Events on Saturday, February 14
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- Valentine's Day
- An Evening of Sensual Machine Music
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- The name sounds slightly like the title of a robot porn DVD, but tonight's event is actually an extremely classy option... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Harlem Shakes
- @ Southpaw
- While it's hard to predict the next New York buzz band, it would be a smart bet to place your money... View details »
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- Valentine's Day
- Personal Media Mixer & Confessional Culture Variety Show
- @ Housing Works Bookstore
- Amplify your own love — or forget your unrequited longing — by spending this frivolous holiday wrapped up in the V-day... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Enter Laughing
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Corrector in the High Castle
- @ Various locations
- Justin Lieberman's concurrent exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary and Zach Feuer Gallery, The Corrector in the High Castle, is based on... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
- @ Cort Theatre
- Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Ruined
- @ 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... View details »
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- Revolutionary Road
- @ Various locations
- Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- The Wrestler
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- @ Wollman Rink
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fresh Kills
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Working Man's Clothes' gritty production of Fresh Kills is reminiscent of top-notch TV drama, but with a lot more emotional honesty.... View details »
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- Alexander Melamid
- @ Forum Gallery
- Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Festival
- The 1939 Project
- @ Symphony Space
- A global financial crisis, war and terrorism, a major building project in Flushing: not this new year, but 1939. Reflecting simultaneous... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- Film
- I Am Cuba
- @ IFC Center
- Agitprop often tends to be like the tasteless sale of timeshares — it feels like they're tossing in everything and the... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- House Wine, House Music
- @ V&A
- Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Chuck.Chuck.Chuck.
- @ The Collapsable Hole
- Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. is a jolting introduction to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Immediate Medium takes full advantage of the... View details »
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- The Garden at 4 AM
- @ Gana Art Gallery
- The erotic monstrosities of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights meets Giacometti's minimalist haunted-house sculpture, The Palace at 4 a.m.,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speed-the-Plow
- @ 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... View details »
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- Alex Brown
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Freshwater
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple,... View details »
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- Pal Joey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Uncle Vanya
- @ Classic Stage Company
- If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- @ Linda Gross Theater
- Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... View details »
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- Tehching Hsieh
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dollhouse
- @ St. Ann's Warehouse
- Mabou Mines' OBIE award-winning adaptation of A Doll's House goes well beyond Ibsen's material in deconstructing social conventions and the intricacies... View details »
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- Ofri Cnaani
- @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Israel-born artist Ofri Cnaani now resides in NYC, which serves as the urban backdrop for her noir, graffiti-inspired drawings. In contrast... View details »
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- Film
- The Secret of the Grain
- @ IFC Center
- That The Secret of the Grain scored big at the French box office attests not only to the (typically) impeccable taste... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Broken Glass
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kaspar Hauser
- @ The Flea Theater
- Kaspar Hauser (Preston Martin) is one little boy who should have stayed lost. The real-life 19th-century Nuremberg foundling is the spirited... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Stephanie Lempert: GeoBiographies
- @ Claire Oliver
- As dense with words as the asteroid belt is with space detritus, Stephanie Lempert's photographs are framed in quotation marks. In... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Terre Haute
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Terre Haute imagines conversations between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and author Gore Vidal with unsentimental compassion. McVeigh contacted Vidal after... View details »
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- NYC Restaurant Week
- @ Various locations
- Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on... View details »
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- Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ 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... View details »
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- Stephen Sprouse
- @ Deitch Projects
- Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Make Love, Not War
- @ Black Betty
- During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Funeralogues
- @ Unitarian Church of All Souls
- The Funeralogues turns a comical light on the darkest moment of the human experience. This site-specific (set in the Church of... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Calder Jewelry
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Hedda Gabler
- @ American Airlines Theater
- Hedda Gabler Tesman is neither subtle nor delicate, which is why Christopher Shin's adaptation and Ian Rickson's production of Ibsen's classic... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- Marlene Dumas
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tracy Morgan
- @ Carolines
- Longtime standup comedian Tracy Morgan brings his stream-of-consciousness jokes to Carolines for a slew of shows over four days. After seven... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Distracted
- @ Laura Pels Theatre
- In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the... View details »
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- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Maya Hayuk
- @ Cinders
- Known for her kaleidoscopic highlighter-bright designs, but also for venturing through organic patterns and naturalistic wood-panel drawings, Maya Hayuk is a... View details »
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- @ Various locations
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born... View details »
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- Mr.
- @ 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,... View details »
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- This Beautiful City
- @ Vineyard Theatre
- Downtown docu-musical-theatre collective the Civilians created This Beautiful City from interviews they conducted in Colorado Springs, the conservative evangelical capital of... View details »
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- Fred Sandback
- @ David Zwirner
- Fred Sandback's famed wire and colored yarn "sculptures" are as precise and chaste as priests preparing for mass. With their vertical,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Savannah Disputation
- @ Playwrights Horizons
- Crazy is relative in Evan Smith's very funny new play about a born-again evangelical door-to-door missionary, played with farcical exuberance by... View details »
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- Becky Shaw
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
- @ International Center of Photography
- The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures... View details »
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- Hair
- @ The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
- Although Hair was written over 40 years ago, capturing the spirit of a certain movement and period in our history, its... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Nayland Blake
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Gomorrah
- @ IFC Center
- No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... View details »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- @ Brooklyn Indie Market
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ 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... View details »
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- Pierre Bonnard
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Like many early 20th-century painters, Pierre Bonnard retreated to the hinterland for his twilight years. But rather than twiddling his artistic... View details »
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- Keith Haring
- @ Deitch Studios
- Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ 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... View details »
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- Lutz Bacher: MY SECRET LIFE
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher's first museum survey exhibition, which spans several decades... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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