around town today
6pm: i just opened a restaurant! panel discussion + tasting: the founders of arrogant swine, mimi cheng’s dumplings, and spirited discuss the process of starting a restaurant and building it in the first year. following the discussion, attendees sample dishes from each of the three participating restaurants, plus drinks. general assembly, $10. >>color>
6-9pm (monthly): galleries stay open late during the dumbo first thursday gallery walk. free. >>color>
6:15pm: editor christopher ricks and a panel discuss bob dylan’s the lyrics: since 1962 at the heyman center for the humanities at columbia university. free. >>color>
6:30pm: former chef renee marton gives an illustrated on her new book, rice: a global historycolor>. nypl mid-manhattan, free. >>color>
7pm: creative ambassador-at-large at barneys simon doonan launches the paperback edition of the asylum: true tales of madness from a life in fashion at powerhouse arena. paper magazine editorial director and advice columnist mickey boardman joins. free. >>color>
7pm: in vintage black glamourcolor>, author nichelle gainer presents historic photographs and biographies of 20th-century entertainers including josephine baker, dorothy dandridge, diana ross, and many more. bluestockings, free. >>color>
7pm (weekly): jiji lee hosts the split personality storytelling and character open mic show at williamsburg’s over the eight. tonight’s guests: cammi climaco (‘ask me stories’ co-host) and james iii (seth meyers). free. >>color>
7pm: veteran disney animator glen keane (the little mermaid, beauty and the beast) screens his new interactive short, duetcolor>, and gives a live demo of the process. momi, $15. >>color>
7pm (monthly thru 4/2): adult language school fluent city hosts a free screening of amélie (2001) at videology, and raffles off a $100 gift certificate towards group classes. future films include crouching tiger, hidden dragon, and life is beautiful. >>color>
7pm (weekly): bow tie cinemas screens titanic (1997) as part of its ‘chelsea classics’ series. $8. >>color>
7pm: ex cops, sky white tiger, tempers, rinsed (dj set), prince rama (dj set), and crocodiles (dj set) play baby’s all right. $12. >>color>
7:30pm (weekly): the ‘lasers in the jungle’ comedy show features stand-up by michelle wolf (seth myers), phoebe robinson (blaria), ahamed weinberg (comedy bang! bang!), anthony devito, ramon rivas, and hosts sean crespo, katina corrao and dan wilbur. ucbeast, $5. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show: illuminating disease: an introduction to green fluorescent proteinscolor> author marc zimmer discusses how the proteins are used to track the spread of diseases. genspace, free (rsvp). >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show: presentation party night and verbal fight club team up for an evening of lectures and debates on the topic of food. brooklyn brewery, $5 adv, $10 door. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show (weekly): the myrtle comedy show at clinton hill’s splitty features ted alexandro (letterman), matt wayne, nick maritato, and chris jurek joining host greg johnson. $5. >>color>
8pm (ends today): comedian/writer giulia rozzi (‘stripped stories’) fesses up about being a depressed, drunk, coward that said ‘i do’ when she should have said ‘i don’t’ in her acclaimed solo show, bad bridecolor>. treehouse theater, $8. >>color>
8pm: ‘parental approval’: colin burgess invited his favorite comedian friends to perform for his parents live via skype. at the end, his parents will choose a winner. over the eight, free. >>color>
8pm (monthly): the pacific stand-up comedy show at pacific standard in gowanus/park slope features carmen lynch (letterman, comedy central), joe zimmerman (comedy central), nimesh patel (broken comedy host), david smithyman, and drew michael. hosted by matt koff (writer, the daily show) and emmy blotnick (fallon, comedy central’s ‘comics to watch’). free. >>color>
8pm (thru 2/8): the village of vale is an original gothic fairy tale that utilizes live music, performance, and a dynamic art installation at the invisible dog gallery. $10. >>color>
8pm doors: breakfast in fur plays a record release show at shea stadium with support from lost boy?, leave the planet, and chimes. $8. >>color>
9pm-2am: pre-93 alternative dance party at cameo gallery. free. >>color>
9pm doors, 9:15pm show: burlesque sirens sing songs of love and revenge at union hall. $15 for 1, $20 for 2. >>color>
9:30pm: strong female lead presents a free screening of mystic pizza (1988) at videology. >>color>
thru 2/8: the fifth annual athena film festival celebrates women and women’s leadership with feature films, shorts, documentaries, conversations and workshops. barnard college, $12 general, $5 students. >>color>
thru 2/22: ‘poetic license’, poetic theater productions’ annual festival of new poetic theater, features two plays, a reading series, and special events. the wild project, $18. >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
coming up
2/6 1pm-8pm (+ 2/7 11am-6pm): 80+ vintage clothing + textile dealers gather at the triannual manhattan vintage clothing show for all your retro-outfit cravings. metropolitan pavilion, $15 adv, $20 door. >>color>
2/6 6pm: better call saul actors bob odenkirk, michael mckean, and jonathan banks discuss the prequel to breaking bad at apple soho. free (rsvp required). >>color>
2/6 6pm: cornelia street cafe hosts a celebration of the 101st birthday of william s. burroughs with performances and readings by poet anne waldman, performance artist penny arcade, and more, plus an audience group reading of an excerpt from naked lunch. $12 admission includes a drink. >>color>
2/6 6:30pm doors, 7pm show: celebrate alligators in the sewer day with urban legends told by historian michael miscione and a screening of cast in indiacolor>, natasha raheja’s short documentary on the making of nyc’s manhole covers and the ironworkers who fabricate them. bonus: the first 100 folks receive a free plastic baby alligator. hunter college (68th st. + lexington ave., room hw 714) free. >>color>
2/6 7pm: babeland branches throw mini valentines day sex-tip workshops: sohocolor> (free champagne, cupcakes, and mini makeovers from fringe salon); lescolor> (free champagne and cupcakes); park slopecolor> (free cocktails and snacks, chance to win $100 worth of toys and tickets to brooklyn brainery). free.
2/6 7pm-1am (fri-sat, weekly): the weekly brooklyn night bazaar night market brings bands, food, drinks, vendors, light installations, mini golf, ping pong and skee-ball to a 24,000 sq ft warehouse. this week’s live music comes from too many zoos, osekre and the lucky bastards, melaza, douglas and the goodharts, chop + quench (‘the fela! band’), underground system, damian quinones y su nuevo conjunto, and dj earl maxton. free admission. >>color>
2/6 7:30-11pm (bimonthly): the brooklyn contra dance party starts a twice monthly schedule at park slope’s camp friendship with caller rachel mccandliss and live music by the fish family. beginner’s lesson @ 7:30pm. $15 general, $12 students. >>color>
2/6 8pm doors, 8:30pm show: wolvves, aeon rings, we are temporary, and skeleton head play trans-pecos. $8 adv, $10 door. >>color>
2/6 8:30pm: get a preview of april’s seventh annual brooklyn folk festival with live music from peter stampfel, four o’clock flowers, and eli smith. jalopy, $10. >>color>
2/6 8:30pm doors, 9pm show: the shame game: storytellers and comedians compete to see who shares the most shameful true story in hopes of being crowned the king or queen of shame by audience vote. tonight’s show features michelle wolf (seth meyers), eliot glazer (my parents were awesome, haunting renditions host), phoebe robinson (broad city, blaria), and hosts soojeong son and ginny leise. new, larger location: the bell house, $10 adv, $12 door. >>color>
2/6 10pm: get ready for saturday’s walking dead premiere with an evening of walking dead improv, where ‘survivors’ improvise scenes that are interrupted by zombies. treehouse theater, $5. >>color>
2/6 11pm-4am: djs brian blackout (head on, ydh2s) and doctor mister (feeling gloomy, ydh2s) spin soul, funk, mod, psych, disco, glam, prog, arena rock, and muscly-armed disco at their release the beast dance party. the grand victory, free >>color>
2/6 midnight (monthly): three new wacky game show concepts get tested out with audience participation at the incredible game show showcase. from the brain of jo firestone (‘punderdome 3000′ host). ucbeast, $5. >>color>
2/6-19: the film society of lincoln center’s ‘tell it like it is: black independents in new york 1968-1986’ series includes work from filmmakers pearl bowser, kathleen collins, william greaves, bill gunn, jessie maple and spike lee. $14 general, $9 students/seniors. >>color>
2/6-22: filmmaker john carpenter gets an 18-film career retrospective at bamcinématek, including classics halloween, the thing, big trouble in little china, escape from new york, starman, and more. $14 general, $10 students/seniors. >>color>
2/6-4/18 (tuesdays-saturdays): the museum at fit’s ’yves saint laurent + halston: fashioning the 70s’ exhibition includes 100 objects indicative of the work of the designers during the era. free. >>color>
sales, deals, freebies
$30-40 to spend on food and drink at lunch or dinner at fools gold nyc in the les for $15-20. >>color>
ticket deals
get tickets to the affordable art fair at the metropolitan pavilion 3/27-29 for $5 (plus ticket fees, reg. $18) >>color>
get admission to the museum of sex thru 4/30 for $9.75 (plus ticket fees, reg. $19.05). >>color>
get tickets to the annual nyc green festival at pier 94 4/25-26 for $5-10 (plus fees, reg. $10-20). >>color>
get tickets to the annual nyc vegetarian food festival at the metropolitan pavilion 3/14-15 for $15 (reg. $30). >>color>
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