what to do new york city november 12th 2017
52 wonderful things to do in NYC in November
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Louis Vuitton New York Exhibition; 86 Trinity Identify; ongoing; free
We may be biased, simply New Yorkers are the savants of manner (and have been for many years), which is why we can appreciate a way house that has styled many generations. Luxury brand Louis Vuitton, for example, certainly has elevated and inverse the material world since its debut in 1854, equally presented in the French-built-in visitor'due south new exhibition: "Volez, Voguez, Voyagez." Located at 86 Trinity Place, guests are welcome to experience the rich history by viewing and interacting with diverse artifacts (from 1854 to 2017) sourced past historian Oliver Saillard. Wander through all iii-levels of the exhibition to detect the make's past collaborations likewise as trunks and luggage of years' past.
Gotham Storytelling Festival Kraine Theater; Nov 1-7; $16
This fourth annual fest hosted by FRIGID New York features yarn-spinning shows like Queer Memoir and the Expressionless Parents Club alongside solo shows from superlative tellers, including twenty-time Moth Story Slam winner Adam Wade, author Jamie Brickhouse and comedian Lucie Pohl.
Twin Peaks Burlesque: The Return! Joe'south Pub at the Public Theater; Nov 4; $15–$20
David Lynch lovers the Pinkish Room take taken onTwin Peaks,Blue Velvet,Wild At Heart,Lost Highway,Mulholland Drive,Inland Empire and more, and now they return to Joe'southward Pub to present their latest Lynchian striptease. This 90-minute show pays tribute to the listen-bending revival, featuring host Schaffer the Darklord and performers Anna Copa Cabanna, Bunny Buxom, Foxy Vermouth, Francine "The Lucid Dream," Minx Arcana and more.
Fall Woods Weekends New York Botanical Garden; Nov 4 + 5, November 11 + 12; $28, seniors and students $25, children under 2 gratis
Feel the colors of the flavor in the New York Botanical Garden'southward Thain Family Forest, a fifty-acre thicket that boasts sweetness gums, whose star-shaped leaves turn red and purple as autumn progresses, and tulip trees and hickories that display brilliant golden yellows. During this almanac series, gratis guided tours will point out seasonal foliage and birds, also as offer gratis canoe trips, courtesy of the Bronx River Brotherhood.
New York Taste The Waterfront New York Tunnel; November 6; $100–$200
For its 19th annual edition of this well-curated culinary commemoration,New York magazine and food editor Gillian Duffy are assembling some of the city's finest chefs and mixologists to present their near inventive new works. Meet the masterminds backside Daily Provisions, Gramercy Tavern, Bar Goto, Lilliputian Tong Noodle Shop and more—and more than chiefly, sample their creations. A portion of proceeds benefit City Harvest, which battles hunger in NYC.
How Did This Get Fabricated? Boondocks Hall Theatre; November 9 at 7pm and 9:45pm; tickets start at $70
Anyone who's e'er watched The Room, Leprechaun in the Hood or Sharknado knows that so-bad-they're-good movies qualify as their ain genre. Actors and industry vets June Diane Raphael, Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas dissect some of the worst films ever made on their How Did This Get Fabricated? podcast, which comes to New York Metropolis for ii live tapings this calendar month.
Salman Rushdie Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center; Nov fourteen at 7pm; $25
With the release of The Golden House, Salman Rushdie's torso of piece of work now includes 13 novels. Set during the Obama years, his latest book focuses on a billionaire from Mumbai who moves his family to downtown Manhattan. The Gold House dissects wealth, politics and the American identity. One time you've read information technology, bring together the author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks for a conversation about the book and Rushdie'due south prolific career.
Bake the Book: Pumpkin Pie Block and Truffles Milk Bar Williamsburg; Nov eighteen, 19 at 11am; $95
Thanks to the pumpkin spice lattes that Starbucks has been peddling for what seems like decades, all things pumpkin have gotten a bad rap. Only before you burn out on fall's signature flavor, head to Milk Bar to acquire how to bake their fluffy pumpkin pie cake. Graham cracker cheesecake, candy-coated pumpkin seeds and pumpkin ganache make this dessert anything but bones.
An Evening With David Sedaris Brooklyn Academy of Music; Nov 21 and 22 at 7:30pm; tickets start at $176
David Sedaris wants you to read his diary—a fact that isn't actually all that surprising to longtime fans. His latest book, titled Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), comprises 25 years of the essayists' periodical entries. Y'all'll observe everything from salacious gossip to snippets of overheard conversations to observations on total strangers in the book. Accept a peek into Sedaris's creative process during this book signing and talk.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Airship Inflation; 79th St at Columbus Ave; Nov 22; costless
This pre–Turkey Day ritual, held nigh the American Museum of Natural History, has become almost as crowded as the Macy'due south Thanksgiving Day Parade, but we adopt it to the main event. Why? Nosotros adopt to weave through the crowds, walking past the inflation stations to see SpongeBob SquarePants at our ain pace. Inflation takes place from three to 10pm. Arrive later in the evening, when the gigantic characters take taken shape; the crowds are at their peak, so you lot can likewise evidence off the famed New York sidewalk shuffle.Enter at West 79th St at Columbus Ave.
Vacation Train Show New York Botanical Garden; Nov 22 through January xiv; $23–$28
The garden lights up with its collection of trains that chug along a near half-mile track by 150 miniature NYC landmarks similar the Empire State Building and Radio Metropolis Music Hall, all made of natural materials such every bit leaves, twigs, bawl and berries.
Macy'southward Thanksgiving Day Parade at various locations; Nov 23; costless
Before America gets turnt on turkey and settles in to lookout man some football, all eyes plow to Manhattan during the Macy's Thanksgiving Solar day Parade 2017. The annual pageant of behemothic balloons, floats, cheerleaders, clowns, marching bands, theater and Broadway in New York performances and celebs is one of the best NYC events in Nov. Sure, it's fun to sentinel in your PJs, only at that place's cipher like watching the procession in person.
Big Apple Circus Damrosch Park (at Lincoln Centre); various dates and times; tickets start at $28
Afterwards declaring defalcation in 2016 and existence acquired by a Florida investment firm before this yr, the Big Apple Circus is back. The beloved carnival will celebrate its 40th season at its longtime home at Lincoln Center. Wait to run across acts like flying trapeze artist Ammed Tuniziani, the always hilarious Grandma the Clown and 10-fourth dimension world tape holder Nik Wallenda walking the high wire.
A Christmas Carol at the Merchant'southward House; starts Nov 30; $45–$75
In late 1867, Charles Dickens trekked across the Atlantic to spend a month performing his Christmas classic hither in NYC. The Merchant'southward Firm Museum is reenacting this ane-hr performance for modern-day audiences in its one-time-fashioned museum. If you call upA Christmas Carol is enchanting now, just wait until you see information technology performed by candlelight in a 19th-century home past Dickens—or rather an actor playing the role of the British author. (Bonus: Come up early for mulled wine and tasty snacks!).
Comedy
New York Arab-American One-act Festival at various locations; Nov two–Nov four, per show $25 plus two-drink minimum
Since 2003, this festival has gathered new and well-known names from within the community for some epic acts, and this twelvemonth, their voices couldn't be more appreciated. Head to Arab Comedy Buffet on Nov ii at 7:30pm to run into all of the fest's performers: Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, Aron Kader, Paul Elia, Luai Hodi, Ali Sultan, Ramy Youssef, Suzie Afridi, Yazen Amra, Maher Matta, Byron Sadik, Ghassan Atshan, Sammy Obeid, Dave Merheje, Mike Easmeil, Atheer Yacoub and Murad Saleh. Cheque out Legends of Arab Comedy on November three at 7:30pm, forth with the Haram Bear witness at 10pm; and on November 4, hit upward Arabs Gone Wild Reunion at vii:30pm and Arab One-act All Stars at 10pm.
MOIST The Creek and the Cave; Nov two; complimentary
All hail Abby Feldman, the intrepid stand-upwardly who doles out advice from her bathtub on her addicting podcast and video seriesMOIST. She brings the tub to the Creek and the Cave stage, where she's joined by Sam Evans, Christine Meehan-Berg, Katie Hannigan, Andy Fiori, Ashley Gavin and Marcia Belsky.
It's Christi, B*tch! Ars Nova; Nov 4; $15
She'southward your naughtiest buddy on a nighttime out, the devil in your ear, the vox on your next favorite cartoon bear witness and the sweetest comic in town. Soon, stand up-up supreme Christi Chiello volition be our potty-mouthed overlord, but before and so, catch her at this confessional hr of stand-upward and stories.
Political Subversities The Bell Business firm; Nov half-dozen; $12–$fifteen
This musical-sketch one-act bear witness lampoons politics and popular-culture with satirical sketches, political dearest songs and more. Check out PoliSub's YouTube aqueduct for some laughs before communicable the group alive in Brooklyn.
Cultch State of war: An "I Don't Think So Honey" Deathmatch Villain; November vii; $xv–$twenty
After 50 episodes of their podcastLas Culturistas, plus two live shows and endless debates overDrastic Housewives,Kelly Clarkson and Shonda Rhimes, divine gay plastics Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers accept their armada of civilisation-addled comedians to war. Watch the show's past guests and favorites—like Dylan Marron, Tim Murray, Dave Mizzoni, Pat Regan, Alise Morales and Rae Sanni—face off in high-stakes editions of the prove'due south now-iconic "I Don't Think And so, Dear" rant. Is this the finish of an era or a new beginning for the evil queens of gay podcastdom? The shade will exist blinding.
Go Ricki! Q.E.D.; Nov 15; $8
Hosted by comedian Matt Smith McCormick, this outrageous prove gives an affectionate nod to the queen of riotous daytime talk, Ricki Lake. Lynsey Bonell, Ben Conrad, Amanda Kay Holstien, Sr., Luke Mones and Mamoudou Northward'Diaye bring their most deliciously ghoulish material for this calendar month'due south theme, "I Detest That Yous Slumber in Coffins & Hang Out in Cemeteries...Quit Being a Teen Vampire!"
The Unofficial Expert The Tank; Nov 19; $10
Marie Faustin and Sydnee Washington—2 of the fastest, most ferocious comedians you'll encounter this yr—bring their uproarious podcast to the stage. Expect interviews with "experts" on topics like human being buns, divas and sugar daddies, and whip-cracking reads of people in the audience. Hail to the queens!
LGBT
6th Almanac New York Boylesque Festival at various locations; Nov 3, Nov 4; $20–$55
Club Cumming co-founder Daniel Nardicio and Thirsty Girl Productions' Jen Gapay render with their yearly showcase of male bumpers and grinders from around the world. Over 40 burly-Q babes accept the stage to strut their stuff during this ii-solar day celebration of the art of the tease. The fest culminates with a skintastic chief event on Nov iv hosted past the always-fab World Famous *BOB*.
Romy & Michele'due south Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance Club Cumming; Nov 4; complimentary
DJ Brilliant Light Vivid Light's tribute to the still-untouchable heroines ofRomy and Michele's High School Reunion has quickly become the virtually reliably joyous dance political party in town, with a consistent stream of Mariah Carey, Scissor Sisters, Bette Midler and TLC delighting a merry band of adorable acolytes (you tin follow the party'due south playlist on Spotify). Share your favorite quotes and vocal requests on the DJ booth via post-it, and revel in the fact that y'all wait totally cutting-edge.
Addams Family Values: Queer Horror Stories Tilt; November 5; free
Cap off your weekend with a costless evening of thrilling tales from a stacked lineup of LGBTQ storytellers. Stepping to the mic are Ryan Houlihan, Patricia Theresa McCarthy, Jamison Daniels, Kyle Turner, Maggie Larkin, Jay Jurden and many more.
Queerly Comedic Q.Eastward.D.; Nov 7; $viii
Up-and-coming comic Sammie James hosts this stand-upwards and storytelling bear witness highlighting queer voices. This edition's lineup features Cam Mesinger, Jes Tom, Dana Friedman, Jeena Flower, Lorena Russi Serna and Chelsea Moroski.
Dungeons & Drag Kings Talon; Nov 30; $10–$fifteen
Anja Keister and Lee Valone host this mad monthly night of gender-bending, kink and geek ecstasy at Talon. Witness inventive performances from Valone, Nyx Nocturne, Ravenessa, Rara Darling and Viktor Devone, with trivia hosted by Keister. Before the show gets started at ix, bring together a wild kink sit-in at eight:30pm.
Nutrient and Drink
WhiskeyFest Marriott Marquis; Nov 16, $275 general access, $345 VIP
Join this massive whiskey convention with a dozen seminars from grain experts, run across-and-greets with distillers from all over the globe and most importantly, vendors pouring more than than 350 different spirits for guests to endeavor.
Savor the Bronx Various locations; Nov vi-17, Cost varies
A borough-focused "Restaurant Week" comes to the Bronx with special discounts and prix fixe deals at eateries throughout the neighborhoods like Mike's Cafeteria in Arthur Avenue, Bronx Brewery in Port Morris and Lloyd'southward Carrot Block in Riverdale.
Momo Crawl Variety Plaza; Nov five, $10
What's better than pipage-hot dumplings in the fall? The Himalayan dumpling clamber in Jackson Heights is dorsum with 27 unlike vendors (Lhasa Fast Nutrient, Momo Delight) doling out their versions of the steamed and fried pockets. It volition likely be more enjoyable than any other Himalayan trek you're bound to endeavor.
White Truffle Festival Ai Fiori; Nov 11, $450 general admission, $548 VIP
Information technology's white truffle season, and if yous tin can't book a flight to the northern region of Italy to enjoy the fresh-picked delicacy, chef Michael White will bring them to you at his Ai Fiori eating place, serving truffle-tinged cheese, pasta and risotto alongside Italian vinos.
Grilled Cheese Meltdown 2nd Floor NYC; Nov 12; $35, $45 VIP
Taste your way through the best grilled cheese sandwiches the urban center has to offer at Fourth dimension Out New York 's annual Grilled Cheese Meltdown. We've challenged New York's top cheese connoisseurs to come upwardly with creative takes on this classic condolement food. It'due south an event your taste buds and arteries won't soon forget!
Food Loves Tech Industry City; Nov iii-4, $75
The synthesis of food and tech is an always-present reality in our data-driven globe. And nothing highlights this better than this expo that investigates the future of food and drink through discussion panels and "all-you lot-tin can-eat experiential zones.
Theater
Meteor Shower at the Booth Theatre; November 1–Jan 21; $59–$159
Sketch-TV royals Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Central star in Steve Martin'south comic portrait of a California dinner part. Veteran laugh-wrangler Jerry Zaks directs a bandage that also includes the skillful Laura Benanti and Jeremy Shamos.
SpongeBob SquarePants at the Palace Theatre; starts Nov half dozen; $39–$159
The porous yellowish hero of the Nickelodeon cartoon hits Broadway, defending the undersea community of Bikini Bottom via original songs by popular stars including Sara Bareilles, the Flaming Lips, John Legend, T.I., Lady Antebellum, They Might Be Giants and Panic! At the Disco.
Bright Colors and Bold Patterns at SoHo Playhouse; Nov 12–Jan 8; $59–$999
Drew Droege returns for an encore run of his hilarious and poignant solo testify, in which an outrageous (and increasingly intoxicated) gay homo has an identity crisis at a sanitized wedding of two old friends.
Once on This Island at Circle in the Square; starts Nov ix; $69.50–$159.l
A peasant girl falls for a wealthy boy on the other side of her Caribbean isle in this 1990 musical fable by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime). Michael Arden directs the revival, which stars teenage newcomer Hailey Kilgore every bit our heroine.
The Fountainhead at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House; November 28–Dec 2; $35–$125
Belgian superdirector Ivo van Hove, who unsettled Broadway with stylized revivals of Arthur Miller'sA View from the Bridge andThe Crucible two seasons ago, now deconstructs Ayn Rand'south 1943 philosophical novel about an architect bent on defying critics and convention.
Film
Last Flag Flying; Nov 3
There'southward no more than relaxed director in American filmmaking than Richard Linklater, whose long-game process has resulted in such exquisite dramas asBoyhood and the "Before" trilogy. His new movie, a sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973The Last Particular, dives intimately into the nuances of soldiering, parental grief and pride in a country that maybe doesn't deserve information technology. Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and an unusually placidity Steve Carell co-star.
Thor: Ragnarok; Nov three
Singlehandedly, Chris Hemsworth has fabricated the Marvel Cinematic Universe a much more than fun place to be: His Thor, equal parts somber Norse god and Californian everybro, deserves as much screen fourth dimension as can be spared. This sequel brings on plenty of character actors who know this stuff needs a wink, especially the rascally Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster, whatever that is.
Lady Bird; Nov x
Greta Gerwig's semiautobiographical one-act is miraculously free of the usual coming-of-historic period quirk; the star ofFrances Ha is but behind the camera this time, writing and directing, but she's clearly arrived at a kind of wisdom via distance. Dominating the lens with peerless openness isBrooklyn's Saoirse Ronan, who brings to life the pic's free-spirited title grapheme, a suburban Californian agonized to leave abode and bail with her fantasy of Eastward Declension artiness. Earlier so, though, she's got some last-summer-before-higher tensions (romantic and otherwise) to transition through. You volition recognize this moment.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Nov x
If your love for 2008's witty, ultra-rudeIn Brugesis equally unbounded as ours, you'll need to check out Martin McDonagh's latest crime comedy, which is only as verbally brutal.Fargo'south Frances McDormand plays a furious mom who seeks vengeance for the unsolved murder of her daughter. Her starting time tactic is a flake of public advertising.
Telephone call Me past Your Name; Nov 24
The undeniable emotional powerhouse of this year's Sundance and New York picture festivals, Luca Guadagnino's voluptuous coming-of-age gay romance transports yous not merely to northern Italy merely to a lazy summertime's substitution of books, fruit, glances and power. Yous may already cherish this director forI Am Beloved,A Bigger Splash and his unerring sense of developed sexiness. But with this one, he's leapt into the revered visitor of Bernardo Bertolucci.
Music
Infirmary Productions 20 Year Anniversary Warsaw; Nov v; $twoscore–$50
Noise-scene bad boy Dominick "Prurient" Fernow plays a special collaborative set with industrial-metallist Jesu for this 20th anniversary celebration of his very own tape label, Hospital Productions. The all-day event volition also feature industrial techno duo Orphyx, Down Records founder Regis, harsh noise project Skin Crime and, ambient innovator Dedekind Cutting. If you like music that fearlessly explores the fringes of both genre and sanity, this is the prove for yous.
Waxahatchee White Eagle Hall Sun Nov five; $sixteen
Katie Crutchfield'due south new album as Waxahatchee,Out in the Storm, is a far cry from her initial lo-fi acoustic albums. Here her talent for confessional lyrics and irresistible hooks is rendered through sparkling clear production and massive-sounding arrangements—a fuller, grander realization of her vision than ever before.
Prayers Saint Vitus; Nov 7; $17
Chicano vocalist Lafear Seyer's distinctive vision—for which he's coined the term "Cholo goth"—is a vibrant one: cowboy boots, crucifix earrings, gang tattoos and a penchant for the synth sounds of '80s goth-rock. Combining his mournful shouts with beatmaster Dave Parley'south industrial electronics, Seyer'due south cross-cultural melancholy narrates a turbulent life navigating the San Diego gangland.
Slowdive Terminal 5; Nov 12; $35
Don't fret if you missed Slowdive'southward stellar comeback performances at Brooklyn Steel earlier this year—The British shoegaze vets return to the urban center for some other appearance behind their stunning cocky-titled latest. An eight-song exercise in shoegaze's all-time inclinations, Slowdive welcomed Simon Scott back to the drum kit for the kickoff fourth dimension since 1993's Souvlaki. Fog machines at the ready; fix to migrate off into the shoegaze ether with some of the best who've always done it.
Kamasi Washington Concluding v; Nov 22; $35–$40
Saxophonist, bandleader and Kendrick Lamar collaborator Washington reinvigorated contemporary jazz and garnered heaps of mainstream disquisitional acclamation with his ambitious 3-hour 2015 debut,The Epic. He takes the stage backside a new EP,Harmony of Departure.
Art
Ashley Bickerton FLAG Art Foundation; through Dec 16, gratis
Famous for having ditched New York for Bali, Bickerton is no Gaughin, though he was a star of '80s Neo-Geo. This survey tracks his work'southward development from logo-covered boxes to wildly stylized, figurative paintings that parody the romantic preconceptions of tropical life.
"Eddie Martinez: Studio Wall" Drawing Eye; through Feb 3, adults $v, students and seniors $three, children under 12 free. Admission is free on Thursdays, 6-8
Known for colorful paintings that recall midcentury abstraction, Martinez is plastering the Drawing Center with thousands of sketches that he will change throughout the exhibition's run, a gesture that mimics his exercise of keeping a wall in his studio reserved for drawings and studies. The evidence also includes paintings and large works on paper.
"Josef Albers in Mexico" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Nov 3–February 18, $25, seniors (65+) and students with valid ID $18, children under 12 free. Sabbatum 5:45–7:45pm pay what y'all wish. $25, seniors and students with ID $18, members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult costless
In 1935, the famed artist and Bauhaus instructor Josef Albers (1888-1976) paid his first visit to Mexico. Struck by the abstruse quality of Mayan and Aztec buildings, Albers began photographing Mesoamerican pyramids and temples, focusing on architectural details like friezes and steps. He used some of these images to create collages, borrowing subtle fashion cues from them for his paintings from the period. That journey was the kickoff of many fabricated to Latin America betwixt 1935 and 1967 and the impact they had on his art is the subject of this survey, which gathers together the work (photos and collages along with paintings) that grew out his experiences South of The Border.
"Edvard Munch: Between The Clock and The Bed" Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nov 15–Feb 17, suggested donation $25, seniors $17, students $12, members and children under 12 free
You lot scream, I scream, we all scream for The Scream, merely that iconic painting was simply a small part of Edvard Munch'southward prodigious output, which spanned 60 years and produced many other masterpieces besides the ur image of high anxiety. You'll observe many of them among the 45 works assembled here—including seven that accept never been shown in the United States.
David Hockney Metropolitan Museum of Fine art; Nov 27–Feb 25, suggested donation $25, seniors $17, students $12, members and children under 12 free
The lodestones of Hockney's work make for unlikely pairs of opposites: London and Los Angeles; Picasso and Former Master painting. Though Hockney came up through the School of London scene during the Swinging Sixties, many of his most famous works are set in the City of Angels, where he keeps 2 homes. And though his compositions abound with references to the corking names of Renaissance art, many of his stylistic clues are taken from Picasso. Somehow, Hockney has juggled these disparate influences, forging an aesthetic that'south all his own. This retrospective mark'south the creative person'southward 80th birthday with a presentation of pieces from 1960 to the present.
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