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october 23, 2008 / thursday

2008 CMJ Music & Film Marathon

(Various Locations) CMJ Marathon is more than just music, it's a whirlwind extravaganza that brings together leaders from the music biz and college radio realm for thought-provoking panels and mentoring sessions, networking parties and rocking performances. Event Website

Note: this event runs October 21 - 25

Macy's Passport: Fashion Cinema

(Regal E-Walk Theater, 247 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) (7 PM) Macy's Passport will be transformed into a high definition cinematic event to be shown across the country, featuring special celebrity and musical entertainment and showcasing all the excitement of the live Passport events. Macy's Passport : Fashion Cinema expands Macy's commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. In each city, Macy's will host a screening party with all proceeds benefiting Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Callen-Lorde Community Health Center ($25) Event Website

A Benefit for ~ PRIDE FOR YOUTH ~

(UA Westbury Stadium 12, 7000 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury, NY 11590) (7pm) For the first time this year the magic of Macy’s Passport will be brought to the silver screen. Macy’s Passport will be transformed into a high definition cinematic event to be shown across the country, featuring special celebrity and musical entertainment and showcasing all the excitement of the live Passport events. Macy’s Passport : Fashion Cinema expands Macy’s commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. In each city, Macy’s will host a screening party with all ticket sale proceeds benefiting a local HIV/AIDS organization. Attendees will also enjoy a pre-show reception and receive an exclusive Macy’s shopping discount. [email protected] Event Website

THE BI EYE ON QUEER FILM

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6pm) The Center, BiRequest and the Bi Writers Association present a program of funny and provocative short films that walk the borderline between bi, gay and heteroflexible. How does the “bi eye” alter the perception of queer films? How does the “gay eye” differ in point of view? How does your orientation affect the way you perceive a story? How do these stories portray bisexual characters? Bring your opinions! A woman is enticed by a seductive couple to explore a polyamorous bisexual relationship in Make Room for Phyllis; two men go Mano A Mano, a couple trying to Hold Up a convenience store hits an unexpected snag and a girl accidentally kisses a frog, sparking a magical visitation in A Fairy Tale. The Best Men revisit the past and each other at a wedding; a suburban housewife must face an adulterous affair she had years ago, when it comes back to haunt her--as her son’s new girlfriend in Happenstance; two dolls confront their emotions after a night of unforgettable passion in Operated by Invisible Hands, two high school kids experiment in after-school special and a mock 50’s style educational film is a send-up of biphobia in Shady Bi. ($5) Event Website

Candidates’ Forum Staten Island

(Community Health Action, 380 Van Duzer St, Staten Island, NY 10304) (7PM) Community Health Action of Staten Island, GMHC and the Human Rights Campaign are inviting Staten Island’s candidates for elective office to speak about their platforms, beliefs, plans for our neighborhoods as well as issues specific to the needs of LGBT people. We hope this event, part of a Get Out the Vote campaign targeting LGBT community, will help build a safe and accepting community and provide an opportunity for Staten Island residents to increase their knowledge about local politics. (FREE) (718 808-1630) [email protected] Event Website

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Big Apple Circus

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) From clowning to capering canines and prancing horses, Big Apple Circus is simply tons of fun. Event Website

This event runs through January 18, 2009

Ongoing Events

through October 25

Focus on the '70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan

(New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) In the 70s and early 80s, Duncan was a principal photographer for the entertainment magazine After Dark and for Dance Magazine, which chronicled the world of dance and choreography. Photographs by Kenn Duncan also appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Time and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a dozen Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies, and published three volumes of his own photographs: Red Shoes, Nudes, and More Nudes. This retrospective of his 20-year career includes his iconic images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Angela Lansbury, Rudolf Nureyev, Bette Midler, and the cast of Hair, as well as selections from his nudes and his work with hundreds of celebrities. Event Website

This event runs July 30 - October 25

through October 26

Jeff Koons on the Roof

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St, New York, NY 10028) On view is an installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons, featuring three of the artist’s meticulously crafted works that have never before been on public display. The works are set in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Event Website

This event runs August 25 - October 26

through October 26

Three Movements

(Studio Theatre, Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd St., New York, NY 10036) (Fridays & Saturdays 8 - 9:30 pm, Sundays 3 - 4p) Based on the life of ballet legend George Balanchine, Three Movements follows a fictional choreographer, Alex, as he nurses polio-stricken Sonia, his wife and his greatest dancer. Unable to face the reality that she will never dance again, he convinces himself that he can save his muse. The play examines the complex relationship between choreographer and dancer. ($18) (212-279-4200) Event Website

This event runs October 17 - 26

through October 26

THE AMAZING MAIZE MAZE

(Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Floral Park, New York, NY 11004) (11am - 4:30pm weekends) Enjoy getting lost in our 3 acre interactive corn maze. The adventure begins with a stalk talk to prepare you for the challenge of finding clues, solving puzzles and making your way out of the maze. For Maze By Moonlight on Saturday October 18 & 25th, the maze will be open until 9pm. ($8; Children $4; Children under 3 Free) Event Website

This event runs September 20 - October 26

through October 31

The Woods Campground

(Pocono Mountains, PA) The Woods Campground is a private, members-only, alternative campground catering to LGBT campers 18 years of age and older. Event Website

This event runs May 23 - October 31

through November 1

Blake Little The Company of Men

(Wessel O’Connor Gallery, 111 Front St, Brooklyn, NY 11201) A solo exhibition by photographer Blake Little and his attempt to "document a particular type of masculine gay male that I appreciated and related to but that I did not see photographed anywhere else; an alternative to stereotypes or what is usually seen as the physical ideal of a man in the mainstream." Event Website

This event runs September 18 - November 1

through November 1

the line of fashion, the great fashion artists

(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) The artists in this long overdue exhibition of fashion drawings -- Antonio, Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Eric among them -- all possess the magic that drives the genre as it waits to be embraced by the world's great museums. The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents The Line of Fashion, an exhibition of more than 50 years of fashion illustration curated by Robert W. Richards, whose own artwork is a familiar presence on the fashion scene. The exhibition includes stunning original works by such luminaries as Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Antonio, Christian Berard, George Stavrinos, Vertes, Mel Odom and many others. The ascendance of photography since the mid 1960s as the preferred medium for depicting fashion in newspapers and magazines makes the hand-drawn and colored works that appear in The Line of Fashion all the more rare and intriguing. Event Website

This event runs September 23 - November 1

through November 1

The Time Of Your Life

(The Storm Theatre, 145 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (Eve 7:30 PM, Sat Mat 2:00 PM) Set in the uneasy calm between the Depression and WWII, William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life follows the patrons of a San Francisco waterfront bar over the course of a single day in 1939. Uniquely American in its outlook, Saroyan's characters exude a clear-eyed confidence and resiliency as they face the troubles ahead in this funny, dramatic and ultimately touching celebration of existence. Event's Official Website ($20) Event Website

This event runs October 3 - November 1

through November 1

The Harvest of Spring Blossoms: Selections from the Shanghai Chinese Painting Acadamy

(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (Opening Reception: October 1, 2008, 7 to 9 pm) The Harvest of Spring Blossoms introduces Chinese artists anchored in traditional painting while reinterpreting them in a contemporary fashion. The exhibition brings together some of the masters of Chinese painting, based on more than 100 years of tradition in the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. ($8 adults, $4 students and seniors, free for members and visitors 16 and under) (212 255 0719) [email protected] Event Website

This event runs October 3 - November 1

through November 1

Blood Manor

(Blood Manor, 542 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001) BLOOD MANOR, NYC's Premier Haunted Attraction: The Nightmare on 27th Street, returns with a depraved appetite for gore and a twisted thirst for blood. With louder screams, scarier dreams and more thrills for each moment in its fun-filled darkness, BLOOD MANOR makes your nightmares come to life. ($25+) Event Website

This event runs October 3 - November 1

through November 2

Henry Moore Sculpture at the Garden

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) This landmark presentation of monumental works will be the largest outdoor installation of Henry Moore sculpture in one location in the U.S. Event Website

This event runs May 24 - November 2

through November 2

Absinthe

(South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038) A night-time saunter through the strangest, most sultry circus in town. Event Website

This event runs August 6 - November 2

through November 8

Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion

(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) This exhibition features work by female designers as well as clothing and accessories worn by female department store executives, influential clients, magazine editors, muses and models. Event Website

This event runs May 21 - November 8

through November 8

Bad Dreams Come True

(CSV Center, 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002) Five Years Of Fear! “America’s #1 Haunted House” (AOL.com) brings its famed interactive experience back to the Lower East Side. The event has been scaring record-breaking crowds of happy ghost seekers for the past four years, and this one is primed to be the best yet. Event Website

This event runs September 26 - November 8

through November 9

Chanel Mobile Art

(Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, 70th St at Mid Park, New York, NY 10023) Architect Zaha Hadid together with Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld celebrate 50 years of Chanel's signature handbag. Work is on display by 20 artists who interpret the bag, inside a futuristic architectural rendering of, you guessed it, the iconic quilted Chanel handbag. (Free) Event Website

This event runs October 20 - November 9

through November 15

Capri’s Camera on Dance

(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery) Photographer Frank Capri turned his camera on the dance world producing stunning images of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Julie Kent, Jennifer Ringer and others. Event Website

This event runs September 9 - November 15

through November 15

PEEP SHOW MALE

(Dionysus Theater's L'il Peach, 270 West 36th St. (at 8th Ave.), 2nd Floor, New York City, NY 10018) (Wens. Thru Sat at 8 p.m.) PEEP SHOW MALE, a new musical comedy by Dave McCracken, is set in a gay New York City go-go boy bar. The bar, “Lip Service,” is filled with a crazy collection of regulars that really let loose, derisively ripping into each other and anyone else who crosses their neon doorway. A Group of Lovable Regulars Meet Nightly To Pump Each Other Up And Tear Each Other Down Along With Any New Faces That Dare To Enter And Play. ($25.00) (646-621-5171) [email protected] Event Website

This event runs October 8 - November 15

through November 16

Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) The chrysanthemum, known as kiku, is perhaps the most revered of the fall-flowering plants in Japan. For centuries the secrets of its cultivation were carefully guarded. But during a five-year cultural exchange, The New York Botanical Garden learned the time-honored growing techniques and display styles to become the first garden outside of Japan to showcase the art of kiku in the Imperial style. Discover for yourself the exquisite beauty of kiku -- cascades of flowers, single plants with hundreds of flowers, and others with an enormous flower atop a single stem -- as Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum, an elaborate flower show and art exhibition, returns to the Botanical Garden. Event Website

This event runs October 18 - November 16

through November 26

Hugh McMahon's Pumpkin Gallery

(Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Walk through the temporary gallery of Chelsea Market's resident gourd-artist, Hugh McMahon, which is located behind kicokids pop-up store. On Halloween, Hugh will be carving a giant pumpkin before your very eyes. (Free) Event Website

This event runs October 5 - November 26

through December 31

Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour

(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website

This event runs January 1 - December 31

through December 31

NYC Goes Orange

(All around NYC!) During the Food Bank's annual NYC Goes Orange campaign, individual New Yorkers and our partners come together to "Go Orange" -- the color of hunger awareness -- in support of the 3.1 million New Yorkers who struggle to afford food. Events include food samplings, food drives, auctions and dining events. Event Website

This event runs October 20 - December 31

through December 31

A Tale of Two Cities

(Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin August 19, Opens September 18. This is a new musical based on the Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities.” Event Website

This event runs August 19 - December 31

through December 31

Previews of 25th Anniversary Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening

(47th St Theater, 304 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036) Opens October 2. Spoofs of the season include Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Grease: You’re the One That We Want, Legally Blonde and Frost/Nixon. Event Website

This event runs September 4 - December 31

through December 31

Equus

(Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) Equus tells the story of a stable boy and the psychiatrist who tries to unravel the religious and sexual mystery that ensues when the troubled teenager blinds six horses. Event Website

This event runs September 5 - December 31

through December 31

Billy Elliot the Musical

(The Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th St, New York, NY 10036) Previews begin October 1, opens November 13. The story follows Billy’s journey after stumbling across a ballet class while on his way to a boxing lesson, realizing that his future lay not in the boxing ring but on stage. Event Website

This event runs October 1 - December 31

through December 31

For the Guggenheim

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) (Fridays, 6:30 - 11pm) In celebration of the three year restoration and as a tribute to Mr. Lewis, artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection entitled For the Guggenheim for the facade of the newly restored museum. This video presents an opportunity to view an excerpt from Holzer’s transformative work, which casts large-scale texts directly onto Frank Lloyd Wright’s curving architecture. Suffused with a play of light and changing language, the building and its surroundings become an environment for looking, discussion, and gathering. Event Website

This event runs September 26 - December 31

through January 4, 2009

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World

(The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10128) In 1947, a significant discovery of ancient Jewish texts was made in a cave near the Dead Sea. These and other Dead Sea Scrolls found later have shed light on the major transformations and debates that occurred in ancient worship during the first centuries BCE and CE, that contributed to the development of early Judaism and Christianity. This exhibition will present six Dead Sea Scrolls complemented by objects excavated from the site near where they were found. Three of the scrolls have never been exhibited. Event Website

This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 4, 2009

through January 5, 2009

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) This exhibit examines Van Gogh's nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. Event Website

This event runs September 21, 2008 - January 5, 2009

through January 7, 2009

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. Event Website

This event runs September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009

through January 11, 2009

Gilbert & George

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The exhibition comprises more than eighty pictures created since 1970, among them more than a dozen that are only in the Brooklyn presentation. The exhibition traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and art in other media, ranging from charcoal on paper sculpture from the early 1970s to postcard pieces to ephemera dating back to the 1960s. Event Website

This event runs October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009

through January 18, 2009

Big Apple Circus

(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) From clowning to capering canines and prancing horses, Big Apple Circus is simply tons of fun. Event Website

This event runs October 23, 2008 - January 18, 2009

through January 25, 2009

Street Art, Street Life

(Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St, Bronx, NY 10456) Photography, film, installation art and more by artists including Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler and David Hammons on the subject of the street as a source of inspiration. Event Website

This event runs September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009

through February 21, 2009

Gothic: Dark Glamour

(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Set in theatrical mise-en-scene suggesting iconic gothic settings, such as the labyrinth, the ruined castle and the laboratory, more than 75 ensembles will be on display. Although popularly identified with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion is represented in this exhibition with looks by designers such as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Anne Demeulemeester, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Ricardo Tischi of Givenchy, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and Yohji Yamamoto, as well as sub-cultural styles, such as "old-school goth," cyber-goth, and the Japanese look of Elegant Gothic Lolitas. (Free) Event Website

This event runs September 5, 2008 - February 21, 2009

through February 22, 2009

Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940

(Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029) The 1920s and ‘30s witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era’s most creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead to participate in international dialogues that crossed national boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic enterprise. Between the world wars, no two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris, capital of 19th-century refinement, and New York, the upstart challenger that represented 20th-century dynamism. Event Website

This event runs October 3, 2008 - February 22, 2009

through May 2, 2009

The Sex Lives of Animals

(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) A male bonobo shrewdly soliciting sex in exchange for sugar cane. Two female bonobos blissfully engaging in genito-genital (G-G) rubbing. The strenuous coupling of endangered Panda bears. Encounter these creatures and others so vivid in their portrayal that they will likely feel as though they have unwittingly begun a voyeuristic journey into the wild. Event Website

This event runs July 24, 2008 - May 2, 2009

through August 16, 2009

Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) This exhibition will examine one of the most pressing scientific issues of our time -- the massive, human-induced warming of Earth, a phenomenon that could lead to drought, rising sea levels, heavy storms, and other events with potentially dire impacts on the health of society and the natural world. Explore the science, history, and impact of climate change, and find out ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints. Event Website

This event runs October 18, 2008 - August 16, 2009

Recurring Events this Thursday

Service & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website

This event runs Monday through Friday

Chelsea Classics

(Chelsea Cinema, 23rd St btwn 7 & 8th Aves) Revisit your favorite film classics on the big screen. Hedda Lettuce entertains. Fun and prizes throughout the evening. Event Website

This event runs Thursdays