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(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014) (8:00 PM) We're giving you a special month of all-pro comedy showcases featuring the best of New York's and the nation's comics every Thursday in September! All comedians have been seen on shows like HBO, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Comedy Central!
In addition to quality comedy shows, Comix offers comfortable seating, unobstructed stage views, the purest sound and superior food. Show details are below. ($15/$20) (212-524-2500) [email protected] Event Website Note: this event runs September 4, 11, 18, and 25
(Duplex, 61 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014) (9:30 PM) Comedian BECKY DONOHUE from Comedy Central headlines. YouTube sensation and Patti LuPone sing-alike MICHAEL BURBACH recreates LuPone’s legendary performance from this year’s TONY Awards! Sexy cabaret vamp JENNA ESPOSITO sings retro lounge pop. Musical comedians MEL & EL.
SHAWN HOLLENBACH from Here! TV. LEAH DUBIE from Dykes on Mics. H. ALAN SCOTT from the 5 Funny Fags Tour.and a very special visit from everyone’s favorite “GOLDEN GIRL!” ($10 plus two drinks) (347-451-3873) [email protected] Event Website
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) One of the world’s most important fashion exhibitions in the world. Located at Bryant Park, the NYC Fashion Week sets the new styles of what to expect for 2009. Fashion Week is by special invite only. Event Website Note: this event runs September 5 - 12
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6 - 7:30pm) The Center is pleased to announce the publication of a new monograph from Gregory R. Miller & Co.: Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. This is the artist’s first retrospective publication, and features full-color reproductions of works from throughout Harris’s career and several important new texts by Cassandra Coblentz, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, as well as an introduction by Susan Krane and a conversation between Harris and Senam Okudzeto. Harris' work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Kunsthalle Basel, and the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva ($10) Event Website
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6:30 - 9pm) Were you BORN this way? Does it Matter? Explore whether science and public health attempts to explain "queer" identity will help LGBTQ movements for justice, or will they do more harm than good. Confirmed panelists include: Jaime Grant, National Lesbian & Gay Task Force Policy Institute; Sel J. Hwahng, National Development & Research Institutes; Nancy Ordover, "American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy & the Science of Nationalism"; and Rebecca Young, Ass't Professor, of Women's Studies, Barnard College. (Free) (212.564.3608 x15) [email protected] Event Website 9/11 WTC Memorial Floating Lanterns Ceremony (Pier 40, West Houston St & West Side Hwy, New York, NY 10001) (6pm) Participants may write loved ones' names or messages for peace on the lanterns. Music follows. At dusk, the lighted lanterns are released on the waters of the Hudson River just north of Ground Zero. (Free) Event Website 9/11 Remembrance and Reflection (Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Pl, New York, NY 10006) (All day) Trinity Church will host a series of remembrance events, including Ringing of the Bell of Hope and various prayer services from morning to night. Event Website Starting Today
(East Houston & Mulberry Sts to Canal & Mulberry Sts) (11:30am - 11:30pm) This year’s Feast will again attract more than 1-million people to the streets of historic Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples – San Gennaro. The street festivities – including religious processions with the statue of San Gennaro, parades. free entertainment, food stands and a cannoli and a cannoli eating contest – are capped on Friday, September 19 – the Official Feast Day -- with a celebratory Mass honoring San Gennaro, followed by a candlelit procession as the Statue of San Gennaro is carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street through the streets of Little Italy. Event Website This event runs through September 21
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