All events on Saturday October 04

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Music: Rock/Pop
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Saturday Oct 4 (8pm) @ WaMu Theater at MSG
After 14 albums, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are still evolving and making great music. Each of their records is a foray into rock... View details »
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Performing Arts: Comedy
Margaret Cho
Saturday Oct 4 (7:30pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
While Harold and Kumar were still ordering sliders off the White Castle kids menu, Margaret Cho was already tearing down Asian stereotypes. After years of... View details »
Margaret Cho
Music: Rock/Pop
Remington
Saturday Oct 4 (9:30pm) @ Sullivan Hall
In an age when classical-music instruction is often forgone in favor of experiments in GarageBand, Remington prove that skill still matters in music-making. Bassist Mike... View details »
Remington
Art: Architecture/Design
openhousenewyork
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Year-round educational programs from openhousenewyork culminate this weekend with the organization's sixth-annual smorgasbord of architectural offerings — the largest event of its kind in... View details »
openhousenewyork
Music: Rock/Pop
Jenny Lewis
Saturday Oct 4 (7pm) @ Apollo Theater
Having survived the trials and tribulations of child stardom, indie-rock sweetheart (and, more recently, alt-country songstress) Jenny Lewis continues to turn traditional pop music on... View details »
Jenny Lewis
Music: Rock/Pop
Shudder to Think
Saturday Oct 4 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
Oh that reunion train, she just keeps rolling along. Fresh from a surprise appearance at a Barack Obama campaign rally organized by lead singer Craig... View details »
Shudder to Think

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 (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
Film
Battle in Seattle
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
Battle in Seattle
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film
Towelhead
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday Oct 4 (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: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Saturday Oct 4 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
Saturday Oct 4 @ 37 Arts More times »
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
Fela!
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 @ 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 4 (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: Photography
Invasion 68: Prague
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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
More Flavor: Party
Make Love, Not War
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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
More Flavor: Festival
FIAF Fall Festival
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking groceries; jazz is "turned... View details »
FIAF Fall Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
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Saturday Oct 4 (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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Performing Arts: Theatre
1965UU
Saturday Oct 4 (8pm) @ The Chocolate Factory More times »
On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become a rhinoceros). This makes... View details »
1965UU
Art
Street Art, Street Life
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Art
Other Options
Saturday Oct 4 @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
Other Options
Art
Tickle the Shitstem
Saturday Oct 4 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
Free
Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst,... View details »
Tickle the Shitstem
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Saturday Oct 4 (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
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Saturday Oct 4 (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
Free
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
Kevin Bewersdorf
Music: Rock/Pop
Hot Chip
Saturday Oct 4 (8pm) @ Terminal 5 More times »
While Hot Chip were initially dismissed as electro jokers, it quickly became hard to ignore the brilliance of their genre-mashing sounds. That's not to say... View details »
Hot Chip
More Flavor: Festival
New Yorker Festival
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
The New Yorker Festival is back with a jam-packed weekend of readings, discussions, film screenings, and private walking tours — in other words, it's the... View details »
New Yorker Festival
Art
Derek Buckner
Saturday Oct 4 (10am–6pm) @ George Billis Gallery More times »
Free
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings of giant piles of... View details »
Derek Buckner
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
Saturday Oct 4 (3 & 8pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of De La Guarda. Korean... View details »
Break Out
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Saturday Oct 4 @ MoMA More times »
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oh What War
Saturday Oct 4 (7:30pm) @ HERE Arts Center More times »
Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War, the production features a... View details »
Oh What War
Film
Burn After Reading
Saturday Oct 4 @ 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 4 @ 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
Humboldt County
Saturday Oct 4 @ 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
Film
Ballast
Saturday Oct 4 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
Ballast
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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
Film
A Secret
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
A Secret
Art
Swirl of Swarm
Saturday Oct 4 (noon–7pm) @ Cinders More times »
Free
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which conveys the need for... View details »
Swirl of Swarm
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Music: Electronic
Stereolab
Saturday Oct 4 (9pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza More times »
Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs, and a predilection for... View details »
Stereolab
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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
Performing Arts: Festival
Crossing the Line
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French dance festival, but after... View details »
Crossing the Line
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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 4 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Factor T.
Saturday Oct 4 (8:30pm) @ St. Mark's Church More times »
Philosophy-meets-dance-theatre, in Polish — that could sum up Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre's latest offering, but it goes much further than that, fortunately. Factor T. is... View details »
Factor T.
Art
Doug Aitken
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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 4 (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
More Flavor: Sports
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Saturday Oct 4 (10am–5pm) @ Governors Island More times »
Free
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern cousin is just a... View details »
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Film: Festival
Views from the Avant-Garde
Saturday Oct 4 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase features both classics and... View details »
Views from the Avant-Garde
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Film
Choke
Saturday Oct 4 @ 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
More Flavor: City Gem
Amazing Maize Maze
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Art
Daisy Bell
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Music: Jazz/Blues
Gal Costa
Saturday Oct 4 (8 & 10:30pm) @ Blue Note More times »
Since joining up with Tropicalia bossa-rockers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Ze in the swinging '60s, Brazilian songbird Gal Costa has been on a... View details »
Gal Costa
Art
Gilbert & George
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Hiroshi Shafer
Saturday Oct 4 (1–7pm) @ English Kills More times »
Free
Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female power struggles. His grotesque,... View details »
Hiroshi Shafer
Art: Architecture/Design
Untethered
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Art
The Outsiders
Saturday Oct 4 (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
Free
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
The Outsiders
Performing Arts: Dance
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
Saturday Oct 4 (8pm) @ Joyce Soho More times »
Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the modern age. The well-trod... View details »
Art
Martín Ramírez
Saturday Oct 4 (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 4 (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: Food/Wine
Taste of Korea 2008
Saturday Oct 4 @ Various locations More times »
This week marks NYC's first-annual festival dedicated to traditional Korean fare. Local restaurants let you try bibimbap — a dish of rice, marinated meat, broth,... View details »
Taste of Korea 2008
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Chekhov Lizardbrain
Saturday Oct 4 (8pm) @ Ohio Theatre More times »
This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one member: Pig Iron tours,... View details »
Chekhov Lizardbrain
Art
Sue Williams
Saturday Oct 4 (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
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
Saturday Oct 4 (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