Events on Tuesday, September 28
Tuesday 9/28 @ Word
We're very interested to see how Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch read Ten Walks/Two Talks, their update of the "meandering and...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Room Service
Mischief + Mayhem is a book-publishing collective started by Choire Sicha (of the Awl) and novelists Dale Peck, Lisa Dierbeck, Joshua...
Albert and David Maysles: Two Early Films
Tuesday 9/28 @ Light Industry
In search of "the particular character of this company," the Maysles brothers interviewed the myriad employees of IBM from its assembly-line...
Grass Widow w/ Babies and Web Dating
Tuesday 9/28 @ Monster Island
It would be lazy to call Grass Widow "lo-fi," or lump them in the same category as Vivian Girls, Dum Dum...
The Black Heart Procession w/ Bing & Ruth and Amen Dunes
Tuesday 9/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Black Heart Procession w/ Bing & Ruth and Amen Dunes 9.28.2010 Advance: $15 | Day of show: $15 Doors: 7:00...
Tuesday 9/28 @ The Bowery Presents
As one of the first groups to be dubbed "the next Smiths," James became an institution on the British alternative music...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. Director Jim Granato in person for post-screening Q&A. Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Joe's Pub
The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from...
Tuesday 9/28 @ The Bowery Presents
Also Performing: Ed Harcourt As one of the first groups to be dubbed "the next Smiths," James became an institution on...
DJ Scribe(I Love Vinyl) Presents: The End of the Night
Tuesday 9/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Scribe (I Love Vinyl) Presents: The End of the Night w/ DJ Scribe 9.28.10 Advance: $5 | Day of show:...
Night 1: Thalia Film Club hosted by Marshall Fine
Tuesday 9/28 @ Symphony Space
The Thalia Film Club hosted by Marshall Fine will feature pre-release screenings and behind-the-scenes coversations with directors, actors, and more surprise...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Georgia rockers Dead Confederate made their debut album, Wrecking Ball, in a tiny, dingy Austin studio — the same place where...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Joe's Pub
Alberta Cross has received overwhelming acclaim since the release of their ATO Records debut Broken Side of Time. Featured as a...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Theatre 80
Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is more discussed than seen. The controversy surrounding the show overshadowed the composer's other work...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Avery Fisher Hall
Alan Gilbert begins his second season with two works reflecting his joyfully edgy programming that has galvanized both orchestra and audience....
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Performance Space 122
Though Graham & Frost is a prized addition to the 1st Irish Festival, it has nothing to do with Ireland. Instead,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Soapbox Gallery
As the names of both the festival and the gallery suggest, these events are all about taking advantage of our fave...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Film Forum
Grown men crying over pastry, sounds a little absurd but that's what you get in the Kings of Pastry. The latest...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Marquis Theater
See Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away for the dancing — it is rare to see dancers of this caliber on Broadway....
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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....
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ IFC Center
Fall is here and with it comes the return one of our favorite reality series — Stranger Than Fiction. Each Tuesday,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Tuesday 9/28 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ White Columns
The activist movement in the '70s, which served as a catalyst for gay men and women to protest repression and other...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Marlborough Chelsea
Arguably the greatest artist in the history of glass sculpture, Dale Chihuly has helped turn the craft of blowing glass into...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Various Downtown locations
This is it. The glut. The cornucopia. The land of plenty. Lower Manhattan Arts League has brought together an astounding array...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Madison Square Park
Take the unique and seasonal design, homeware, and jewelry offerings you find at the Union Square Holiday Market, and combine it...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Tuesday 9/28 @ Various locations
If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Barrow Street Theater
Milo, a Serbian astrophysicist who escaped the Balkan war by moving to Japan to teach English, is refusing to leave his...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ IFC Center
Your opinion of holiday travel headaches is certain to be redefined after viewing Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary that examines...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ Various locations
Ireland is "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." It is also home to an unbroken line of writers who have influenced world...
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 92YTribeca
Join a vibrant community of photographers for inspiration, education and discussion. Each week, complete shooting assignments and critiques based on a...
Met Podcast: Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Alex Hubbard: Death Never Sleeps
Tuesday 9/28 @ The Kitchen
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Know the Show: An Inside View of the Fall Theater Season
Tuesday 9/28 @ 92YTribeca
Every September, audiences eagerly await the edition of The New York Times that announces the up-coming theater season. In this course,...
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ The Kitchen
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/28 @ 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...
