Happenings, Week of 9/18/11
Provincetown celebrates Tennessee Williams' 100th birthday with a weekend festival
Ongoing Events
Porgy and Bess – The American Repertory Theater presents the Gershwins’ opera, which originally debuted in Boston in 1935; performances run through October 2, 2011; tickets are available through the ART website; 7:30 PM at Loeb Drama Center (64 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA)
“Edward Hopper’s Maine” – Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, present 88 of Hopper’s early oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints of Maine scenes; exhibition is currently open and runs through October 16, 2011; visit themuseum website for hours and admission information; Bowdoin College Museum of Art (9400 College Station, Brunswick, ME)
“The Latino List” exhibition – twenty-five large-format full color portraits of accomplished and influential Latinos in the worlds of culture, politics, business, and sports, taken by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; exhibition currently open, runs through December 11, 2011; see museum website for hours and admission fees; The Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY)
Album Releases (9/13/11, via Paste)
A.A. Bondy – Believers
Blind Pilot – We Are The Tide
Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing
Blondie – Panic of Girls
CANT – Dreams Come True
Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien
Das Racist – Relax
Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Jimi Hendrix – Hendrix in the West
The Kooks – Junk of the Heart
Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
Mason Jennings – Minnesota
Mates of State – Mountaintops
Nick Lowe – This Old Magic
Neon Indian – Extra Extraña
Pajama Club – Pajama Club
Slow Club – Paradise
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Sunday, 9/18
How Much is Enough: Our Values in Question – Emerson Arts presents a play that explores our fundamental concepts of value quantitatively through our relationship to money, and qualitatively by asking what we hold dear; tickets are available on a sliding price scale (pay what you can afford); 2:00 PM at the Jackie Liebergott Black Box at the Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston, MA)
Brooklyn Book Festival – The largest free literary event in New York City! For a full schedule of events, visit the festival website; all events are free and open to the public; 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza (209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY)
Page One: Inside the New York Times – Directed by Andrew Rossi, the film explores the inner workings and powerful influence of the New York Times; tickets are $13; afternoon screening at 4:30 PM, evening screening at 9:15 PM at the Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater (2537 Broadway, New York, NY)
Paranoid Park – Directed by Gus Van Sant, the film tells the story of a Portland skater kid involved in the accidental death of a railroad bull; tickets are free with $15 museum admission; 4:30 PM at the Museum of the Moving Image (3601 35th Ave., Long Island City, NY)
Monday, 9/19
Garret Keizer and Christopher Beha – McNally Jackson and Harper’s Magazine team up to present Garret Keizer and Christopher Beha, who will talk about their articles on education from the September and October issues of Harper’s; 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St., New York, NY)
Drew Magary – Magary presents The Postmortal; 7:00 PM at BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY)
Tuesday, 9/20
Sven Birkets and Lev Grossman at Newtonville Books – Sven Birkets, author of The Other Walk, and Lev Grossman, author of The Magician King, read from and discuss their newly released books; 7:00 PM at Newtonville Books (296 Walnut St., Newton, MA)
Elizabeth Swados – Swados presents Waiting: Selected Nonfiction; 7:00 PM at BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY)
Wednesday, 9/21
Yannick Murphy in Conversation with Chris Adrian – Adrian calls Murphy’s book “an enormously affecting and lovely exploration of ordinary and extraordinary love;” 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St., New York, NY)
Cousin Corinne’s Live Comix Block – Featured artists include Michael Kupperman (Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910 – 2010) and Ben Katchor (The Cardboard Valise); 7:00 PM at BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY)
Thursday, 9/22
Tennessee Williams Theater Festival – Sixth annual theater festival in celebration of Tennessee Williams’ 100th birthday; for a full schedule of events and ticket information, visit the festival website; showtimes vary at Provincetown Theater (238 Bradford St., Provincetown, MA)
What the Hell Are You Doing? with Dave Shrigley – Artist Dave Shrigley hosts a Q&A session/Sharpie tattoo parlor in honor of his new book, What the Hell Are You Doing? One lucky attendee will win a free tattoo designed by Shrigley and inked by the artists at East River Tattoo, courtesy of the Anton Kern Gallery (must be present to win); RSVP via Facebook; 7:00 PM at WORD Brooklyn (126 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY)
Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) in Conversation with Donovan Hahn – DJ Spooky presents The Book of Ice, a multimedia/multidisciplinary study of Antarctica; Hahn presents Moby-Duck, the study of a shipment of rubber duckies lost at sea and what their path tells us about the waning health of the Arctic; 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St., New York, NY)
Martha Southgate – Southgate presents The Taste of Salt; 7:00 PM at BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY)
Friday, 9/23
Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival – Three day jazz festival featuring guests of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute as well as Berklee faculty, students, and alumni; for a full schedule of events including venue and ticket information, visit the festival website
Karl Marlantes at Porter Square Books – Author and decorated Vietnam-era Marine Karl Marlantes reads from and discusses his new book, What It Is Like to Go to War; 7:00 PM at Porter Square Books (25 White St., Cambridge, MA)
The Threepenny Opera – Closing night of this modern interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 epic, presented by Lorem Ipsum; tickets are $10; 7:30 PM at the Apohadian (107 Hanover St., Portland, ME)
El Tejedor en Nueva York: Nueva Poesía de Ibroamérica en Nueva York – Claudio Ivan Remeseira presents new works by Latin American poets; this is a Spanish-language event; 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St., New York, NY)
Gal Beckerman Paperback Launch – Paperback launch of When They Come For Us We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry; 7:00 PM at BookCourt (163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY)
Saturday, 9/24
A Salsa-Filled Night: WaterFire Providence – Salsa lessons and a performance by acrobatic dance company Paradizo Dance, music by Karibe Mambo Orchestra; lessons begin at 7:00 PM, performances 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM; TD Bank Ballroom (1 Turks Head Place/76 Westminster St., Providence, RI)
Berklee Beantown Block Party – Three stages with live music, plus booths featuring local artists and food vendors; 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM along Columbus Ave., between Mass Ave. and Burke St. (Boston, MA)
El Deshielo: Aputntes del Paraíso de Nayar Rivera; en Conversación con Alejandro Varderi y Michael Schuessler – Mexican writer and performance artist Nayar Rivera presents a collection of essays contrasting New York City and Mexico City; co-presenter Alejandro Varderi is a professor of Hispanic Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY; co-presenter Michael Schuessler is Professor of the Humanities Department of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Cuajimpala; this is a Spanish-language event; 5:00 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St., New York, NY)