••• I forgot to mention yesterday that Jan Larsen Art was having an opening last night for “Through the Energy of Empathy,” a show of paintings by Richard Nocera. A lot of folks showed up—despite how my photo makes it appear!—and the paintings are definitely worth a look. Jan said that Nocera produced them all in a single three-week period.
••• Also, the Antiqueria 10th-anniversary warehouse sale (on the north side of Duane, across from the store at 129 Duane) is pretty good. It’s open through Sunday, if there’s anything left by then (11 a.m.–7 p.m. Thurs.–Sat.; noon–5 p.m. Sun.)
Other activities you might consider this weekend….
••• The Keeping History Center at the Jewish Heritage Museum (which we wrote about here) is officially open.
••• Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club (more here) starts tomorrow. Buy tickets in advance.
••• At the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Friday and Saturday night brings the ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company, while Mo Williems’ Pigeon Party is Saturday afternoon.
••• It’s on the Lowest Eastest Side, not in Tribeca, but the Abrons Art Center at the Henry Street Settlement is hosting a free show by Taylor 2, a sister company of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, this Sunday at 2 p.m. I went to the Abrons at night and I have to say I’d be happier about returning on a Sunday afternoon….
••• Opening today at the Regal Battery Park City: The Box, from the director of Donnie Darko (Manohla Dargis of the NYT called it “sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that insists on its own seriousness even when it edges toward the preposterous”); The Men Who Stare at Goats, with George Clooney and Jeff Bridges (“likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy,” says Dargis); A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey and a lot of digital imagery (“a branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment […] that sticks close to some of the sturdy virtues of the source material,” says the NYT’s A.O. Scott); and The Fourth Kind (an alien movie no one liked). Tickets at Fandango.
••• Opening today at Angelika Film Center: Collapse, a documentary monologue that “showcases the singular obsession of the author Michael C. Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer and investigative journalist who […] has devoted his life, two books and a self-published newsletter to connecting the dots between population, economics and energy, and concluding that the center will not hold,” says the NYT’s Jeanette Catsoulis; and The House of the Devil, which Dargis calls a “nifty, creepy” horror film.
••• Still at IFC Center: Paris starring Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris. That’s all I need to know that I’d love it.
••• Still at Landmark Sunshine: The September Issue (about the making of a Vogue issue), the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man, and New York, I Love You (a series of vignettes about people in the city).
••• Opening for a two-week run at the Film Forum: The Red Shoes. This “digitally resuscitated” version of the 1948 masterpiece “is essential viewing because even if you think you have seen the movie before its restoration, if you’re under 60, you probably haven’t seen it anywhere near its original Technicolor glory,” says Dargis. Pair it with Frederick Wiseman’s much-loved new documentary La Danse (above), also at Film Forum, and you’ll be dancing down Varick Street.
Good luck surviving the Yankees parade. My partner just texted saying that he saw two people pounding on the door of a bar—it’s not even 8 a.m.—because the bar isn’t open.