Events on Saturday, January 10

Winter Hike and Snow Tubing

Sports

Winter Hike and Snow Tubing

Saturday 1/10 @ Sterling Forest

Our winter months are glacial in every sense of the word: they are four-letter-word-shouting cold and pass unbearably slowly. But rather... 

Music

2009 Winter Jazzfest

Saturday 1/10 @ Various locations

Jazzbos frustrated with short sets and expensive drinks can take solace in the Winter Jazzfest. Musicians from New York, New Orleans,... 

John Doe and Exene of X

Music

John Doe

Saturday 1/10 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

On his latest solo effort, A Year in the Wilderness, singer/bass guitarist John Doe infuses a set of alt-country tunes with... 

Improv Everywhere presents No Pants 2009

Special Event

No Pants 2009

Saturday 1/10 @ Foley Square

We wish the pranksters at Improv Everywhere held the annual (this is number eight!) No Pants subway ride in a month... 

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Music

Lyrics & Lyricists™—Babalu: The American Songbook Goes Latin

Saturday 1/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)

Lucie Arnaz, artistic director, host & vocals

South-of-the-border rhythms captivated songwriters from... 

Ongoing Events

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Performing Arts: Opera

The Met: Live in HD

Saturday 1/10 @ BAM

Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live... 

Ray Mortenson: <em>Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx</em>

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Saturday 1/10 @ Museum of the City of New York

The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Saturday 1/10 @ 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... 

Camper Van Beethoven w/ Victor Krummenacher

Music

Camper Van Beethoven

Saturday 1/10 @ The Bowery Ballroom

Of all the conceptual pranks Camper Van Beethoven have pulled off over their 25 years, nothing tops the band's inexplicable fling... 

Stephen Sprouse: <em>Rock on Mars</em>

Art

Stephen Sprouse

Saturday 1/10 @ Deitch Projects

Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Saturday 1/10 @ Various locations

The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... 

<em>Eight</em>

Theatre

Eight

Saturday 1/10 @ P.S. 122

Eight swept the major awards at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival — including the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, which... 

<em>Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now</em>

Art

Street Art, Street Life

Saturday 1/10 @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... 

<em>Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s</em>

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Saturday 1/10 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch

For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... 

Keith Haring: <em>The Ten Commandments</em>

Art

Keith Haring

Saturday 1/10 @ Deitch Studios

Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Saturday 1/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Working from photographic source material — both found media imagery and personal snapshots — Marlene Dumas has constructed an impressive body... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Saturday 1/10 @ Various locations

Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Saturday 1/10 @ 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... 

Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits

Art

Recent Soundsuits

Saturday 1/10 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... 

Gallim Dance

Dance

Gallim Dance

Saturday 1/10 @ Joyce Soho

Former Batsheva Ensemble dancer Andrea Miller comes to Joyce Soho tonight, hot off being named one of "25 to Watch" in... 

Staten Island War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

City Gems

War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Saturday 1/10 @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink

Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Saturday 1/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... 

Aziz Ansari: The Glow in the Dark Tour

Comedy

Aziz Ansari

Saturday 1/10 @ Comix

He may not have the swagger of Kanye, but comedian Aziz Ansari definitely one-ups the rapper on rollerblading skills. Mounting his... 

Artists and Fleas

City Gems

Artists and Fleas

Saturday 1/10 @ Artists and Fleas

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

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Saturday 1/10 @ Angelika Film Center

English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... 

Company XIV presents <em>The Judgment of Paris</em>

Dance

The Judgment of Paris

Saturday 1/10 @ Duo Theater

It took ten years and some creative thinking for the Greeks to defeat Troy. The six multitasking dancers of Company XIV... 

Gilbert & George

Art

Gilbert & George

Saturday 1/10 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art

The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Saturday 1/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Streamers</em>

Theatre

Streamers

Saturday 1/10 @ Laura Pels Theatre

Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... 

Oliver Sudden & Michael Portnoy: <em>The Dudion Levers</em>

Art

The Dudion Levers

Saturday 1/10 @ Martos Gallery

At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... 

<em>The Secret of the Grain</em>

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Saturday 1/10 @ IFC Center

That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... 

Closed Caption Comics: <em>Adolescent Rage</em>

Art

Closed Caption Comics

Saturday 1/10 @ Cinders Gallery

The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Saturday 1/10 @ Lehmann Maupin

In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Saturday 1/10 @ Paragraph

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

Party

Make Love, Not War

Saturday 1/10 @ Black Betty

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

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Saturday 1/10 @ Location One

Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Saturday 1/10 @ Imperial Theatre

The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... 

Cedar Lake Winter Season

Dance

Cedar Lake Winter Season

Saturday 1/10 @ Cedar Lake Theater

Cedar Lake's Winter Season features two world premieres from established European choreographers Didy Veldman and Luca Veggetti. In Veldman's frame of... 

<em>NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith</em>

Art

NeoHooDoo

Saturday 1/10 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... 

<em>A Christmas Tale</em>

Film

A Christmas Tale

Saturday 1/10 @ IFC Center

In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... 

Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund presents Docs on the Shortlist

Film: Documentary

Docs on the Shortlist

Saturday 1/10 @ Tribeca Cinemas

Before nominees become lapidary, Tribeca slates a two-day program off the Academy's shortlist for Best Feature Documentary. The honorary roll call:... 

Pipilotti Rist: <em>Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)</em>

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Saturday 1/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... 

<em>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Saturday 1/10 @ New York City Center

Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... 

Parsons Dance

Dance

Parsons Dance

Saturday 1/10 @ The Joyce Theater

David Parsons starts off 2009 with his first full-length piece, a yet-unnamed collaboration with the Grammy-nominated East Village Opera Company. Vocalists... 

Art

Fred Sandback

Saturday 1/10 @ David Zwirner

Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,... 

Under the Radar Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Under the Radar Festival

Saturday 1/10 @ Various locations

In his fifth year of producing the Under the Radar Festival, downtown legend — and former artistic director of avant-performance space... 

<em>Wendy and Lucy</em>

Film

Wendy and Lucy

Saturday 1/10 @ Film Forum

Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Saturday 1/10 @ Wollman Rink

While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... 

<em>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Saturday 1/10 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker

Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... 

<em>The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality</em>

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Saturday 1/10 @ Exit Art

Exit Art has invited 50 artists to help lead New Yorkers through these jumbled times, with the aid of its Labyrinth... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Saturday 1/10 @ Quad Cinema

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Invitational

Sports

PBR Invitational

Saturday 1/10 @ Madison Square Garden

New York City might be better known for a certain indiscreet cowboy. But this weekend, MSG hosts a slew of fully-chapped... 

<em>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Saturday 1/10 @ Museum of Arts and Design

To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... 

<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Saturday 1/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... 

<em>Speed-the-Plow</em>

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Saturday 1/10 @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... 

<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Saturday 1/10 @ Various locations

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Saturday 1/10 @ 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... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Saturday 1/10 @ Gladstone Gallery

In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Saturday 1/10 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play.... 

Kate Gilmore

Art

Kate Gilmore

Saturday 1/10 @ Smith-Stewart

Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup.... 

<em>The Twentyfirst</em>

Art

The Twentyfirst

Saturday 1/10 @ Silver Shed

Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... 

Theatre

Ecstasy

Saturday 1/10 @ The Red Room

In an effective and almost uncomfortably naturalistic style, Horse Trade's revival of Ecstasy depicts an evening of drunken revelry and reminiscing... 

Elizabeth Peyton: <em>Live Forever</em>

Art

Elizabeth Peyton

Saturday 1/10 @ New Museum of Contemporary Art

Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... 

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Saturday 1/10 @ Angelika Film Center

This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... 

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Saturday 1/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008</em>

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Saturday 1/10 @ Whitney Museum of American Art

Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Saturday 1/10 @ Linda Gross Theater

Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Saturday 1/10 @ Studio 54

Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... 

Peter Callesen: <em>Folded Thoughts</em>

Art

Peter Callesen

Saturday 1/10 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... 

<em>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Saturday 1/10 @ Landmark Sunshine

There's a lot of Oscar buzz building over Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler, but does Darren Aronofsky's movie live up... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Saturday 1/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...