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Reading
Dmitry Bykov
Sunday Oct 12 (1:30pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
Free
For Dmitry Bykov, writing and offending people go hand in hand. Since the early '90s, the Russian poet, novelist, journalist, and cultural savant has practically... View details »
Film: Shorts
Bike Shorts 7
Sunday Oct 12 (7pm) @ Solar One
Tonight, Manhattan alt-energy axis Solar One hosts the seventh go-around of Bike Shorts. Planted alongside the whirligig that is FDR Drive, the environmental venue is... View details »
Bike Shorts 7
Music: DJ
Baby BOO
Sunday Oct 12 (8pm) @ Studio B
Dust off your UFOs, visors, and pacifiers: just in time for Halloween, old-school rave-promotion team Stuck on Earth returns from the blissed-out, all-nighter dead for... View details »
Baby BOO
Music: Rock/Pop
Les Savy Fav
Sunday Oct 12 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is, best grab your vitals... View details »
Les Savy Fav
Music: Electronic
The Notwist
Monday Oct 13 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
Giveaway
After nearly five years of silence, everyone's favorite German-bred electro-acoustic outfit makes its way back to America. On this year's The Devil, You + Me,... View details »
The Notwist
Music: Rock/Pop
Love Is All
Monday Oct 13 (8:30pm) @ Maxwell's
Swedish quartet Love Is All's sassed-up, echo-drenched indie anthems backdrop a seedy nighttime landscape where hearts are broached and broken like so many whispered secrets.... View details »
Love Is All
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Literary Death Match
Tuesday Oct 14 (7pm) @ The Kitchen
Competitive-reading series Literary Death Match requires authors to step out from behind their writing desks and show some performance chops. The contestants this time around... View details »
Literary Death Match
Music: Rock/Pop
Yelle
Tuesday Oct 14 (7pm) @ Webster Hall
Taking cues from Cindy Lauper, Julie Budet (aka Yelle) has been kicking up her heels in a series of delicious, '80s-inspired dance anthems. A firebrand... View details »
Yelle
Music: Rock/Pop
Jonathan Richman
Tuesday Oct 14 (8pm) @ Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall
Massachusetts-bred Jonathan Richman has been dropping controversial vinyl bombs since the early '70s. Co-founder of the legendary Modern Lovers (1970-74), the one-man Vienna Boys' Choir... View details »
Jonathan Richman
Music: Experimental
Journey West
Tuesday Oct 14 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
Free
Verdun — the only electronic act we know of named after a WWI battle — travels the Silk Road tonight, hand-in-hand with ambient Brooklyn foursome... View details »
Journey West
Music: Electronic
Jamie Lidell
Tuesday Oct 14 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
Warp Records' bionic crooner Jamie Lidell first broke on the electro scene with 2005's Multiply. Touted as a brilliant, oddball homage to Motown, Lidell only... View details »
Jamie Lidell
More Flavor: Party
The Pull-Out Method feat. Purple Crush
Tuesday Oct 14 (10pm) @ Beauty Bar
Free
The Pull-Out Method comes but twice a month, so dust off your dancing pants and hit Beauty Bar for Flavorpill editor Leah Taylor's celebration of... View details »
The Pull-Out Method feat. Purple Crush
Reading
A Night at the Office
Wednesday Oct 15 (7pm) @ Symphony Space
Cubicle-loads of run-of-the-mill office situations have been repackaged into laugh-out-loud entertainment recently — from monkey-as-moneymaker commercials to the caricatures of Dilbert, from The Office to... View details »
A Night at the Office
Reading
A Celebration of Weird Tales
Wednesday Oct 15 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
Free
Weird Tales, which describes itself as "the original magazine of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre," published science-fiction giants such as H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury.... View details »
A Celebration of Weird Tales
Music: Punk/Metal
Blackest of the Black Festival
Wednesday Oct 15 (7:30pm) @ Roseland Ballroom
The Roseland Ballroom's celebration of dark, mirthless metal is not for the faint of heart or weak of ears. Glenn Danzig's eponymous musical incarnation headlines,... View details »
Blackest of the Black Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Woyzeck
Wednesday Oct 15 (7:30pm) @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House More times »
Iceland's art is nothing if not distinctive. Our Nordic (sort of) neighbors are represented at BAM's Next Wave Festival with a wildly staged, radically designed... View details »
Woyzeck
Music: Punk/Metal
Sunn O)))
Wednesday Oct 15 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
Named after a rare amplifier favored by the Melvins, Sunn O))) play impossibly loud drone metal. The duo dons black robes, cranks up its equipment,... View details »
Sunn O)))
More Flavor: Workshop
Drink-N-Draw
Wednesday Oct 15 (8–10:30pm) @ 3rd Ward
Thanks to the ever-playful folks at 3rd Ward, nudity and inebriation combine to deliver an uncommon cure for the midweek blues. Every other Wednesday, the... View details »
Drink-N-Draw
More Flavor: Festival
free103point9 Festival
Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church More times »
Nonprofit arts organization free103point9 preps an audio feast with its radio-themed smorgasbord of avant-garde rock music, theatre, poetry, and artist presentations. Highlights include appearances from... View details »
free103point9 Festival
Music: Rock/Pop
Ra Ra Riot
Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Sold Out!
Following the untimely death of drummer John Pike last summer, fans of Syracuse's Ra Ra Riot feared that the band might not survive the tragedy.... View details »
Ra Ra Riot
Performing Arts: Theatre
Free Night of Theater 2008
Thursday Oct 16 @ 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
More Flavor: Fundraiser
Harvestworks 30th Anniversary Benefit
Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Galapagos Art Space
Tonight, tech-arts foundation Harvestworks celebrates three decades of developing, curating, and promoting arts and electronic media for the local community. Get your party on and... View details »
Harvestworks 30th Anniversary Benefit
Music: DJ
Diplo
Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
Known to most as the beatsmith behind M.I.A.'s mixtape heard 'round the world, Piracy Funds Terrorism, Diplo has proven to be one of the most... View details »
Diplo
Film
Evita Sing-Along
Friday Oct 17 (midnight) @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Like the swallows of Capistrano, critics always return to Evita as Madonna's one Hollywood highlight. As the Material Girl's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom (starring... View details »
Evita Sing-Along
Music: Electronic
Baltimore Round Robin Tour
Friday Oct 17 (7pm) @ (le) poisson rouge More times »
Inimitable art rocker Dan Deacon has put together a two-night event of epic proportions, towing a grip of Baltimore bands around seven cities (in vehicles... View details »
Baltimore Round Robin Tour
Music: Rock/Pop
Nick Lowe
Friday Oct 17 (8:30pm) @ Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Nick Lowe is one of power pop's original architects, long known for his association with Elvis Costello — he produced the spectacled singer's debut album,... View details »
Nick Lowe
More Flavor: Spectacle
Zombiecon
Saturday Oct 18 @ Various locations
Free
During the fourth-annual flash-mob of horror known as Zombiecon, an undead army roams Manhattan in search of gray matter, Bloody Marys, and the latest fashion... View details »
Zombiecon
Film
Home Movie Day
Saturday Oct 18 (midnight–6am) @ Anthology Film Archives
In honor of Home Movie Day, Anthology offers up its projectors to the Great Unwatched Masses. From hermetic auteurs to film-school stylists, everyone can take... View details »
Home Movie Day
More Flavor: Volunteer
New York Cares
Saturday Oct 18 (9:30am–3:30pm) @ Various locations
Free
Get down and dirty today with an all-day volunteer extravaganza for the kids: paint playgrounds and classrooms, plant flowers, and organize libraries at more than... View details »
New York Cares
More Flavor: Shopping
Housing Works Warehouse Sale
Saturday Oct 18 (10am–4pm) @ Housing Works Warehouse
The Housing Works Warehouse Sale invites customers to scramble through bins of remainder items and fill their all-you-can-stuff bags for $20. Avid shoppers line up... View details »
Housing Works Warehouse Sale
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Vendy Awards
Saturday Oct 18 (3–7pm) @ Tobacco Warehouse
New York has such mind-blowingly good (not to mention exotic) food available right on the street, it's a wonder that any of us ever sets... View details »
Vendy Awards
Performing Arts: Comedy
Maria Bamford
Saturday Oct 18 (8:30pm) @ Comix
The lone woman on the Comedians of Comedy tour — also featuring Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, and Brian Posehn — Maria Bamford more than keeps... View details »
Maria Bamford
Music: Electronic
The Juan Maclean
Saturday Oct 18 (9pm) @ Bowery Ballroom
Shining, euphoric, and playful, the Juan Maclean's 2005 debut album, Less than Human, was one part Buddha-like spiritual bliss and one part Euro-inspired disco —... View details »
The Juan Maclean
Reading
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ KGB Bar
Free
Irish-born, Netherlands-bred novelist Joseph O'Neill recently garnered stellar reviews for his third novel Netherland; it's been touted as The Great Gatsby of our time by... View details »
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Art: Festival
National Design Week
Sunday Oct 19 @ 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
Music: Rock/Pop
Shearwater
Monday Oct 20 (7:30pm) @ (le) poisson rouge
After opening for Coldplay on a few gargantuan dates this summer, Austin's Shearwater now settle in for a decidedly more intimate set at Poisson Rouge.... View details »
Shearwater
Performing Arts: Puppetry
Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Monday Oct 20 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld
After a sold-out run this summer, the riotous, raunchy Jollyship the Whiz-Bang lands at Pier 17 of South Street Seaport for a one-night stint at... View details »
Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
Art
Perverted by Theater
Wednesday Oct 22 (6–8pm) @ 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
Reading
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series feat. Deb Olin Unferth
Wednesday Oct 22 (8pm) @ Happy Ending
Free
Hailed by New York magazine and New York Press as one of the best local events of its kind, Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Music and... View details »
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series feat. Deb Olin Unferth
More Flavor: Discussion
Dialogues with Design Legends: Architecture
Thursday Oct 23 (8:15pm) @ 92nd St Y
Known for his bold deconstructivist designs, architect and founder of New York's Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Peter Eisenman starts the conversation uptown tonight,... View details »
Dialogues with Design Legends: Architecture
Performing Arts: Theatre
War of the Worlds / The Lost World
Sunday Oct 26 (3pm) @ Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Familiar to NPR and XM listeners, the acclaimed radio-theatre company LA Theatre Works comes to Brooklyn for a pre-Halloween get-together. John de Lancie, Star Trek:... View details »
War of the Worlds / The Lost World
Performing Arts: Dance
DanceNOW
Monday Oct 27 (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
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Friday Oct 31 (1:30, 4:10, 7 & 9:35pm) @ Film Forum More times »
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 (1968)
Film
St. John's Halloween Extravaganza
Friday Oct 31 (7 & 10pm) @ St. John the Divine
A ghoulish spectacle of film, music, and pageantry is in store tonight when the spirit of Halloween invades the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.... View details »
St. John's Halloween Extravaganza
Halloween
E.V.E. Project
Friday Oct 31 (7pm) @ Silent Barn
Free
Artist Nate Hill doesn't mince words — but materials are a different matter. Tonight, the self-anointed G.O.A.T and God (of his own universe) unleashes his... View details »
E.V.E. Project
Halloween
Todd P Halloween Bash
Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Danbro Studios Warehouse
In honor of the year's scariest day, Brooklyn scene-maker Todd P and booking dynamo Panache have brought together a lineup of both frightening (AIDS Wolf)... View details »
Todd P Halloween Bash
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: 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
Art
Mr.
Thursday Nov 6 (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
Mr.
Music: Rock/Pop
The Hold Steady
Thursday Nov 6 (8pm) @ Terminal 5 More times »
The Hold Steady
Art: Photography
William Eggleston
Friday Nov 7 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized as the father of... View details »
William Eggleston
Music: Punk/Metal
Danzig
Friday Nov 7 (8pm) @ Roseland Ballroom
Danzig
Music: Rock/Pop
Deerhunter
Friday Nov 7 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Deerhunter
Music: Rock/Pop
The Mountain Goats
Sunday Nov 9 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
The Mountain Goats come to New York this week as part of their depressingly titled The Last Happy Night of Your Life tour. With a... View details »
The Mountain Goats
Music: Rock/Pop
Iron and Wine
Monday Nov 17 (9pm) @ Terminal 5
Iron and Wine
Music: Rock/Pop
Iron & Wine
Monday Nov 17 (9pm) @ Terminal 5
Iron & Wine
Art
Pipilotti Rist
Wednesday Nov 19 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
Pipilotti Rist
Music: Rock/Pop
Yeasayer
Friday Dec 5 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg More times »
Yeasayer
Art
The Dudion Levers
Thursday Dec 11 (10am–6pm) @ Martos Gallery More times »
Free
The Dudion Levers
More Flavor: Party
Ronnie Spector
Saturday Dec 13 (9pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill More times »
Ronnie Spector
Music: Rock/Pop
Chuck Berry
Wednesday Dec 31 (8 & 11pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Chuck Berry
Music: Rock/Pop
My Morning Jacket
Wednesday Dec 31 (9pm) @ Madison Square Garden
My Morning Jacket
Art
Pierre Bonnard
Tuesday Jan 27, 2009 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
Pierre Bonnard
Performing Arts: Comedy
Cheech & Chong
Saturday Jan 31, 2009 (8pm) @ Radio City Music Hall
Cheech & Chong

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Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Rudy Burckhardt
Art
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
More Flavor: Sports
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Sunday Oct 12 (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
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Brooklyn Flea
More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
GreenFlea Market
More Flavor: Festival
Fall Furniture Festival
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
Free
Every Sunday in October, vintage mavens Brooklyn Flea team up with eco-designers Greenjeans to showcase young, local, and sustainable furniture makers such as Uhuru —... View details »
Fall Furniture Festival
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Home Delivery
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Art
The Outsiders
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Art
Gilbert & George
Sunday Oct 12 (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
We Burn, We Shiver
Sunday Oct 12 (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
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
Sunday Oct 12 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Amazing Maize Maze
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Sun K Kwak
Sunday Oct 12 (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: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Daisy Bell
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Daisy Bell
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Dreamland Roller Rink
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Sunday Oct 12 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Kehinde Wiley
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Sunday Oct 12 (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: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Art
Street Art, Street Life
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Hiroshi Shafer
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Film
Lola Montes
Sunday Oct 12 (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
Film
Ballast
Sunday Oct 12 (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
In the Heights
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
The Glass Cage
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
  Fifty Words
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Seagull
Sunday Oct 12 (3pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Break Out
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wig Out!
Sunday Oct 12 (3pm) @ 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!
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
[title of show]
Performing Arts: Dance
San Francisco Ballet
Sunday Oct 12 (3pm) @ New York City Center More times »
Giveaway
The oldest US ballet company has a New York pedigree. Former SFB director Lew Christensen was the first American to dance George Balanchine's Apollo, and... View details »
San Francisco Ballet
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Sunday Oct 12 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Sunday Oct 12 @ 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 »
American Teen
Art
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
Sunday Oct 12 @ 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
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Sunday Oct 12 @ 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
Film
Mister Foe
Sunday Oct 12 @ 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 »