Events on Monday, December 15
WNYU 35th Anniversary Celebration
Monday 12/15 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Having spawned the likes of the B-52s and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia — like Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Olympia, Washington —...
Monday 12/15 @ Avery Fisher Hall
If it looks like an elf, and it talks like an elf, it might just be David Sedaris. The former Santa's...
Journal of Popular Noise Release Party
Monday 12/15 @ Santos Party House
Just when you thought that printed periodicals and vinyl records were dead, the Journal of Popular Noise presents a diverse set...
Monday 12/15 @ The Mercury Lounge
The ethereal weavings and ruminations of Brooklyn's School of Seven Bells are easy to get lost in. On!Air!Libray! vocalists Alejandra and...
Tell Your Friends! There's No Christmas in Darfur!
Monday 12/15 @ The Bell House-
Liam McEneaney's Monday night comedy lounge moves from Lolita Bar to the Bell House tonight to stage a benefit for Save...
Ongoing Events
Monday 12/15 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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,...
Monday 12/15 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Monday 12/15 @ Madison Square Garden
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Monday 12/15 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Monday 12/15 @ Jazz Standard
The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus,...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Monday 12/15 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
Rave culture — its primordial Dionysian spirit of oneness decried as mind-numbingly repetitive or drug-induced — has languished outside the art...
Monday 12/15 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Monday 12/15 @ Cinema Village
Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and...
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Monday 12/15 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Monday 12/15 @ 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...
