around town today
1-2:30pm: artist/writer/filmmaker miranda july signs copies of her debut novel, the first bad man, at mcnally jackson. >>color>
5-11pm: the i imagine film festival, occurring at the same time as the un general assembly, curates global stories about a range of social, environmental, and political issues in an effort to better understand how to address them. sva theater, $10/film, $20/pass. >>color>
6pm: veteran tv talk show host dick cavett hosts an illustrated talk with joan kramer and david heeley, who documented the lives and careers of many of hollywood’s famous and powerful in their new book, in the company of legendscolor>. nypl for the performing arts, free. >>color>
6-9pm: free art opening: ’vernacular typography’ @ usagi ny (thru 11/7) >>color>
6:30pm (thru 10/9): author and activist bell hooks (née gloria jean watkins) hosts a week of conversations with intellectuals and scholars at eugene lang college. tonight: a discussion about performance art in popular culture today with guest charles blow (new york times). free. >>color>
7pm: former the atlantic editor, independent journalist and climate activist wen stephenson presents his journey into the climate-justice movement in what we’re fighting for now is each other at bookcourt. free. >>color>
7pm: journalists antony loewenstein (disaster capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe) and jeremy scahill (dirty wars) discuss their books at housing works. free. >>color>
7pm (monthly): the ‘behind the book’ reading series at kgb bar features helen phillips (the beautiful bureaucrat), sophie mcmanus (the unfortunates) alexandra kleeman (you too can have a body like mine), and tanwi nandini islam (bright lines). free. >>color>
7pm: folks share their embarrassingly pretentious films, essays and more from their art school years at the bullsh*t olympics show. hosted by alice roth and ken greller. videology, free. >>color>
7pm-3:30am: berning down the house: a local bernie sanders fundraiser/awareness event with live music + art benefits the sanders presidential campaign. bonus: free ben + jerry’s ice cream and pizza at 7pm. the paper box, $10. >>color>
7pm doors, 7:30pm music, 8pm film: rooftop films returns with an outdoor screening of short horror films and the returned, plus live music by orion rigel dommisse. food and drink will be available for purchase. in the event of rain, the event will move indoors. the bushwick generator, free (rsvp). >>color>
7pm doors, 8pm show (monthly): get your dose of schadenfreude at mortified, a tribute to teen angst artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) shared by their original authors. littlefield, $10. >>color>
7pm doors, 8pm show: hotsy totsy burlesque pays tribute to american horror story at the slipper room. $10. >>color>
7:30pm (bi-monthly): the pete’s reading series returns with readings by julia pierpont (among the ten thousand things) and elizabeth sanders(the last light). pete’s candy store, free. >>color>
7:30pm (weekly): jiji lee + patrick clair host the split personality storytelling + character open mic show at williamsburg’s over the eight bar. tonight’s guests: charla lauriston (why? unbreakable kimmy schmidt), lydia hensler (ucb), and lea palmieri (internet action force). free. >>color>
7:30pm (monthly): performers, writers, and regular folks tell stories about mental health (and the lack thereof) at lori baird’s talk therapy storytelling + open mic show. tonight: comedian angela cobb, storytellers peter aguero and selena coppock, and open-mic spots. q.e.d. astoria, $5. >>color>
8pm: at ’pander public radio’, a live show and podcast hosted by fake npr host justin ‘pander’ perez, guests tell personal stories and perez attempts to tie them together. tonight’s debut includes guests hasan minhaj (the daily show), matteo lane (gotham comedy live),matteo lane (guy code), julia shiplett (devour hour co-host), and country music comedy duo reformed whores. the experiment comedy gallery, $10 admission includes free harpoon brewery beer. >>color>
8pm (+ thru 10/11, + 10/13-17): immerse yourself in the witches, a dramatic adaptation of macbeth by the new collectives that’s part séance, part play. the access theater (tribeca), $18. >>color>
8pm doors, 8:30pm show: inside joke: an unexpected night of standup comedy: after a lifetime of saying both on and off stage that she’d never have kids and doesn’t particularly like children, a very pregnant ophira eisenberg (ask me another, screw everyone: sleeping my way to monogamy) delivers original material about her maternal state. union hall, $10 adv, $12 dos. >>color>
9pm (monthly): at the low standards show, guests perform stand-up and discuss their favorite underappreciated films. hosted by john murray and matt fisher. bonus: $3 off sixpoint drafts 8-9pm. videology, free. >>color>
9:30pm: spider-man… entirely from memory: eight performers attempt to recreate the film stories of spider-man from memory. without knowing which role they’ll have until the show. with additional audience-written lines. and random sound effects added in. the pit, $10. >>color>
midnight: monika (christodoulou) plays a free record release show at baby’s all right. >>color>
thru 10/9: immerse yourself in nyc contemporary theater and performance during cuny’s 12th annual prelude festival, which features 30+ free performances, panels and installations. >>color>
thru 10/11: new york super week, a week of events leading up to new york comic con, features tons of pop-culture themed events including concerts, comedy shows, gaming, lectures, podcasts, storytelling, food tastings and more. some of tonight’s skint-priced events: geekfest film festival (gotham west market, $10), robot chicken season premiere (brooklyn bowl, free), uptown showdown: superheroes vs villains (symphony space, $15), star wars minute (dimenna center, $7). >>color>
thru 10/12: the onassis cultural center ny reopens with a four-day festival of 40 free music, dance, talks and film events. >>color>
thru 10/12: 50 artists’ work + performances take-over public spaces all along 14th street from avenue c to the hudson river for the 11th annual art in odd places festival. opening reception fri 5-8pm @ pedro albizu campos plaza (e. 14th st. bet aves a + b). free. >>color>
thru 8/7: cooper hewitt’s newest exhibition, ’pixar: the design of story’ examines the animation studio’s design process and features original artwork, including hand-drawn sketches, paintings and sculptures from films such as toy story, wall-e, the incredibles, and more. $18 general, $12 seniors, $9 students, pay-what-you-wish 6-9pm saturdays. >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
sponsored
BBQ Films and Deacon Frost invite you to start your Halloween season by stepping into the 1998 classic vampire film BLADE for the BLADE RAVE production! The event is an immersive screening of Blade inside the film’s iconic vampire nightclub, and features an array of experiences that put you inside of the movie culminating in a blood rain (only for those who choose), and a set by The Crystal Method. All information about tickets for tomorrow’s event at bbqfilms.com/bladecolor>.
Special discount for skint readers! Use code FatherSebastiaan23 for limited $42 tickets (reg. $56). Come have a bloody good time!
coming up
10/9 free art openings:
brigid berlin ‘it’s all about me’ @ invisible-exports (thru 11/15) >>color>
‘hit the street: four decades of new york street photography’ @ outlet >>color>
10/9 4pm: punk musician and label owner ian mackaye (minor threat, fugazi, the evens) talks about his career at the new school’s ‘the eyes of the entrepeneurs’ series. free. >>color>
10/9 6:30pm: free outdoor movie: shaun of the dead (2004) @ sunset park >>color>
10/9 7pm: leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to fitbit…all subjects explored by this year’s best american essays, edited by ariel levy. bookcourt’s book release event features a reading, signing, and q+a, hosted by series editor robert atwan with guests mark jacobson (the lampshade), margo jefferson (negroland: a memoir and john reed (tales of woe). free. >>color>
10/9 7pm (line starts at 5pm, doors open 6pm): margaret atwood shares her newest novel, the heart goes last, at st. francis college. free admission. >>color>
10/9 7pm: get your pawtographed copy of no-it-all: everything you need is no ahead of its release date when grumpy catcomes to strand books. purchase of the book ($12.95) required for admission. >>color>
10/9 7pm: diversify your understanding of animal internet memes at the not just cats: llamas, goats, and other animal memes from around the world event at the museum of the moving image. free friday admission hours 4-8pm. >>color>
10/9 7pm, 9pm (thru 10/11): 75 contemporary dance companies from around the world perform at the 15th annual dumbo dance festival. gelsey kirkland artscenter (formerly st. ann’s warehouse), free/pay-what-you-will. >>color>
10/9 7-11pm: sample four new games by emerging and established game developers at nyu game center’s sixth annual no quarter exhibition premiere party. the dumbo loft, free (rsvp). >>color>
10/9 7:30pm: what does it really mean to be a nurse? find out at the bedpan confessionals, a storytelling series by nurse authors sharing their stereotype-busting tales. organic soul cafe (in the sixth street community center), free. >>color>
10/9 7:30pm: get a low-budget, high-drama taste of another new york at a screening of tony bill’s 1987 indie five corners. actor john turturro and screenwriter john patrick shanley will speak; actor kevin corrigan will moderate. museum of the moving image, $15 (includes same-day admission to the museum until 8pm). >>color>
10/9 7:30-10pm (ends today): lola star’s dreamland roller disco returns to prospect park’s le frak center at lakeside through the summer. tonight’s end-of-season theme: ‘thriller’ (michael jackson and halloween preview). $18 admission includes skate rental. bag check and locker rental extra. >>color>
10/9 8pm (monthly): get better acquainted with the local poetry scene at the next installment of roots poetry series, featuring kristina bicher (just now alive), sara deniz akant (parades, latronic strag), ysabel y. gonzalez and ben wright. donation-based beer and wine will help you forget that they don’t all rhyme. roots cafe (south slope), free admission. >>color>
10/9 8:30pm doors, 9pm show (monthly): go ahead, swipe right. the tinder live! comedy show picks up on the inherent hilarity of the hook-up app. hosted by lane moore (the onion, mcsweeney’s), with guests caissie st. onge (letterman), hari kondabolu (conan, comedy central), eli yudin (@nottildaswinton) and emma gray (the huffington post). new location: union hall, $10 adv, $12 dos. >>color>
10/9 9pm: (monthly): f*ck that movie! comedians/haters joel kim booster (paper magazine’s ’10 comedians you should know’), anna drezen (how may we hate you?, reductress) and a panel of guests discuss the movies they hate most. tonight’s guests include dan chamberlain (above average), tyler coates (decider), mitra jouhari (three busy debras) and marcia belsky (nytvf). videology. $5. >>color>
10/9 9:30pm (weekly): the rubin museum of art’s cabaret cinema series screens terrence malick’s badlands (1974). $10. >>color>
10/9 10pm: boston’s lonely heartstring band brings olde-tyme melodies to jalopy. $10. >>color>
10/9 11pm: can you believe it’s been a whole 15 years since britney did it again and shaggy totally wasn’t bangin’ on the bathroom floor? shake ya *ss at the awesome aughts: music of the early 2000s dance party, with those unforgivably catchy tunes spun by dj steve reynolds (party like it’s 1999). union hall, free. >>color>
10/9-18: the printed word makes a comeback at t.sq newsstand, an art installation-meets-newsstand featuring a hand-picked selection of art and culture magazines as well as guest artist appearances. broadway plaza between 44th + 45th sts, free admission. >>color>
10/9-2/21: learn about the nyc origins of our most beloved comic book heroes at the new-york historical society’s ’superheroes in gotham’ exhibition. $20 general, $12 students, $15 seniors, pay-as-you-wish fridays 6-8pm. >>color>
ticket deals
get tickets to a back to the future screening with the soundtrack performed by a live orchestra, plus an appearance by christopher lloyd (doc!), at radio city music hall 10/15-16 for $37+ (plus ticket fees, reg. $73+). >>color>
get free tickets to an afternoon distinguished concerts international performance at carnegie hall 11/15 (plus ticket fees, reg. $20+). >>color>
get tickets to the boo short play an musical festival at players theatre thru 10/24 for $15 (plus ticket fees, reg. $30). >>color>
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