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Sep 8
Women in Clothes Book Launch; The Powerhouse Arena
Join writers Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton to celebrate the publication of a one-of-a-kind hybrid book that explores how women relate to clothing. Bring five items from your own wardrobe for the clothing swap!
NYC Honey Week; Various locations
Look out for city-wide honey and cheese tastings, chef-hosted dinners, infusion workshops, panel discussions and apiary tours at Gotham institutions like Murray’s Cheese, Brooklyn Grange, Brooklyn Kitchen and The Cleveland.
Imagine: A Concert of Hope; Le Poisson Rouge
All proceeds from this event go towards the Brian Warbel memorial fund for cancer research. The show features an absolutely stellar, once-in-a-very-great-while mixture from the casts of several high profile Broadway shows. Don't miss this.
US Open at Brooklyn Bridge Park; Brooklyn Bridge Park
Anyone for tennis? Last day for this event, folks.
Bombay Rickey; Joe's Pub at the Public Theater
It sounds like a delicious cocktail, but is actually a five-piece band from Ditmas Park that sounds like a Bollywood movie score.
Ryan McGinley, Yearbook; Team Gallery
The photographer's noted passion for fleeting youth is on full display in this installation. Depicting 200 models, all young and in the nude, the piece consists of 500 studio portraits printed on vinyl sheets, which are stuck to every square inch of the gallery's walls and ceiling. It's a celebration of the innocent and anodyne, but also, as the title suggests, a acknowledgment of the transition to the ravages of adulthood.
Muldoon's Picnic; Irish Art's Center
You had us at the word 'picnic.' You had us even more at Irish folk music. It's not an actual picnic, by the way. Expect all the folk songs you can get, though.
Sep 9
Karen O; The Manderley Bar & Le Poisson Rouge
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman plays four intimate hometown shows in honor of her solo debut, Crush Songs, which is out this week on Julian Casablancas's Cult Records.
National Ballet of Canada; David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
The company performs Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Featuring costumes and sets by Bob Crowley and a score by Joby Talbot, the piece transforms Lewis Carroll's famous story into a ballet.
Saeed Jones: Prelude to Bruise; Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The talented Buzzfeed LGBT editor wrote a book of poems and will be reading from it, just for you. How sweet.
Strange & Beautiful: The Music and Art of John Lurie; Le Poisson Rouge
Noted genius/weirdo John Lurie will be honored at this event.
Crime & Punishment; Cake Shop
Comedian Kate Berlant hosts an off-the-wall funny night where the jokes will be criminally hilarious.
Old New York Live; The Bell House
Remember New York how it used to be (smelly and weird?) at this Bell House event.
This Is Our Youth; Cort Theatre
Two post-adolescent New Yorkers in the ’80s get mixed up in drugs and stolen money. Michael Cera makes his Broadway debut in the Kenneth Lonergan play.
Sep 10
Bootycandy; Playwrights Horizons
To be young, black and gay: writer-director Robert O’Hara finds hilarity and heartbreak in this anthology of interconnected sketches.
Spoon; Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
The popular indie band plays a popular park in a popular city. Their new album totally slays, and you should totally go.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers + Steve Winwood; PNC Bank Arts Center
Any excuse to yell out "FREEEEE FAAAAALLINNNNNNNN'" is okay by us.
The Real Wolf of Wallstreet; 92Y, Kauffman Concert Hall
The dude who inspired the Leo DiCaprio movie does a talk, presumably not about Quaaludes.
The Eagles; Prudential Center
Oh heck yes. So many dads are gonna be there doing air-guitar to "Hotel California" that—if you're a fan of cool dads, you'd be a fool to miss this.
We'll Have What She's Having: An Interactive When Harry Met Sally Experience; The Bell House
You know how they have Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight screenings, where people throw things at the screen and act out certain bits? Well, there are some Brooklyn hipsters doing that kind of thing for the Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan romantic comedy.
Technical Difficulties; Raven's Head Public House
Stand up comedy with a funny name! Tee hee!
Sep 11
Jenny Holzer, "Dust Paintings"; Cheim & Read
The famed auteur of "Truisms" presents abstract paintings based on adapted government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
"Mike Kelley: Reconstructed History"; Skarstedt Chelsea
It's left-coast art with a series of textbook illustrations of the Founding Fathers and other historical figures defaced with doodles such as penises, swastikas and pigs' noses. Sounds like our kind of art exhibit.
Helen Frankenthaler, "Composing with Color, Paintings 1962-1963"; Gagosian Gallery
Frankenthaler was one of very few women artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, but during the early 1960s. She had a way with color that will make you feel like you're looking at her work with those super-powered HD sunglasses.