Events on Saturday, August 21
Finger on the Pulse BBQ Blowout
Saturday 8/21 @ Good Company
The music-nerd gourmands of Finger on the Pulse close out the summer with a bang at Good Company. Tonight, they invite...
Saturday 8/21 @ MeanRed
Dream-pop's for dinner tonight on the Gowanus, thanks to Asobi Seksu. But if you want to sink your teeth into something...
HARD Summer Tour NYC: Crystal Castles w/ Sinden, Destructo, and JDH & Dave P
Saturday 8/21 @ Terminal 5
Canadian electronic punk duo, Crystal Castles' US summer tour was supposed to coincide with the release of their self-titled sophomore album....
Saturday 8/21 @ Symphony Space
Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its...
Saturday 8/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
There is something to get excited about in south-central Texas. In fact the buzz surrounding San Antonio's Hacienda may signal a...
Gasoline Silver, Jonathan Kane's February and Dave Soldier with Sean Hagerty
Saturday 8/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Gasoline Silver is a three-piece combo from Minnesota with a debut LP, 11 tracks of subterranean wordplay scored with electro-psych panoramas...
Saturday 8/21 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The actress-turned-singer performs sans her band (The Licks) in her debut solo effort.
Ute Lemper: The Bukowski Project
Saturday 8/21 @ Joe's Pub
A journey through the poetry of Charles Bukowski from the books: THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS, WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW...
Bettina Koster and Adele Bertei
Saturday 8/21 @ Joe's Pub
Adele Bertei returns to New York City to sing what she sings best: vintage, funkified soul. Backing her up is a...
Le Bingo at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 8/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
After several years of hosting wildly successful Bingo nights at various venues in the East...
Josef von Sternberg Double Feature: Dishonored and Shanghai Express
Saturday 8/21 @ 92YTribeca
Two films for the price of one! Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the...
The English Beat at Webster Hall with Bad Manners and Chris Murray
Saturday 8/21 @ The Bowery Presents
Dave Wakeling loves to tell the stories behind his songs, either from stage or after the show. Ask any one of the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/21 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Saturday 8/21 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Abraham Lincoln was gay, George Washington owned slaves, and Thomas Jefferson slept with one — the secret history of our founding...
Saturday 8/21 @ Park Avenue
A great reason for an early start on August Saturdays: the Department of Transportation's Summer Streets, which runs the 7th, 14th,...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ The New School for Drama and Theatre
The Glass Bandits are a theatre group based in Brooklyn who create work that is complex, decontructed, and altogether powerful. We...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
Is our government lying to us? In Amir Bar-Lev's documentary The Tillman Story, the Tillman family is unfortunately faced with this...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ The Triad Theater
Yes, it has come to this: hopeful New York singles can now put their romantic destiny in the hands of a...
Kingsboro Press Presents: Nirvana Live at Reading
Saturday 8/21 @ West Street Gallery
We're B'ing our own B to this exhibit opening. And Nirvana fans should note that we're also coming for the...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 8/21 @ Players Theatre
Part of the Fringe Festival, Tom Jacobson's new play, The Twentieth-Century Way, is an exploration of a 1914 sting operation by...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
Animal Kingdom may come from Down Under, but it's certainly no Crocodile Dundee. David Michôd's debut feature is a taut, well-paced...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Saturday 8/21 @ Village East Cinema
Former Princess of Persia, Gemma Arterton, comes down off her throne for first-time director J Blakeson's thriller The Disappearance of Alice...
Saturday 8/21 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 8/21 @ Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
Questioning the notion of beauty, German photographer Martin Schoeller takes pictures of female bodybuilders, whose feminine heads seem grafted to muscular...
Saturday 8/21 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The MoMA's film collection may not be as old as the Declaration of Independence but it does embody similar principles. Perhaps...
Saturday 8/21 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
As in his "Ethicist" column, Randy Cohen's The Punishing Blow confronts the unanswerable in a thoughtful, entertaining way. Laurie (director/star Seth...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 8/21 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 8/21 @ American Folk Art Museum
Henry Darger is famous for being an outsider artist par excellence, but, with each passing year, the custodian's life in the...
Saturday 8/21 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/21 @ Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
The Spiegeltent at Bard's annual SummerScape boasts an interior design that would make any Upper East Side apartment-dweller swoon with jealousy:...
Saturday 8/21 @ The Flea Theater
Anna Fishbeyn begins her one-woman show with a smile that never fades, even when describing chaos. Her lively monologue (with an...
Saturday 8/21 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Saturday 8/21 @ IFC Center
If you're familiar with award-winning German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin's more serious offerings, Soul Kitchen serves as a nice palette cleanser. An...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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...
Saturday 8/21 @ Red Hook Ball Fields
Foodies, rejoice! The dozen-plus vendors lining the Red Hook soccer fields are open for business! They're selling all manner of authentic...
Saturday 8/21 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 8/21 @ The Green Room at 45 Bleecker Street
Watching two adult naked men contort their private parts into such amazing "installations" as "The Slowly-Emerging Crustacean," "The Sombrero" and "The...
Saturday 8/21 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
We first saw PigPen at Carnegie Mellon's Playground festival last spring, and were pretty blown away by the troupe's ability to...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition presents 70 extraordinary works by masters of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the outstanding collections of...
Saturday 8/21 @ Symphony Space
A disciple of Keaton and Chaplin and a precursor to Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati created his own, gently bumbling character. In...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
ZooFari Passport Adventure: Celebrating Asia, presented by Asia Society at The Bronx Zoo
Saturday 8/21 @ Asia Society and Museum
All Events Take Place at the Bronx Zoo Traditional Dance from India and China Chinese Theater Works will present traditional...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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....
Emotional Sloppy Manic Cinema: Films Directed and Selected by Benny and Josh Safdie
Saturday 8/21 @ BAM
The directors of two films to screen at Cannes and co-founders of the production company Red Bucket Films, Josh and Benny...
Saturday 8/21 @ Symphony Space
Poorly received when it first came out, it is now hailed as a masterpiece. One of five "lost" Hitchcock films that...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 8/21 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 8/21 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
Saturday 8/21 @ New Museum
In conjunction with the exhibition "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other," the New Museum presents Constructing Views, a series of...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 8/21 @ Performance Space 122
Is your house getting cluttered with messy gadgets and wires? Wash 'em out with Performance Space 122's first annual gadget wash....
Saturday 8/21 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, talks with curator Seán Hemingway about what inspired him...
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Final Performance: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Saturday 8/21 @ Lincoln Center
The summer ends with an all-Mozart program spotlighting pianist Stephen Hough, a Mozartian of “grace, wit, and style” (Chicago Tribune), as...
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Buried near his tomb in around 1327 B.C., remains from the mummification and funeral of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 8/21 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 8/21 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Episodes from the great Indian epic the Ramayana are among the themes most favored for Indian miniature painting. This classic of...
