Events for November 25th, 2009
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Wednesday - November 25th
Music / Alternative
Sonic Youth
Bowery Ballroom - 6 Delancey St. - New York (Lower East Side)
9 p.m.
Sonic Youth: underground icons, the epitome of downtown cool
Music / Alternative
The Pixies
Hammerstein Ballroom - 311 W. 34th St. - New York (Midtown West)
1 a.m. and 8 p.m.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album "Doolittle", The Pixies - Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering are hitting the road. It is the pioneering 80s alt/rock band's first tour since 2005, and they will be playing all the songs on the...
Events / Theater Event
The Brother/Sister Plays
Public Theater - 425 Lafayette St. - New York (NoHo)
Like everyone else in American theater, I love these powerful, elemental dramas by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Metromix offered a rave review of "The Brothers Size" last season; now you can catch up on that and McCraney's two related plays (based on African myths) about sibling rivalry in a small...
Events / Performance
Ragtime
Neil Simon Theatre - 250 W. 52nd st. - New York (Midtown West)
A surprise upset in '98 had "Ragtime" lose the Best Musical Tony to "Lion King". Adapted from EL Doctorow's masterful novel, the musical shows the tumult of NYC in the first decade of the 20th century: historical figures rub shoulders with representatives from the Yiddish, black, and WASP...
Events / Theater Event
In the Next Room
Lyceum Theatre - 149 W. 45th St. - New York (Midtown West)
Sarah Ruhl is the darling of modern theater, a rare playwright whose so popular (with the in-crowd, at least) that she can write a play that opens straight on Broadway, with no tryout elsewhere! In the Next Room is a period piece about the invention of the titular instrumentused in the 19th c. to...
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
Chacala at Night
Chacala - 394 Broadway - New York
This quiet loft affair is locked into keeping things on the DL.
Music / Indie
Julian Plenti
Brooklyn Bowl - 61 Wythe Ave. - Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
8 p.m.
If the name Julian Plenti doesn't sound familiar, you may know him as Paul Banks, lead singer of Interpol. Years before the NYC quartet went big time, Banks had been performing as solo artist Plenti in small venues around the city. A few years back, he finally decided to demo and record some of the...
Music / Dance
Deadmau5
Terminal 5 - 610 West 56th Street - New York (Midtown West)
9 p.m.
Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Joel Zimmerman is also known as "deadmau5" or "Halcyon441." As a progressive house/minimal trance and techno producer and DJ, Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") was called the most notable producer for 2007 by colleagues Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren. With Burns,...
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
No Way Back: Thanksgiving Eve Warehouse Party
10 p.m. - 4 a.m.
Celebrate Thanksgiving Eve Brooklyn-style, at a warehouse blowout featuring live sets by Cubic Zircona and Da Hardy Boys. And more!
Theater / Theater Event
BAM Next Wave Festival
Bam Rose Cinemas - 30 Lafayette Ave. - Brooklyn (Fort Greene)
BAM's annual showcase of avant-garde performance offers the best from around the world
