OCTOBER 30–DECEMBER 7
At Pablo’s Birthday gallery: Kristian Kozul’s exhibit, “Idée Fixe.” Right: “John Barleycorn’s Ascension, 2011.” It really benefits from being enlarged, so click away.

NOVEMBER 4–25
“Hionas Gallery is pleased to present ‘Traces,’ the latest solo exhibition from Melanie Vote. With this exhibition Vote continues to challenge the very ideas and practices of mixed-media art, combining plein air & studio landscape painting with sculptural renditions of objects from her childhood.”

NOVEMBER 5–DECEMBER 17
Matthew Northbridge’s “Pictures by Wire and Wireless” is at Kansas Gallery: “Matthew Northridge’s work is equal parts play and order. He assembles patterns and structures that explore a vast, visual landscape through cultural ephemera. Whether composed of variable units in space or networks on paper, rules are created and systems developed, in the process collapsing architecture and geographic expanses into discreet compositions.”

NOVEMBER 8
From Mondo Cane: “Please join us on November 8 at 6–8 p.m. for the opening reception of Jonathan Nesci’s first New York City solo show. Jonathan will be presenting his new series Nine Variations. This is a collection of nine small-scale furniture pieces in aluminum based on a set of geometric constraints derived from the Golden Rule.”

NOVEMBER 9
Deborah Needleman—now of the Wall Street Journal, formerly of Domino, and a Tribecan—is at 92YTribeca; she has a new book, The Perfectly Imperfect Home.

NOVEMBER 11
Carny noir Nightmare Alley (1947), starring Tyrone Power, screens at 92YTribeca.

NOVEMBER 12
At 92YTribeca, Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten in Love Letters (1945), followed by Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

NOVEMBER 13
From New Amsterdam Market: “We are very excited to announce that International Pickle Day, held for the past 10 years on the Lower East Side by the New York Food Museum, will begin its new life at New Amsterdam Market as the Peck Slip Pickle Festival! The day-long event will feature pickles and fermented foods of every type and tradition, a home pickling competition, and a special bialy presentation from food writer Mimi Sheraton & Hot Bread Kitchen.”

NOVEMBER 15
Jazz pianist George Cables plays at Duane Park restaurant.

NOVEMBER 17
At 92YTribeca, Ira Glass interviews David Javerbaum about his new book, The Last Testament: A Memoir by God.

NOVEMBER 18
Marco Benevento plays 92YTribeca.

DECEMBER 7–31
“Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce that Meryl Meisler is December’s guest exhibitor. Her show is entitled, ‘Here I Am: Bushwick in the 1980s.’ When Meisler began teaching art in Bushwick in the early 1980s, she wondered, Was the other art teacher killed? Meisler explains, ‘Bushwick resembled a ghost town war zone. Scorched and seemingly forgotten since the ’77 blackout, Bushwick hit the skids. To me, Bushwick’s natural light was beautiful; kids were kids, vacant buildings whispered: Here I am, take my picture before I collapse. Using a plastic point and shoot and color slide film, I photographed walking from subway to school, through classroom windows, and back again. The images I’m showing, many forgotten in boxes for nearly 30 years, are a wink, quick sketches of the neighborhood’s people and places during a disparate decade.'” Also: Member exhibitions by Bruce Wodder, Alison Hoornbeek, Andrzej Haladuda, and David Murcko.

DECEMBER 8
A sing-along, dance-along, and quote-along screening of Troop Beverly Hills.

JANUARY 31–FEBRUARY 1
Joe Henry plays City Winery.