 | | Best things to do in New York from September 22 - 28, 2011 | |  | | | | Thursday, September 22 | | | | | | | Time | Thu., September 22, 7:00pm | | Where: | WORD | | Price: | free | | | How much do you like the doodles of David Shrigley? Enough to get his art tattooed on your body? If so, tonight's launch party for his latest book of quirky ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., September 22, 8:00pm, Thu., September 22, 9:00pm | | Where: | French Institute Alliance Française | | Price: | free-$25 | | | Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched or perhaps even videotaped? Tonight's film, Ariane Michel's The Screening, part of the French Institute Alliance Française's "Crossing the Line" multimedia ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Thu., September 22, 6:00pm | | Where: | Central Park, SummerStage | | Price: | $45 | | | The newest album from Jeff Tweedy's acclaimed alt-country machine starts with "Art Of Almost," an epic art-rock freakout which rightly parades spastic jazz/noise guitarist Nels Cline around like a prize ... More>> | | | | | | | Friday, September 23 | | | | | | | Time | Fri., September 23, 9:00pm, Sat., September 24, 9:00pm | | Where: | Bowery Ballroom | | Price: | $22 | | | Last week San Francisco's Girls released their sophomore full-length to some of the year's best reviews, and this week, the enigmatic indie crew hit New York for a sold-out two-night ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., September 23, 6:00pm, Daily from Sat., September 24 until Sun., September 25, 12:00pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | If you have a Brooklyn love story you just don't want to keep inside, this year's DUMBO Arts Festival has the "Brooklyn Love Exchange" to help you out. At this ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Fri., September 23, 6:30pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $20 | | | The New York dance-punk faith-keepers go unexpectedly godly on In the Grace of Your Love, their just-released follow-up to 2006’s Pieces of the People We Love, which may or may ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Saturday, September 24 | | | | | | | Time | Sat., September 24, 11:00am | | Where: | The Peoples Improv Theater | | Price: | $10 | | | Sure, you've seen Top Gun before. But have you ever experienced flying through the Danger Zone on a fighter jet named William Shakespeare? We think not! Jester's Dead channels the ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., September 24 | | Where: | Stonewall | | Price: | $10 | | | Four years ago, Mrs.V and Cherelynore first laid eyes on each other at the faux-queen party debut Victoria at the Stonewall, and—yadda, yadda, yadda—they're legally getting married tonight! Our very ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sat., September 24, 7:00pm | | Where: | Webster Hall | | Price: | $18-$20 | | | "Get Drunk and Be Somebody" might be a Toby Keith tune, but it's a sentiment to which Toronto hardcore group Fucked Up would surely relate. Their latest, David Comes to ... More>> | | | | | | | Sunday, September 25 | | | | | | | Time | Sun., September 25, 1:00pm, Sun., September 25, 5:00pm | | Where: | Bell House | | Price: | $45-$50 | | | Like to eat with your hands? No one will judge you tonight when the Brooklyn Beefsteak returns to the Bell House. Bring a bib or buy a souvenir apron for ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., September 25, 12:00pm | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | free | | | Standing in a tattered dress, holding a rag doll, and staring off into a bleak future with Lillian Gish-like silence, Poor Baby Bree seems to have been born in sepia ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Sun., September 25, 9:00pm | | Where: | Brooklyn Bowl | | Price: | $8 | | | Finally, Boots Riley and the Coup return to New York, partying for the right to fight while our city's self-proclaimed "conscious" rappers stand off to the side moralizing. But that's ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Monday, September 26 | | | | | | | Time | Every week Monday from Mon., September 26 until Mon., October 10, 7:00pm | | Where: | Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Price: | $18 | | | How does a Jersey boy get to be a New York City stage star? Not by impersonating Frankie Valli. For Bianca Leigh, the journey from skinny kid from the 'burbs ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Mon., September 26, 7:00pm | | Where: | Izod Center | | Price: | $36-$56 | | | Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's first batch of post-Kurt home recordings was greeted by such wild critical and commercial success that it's easy enough to understand how in the following ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Mon., September 26 until Sun., October 16 | | Where: | Multiple venues | | Price: | $25 | | | If you bowl over at the sound of show tunes but would prefer an edgier, more original (and cheaper!) version of a Broadway show, don't miss the New York Musical ... More>> | | | | | | | Tuesday, September 27 | | | | | | | Time | Tue., September 27, 7:00pm | | Where: | Housing Works Bookstore | | Price: | free | | | Be delighted and maybe even learn a thing or two tonight when the witty 28-year-old cartoonist Kate Beaton gives a presentation on her new book, Hark! A Vagrant, published by ... More>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Daily from Fri., August 19 until Sun., October 23 | | 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>> | | |
| | | | | Time | Tue., September 27, 8:00pm, Wed., September 28, 8:00pm | | Where: | Music Hall of Williamsburg | | Price: | $30 | | | After 13 years of inactivity, New York's most perverse misery merchants Swans are back and itchier than ever. Announced with doomsday fervor as the "FINAL TOUR UNTIL RELEASE OF NEW ... More>> | | | | | |  | | | | Wednesday, September 28 | | | | | | | Time | Daily from Wed., September 28 until Sat., October 22 | | Where: | Gladstone Gallery | | Price: | free | | | Whatever Matthew Barney of Cremaster cycle fame does, you can always count on it to be nothing short of massive. His new show, "DJED," features large-scale sculptures that are part ... 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 | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8:00pm, Every week Wednesday, Saturday, 2:00pm, Every week Sunday, 3:00pm, Every week Tuesday, 7:00pm | | Where: | Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | | Price: | $77-$132 | | | Katori Hall’s two-hander is set hours before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. In a Memphis hotel room, King (Samuel L. Jackson) shares his last night on Earth with a chambermaid ... More>> | | | | | |  | |
