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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Caithlin de Marrais
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Wednesday Aug 27 (7:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
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It's been two years since the breakup of Rainer Maria. While there's no sign of a reunion yet, lead singer and bassist Caithlin de Marrais... View details »
- Film
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Traitor
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
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Bourbon Tasting
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Wednesday Aug 27 (7pm) @ Southern Hospitality
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Bourbon gets its name from Bourbon County, Kentucky, and has been recognized by Congress as a "distinctive product of the United States." The Scots and... View details »
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- Art
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Louise Bourgeois
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum
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After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
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Superheroes
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Wednesday Aug 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume and clothing. Superheroes delves... View details »
- Art
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
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Wednesday Aug 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Art
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After Nature
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Wednesday Aug 27 (noon–6pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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The After Nature exhibition evokes a nightmare/fantasy of humankind's impending self-destruction and its aftermath. Sculptor Maurizio Cattelan imagines a horse's deadly collision with the museum... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Hot!
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Dixon Place
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Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque, and comedy. It also... View details »
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J.M.W. Turner
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Wednesday Aug 27 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
- Art
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Dalí: Painting and Film
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA
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Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
- Film
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Baghead
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
- Film
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Sixty Six
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old, bespectacled Bernie, who's been... View details »
- Film
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Bottle Shock
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
- Art
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Artist as Publisher
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts
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In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Getaway
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Sol LeWitt
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Wednesday Aug 27 (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center
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In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
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Kehinde Wiley
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Wednesday Aug 27 (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem
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Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
- Film
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Hamlet 2
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Hair
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Wednesday Aug 27 (8pm) @ Delacorte Theater
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As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions will occur; strangers will... View details »
- Film
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Elegy
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Eminent Domain
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Wednesday Aug 27 (11am–7:30pm) @ New York Public Library
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When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of heresy from legions of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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American Teen
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
- Art
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Tickle the Shitstem
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery
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Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst,... View details »
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I Won't Grow Up
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–6pm) @ Cheim & Read
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The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches a ginormous monocled Mr.... View details »
