Events on Saturday, October 4

Shudder to Think

Music

Shudder to Think

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Webster Hall

Oh that reunion train, she just keeps rolling along. Fresh from a surprise appearance at a Barack Obama campaign rally organized... 

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Music

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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... 

Jenny Lewis

Music

Jenny Lewis

Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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... 

The Giving Tree w/ Remington

Music

Remington

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Sullivan Hall

In an age when classical-music instruction is often forgone in favor of experiments in GarageBand, Remington prove that skill still matters... 

Margaret Cho

Comedy

Margaret Cho

Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Zach Feuer Gallery

Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... 

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Eyebeam

Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails... 

<em>1965UU</em>

Theatre

1965UU

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Chocolate Factory

On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

2008 <em>New Yorker</em> Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

New Yorker Festival

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

The New Yorker Festival is back with a jam-packed weekend of readings, discussions, film screenings, and private walking tours — in... 

<em>Wig Out!</em>

Theatre

Wig Out!

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Vineyard Theatre

Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The... 

<em>The Outsiders</em>

Art

The Outsiders

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Lazarides Gallery NYC

Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla... 

Crossing the Line: Dance 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Crossing the Line

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French... 

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Saturday 10/ 4 @ American Airlines Theater

A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Saturday 10/ 4 @ George Billis Gallery

In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... 

Taste of Korea 2008

Food/Wine

Taste of Korea 2008

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

This week marks NYC's first-annual festival dedicated to traditional Korean fare. Local restaurants let you try bibimbap — a dish of... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Cinders Gallery

Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Studio Museum in Harlem

Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Saturday 10/ 4 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

Gal Costa

Music

Gal Costa

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Blue Note

Since joining up with Tropicalia bossa-rockers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Ze in the swinging '60s, Brazilian songbird Gal Costa... 

<em>Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now</em>

Art

Signs of Change

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Exit Art

The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice... 

<em>Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914&ndash;1939</em>

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Saturday 10/ 4 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Mint Theater

The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Storm King Art Center

In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,... 

Views from the Avant-Garde

Festival: Performing Arts

Views from the Avant-Garde

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre

There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... 

<em>City of Dreams</em> Mini-Golf Open

Sports

City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Governors Island

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... 

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political... 

Stereolab w/ Atlas Sound

Music: Electronic

Stereolab

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs,... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FIAF Fall Festival

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking... 

Pig Iron presents <em>Chekhov Lizardbrain</em>

Theatre

Chekhov Lizardbrain

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Ohio Theatre

This dance/clown/theatre ensemble has received lots of awards since forming in 1995, but you can't attribute its success to any one... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Riverside Park South

Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... 

<em>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Saturday 10/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's... 

<em>Fault Lines</em>

Theatre

Fault Lines

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Cherry Lane Theatre

David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a... 

Amazing Maize Maze

City Gems

Amazing Maize Maze

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Queens County Farm Museum

If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest)... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not... 

<em>Fifty Words</em>

Theatre

Fifty Words

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Lucille Lortel Theatre

In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Saturday 10/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of... 

Annual openhousenewyork Weekend

Art

openhousenewyork

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

Year-round educational programs from openhousenewyork culminate this weekend with the organization's sixth-annual smorgasbord of architectural offerings — the largest event... 

Hiroshi Shafer: <em>Evrything seems Ok to me!</em>

Art

Hiroshi Shafer

Saturday 10/ 4 @ English Kills

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... 

Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>

Art

Sue Williams

Saturday 10/ 4 @ David Zwirner

From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a... 

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

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... 

Hot Chip w/ Growing

Music

Hot Chip

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Terminal 5

While Hot Chip were initially dismissed as electro jokers, it quickly became hard to ignore the brilliance of their genre-mashing sounds.... 

Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>

Art

Kevin Bewersdorf

Saturday 10/ 4 @ V&A

Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells... 

<em>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... 

<em>Oh What War</em>

Theatre

Oh What War

Saturday 10/ 4 @ HERE Arts Center

Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift... 

<em>[title of show]</em>

Theatre

[title of show]

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

Mart&iacute;n Ram&iacute;rez

Art

Martín Ramírez

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Ricco Maresca Gallery

In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... 

Doug Aitken: <em>Migration</em> & <em>Empire</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Saturday 10/ 4 @ 303 Gallery

Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>

Art: Photography

Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Brooklyn Historical Society

From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... 

Dance

Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Joyce Soho

Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos create an intimate hour-long piece that addresses the intricacies of finding and sustaining love in the... 

<em>Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades</em>

Art

Untethered

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Eyebeam

Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man... 

<em>Break Out</em>

Dance

Break Out

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Union Square Theatre

The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations

Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest... 

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Walter Kerr Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... 

<em>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Saturday 10/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... 

<em>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine

Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all... 

<em>Ballast</em>

Film

Ballast

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Film Forum

When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew... 

Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>

Art

Daisy Bell

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Lehmann Maupin

In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God.... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Saturday 10/ 4 @ Various locations in the East River

Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... 

<em>Factor T.</em>

Theatre

Factor T.

Saturday 10/ 4 @ St. Mark's Church

Philosophy-meets-dance-theatre, in Polish — that could sum up Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre's latest offering, but it goes much further than that,...