Events on Wednesday, December 31
Wednesday 12/31 @ Studio B
While most people give Flash all the credit for songs like "White Lines (Don't Do It)" and "Beat Street," Grandmaster Mele...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Secret Bushwick location
Winkel and Balktick are pros when it comes to rowdy, creative warehouse parties (remember the Stranded! Burning Man throwdown? Or were...
Exploding Baby Masquerade Ball
Wednesday 12/31 @ Cameo
New multi-use space Cameo Art Gallery announces itself to Williamsburg on the biggest party night of the year with the Exploding...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Epic NYE feat. Kill the Noise and AC Slater
Wednesday 12/31 @ Club Europa
Famous Friends and Palms Out decamp to Greenpoint for one last rager in '08. And, with their powers combined, results are...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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,...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Ad Hoc Art
Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/31 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Film Forum
Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Exit Art
Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/31 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Barrow Street Theater
In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago....
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Fortunately for our Netflix-aided age, Martin Scorsese's entire unholy oeuvre is ready for our queue-and-view pleasure. But watching Goodfellas on your...
British Television Advertising Awards 2008
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/31 @ Gladstone Gallery
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wednesday 12/31 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Wednesday 12/31 @ 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...
