Events on Saturday, September 6
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
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....
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday 9/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
