Events on Monday, November 17

Bernstein's Broadway

Special Event

Bernstein's Broadway

Monday 11/17 @ Paley Center

If you've ever eased your Sunday-morning hangover with some channel 13, you've probably gotten sucked into Rick McKay's excellent Broadway: The... 

Deep Space feat. Dub Gabriel and François K

Music: DJ

Deep Space

Monday 11/17 @ Cielo

Since it began in 2003, François K's weekly residency, Deep Space, has become something of a NYC institution for futuristic, dubby... 

Natasha Wimmer & Edith Grossman: A Conversation about Translation

Special Event

Natasha Wimmer & Edith Grossman

Monday 11/17 @ The Strand

In The Task of the Translator, Walter Benjamin expostulates that any literary translation is a deformed version of the original text... 

Iron and Wine w/ Blitzen Trapper

Music

Iron and Wine

Monday 11/17 @ Terminal 5

Sam Beam's creative growth over the last five years is more than a little miraculous. Though his early recordings as Iron... 

Ongoing Events

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 11/17 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 11/17 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 11/17 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>Happy-Go-Lucky</em>

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Monday 11/17 @ Landmark Sunshine

British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Monday 11/17 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

<em>Wild Style</em> (1983)

Film

Wild Style

Monday 11/17 @ Film Forum

Before Aerosmith made rap safe for middle America, Wild Style brought hip-hop culture out of the Bronx and into movie... 

<em>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Monday 11/17 @ Angelika Film Center

Not even Paris Hilton can detract from the unlikely appeal of this science-fiction goth-rock opera.  It's the year 2056, and a... 

<em>Stages</em>

Film

Stages

Monday 11/17 @ Film Forum

Somber and episodic, the Dutch film Stages pays such serious homage to Bergman that it very well could have taken "Scenes... 

<em>If You See Something Say Something</em>

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Monday 11/17 @ Joe's Pub

We have a long history of pursuing security — from the development of the atomic bomb to the present day color-coded... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Monday 11/17 @ Cinema Village

Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Monday 11/17 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 11/17 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 11/17 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Monday 11/17 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 11/17 @ Various locations

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

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Monday 11/17 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Film

Manny Farber

Monday 11/17 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

Manny Farber was an inimitable cultural critic. Even when the termite-art advocate was defecating on your favorite film, what kept you... 

Mingus Mondays

Music

Mingus Mondays

Monday 11/17 @ Jazz Standard

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

Andreas Gursky

Art: Photography

Andreas Gursky

Monday 11/17 @ Matthew Marks Gallery

Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Monday 11/17 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Monday 11/17 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

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Theatre

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Monday 11/17 @ 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>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Monday 11/17 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Monday 11/17 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 11/17 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Monday 11/17 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Monday 11/17 @ Angelika Film Center

Some action stars age gracefully, (see Sean Connery) some not so gracefully (see Chuck Norris), and still others go into politics...