Events on Sunday, September 28
Sunday 9/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore
Today, local AIDS charity Housing Works airs out its used book cafe for the fourth year in a row, taking over...
Sunday 9/28 @ Highline Ballroom
With his self-titled debut album, Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré steps out from the shadow of his father, legendary guitarist Ali...
Sunday 9/28 @ Warsaw
If you're looking for something rare, out of print, or just plain new for your DJ set or personal collection, today's...
Sunday 9/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Bad guys beware: Japan's Peelander-Z really do have superhuman strength. The last time the manga-themed punk-rock circus took on NYC, Peelander's...
Sunday 9/28 @ Fort Tryon Park
Spend 145 minutes with George A. Romero's non-zombie film Knightriders (1981) and your whole attitude toward dudes who put on armor...
Sunday 9/28 @ Bodega
Part of Wham City, Dan Deacon's Baltimore art-freak collective, Benny Boeldt (aka Adventure) makes cheery 8-bit music for geeks and gamers....
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Eyebeam
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails...
Sunday 9/28 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
Tere O'Connor Dance is not only inspired by contemporary architecture, but uses dance movements as shifting layers of architectural evidence —...
Sunday 9/28 @ SculptureCenter
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
Russian-born comedian Eugene Mirman is kind of like baby-faced prankster Andy Milonakis — except he probably doesn't still get carded. Over...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sunday 9/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political...
Sunday 9/28 @ American Airlines Theater
A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Center Stage
Quickening uncovers the struggles of four women who make the choice to have abortions. Set in a Portland abortion clinic, the...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest...
Sunday 9/28 @ Queens County Farm Museum
If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest)...
Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Governors Island
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ English Kills
Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy...
Sunday 9/28 @ Dreamland Roller Rink
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this...
The Festival of New Trumpet Music
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
In feudal times, the shrill sound of the trumpet heralded noteworthy arrivals — recently crowned royalty or new seasons, for instance....
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
A bunch of Snow Whites prancing around the Meatpacking District may not sound like the most appropriate centerpiece for a French...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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,...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Duke Theater
Jane Comfort seamlessly blends scenes of torture and reality television in her new work, An American Rendition. Her talented company members...
Sunday 9/28 @ Guggenheim Museum
After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of...
Sunday 9/28 @ Cinders Gallery
Cinders group-show alums Suzanne Sattler and Mel Kadel collaborate on their first two-person show in New York, Swirl of Swarm, which...
New York Clown Theatre Festival
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Village Vanguard
Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides...
Sunday 9/28 @ Lehmann Maupin
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God....
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift...
Sunday 9/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Sunday 9/28 @ Museum of Arts and Design
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items...
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Sunday 9/28 @ Lyceum Theatre
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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....
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Sunday 9/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived —...
Sunday 9/28 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various locations
Twenty people struggle to escape from a 280-pound pot of spaghetti; multiple Snow Whites descend upon Manhattan, washing windows and stocking...
Sunday 9/28 @ Spiegelworld
This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Lazarides Gallery NYC
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ The American Theatre of Actors
Striking a nice balance between old-time musical-theatre fun and a sly critique of the Bush administration, the new original musical Bonnie...
Sunday 9/28 @ Various DUMBO locations
For the twelfth year in a row, the galleries and artists of DUMBO open their doors for a three-day festival that...
