Events on Sunday, December 14

Gowanus Music Club presents Kings Highway, the Vote, and Reverse Psychology

Music

Gowanus Music Club

Sunday 12/14 @ The Bell House-

If you hated Jack Black's antics in School of Rock but loved the idea of kids wailing on guitars and beating... 

<em>McSweeney's</em> presents Ed Park w/ Deb Olin Unferth and Heidi Julavits

Books: Reading

McSweeney's Reading Night

Sunday 12/14 @ KGB Bar

This week, KGB Bar's Sunday night fiction series hosts an evening with McSweeney's that features two founding editors of the Believer,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 12/14 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Dance Dance Revolution</em>

Dance

Dance Dance Revolution

Sunday 12/14 @ Ohio Theatre

Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937&ndash;1940</em>

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>February</em>

Dance

February

Sunday 12/14 @ La MaMa E.T.C.

LeeSaar the Company — a partnership between actress/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari — brings a split bill of dance... 

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Sunday 12/14 @ Smith-Stewart

Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup.... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Sunday 12/14 @ Various locations

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

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

NeoHooDoo

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Sunday 12/14 @ IFC Center

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

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Theatre

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Sunday 12/14 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

GreenFlea Market

City Gems

GreenFlea Market

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

ASSSSCAT 3000

Comedy: Improv

ASSSSCAT 3000

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

<em>The Deville's Holiday Special</em> feat. Pufferella and Ad Deville

Art

Deville's Holiday Special

Sunday 12/14 @ Factory Fresh

This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that... 

<em>The Brooklyn Block Party</em>

Art

The Brooklyn Block Party

Sunday 12/14 @ Ad Hoc Art

Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Sunday 12/14 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Sunday 12/14 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Sunday 12/14 @ Cinema Village

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

Trinity Church presents Handel's <em>Messiah</em>

Music: Classical

Handel's Messiah

Sunday 12/14 @ Trinity Church

Savor the chance to hear Handel's Messiah on the site where the epic oratorio received its New World premiere. Trinity Church... 

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Sunday 12/14 @ Union Square

Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>A Man for All Seasons</em>

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Sunday 12/14 @ American Airlines Theater

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

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Sunday 12/14 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Sunday 12/14 @ Paragraph

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

Garrison Keillor: Man in Tux and Red Shoes with Piano

Books: Reading

Garrison Keillor

Sunday 12/14 @ Feinstein's at Loews Regency

It's a good thing A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has one of the most recognizable voices in America, because... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Sunday 12/14 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Sunday 12/14 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Sunday 12/14 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Sunday 12/14 @ Imperial Theatre

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

<em>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Sunday 12/14 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sunday 12/14 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

Misnomer Dance Theater: <em>Being Together</em>

Dance

Misnomer Dance Theater

Sunday 12/14 @ Joyce Soho

Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work... 

C215: <em>Junk Store</em>

Art

C215

Sunday 12/14 @ Ad Hoc Art

Parisian artist C215 has been peeking from the shadows on a cross-continental level, and he's ready for his first stateside solo... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Sunday 12/14 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

La Suprette 2008

Fashion/Style: Shopping

La Suprette 2008

Sunday 12/14 @ La Suprette

After a particularly black Black Friday, holiday shopping may not be at the top of anyone's "things I want to do"... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Improbable Frequency</em>

Theatre

Improbable Frequency

Sunday 12/14 @ 59E59 Theaters

Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy... 

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Keith Haring

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>Slava's Snowshow</em>

Theatre

Slava's Snowshow

Sunday 12/14 @ Helen Hayes Theatre

Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first... 

Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party

Party

Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party

Sunday 12/14 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill

Rock 'n roll's original bad girl hosts her annual Christmas party at B.B. King's this year, putting her stamp on classics... 

Federico Fellini's <em>Amarcord</em> (1973)

Film

Amarcord

Sunday 12/14 @ Film Forum

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Sunday 12/14 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

<em>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Sunday 12/14 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

<em>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Sunday 12/14 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

<em>The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality</em>

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Sunday 12/14 @ Exit Art

Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... 

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 12/14 @ 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>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Sunday 12/14 @ 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... 

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: <em>Bamboo Blues</em>

Dance

Pina Bausch

Sunday 12/14 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with... 

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

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Sunday 12/14 @ 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>The Firemen's Ball </em>(1967)

Film

The Firemen's Ball

Sunday 12/14 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Sunday 12/14 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...