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The holidays have been a time for ghost stories since way before Dickens, so a visit to the cemetery on a cold winter’s night is actually in keeping with tradition. If you can bypass the spooky factor, venture into picturesque Green-Wood this evening for Silent Night — Classic Movies in a Gothic Setting. The historic chapel will host a genre-diverse selection of films from... Read more about this event >>
Here’s a great Turkey Day plan: parade, eat, nap, eat, ice skate. Not all the city’s rinks are open yet, but here are two that accommodate a lot of skaters and give you a chance to be outside for the holiday. In Manhattan, the Winter Village at Bryant Park is a beautiful setting, especially at night when the lights make it a winter wonderland. The skating is free, and you can rent... Read more about this event >>
There have been many brilliant Watsons over the years: Alexander Graham Bell’s engineer was Thomas A. Watson, Sherlock Holmes had Dr. John Watson, and then there was that super-computer who ruled Jeopardy. Madeleine George’s new play, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, puts these three together and adds a new Watson we don’t know — an “amiable... Read more about this event >>
Perhaps you remember the YouTube parody "Hipster Olympics," which went viral for its hilarious depiction of young Williamsburg residents competing to be the ultimate slacker. Now the duo behind the skit, Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen, both comedy writers and directors (MTV, College Humor), have a new project: Coloring for Grown-Ups Holiday Fun Book, an adult activity book that will "help even... Read more about this event >>
Nashville meets Brooklyn on the country chic The Love I Have For You, Tess’s recently released second album on rootsy label Signature Sounds: Here, the Brooklyn-based singer presents a collection of six covers and one original that pays homage to the totemic men who shaped the genre, claiming their contributions for the distaff branch of the Americana family tree but still leaving room... Read more about this event >>
Whenever you see Andrea Bocelli on an album cover or in a promotional photo, the blind Italian tenor looks so happy and carefree, just chilling. Don't get it twisted: This dude is a beast whenever he's behind a microphone, cold murking standards and originals with operatic intensity. You have not heard "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" until you have heard Bocelli decimate motherfuckers in his... Read more about this event >>
The Swiss ensemble premieres New York avant-opera genius Robert Ashley's new Mixed Blessing, Indiana for horn, cello, and synthesizer. One of 49 "Immortality Songs" (all with seven-syllable titles) Ashley began composing in the early '90s as adjuncts to larger works, Mixed Blessings is conceived as a radio show derived from American literary ephemera, from advertising to pop fiction, and... Read more about this event >>
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the magnificently self-involved pianist's "standards" trio with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary Peacock. Sort of a bejazzled Grateful Dead in miniature, the three intersperse long-familiar tunes with astonishing interludes of free group improvisation. Everything old becomes transcendent in these three wise men's capable hands. Read more about this event >>
Apple picking is a common fall entertainment, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a tarter, sweeter crop than offered by Richard Nelson in his Apple Family cycle. The Public Theater revives the three early plays, the better to harmonize with the latest and final drama about the upstate clan, Regular Singing. Read more about this event >>
"Timescapes, an engrossing 22-minute multimedia experience, traces the growth of New York City from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans to its present status as one of the worlds great cities. Created by Jake Barton of Local Projects and James Sanders, co-writer of the PBS series New York: A Documentary History, and narrated by actor Stanley Tucci,... Read more about this event >>
Most movies made in high school are best left in storage. But for multimedia artist Ryan Trecartin, who filmed a short titled "Junior War" starring his high school friends 15 years ago, it recently became a part of his installation at the 55th Venice Biennale. Tonight, Trecartin drops by BAM as "Junior War" make its U.S. debut along with three more of his short films at the fifth annual... Read more about this event >>
Cass McCombs has long been known for his oddities. Though he released a few albums before it, his breakout album, 2009's Catacombs introduced the shadowy, winding craft that the singer/songwriter would quickly be known for. Unafraid to play with structure and tone, his latest record, Big Wheel and Others is shot through with the musings of a drug-addled 4-year-old who appears in a 1969... Read more about this event >>
In the last ten years Natalia Lafourcade’s sound has evolved from the energetic mix of bossa nova guitars and lite-house beats of her self-titled 2003 debut to 2009’s Hu Hu Hu, which often sounds like a more cheerful, less weird version of CocoRosie, with some Juana Molina and Julieta Venegas thrown in for good measure. Looming largest over this transition is the figure of... Read more about this event >>
Amanda Peet has a very pretty face. But the actress is out to prove she’s more than an assemblage of symmetrical features by making her playwriting debut. Manhattan Theatre Club presents this comedy of fractured family, starring Blythe Danner as none too gay divorcee and Sarah Jessica Parker as her difficult daughter. Read more about this event >>
Even though he's a groove master, things can be a bit unsettled in drummer Johnathan Blake's music he messes with polyrhythms and turns the beat every which way while looking for fresh ground. This new band is notable for the two tenors up front, as a zig-zag session with Chris Potter and Ravi Coltrane just might be an end-of-the-year club highlight. Both are fully inventive when it... Read more about this event >>
It’s been turbulent times at El Museo del Barrio, where they recently cut back on hours and staff and are facing charges of gender discrimination brought by former director Margarita Aguilar. But with their major biennial opening today, all that is put aside to make room for what matters most: the work. La Bienal 2013, titled “Here Is Where We Jump,” brings together 37... Read more about this event >>
This year, she transformed Santigold into a tentacular, voracious beast covered in “spores that emit polluting smoke like factory chimneys”—among other unlikely feats. Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu works in video and large-scale collage to explore gender, race, and consumption, particularly in the context of the black female body, which she often represents as a gangly... Read more about this event >>
It's not quite that calling them "stoner rock" is misguided or somehow objectionable this is, after all, a band whose breakthrough single was called "Feel Good Hit of the Summer,” but whatever your state of intoxication, getting pummeled with power chords will eventually remind you that "stone" has another meaning primal, heavy, and timeless. Read more about this event >>
While Orlando Bloom rides around on a motorcycle as Romeo on Broadway, two-time Tony-winner Mark Rylance dons a lady’s wig in Twelfth Night to perform Shakespeare in the most traditional way possible: with an all-male cast. Coming from a sold-out run in London, Twelfth Night runs in repertory with Richard III, starring Rylance as the deformed king. And just as shows used to be done in... Read more about this event >>
Fifty years later, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy still resonates as one of the most shocking moments in U.S. history. “JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History” recalls that tragic day through iconic images and video stills and explores the aftermath, including the hunt for the assassin, the swearing in of the new president, the widow’s... Read more about this event >>
A couple of seasons ago, we attended a ThreeASFOUR presentation in a West Village loft that resembled an underground party more than a Fashion Week event. Designers Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser have long remained true to their aesthetic, and they rarely present their shows in a typical runway setting because they see their avant-garde pieces as art, not as clothes meant for a... Read more about this event >>
Awash with '80s synths and filtered electronic harmonies, Small Black's second official release, Limits of Desire pushes the boundaries of reflective, digital yearnings. Never tilting the scales all the way toward emo, the album is still packed full of feelings and emotive, nostalgic tracks, with the band coming together as a cohesive whole, pulling off backwards-looking love songs with... Read more about this event >>
One of the guilty pleasures of the summer of 2004 was the Lloyd Banks crossover-rap ballad “Smile.” The fifth single from the then on-top-of-the-industry G-Unit’s Beg for Mercy album, the song didn’t last long on the charts, but it represented something of a high-water mark for the G-Unit lieutenant, who has never quite fulfilled his potential as a sort of thug-poet... Read more about this event >>
For fans of Harold Pinter, this fall on Broadway couldn't be any more enticing. First there was Mike Nichols's production of Betrayal with Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz; now Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in No Man’s Land, which concerns a meeting between two writers who may or may not know each other. And as if seeing these two distinguished actors in one play wasn't... Read more about this event >>
As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of the gang, or at least the person who could actually sell their work, was Peggy Guggenheim, who gave... Read more about this event >>
Here’s a great Turkey Day plan: parade, eat, nap, eat, ice skate. Not all the city’s rinks are open yet, but here are two that accommodate a lot of skaters and give you a chance to be outside for the holiday. In Manhattan, the Winter Village at Bryant Park is a beautiful setting, especially at night when the lights make it a winter wonderland. The skating is free, and you can rent... Read more about this event >>
Son Lux, a/k/a Ryan Lott, is an all-over-the-map innovator working across the pop, hip-hop, film, and experimental zones. He's a frequent collaborator with Sufjan Stevens, whose influence can be heard in Lott's trebly, bubbling harmonies. He performs at this early-evening benefit for the nonprofit New Amsterdam label with Trevor Wilson, whose exquisitely harmonized Vocal Ensemble, accompanied... Read more about this event >>
At first glance, Dorothea Rockburne’s works look like straightforward lines on a wall, but they are far from simplistic. They are mathematical solutions. Rockburne has said that “drawing is the bones of thought,” and has applied her studies in math and astronomy to her work since the late ’60s. “Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself,” an exhibition... Read more about this event >>