SUNDAYS
Tribeca Grand sent over info on last week’s free screening (Boardwalk Empire‘s second season premiere) too late for the last Coming Up roundup, but you should know that the hotel does something like that every Sunday night. Sometimes it’s a TV show, sometimes it’s a movie; it’s always free (and you can buy drinks).

OCTOBER 1, 8, 15
Apexart is hosting “mini-concerts every Saturday from 3–4 p.m. during the course of the current show ‘Private Stash: A Musician’s Eye,’ curated by jazz pianist Fred Hersch. Fred hand selected some of his students to play on the baby grand now residing in our space.”

OCTOBER 4
Hairdresser to the stars Carrie White (profiled last week in the New York Times) is at Barnes & Noble Tribeca pushing her new book, Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life. Simon & Schuster publicist Paul Olseweski has graciously agreed to give books to the first four folks who DM him on Twitter (@paulieolsewski). Love the slashes cut into the jacket.

OCTOBER 4
“The music of Thelonius Monk will be celebrated in Monk at 94, a free mini-marathon showcasing solo performances by an eclectic lineup of piano virtuosos at the World Financial Center Winter Garden. Participants include the internationally acclaimed Cuban-born classical pianist Adonis Gonzalez; pianist and composer Jed Distler, a fixture in New York’s new-music scene and host of WQXR’s keyboard show Hammered!; rising Cuban jazz star Alex Tosca, whose Latin-infused flair has won him work with such acts as The Roots and Parliament/Funkadelic; and a variety of other virtuosos.” Oh, I love Thelonius Monk. If you’ve never read the Monk passage in Geoff Dyer’s But Beautiful, do yourself a favor. Here’s a part that someone transcribed—it’s not the part I love the most, but so what: “Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he’d never seen one before. Came at it from all angles, using his elbows, taking chops at it, rippling through the keys like they were a deck of cards, fingers jabbing at them like they were hot to the touch or tottering around them like a woman in heels—playing it all wrong as far as classical piano went. Everything came out crooked, at an angle, not as you expected. If he’d played Beethoven, sticking exactly to the score, just the way he hit the keys, the angle at which his fingers touched the ivory, would have unsteadied it, made it swing and turn around inside itself, made it a Monk tune.”

OCTOBER 7–28
“Hionas Gallery is pleased to present ‘Undefined,’ an exhibition of new large-scale pastel drawings from Tun Ping Wang. Wang’s haunting portraits reflect the artist’s fascination with the imperfect beauty of faces, and how the emotions, experiences and mental states of his subjects are imposed by the viewer rather than the artist. The gallery will be holding a public opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 6,  6–8 p.m.”

OCTOBER 15
“Come to Washington Market Park‘s kids gardening event on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. sponsored by The Friends of Washington Market Park in celebration of the city-wide It’s My Park Day. Our park gardener will give a talk to children on how to plant tulip bulbs and seeds for the spring, then the kids will get busy planting. There will be kids’ gloves and trowels for all and lots of bulbs to plant!

OCTOBER 21
At the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: “An eight-piece, high-energy bluegrass band that combines the harmonies of three spirited female vocalists with the hard driving sound of five musically-gifted musicians on banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass and accordion, the NYCity Slickers are sure to entice bluegrass and music lovers alike. Tickets are $15 each or $10 with the purchase of a ‘Spotlight Subscription.”

"Dill Weed" by Barbara Ciurejand Lindsay Lochman

NOVEMBER 2–DECEMBER 3
“Soho Photo’s November show will feature the winning entries in the Seventh Annual Alternative Processes Competition. The images that were submitted for this competition represent a wide range of alternative methods that can include beeswax paper negative, Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, platinum- palladium, gum dichromate, gold toned salt print, tintype, and ziatype. Also on view: a guest exhibition by Stephanie Lyn Slate that features two bodies of work, Souvenirs and The Inevitable.”

NOVEMBER 7
“The Mark of the Chemist” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, featuring John Turturro and New Yorker critic Joan Acocella, with a soundscape by Marco Cappelli. “Primo Levi’s Holocaust writings (Survival in Auschwitz, The Periodic Table), have always borne the stamp of his training as a chemist. Acclaimed actor John Turturro, who portrayed Levi in the film The Truce, will star in the English premiere of this staged reading inspired by the author’s eloquent scientific works.”

DECEMBER 8
Writer André Aciman—who forever changed the way I think of peaches—is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: “In his latest book [Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere], novelist and memoirist Aciman (Eight White Nights, Out of Egypt) offers a series of meditations on travel, displacement, and the Alexandria of his youth […] from beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to musings on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner.”

DECEMBER 25
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage: “I Lift My Lamp: A Statue-esque Hanukkah.” “Join us for a day of homage to Emma Lazarus and the Lady of the Harbor, featuring Statue-inspired crafts and films including An American Tail, Saboteur, and Ghostbusters II.” Plus: Crafts for kids.