Events on Sunday, November 9

BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces)

Festival: Performing Arts

BETA Spaces

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Various locations in Bushwick

The creators of Bushwick Open Spaces now bring you the more-condensed BETA Spaces where hundreds of up-and-coming artists display their work,... 

Neil Gaiman: <em>Sandman</em> 20th-Anniversary Celebration

Special Event

Neil Gaiman

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 92nd St Y

Time flies when you're being prolific as hell. Best-selling author Neil Gaiman has been consistently delivering mind-bending novels, screenplays, comics, and... 

Kidrockers presents Matthew and Ira of Nada Surf w/ the Jealous Girlfriends

Music

Nada Surf w/ the Jealous Girlfriends

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Living Room

Though Kidrockers may be in its infancy, the organization is already recruiting the best talent in indie music and comedy to... 

The Mountain Goats w/ Kaki King

Music

The Mountain Goats

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Webster Hall

The Mountain Goats come to New York this week as part of their depressingly titled The Last Happy Night of Your... 

The Brooklyn Kitchen presents the Ramen-Off

Food/Wine

Ramen-Off

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Union Pool

With the economy still aping a rollercoaster, Williamsburg kitchenware boutique (and local foodie hangout) the Brooklyn Kitchen has decided to celebrate... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>

Theatre

The Grand Inquisitor

Sunday 11/ 9 @ New York Theatre Workshop

Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop... 

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

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

Blek Le Rat

Art

Blek Le Rat

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Jonathan LeVine Gallery

French stencil revolutionary Blek Le Rat returns to the Jonathan Levine Gallery for a solo turn with his politically inspired prints.... 

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Sunday 11/ 9 @ St. Ann's Warehouse

If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 11/ 9 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School

As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Public Theater

Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Various locations

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

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 11/ 9 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Farragut North</em>

Theatre

Farragut North

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Linda Gross Theater

Playwright Beau Willimon served on the staff of many political campaigns — including Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — and his knowledge gives us... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

<em>Beachwood Drive</em>

Theatre

Beachwood Drive

Sunday 11/ 9 @ June Havoc Theatre

Set in a series of flashbacks and confessionals, Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman caught in a... 

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

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>The Lastmaker</em>

Theatre

The Lastmaker

Sunday 11/ 9 @ P.S. 122

In a characteristically inspired meta-move, Goat Island, the highly regarded (and soon-to-be-disbanded) Chicago-based performance collective, organizes The Lastmaker, its last-ever play,... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Angelika Film Center

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

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Sunday 11/ 9 @ SculptureCenter

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

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Sunday 11/ 9 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Chocolate Show

Food/Wine

Chocolate Show

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Pier 94

If you feel a chocolate jones coming on, head over to Pier 94 for a bittersweet weekend. The festival opens Thursday... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

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

Theatre

If You See Something Say Something

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Stages</em>

Film

Stages

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Film Forum

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

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

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

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Festival: Performing Arts

The Films of Arnaud Desplechin

Sunday 11/ 9 @ IFC Center

Arnaud Desplechin may be one of the cinema's most important living directors (he's certainly the best ensemble film director working today),... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 11/ 9 @ American Airlines Theater

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

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

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

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from... 

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

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Barrow Street Theater

In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Paragraph

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

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

Garth Fagan Dance

Dance

Garth Fagan Dance

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Joyce Theater

The messages left after the beep become inspiration of Garth Fagan's latest work, Phone Tag, Thanks & Things. The prolific choreographer... 

Chanel Mobile Art

Art

Chanel Mobile Art

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Rumsey Field in Central Park

Visionary architect Zaha Hadid collaborates with Chanel and fashion baron Karl Lagerfeld to land an ephemeral museum in the middle of... 

<em>Pop Surrealism: In the Language of Angels</em>

Art

In the Language of Angels

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Ad Hoc Art

This expertly curated exhibition showcases the work of six female pop surrealists from around the world. Lisa Alisa (Russia) juxtaposes elegantly... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Soho Rep

It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 11/ 9 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

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

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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...