefloor primed with the finest funk and soul records anywhere in the world from their collections and a live performance each month at midnight from a legendary soul / funk artist.  Past artists have included Don Gardner, Tami Lynn, Obie “Young” Jessie, Dean Parrish, Harvey Scales, Eula Cooper, the Mighty Hannibal, Garland Green, Delia “Dee Dee” Gartrell, Lee Fields, Renaldo Domino, Lenis Guess,  and Marva Whitney.