Events on Sunday, January 11
Sunday 1/11 @ Webster Hall
Go ahead and leave the passport at home tonight — for the sixth year, globalFEST brings the world to NYC. Bands...
Sunday 1/11 @ Monkey Town
Thu Tran's Food Party is kind of like if Of Montreal and Dan Deacon got together to create a cooking show....
Sunday 1/11 @ Gramercy Theatre
Detroit-raised and Motown-hazed soul singer Bettye LaVette didn't get much notice until her 2005 "comeback" album, I've Got My Own Hell...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/11 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Joyce Soho
Former Batsheva Ensemble dancer Andrea Miller comes to Joyce Soho tonight, hot off being named one of "25 to Watch" in...
Sunday 1/11 @ Deitch Studios
Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace...
Sunday 1/11 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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....
Sunday 1/11 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Sunday 1/11 @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from...
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ IFC Center
That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 1/11 @ Film Forum
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Sunday 1/11 @ IFC Center
In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Various locations
In his fifth year of producing the Under the Radar Festival, downtown legend — and former artistic director of avant-performance space...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Duo Theater
It took ten years and some creative thinking for the Greeks to defeat Troy. The six multitasking dancers of Company XIV...
Sunday 1/11 @ Quad Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sunday 1/11 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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....
Sunday 1/11 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/11 @ Cinders Gallery
The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Sunday 1/11 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 1/11 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Sunday 1/11 @ P.S. 122
On the heels of a much-lauded New York debut last year (who knew Greek tragedy was such good fun?), Ireland's Pan Pan...
Sunday 1/11 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
