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Writing for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: A.D. Miles & Wayne Federman The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) |
Sat., November 7, 2:00pm |
West 50s |
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Did you give up on Jimmy Fallon's late night show because he seemed a little nervous in those first weeks? If so, you should try it again. Our boy has found his chops, and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon has been funny as hell lately. Jimmy can thank his writers, including head writer A.D. Miles... More>> |
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Bar-athlon Second Chance Saloon |
Sat., November 7, 3:00pm |
Williamsburg |
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Apparently, drinking games are no longer just for underage NYU students. This Saturday, Second Chance Saloon will challenge domestic-whisky-experts and beer-can-free-throwers alike to prove their drinking might in its first annual Bar-athlon. Teams of up to four drinkers will compete in 10... More>> |
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Cléo From 5 to 7 BAM |
Sat., November 7, 6:50pm more dates/times |
Brooklyn |
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Dir. Agnès Varda (1962).
Agnès Vardas most overtly nouvelle vague caprice films the uncertain afternoon of a glamorous young Parisienne, waiting for the results of a medical exam, in real timeamong other things, its a suggestive foremother to Chantal... More>> |
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Basement Jaxx Santos' Party House |
Sat., November 7, 10:00pm |
Chinatown |
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Crazy Itch Radio, the lukewarm 2006 effort from English dance-music duo Basement Jaxx, cost them a good deal of momentum here in the States among all but their most devout fans. But buoyed by killer lead single "Raindrops," their latest full-length, Scars, should please those still enamored of... More>> |
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Carsick Cars Santos' Party House |
Sat., November 7, 7:00pm |
Chinatown |
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As the Beijing indie label Maybe Mars pulls into town to (perhaps) show us the future of rock music as a "Made in China" brand name this week (with shows at Glasslands and Columbia as well), the band most likely to succeed stateside remains Carsick Cars. Fronted by twentysomething guitarist... More>> |
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'Osso Quartet:Sufjan Stevens' The BQE' Bell House |
Sat., November 7, 7:30pm |
Brooklyn |
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While we secretly wish Sufjan would get going with an album about Rhode Island, we're happy to note that the musician's latest dalliances in orchestral chamber music (Run Rabbit Run) and experimental filmmaking (The BQE) are almost as good as his songs about Michigan-based serial killers. On... More>> |
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Double Dagger Maxwell's |
Sat., November 7, 8:30pm |
New Jersey |
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"I'm not sure I know what the point is, and I don't care. That shit gets on my nerves," wrote the Voice's Annie Fischer in a review of Double Dagger's 2007 CMJ showcase. She was reportedly pissed that lead singer Nolen Strals kept forcing his fingers into audience members' mouths, though Double... More>> |
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Love Child New World Stages |
Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 23 until Sun., January 3, 8:00pm more dates/times |
West 50s |
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Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton revive their two-man comedy, an adaptation of Euripides Ion and a tribute to the madness and disarray of theatermaking. When we saw it last year, we wrote, The scripts a bit inane, but theres great joy in watching Stanton and Jenkins... More>> |
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Good Bobby 59E59 |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., October 8 until Sun., November 8, 8:15pm |
East 50s |
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The recent death of Ted Kennedy has returned attention to his blessed and cursed familynot that attention had ever wandered very far. Brian Lee Franklins play concerns Teddys doomed older brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and his efforts to cultivate a political identity distinct... More>> |
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House on Fire Julie Saul Gallery |
Daily from Wed., September 23 until Tue., November 17 |
Chelsea |
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The story is almost too terrible to believe. In 1956, Velma Orlikow, the grandmother of Canadian artist Sarah Anne Johnson, entered a mental hospital in Montreal to be treated for postpartum depression. Instead, she suffered torture at the hands of her doctor, who worked for a CIA-funded... More>> |
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Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present Brooklyn Museum |
Daily from Fri., October 30 until Sun., January 31 |
Prospect Heights |
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Without photography, would Elvis and his gyrating hips have shocked America? Can you talk about Grace Jones without thinking of the Island Life cover? The photographers who collaborated with rock 'n' roll musicians injected the genre with glamour, grit, and sex appeal, and even today, one... More>> |
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'Inside' NYU, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo |
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 9:00am |
West Village |
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J Viewz Blue Note |
Fri., November 6, 12:30am |
Greenwich Village |
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Mr. North Ulysses |
Sat., November 7 |
Financial District |
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The Polar Express Barnes and Noble |
Sat., November 7 |
Tribeca |
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Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have A Future? Cooper Union, Great Hall |
Sat., November 7, 9:30am |
East Village |
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Murrays Saturday Cheese Brunch City Winery |
Sat., November 7, 10:00am |
Tribeca |
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Crotona Park Fall Harvest Festival Crotona Park |
Sat., November 7, 12:00pm |
Crotona Park |
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'Jazz for Young People: Who is Mary Lou Williams?' Jazz at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center, Rose Theater |
Sat., November 7, 1:00pm more dates/times |
West 60s |
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Computer Free-for-All MOMA, Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters |
Sat., November 7, 1:00pm |
West 40s |
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Womens Brunch Galway Hooker |
Sat., November 7, 1:00pm |
Murray Hill |
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Artist Meet & Greet: Luc Tuymans The Strand |
Sat., November 7, 2:00pm |
Union Square |
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Rockpile Symposium St. Marks Church |
Sat., November 7, 2:00pm |
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Shirley Knight's Shakespeare Workshop Producers' Club Theater |
Sat., November 7, 2:00pm |
West 40s |
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IAC PoetryFest 2009 Irish Arts Center |
Sat., November 7, 3:00pm |
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