Events on Monday, August 30
LPR and 4AD present El Guincho's Pop Negro
Monday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The first time we caught El Guincho live was one of the sweatiest dance parties we've ever been privileged to be...
The Big Quiz Thing @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“It might save us from the hell that is karaoke,” declared MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He was talking about The Big Quiz...
El Bob & Friends Present "Rock n Roll Comedy Circus"
Monday 8/30 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Music Comedy & Controversy... NYC'S Best Undiscovered, Underground, & Under the Influenced Comics & Bands!!! Featuring Live Music From...
Nasty Mondays at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Monday 8/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
At Nasty Mondays, we mix 50’s rockabilly with 80’s new wave, 90’s grunge with recent hits and remixes. Old school rock...
Monday 8/30 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Doors 8pm / Show 9pm $15 All Ages Support: The War on Drugs...
Monday 8/30 @ Joe's Pub
Marty Stuart is country music's renaissance man. He's scored six Top 10 hits, one platinum album and five gold albums, and...
Monday 8/30 @ Joe's Pub
Tearing up the stage starring in the hit Broadway shows Wicked and Mamma Mia, Carrie Manolakos is about to unleash her...
Ongoing Events
Monday 8/30 @ Iridium Jazz Club
It's hard to think of someone more instrumental in shaping the sound of modern music than Les Paul. In addition to...
Monday 8/30 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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,...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ Visual Arts Gallery
Some say that Iran hasn't seen protests this size since the 1979 revolution. These green movement protests began as a response...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Monday 8/30 @ 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,...
Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent
Monday 8/30 @ Umbrage Gallery
With our attention trained once again on the Gulf Coast, we're contemplating the effect of disasters on the surrounding environs. Mario...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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,...
Monday 8/30 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Monday 8/30 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Monday 8/30 @ 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
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Gadget Wash to benefit Performance Space 122 EXTENDED thru Sept 15
Monday 8/30 @ 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....
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief at the Met
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
Housing Works Storytime and Singalong for Kids
Monday 8/30 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Join Nancy and Rachel for reading, singing, and dancing appropriate for kids 3 and under and their caretakers. Special discounts on...
Monday 8/30 @ 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....
Monday 8/30 @ 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...
