Events on Thursday, September 11

Anita's Underground Game Show
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
More Flavor: Competition
Anita's Underground Game Show
@ Under St. Marks
Pretty much everything gets a little awesomer when you add alcohol, but what if you also add half-naked ladies? Twice the...  View details »
Paul Weller
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Music: Rock/Pop
Paul Weller
@ Highline Ballroom
Whether playing deity to the mod-obsessed masses or leaving an indelible impression on future members of Oasis, British rocker Paul Weller...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>After Nature</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
After Nature
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>American Teen</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film: Documentary
American Teen
@ Various locations
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art: Photography
Invasion 68: Prague
@ Aperture Gallery
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Heights</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Year of the Fish</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Year of the Fish
@ Angelika Film Center
Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>1965UU</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
1965UU
@ The Chocolate Factory
On the planetoid 1965UU, memory is forbidden and words mutate in meaning (i.e., you never know when a vine might become...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
@ IFC Center
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially...  View details »
Ongoing
Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
@ V&A
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Pool</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
The Pool
@ Film Forum
A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Sa Ka La </em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sa Ka La
@ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Towelhead</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Towelhead
@ Various locations
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded...  View details »
Ongoing
Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
@ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Burn After Reading
@ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
@ American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Artist as Publisher</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Artist as Publisher
@ Center for Book Arts
In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Oh What War</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Oh What War
@ HERE Arts Center
Juggernaut Theatre Company's Oh What War is unflinching political theatre. Inspired by Joan Littlewood's 1960s musical Oh! What a Lovely War,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Fela!</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fela!
@ 37 Arts
Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Redheaded Man</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Redheaded Man
@ Barrow Street Theater
In award-winning actor/playwright (and Flavorpill contributor) Halley Bondy's The Redheaded Man, a schizophrenic young architect named Brian (David Jenkins) is ruled...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Trouble the Water</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
@ IFC Center
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Daisy Bell
@ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Absinthe</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Absinthe
@ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...  View details »
Ongoing
Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Swirl of Swarm
@ Cinders
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Celebrate M&eacute;xico Now 2008
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Festival
Celebrate México Now
@ Various locations
Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth...  View details »
Ongoing
J.M.W. Turner
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
J.M.W. Turner
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>South Pacific</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Wackness </em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
The Wackness
@ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>[title of show]</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
@ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...  View details »
Ongoing
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
@ Various locations in the East River
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Kehinde Wiley
@ Studio Museum in Harlem
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood...  View details »
Ongoing
Minitek Electronic Music Festival
Month_09 Friday Day_12
More Flavor: Festival
Minitek
@ Penn Plaza Pavilion
Mutek now has some much-needed competition when it comes to North American electronic-music festivals. Created by the founders of Minimoo —...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lady
@ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Theatrical parables about our nation's state of affairs aren't uncommon, but few draw as many subtle parallels as Lady. In the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Sixty Six</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Sixty Six
@ Various locations
It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old,...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
@ Storm King Art Center
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere,...  View details »
Ongoing
Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
More Flavor: Spectacle
Circus Amok
@ Various NYC parks
After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of...  View details »
Ongoing
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NY Craft Beer Week
Month_09 Friday Day_12
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Craft Beer Week
@ Various locations
Contrary to popular belief, moderate beer consumption doesn't make you fat — it's the accompanying munchies and other bad dietary habits...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Number</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Number
@ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
In Caryl Churchill's play A Number, a father faces the consequences of cloning his only son. As the original and the...  View details »
Ongoing
Conflux Festival
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art: Architecture/Design
Conflux Festival
@ Center for Architecture
Flâneurs, city explorers, artists, musicians, and writers congregate this weekend to celebrate urban psychogeography. Now in its fifth year, the Conflux...  View details »
Ongoing
Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Derek Buckner
@ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Able Danger</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Film
Able Danger
@ Two Boots Pioneer Theater
On this anniversary of September 11, revisit the tragic events of 2001 through the lens of fiction and conspiracy theory. Able...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Glass Cage</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
@ The Mint Theater
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Hamlet 2</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Hamlet 2
@ Various locations
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the...  View details »
Ongoing
The Science Barge
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
@ Riverside Park South
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Anger/Nation</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Anger/Nation
@ The Kitchen
A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda —...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Mister Foe</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Mister Foe
@ Angelika Film Center
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Arctic Hysteria
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
New York Clown Theatre Festival
@ The Brick Theater
The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Brideshead Revisited
@ Various locations
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....  View details »
Ongoing
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
@ Deitch Studios
Street-art darling Swoon and her band of merry boat-builders — who sailed a scrap-raft flotilla dubbed the Miss Rockaway Armada up...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Baghead</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Baghead
@ Various locations
Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie...  View details »
Ongoing
James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
@ Film Forum
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Dalí: Painting and Film
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>A Secret</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
A Secret
@ Various locations
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fifty Words</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
@ Lucille Lortel Theatre
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Bottle Shock
@ Various locations
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...  View details »
Ongoing
Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Tickle the Shitstem
@ Zach Feuer Gallery
Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Deprogram
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Music: DJ
Deprogram
@ Love
Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Great Place to be From</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Great Place to be From
@ Kraine Theater
In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>I Served the King of England</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
I Served the King of England
@ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...  View details »
Ongoing
Housing Works Fall Preview Sales
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
More Flavor: Shopping
Housing Works Fall Preview Sales
@ Housing Works Thrift Shops
A change of season is a perfect excuse for a change of wardrobe — especially when it's easy on your weathered...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Traitor</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Film
Traitor
@ Various locations
Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist...  View details »
Ongoing
Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Art
Sue Williams
@ David Zwirner
From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Le Jean De, Respect Is Burning, and Made Event present &Eacute;t&eacute; d'Amour
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
Music: DJ
Été d'Amour
@ Santos Party House
Respect, the newest entry in the deluge of summer parties, was originally founded in Paris by three Frenchmen who booked everyone...  View details »
Ongoing
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Paragraph
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_09 Thursday Day_11
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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