All events on Tuesday September 09
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- Sarah Manguso
- Tuesday Sep 9 (7pm) @ BookCourt
- Free
- As a Harvard junior, Sarah Manguso's life changed drastically when she contracted a rare form of the auotimmune condition Guillain-Barré syndrome. Since the disease went... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Mitch Across America
- Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ Comix
- Giveaway
- Mitch Hedberg wasn't just a comic's comic — he was a stoner comic's comic, and a damned fine one at that. When he died of... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Ólöf Arnalds & Skúli Sverrisson
- Tuesday Sep 9 (7:30–9:30pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Oh, Iceland, you've done so much for us. Tonight, Iceland natives Skúli Sverrisson and Ólöf Arnalds premiere their respective albums at Poisson Rouge, with crackerjack... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- NoteNdo
- Tuesday Sep 9 (8:30pm) @ Monkey Town
- Giveaway
- Remember trying to fix dirty Nintendo cartridges as a kid? You'd desperately blow into them, hoping to clear out the dust and see Super Mario... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- Tuesday Sep 9 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Tuesday Sep 9 (10pm) @ APT More times »
- Giveaway
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance to those still "looking... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
- Art
- Louise Bourgeois
- Tuesday Sep 9 (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 »
- Art
- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- Tuesday Sep 9 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ American Folk Art Museum More times »
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and compiler of a 15,000-page... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- Tuesday Sep 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
- Film
- Mister Foe
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- Tuesday Sep 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective of J.M.W.... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily, the Comic Book Club... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Invasion 68: Prague
- Tuesday Sep 9 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- Celebrate México Now
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Film
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- [title of show]
- Tuesday Sep 9 (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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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: Acrobatics
- New York Clown Theatre Festival
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ The Brick Theater More times »
- The Brick Theater Inc.'s third annual New York Clown Theatre Festival descends upon Williamsburg this September, proving that there's more to modern-day clowning than red... View details »
- Art
- Tickle the Shitstem
- Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a Diminishing Deep Down Thirst,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- The Citizens Band
- Tuesday Sep 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Glass Cage
- Tuesday Sep 9 (7pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
- The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
- Film
- The Pool
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- Art
- Derek Buckner
- Tuesday Sep 9 (10am–6pm) @ George Billis Gallery More times »
- Free
- In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings of giant piles of... View details »
- Film
- A Secret
- Tuesday Sep 9 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- Tuesday Sep 9 (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
- Free
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- Tuesday Sep 9 (7:30pm) @ Spiegelworld More times »
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a shopping mall, Spiegelworld's old... View details »
