Events on Saturday, September 6

East Village Radio Festival feat. Boris w/ Awesome Color, Mark Ronson, High Places, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Flying Lotus, Devin the Dude, and KRS-One

Festival: Performing Arts

East Village Radio Festival

Saturday 9/ 6 @ South Street Seaport

East Village Radio takes a break from the broadcasting booth to celebrate five years of freeform streams. The fest's eclectic lineup... 

Brooklyn Cyclones Season Closer

Sports

Brooklyn Cyclones Season Closer

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Keyspan Park

While the Yanks and Mets keep going 'til the end of the month, the Brooklyn Cyclones are already closing up shop.... 

Monster Island Arts & Music Block Party feat. Oneida, Ex Models, and Golden Triangle

Festival: Performing Arts

Monster Island Block Party

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Monster Island

Near the water in South Williamsburg, there's some cockamamie thing called a not-for-profit (wtf?) that hasn't cashed out to the developers... 

Art Parade 2008

Festival: Parade

Art Parade

Saturday 9/ 6 @ West Broadway

In conjunction with PAPER magazine and Creative Time, Deitch Projects presents its fourth annual Art Parade, once again turning West Broadway... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Circus Amok presents <em>Sub-Prime Sublime</em>

Special Event

Circus Amok

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

The Science Barge

Special Event

The Science Barge

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

New York Clown Theatre Festival

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Black Betty

During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... 

Sol LeWitt at Storm King

Getaways

Sol LeWitt

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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,... 

<em>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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.... 

Theatre

Lady

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Invasion 68: Prague</em>

Art: Photography

Invasion 68: Prague

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Aperture Gallery

For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 37 Arts

Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... 

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Theatre

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Saturday 9/ 6 @ Lyceum Theatre

This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Boeing Boeing </em>

Theatre

Boeing Boeing

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Longacre Theatre

It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... 

<em>The Pool</em>

Film

The Pool

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Film Forum

A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows... 

Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller Rink

City Gems

Dreamland Roller Rink

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Dreamland Roller Rink

Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... 

<em>Absinthe</em>

Performing Arts

Absinthe

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Spiegelworld

This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... 

<em>Dal&iacute;: Painting and Film</em>

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>A Number</em>

Theatre

A Number

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Housing Works Fall Preview Sales

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Housing Works Fall Preview Sales

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

J.M.W. Turner

Art

J.M.W. Turner

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Shoot the Piano Player </em>(1960)

Film

Shoot the Piano Player

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Film Forum

In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen... 

Mel Kadel and Suzanne Sattler: <em>Swirl of Swarm</em>

Art

Swirl of Swarm

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... 

<em>Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland</em>

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... 

Shakespeare in the Park presents <em>Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical</em>

Theatre

Hair

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Delacorte Theater

As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up </em>

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... 

<em>Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan </em>

Art: Photography

Recent Photography and Video from Japan

Saturday 9/ 6 @ International Center of Photography

Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist... 

<i>August: Osage County</i>

Theatre

August: Osage County

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre

Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as... 

Olafur Eliasson: <em>The New York City Waterfalls</em>

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Artists and Fleas

The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... 

<em>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Darger</em>ism<em>: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger</em>

Art

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>The Order of Myths </em>(2008)

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Sa Ka La </em>

Theatre

Sa Ka La

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

Phoebe Washburn: <em>Tickle the Shitstem</em>

Art

Tickle the Shitstem

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy... 

<em>The Glass Cage</em>

Theatre

The Glass Cage

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Jeff Koons on the Roof</em>

Art

Jeff Koons on the Roof

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Various locations

Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... 

<em>Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance </em>

Art

Maximum Perception

Saturday 9/ 6 @ English Kills

In addition to showcasing photos and videos of Brooklyn-spawned happenings, English Kills hosts performances for the duration of Maximum Perception. Tonight,... 

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>After Nature</em>

Art

After Nature

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Angelika Film Center

Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron.... 

Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler

Comedy

Kristen Schaal

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Comix

Kristen Schaal steps out from the shadow of Flight of the Conchords and The Daily Show and hits the stage with... 

<em>Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling</em>

Art

Home Delivery

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Saturday 9/ 6 @ 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,... 

<em>A Great Place to be From</em>

Theatre

A Great Place to be From

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Kraine Theater

In A Great Place To Be From, a heatwave in Milwaukee has driven some of the town's citizens to extremes. Against... 

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Saturday 9/ 6 @ Guggenheim Museum

After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Saturday 9/ 6 @ IFC Center

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts...