Events on Wednesday, January 21

The s'MACdown

Food/Wine

The s'MACdown

Wednesday 1/21 @ Glasslands Gallery

Glasslands and food blogger Midge Pilkington have devised the perfect cure for the blue box blues — better mac & cheese... 

Special Event

The Huffington Post in Residence

Wednesday 1/21 @ 92nd St Y

Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post blogger army are poised to dictate national news junkies' attentions in the post-Bush landscape. Join... 

<em>LOST</em> Premiere Party feat. Previously on Lost

Party

LOST Premiere Party

Wednesday 1/21 @ The Bell House-

Is Jin still alive? Where — or when — is the island? Will Jack keep that ridiculous beard? And, most importantly,... 

Cubic Zirconia w/ Michna & Raw Paw, Waajeed, Daryl Palumbo, and LINK

Music: Electronic

Cubic Zirconia

Wednesday 1/21 @ The Studio at Webster Hall

A supergroup of sorts, Cubic Zirconia is comprised of vocalist Tiombe Lockhart (best known for her work with Platinum Pied Pipers),... 

Ongoing Events

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

Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Broken Glass

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

Nayland Blake: <em>Behavior</em>

Art

Nayland Blake

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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

Wednesday 1/21 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Art: Photography

William Eggleston

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

<em>Eight</em>

Theatre

Eight

Wednesday 1/21 @ P.S. 122

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

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

Art

The Labyrinth Wall

Wednesday 1/21 @ Exit Art

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

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Wednesday 1/21 @ Various locations

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

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

Theatre

Fuerza Bruta: Look Up

Wednesday 1/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre

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

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Art

Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection

Wednesday 1/21 @ Gagosian Gallery

Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste... 

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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.... 

Theatre

Ruined

Wednesday 1/21 @ New York City Center

Playwright Lynn Nottage uses Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children as a jumping-off point to explore the brutality of what's... 

Justin Lieberman: <em>The Corrector in the High Castle</em>

Art

The Corrector in the High Castle

Wednesday 1/21 @ Various locations

Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on... 

Erik Lindman: <em>House Wine, House Music</em>

Art

House Wine, House Music

Wednesday 1/21 @ V&A

Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Wednesday 1/21 @ Quad Cinema

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

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Wednesday 1/21 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Theatre

Uncle Vanya

Wednesday 1/21 @ Classic Stage Company

If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and... 

Stephanie Lempert: <em>GeoBiographies</em>

Art: Photography

Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies

Wednesday 1/21 @ Claire Oliver

As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In... 

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Wednesday 1/21 @ Various locations

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

Theatre

Freshwater

Wednesday 1/21 @ Women's Project

Bloomsbury novelist Virginia Woolf's one and only play, Freshwater, pokes fun at Art with a capital "A." Staged by Ann Bogart's... 

Mr.

Art

Mr.

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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

Wednesday 1/21 @ Paragraph

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

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

Art

Closed Caption Comics

Wednesday 1/21 @ Cinders Gallery

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

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary</em>

Art

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Sleepwalk With Me</em>

Comedy

Sleepwalk With Me

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Back Back Back</em>

Theatre

Back Back Back

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

<em>In the Heights</em>

Theatre

In the Heights

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Wednesday 1/21 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

<em>The Wrestler</em>

Film

The Wrestler

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

<em>Pal Joey</em>

Theatre

Pal Joey

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

<em>This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection</em>

Art: Photography

This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

Wednesday 1/21 @ International Center of Photography

The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... 

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

Art

Stephen Sprouse

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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

Wednesday 1/21 @ Various locations

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

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

Art

Pipilotti Rist

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Synecdoche, New York</em>

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush</em> feat. Will Ferrell

Comedy

You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush

Wednesday 1/21 @ Cort Theatre

Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will... 

Art

Fred Sandback

Wednesday 1/21 @ David Zwirner

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

Film

American Politics: From the Archives

Wednesday 1/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Thanks to Illinois' backroom politics, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — in which a crooked governor handpicks idealistic, straight-arrow... 

Theatre

Sixty Miles to Silver Lake

Wednesday 1/21 @ Soho Rep

Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is a fresh take on the well-worn plot line: deadbeat dad and kid reconcile.... 

Mario Merz

Art

Mario Merz

Wednesday 1/21 @ Gladstone Gallery

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

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Wednesday 1/21 @ Various locations

Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on... 

<em>South Pacific</em>

Theatre

South Pacific

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

Calder Jewelry

Art

Calder Jewelry

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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,... 

Alex Brown: <em>Fodderland</em>

Art

Alex Brown

Wednesday 1/21 @ Feature Inc.

Alex Brown's puzzle-like oil paintings are Op-Art wonders: landscapes and headshots as elaborate, pixilated mosaics in a Pantone-worshipping color palette. Brown's... 

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

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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... 

<em>Terre Haute</em>

Theatre

Terre Haute

Wednesday 1/21 @ 59E59 Theaters

Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after... 

<em>Performance 1</em>: Tehching Hsieh

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Wednesday 1/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created... 

Theatre

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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>Enter Laughing</em>

Theatre

Enter Laughing

Wednesday 1/21 @ The Theatre at Saint Peter's

Enter Laughing: The Musical is old-school musical comedy at its best. Joseph Stein, who wrote the book for Fiddler on the... 

Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits

Art

Recent Soundsuits

Wednesday 1/21 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

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

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

Film

The Secret of the Grain

Wednesday 1/21 @ IFC Center

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

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Wednesday 1/21 @ 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...