around town today
free art openings:
andy warhol: ‘experimenting with fame’ @ david benrimon fine art (thru 3/2) >>color>
christopher logan: nyc fashion week photos @ lomography (bonus: open bar) >>color>
group show: ’50/50: new prints 2015/winter’ @ international print center new york (thru 3/14) >>color>
group show: ‘art + aids: amor y pasión’ @ leslie + lohman museum of gay and lesbian art (thru 2/1) >>color>
(nsfw) group show: ‘pheromone hotbox: five women photographers’ @ steven kasher (thru 2/28) >>color>
group show: sva mps fashion photography graduate exhibition @ milk gallery (thru 1/30) >>color>
group show: ‘the future is here again: visual language’ with string trio speed bump live performance @ ac institute >>color>
11am—7pm (thru 1/25): 35 galleries exhibit at the annual metro art show. metropolitan pavilion, $20 (up from $15 last year). >>color>
6:30pm: marvel comic book artist phil jimenez gives free portfolio reviews and a drawing tutorial at cooper hewitt. rsvp required. >>color>
6:30-9:30pm: abrons art center’s adult sampler open house features free hot toddies and a diy grilled cheese bar (6:30-7pm), art workshops, and karaoke. rsvp requested. >>color>
7pm: in the evil hours, former marine infantry officer david morris looks at the history of post-traumatic stress disorder, both in his own life and the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness. word bookstore, free. >>color>
7pm: the moth storyslam: 10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. tonight’s theme: ‘blunders’. housing works, $8. >>color>
7pm (weekly): jiji lee hosts the split personality storytelling and character open mic show at williamsburg’s over the eight. tonight’s guests: amber drea (mcsweeney’s) and anna roisman (‘you probably think this song is about you’ host). free. >>color>
7pm (weekly): the ‘lasers in the jungle’ comedy show features stand-up by jared logan (comedy central), liz miele (conan), pat dixon (best week ever), jermaine fowler (guy code, comedy central), Roger Hailes (comedy central), and hosts sean crespo, katina corrao and dan wilbur. ucbeast, $5. >>color>
7pm (weekly): the seaport’s sugarcube free screening series features the toxic avenger (1984). >>color>
7pm: the ’it came from baltimore’ film series @ the mad museum screens terry gilliam’s 12 monkeys (1995), starring bruce willis, brad pitt, and madeleine stowe. $10 general, $5 students. >>color>
7pm: all boy/all girl, hide + seek, heidi merrill, and crush of empires play highline ballroom. $12. >>color>
7pm: the living kills, the mad doctors, and big quite play the grand victory. $8. >>color>
7, 9pm: comedian sara schaefer (nikki + sara live, fallon) records a live album at union hall. brooke van poppelen (ferguson, john oliver) hosts. $8 adv, $10 dos. >>color>
7:30pm: brooklyn paper’s ruth brown leads a coffee tasting, talk, and signing for her new book, coffee nerd: how to have your coffee and drink it too at fort greene’s greene grape annex. free. >>color>
7:30pm: ned sublette, author of the world that made new orleans the forthcoming the american slave coast: a history of the slave-breeding industry talks about the history of the u.s. slave-breeding industry. proteus gowanus, $5. >>color>
7:30pm: the calidore string quartet performs mozart, mendelssohn, and shaw at the david rubenstein atrium at lincoln center. free. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show (weekly): the myrtle comedy show at clinton hill’s splitty features rob cantrell (last comic standing), adam lowitt (executive producer, the daily show), tom mcaffrey, mike dobbins, and jo firestone (‘punderdome 3000′ co-host) joining host greg johnson. $5. >>color>
7:30pm doors: honduras,the teen age, the yin yangs, sunset guns, and best behavior play coco 66. $8. >>color>
8pm: gingerlys, palehound, mumblr, and fern mayo play shea stadium. $8. >>color>
8pm doors, 9pm show: hear rock albums performed live at brooklyn bowl’s classic album night with bands covering pat benatar and the police. $7 adv, $10 dos. >>color>
8:15pm (weekly): the sh*t lit comedy show and reading series (formerly known as the emily show) celebrates the worst of the worst submitted poems, short stories, plays, screenplays, sketches and essays. tonight’s guests: doug smith, sam weiner (the onion, how to win at everything), charles gould, alana eisner, langston kerman, and hosts lizzie martinez, tim racine and emily bogue. want to submit something to the show? bring your 150-word submission with you and you get to read it at the show. upstairs at 2a, free. >>color>
8:30pm (thru 2/8): new york shakespeare exchange presents a production of titus andronicus as viewed through a contemporary american lens. here arts center, $18. >>color>
9pm: astronomy on tap = galactic lectures + chats in a bar. tonight, the cluster moves to videology for a screening of neil degrasse tyson’s cosmos: a spacetime odyssey with games and prizes. free (rsvp required). >>color>
9:30pm (monthly): guests share stories on the theme ‘how bizarre’ at kevin allison’s monthly risk! live podcast recording. tonight’s speakers: tba. the pit, $10. >>color>
9:30pm (monthly): daily show writers perform an improvised comedy show at ucb. $5. >>color>
10pm: ‘controversy’ — prince tribute dance party: dj ceremony spins all things prince-y at lpr’s gallery. $5. >>color>
11:30pm: 6-piece french/latin/american jazz ensemble carte blanche plays vintage standards at rockwood music hall’s stage 2. free (a tip jar will be passed around). >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
coming up
1/23 12-8pm (thru 2/1): 70+ exhibitors show and sell americana, english, european, and asian fine + decorative arts at the 61st annual winter antiques show. park avenue armory (park ave @ 67th st.), $25 admission includes a catalogue. >>color>
1/23 1-9pm: cooper union hosts ‘the artist as debtor,’ a day-long conference about the art and the debt economy. free to attend (rsvp), and also livestreamed. >>color>
1/23 6, 8:20pm: this month’s nerd nite moves to le poisson rouge with presentations about horror comic books of the 1950s, nazi zombies, and nyc myths, hoaxes and urban legends. hosted by matt wasowski. $14 includes trivia (6pm doors), $10 for presentations only (8:20pm). >>color>
1/23 6:30pm doors, 7pm show (monthly thru 6/24): st. paul’s chapel’s neighborhood movie nights series screens e.t. the extra-terrestrial. bonus: free popcorn and soft drinks. free admission. >>color>
1/23 6:45pm doors: dr. steve b. howell, project scientist for nasa’s planet-hunting kepler and k2 missions, is the featured speaker at tonight’s astronomy night at the intrepid museum. beer and wine will be available for purchase to put you in a spacey mood. free (rsvp required). >>color>
1/23 7pm: daily show correspondent aasif mandvi discusses his new book no land’s man with pulitzer-prize winner ayad akhtar (disgrace). bookcourt, free. >>color>
1/23 7pm: the museum of the moving image’s julianne moore series screens paul thomas anderson’s boogie nights. free with museum admission ($12 general, $9 students/seniors). >>color>
1/23 7, 9:30pm: sarah screams presents operotica, an evening of opera-burlesque cabaret hosted by chris harder. drom, $18 adv, $22 door. >>color>
1/23 7-10pm: bitter + esters brewery celebrates national pie day with a pie + homebrew beer pairing. $10 admission (advance purchase highly recommended) benefits the bixby school teachers fund and breast cancer research. >>color>
1/23 7-10pm: amanda jo williams and batfog play a free show at sugarcube, a 70-foot-long, cube-shaped tent at the south street seaport. byob. >>color>
1/23 7pm-1am (fri-sat, ongoing): the weekly brooklyn night bazaar night market brings bands, food, drinks, vendors, light installations, mini golf, ping pong and skeeball to a 24,000 sq ft warehouse. this week’s live music comes from foxing, slingshot dakota, everyone everywhere, what moon things, the sea life, sworn enemy, old wounds, 96, ides, and dead tricks. free admission. >>color>
1/23 8pm (monthly): get better acquainted with the local poetry scene at the next installment of roots poetry series, featuring matthew rohrer (a hummock in the malookas, nice hat. thanks), mary catherine kinniburgh, rennie ament and suzanne lunden. donation-based beer and wine will help you forget that they don’t all rhyme. roots cafe (south slope), free admission. >>color>
1/23 8pm: groupmuse, an informal classical music gathering typically hosted in living rooms, sets up at green-wood’s chapel.
drinks will be available for purchase, but byob is permitted.
$10. >>color>
1/23 8pm: the film society of lincoln center’s monthly ’staring at sound’ program explores the connections between music and film. tonight: home-brewed electronic musicians dan friel (parts and labor) and todd bailey. $10. >>color>
1/23 8pm: punk rock karaoke to benefit just info. pine box rock shop, $10 suggested donation. >>color>
1/23 8pm: ricky eat acid, skylar spence, foxes in fiction, and fissures play palisades. $8 adv, $10 dos. >>color>
1/23 8pm doors, 9pm show: lia ices, seoul, and white prism play rough trade. $12 adv, $15 dos. >>color>
1/23 9pm: wasabassco burlesque performers wiggle their way out of superhero and villain costumes at the bell house. $20. >>color>
1/23 10pm (thru 4/11): get tickets to drunk shakespeare at the lounge at roy arias studios for $25 (plus ticket fees, reg. $50). >>color>
1/23 10pm: the folks behind ‘this party is killing you: a night of robyn everything’ bring asslands: a booty + bass party to cameo. $5. >>color>
1/23 11pm (monthly): adult amateur (or worse) dance teams perform choreographed dances in front of a live audience and comedian judges at the new nationals: an amateur adult dance competition comedy show. hosted by dara katz and betsy kenney. treehouse theater, $5. >>color>
1/23 11pm: bad movie club presents a free comedy show and film screening of a talking cat!?!color> (with bingo!) at videology. >>color>
1/23 midnight: wasted frasier: drunk actors give a live staged reading of an episode of tv’s frasier, including commercials. bonus: free beer! the creek and the cave, free. >>color>
1/24-25: the voice open call auditions at the jacob k. javits center. >>color>
sales, deals, freebies
11am—8pm (thru 1/25): taschen warehouse sale: score gorgeous books (slightly damaged and display copies) 50-75% off. 107 greene street (bet. prince and spring). >>color>
stream new albums from the lone below, amason, jessica pratt, and more on npr. >>color>
ticket deals
sponsored: have your cake and eat it too! see everybody gets cake at 59e59 theaters thru 1/28 for just $15 (reg. $25). >>color>
get tickets to the scheherazade initiative concert at carnegie hall 1/26, featuring artists from the met orchestra, new york philharmonic, american symphony orchestra, and more. proceeds benefit the un trust fund to end violence against women. free-$35 (plus ticket fees, reg. $35-89) >>color>
get tickets to the 139th annual westminster kennel club dog show at madison square garden 2/17 for $27 (plus ticket fees, reg. $40). >>color>
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