Events on Monday, March 9

James T. and Karla L. Murray: <em>Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York</em>

Books: Reading

Storefront: The Disappearing Face of New York

Monday 3/ 9 @ McNally Jackson Booksellers

Back in September, James and Karla Murray mounted a show at the Brooklyn Historical Society of their photographs of mom-and-pop storefronts... 

Radio City Speaker Series feat. Bill Maher and Ann Coulter

Special Event

Bill Maher and Ann Coulter

Monday 3/ 9 @ Radio City Music Hall

After a successful inaugural run last year, which brought renowned guests including Bill Clinton, Tim Russert, and Arianna Huffington to the... 

Entertaining the Bartender

Comedy

Entertaining the Bartender

Monday 3/ 9 @ Public Assembly

There are worse things to do on a Monday night than laugh for free and have a few beers. Jena Friedman... 

Ongoing Events

<em>ROOMS a Rock Romance</em>

Theatre

ROOMS a Rock Romance

Monday 3/ 9 @ New World Stages

ROOMS a Rock Romance may well be the musical for this new economic era. Spare and briskly paced, Rooms has a... 

<em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</em>

Film

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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... 

Art

Jonathan Horowitz

Monday 3/ 9 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video... 

<em>Billy Elliot</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Billy Elliot

Monday 3/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre

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

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

Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Monday 3/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

Monday Night Bingo

Special Event

Monday Night Bingo

Monday 3/ 9 @ The Bowery Poetry Club

Monday Night Bingo at Bowery Poetry Club is the furthest thing from your local church's senior night — in other words,... 

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

Art

Tehching Hsieh

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Film

Let the Right One In

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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... 

Food/Wine

NYC Restaurant Week

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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>Enter Laughing</em>

Theatre

Enter Laughing

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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... 

Paragraph

City Gems

Paragraph

Monday 3/ 9 @ Paragraph

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

Ofri Cnaani: <em>A Tale of Ends</em>

Art

Ofri Cnaani

Monday 3/ 9 @ (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... 

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

City Gems

Ice Skating in Prospect Park

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Monday 3/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

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

Festival: Performing Arts

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

Monday 3/ 9 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

An annual holiday from the local cineplex and its wholesale American fare, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema arrives touting the recent best... 

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words

Comedy

Celebrity Autobiography

Monday 3/ 9 @ The Triad Theater

Actor and veteran award-show writer Eugene Pack assembles a talented cast to read excerpts from B-list celebrities' autobiographies, with well-chosen passages... 

<em>Kenneth Anger</em>

Film

Kenneth Anger

Monday 3/ 9 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts... 

<em>Rachel Getting Married</em>

Film

Rachel Getting Married

Monday 3/ 9 @ Various locations

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

<em>Becky Shaw </em>

Theatre

Becky Shaw

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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.... 

Darryl Hall & John Oates

Music

Hall & Oates

Monday 3/ 9 @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza

We can only hope this evening with Hall & Oates is as magical as the one portrayed in their video for... 

Film

Everlasting Moments

Monday 3/ 9 @ Landmark Sunshine

Director Jan Troell hails from a different, more staid era of Swedish filmmaking, a time before vampires chewed up that country's... 

Soho Think Tank presents <em>Red-Haired Thomas</em>

Theatre

Red-Haired Thomas

Monday 3/ 9 @ Ohio Theatre

The central character of Robert Lyons' Red-Haired Thomas is a snarky Thomas Jefferson (Alan Benditt). The lively patriot tells the tale... 

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

Art

Quilts of the 1930s

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Monday 3/ 9 @ IFC Center

No less than Marty Scorsese helped distribute this grim intersection of five interlocking storylines about the Camorra, the Italian mafia arm... 

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Art

Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge

Monday 3/ 9 @ 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...