Events on Wednesday, September 17

The Dandy Warhols w/ Darker My Love and the Upsidedown
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Music: Rock/Pop
The Dandy Warhols
@ Terminal 5
More than a decade into their career, Oregon's Dandy Warhols have proven that if they've got anything, it's longevity. Continuing their...  View details »
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Tuxedomoon
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Music: Rock/Pop
Tuxedomoon
@ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Last year's Vapour Trail proves that, even after 30 years, San Franciscan post-punksters Tuxedomoon are still going strong. The violin-...  View details »
Witchcraft w/ TK Webb & the Visions
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Music: Punk/Metal
Witchcraft
@ The Bowery Ballroom
Encyclopaedia Metallum lists a whopping 12 bands named Witchcraft, two of which are from Sweden. But only one of these acts...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

<em>A Man for All Seasons</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Man for All Seasons
@ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fela!</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
J.M.W. Turner
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Able Danger</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>In the Heights</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>Trouble the Water</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Pizza Walking Tour
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
More Flavor: Tour
Pizza Walking Tour
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
More Flavor: Festival
FIAF Fall Festival
@ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...  View details »
Ongoing
Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>The Godfather </em>(1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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>Oh What War</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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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Paragraph
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Fifty Words</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Brideshead Revisited</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Sue Williams: <em>Project for the New American Century</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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>South Pacific</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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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Crossing the Line: Dance 2008
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
Performing Arts: Festival
Crossing the Line
@ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...  View details »
Ongoing
Big Terrific w/ Max, Gabe, and Jenny
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Performing Arts: Comedy
Big Terrific
@ Cameo
If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>After Nature</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Hamlet 2</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Performing Arts: Opera
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
@ La MaMa E.T.C.
Wickham Boyle's Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness uses the specificity of personal experience to try to better understand a pivotal moment...  View details »
Ongoing
Sol LeWitt at Storm King
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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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New York Clown Theatre Festival
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Quickening
@ Center Stage
Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the...  View details »
Ongoing
Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Jennifer Steinkamp: <em>Daisy Bell</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Glass Cage</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>The Wackness </em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>Towelhead</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
NY Craft Beer Week
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Kevin Bewersdorf: <em>Monuments to the INFOspirit</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>I Served the King of England</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Absinthe</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
James & Karla Murray: <em>Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Traitor</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>American Teen</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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>A Number</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
<em>Other Options</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
Art
Other Options
@ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
Music: Festival
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
@ Various locations
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Great Place to be From</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>Mister Foe</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
The Science Barge
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
Art
Louise Bourgeois
@ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Secret</em>
Month_09 Thursday Day_18
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
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_09 Wednesday Day_17
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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Ongoing
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