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Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 10/15/08

Thursday: 10/16/08

Friday: 10/17/08

Saturday: 10/18/08

Sunday: 10/19/08

Monday: 10/20/08

Tuesday: 10/21/08

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art

Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
New Museum

Peyton's first-ever retrospective in the United States features 100+ works. More »

movie

imageHappy-Go-Lucky

Beneath the everyday, scattershot surface of Mike Leigh's newest marvel is a classic theme: the survival of enchantment in a hostile world. More »

nightlife

Nick Lowe

The pop songwriter who first burst on the scene in the seventies. More »

movie

imageReligulous

Sassy talking-head Bill Maher tackles the topic of religion, shooting off his trademark one-liners all over the world. More »

nightlife

imageLindsey Buckingham
Nokia Theatre

The former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, gone rapturously solo in recent years. More »

movie

imageW.

Oliver Stone's much-hyped fictional account of our current president's rise to power, with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush. More »

art

imagePicasso's Marie-Therese
Acquavella Galleries

Rarely seen paintings and a sculpture devoted to the relationship between Picasso and his young lover and muse, Marie-Therese Walter. More »

art

Josef Koudelka
Aperture Foundation Gallery

Compelling large-scale images captured by the young photographer during the Soviet-led invasion of Prague. More »

nightlife

Diplo
Webster Hall

The remix phenom best known for his work with hipster-homegirl M.I.A. More »

community

Mad Obsessions: The Films of Barbet Schroeder
BAM Rose Cinemas

Tempting films by Barbet Schroeder, including a weeklong run of the 1965 anthology "Paris Vu Par". More »

movie

Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's directorial debut is an off-kilter comedy starring Eugene Hutz, of gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello. More »

nightlife

Give Food a Chance
HighLine Ballroom

Horatio Sanz, Seth Meyers, Jack McBrayer, and others perform big-ticket stand-up for charity. More »

art

Up Close: Henry Darger
American Folk Art Museum

Three hundred watercolor illustrations from Darger's 15,000-page manuscript. More »

art

Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The first comprehensive survey in the U.S. of Morandi's work features approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings. More »

nightlife

Lewis Black
Town Hall

The vociferous curmudgeon sounds off. More »

community

PaleyDocFest
The Paley Center for Media

With films such as "Toots," Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's "Johnny Cash's America," and others. More »

nightlife

Method Man and Redman
Nokia Theatre

The rap-world collaborators and stoner-movie regulars. More »

nightlife

Baltimore Round Robin

A slew of great indie bands from the titular city (Dan Deacon, Beach House, Lexie Mountain Boys, and many, many others) play one song each, back to back, around the periphery of the room. More »

movie

Max Payne

Mark Wahlberg takes on the persona of the titular cop-gone-bad in this adaptation of the bloody videogame franchise. More »

reading

Art Spiegelman
Barnes & Noble

The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist and author of "In the Shadow of No Towers" presents his latest, "Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!." More »

reading

John Hodgman
Barnes & Noble

The Daily Show's resident expert shares passages from "More Information Than You Require," the follow-up to his best-selling humor volume, "The Areas of My Expertise." More »

Ongoing

movies

New York Tokyo Film Grand Prix

A showcase of trendy recent hits from Japan and beyond, such as Izuru Kumasaka’s Berlin Film Fest favorite Asyl—Park and Love Hotel (10/7), the noise-extravaganza concert doc 77 Boadrum (10/13), and others. Thru 10/16, variois locations

Ticket Alert

Cherie Blair

The TimesCenter, 10/14; $30

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