Events on Saturday, October 2
NY Release Party: Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Bruar Falls
With the recent resurgence of interest in Riot Grrrl, author Sara Marcus is right on the ball with the publication of...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Prospect Park Nethermead
If you bought a beautiful didgeridoo on your trip to Australia but have since let it gather altogether too much dust,...
Hackers 15th Anniversary Party
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Secret Brooklyn location
Calling all Internet nerds! Relive the halcyon days of the '90s at tonight's Hackers party. You remember: the bubble hadn't burst,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Webster Hall
Cut&Paste is back, and designers are breaking out their Wacom tablets in anticipation. Tonight, finalists in the 2-D, 3-D, and Motion...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden does it again, taking horticulture where it hasn't quite been before. On the mainstage, Grammy-nominated Boukman Eksperyans...
The Midnight Hour w/ Shelley Nicole's Blakbushe and Corey Glover
Saturday 10/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Ubiquita Worldwide debuts a new late night live music series, an homage to the classic 70's- early 80's tv show 'Burt...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Joe's Pub
On October 2nd all-female chamber-rock quintet Victoire comes to Joe's Pub to celebrate the release of their debut album Cathedral City...
Radio Happy Hour w/Born Ruffians @ (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 10/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Radio Happy Hour w/ Born Ruffians Advance $10 | Day of Show $12 All Ages Doors Open 12:30 | Show Time...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Enter: Born Ruffians - Luke Lalonde, Mitch DeRosier and Steve Hamelin. The next link in the evolutionary chain of contemporary pop...
The xx w/ Warpaint / Zola Jesus @ United Palace
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Bowery Presents
The xx arrive with their brilliant debut single ‘Crystalised’ – released on 20th April 2009 on Young Turks. The xx are...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Symphony Space
A raucous morning of sidesplitting musical sketch comedy comprised entirely of stories written by kids! The award winning show has been...
Soulive featuring Christian Scott & The Shady Horns
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Terminal 5
Also Performing: Lettuce ft. John Scofield / Questlove (DJ Set) / Nigel Hall and more Following last year’s Up Here, Rubber...
Radio Happy Hour w/Born Ruffians
Saturday 10/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Radio Happy Hour is a live variety show featuring an old-time radio comedy/drama and your favorite guest stars from the worlds...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Bowery Presents
The xx arrive with their brilliant debut single ‘Crystalised’ – released on 20th April 2009 on Young Turks. The xx are...
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 10/ 2 @ 92YTribeca
What Is The Iron Mule? "The Iron Mule" is a 1925 slapstick comedy by the great silent comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle,...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Born Ruffians @ LPR
Saturday 10/ 2 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The music industry convention of calling a second...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Madison Square Park
Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Luhring Augustine Gallery
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Heroes of Birth, an exhibition of new work by Pipilotti Rist. This is Rist's third...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Multiple venues throughout Brooklyn
If you're curious about the artwork that's going down in Greenpoint, this is the weekend to check it out. Greenpoint Open...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various Locations Along the BQE
Designed to look like a large-scale guerilla marketing campaign, this project, which began as a critique of the appropriation of art...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ BAM Harvey Theater
We're hard-pressed to think of a better opener to BAM's annual Next Wave Festival than local legend Laurie Anderson. Whether playing...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The American Theatre of Actors
When an 18-year-old social outcast leaves the banality of her gated suburban home for the shocking world of misfits, rebels, and...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Take the Whitney lift to floor five if a) you missed the past 80-or-so years of Biennials or b) your inner...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
After an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations in Litchfield
Just a two-hour drive from the city, Litchfield, Connecticut is a great escape for stressed-out city dwellers. Home to a stellar...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Under St. Marks
We don't know if Robert J. Gibbs was bullied, but his Donnie and the Monsters, or The Sock Puppet Play is...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Saturday 10/ 2 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) was one of the most controversial literary figures of post-war Austria. He had a penchant...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations
Fincher isn't a Facebook man, nor is writer Aaron Sorkin, which is probably what makes The Social Network succeed. A tightly...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ multiple venues throughout New York City
While we know New Yorker Festival tickets generally seem to sell out before they're even on sale — how does that...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ St. James Theater
Full-throttle punk (or Green Day's poppy spin on the genre) surges through the Great White Way in American Idiot, the Broadway...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ 303 Gallery
A mid-career survey designed to support and contextualize Williams' most recent work, Al-Qaeda Is the CIA offers a rollicking, visceral good...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Studio at Theatre Row
Recently widowed, Grethe is simultaneously helping her gay son and his partner adjust to their newly adopted foster daughter and reconnecting...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Despite Lincoln Center's construction and recent staff changes at the Film Society, there's one thing that continues to run like clockwork,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
It seems like the city's been a flurry of artwork, all dealing with process. Whether we're viewing the installation of an...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Cinema Village
Journalist Ruth Gruber received a PhD at age 20, interviewed Virginia Woolf in the 1930s, witnessed Hitler's rise to power, reported...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Flea Theater
Replace the '70s references in A.R. Gurney's Office Hours and it could take place today. The questions raised in this passionate...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Discovery Times Square Exposition
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Playwright Florencia Lozano revisits her childhood home and the psychological state of her 13-year-old self, in underneathmybed. Escaping Argentina's "Dirty War"...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ New York City Center
City Center's popular two-week dance inventory has a local feel this year. Two participants have long associations with the venue: as...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Angelika Film Center
It seems an unusual and challenging choice for an adaptation, but with the help of an arsenal of award-winning documentarians (Spurlock,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Botanica Bar
We love this bar. It's our home away from home, our office away from office. You simply can't find nicer bartenders...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Dead or Alive features completely organic work. That is, all of the art was once alive, as a plant or animal....
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Actors' Temple Theatre
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ 372 Ten Eyck St
According to Superchief, this is the "biggest, baddest, most Brooklyn party" New Yorkers have seen. Beginning Saturday morning at 4am, at...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations in Baltimore
For many, Baltimore conjures up visions of the gritty city and abandoned harbor-side warehouses depicted in The Wire. But for those...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Ars Nova Theater
Sometimes, all we need out of theatre is an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl story. The good news is, Now Circa Then is just...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Various locations
If you've read Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, then you know what this film is about. If you haven't,...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Confused by those 40-armed deities? Let Gateway to Himalayan Art break it down for you. In this new introductory exhibition, you'll...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
Talk about Nothing video contest
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin Museum is asking Laurie Anderson, Ken Burns, Sandra Bernhard and Eve Ensler what 'nothing' means to them. Now they...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, photographer Leon Levinstein talks about his work and the experience of photographing in the...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
Friends, neighbors, countrymen: can they really co-exist? Three men from very different walks of life set about reopening an abandoned restaurant...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop the site-specific installation created for...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond marks the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On July 7, Ringo Starr's 70th birthday, the Met opened a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will be...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod, Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor depicting...
Avant-Garde-Arama! Our Hit Parade
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
Hosts and guest curators: Bridget Everett & Kenny Mellman; AGA coordinator: Salley May. Fasten your seatbelts for PS122's 2-night interdisciplinary festival...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Do you miss Saturday mornings filled with an endless supply of sugary cereals and quality cartoons on TV? Do you hate...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ BAM
The New York Korean Film Festival returns to BAMcinématek Oct 1-3 with a selection of the best new films from Korea,...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Asia Society and Museum
Experience the world of internationally renowned Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Through drawings, paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, this landmark exhibition links...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Performance Space 122
With its overlapping of Joseph Roth's novel, reality, and contemporary history, HOTEL SAVOY opens up a world between dream and reality...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shortly after the Met acquired two Viennese silver wine coolers in 2002 from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, the core of the surviving...
olive Dance Theatre: Swift Solos
Saturday 10/ 2 @ New York Live Arts
Presented in partnersip with the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Swift Solosspan
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition explores themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Met’s collection, Between Here and...
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Don’t miss this major international loan exhibition! The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, on view at...
Monthly 30% off Sale! All Day October 2nd and 3rd.
Saturday 10/ 2 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Enjoy 30% off all books, movies, and music all weekend.
Christian Rizzo/l'association fragile: b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Kitchen
Acclaimed French choreographer Christian Rizzo takes a surprisingly intimate turn in this solo work created for the celebrated classical and contemporary...
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 10/ 2 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You...
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