All events on Saturday October 25

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Music: Electronic
Pulsewave: The Nightmare Before Blip Festival
Saturday Oct 25 (9pm) @ The Tank at AlphaBeta
Giveaway
This installment of Pulsewave, a monthly event founded by chiptune collective 8bitpeoples, showcases Gotham's most prominent Game Boy fiddlers. To capture the Halloween spirit, the... View details »
Pulsewave: The Nightmare Before Blip Festival
Music: Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop Live feat. Talib Kweli
Saturday Oct 25 (9pm) @ Nokia Theatre
Talib Kweli, Brooklyn's favorite cardigan-wearin' truth talker, may not be the newest MC in the game. But his recently brilliant "Hostile Gospel" remix brings young... View details »
Hip-Hop Live feat. Talib Kweli
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HERE Turns 15!
Saturday Oct 25 (2–5pm) @ HERE Arts Center
Free
Like a teenager hanging out on a street corner, HERE Arts Center is sidewalk-bound for its 15th anniversary celebration. They're offering up a day of... View details »
HERE Turns 15!
Music: Rock/Pop
The XYZ Affair w/ the Uglysuit
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Cake Shop
Brooklynites the XYZ Affair have been steadily, if quietly, gathering acclaim, and it's not for nothing. Their self-released debut, A Few More Published Studies, is... View details »
The XYZ Affair w/ the Uglysuit
Music: Rock/Pop
Oakley Hall w/ the Rosebuds, Portastic, Wye Oak, and the Music Tapes
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Mercury Lounge
Wye Oak's Merge debut can't rightfully be called a sleeper: after all, if there's a Goliath of indie labels, Merge is it. Still, hype-magnetic bloggers... View details »
Oakley Hall w/ the Rosebuds, Portastic, Wye Oak, and the Music Tapes
Music: Rock/Pop
The Capstan Shafts
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Arlene's Grocery
Evoking lo-fi legends like Sebadoh, Guided by Voices, and Apples in Stereo, Dean Wells (aka the Capstan Shafts) is a stunningly prolific songwriter. But, though... View details »
The Capstan Shafts
Music: Rock/Pop
A Place to Bury Strangers
Saturday Oct 25 (9:30pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
A Place to Bury Strangers redraft early post-punk, smearing Joy Division's blueprints with dark globs of post-grunge aggression. The band's self-titled debut smashes Sonic Youth... View details »
A Place to Bury Strangers
Music: Rock/Pop
The Psychic Paramount w/ High Places, Arbouretum, and Pit-er-pat
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ The Annex
High Places' free-associative clatter recalls the odd robo-poetry of spam email, but painted pink. The Brooklyn calypso deconstructionists relish digital static and neon rumble, laying... View details »
The Psychic Paramount w/ High Places, Arbouretum, and Pit-er-pat
Music: Rock/Pop
Ford & Fitzroy w/ Murder Mystery
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ Rehab
Shameless plug alert! Flavorpill's Leah Taylor gathers these indietastic bands for her Pull-Out Method CMJ showcase. Murder Mystery and the Postelles each deliver simple and... View details »
Ford & Fitzroy w/ Murder Mystery
Art
Ann Lislegaard
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Murray Guy More times »
Free
For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about time, space, and human... View details »
Ann Lislegaard
Music: Hip-Hop
Stetsasonic w/ People Under the Stairs
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
Classic hip-hop, with its no-frills rhythms and shell-toe Adidas, seems anachronistic in an age ruled by shiny grills, stripper poles, and pimp cups overflowing with... View details »
Stetsasonic w/ People Under the Stairs
Music: Hip-Hop
Yo Majesty w/ the Octopus Project and Monotonix
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
After crashing onto the dirrrty club scene with 2006's Yo EP and a series of illicit (read: topless) live shows, Shunda K and Jwl. B... View details »
Yo Majesty w/ the Octopus Project and Monotonix
Music: Electronic
Matthew Dear's Big Hands w/ School of Seven Bells
Saturday Oct 25 (11pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Right now, Matthew Dear is arguably one of electronic music's most versatile artists. He's made stripped-down, fluid constructions as False, rough, acid techno as Audion,... View details »
Matthew Dear's Big Hands w/ School of Seven Bells

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Oct 25 (7 & 10pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Saturday Oct 25 @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Saturday Oct 25 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
Sol LeWitt
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
Kehinde Wiley
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–midnight) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
Dreamland Roller Rink
Art
Blek Le Rat
Saturday Oct 25 @ Jonathan Levine Gallery More times »
Free
French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints. In 1981, Blek took... View details »
Blek Le Rat
Art: Photography
Invasion 68: Prague
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
Free
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
Invasion 68: Prague
Art
Mario Merz
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
Free
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
Mario Merz
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Make Love, Not War
Saturday Oct 25 (10pm) @ Black Betty More times »
Free
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of the Williamsburg bar/restaurant gets... View details »
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–8pm) @ Artists and Fleas More times »
Free
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to the accompaniment of an... View details »
Artists and Fleas
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Saturday Oct 25 (3 & 8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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Art
NeoHooDoo
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The sculptors and mixed-media artists... View details »
NeoHooDoo
Art
Street Art, Street Life
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
Street Art, Street Life
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
The Glass Cage
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Brooklyn Indie Market
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–7pm) @ Brooklyn Indie Market More times »
Free
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty brunch spots, the collective... View details »
Brooklyn Indie Market
Film
Burn After Reading
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
Burn After Reading
Film
Rachel Getting Married
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
Rachel Getting Married
Film
Happy-Go-Lucky
Saturday Oct 25 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
Happy-Go-Lucky
Film
Humboldt County
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
Humboldt County
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ Walter Kerr Theatre More times »
Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully realized performance as Arkadina... View details »
The Seagull
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
We Burn, We Shiver
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
  Fifty Words
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fault Lines
Saturday Oct 25 (3 & 8pm) @ Cherry Lane Theatre More times »
David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a couple of likable buddies... View details »
Fault Lines
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
Saturday Oct 25 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
Rudy Burckhardt
Art
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Saturday Oct 25 (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Film: Documentary
Religulous
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
Religulous
Art
Doug Aitken
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery More times »
Free
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
Doug Aitken
Art
Signs of Change
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–8pm) @ Exit Art More times »
Free
The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
Signs of Change
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Saturday Oct 25 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Art: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Arts and Design More times »
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items — buttons, keepsakes, bits... View details »
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ American Airlines Theater More times »
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims of its leader. In... View details »
A Man for All Seasons
Performing Arts: Comedy
Sleepwalk With Me
Saturday Oct 25 (8 & 10pm) @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker More times »
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells an engaging and very... View details »
Sleepwalk With Me
Film
Choke
Saturday Oct 25 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
Choke
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Amazing Maize Maze
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–4:30pm) @ Queens County Farm Museum More times »
If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest) pleasures. The three-acre stretch... View details »
Amazing Maize Maze
More Flavor: Festival
Ear to the Earth Festival
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
Free
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical beauty. Francisco López's Trilogy... View details »
Ear to the Earth Festival
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The New York Art Book Fair
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–7pm) @ Phillips de Pury & Company More times »
Free
The auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, which has a reputation for fetching top dollar for contemporary art,... ays host to this year's Art... View details »
The New York Art Book Fair
Art
Daisy Bell
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
Daisy Bell
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I Kiffe NY
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
I Kiffe NY
Film
Ashes of Time Redux
Saturday Oct 25 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
Ashes of Time Redux
Film
I've Loved You So Long
Saturday Oct 25 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes sense that she's finally... View details »
I've Loved You So Long
Film
Let the Right One In
Saturday Oct 25 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with heart. Alfredson casts two... View details »
Let the Right One In
Film
Filth and Wisdom
Saturday Oct 25 @ IFC Center More times »
The very existence of a Madonna-directed feature has had cinephiles agog for months. Which Madonna would direct this film? Sexy Madonna? Euro Madonna? Blond Ambition... View details »
Filth and Wisdom
Film
Lola Montes
Saturday Oct 25 (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
Lola Montes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Free Night of Theater 2008
Saturday Oct 25 @ Various locations More times »
Free
What began in 2005 as a single evening of free theatre in Philadelphia has become two weeks of free theatre in cities across the country.... View details »
Free Night of Theater 2008
Art
Gilbert & George
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art
Four Color Sound
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ The Project More times »
Free
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
Four Color Sound
Art
Stas Orlovski
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Mixed Greens More times »
Free
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
Stas Orlovski
Art: Architecture/Design
Untethered
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in which common modern-day objects... View details »
Untethered
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Atheist
Saturday Oct 25 (4–6 & 9–11pm) @ Barrow Street Theater More times »
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago. The 90 minutes of... View details »
The Atheist
Art
Martín Ramírez
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery More times »
Free
In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
Martín Ramírez
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wig Out!
Saturday Oct 25 (3 & 8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The colorful story moves through... View details »
Wig Out!
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Saturday Oct 25 (noon, 1, 3 & 4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
Free
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
The Science Barge
Art: Festival
National Design Week
Saturday Oct 25 @ Cooper-Hewitt More times »
Free
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens its doors to the public for an entire week of free admission and programs. Peruse two to-scale-sized rooms... View details »
National Design Week
Art: Photography
Olaf Breuning
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Metro Pictures More times »
Free
Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
Olaf Breuning
Art
Sun K Kwak
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–7pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
Free
Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
Sun K Kwak
Art
The Genretron
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Winkleman Gallery More times »
Free
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
The Genretron
Art
Perverted by Theater
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David Young mock his thesis,... View details »
Perverted by Theater
Film
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Saturday Oct 25 (12:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
Melvin Van Peebles raised a middle finger to the police and Hollywood with his watershed 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The title's extra letters... View details »
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Art
Quilts of the 1930s
Saturday Oct 25 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch More times »
For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women during the Great You-Know-What.... View details »
Quilts of the 1930s
Music: Experimental
Essential Repertoire
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Issue Project Room More times »
During a certain week in October, NYC experiences a sharp influx of music-industry nerds, reminding everyone of this city's musical history and still-thriving scene. Darmstadt,... View details »
Essential Repertoire
Performing Arts: Theatre
Black Watch
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ St. Ann's Warehouse More times »
If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based on the true stories... View details »
Black Watch
Art
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Saturday Oct 25 @ Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill More times »
Free
Banksy, the art world's man of mystery (and controversy), continues to play the role of provocateur at The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Cages... View details »
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Art
Jean Dubuffet
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
Before he was a sculptor, Jean Dubuffet sickened Parisians by making impasto oil paintings in a rough style he called "art brut" (which involved mixing... View details »
Jean Dubuffet
Art
Time Machine
Saturday Oct 25 (1–7pm) @ Brooklynite Gallery More times »
Free
With its low cost of living and thriving creative community, Berlin is so often compared to yesterday's New York that the juxtaposition is becoming a... View details »
Time Machine
More Flavor: Fair
WFMU Record and CD Fair
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–7pm) @ Metropolitan Pavilion More times »
Take out those earbuds and head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for a weekend of charitable digging that benefits everyone's favorite free-form radio station, WFMU.... View details »
WFMU Record and CD Fair
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre More times »
Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is finally a true ensemble... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Art
'80s Babies
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–7pm) @ Leo Kesting Gallery More times »
Free
With his graphic style and street-wise influence, Jason Douglas Griffin gives us 80's Babies. These portraits of twentysomethings include paintings on canvas, board, and scraps... View details »
'80s Babies
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Pumpkin Pie Show
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Under St. Marks More times »
Clay McLeod Chapman is a storyteller to keep an eye on — he has published several collections of character-driven short fiction, worked on a film... View details »
The Pumpkin Pie Show
Film
Synecdoche, New York
Saturday Oct 25 @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovitch), but it is... View details »
Synecdoche, New York
Art
Elizabeth Peyton
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits feature an array of... View details »
Elizabeth Peyton
Art
Sue Williams
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a tight formal language of... View details »
Sue Williams
Art: Architecture/Design
Chanel Mobile Art
Saturday Oct 25 (8:30am–9pm) @ Rumsey Field in Central Park More times »
Free
Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of NYC. Celebrating 50 years... View details »
Chanel Mobile Art
Art
In the Language of Angels
Saturday Oct 25 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
Free
This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly minimal prepubescent nudes with... View details »
In the Language of Angels
Performing Arts: Theatre
If You See Something Say Something
Saturday Oct 25 @ Joe's Pub More times »
We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded terror alerts and arbitrary... View details »
If You See Something Say Something
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beachwood Drive
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a world of prostitution and... View details »
Beachwood Drive
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
Saturday Oct 25 (9:30 & 11:30pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
Absinthe
Performing Arts: Theatre
Blasted
Saturday Oct 25 (7:30pm) @ Soho Rep. More times »
It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production makes up for the... View details »
Blasted
Performing Arts: Theatre
Streamers
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Laura Pels Theatre More times »
Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's 1976 play is neither... View details »
Streamers
Performing Arts: Theatre
Farragut North
Saturday Oct 25 (2 & 8pm) @ Linda Gross Theater More times »
Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns... ash; including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid... ash;...  his knowledge gives us an insider's perspective on... View details »
Farragut North