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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 9/7/08

Monday: 9/8/08

Tuesday: 9/9/08

Wednesday: 9/10/08

Thursday: 9/11/08

Friday: 9/12/08

Saturday: 9/13/08

All of Today’s Picks All Monday Picks All Tuesday Picks All Wednesday Picks All Thursday Picks All Friday Picks All Saturday Picks

movie

August Evening
Village East Cinemas

In Chris Eska's debut, a young Mexican widow and her father-in-law hit the road to establish a life for themselves when money grows scarce. More »

reading

Augusten Burroughs / Tegan Quin
Housing Works Cafe

An evening of music and literature with author Augusten Burroughs ("Running With Scissors"; "A Wolf at the Table") and performance by Tegan and Sara's Tegan Quin. More »

art

imageLandscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Twenty-seven pieces by the most celebrated painter of late-seventeenth-century China. More »

classical

Sitelines: Available Spaces
City Hall

Mexican choreographer Ofelia Loret de Mola and her company, Danscores, transform a section of City Hall Park into a Mexican carnival. More »

nightlife

Paul Weller
HighLine Ballroom

The mod-as-ever onetime singer for the Jam. More »

nightlife

James Blood Ulmer
Jazz Standard

The guitarist and singer performs with his Memphis Blues Band sextet. More »

movie

imageBurn After Reading
various locations

The Coen brothers switch tacks for this offbeat comedy about a pair of bumbling health-club employees. More »

movie

Mister Foe

Writer-director David Mackenzie's adaptation of the Peter Jicks novel. More »

theater

Equus
Broadhurst Theater

Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe. More »

nightlife

Marilyn Maye
The Metropolitan Room

The remarkable vocal talent plays a string of rare area engagements. More »

theater

The Invitation
Ohio Theater

Obie Award winner John Clancy directs Brian Parks's original play about a birthday celebration gone awry in an elite New York City apartment. More »

classical

The Bohemians
Socrates Sculpture Park

The Little Opera Theater of New York performs the first act of La Boheme and others. More »

nightlife

Chris Rock
Apollo Theater

The true king of comedy. More »

movie

Towelhead

A bleak and cartoonish portrayal of Lebanese immigrants living in redneck Texas. More »

classical

Soldier Songs
(Le) Poisson Rouge

Composer David T. Little's multimedia work exploring war and modern society. More »

art

Josef Koudelka
Aperture Foundation Gallery

Compelling large-scale images captured by the young photographer during the Soviet-led invasion of Prague. More »

art

Louise Bourgeois: Echo
Cheim & Read

Recent sculptures fashioned from discarded clothing recall the artist's work from the forties and fifties, while her gouaches expose the intimacy of motherhood. More »

theater

Around the World in 80 Days
Irish Repertory Theatre

Michael Evan Haney directs the Cincinnati Playhouse's production and adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel. More »

art

Martha Rosler
Mitchell-Innes and Nash Chelsea

New photomontages and sculptures from the groundbreaking artist address social life and the public sphere from feminist and antiwar perspectives. More »

nightlife

Lightning Bolt
979 Broadway Backyard

The feral noise-rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island. More »

Ongoing

MOVIES

The Best of Laurel and Hardy
A selection of short films, including Two Tars, Liberty, Blotto, Twice Two, and The Music Box. 9/5-9/11, Anthology of Short Films

Movies

Latinbeat 2008

The annual survey. Highlights include the film-fest favorite Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (9/11) and the Colombian crime caper Dog Eat Dog (9/7). 9/5-9/25, Walter Reade

The Critics

Movies

David Edelstein

Art

Jerry Saltz

Theater

Jeremy McCarter

Ticket Alert

Death Cab for Cutie

Radio City Music Hall, Oct. 6

N.E.R.D / Common

Roseland Ballroom, 11/4

 

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