All events on Tuesday September 30
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- Fault Lines
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- The Moth
- Tuesday Sep 30 (7:30pm) @ The Players Club
- The Moth kicks off its season with an evening devoted to men of all stripes: gentlemen, macho men, and even a few dandies. New Yorker... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Nomi
- Tuesday Sep 30 (10pm) @ Zipper Factory Theater
- Sultry songstress Nomi — you may recognize her pipes from DFA's Hercules and Love Affair — steps beyond the club circuit to belt out her... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Gal Costa
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Music: Folk/Country
- Michael Gira
- Tuesday Sep 30 (10pm) @ The Stone
- As lead singer of the avant-garde act Swans, mope-throated Michael Gira pushed the limits of bass-freakery, moaning like there was no tomorrow. Recently he's spent... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
- Bridget St. John
- Tuesday Sep 30 (8pm) @ The Stone
- Sixties folk icon Bridget St. John keeps her idealism intact when she takes the stage at the Stone, a longtime bastion of the avant-garde where... View details »
- Reading
- Neil Gaiman
- Tuesday Sep 30 (7pm) @ Columbia University's Teacher College
- Free
- Neil Gaiman is a conjurer of contemporary fairy tales and imaginative fiction. Deemed one of the top ten living postmodern authors by the Dictionary of... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Search & Restore
- Tuesday Sep 30 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
- Search & Restore returns to the Knitting Factory for its new fall series. Since the program's creation in 2007, it has stayed true to its... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Sep 30 (8pm) @ 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 »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Sep 30 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art
- William Pope.L
- Tuesday Sep 30 (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
- Free
- In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- Tuesday Sep 30 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily, the Comic Book Club... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Tuesday Sep 30 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Mario Merz
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- FIAF Fall Festival
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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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- Tuesday Sep 30 (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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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art
- Other Options
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Tuesday Sep 30 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art
- Derek Buckner
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Break Out
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Film
- Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Film
- A Secret
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fifty Words
- Tuesday Sep 30 (7pm) @ 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: Festival
- Crossing the Line
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Art
- Doug Aitken
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Art
- Signs of Change
- Tuesday Sep 30 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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: Theatre
- A Man for All Seasons
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Film
- Choke
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Untethered
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Art
- The Outsiders
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Taste of Korea 2008
- Tuesday Sep 30 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Art
- Sue Williams
- Tuesday Sep 30 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Tuesday Sep 30 (7:30pm) @ 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 »
