 | | Best things to do in New York from September 15 - 21, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, September 15 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., September 15, 7:30pm | | Where: | MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters | | Price: | $12 | | | Dir. Roman Polanski (1992). Best enjoyed as the infernal sequel to Four Weddings and a Funeral, Polanski’s dark, self-reflexive sex comedy reunites Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott-Thomas as a pair of ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., September 15 until Sat., October 1 | | Where: | The High Line | | Price: | free | | | If you haven't stopped by the High Line yet to take in the new second section of the elevated park, David Byrne is giving you a good reason to come ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Thu., September 15 until Sun., September 18 | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $7-$20 | | | Four years ago, Brooklyn alt-comedian Eugene Mirman launched his super low-budget Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival basically as an inside joke between him and his fans, advertising VIP rooms made of ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, September 16 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., September 7 until Sun., September 18, 7:00pm, Every week Sunday from Sun., September 11 until Sun., September 18, 2:00pm, Sun., September 18, 7:00pm | | Where: | HERE | | Price: | $18 | | | Rehana Lew Mirza's 2002 play concerns a Chinese-Pakistani family who lost their eldest sun in the World Trade Center attack. More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., September 16 until Thu., September 22 | | Where: | Anthology Film Archives | | Price: | $7-$9 | | | On the heels of the New York International Latino Film Festival comes another film series celebrating the talents of young Mexicans who are truly revolutionizing cinema. GenMex: Recent Films From ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., September 16 | | Where: | The Museum at FIT | | Price: | free | | | If you didn't get a chance to see "Savage Beauty," the Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Met, or just can't get enough of staring at beautiful clothes, FIT's Daphne Guinness ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, September 17 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., September 17, 8:00pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $10-$12 | | | San Francisco's Hunx and His Punx—"the first-ever ‘girl group' fronted by a flamboyant gay male whose dream in life is to sound like a girl," per their label's remarkably thorough ... More>> | | |
| | | | | 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 | Sat., September 17, 6:00pm | | Where: | Elizabeth Street Garden | | Price: | $50 | | | What's a good pairing with beef and chive salad? Perhaps a side of James Murphy? Sounds delish, and that's exactly what's going down at Le Grand Fooding, a food and ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, September 18 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., September 18, 10:00am | | Where: | Brooklyn Borough Hall | | Price: | free | | | There's a good reason so many writers move to Brooklyn—with numerous Pulitzer Prize winners in the borough, all that good fortune just has to rub off on everyone else. This ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., September 16, 7:00pm, Sun., September 18, 7:30pm | | Where: | Museum of the Moving Image | | Price: | free with $15 museum admission; $12 for Friday evening screening | | | Dir. Gus Van Sant (1991). At once a story cycle and a collage, Van Sant’s third feature draws on Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Welles and Warhol: the self-conscious erudition is balanced by ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., September 18, 4:30pm, Sun., September 18, 9:15pm | | Where: | Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater | | Price: | $13 | | | Dir. Andrew Rossi (2011). Part vérité, part infomercial, Page One celebrates a way of life. As more than once noted, the Times does God’s work, re-creating the world every day by setting the news ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, September 19 | | | | | | | Time | Mon., September 19, 8:00pm | | Where: | (le) Poisson Rouge | | Price: | $20 | | | w h o k i l l, the second album by tUnE-yArDs, the Connecticut-born indie darling who reached New York after a detour in Kenya, is lively, challenging, and engaging, ... 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 | Mon., September 19, 8:00pm | | Where: | Roulette Brooklyn | | Price: | $15-$20 | | | For 20 years, Australian improv titans the Necks have dealt in a sui generis ambient-jazz hypnotism, enrapturing audiences with hour-long rituals of circular riffs that evolve with the speedy pace ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, September 20 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., August 27, 8:00pm, Sat., August 27, 10:00pm, Tue., September 20, 8:00pm, Tue., September 20, 10:00pm, Sun., October 16, 8:00pm, Sun., October 16, 10:00pm, Sat., November 19, 8:00pm, Sat., November 19, 10:00pm, Fri., December 30, 8:00pm, Fri., December 30, 10:00pm, Sat., December 31, 8:00pm, Sat., December 31, 10:00pm | | Where: | The Stone | | Price: | $20 | | | Once a month, the city's avant-garde elite descend on Avenue C for an old-fashioned rent party to keep the Stone, their modest unofficial headquarters, afloat. A former Chinese restaurant converted ... 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., September 20, 8:30pm | | Where: | Knitting Factory | | Price: | $12 | | | On 2008's self-titled debut, the Vivian Girls set the template for the lo-fi and lo-maintenance guitar rock that has since risen to the level of zeitgeist among jean jacket–wearing L ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, September 21 | | | | | | | Time | Wed., September 21, 8:00pm, Thu., September 22, 8:00pm | | Where: | Terminal 5 | | Price: | $27-$30 | | | Although Beirut might be best known for their fixation with the sort of Eastern European folk arrangements not often heard in American pop, "East Harlem," the lead single off their ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Wed., September 21, 6:00pm | | Where: | Dave & Buster's | | Price: | free | | | Our very own beloved gossip queen Michael Musto has a new book out, and it's time to celebrate. Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back collects some of Musto's ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., August 19 until Sun., October 9 | | Where: | New York Theatre Workshop | | Price: | $20-$70 | | | Should someone stage an intervention? It's unlikely that the actors of The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Elevator Repair Service's Ernest Hemingway adaptation, consume actual booze onstage, but the amount ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
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