Events on Saturday, August 28
Saturday 8/28 @ Symphony Space
Part of Symphony Space's summer Blockbuster series, tonight's feature film is none other than that Tim Burton-Johnny Depp masterpiece (no, not...
Saturday 8/28 @ Coco66
Bounce music starts with as little as two beats layered with vulgar and energetic lyrics sung in the call-and-response style of...
Saturday 8/28 @ Location TBA w/ RSVP
Out come the giant speaker stacks and that notorious disco ball: this is it, one of the last Blkmarket Membership parties...
Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute presented by Michael T & Deryck Todd @ LPR
Saturday 8/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“Rock with You” - Michael Jackson Birthday Tribute presented by Michael T. and Deryck Todd w/ Herra C , Eddie Black...
Saturday 8/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Autolux are a three piece band consisting of Eugene Goreshter, Carla Azar, and Greg Edwards. Since they formed and began playing...
Saturday 8/28 @ Joe's Pub
One of the true young masters of the bandoneon, composer JP Jofre returns to Joe’s Pub after his recent sold out performance. Brimming with energy,...
WHITE OUT feat. Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth)
Saturday 8/28 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 8pm / Show 9pm $10 advance / $12 day of show All Ages Support: Carlos Giffoni and C Spencer...
Le Bingo at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 8/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
After several years of hosting wildly successful Bingo nights at various venues in the East...
Banana Bag & Bodice does Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage
Saturday 8/28 @ Joe's Pub
After a successful smash-hit run in April 2009 at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City, and multiple gigs at...
Saturday 8/28 @ The Mercury Lounge
This group of Brooklynites from Minnesota, Princeton, Chicago, St. Louis and Springfield, Ohio are indeed a quintet of fully-formed characters. Though...
Saturday 8/28 @ The Mercury Lounge
These United States are the songs of Jesse Elliott, flipped, forged, phased, and fermented; stolen, re-taken, elongated and elevated, beaten and...
Ocote Soul Sounds @ Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 8/28 @ The Bowery Presents
"Brooklyn-based Martin Perna formed Ocote Soul Sounds in 2001 to have an avenue for other sounds outside Antibalas, the afrobeat band...
Olatuja Project w/John Shannon @ (le) poisson rouge
Saturday 8/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Speak, the title of bassist Michael Olatuja’s debut album, holds deep personal meaning for its creator, exemplifying in a single word...
Saturday 8/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also performing: Cosmetics / Minks "Similar to Bradford Cox's early work as Atlas Sound or the more similarly indebted Nick Harte...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/28 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 8/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Recess
Our kind of art installation: one governed by the mysticism of tarot! It's true, Recess' newest resident artists, Dave Hardy and...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Quad Cinema
A dramatization of real-life events, this Mexican film's disturbing subject matter will make for a difficult watch. Daniel and Ana are...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ The Triad Theater
Yes, it has come to this: hopeful New York singles can now put their romantic destiny in the hands of a...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ Art Since the Summer of '69
The interns of New York's toniest museums and galleries are, surprise, artists in their own right. Come check out what these...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Angelika Film Center
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is the first part in a two-part series based on the memoir of notorious French gangster Mesrine. During...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 8/28 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Saturday 8/28 @ 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....
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
GET RIGHT! w/ DJs Detox & Johnny Cashola
Saturday 8/28 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The seminar, aptly titled "Get Right," is led by Johnny Cashola and DJ Detox, a Columbus, Ohio based DJ duo who...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 8/28 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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....
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Symphony Space
Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the Autumn look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer...
Saturday 8/28 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Create and submit your own prayer flag in celebration of the International Day of Non-Violence. The completed flags will be strung...
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ Symphony Space
A disciple of Keaton and Chaplin and a precursor to Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati created his own, gently bumbling character. In...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 8/28 @ 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...
Saturday 8/28 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Autolux, a three piece band consisting of Eugene Goreshter, Carla Azar, and Greg Edwards, began playing shows in early 2000 and...
