Events on Monday, October 6

An Evening with <em>Chimurenga</em>

Special Event

An Evening with Chimurenga

Monday 10/ 6 @ The Kitchen

Chimurenga more or less means "liberation struggle" in Zimbabwe's Shona language — it's also the name of a literary/arts/politics magazine based... 

Thrift On! Swap Party

Fashion/Style

Thrift On! Swap Party

Monday 10/ 6 @ Botanica Bar

Fashionista DJ Shakey brings her quarterly thrift extravaganza back to Soho's Botanica Bar tonight, complete with previously owned prizes and an... 

Department of Eagles

Music

Department of Eagles

Monday 10/ 6 @ The Bell House-

While Department of Eagles are led by Grizzly Bear guitarist/singer Dan Rossen, it would do the band a great disservice to... 

Canyon Cinema: In Memory of Bruce Conner

Film: Shorts

Canyon Cinema

Monday 10/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

The late Bruce Conner was an art star who, like Pluto or Saul Bass, defied classification. A pioneer of collage filmmaking,... 

Ongoing Events

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 10/ 6 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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>Humboldt County</em>

Film

Humboldt County

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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>Fault Lines</em>

Theatre

Fault Lines

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 10/ 6 @ Paragraph

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

Mingus Mondays

Music

Mingus Mondays

Monday 10/ 6 @ Jazz Standard

The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus,... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 10/ 6 @ SculptureCenter

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

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

Film

Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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>Mafioso</em> (1962) and <em>Lo Scopone Scientifico</em> (1972)

Film

Mafioso and Lo Scopone Scientifico

Monday 10/ 6 @ Film Forum

Director Alberto Lattuada is too often the odd man out in film appreciation's musical-chairs shuffling, but the mid-century maestro's satirical gifts... 

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Theatre

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Monday 10/ 6 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

<em>Towelhead</em>

Film

Towelhead

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Ballast</em>

Film

Ballast

Monday 10/ 6 @ Film Forum

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

William Pope.L: <em>October Projects</em>

Art

William Pope.L

Monday 10/ 6 @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash

In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 10/ 6 @ Various locations

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

I Kiffe NY: French Urban Cultures Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

I Kiffe NY

Monday 10/ 6 @ Various locations

The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 10/ 6 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

<em>The Outsiders</em>

Art

The Outsiders

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Other Options</em>

Art

Other Options

Monday 10/ 6 @ Eyebeam

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

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Monday 10/ 6 @ Quad Cinema

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

Tegan and Sara

Music

Tegan and Sara

Monday 10/ 6 @ Terminal 5

These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging... 

<em>Battle in Seattle</em>

Film

Battle in Seattle

Monday 10/ 6 @ Various locations

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

Okkervil River w/ Crooked Fingers

Music

Okkervil River

Monday 10/ 6 @ Webster Hall

While Okkervil River songs usually start with a slowly strumming acoustic guitar, it's only a matter of time before the drums... 

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

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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... 

Film

Burn After Reading

Monday 10/ 6 @ 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>Choke</em>

Film

Choke

Monday 10/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine

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