Events on Saturday, September 4
Saturday 9/ 4 @ MeanRed
Williamsburg gets a taste of Southern hospitality, courtesy of MeanRed, at today's Snout 'n Stout. Woody's Pig Roast carves up a...
The Dutchess and the Duke w/ Wailing Wall
Saturday 9/ 4 @ The Mercury Lounge
Sooner or later, when everybody is over lo-fi and "textured" sounds, these two bands will reign supreme. Dutchess and the Duke...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ Monster Island
Williamsburg's Monster Island is throwing its third annual Arts and Music Festival Block Party. Come for the music, the all-day BBQ...
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 9/ 4 @ New Museum
Explore the exhibition “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” and discover how Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander merges painting, photography, film,...
New Museum First Saturdays for Families: Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 9/ 4 @ New Museum
Explore the exhibition “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” and discover how Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander merges painting, photography, film,...
2010 Moving Sounds Festival @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 9/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Presented by Austrian Cultural Forum New York & Wordless Music featuring: Fennesz, Soap & Skin and Due East. Fennesz uses guitar...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Mudhoney issued its debut EP, Superfuzz Bigmuff (named after the vintage distortion pedals used by guitarists Mark Arm and Steve Turner),...
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson
Saturday 9/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LE BINGO! w/ host Murray Hill and Linda Simpson 9.4.10 FREE 7:30 PM | 21+ LE BINGO! PERK...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Bela Lugosi's Dead, Vampires Live Forever
Saturday 9/ 4 @ BAM
Vampire fever has overtaken America, but BAM does several better than Bella and (as much as we love him) Erik Northman....
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Jauntsetter Weekend Escape: Baltimore, MD
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
The Private Collection of Henry Darger
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Coney Island Rockabilly Festival 2010
Saturday 9/ 4 @ Coney Island Museum
The 2010 Cockabilly Roadshow has been making its way up and down the East Coast all summer providing burlesque, rock music...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Randall's Island Park
Following last year's mega-successful launch of the Electric Zoo festival, the two-day electronic-music bash returns to Randall's Island for a second...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Clic Gallery
Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Brick Theater
For four weeks the Brick is hosting clowns. Some wear big red noses and others appear normal. For example, Theatre Group...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ Abrons Arts Center
Though an eye disorder is the prevailing malady in Christina Masciotti's engrossing Vision Disturbance, just about every sense endures a distortion....
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Nederlander Theater
Million Dollar Quartet vividly captures a shining moment in rock history when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Labor Day weekend is your last chance to get the special 100 Years, 100 Stories Tour. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden continues...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ The Mint Theater
You can quibble over whether Wife to James Whelan is a romance, comedy, or drama — or some mash-up of the...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ New Museum
Amy Granat is best known for her experimental film installations featuring celluloid that has been manipulated by scratching, cutting, or chemical...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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....
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Monthly 30% off Sale! All Day September 4th, 5th, and 6th!
Saturday 9/ 4 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Summer may be ending, but summer reading doesn’t have to! Enjoy 30% off all books, movies, and music all through labor...
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday 9/ 4 @ New Museum
This major midcareer survey of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) will cover a decade of the internationally...
