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Live in New York starting Monday, November 16: Barneys’ holiday windows, which will have a Saturday Night Live theme. Simon Doonan’s elves are toiling in their studios, but the wild and crazy creative director—the same genius who gave us the “Tribute to Cher” holiday window in 2002—took a moment to tell TONY about why Barneys chose this year’s theme: “SNL was the perfect match for us: 35 years of imagery and names and phrases which have embedded themselves in the national consciousness. Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger! King Tut! Debbie Downer! Roseanne! The Coneheads! Whatever we did, I knew it would give people a chuckle. And God knows this is the year of the much-needed chuckle.”
The tableaux will include “The Coneheads at Christmas,” “The Guys of SNL,” “The Gals of SNL” and “A Salute to 35 Years of Saturday Night Live.” Doonan recommends keeping an eye out for the wallpaper in the Coneheads window. “There are loads of bad puns,” he says. “Like Tallulah Conehead and the Cone Ranger.” Read more »
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Put down that bottle of Jack (and that groupie) and take a first look at the Brooklyn Museum’s big fall show “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.” The exhibit opens to the public tomorrow, but it’s being previewed to members today. As if that wasn’t enough thanks for their patronage, Blondie–yes, Blondie–will play a show for them tonight in the Beaux-Arts Court. We’re not saying you should rush the door, but it would be very rock & roll if you did. Otherwise, you can catch a show curated by Todd P of local indie faves at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, November 7, as part of the Target First Saturdays program.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? By singing songs about waiting for your AIDS test, smuggling cocaine and dating Nazis, apparently. That, at least, is the route comic-singer Stephen Lynch has taken (he’s probably practiced a bit too). He performs with an ensemble in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, October 24, at 8pm ($35–$45), and we caught up with him in rehearsal for an exclusive performance of his song “Little Tiny Mustache.”
The landmark building on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 20th Street has been many things (a church, a few nightclubs, an empty money pit, a home to various sample sales) but it’s never been a shopping mall. Until now. You may have heard about the looming project, but we’re excited to announce that construction is official and the doors are set to open to the public in March. The three-story, 25,000-square-foot space will house 80 shops (including Hunter Boots, Caswell Massey and a J. Sisters salon) two restaurants and tons of food options (Cupcake Stop!). “It’s going to be an international entertainment destination,” promises the marketplace president Jack Menashe. Sounds lovely! Check out the work-in-progress photos below as well as some renderings of what the space will look like.
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We’ve all seen horror movies and know video crews have less chance of survival than cheerleaders. Regardless, we sent a crack team to check out the Nightmare: Vampires haunted house. Only one made it back with the footage so you can see what’s in store. The house is open from 3 to 11pm today if you’re feeling brave, or check out how Nightmare stacks up against two other haunted houses in our Halloween scare-off.
And if you see one of the undead at Nightmare: Vampires with a TONY microphone, tell them we want it back or we’ll dock their pay.
We just got this sneak peek of Pink Green Caviar, the new video by former TONYcover artist Marilyn Minter. Minter is doing double duty with this piece: This clip is actually a trailer for her upcoming show at Salon 94 Freemans gallery, opening April 28. But a longer version can be seen in Times Square, starting April 1 up on the MTV HD screen as part of Creative Time’s “441/2″ series. She explains the idea behind the trailer in our Q&A.
We stole an early glance at the inside of Citi Field, the Mets brand-new stadium in Flushing, Queens. Pretty nice digs for a team that never wins—and check out those pissers! Like something from 3010. Or 2010. Or A Clockwork Orange.
Coming soon: interactive guides to the neighborhoods surrounding Citi Field and the new Yankee stadium, with tips on where to pick up ballplayers, where to score free beer and where to take your ladybird when she whines about having to spend the day watching “fat men in tights run around a dirt pen.”
It’s true: In a sucky economy, people have more sex. For one, it’s free (usually). And two, if it’s with someone you already sorta know (like a girlfriend or boyfriend), you don’t have to preface it with wining, dining or even a variety bucket from KFC. All this puts high-end retailer Kiki de Montparnasse, which unveiled its Fall/Winter 2009 collection last week (see slide show above), in a unique position—pun very much intended. Read more »
You read that right. Today at 1pm, I.M. Chait Gallery will sell more than 300 items at its much-anticipated (in the science world) Natural History Auction; if you’ve got half a mil burning a hole in your pocketbook, you could walk away with a full-size, 150-million-year-old Dryosaurus skeleton, one of only two in the world. (In layman’s terms: That’s some serious Jurassic Park shit.) Also on the block: a raptor leg (valued between $14,000 and $16,000), a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton ($80,000–$100,000), a Mosasaur skeleton (this giant lizard thing that lived in the ocean back in the day and goes for a cool $80,000 to $100,000), pieces of the moon and Mars (!), and an 867-gram crystallized gold nugget. We want to meet the man who buys that nugget—and then have him buy us dinner.
This weekend 303GRAND (a new revolving storefront in Williamsburg that individuals or organizations can rent out for whatever purpose they choose) and Artists & Fleas have teamed up to create a pop-up indoor market featuring crafty vendors and workshops. The market opened last night (and continues through Saturday). We stopped by to get our craft on and let you know what to expect.
Marty Allen—artist, street peddler and frontman for multimedia band Uncle Monsterface—will introduce nine new sock-puppet characters (each with its own MySpace page) tonight at 8pm at Sputnik. The “Victorian” framed photos are for sale and include a “Guys Named Charles” set (Darwin, Dickens and “in charge”).
We’ve always had a thing for mental institutions—and not just ’cause we grew up in one. So, apparently, does photographer Clara Daly; her haunting new show, “Thorazine in the Solarium,” opens tonight at Williamsburg’s Stain Bar—proof yet again that loony bins are always more intriguing when you’re on the outside looking in. Daly’s collection is ripe with bone-chilling portraits of abandoned asylums and disused psychiatric wards, and includes shots from Buffalo State Hospital and Ellis Island’s quarantine ward. The exhibit is ongoing through March 28, but stop by tonight between 5 and 7pm if you want to trade ghost-hunting stories with Daly. Spooky!
Beatles or Stones? Beatles or Stones? Could there be a more important question to ask when sussing out a person’s musical proclivities, aspirational social status or—let’s be frank here—fuckability?
Separate the men from the boys at tonight’s opening reception of “The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66″ at Not Fade Away Gallery(6–10pm, free). Read more »
We love the tail end of winter, when the snow melts away, the chill becomes manageable and the air outside smells just a little less like urine. It can mean only one thing: the return of The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden. Seven years strong, the bloomy extravaganza opens tomorrow and runs through April 12; the theme is Brazilian Modern, and the NYBG recruited landscape architect and gardening guru Raymond Jungles to do ‘er up righteous. Get thee to da Bronx this weekend and you’ll also be treated to Brazilian food tastings, samba dancing, guitar serenades and a Jungles lecture and book signing (Saturday 28 only).
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The landmark building on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 20th Street has been many things (a church, a few nightclubs, an empty money pit, a home to various sample sales) but it’s never been a shopping mall. Until now. You may have heard about the looming project, but we’re excited to announce that construction is official and the doors are set to open to the public in March. The three-story, 25,000-square-foot space will house 80 shops (including Hunter Boots, Caswell Massey and a J. Sisters salon) two restaurants and tons of food options (Cupcake Stop!). “It’s going to be an international entertainment destination,” promises the marketplace president Jack Menashe. Sounds lovely! Check out the work-in-progress photos below as well as some renderings of what the space will look like.