Events on Saturday, December 6

Owen w/ Caithlin de Marrais and El May

Music

Owen

Saturday 12/ 6 @ The Mercury Lounge

Mike Kinsella has been on quite a journey: in addition to playing alongside his brother Tim in indie stalwarts like Cap'n... 

BowieBall

Party

BowieBall

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Santos Party House

In NYC, it often seems that some residents live the BowieBall every day. Spandex? Check. Fabulous makeup? Check. Platforms? Definitely; just... 

Meat Loaf

Music

Meat Loaf

Saturday 12/ 6 @ United Palace

With over 43 million units sold, Meat Loaf is the Big Mac of temperamental balladeers. The singer's bio reads like one... 

Don Rimini and Aaron LaCrate

Music: DJ

Don Rimini and Aaron LaCrate

Saturday 12/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Fortune smiled upon Parisian producer and DJ Don Rimini when B-more club mainstay Aaron LaCrate and rapper Rick Ross asked him... 

Yeasayer w/ Chairlift

Music

Yeasayer

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Just admit it: Yeasayer have lived up to the hype that surrounded their first single, the apocalyptic "2080." The quartet's debut... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Deville's Holiday Special

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Factory Fresh

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

Richard Prince: <em>Canal Zone</em>

Art

Richard Prince

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Gagosian Gallery

Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Blasted</em>

Theatre

Blasted

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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.... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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,... 

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Theatre

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Saturday 12/ 6 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

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

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

Film

Happy-Go-Lucky

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

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

Art

Keith Haring

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Deitch Studios

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

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

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Black Watch</em>

Theatre

Black Watch

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Saturday 12/ 6 @ IFC Center

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

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Dance Dance Revolution</em>

Dance

Dance Dance Revolution

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Ohio Theatre

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

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

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Cory Arcangel: <em>Adult Contemporary</em>

Art

Cory Arcangel

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Team Gallery

Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>The Seagull</em>

Theatre

The Seagull

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Perverted by Theater</em>

Art

Perverted by Theater

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Apex Art

In the '60s, art critic Michael Fried claimed theatre was profoundly hostile to visual art. Curators Franklin Evans and Paul David... 

<em>We Are Wizards</em>

Film: Documentary

We Are Wizards

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Cinema Village

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

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night</em>

Art

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Metro Pictures

After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Opening Night</em>

Theatre

Opening Night

Saturday 12/ 6 @ BAM Harvey Theater

The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once resolved that, "On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns." John... 

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

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>The Atheist</em>

Theatre

The Atheist

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Barrow Street Theater

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

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

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Art

Alex Grey

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Blip Festival 2008

Music: Electronic

Blip Festival 2008

Saturday 12/ 6 @ The Bell House-

For the past two years, Christmas has come early for old-school videogame lovers in the form of Blip Festival. Curated by... 

Lim&oacute;n Dance Company

Dance

Limón Dance Company

Saturday 12/ 6 @ The Joyce Theater

José Limón's thriving company celebrates his centenary with a week at Joyce. Two familiar works, A Choreographic Offering, Limón's homage to... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Repo! The Genetic Opera</em>

Film

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Taking Over</em>

Theatre

Taking Over

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Robert Morris: <em>Deflationary Objects</em>

Art

Robert Morris

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Leo Castelli Gallery

Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... 

<em>February</em>

Dance

February

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Beyond a Memorable Fancy: Print, Perception, and the Artist's Intervention</em>

Art

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

Saturday 12/ 6 @ EFA Project Space

The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient... 

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

Art: Photography

Rudy Burckhardt

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

From the Desk of Sarah Seely: <em>How to Disappear Completely</em>

Dance

How to Disappear Completely

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Triskelion Arts

From the Desk of Sarah Seely presents a Cold War-era dance/theatre/burlesque/music/video extravaganza at Williamsburg's Triskelion Arts studio. Armed with an MFA... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Ann Lislegaard: <em>Crystal World</em> & <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em>

Art

Ann Lislegaard

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Murray Guy

For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Dance

Misnomer Dance Theater

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Joyce Soho

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

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Artists and Fleas

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

Union Square Holiday Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Union Square Holiday Market

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Andy Warhol's <em>The Velvet Underground</em> (1966)

Film

The Velvet Underground

Saturday 12/ 6 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Before the Velvet Underground became rock 'n roll legends — hell, before they had even released a record — Andy Warhol... 

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

Art

NeoHooDoo

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Theatre

A Man for All Seasons

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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>Tristan und Isolde</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Metropolitan Opera House

Daniel Barenboim's interpretation of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (itself an interpretation of Shakespeare's play) opens this week at the Metropolitan... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

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

Film

Amarcord

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Film Forum

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

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

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>JCVD</em>

Film

JCVD

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

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

Brian Posehn

Comedy

Brian Posehn

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Comix

Seasoned standup comic and self-proclaimed metal nerd Brian Posehn hits Comix's stage for four shows of geeky comic-book humor, pot jokes,... 

Shen Wei Dance Arts: <em>Connect Transfer II</em>

Dance

Shen Wei Dance Arts: Connect Transfer II

Saturday 12/ 6 @ Lincoln Center

Even if you're not a contemporary-dance buff, you're probably familiar with '07 MacArthur Genius Shen Wei and just don't realize it:... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Saturday 12/ 6 @ 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...