Events on Wednesday, September 17
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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