All events Oct 10–12

Film
Lola Montes
Today (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, netted a touch-up. In... View details »
Lola Montes
Art
The Genretron
Today (6–8pm) @ Winkleman Gallery More times »
Free
In 17th-century Holland, art enthusiasts from the taverns of Delft to the aristocratic households of the Hague spoke highly of the Chadwicks. The British family... View details »
The Genretron
More Flavor: Discussion
Will People Believe Anything?
Today (6pm) @ Princeton Club
Free
We'd like to believe that we live during an enlightened age in which reason has vanquished the superstitions of old. But many of us also... View details »
Will People Believe Anything?
Film: Documentary
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
Today (7pm) @ Symphony Space
Giveaway
In their new book, State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, editors Matt Weiland (Paris Review) and Sean Wilsey (McSweeney's) determine the state of... View details »
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
More Flavor: Discussion
Next Level
Today (7:30pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
Giveaway
Once upon a time, computer games were the domain of children and uber-nerds, but the proliferation of technology in the last decade has blurred the... View details »
Next Level
More Flavor: Lecture
Nerd Nite
Today (8pm) @ Galapagos Art Space
Long-running lecture series Nerd Nite upgrades its digs from a cramped East Village bar to new DUMBO hot spot Galapagos, complete with a 1,200-square-foot moat... View details »
Nerd Nite
More Flavor: Benefit
Mending Bee for Change
Today (8pm) @ Various locations
Free
In 2004 a team of young patriots began assembling the largest handmade flag in Brooklyn (an unconfirmed, but quite plausible record), unfurling to 129 feet... View details »
Mending Bee for Change
Performing Arts: Dance
San Francisco Ballet
Today (8pm) @ New York City Center More times »
Giveaway
The oldest US ballet company has a New York pedigree. Former SFB director Lew Christensen was the first American to dance George Balanchine's Apollo, and... View details »
San Francisco Ballet
Film
Ashes of Time Redux
Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai was never fully... View details »
Ashes of Time Redux
Film
Happy-Go-Lucky
Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
British director Mike Leigh may have made his name with Naked (1993) — that nasty litany about male identity — but he truly excels when... View details »
Happy-Go-Lucky
More Flavor: Party
New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary
Today (8pm) @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Giveaway
Born from the lo-fi bedroom recordings of frontman Edward Droste, Grizzly Bear have received acclaim from critics and adoration from those within the industry. To... View details »
New York Magazine's 40th Anniversary
Music: DJ
MSTRKRFT
Today (11pm) @ Webster Hall
As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance music's go-to remix teams. Retooling... View details »
MSTRKRFT
More Flavor: Festival
Gowanus Harvest Festival
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–9pm) @ The Yard
The Gowanus Harvest Festival brings the farm to Brooklyn's famously industrial canal. Besides locally produced apples, pickles, cheeses (from Saxelby!), breads, and brews (Sixpoint), you... View details »
Gowanus Harvest Festival
More Flavor: Discussion
A Power Stronger Than Itsef
Saturday Oct 11 (5pm) @ The Kitchen
George Lewis is a musician, composer, and professor whose visionary work — both musical and literary — has mapped the terrain of experimental music for... View details »
A Power Stronger Than Itsef
Art: Photography
Olaf Breuning
Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Metro Pictures More times »
Free
Swiss artist Olaf Breuning's work is wonderfully funny, co-opting the bright neon colors of contemporary art and the artificial conceit of pop culture. His newest... View details »
Olaf Breuning
Art
Stas Orlovski
Today (10am–6pm) @ Mixed Greens More times »
Free
One of LA's most unrepentant romantics, Stas Orlovski borrows liberally from art, poetry, and literature; from observation and fantasy; and from painting, drawing, and collage... View details »
Stas Orlovski
Music: Rock/Pop
Against Me!
Saturday Oct 11 (6pm) @ Webster Hall
The punk-rock landscape encompasses everything from radical politics and DIY culture to abrasive antics and self-mutilation, and Against Me!'s current tour is a microcosm of... View details »
Against Me!
Art: Party
Destroy+Construct+Construct+Destroy
Saturday Oct 11 (7–10pm) @ Deity
Free
Graffiti cats are the badasses of the art world, but tonight's featured graf artists — Destroy and Rebuild's recently released AVOne and Convoluted Construct's John... View details »
Destroy+Construct+Construct+Destroy
Music: Rock/Pop
Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour
Saturday Oct 11 (8:30pm) @ Knitting Factory
Giveaway
Mentioning the Elephant 6 collective to music geeks is like bringing up Godard with cinephiles: there's a pretty good chance they're obsessed. The gang of... View details »
Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour
Music: Rock/Pop
Killing Joke
Saturday Oct 11 (9pm) @ Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza More times »
One of post-punk's thorniest acts, Killing Joke, return after a long silence for two abrasive nights in New York. Show number one includes back-to-back performances... View details »
Killing Joke
Music: DJ
DJ Z-Trip
Saturday Oct 11 (10pm) @ Santos Party House
Giveaway
Mashups are soooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of Steve Miller riffs, these... View details »
DJ Z-Trip
Music: Electronic
Alexander Robotnick
Saturday Oct 11 (10pm–4am) @ Love
Giveaway
You don't have to be a synth-pop or Italo-disco fanatic to appreciate a live Robotnick show. The free-spirited producer is known for a string of... View details »
Alexander Robotnick
Reading
Dmitry Bykov
Sunday Oct 12 (1:30pm) @ Brooklyn Public Library
Free
For Dmitry Bykov, writing and offending people go hand in hand. Since the early '90s, the Russian poet, novelist, journalist, and cultural savant has practically... View details »
Film: Shorts
Bike Shorts 7
Sunday Oct 12 (7pm) @ Solar One
Tonight, Manhattan alt-energy axis Solar One hosts the seventh go-around of Bike Shorts. Planted alongside the whirligig that is FDR Drive, the environmental venue is... View details »
Bike Shorts 7
Music: DJ
Baby BOO
Sunday Oct 12 (8pm) @ Studio B
Dust off your UFOs, visors, and pacifiers: just in time for Halloween, old-school rave-promotion team Stuck on Earth returns from the blissed-out, all-nighter dead for... View details »
Baby BOO
Music: Rock/Pop
Les Savy Fav
Sunday Oct 12 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is, best grab your vitals... View details »
Les Savy Fav

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Art
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential... View details »
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye... View details »
Rudy Burckhardt
Film
A Secret
Today @ Various locations More times »
This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is, refreshingly, a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust.... View details »
A Secret
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Today @ Paragraph More times »
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
Paragraph
Art
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Today (9:30am–9pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man who once scandalized the... View details »
Jeff Koons on the Roof
Film
Mister Foe
Today @ Angelika Film Center More times »
Seventeen-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a troubled lad. Clad in warpaint and animal furs, he prowls around his family's enormous Scottish estate, spying on... View details »
Mister Foe
Film
The Wackness
Today @ Various locations More times »
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
The Wackness
Film
Tell No One
Today @ Various locations More times »
Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
Tell No One
Film
Battle in Seattle
Today @ Various locations More times »
In Battle in Seattle, first-time director Stuart Townsend presents a curiously inspirational cocktail of big Hollywood names and an overtly political agenda. Most protest films... View details »
Battle in Seattle
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Today @ Various locations More times »
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
Brideshead Revisited
Film
Humboldt County
Today @ Various locations More times »
Acid guru Timothy Leary would have loved this film — to a point. Following one of those off-the-grid, Northern California forest communities whose sole source... View details »
Humboldt County
More Flavor: City Gem
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Today @ Various locations in the East River More times »
Free
Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns to the source for... View details »
Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
Film: Documentary
The Order of Myths
Today @ IFC Center More times »
Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially segregated Mardi Gras tradition... View details »
The Order of Myths
Film
Towelhead
Today @ Various locations More times »
It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
Towelhead
Film
Bottle Shock
Today @ Various locations More times »
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small... View details »
Bottle Shock
Film
Rachel Getting Married
Today @ Various locations More times »
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister... View details »
Rachel Getting Married
Film
Burn After Reading
Today @ Various locations More times »
After winning all kinds of accolades for last year's sweeping, somber No Country for Old Men, those slippery Coen Brothers shift both their tone and... View details »
Burn After Reading
Film
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Today @ MoMA More times »
As the House that Ruth Built (in 1923) hosts its final game this weekend, the MoMA transports spectators to New York's movie scene in the... View details »
Filmmaking in New York, 1920-39
Film
Choke
Today @ Landmark Sunshine More times »
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
Choke
Film
I Served the King of England
Today @ Various locations More times »
How this novel about a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes translates into an engaging, balletic comedy has everything to do... View details »
I Served the King of England
Film
Hamlet 2
Today @ Various locations More times »
With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
Hamlet 2
Film: Documentary
Trouble the Water
Today @ IFC Center More times »
Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts many Americans, especially while... View details »
Trouble the Water
Film
Traitor
Today @ Various locations More times »
Traitor is really two films in one. The first, a spinning, white-knuckled thriller about an FBI investigator (Guy Pearce) pursuing terrorist bomber Samir (Don Cheadle)... View details »
Traitor
Film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Today @ Various locations More times »
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of... View details »
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Film
Elegy
Today @ Various locations More times »
Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
Elegy
More Flavor: Festival
Ear to the Earth Festival
Today @ Various locations More times »
Free
The Ear to the Earth Festival brings together composers from around the globe in order to turn urban cacophony into musical beauty. Francisco López's Trilogy... View details »
Ear to the Earth Festival
More Flavor: Festival
I Kiffe NY
Today @ Various locations More times »
The banlieues — the French version of inner cities — have been known as sites of social turbulence over the past few years. But what... View details »
I Kiffe NY
Art
Other Options
Today @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Artists have always fretted over the tension between creativity and commerce. Eyebeam's latest exhibition, Other Options, explores the triumphs and travails of securing support for... View details »
Other Options
Film: Documentary
American Teen
Today @ Various locations More times »
The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school seniors in Warsaw, Indiana.... View details »
American Teen
Art: Photography
Invasion 68: Prague
Today (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Pace/McGill Gallery More times »
Free
For Czechoslovakians in 1968, the Prague Spring was a half-year repose from Soviet vassalage. Then, on August 20, the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies... View details »
Invasion 68: Prague
Art
Gilbert & George
Today (10am–5pm) @ Brooklyn Museum of Art More times »
The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted... View details »
Gilbert & George
Art
Four Color Sound
Today (10am–6pm) @ The Project More times »
Free
Following in the synesthetic footsteps of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson, electronic musician and audio artist Stephen Vitiello transforms Project into a... View details »
Four Color Sound
Art
Signs of Change
Today (10am–8pm) @ Exit Art More times »
Free
The Signs of Change exhibit at Exit Art features an array of mass-mobilizing posters, photographs, movies, and recordings that chronicle social-justice movements from over 40... View details »
Signs of Change
More Flavor: Sports
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Today (10am–5pm) @ Governors Island More times »
Free
Family vacay meets interactive art party for Figment's mini-golf open, an all-day picnic and sports competition on Governors Island. Manhattan's southern cousin is just a... View details »
City of Dreams Mini-Golf Open
Art
Doug Aitken
Today (10am–6pm) @ 303 Gallery More times »
Free
Known for last year's nighttime projection of Sleepwalkers onto the exterior of MoMA, Doug Aitken returns with an exhibition at 303 Gallery. His new show... View details »
Doug Aitken
Art
Daisy Bell
Today (10am–6pm) @ Lehmann Maupin More times »
Free
In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song... View details »
Daisy Bell
Art
William Pope.L
Today (10am–6pm) @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash More times »
Free
In 2002, at NYC's Battery Park, William Pope.L donned his Superman costume and set out on a 22-mile belly crawl through the city, titled The... View details »
William Pope.L
Art
Mario Merz
Today (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
Free
In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera ("poor art"), a movement... View details »
Mario Merz
Art
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Today (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
Giveaway
With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time when his thick impasto... View details »
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Art: Architecture/Design
Home Delivery
Today (10:30am–8pm) @ MoMA More times »
Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry... View details »
Home Delivery
Art
Martín Ramírez
Today (11am–6pm) @ Ricco Maresca Gallery More times »
Free
In 1931, Fresno police arrested a Mexican immigrant named Martín Ramírez for vagrancy: he was out of work in the Depression-era economy and cut off... View details »
Martín Ramírez
Art
We Burn, We Shiver
Today (11am–6pm) @ SculptureCenter More times »
In the main space of Long Island City's SculptureCenter, Ugo Rondinone — the artist who lent the New Museum its affirmative, rainbow-striped Hell Yes! —... View details »
We Burn, We Shiver
Getaway
Sol LeWitt
Today (11am–5:30pm) @ Storm King Art Center More times »
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory... View details »
Sol LeWitt
Art
The Outsiders
Today (11am–7pm) @ Lazarides Gallery NYC More times »
Free
Love children of the UK's infamous YBA, a host of British artists swarm New York for a two-week show of guerrilla wheatpasting, collage, stencil, and... View details »
The Outsiders
Art: Architecture/Design
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Today (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Arts and Design More times »
To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items — buttons, keepsakes, bits... View details »
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
Art
Kehinde Wiley
Today (noon–6pm) @ Studio Museum in Harlem More times »
Borrowing the poise and posture once reserved for 18th-century royalty, Kehinde Wiley's portraits feature young, African-American men — from anonymous neighborhood kids to Biggie Smalls... View details »
Kehinde Wiley
Art: Architecture/Design
Untethered
Today (noon–6pm) @ Eyebeam More times »
Free
Eyebeam continues to mix high art and high technology with Untethered: A Sculpture Garden of Readymades, which explores the ways in which common modern-day objects... View details »
Untethered
Art: Photography
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Today (noon–5pm) @ Brooklyn Historical Society More times »
From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many faces. With help from... View details »
Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
Art
Street Art, Street Life
Today (noon–8pm) @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts More times »
Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator Lydia Yee of the... View details »
Street Art, Street Life
Art
Kevin Bewersdorf
Today (noon–6pm) @ V&A More times »
Free
Artist/musician/CEO Kevin Bewersdorf is all pitch and no product. Bewersdorf, who some might recognize from a handful of mumblecore films, sells himself like a televangelist... View details »
Kevin Bewersdorf
Film
Ballast
Today (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm) @ Film Forum More times »
When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
Ballast
More Flavor: Spectacle
The Science Barge
Today (4pm) @ Riverside Park South More times »
Free
Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown by 100% renewable energy... View details »
The Science Barge
More Flavor
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Today (5:30–7pm) @ North Cove Marina More times »
With ever-increasing skyscrapers and gridlock traffic, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by water. Get into the island-living mindset by climbing aboard an... View details »
Shearwater Sailing Happy Hour Cruise
Art
Sun K Kwak
Today (6–9pm) @ Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art More times »
Free
Sun K. Kwak, the Brooklyn-based pioneer of masking-tape art, has executed sprawling, fluid murals on the walls of numerous museums and galleries in New York... View details »
Sun K Kwak
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fault Lines
Today (7 & 10pm) @ Cherry Lane Theatre More times »
David Schwimmer's latest directorial effort, Fault Lines, starts out with a cue from his long-lasting festival of canned laughs, Friends: a couple of likable buddies... View details »
Fault Lines
More Flavor: City Gem
Dreamland Roller Rink
Today (7pm–midnight) @ Dreamland Roller Rink More times »
Lace up your skates and hop the train: Coney Island skate queen Lola Staar proudly opens her Dreamland Roller Rink this weekend. With some initial... View details »
Dreamland Roller Rink
Performing Arts: Dance
Break Out
Today (7 & 10pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
The creators of Jump are debuting an extreme new dance production, Break Out, in Union Square Theatre, the former home of De La Guarda. Korean... View details »
Break Out
Performing Arts: Theatre
In the Heights
Today (8pm) @ Richard Rodgers Theatre More times »
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient musical that eschews certain... View details »
In the Heights
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fifty Words
Today (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
In Michael Weller's Fifty Words, Jan and Adam send their son to his first sleepover, and what begins as a romantic night alone soon sours:... View details »
  Fifty Words
Music: Rock/Pop
Beck
Today (8pm) @ United Palace More times »
Sold Out!
The recent release of Modern Guilt, Beck's latest dark-and-dank collab with Danger Mouse, would be reason enough to make a beeline for the United Palace... View details »
Beck
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Today (8 & 10:30pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
Fuerzabruta
Performing Arts: Theatre
[title of show]
Today (8pm) @ Lyceum Theatre More times »
This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once cynical and eager, serious... View details »
[title of show]
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wig Out!
Today (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
Drag balls aren't all glamour and vogueing, as playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney illustrates in his raucous new show Wig Out! The colorful story moves through... View details »
Wig Out!
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Glass Cage
Today (8pm) @ The Mint Theater More times »
The Mint Theater Company's production of J.B. Priestley's The Glass Cage is a powerful reminder of the many good plays that are enjoyed on the... View details »
The Glass Cage
Music: Rock/Pop
The Residents
Today (9pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy More times »
Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in six years. Dressed to... View details »
The Residents
More Flavor: City Gem
Amazing Maize Maze
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–4:30pm) @ Queens County Farm Museum More times »
If you don't mind the trek, the Queens County Farm Museum's Amazing Maize Maze is one of fall's finest (and strangest) pleasures. The three-acre stretch... View details »
Amazing Maize Maze
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Indie Market
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–7pm) @ Brooklyn Indie Market More times »
Free
The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty brunch spots, the collective... View details »
Brooklyn Indie Market
More Flavor: City Gem
Artists and Fleas
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–8pm) @ Artists and Fleas More times »
Free
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to the accompaniment of an... View details »
Artists and Fleas
Art
Hiroshi Shafer
Saturday Oct 11 (1–7pm) @ English Kills More times »
Free
Scattered around English Kills, Bushwick's DIY living/exhibition space, new sculptures from Brooklyn-based artist Hiroshi Shafer reinterpret and poke fun at male-female power struggles. His grotesque,... View details »
Hiroshi Shafer
Performing Arts: Opera
The Met: Live in HD
Saturday Oct 11 (1pm) @ BAM More times »
Thanks to HD transmissions, opera-goers no longer have take out mortgages or travel far to attend the Met. The first Live in HD screening of... View details »
The Met: Live in HD
More Flavor: Party
Make Love, Not War
Saturday Oct 11 (10pm) @ Black Betty More times »
Free
During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of the Williamsburg bar/restaurant gets... View details »
More Flavor: Shopping
Brooklyn Flea
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
Free
New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. This Sunday, the folks behind the Brownstoner blog... View details »
Brooklyn Flea
More Flavor: Festival
Fall Furniture Festival
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–5pm) @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School More times »
Free
Every Sunday in October, vintage mavens Brooklyn Flea team up with eco-designers Greenjeans to showcase young, local, and sustainable furniture makers such as Uhuru —... View details »
Fall Furniture Festival
More Flavor: City Gem
GreenFlea Market
Sunday Oct 12 (10am–6pm) @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School More times »
Free
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big event. Outside, farmers from... View details »
GreenFlea Market
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
ASSSSCAT 3000
Sunday Oct 12 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre More times »
Upright Citizens Brigade's Sunday-night improv extravaganza ASSSSCAT 3000 features permanent cast members Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, with guest performers from The Daily Show, Saturday... View details »