Pressed For Time: The NYPD Film Festival

The 7-Day Plan for your week.

Manhattan Media is pleased to announce the merging of Our Town Downtown with New York Press! The new Pressed For Time newsletter, which launches today, is your guide to the best weekly events of downtown Manhattan.

BEST PICK
FREE event: Governors Island Art Fair
Governors Island; 11 a.m.-4.
New York-based arts group 4heads chooses 120 independent artists and gives them rooms to build space for sculpture, photography, painting and object installations on historic Governors Island, all for your enjoyment. The art fair runs through Sept. 25.

Sept. 1
Land 1,000 Dances
Beekman Beer Garden, 89 South St. at Beekman St.; 9, $5.
Join the dance party that's also a dance class with DJ Jonathan Toubin spinning a rare collection of rock and soul vinyl while a troupe of dancers led by Soul Clap teaches you everything from popular '60s dances to the latest craze.

FREE event: SummerStage Theatre
East River Park, enter at Delancey St.; 8.
A masterpiece of tragedy, Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, is one of the final performances of the SummerStage season. Co-produced by Faux-Real Theater Company, it's certain to be an engaging take on a classic.

Sept. 2

NYPD Film Festival

Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St. (betw. 6th Ave. & Varick St.); various show times, $12.50.
On opening day of the festival see the noir classic Laura, in which NYC detective Dana Andrews, on the brink of necrophilia, falls in love with a portrait of a murdered woman. The festival celebrates the police department in its own unique way and runs through Sept. 13.

FREE event: Tony Hawk Vert Jam

Pier 54, Hudson River Park; 2.

Quicksilver teams up with skateboarding legend Tony Hawk-and a few of his pals-to show off their tricks on a massive demo half-pipe set-up at Pier 54.

Sept. 3

NARCISCHISM - Un Cabaret d'Adieu

Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette St. (betw. E. 4th St. & Astor Pl.); 8, $15.

Described as a "theatrical burlesque rock-concert," NARCISCHISM is equal parts musical narrative and concert spectacle, bringing the audience deep into the psyche of a tortured performance artist. Closing night.

FREE event: Glass Gas Mask

Fuse Gallery 93 2nd Ave. #A (betw. E. 5th & 6th Sts.); 3-8.

David Yow, front man of The Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid, brings a new art collection that blends the digital and physical, using everything from computers and pencils to spit and hair.

Sept. 4

Human Centipede: The Musical

The PIT, 123 E. 24th St. (betw. Lexington & Park Aves.); 8, $8.

For one night only, it's back. The musical-based on a similar and disgustingly funny episode of South Park-returns after a sold-out run in Boston, sure to make you laugh and retch.

Dream Up Festival

Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave. (betw. E. 9th & 10th Sts.); various show times, $12-$15.

Catch the last day of this summer theater festival, featuring a range of performances spanning drama, music, poetry and dance.

Sept. 5

It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.

IFC Center, 323 6th Ave. at W. 3rd St.; 7:30, $20.

Crispin Hellion Glover, the maverick actor and filmmaker, brings his outrageously unclassifiable film It is Fine!-a semi-autobiographical, psychosexual tale about a man with severe cerebral palsy and a fetish for girls with long hair-to the IFC.

FREE event: Mint Slab Mundo

NP Contemporary Arts Center,

131 Chrystie St. (betw. Delancey & Broome sts.); 12-6.

Laura Brothers' first solo show brings her digital artwork into the physical realm, leaving you with the feeling of being one of the extras in A Scanner Darkly.

Sept. 6

Sweet and Sad
Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.

(betw. E. 4th St. & Astor Pl.); 7:30, $15.

Previews begin for Richard Nelson's new play, about the liberal Apple family as they come together on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, dealing with themes of memory, remembrance and the meaning of compensation.

Sept. 7

FREE event: No Hay Olvido/There's No Forgetting
Hendershot Gallery, 195 Chrystie St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.); 6-8. The Puerto Rican-born artist Christian Cureil explores self-identity through latent memories of youth. A survey of his paintings is on exhibit at this downtown gallery, running through Oct. 19.

10 Years Later: Women Heroes on 9/11 and Beyond

92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. (betw. Vestry & Desbrosses Sts.); 7, $12.

Join Soledad O'Brien and New York Fire Department Captain Brenda Berkman in a tribute to the female heroes who risked and lost their lives on 9/11 to save others.

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