 | | Best things to do in New York from March 24 - 30, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, March 24 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 13 until Sun., June 12, 11:00am | | Where: | Japan Society | | Price: | free | | | Who would want to kill Hello Kitty? Certainly not us. But for many Japanese artists, their country’s obsession with all things childish and cute (or kawaii) can be stifling. Using ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 23 until Sun., March 27, 9:00pm, Daily from Wed., March 23 until Sun., March 27, 11:00pm | | Where: | Village Vanguard | | Price: | $30 | | | Maybe it's the oomph of the tuba. Maybe it's the growl of the trombone. Something gives the trumpeter's four-horn and drummer squad an exclamatory feel, even when they are operating ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Sunday from Sun., February 6 until Sun., March 27, 1:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sun., February 6 until Sun., March 27, 4:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sun., February 6 until Sun., March 27, 8:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Tue., February 8 until Sun., March 27, 8:00pm | | Where: | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater | | Price: | $55-$99 | | | In 1967, Surgeon General William Stewart announced, “It’s time to close the book on infectious disease.” That book still remains open, but in the futuristic world that closes Adam Rapp’s ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, March 25 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., March 23 until Sun., March 27, 9:00pm, Daily from Wed., March 23 until Sun., March 27, 11:00pm | | Where: | Village Vanguard | | Price: | $30 | | | Maybe it's the oomph of the tuba. Maybe it's the growl of the trombone. Something gives the trumpeter's four-horn and drummer squad an exclamatory feel, even when they are operating ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., March 25, 1:00pm | | Where: | The Film Society of Lincoln Center | | Price: | $9 | | | Dir. Milos Forman (1965). Uniquely dialectical, Milos Forman’s deadpan farce—in which a young woman loses her illusions, perhaps—plays as funny-sad. The largely nonprofessional actors are at once cute and ugly, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 18 until Mon., May 9, 11:00am | | Where: | New York City Police Museum | | Price: | free | | | Until 1973, female police officers weren’t allowed to patrol the streets of New York City. But as soon as that changed, New York–based photographer Jane Hoffer was right there with ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, March 26 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., March 26, 7:00pm | | Where: | Baruch Performing Arts Center | | Price: | $35-$100 | | | On the one-year anniversary of cult rock hero/alchemist Alex Chilton’s death comes this loving celebration of his pop-goth classic—the third Big Star album, Third/Sister Lovers, recorded in ’74, issued in ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., March 26, 9:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $10 | | | This punk/techno trio is what you'd call "nomadic." In the five years that they've been together, they've moved their home base from Aussie to New York to Baltimore to Philly--and ... 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 27 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., March 27, 8:30pm, Mon., March 28, 8:30pm | | Where: | Maxwell's | | Price: | $20 | | | Given the recent success of Mumford & Sons, the Felice Brothers might be in for a big-league boost this year--or at least, they would be if they didn't diverge from ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 27, 1:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission | | | Dir. Robert Wise (1951). Liberal sci-fi, released at the height of the Cold War, this DC-set tract—well directed by the versatile Robert Wise—uses the threat of extraterrestrial invasion as a ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., March 27, 8:00pm | | Where: | The Peoples Improv Theater | | Price: | $10 | | | One of the photos on Joe Mande’s “Look at This Fucking Hipster” blog features two shaggy-haired, lip-pierced, five-o-clock-shadowed hipsters playing tonsil hockey, with the caption: “We should be careful. This ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, March 28 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., March 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Beacon Theater | | Price: | $50-$100 | | | This guitar legend, who automatically gets listed behind Clapton on best string-bender lists, is the peer of the most vaunted '60s classic rockers. In a better world, he'd be hauled ... 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., March 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $25 | | | All Eternals Deck—the new album from John Darnielle’s long-running lit-folk outfit, the Mountain Goats—is every bit as excellent as dude’s given us reason to expect it to be. That said, ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, March 29 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., March 29, 4:30pm, Tue., March 29, 6:50pm, Tue., March 29, 9:15pm | | Where: | BAM | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Manoel de Oliviera (2003). A history professor and her young daughter cruise the Mediterranean in this late de Oliviera. Midway through, John Malkovich and three Euro divas arrive to ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., March 29, 6:30pm | | Where: | Cooper Union, Great Hall | | Price: | free | | | The age-old question continues: To get an MFA or not to get an MFA? The Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Teach 4 Amerika Tour: A Rally for Anarchy in Arts Education ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., March 29, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | | Price: | $20 | | | Videomaker/performance artist Ryan McNamara will be playing an Alex Trebek of sorts tonight at PopRally’s Pop Quiz at MOMA. And just because drinks will be served does not mean you ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, March 30 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Saturday, Sunday, 4:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8:00pm | | Where: | Barrow Street Theatre | | Price: | $36-$50 | | | Sex and the City taught us how much it can suck to be a single woman in the city. And now Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend proves that it's not ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Saturday from Sat., March 19 until Sun., May 29, 2:00pm, Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., March 15 until Sun., May 29, 8:00pm | | Where: | Schoenfeld Theater | | Price: | $67-$132 | | | Last time we saw Chris Rock, he was right here in our newsroom playing a Village Voice reporter in Julie Delpy's upcoming film 2 Days in New York. Now the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., March 30, 9:00pm, Wed., March 30, 11:30pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $20 | | | The comedian/musician/human beatbox/Conan O’Brien favorite Reggie Watts is known for wild improvisations that are often so nonsensical not even he knows what’s going on. As he told the Voice last ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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