Events on Saturday, September 25
Saturday 9/25 @ Various locations
Taking place in cities throughout the country each year, City Chase is a one-day Amazing Race-style event in which teams of...
The Tapping of the Celebratory Hofbrau Oktoberfest Keg
Saturday 9/25 @ Radegast Hall & Beer Garden
In celebration of Oktoberfest's 200th year, Radegast Hall & Biergarten has what we're told is the exclusive honor of pouring Paulaner...
Elephant Larry featuring Andrew WK, Jake & Amir, Hannibal Buress, and more
Saturday 9/25 @ Joe's Pub
Elephant Larry (Village Voice's Best Sketch Comedy Group) teams up with some very special surprise guests at a very special venue...
Perpetual Groove @ Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday 9/25 @ The Bowery Presents
A celebrated, international touring act for over four years, Perpetual Groove has built a reputation on intense, emotional music that fans...
You are invited to : Your Sordid Secret : Saturday
Saturday 9/25 @ 3rd Ward
This Saturday, 3rd Ward and TheDanger are inviting you and your closest friends to reveal: Your Sordid Secret. The Early...
Saturday 9/25 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Also performing: Constellations Formerly known as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal...
Saturday 9/25 @ The Bowery Presents
with The Hogshead Horns, The Crème Tangerine Strings, Jim Boggia and The Nutopia Choir Two Sets of John Lennon's Greatest Music...
Titus Andronicus @ Webster Hall
Saturday 9/25 @ The Bowery Presents
Glen Rock, New Jersey is a small, safe suburban enclave to the west of New York City, supporting almost three square...
¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture
Saturday 9/25 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come join a fiesta at the Met Museum ¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture is the Met’s first all-day, Museum-wide event...
Saturday 9/25 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The World’s #1 Tribute To Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Bruce In The USA is much more than just...
Saturday 9/25 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Japanese all-female trio, Shonen Knife, enjoys a solid worldwide following with their Ramones-meets-the-Beatles brand of stickly sweet punk-pop. They've made...
Dan Torres with special guest Charlotte Sometimes
Saturday 9/25 @ Joe's Pub
Dan Torres is one of the hottest acts to grace the New York City music community. He is an artist with...
Saturday 9/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
I Love Vinyl w/ DJ Scribe Founded in the Summer of 2009, and without a doubt one of the best underground...
Saturday 9/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
One of the sexiest things you can do is invite that cute someone from the Laundromat to dance. You'll love the...
Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon
Saturday 9/25 @ New Museum
Three generations of poets participate in a daylong poetry reading on the New Museum’s seventh floor. Invited are poets that knew...
Saturday 9/25 @ Joe's Pub
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have...
Saturday 9/25 @ Terminal 5
Throughout his teens Mark Everett was "M.E." Gradually it was shortened to the even easier "E". By the time he was...
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson
Saturday 9/25 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Le Bingo! Perk up your weekend with le bingo! Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday, Le...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Saturday 9/25 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Saturday 9/25 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 9/25 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Brooklyn Fireproof
Bushwick seems to have become the de facto land of DIY, fostering experimentalists in science and food, music, and film. These...
Saturday 9/25 @ IFC Center
Actor Romain Duris displays his charming versatility in Heartbreaker, a clever romantic-comedy from first-time French feature-filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil. Duris is Alex...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 9/25 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
La Mama Presents: Ritter, Dene, Voss
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Art and terrorism make a gruesome twosome in this contemporary noir drama of intrigue and roadkill. A modern-day undercover agent with...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ The Cherry Pit
Nothing comes easy in Nick Starr's The Awesome Dance. This moving play for four actors is divided into four scenes, each...
Gallery Cruise and Uneven Intensities of Duration
Saturday 9/25 @ Smack Mellon
Enter the Smack Mellon loft and you enter a space transformed into a tea-room aboard a cruise-ship peacefully motoring across the...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Saturday 9/25 @ MoMA PS1
Last year's first-ever stateside version of France's Le Grand Fooding set NYC chefs against their Parisian counterparts. This time, the competition...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
Saturday 9/25 @ Judson Memorial Church
Questions about psychedelics are generally met with myths and hysteria as colorful or horrifying as some of the trips themselves. It...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Various DUMBO locations
Artists open their studios this weekend at the DUMBO Arts Festival (DAF) to remind us that art is alive and well...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Saturday 9/25 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 9/25 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Alan Gilbert begins his second season with two works reflecting his joyfully edgy programming that has galvanized both orchestra and audience....
Saturday 9/25 @ New Museum
Expelled from the surrealist group by André Breton when he was 19, Brion Gysin persevered and created a wide range of...
Saturday 9/25 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ French Institute Alliance Francaise
"Crossing the Line" lives up to its name with these two site-specific presentations — though attendees won't know the exact details...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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....
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Saturday 9/25 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Faye Driscoll: There is so much mad in me
Saturday 9/25 @ New York Live Arts
After a week of sold out shows this past spring, Faye Driscoll's There...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 9/25 @ 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 Evenings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday 9/25 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thomas Beachdel Get a sneak preview of a new exhibition or tour the permanent collection, then socialize at the museum café....
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Yasmeen Godder: Singular Sensation
Saturday 9/25 @ The Kitchen
Renowned Israeli-American choreographer Yasmeen Godder presents the New York premiere of a new dance exploring the emotional landscape of a generation...
The Sullivan Project presents Graham & Frost
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Saturday 9/25 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
New York City Short Film Festival
Saturday 9/25 @ 92YTribeca
The 2010 New York City Short Film Festival celebrates the short form by showcasing provocative and entertaining short films from around...
GET RIGHT! w/ DJs Detox & Johnny Cashola
Saturday 9/25 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The seminar, aptly titled "Get Right," is led by Johnny Cashola and DJ Detox, a Columbus, Ohio based DJ duo who...
Saturday 9/25 @ Harlem Stage
BLOOD DAZZLER, based on Patricia Smith’s award-winning book and created by Paloma and Patricia McGregor, reexamines Hurricane Katrina's origin and impact...
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Saturday 9/25 @ 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...
