TV
1. Watch Too Much
Pause your Girls rewatch.
Netflix, July 10.
A Lena Dunham comedy with Megan Stalter in the Hannah Horvath role and cast members including Emily Ratajkowski and Richard E. Grant, this series is a rom-commy story about that character moving to London, hooking up with a laid-back musician played by Will Sharpe, and being both aspirational and a complete mess. People will talk. —Kathryn VanArendonk
Classical
2. See Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio & Friends
A chamber-music supernova.
92nd Street Y, July 9 and 12.
String quartets are stable; trios form when soloists’ trajectories intersect, and the collision can be explosive. Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Jeremy Denk don’t reunite often, so a two-concert series devoted to the music of Gabriel Fauré, concluding with the D-minor Piano Quintet, is an astronomical event. —Justin Davidson
Movies
3. See Barry Lyndon
Three hours of bliss.
Criterion Collection, July 8.
Quite possibly the greatest film ever made, Stanley Kubrick’s gorgeous magnum opus about an Irish rake’s adventures in 18th-century Europe finally gets the Criterion 4K UHD treatment, just in time for its 50th anniversary. —Bilge Ebiri
Theater
4. See Ta-da!
PowerPoint comedy is back.
Greenwich House Theater, July 7 through August 23.
It’s a team-up guaranteed to appeal to a very specific niche of alt-comedy and theater fan: Josh Sharp, of Dicks: the Musical, is doing a solo show directed by Oh, Mary!’s Sam Pinkleton that involves a “manic 2,000-slide PowerPoint.” —Jackson McHenry
Art
5. See Small Format Painting
Good things, small packages.
56 Henry Street, 105 Henry Street; through August 1.
In an age of gigantic canvases with gargantuan price tags, here’s a great show of eight-by-ten-inch paintings installed cheek by jowl. Even the poster announcing it is a beaut: Painted by co-curator Josh Smith, it consists of all 34 of the participating artists’ names against a reddish-black background. It’s a document of our time — as is Nate Lowman’s glitchy haunted portrait of our beloved Sith Lord gallerist Larry Gagosian. —Jerry Saltz
TV
6. Watch Ballard
Another spinoff for the Bosch heads.
Prime Video, July 9.
Michael Connelly’s books about L.A. police are a little adaptation empire, and this is the latest entry. Maggie Q plays Detective Renée Ballard, who gets shoved into cold cases after speaking up about the LAPD’s toxic masculinity. But the joke’s on those dudes as Ballard works best when she’s doubted. The show seems to be starting mid book series with 2022’s Desert Star, about a serial killer targeting women; that means Titus Welliver is back as her sort-of mentor Harry Bosch. —Roxana Hadadi
Music
7. Listen to Period
It’s Independence Day, after all.
Kesha Records, July 4.
Kesha is finally loosed from the record contract at the root of harrowing litigation against her former label head and producer. This album’s boisterous single “Yippee-Ki-Yay” suggests the singer-songwriter is circling back to the brusque pop of early work after dives into country and psychedelia. —Craig Jenkins
Movies
8. See Inherent Vice
A new classic of California crime.
Lincoln Center, July 4 through 10.
Celebrate our crumbling nation (and prep for his upcoming movie, One Battle After Another) by revisiting Paul Thomas Anderson’s previous Pynchon adaptation on 70-mm. — a sunshine noir careering through the embittered aftermath of ’60s idealism — with Joaquin Phoenix as a hippie PI and Katherine Waterston as a salt-sprayed femme fatale. —Alison Willmore
TV
9. Watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17
Still up to no good.
FXX, July 9.
In addition to a probably less wholesome version of the show’s crossover episode with Abbott Elementary, this season will focus on Mac, Dennis, Dee, Charlie, and Frank once again scheming to make money and hanging out at their crappy bar, Paddy’s. They’re an acquired taste, but this is now the longest-running live-action comedy on TV. —R.H.
Podcasts
10. Listen to Howl
The wars on wolves.
Boise State Public Radio and Idaho Capital Sun.
Just a few decades ago, wolves in the United States were seriously endangered. A bold federal wildlife initiative has helped bring them back, but not without controversy. Reporters Heath Druzin and Clark Corbin explore this endlessly complicated story of human-animal relations. —Nicholas Quah
TV
11. Watch Dexter: Resurrection
New blood, old blood.
Showtime, July 11.
Dexter rises again, again, and again. Michael C. Hall is back as the titular serial killer, who wakes up from a coma determined to mend his relationship with his troubled son, who tried to kill him at the end of New Blood. The two end up in New York, where Dexter will reunite with his old colleague Detective Angel Batista. —R.H.
Music
12. Listen to Let God Sort Em Out
They’re back.
Roc Nation, July 11.
Pusha T and Malice, brothers and coke-rap kings whose rap group hit a long hiatus when a drug bust in the circle set the latter rhymer on a path to spirituality, get back to business as the Clipse. Produced by Pharrell, the long-overdue follow-up to 2009’s Til the Casket Drops aims to thread Pusha’s menace and Malice’s mercy while continuing to antagonize the competition. —C.J.
Theater
13. See Ginger Twinsies
Parents re-trapped.
Orpheum Theatre, July 10 through October 26.
In what seems like a possible Titanique situation, the 1998 Lindsay Lohan movie Parent Trap is being sent up downtown by director and playwright Kevin Zak. —J.M.
Music
14. Listen to Moisturizer
Is your muffin buttered?
Domino Recording Company, July 11.
U.K. rock quintet Wet Leg breezes through their sophomore effort in a sprightly midtempo strut while musing sweetly — or coarsely — on everything from Pokémon to television presenters. —C.J.
Movies
15. See This Is Spinal Tap
A fine line between stupid and clever.
In theaters July 5 through 7.
Forty-first anniversaries are not usually major milestones, but given that we are somehow getting a Spinal Tap sequel this fall featuring all of the major players, this Fathom Entertainment rerelease of the 1984 mockumentary classic feels well timed. —A.W.
The Short List
Fourth of July Concerts
Racing to plan a last-minute weekend that doesn’t put drunk uncles in contact with pyrotechnics? The concert calendar might hold the key.
Dispatch and John Butler at Stone Pony Summer Stage
Peel away from that Central Jersey family function to see the crew that soundtracked ’90s and aughts dorm-room ciphers. (July 4)
Reggae Fest Presents Bounty Killer at Barclays Center
You can party on Atlantic Avenue with the Kingston dancehall veterans Bounty Killer, Mavado, and Aidonia. (July 5)
The Beach Boys at Jones Beach Theater
If you’re still reckoning with the sudden loss of songwriting and production giant Brian Wilson, his band is playing at the Northwell, an ideal summertime venue. (July 5)
Freakquencies on Elsewhere’s Rooftop
Peer into the evolving face of indie rock, indie pop, and dance punk with a night of DJ sets from Beach Fossils, Geese, Water From Your Eyes, and the Dare. (July 5)
Los Bitchos at Baby’s All Right
This instrumental quartet fuses cumbia to pop, punk, disco, and whatever else floats their boat. (July 6)
Music
16. See Long Gong
Sound waves worth riding.
Nowadays, July 15.
The Ridgewood nightclub is not typically a place where you’d find yourself horizontal, but for this meditative experience, you’re invited to bring a pillow and lie down for a performance by Sphente, who will spend several hours gently beating a gong into harmonic submission. —Matthew Schnipper
Movies
17. See Twin Peaks: The Return
Still damn fine coffee.
Metrograph, July 5 and 6.
If the MCU can sustain dayslong movie marathons, why can’t all 18 episodes of David Lynch’s final masterwork? Reuniting Special Agent Dale Cooper with the inhabitants of the enchanting Washington State town, they’ll be screened at the lower-Manhattan theater in three-hour chunks. —Eric Vilas-Boas
Music
18. See Music for New Bodies
Peter Sellars directs.
Geffen Hall, July 10 and 11.
Operagoers know Matthew Aucoin from Eurydice, which takes place in the threshold between life and oblivion. He’s back in similar territory with a chamberwork composed for his American Modern Opera Company, which finds the main character hallucinating in a hospital bed. —J.D.
Books
19. Read Coded Justice
Fixing the system can be murder.
Doubleday, July 15.
Death turns out to be a feature, not a flaw, of an AI product meant to bring a measure of social justice to medical care. Follow Avery Keene, the intrepid investigator at the heart of Stacey Abrams’s thriller novels, as she approaches the limit of human justice to strike back at the true killer app. —Carl Rosen
Movies
20. See Commune
Learning to share.
DCTV, July 11 through 17.
Founded in 1968, the California commune Black Bear Ranch is still in existence, and Jonathan Berman’s 2005 documentary about the place — with narration from onetime resident Peter Coyote — is a wonderfully frank look at what happens when utopian ideals meet human practicalities. —A.W.
Art
21. See Jane and Louise Wilson
Disorienting the ordinary.
303 Gallery, 555 West 21st Street; through July 11.
Filming and photographing in locations like an astronaut training center outside Moscow and run-down New Jersey motels, these artists imbue the space around them with their surreal gothic sensibilities. The results make us feel like aliens exploring usually unseen places of desire, surveillance, and anonymous past lives. —J.S.
Video Games
22. Play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4
Flip and grind.
Iron Galaxy, July 11.
After remastering the first two entries in the iconic skateboarding franchise, Activision is finishing the set with the final installments before things started going downhill. Fingers crossed that the original soundtrack remains intact. —N.Q.
Movies
23. See Vengeance Is Mine
Something’s happening next door.
Roxy Cinema, July 6.
Before he died this past May at the age of 97, the American independent director Michael Roemer thankfully got to see the critical revival of this underseen, masterful 1984 gem, starring Brooke Adams as a melancholy woman who is pulled into another broken family’s emotional drama. —B.E.
Music
24. Listen to Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
Rap with a filmic scope.
Auto Reverse Records, July 11.
The interdisciplinary catalogue of veteran rapper, actor, and cultural commentator Open Mike Eagle flashes rhyme, melody, and wit in bite-size packages. Fittingly, his forthcoming full-length seeks to unpack youthful trauma through a lens that’s reminiscent of episodic television. —C.J.
TV
25. Watch Foundation Season Three
Back to the far future.
Apple TV+, July 11.
The streamer’s vibe-iest science-fiction show has by now almost completely abandoned the general shape of Isaac Asimov’s original work and rededicated itself to creating opportunities for Lee Pace’s emperor clone to walk around and display that he does not have a bellybutton. —K.V.A.