All events on Saturday November 01

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Reading
Junot Díaz
Saturday Nov 1 (4pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
Free
As part of the series Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York, WNYC's Leonard Lopate hosts a discussion with critically acclaimed author Junot Díaz at the... View details »
Junot Díaz
Film: Animation
100 Years of Animation
Saturday Nov 1 (7pm) @ Florence Gould Hall
Émile Cohl has become the Jeopardy answer that leaves folks empty-headed after an initial "Who is...?" Cohl, commonly known as the "Father of the Animated... View details »
100 Years of Animation
Halloween
Brahloween 4
Saturday Nov 1 (10pm) @ Secret Project Robot
Giveaway
Though their militant-rock-anthem assaults cry out to be played to stadiums of drunken, sun-drenched rebels, this time around, Awesome Color brighten the cozy, well-worn confines... View details »
Brahloween 4
Music: Rock/Pop
The B-52s w/ Hercules & Love Affair
Saturday Nov 1 (7:30pm) @ Hammerstein Ballroom
On paper, it makes no sense. How could a band as eccentric as the B-52s be universally loved? Yoko Ono's chirping, rudimentary keyboards, and the... View details »
The B-52s w/ Hercules & Love Affair
Music: Rock/Pop
The Rumble Strips
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Failed romantics the Rumble Strips have taken the UK by storm with the Jens Lekman-style tune "Girls and Boys in Love," the verbose Belle &... View details »
The Rumble Strips
Performing Arts: Comedy
Harry Shearer
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ 92Y Tribeca
Grammy-nominated actor, Huffington Post blogger, and the voice behind many of The Simpsons characters, Harry Shearer performs tonight with his band the High Volume Detainees.... View details »
Harry Shearer
Art: Fair
Prints Gone Wild
Saturday Nov 1 (6pm–midnight) @ Supreme Trading More times »
Free
Cannonball Press, Brooklyn's esteemed purveyors of prints for the people, hosts its third-annual festival of hand-made graphic art. Ink-stained wretches from Bikini Press International, Space... View details »
Prints Gone Wild

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 @ 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
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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
Art
Blek Le Rat
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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
Mario Merz
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Rachel Getting Married
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Fault Lines
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Art
Daisy Bell
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Performing Arts: Dance
DanceNOW
Saturday Nov 1 (8pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
Bringing together 65 artists from all five boroughs, the DanceNOW festival throbs with the pulse of NYC during its weeklong run. Emerging soloists share the... View details »
DanceNOW
Film
Ashes of Time Redux
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 @ 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
Art
Gilbert & George
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Stas Orlovski
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Film: Documentary
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
Saturday Nov 1 @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac frenzy and wartime anxiety... View details »
Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Atheist
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Halloween
Rosemary's Baby
Saturday Nov 1 (1:30, 4:10, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
In a bit of inspired programming, Film Forum screens Roman Polanski's dad-might-be-the-devil classic on All Saint's Day. Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary, the wide-eyed half... View details »
Rosemary's Baby
Art
Martín Ramírez
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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!
Art: Photography
Olaf Breuning
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Brewtopia
Saturday Nov 1 (noon–4 & 5–9pm) @ Pier 92 More times »
Before you start shotgunning Natty Light for the weekend, head to the Great World Beer Festival, highlighting more than 100 international brews — from Abita... View details »
Brewtopia
Art
Perverted by Theater
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Art
Quilts of the 1930s
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Grand Inquisitor
Saturday Nov 1 (2 & 8pm) @ New York Theatre Workshop More times »
Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop and Theatre for a... View details »
The Grand Inquisitor
Performing Arts: Theatre
Black Watch
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Jean Dubuffet
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Art
Christa Toole
Saturday Nov 1 (6–8pm) @ Phoenix Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
In a thoughtful and seductive suite of mixed-media paintings, New York artist Christa Toole ponders complex theories from the science of physics, specifically the movement... View details »
Christa Toole
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Art
Ann Lislegaard
Saturday Nov 1 (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
Film
Synecdoche, New York
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 (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
Zhang Xiaogang
Saturday Nov 1 (10am–6pm) @ PaceWildenstein More times »
Free
Zhang Xiaogang — whose acclaimed Bloodline portraits distilled the sobering heritage of China's Cultural Revolution — plumbs his childhood memories of the same grueling period... View details »
Zhang Xiaogang
Art: Architecture/Design
Chanel Mobile Art
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Día de los Muertos
Saturday Nov 1 (3–5 & 7–8pm) @ St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery More times »
Free
Mano a Mano — a nonprofit group dedicated to Mexican culture — presents four days of spooky celebrations surrounding the Día de los Muertos. Bookended... View details »
Día de los Muertos
Performing Arts: Theatre
If You See Something Say Something
Saturday Nov 1 @ 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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
Art
Beyond a Memorable Fancy
Saturday Nov 1 (6–9pm) @ EFA Project Space More times »
Opening
Free
The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient art form. Curator Michelle... View details »
Beyond a Memorable Fancy
Film: Documentary
The First Basket
Saturday Nov 1 @ Village East Cinema More times »
For the Jewish kids who came of age in New York's tenements — mostly children of immigrants —... aying sports meant shooting hoops. From the... View details »
The First Basket
Performing Arts: Theatre
Streamers
Saturday Nov 1 (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 Nov 1 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
Saturday Nov 1 (12:30–10pm) @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink More times »
Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get your (ice) skate on.View details »
War Memorial Ice Skating Rink