Things to Do in New York City This Weekend, Oct. 27–29, 2017

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These are our top picks for the weekend of Oct. 27–29. For more event listings and reviews, check out Goings On About Town.

Art | SoHo

“Cabinet of Horrors”

Photograph Courtesy Judith Bernstein / The Drawing Center

Are you enraged by Donald Trump? So is Judith Bernstein, whose nickname for him is “Trumpenschlong.” After the election, Bernstein, an indomitable feminist—whom the art world has finally caught up to, now that she’s in her seventies—went on a tear, making the acrylic paintings on paper that are in her current show at the Drawing Center (through Feb. 4). Even the gallery’s orange walls seem to be screaming. —Andrea K. Scott

Read more about “Cabinet of Horrors,” and three more drawing shows to see, here.


Photograph by Kimbra Audrey

Night Life | Lower East Side

Honduras

The Brooklyn rockers in the band Honduras dish out rattling punk that’s easy to love: quick-hit, warmly juvenile guitar licks, and jangling drums that stomp up from below. The lead singer, Patrick Phillips, performs with a nihilistic edge that updates the Sex Pistols, but, if you ask the guitarist Tyson Moore about influences, he cites originators such as the Saints and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. Digging into the Halloween spirit, the group headlines “A NYC Horror Show,” with Alexander F, Fruit & Flowers, and Chorizo, Friday, Oct. 27, at Mercury Lounge. Matthew Trammell

Read more about Honduras here.


Bars | Lower East Side

Garfunkel’s

A Lower East Side bar where you don’t have to fight to get in—or be heard—is nothing short of a miracle. Garfunkel’s, a cozy speakeasy, goes one step further. At its best—when you’re curled into a high-backed chair sipping a Quill (a richer and more bitter Negroni, thanks to Punt e Mes) and listening to Nina Simone’s velvet tones—Garfunkel’s is the most intimate bar in New York City. Becky Cooper

Read the full review of Garfunkel’s here.


Restaurants | Tribeca

Harry & Ida’s Luncheonette

The luncheonette, a subspecies of diner, harkens back to the interwar period, to Dos Passos’s “Manhattan Transfer” and men scarfing meaty sandwiches and pickles before loping off into the growing metropolis to find honest work. At Harry & Ida’s Luncheonette, the pastrami, heftily cut and intricately marbled, is something of a specialty, and is utterly delicious. Pastrami aside, this is trendified luncheonette fare. (Smoked apricot chicken, anyone?) Nicolas Niarchos

Read the full review of Harry & Ida’s Luncheonette here.


Theatre | Bushwick

“Animal Wisdom”

Photograph by Maria Baranova

In “Animal Wisdom” (at the Bushwick Starr, through Nov. 18), Heather Christian, a prolific composer, pianist, and powerhouse vocalist originally from Natchez, Mississippi, offers an intimate “requiem” for the ghosts in her life, particularly her grandmothers: both of them, as she puts it, “New Orleans Catholics who are also musicians who suffer migraines and talk to dead people.” The manic monologue she uses to connect her songs sometimes verges on derangement, and on the sort of self-indulgence that all art based on family history risks. But every moment is so deliberate and well-orchestrated, and her four bandmates so generous and attuned, and the music itself so fierce and exhilarating, that she can get away with whatever she wants. Rollo Romig


Photograph from Everett

Movies | West Village

“The Wrong Man”

Few would mistake Alfred Hitchcock’s meticulous artistry for documentary filmmaking, but, in “The Wrong Man,” from 1956, he took his stars and his crew on location, in Queens and other sites throughout the city, for a drama of crime and punishment with a surprising metaphysical twist. Henry Fonda plays a night-club musician who’s mistaken for a robber; Vera Miles plays his wife, whose life is thrown into turmoil by the accusation; and the kind of guilt that Hitchcock films most forcefully has nothing to do with courts of law. It plays Friday, Oct. 27, at Film Forum, and is available to stream. Richard Brody


Classical Music | Prospect Heights

Diamanda Galás

As we near Halloween, concerts both sacred and profane crowd the schedule. But if you want to summon the spirit of the event in a more serious manner, consider a visit to Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre, which is situated just a stone’s throw from Grand Army Plaza. The legendary singer and pianist Diamanda Galás, who develops her own material out of folk, jazz, and modernist classical influences, knows how to summon the uncanny into concerts of harrowing intensity. She’ll hold court for two nights, Sunday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 31, performing selections from two recent albums. Russell Platt


Dance | Midtown

“The Red Shoes”

The British choreographer Matthew Bourne, who previously adapted “Edward Scissorhands” into a ballet, has made a stage version of “The Red Shoes,” about a dancer who must choose between love and art, based on the film from 1948. At City Center through next Sunday, Nov. 5, New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns will alternate with the longtime Bourne dancer Ashley Shaw in the role of the protagonist; American Ballet Theatre’s Marcelo Gomes takes turns with Dominic North as the man whom she loves but must sacrifice for fame. —Marina Harss

Read Joan Acocella’s piece about Bourne’s take on “The Red Shoes” here.


Bars | Bushwick

Cafe Erzulie

Erzulie, the Haitian spirit of love and beauty, holds Thursdays sacred. After reading a longer list of her preferences, it may seem that the vodou goddess had a hand in more than just the name of Cafe Erzulie, a new café-cum-cocktail-lounge in Bushwick. Neima Jahromi

Read the full review of Cafe Erzulie here.


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