Free Beowulf Passes at NYC Nerd Hotspots

Lately it seems like you can't take two steps in Manhattan without someone shoving a Beowulf screening ticket in your face. Yesterday hipster-nerds picked up passes at the East Village bar The Sunburnt Cow at release party for the Beowulf video game, which I'd assume is visually indistinguishable from the Beowulf movie which already looks like a video game cut-scene.

Today the free passes are being given out in true-blue nerd locations; Forbidden Planet and The Neutral Ground Gaming Room (Magic Players, holla!). Details after the jump.


Each pass admits 2, and the screening will take place at 8pm TONIGHT. Passes will be available at the stores between 12pm and 4pm.

This is a Village Voice sponsored event, and if you're part of their fairly awesome Movie Club mailing list you'll be automatically entered in a email-drawing for passes, but really, who can take that chance?

According to the ad in the Voice, only 50 tickets will be available at each location, so I'm guessing they'll go fast, particularly at Forbidden Planet. Possibly slightly less so at Neutral Ground, because the address the Voice published in their ad was, according to the store clerk I spoke to, "completely wrong". The completely right store locations are:

Forbidden Planet
840 Broadway (on the corner of East 13th Street)

Neutral Ground
15 West 37th Street
(between 5th & 6th Avenues)

Weekanerd NYC - Hitchcock Galore, High Concept Bar Trivia, and Bio-Shock Comes Out Intentionally

Monday, August 20, 2007

• Bryant Park Summer Film Fest: Psycho
  
• 5pm @ Bryant Park, 6th Ave btw 40th-42nd St, Manhattan.
  

Reet! Reet! Reet! Reet!

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

• Bio-Shock Is Released (intentionally)
  
• Stores everywhere
  

Didn't get a copy when this game was accidentally released two weeks ago? Here's the real nationwide release date for this first person shooter, currently rated at an impressive 99 at Metacritic.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

• Dick Swizzle's Sudden Death Game Show
  
• 8pm @ Magnetic Field, 97 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
  

The only trivia contest in NYC with a full game show setup - contestant podiums, buzzers, flashing lights, and of course a sleazy host. Supposedly also one of the easier big quiz contests around, so serious trivia nerds could win some cash. $5 entry fee.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

• NYC Noir: Rear Window and Rope (2 for 1 admission)
  
• Various showtimes @ Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St, Manhattan.
  

Didn't get your Hitchcock fix on Monday? Get a double shot of with an AFI- stamped classic and an earlier, technically adventurous, subtext-heavy work.

Weekanerd NYC - Highly Eccentric Edition: Ping Pong Champions, SteamPunk Chrono'Nauts, and The Car Music Project

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2007

• The Lower East Side Table Tennis Championship
  
• 7pm @ The Soto Velez Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street $5
  

No mere hipster sporting event, this tournie will feature some world-class professional ping pongers defending their titles against the tight-panted upstarts of the Lower East Side's PONG League. This event is set to last till the midnight hour, but arrive early if you want in cause this is Kind of A Big Deal and space is limited.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2007

• Time Travel Picnic
  
• 12:30pm @ The New York Renaissance Faire, Sterling Forest, Tuxedo NY.

Ready for some high concept shenanigans? Organized via this LiveJournal Community, a gang of folks will be attending the Ren Faire in Victorian and Steam-Punk garb, and will participate in the faire as "chrono'naut" time travelers. This. Is. Awesome. Anyone can play along, just join the LJ Community to get the full story and let them know you're coming. And send us pictures!


SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2007

• The Car Music Project
• 5pm @ Lincoln Center, South Plaza, Manhattan
  

A composer and his band of henchmen created a set of wacked-out musical instruments from pieces of a broken down '82 Honda Accord. Now they perform experimental jazz concerts with them. Mad science at it's finest! Listen to their mech'ed out jams here. I recommend "Noodles", which sounds a little Ike Parliament Funkadelic's contribution to the PCU soundtrack, if was was composed during the post-apocalypse.