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... 

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,... 

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... 

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>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>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... 

<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... 

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... 

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... 

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,... 

<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>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... 

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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>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>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>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... 

<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... 

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,... 

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,... 

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... 

<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... 

<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... 

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... 

<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... 

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...