All events on Monday September 08
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- Celebrate México Now
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Hot on the sparkling heels of the West Indian Day Parade and Carnival comes another celebration of culture. In its fifth year, Celebrate México Now... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sons and Daughters
- Monday Sep 8 (9pm) @ Highline Ballroom
- Giveaway
- Sons and Daughters are the offspring of Arab Strap, the gloomy Scottish band that successfully married pub-life pessimism to sharp indie-rock hooks. The new group... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Arms
- Monday Sep 8 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall
- While Flavorpill copyeditor Todd Goldstein takes the traditional rock route with the Harlem Shakes, his Arms project displays a more twisted pop genius. At once... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Celebrity Autobiography
- Monday Sep 8 (7:30pm) @ The Triad Theater More times »
- Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages and nuanced performances eliciting... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Monday Sep 8 (10am–5:45pm) @ Guggenheim Museum More times »
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of the arts for the... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Monday Sep 8 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Monday Sep 8 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Film
- Year of the Fish
- Monday Sep 8 @ Angelika Film Center More times »
- Year of the Fish could be called an adult fairy tale — but really, it exposes the phrase as an oxymoron. Ye Xian is sent... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 story of the... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations in the East River More times »
- Free
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
- Art
- Dalí: Painting and Film
- Monday Sep 8 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Comprising more than 130 works by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, Painting and Film explores the artist's passionate relationship with cinema. For Dalí, film not only... View details »
- Art
- Arctic Hysteria
- Monday Sep 8 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- In Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland, the magical, the surreal, and the completely outlandish reign supreme. Tea Mäkipää's 60-foot collage landscape serves as the... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Monday Sep 8 @ IFC Center More times »
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
- Film
- Baghead
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie about a pair of... View details »
- Film
- Sixty Six
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old, bespectacled Bernie, who's been... View details »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
- Art
- Artist as Publisher
- Monday Sep 8 (10–6pm) @ Center for Book Arts More times »
- Free
- In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to publishing as a means... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Home Delivery
- Monday Sep 8 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Monday Sep 8 @ 37 Arts More times »
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right notes. Jones, whose acclaimed... View details »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Trouble the Water
- Monday Sep 8 @ IFC Center More times »
- Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
- Film
- Traitor
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
- Film
- Elegy
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Film
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Monday Sep 8 @ Film Forum More times »
- In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen (you guessed it) piano... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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- Monday Sep 8 (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- The Citizens Band
- Monday Sep 8 (10pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- If ever there was an act born for the decadent decor of South Street Seaport's Spiegelworld, it's the Citizens Band. The musical collective combines theatre,... View details »
- Film
- The Pool
- Monday Sep 8 @ Film Forum More times »
- A portrait of class disparities and seemingly unattainable aspirations, The Pool — the latest from Chris Smith (American Movie) — follows the story of a... View details »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Circus Amok
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various NYC parks More times »
- Free
- After nearly two decades of daring, New York's own Circus Amok still overwhelms the senses with its boisterous take on traditional three-ringers. Offbeat, political, and,... View details »
- More Flavor: Competition
- Monday Night Bingo
- Monday Sep 8 (7:30–10pm) @ The Bowery Poetry Club More times »
- Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words, instead of dentures and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sa Ka La
- Monday Sep 8 (8pm) @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street More times »
- Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been hailed as one of the world's greatest playwrights, yet few Americans had seen his work until three years ago,... View details »
- Art
- We Burn, We Shiver
- Monday Sep 8 (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
- In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
- Film
- A Secret
- Monday Sep 8 @ Various locations More times »
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
