 | | Best things to do in New York from September 8 - 14, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, September 08 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., September 8 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | If you're not into shopping, clothes, celebs, and free goodies, you might want to clear the streets and hide to avoid the annual stiletto-wearing stampede known as Fashion's Night Out. ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., September 8, 8:00pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $10 | | | Dir. Roman Polanski (1962). Polanski went straight to the head of his class with his first (and until The Pianist, his only) Polish feature. This cold-eyed account of sexual gamesmanship in ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., September 12, 7:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., August 31 until Sat., September 24, 8:00pm | | Where: | Ars Nova | | Price: | $10-$30 | | | The Bereseker Residents’ last show, the sci-fi spoof The Annihilation Point, concerned space and time travel. This time, they’ve downgraded to a somewhat easier journey, and international flight. This Ars ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, September 09 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., September 9, 8:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $15 | | | One of the most appealing things about the Queens rapper Action Bronson is that when he raps about cracked pepper--as he does on his terrific debut album, Dr. Lecter--he's not ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., September 9, 7:00pm, Sat., September 10, 7:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Gus Van Sant (1989). Matt Dillon gave his career performance as hapless Portland junkie in Gus Van Sant’s soulful second feature—one of the saddest, most resonant American movies of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., September 9 until Fri., September 30 | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $12 | | | If you didn't manage to get a spot in that free summer school class Gus Van Sant was teaching at MOMA PS1, the Museum of the Moving Image has another ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, September 10 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., September 3, 7:30pm, Sat., September 10, 7:30pm, Sat., September 17, 7:30pm | | Where: | Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Price: | $15 | | | No longer smearing chocolate on her body, Karen Finley is still interested in smearing issues (metaphorically speaking) in her trademark roundabout approach. Supposedly, this outing has her thinking about 9/11, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., September 8 until Sat., October 8, 11:00am | | Where: | DC Moore | | Price: | free | | | A series of 31 collages created in response to 9/11 by a class of 13-year-old students who were inspired by of Jacob Lawrence. A exhibition the children attended in the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., September 10, 2:30pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | various fees | | | New York's love affair with swimming goes back a long way. In 1882, one-armed swimmer Edward Cone easily took the New York Athletic Club's championship one-half mile down the Harlem ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, September 11 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., September 11, 8:00pm | | Where: | City Winery | | Price: | $50 | | | City Winery is hosting a benefit concert to raise funds for 9/11 Health Now, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the rescue and recovery workers who are suffering due to ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., August 31 until Sun., January 22, 10:00am | | Where: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Price: | free | | | Featuring the work designed by Faith Ringgold with panels made by New York City students ages 8 to 19. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., September 11 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | • Faces of Ground Zero: 10 Years Later features more than 50 life-size portraits of 9/11 heroes by Joe McNally. Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 33 West 60th ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, September 12 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., September 12, 3:15pm, Mon., September 12, 7:05pm | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Dir. Abel Ferrara (1992). The best Scorsese film of the ‘90s was made by hardcore scuzzmeister Abel Ferrara—a startling, powerfully restrained vision of sin and salvation in godless New York ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., September 12, 9:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | $15-$17 | | | Peter Bjorn and John have already played New York several times this year in support of Gimme Some, the crafty, back-to-basics garage-rock disc they released in March. Nonetheless, the Swedish ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Saturday, 2:00pm, Every week Tuesday, 7:00pm, Every week Friday, Sunday, 3:00pm, Every week Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8:00pm | | Where: | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | | Price: | $70-$140 | | | “Rock of Ages,” the celebrated hymn based on First Corinthians, will not appear in this Broadway musical. Instead expect the hits of Foreigner, Styx, Pat Benatar, and Journey. The nominal ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, September 13 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., July 16, 10:30am-8:00pm, Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sat., July 16 until Mon., January 16, 10:30am-7:00pm, Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Tue., July 19 until Mon., January 16, 10:30am-5:00pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | $6–$12 | | | With the release last week of Muppets: The Green Album (Muppets songs re-imagined by everyone from Weezer to Andrew Bird) and the forthcoming release of The Muppets (with Jason Segel, ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Tue., September 13 until Sat., October 22 | | Where: | Leslie/Lohman Gallery, Gay Art Foundation | | Price: | free | | | For all you LGBT anthropologists out there, what's the best way to see some lesbians in New York? If your guess was a visit to Henrietta Hudson, nice try. There's ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., June 17 until Sun., October 2, 8:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., June 18 until Sun., October 2, 7:00pm, Every week Saturday from Sat., June 18 until Sun., October 2, 9:30pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., June 19 until Sun., October 2, 5:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., June 19 until Sun., October 2, 7:30pm | | Where: | Soho Playhouse | | Price: | $40-$75 | | | To say that hip-hop has gone through an evolution is like saying that Rakim has occasionally bragged--it doesn't quite capture the enormity. (Hey, if Rev Run had attempted the crooked-wing ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, September 14 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., September 14, 8:00pm | | Where: | Peter Norton Symphony Space | | Price: | $15-$25 | | | There has been no shortage of opportunities to highlight a show by the great cabaret star Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, but this is the first time, to our knowledge, that ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., September 14 until Thu., September 22 | | Where: | Film Forum | | Price: | $12.50 | | | Based on the true stories of NYPD narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, William Friedkin's 1971 gritty cop thriller The French Connection follows detectives "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., September 14 until Sat., October 29 | | Where: | RH Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Lady Gaga's latest transformation, in which she is now Jo Calderone, a roughed-up-looking dude with a pompadour, is such a striking transformation that, just like her infectious pop tunes, we ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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