All events on Sunday September 28
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- Brooklyn Record Riot!
- Sunday Sep 28 (11am–6pm) @ Warsaw
- If you're looking for something rare, out of print, or just plain new for your DJ set or personal collection, today's your lucky day. Pale-faced... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Adventure
- Sunday Sep 28 (9pm) @ Bodega
- Part of Wham City, Dan Deacon's Baltimore art-freak collective, Benny Boeldt (aka Adventure) makes cheery 8-bit music for geeks and gamers. During his last NYC... View details »
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- Fort Tryon Medieval Festival
- Sunday Sep 28 (11:30am–6pm) @ Fort Tryon Park
- Free
- Spend 145 minutes with George A. Romero's non-zombie film Knightriders (1981) and your whole attitude toward dudes who put on armor and fake beards and... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Peelander-Z
- Sunday Sep 28 (8:30pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- Bad guys beware: Japan's Peelander-Z really do have superhuman strength. The last time the manga-themed punk-rock circus took on NYC, Peelander's drummer scurried up a... View details »
- Music: Global
- Vieux Farka Touré
- Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ Highline Ballroom
- With his self-titled debut album, Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré steps out from the shadow of his father, legendary guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and proves... View details »
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- Open Air Book Fair
- Sunday Sep 28 (10am–6pm) @ Housing Works Bookstore
- Free
- Today, local AIDS charity Housing Works airs out its used book cafe for the fourth year in a row, taking over a cobblestoned SoHo street... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Sunday Sep 28 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Sunday Sep 28 (2pm) @ 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 »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- Sunday Sep 28 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
- Free
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. This Sunday, the folks behind the Brownstoner blog... View details »
- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Sunday Sep 28 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
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- Paragraph
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Sunday Sep 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Film
- Battle in Seattle
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
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- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Sunday Sep 28 @ IFC Center More times »
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
- Film
- Towelhead
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
- Getaway
- Sol LeWitt
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- Kehinde Wiley
- Sunday Sep 28 (noon–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 »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Film
- Traitor
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
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- Dreamland Roller Rink
- Sunday Sep 28 (noon–9pm) @ 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 »
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- Artists and Fleas
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
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- FIAF Fall Festival
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Sunday Sep 28 (3 & 7:30pm) @ 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: Festival
- Art Under the Bridge
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various DUMBO locations More times »
- Free
- For the twelfth year in a row, the galleries and artists of DUMBO open their doors for a three-day festival that spills into the surrounding... View details »
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- GreenFlea Market
- Sunday Sep 28 (10am–6pm) @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School More times »
- Free
- As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big event. Outside, farmers from... View details »
- Art
- Street Art, Street Life
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- Sunday Sep 28 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to modern-day clowning than red... View details »
- Art
- Other Options
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
- Sunday Sep 28 (2:30 & 8pm) @ La MaMa E.T.C. More times »
- Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment in history. The moving... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Sunday Sep 28 (2pm) @ 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 »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art
- Kevin Bewersdorf
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lady
- Sunday Sep 28 (3pm) @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater More times »
- Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the woods of Illinois, three... View details »
- Film
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Film Forum More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Music: Festival
- The Festival of New Trumpet Music
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance. Starting today, the high... View details »
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- Circus Amok
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various NYC parks More times »
- Free
- After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ASSSSCAT 3000
- Sunday Sep 28 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
- Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- Sunday Sep 28 (3 & 7pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Film
- Burn After Reading
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Film
- Humboldt County
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Film
- A Secret
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- Swirl of Swarm
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Sunday Sep 28 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- An American Rendition
- Sunday Sep 28 (2pm) @ The Duke Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Jane Comfort seamlessly blends scenes of torture and reality television in her new work, An American Rendition. Her talented company members act, sing, and dance... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Crossing the Line
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- Sunday Sep 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
- Sunday Sep 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Tere O'Connor Dance
- Sunday Sep 28 (7 & 9pm) @ Baryshnikov Arts Center More times »
- Tere O'Connor Dance is not only inspired by contemporary architecture, but uses dance movements as shifting layers of architectural evidence — as in rammed-earth construction... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Sunday Sep 28 (1 & 5pm) @ The American Theatre of Actors More times »
- Striking a nice balance between old-time musical-theatre fun and a sly critique of the Bush administration, the new original musical Bonnie & Clyde is an... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- The Bad Plus
- Sunday Sep 28 (9 & 11pm) @ Village Vanguard More times »
- Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides a link to jazz,... View details »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- Russian-born comedian Eugene Mirman is kind of like baby-faced prankster Andy Milonakis — except he probably doesn't still get carded. Over the next few days,... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
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- City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Sunday Sep 28 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Choke
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
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- Amazing Maize Maze
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art
- Daisy Bell
- Sunday Sep 28 (noon–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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Quickening
- Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ Center Stage More times »
- Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the protagonists shed warmth and... View details »
- Art
- Hiroshi Shafer
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art
- The Outsiders
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
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- The Science Barge
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ 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 »
