Events on Monday, September 8

The Pull-Out Method presents Arms w/ Speck Mountain

Music

Arms

Monday 9/ 8 @ Union Hall

While Flavorpill copyeditor Todd Goldstein takes the traditional rock route with the Harlem Shakes, his Arms project displays a more twisted... 

Sons and Daughters w/ Benjy Ferree

Music

Sons and Daughters

Monday 9/ 8 @ Highline Ballroom

Sons and Daughters are the offspring of Arab Strap, the gloomy Scottish band that successfully married pub-life pessimism to sharp indie-rock... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Louise Bourgeois</em>

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 9/ 8 @ Guggenheim Museum

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

<em>American Teen</em>

Film: Documentary

American Teen

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 9/ 8 @ Paragraph

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

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

Film: Documentary

The Order of Myths

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Film

I Served the King of England

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

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

Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone: <em>We Burn, We Shiver</em>

Art

We Burn, We Shiver

Monday 9/ 8 @ SculptureCenter

In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative,... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

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

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

City Gems

Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>The Wackness </em>

Film

The Wackness

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

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

<em>Sixty Six</em>

Film

Sixty Six

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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,... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 9/ 8 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Monday 9/ 8 @ IFC Center

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

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

Art

Home Delivery

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Shoot the Piano Player </em>(1960)

Film

Shoot the Piano Player

Monday 9/ 8 @ Film Forum

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

<em>A Secret</em>

Film

A Secret

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Brideshead Revisited</em>

Film

Brideshead Revisited

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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.... 

The Citizens Band: <em>The Panic Is On</em>

Performing Arts

The Citizens Band

Monday 9/ 8 @ Spiegelworld

If ever there was an act born for the decadent decor of South Street Seaport's Spiegelworld, it's the Citizens Band. The... 

<em>Fela!</em>

Theatre

Fela!

Monday 9/ 8 @ 37 Arts

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

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

Art

Arctic Hysteria

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Circus Amok

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Mister Foe</em>

Film

Mister Foe

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Baghead</em>

Film

Baghead

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

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Theatre

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Monday 9/ 8 @ Lyceum Theatre

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

<em>Hamlet 2</em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Dalí: Painting and Film

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Celebrate M&eacute;xico Now 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Celebrate México Now

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth... 

<em>The Pool</em>

Film

The Pool

Monday 9/ 8 @ Film Forum

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

<em>Year of the Fish</em>

Film

Year of the Fish

Monday 9/ 8 @ Angelika Film Center

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

<em>Artist as Publisher</em>

Art

Artist as Publisher

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Monday 9/ 8 @ 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... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 9/ 8 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

<em>Traitor</em>

Film

Traitor

Monday 9/ 8 @ Various locations

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