 | | Best things to do in New York from March 10 - 16, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, March 10 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., March 9, 2:00pm, Wed., March 9, 4:30pm, Wed., March 9, 7:00pm, Wed., March 9, 9:30pm, Thu., March 10, 2:00pm, Thu., March 10, 4:30pm, Thu., March 10, 7:00pm, Thu., March 10, 9:30pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Robert Bresson (1951). The template for all of Bresson’s subsequent films, Diary of a Country Priest is characterized above all by a search for authenticity. Few artists since the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., March 10, 9:00pm, Thu., March 10, 10:30pm | | Where: | Jazz Gallery | | Price: | $10-$20 | | | The trio brokers in a confidential, esoteric kind of interplay that leaves plenty of room for explosions. Don't buy the "quadrangle with one side missing" chides that crop up about ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 9 until Sat., May 14 | | Where: | Apexart | | Price: | free | | | We know we're not the only ones who have fantasized about faking our own death and going undercover to the funeral just to see what people would say about us. ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, March 11 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., March 11, 7:30pm | | Where: | Maxwell's | | Price: | $16-$18 | | | Due to a spate of now-typical music-biz troubles neatly detailed in a recent Times profile, Nicole Atkins has finally gotten around to releasing the follow-up to her excellent 2007 debut, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Sunday from Sun., February 13 until Sat., March 12, 3:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 11 until Sat., March 12, 7:30pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., February 12 until Sat., March 12, 2:00pm | | Where: | BAM Harvey Theater | | Price: | $25-$95 | | | He won a Tony in 2009 for starring as the mentally disturbed ruler in Exit the King. Now Geoffrey Rush stars as another neurotic in The Diary of a Madman, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., March 11 until Thu., March 17 | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $9 | | | Though Mark Rappaport's films were often inspired by pop culture, they themselves never found ubiquity. Though critically acclaimed, the Brooklynite's film features, which he released sporadically throughout the '70s, '80s, ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, March 12 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., March 12, 8:00pm | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $22-$24 | | | Before you bitch (again) about your tiny apartment, consider this at the very least: Your kitchen, though small, is a work of art! PopRally is throwing a party on behalf ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., March 12, 1:00pm | | Where: | Riverdale Park | | Price: | free | | | Riverdale Park is known for its spectacular views of the Hudson River and the Palisades, but it's also a haven for birds, with at least 27 species confirmed breeding there. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Sat., March 5 until Sat., March 26 | | Where: | Salon | | Price: | free | | | Artist Laurie Simmons has certainly worked with her share of dummies over the years. If you saw Lena Dunham's film Tiny Furniture, you're familiar with the work of Simmons, Dunham's ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, March 13 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., March 13, 2:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $13-$15 | | | The Aussie BBQ is a popular annual showcase at SXSW that features—you're psychic!—the best in Down Under talent. This year, it migrates evermore north to the Bowery Ballroom for a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 13, 2:00pm, Sun., March 13, 4:30pm, Sun., March 13, 6:50pm, Sun., March 13, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Luis Buñuel (1967). The great surrealist’s coolly outrageous masterpiece, starring Catherine Deneuve as a haute bourgeois matron who spends her afternoons working in a respectable, but hardly deluxe, brothel ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., February 16 until Mon., June 6 | | Where: | MOMA | | Price: | $20 | | | The Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Sonic Youth—if you missed living in the city in the ’80s and ’90s (or were too young to apprecaite it), Looking at Music 3.0 takes you ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, March 14 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., March 14, 8:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | James Blake's speedy rise to mainstream renown has already turned many dubstep purists against this 22-year-old Londoner. But the underground's loss is everyone else's gain: On his just-released self-titled debut, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., March 14, 8:30pm | | Where: | 92Y Tribeca | | Price: | $15 | | | Who made New Yorkers laugh the hardest this year? Find out at the seventh annual ECNY Awards, which honor the best local comedians in categories such as “Best Female Stand-Up ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., March 14, 8:00pm | | Where: | Highline Ballroom | | Price: | $35 | | | It's not unusual for an established comedian to deeply love a niche strain of music: Woody Allen's traditional NOLA jazz clarinet, Steve Allen's classical scores, Jack Benny's dry violin, Dave ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, March 15 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., March 15, 7:30pm | | Where: | Japan Society | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Takashi Miike (1999). Not for the squeamish, cult director Miike’s bloody Mardi Gras is a shamelessly entertaining exercise in cinematic bad behavior that has something to do with a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 13, 6:30pm, Tue., March 15, 9:15pm | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $8 | | | Dir. Mark Rappaport (1995). Rappaport’s follow-up to Rock Hudson’s Home Movies is an even bolder amalgam of free-associational film theory, outré montage, and deadpan bitchiness. Bracketing the tragic Seberg with ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., March 15, 8:00pm | | Where: | IFC Center | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Barbara Kopple (1976). Drawing on decades of popular front rhetoric Barbara Kopple’s bicentennial Oscar winner is one stirring union doc and who doesn’t need one these days—or shouldn’t I ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, March 16 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., March 16, 7:00pm | | Where: | Symphony Space—Leonard Nimoy Thalia | | Price: | $15-$27 | | | “Very soon, I knew we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back and no time to rest,” wrote gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson 40 years ago ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., February 23 until Thu., May 5 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $15 | | | It's been a while since we last got to venue-hop among downtown black-boxes for a theater festival, so Frigid is back to once again fill the void left by those ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Saturday from Sat., March 19 until Sat., May 7, 2:00pm, Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., March 17 until Sat., May 7, 8:00pm, Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from Mon., March 14 until Sat., May 7, 7:00pm | | Where: | Acorn Theatre | | Price: | $61 | | | Wallace Shawn, the actor and witty author of numerous plays and screenplays (but who will perhaps always be best known as the criminal Vizzini in The Princess Bride), teams up ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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