Events on Wednesday, December 31
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Chuck Berry
- @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- Chuck Berry's one of the original pioneers of rock 'n roll. His lightening fast guitar intro in "Johnny B. Goode" inspired... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Mysteries of Creation
- @ Secret Bushwick location
- Winkel and Balktick are pros when it comes to rowdy, creative warehouse parties (remember the Stranded! Burning Man throwdown? Or were... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- My Morning Jacket
- @ Madison Square Garden
- Rockin' country/indie/funk/psychedelic/southern quintet My Morning Jacket take the stage at Madison Square Garden tonight for an epic NYE show. In anticipation,... View details »
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- New Year's Eve: Rock/Pop
- Akron/Family w/ Deerhoof
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Tonight's indietastic NYE send-off may mark the the end of the Knitting Factory's Leonard Street era, but fear not friends: there's... View details »
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- New Year's Eve: DJ
- Matthew Dear w/ Drop the Lime, Michna, and Mike Servito
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- The brilliant nightlife strategists over at Poisson Rouge have put together a New Year's party that doesn't begin until 2am, which... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Santos presents 2009
- @ Santos Party House
- When it's time to party, Santos parties hard. Spend New Year's Eve downtown with live sets upstairs from Andrew W.K., Gang... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Exploding Baby Masquerade Ball
- @ Cameo
- New multi-use space Cameo Art Gallery announces itself to Williamsburg on the biggest party night of the year with the Exploding... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Grandmaster Mele Mel
- @ Studio B
- While most people give Flash all the credit for songs like "White Lines (Don't Do It)" and "Beat Street," Grandmaster Mele... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Epic NYE feat. Kill the Noise and AC Slater
- @ Club Europa
- Famous Friends and Palms Out decamp to Greenpoint for one last rager in '08. And, with their powers combined, results are... View details »
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- New Year's Eve
- Easy Lover Loft
- @ Secret Brooklyn location
- There are few places we'd rather be on New Year's Eve than in a Brooklyn loft, dancing, sweating, and drinking. Luckily,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Pizza Walking Tour
- @ Various locations
- New York has some legendary pizza, but there's also some real crap out there; save the cash you'll waste finding the... View details »
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- Essential Sturges
- @ Film Forum
- Preston Sturges' career did its best St. Louis Arch imitation before the legendary writer/director shed his down-and-out bones at the Algonquin... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- @ Wollman Rink
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Blasted
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Art
- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Revolutionary Road
- @ Various locations
- Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pal Joey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- @ Quad Cinema
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Behind the Screen: Video Game Technology
- @ Museum of the Moving Image
- Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But... View details »
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- Film
- The Secret of the Grain
- @ IFC Center
- That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... View details »
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- Art
- The Dudion Levers
- @ Martos Gallery
- At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sandra Bernhard
- @ Joe's Pub
- Granted, you probably won't be the one smooching them, but these are some pretty hot lips to be hanging out with... View details »
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- Art
- C215
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- A Christmas Tale
- @ IFC Center
- In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... View details »
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- Kate Gilmore
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art
- The Brooklyn Block Party
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... View details »
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- Art
- The Labyrinth Wall
- @ Exit Art
- Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- @ Linda Gross Theater
- Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Calder Jewelry
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Nutcracker: Rated R
- @ Theater for the New City
- Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Improbable Frequency
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Slava's Snowshow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Streamers
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- Marlene Dumas
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- @ Various locations
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... View details »
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- Mr.
- @ Lehmann Maupin
- In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Becky Shaw
- @ 2econd Stage Theatre
- Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play.... View details »
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- Film
- Wendy and Lucy
- @ Film Forum
- Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Broken Glass
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Elizabeth Peyton
- @ 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... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- William Eggleston
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Rudy Burckhardt
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Atheist
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... View details »
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- Alex Grey
- @ MicroCoSM Gallery
- Alex Grey, best known for his Sacred Mirrors series of metaphysical anatomical maps, is ready to show his (ever-evolving) self-portraits in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Back Back Back
- @ 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... View details »
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- British Television Advertising Awards 2008
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Americans generally look to Super Bowl Sunday for advertising at its finest. Across the pond, it's the annual British Television Advertising... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- Pipilotti Rist
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- Under the Sign of Fincher
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Brad Pitt and David Fincher peer up at the De Niro/Scorsese crest for actor-director collaborations, ranking as one of recent cinema's... View details »
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- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- The Wrestler
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Theater of War
- @ Film Forum
- Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ 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... View details »
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- Gilbert & George
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Big Terrific
- @ Cameo
- If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be... View details »
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- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Nayland Blake
- @ Location One
- Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- Peter Callesen
- @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
- Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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