Events on Monday, June 9

Make Good Ideas Happen

Party

Make Good Ideas Happen

Monday 6/ 9 @ The Delancey

When it comes to effective social change, talk is cheap. That's why Behance and alldaybuffet are putting on Make Good Ideas... 

The Young Knives w/ the Postelles, Magic Wand, and Gustaf Heden

Music

The Young Knives

Monday 6/ 9 @ The Mercury Lounge

On this side of the Atlantic, the Young Knives often get lost in the shuffle of UK post-post punk (Futureheads, Kaiser... 

[SOLD OUT] Jamie Lidell w/ Jennifer O'Connor

Music

[SOLD OUT] Jamie Lidell

Monday 6/ 9 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Jamie Lidell has arrived. In his performances since 2005's fantastically received, surprisingly soulful Multiply, the demi-founder of the now-defunct IDM outfit... 

Ongoing Events

<em>A Perfect Couple</em>

Theatre

A Perfect Couple

Monday 6/ 9 @ DR2 Theatre

Playwright Brooke Berman writes stories of city-living women who suffer for their independence. They work at unglamorous jobs, squeeze themselves into... 

<em>The Go-Getter</em>

Film

The Go-Getter

Monday 6/ 9 @ Quad Cinema

Like many road-trip movies, The Go-Getter is part spontaneous adventure and part journey to self-discovery. Writer/director Martin Hynes' story follows Mercer... 

Max Snow: <em>It's Fun to Do Bad Things</em>

Art: Photography

It's Fun to Do Bad Things

Monday 6/ 9 @ Moeller Snow Gallery

Sure, Scandinavian metalheads, Klansmen, and inner-city gang members have violent ideologies, wear weird costumes, and are considered by most to be... 

<em>Telectroscope</em>

Art

Telectroscope

Monday 6/ 9 @ Fulton Ferry Landing

British artist Paul St George says his great-grandfather wanted to link the US and England with a tunnel under the ocean.... 

<em>Sangre de Mi Sangre</em>

Film

Sangre de Mi Sangre

Monday 6/ 9 @ IFC Center

New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their... 

<em>When Did You Last See Your Father?</em>

Film

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Monday 6/ 9 @ Angelika Film Center

Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?... 

Purvis Young: <em>Protest</em>

Art

Purvis Young

Monday 6/ 9 @ GalleryBar

After encountering the works of van Gogh and Rembrandt in a prison library, Purvis Young went back to his cell and... 

<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>

Art

Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

Monday 6/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,... 

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Theatre

The Film Festival: A Theater Festival

Monday 6/ 9 @ The Brick Theater

The Brick's annual festival celebrates the occasionally ornery relationship between theatre and film. The centerpiece is 72-Hour Films, for which participants... 

<em>Stuck</em>

Film

Stuck

Monday 6/ 9 @ Angelika Film Center

Stuck is inspired by one of those too-freakish-to-be-believed, real-life events that normally wends its way into a Law and Order episode... 

<em>Jollyship the Whiz Bang</em>

Theatre

Jollyship the Whiz Bang

Monday 6/ 9 @ Ars Nova Theater

Life ain't easy for the aging, alcoholic pirate in Jollyship the Whiz Bang, a "Pirate-Puppet-Rock Odyssey." At sea for months, Captain... 

Newfest: LGBT Film Festival

Film

Newfest

Monday 6/ 9 @ Various locations

Ideally, all independent cinema would be queer — in the sense that it would all live outside the status quo, challenging... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 6/ 9 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage... 

Bernd and Hilla Becher: <em>Landscape/Typology</em>

Art

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Monday 6/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

From the 1950s on, Bernd and Hilla Becher traversed the United States and Europe photographing silos, factories, mills, processing plants, and... 

<em>The Fall</em>

Film

The Fall

Monday 6/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone.... 

Cedar Lake Spring Season<em> </em>

Dance

Cedar Lake

Monday 6/ 9 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake is a vibrant contemporary ballet company housed in the former studio of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. The group is... 

Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks 2008

Theatre

Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks

Monday 6/ 9 @ Ohio Theatre

Summerworks 2008, Clubbed Thumb's 13th annual festival of new plays, starts with the raucous Constitutional Convention on June 4, a free... 

<em>Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City</em>

Art: Photography

Eminent Domain

Monday 6/ 9 @ LIVE from the NYPL

When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 6/ 9 @ Paragraph

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

<em>Savage Grace </em>

Film

Savage Grace

Monday 6/ 9 @ IFC Center

Biopics are a tough lot. If they follow the arc of their subjects' lives too accurately, they drag, as real life... 

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema

Film

New Italian Cinema

Monday 6/ 9 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

The concept behind the Open Roads showcase of new Italian films probably doesn't jibe with the country's direction under recently reinstated... 

Darina Karpov: <em>Infinitely Small Disasters</em>

Art

Darina Karpov

Monday 6/ 9 @ Pierogi

Darina Karpov's almost-sculptural ink drawings contain the pent-up tumult of a developing storm, gathering energy from the blank page and erupting... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>Take your time</em>

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Monday 6/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Olafur Eliasson works beyond gallery and exhibition spaces, dictating every aspect of the viewer's experience to create environments that are worthy... 

<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</em>

Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Monday 6/ 9 @ Broadhurst Theatre

Hopelessness and self-loathing are frequent players in Tennessee Williams' work, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is no exception. The... 

E.S.T. Marathon 2008

Theatre

E.S.T. Marathon

Monday 6/ 9 @ Ensemble Studio Theatre

Ensemble Studio Theatre's festival of one-act plays is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Presenting established and emerging playwrights, the festival is usually...