around town today
6:30pm (+ 3/17 @ nypl mid-manhattancolor>): fast food education. culinary historian and prolific author andrew f. smith answers questions about aspects of the fast food industry in his new book, fast food: the good, the bad, and the hungry. brooklyn brainery (prospect heights), free (rsvp). >>color>
6:30pm, 8pm: brooklyn raga massive, a nonprofit dedicated to indian classical musicians, presents a women-led workshop (6pm) and concert (8pm) in honor of international women’s month. pioneer works (red hook), $10-20 adv, $15-25 door. >>color>
7pm: collaborators on the book and radio documentary dying words: the aids reporting of jeff schmalz and how it transformed the new york times share a presentation about schmalz, the nyt reporter who covered the aids epidemic in the early 1990s as he was personally dying of the disease. bureau of general services-queer division (west village), $5 suggested donation. >>color>
7pm: at is this thing on?: raising the volume on pro-choice voices, the national institute of reproductive health action fund celebrates expressions of reproductive freedom in the arts through music, comedy, and more. bonus: complimentary appetizers. housing works bookstore cafe (soho), free. >>color>
7pm (weekly): the sensible show, a new weekly standup show at the annoyance theatre in williamsburg, features comics sasheer zamata (snl), roy wood, jr. (the daily show) myq kaplan (letterman, conan), and josh gondelman (last week tonight). hosted by chris duffy (you’re the expert) and evan kaufman (your love our musical). $5. >>color>
7pm doors, 8pm show: little water radio (south street seaport) screens david byrne’s true storiescolor> (1986). there’ll also be giveaways, a raffle, and a cash bar serving beer and wine. free admission. >>color>
7:10pm (+ 3/21): take a free beginners japanese lesson at tenri cultural institute (greenwich village). email to reserve a spot. >>color>
7:30pm: self-proclaimed pagemasters michael wolf and colin o’brien (the comedy duo nancy) host an adult version of reading-rainbow-meets-drunk-college-writing-workshop with free bronx brewery beer, fiction, erotica and stand up with the help of guests jo firestone (punderdome 3000, wfmu), mary houlihan (cartoon monsoon), catherine cohen, and graham smith. strand books (union square), $10 admission also gets you a $10 gift card. >>color>
7:30pm: comedians tell their life stories in 5 minutes each at the ‘my life in 5’ show, hosted by kevin salisbury and including performances by myq kaplan (small, dork and handsome, comedy central), erica spera, samantha ruddy, eric miller, peggy o’leary, and many more. q.e.d. (astoria), $10. >>color>
7:30pm (thru 3/19): choreographer rebecca lazier and a cast of 15 dancers present there might be others, a collaborative dance and live music performance with mobius percussion and sō percussion inspired by composer terry riley’s seminal work, in c. new york live arts (chelsea), $15+. >>color>
8pm (monthly): saurin choksi (white guy talk show) hosts the brown privilege comedy show, with performances by sasheer zamata (snl), seaton smith (mulaney, larry wilmore), mike lebovitz (last comic standing, kenny deforest (comedy at the knitting factory, comedy central’s ‘comics to watch’), subhah agarwal (comedy central). friends and lovers (crown heights), free. >>color>
8pm: the city and horses, dear tracks, gingerlys and exiles play baby’s all right (williamsburg). $8 adv, $10 dos. >>color>
8pm: talea ensemble performs new works composed for the ensemble by brian ferneyhough, georges aperghis, and jeffrey holmes. roulette (boerum hill), $15 adv, $20 doors, $10 students. >>color>
8pm doors, 9pm show: sara mcdonald’s 22-piece nycchillharmonic collective performs an album release show with help from ellis ashbrook, space captain, and mister lies. littlefield (gowanus), $10. >>color>
8:30pm: nyu urban planner patrick lamson-hall teaches the true history of the nypd from its origins to today. brooklyn brainery (prospect heights), $10. >>color>
8:30pm (monthly): awful vj’s bill grandberg, cory cavin, and josh lay of comedy group awful dj set out to definitively rank every music video ever created, six at time. don pedro (east williamsburg), free. >>color>
8:30pm doors, 9pm show (monthly): comedians and storytellers recount tales of losing their virginity at the ‘my first time’ show. scheduled to perform: pudge fernandez, robin gelfenbien, scarlet meyer, hana michels, mark pagan, mark anthony ramirez, val roder, jason salmon, and liz simons. hosted by angela cobb. q.e.d. (astoria), $10. >>color>
9:30pm (monthly): ridgefield middle school talent night: grown adults dylan marron (welcome to night vale) and jo firestone (the chris gethard show, punderdome 3000 co-host) perform an entire real-time middle school talent show. ucb (chelsea), $5. >>color>
10:45pm (weekly): the special without brett davis live variety show revels in cable access weirdness and lives up to its name with kaiju big battel and music from thick. mnn studios (hell’s kitchen), free (email rsvp). >>color>
thru 3/20: quick-thinking improvisers from around the world take over three stages of the people’s improv theater for the fifth annual nyc improv festival. all shows are free wednesday, $10 other days, $40 festival pass. >>color>
thru 3/27 the 45th annual new directors/new films festival, co-curated by the moma and the film society of lincoln center, screens 27 features and 10 short films. $16 general, $12 students. >>color>
thru 12/31: the metrograph, a newly-opened arthouse theater in the les, kicks off ’a to z’, a year-long alphabetically ordered series of must-see films. only one per director, though! $12-15. >>color>
check our website for ongoing events. >>color>
coming up
3/17: saint patrick’s day themed events (other events follow below):
3/17: the financial district’s dead rabbit’s fourth annual st. patrick’s day whiskey feast has complimentary corned beef finger sandwiches and lamb stew, plus a special tullamore dew cocktail menu and live music. >>color>
3/17 7am until they run out: free irish books will be distributed at 11 locations across the boroughs during the irish art center’s sixth annual book day. >>color>
3/17 11am-4:30pm: marchers make their way up fifth avenue from 44th to 79th streets for the 255th annual st. patrick’s day parade (the world’s oldest and biggest). can’t make it? the event will be streaming live herecolor>. >>color>
3/17 12:30, 2, 4, 6:30pm: visit the irish servants’ quarters of the 1850s at merchants house museum. included with museum admission ($13 general, $8 students/seniors). >>color>
3/17 4:30-7:30pm: attend a sober st. patrick’s day party with entertainment, food, and soft drinks. new york irish center (lic), $20. >>color>
3/17 5-9pm: fifth annual st. patrick’s day grand street pub crawl: $4 guinness, $4 whiskey shots, $10 corned beef + cabbage, free bbq + pizza (with beer purchase), and more specials await at 13 williamsburg bars. >>color>
3/17 6:30pm: ’traditional irish music with 21st-century verve’ bands the yanks and air (atmospheric irish recital) perform at the david rubenstein atrium at lincoln center (uws). free. >>color>
3/17 9:30pm: nitehawk cinema (williamsburg) hosts a screening of leprechaun, mark jones’s (1993) cult-horror comedy film starring warwick davis (willow! wicket!) and jennifer aniston (rachel!). $15. >>color>
3/17 various times: for a roundup of other st. patrick’s day events and traditional irish and whiskey bars in nyc, check our friends at murphguide. >>color>
3/18 8:30pm doors, 9pm show: st. patrick’s day is for sinners at the sixth annual all-redhead edition of wasabassco burlesque. the bell house, $20. >>color>
3/20 1pm: brooklyn’s got two annual st. patrick’s day parades to choose from this sunday: bay ridge and park slope. >>color>
3/17: other events today:
3/17 6-10pm: this week’s brooklyn museum free admission thursday nights programming includes an hour-long discussion of the many layers in a single work of art, as well as a drop-in-and-draw session (materials provided, rsvp required) and access to the exhibitions. >>color>
3/17 6:30pm: the sixth annual new york fashion film festival screens a selection of innovative, fashion-forward films at sva theatre (chelsea). free (rsvp). >>color>
3/17 7pm: take a walk on the wrong side of the runway with an illustrated lecture on the cult of fashion by multimedia artist alexis karl. morbid anatomy museum (gowanus), $8. >>color>
3/17 7-10pm (monthly): wordhack, an evening of performances and talks exploring the intersection of language and technology, features code poetry, digital literature, e-lit, devart, and an open projector where anyone can show their work for up to five minutes. babycastles (chelsea), $5-10 suggested donation. >>color>
3/17 7pm doors, 8pm show: bawdy country music comedy duo reformed whores release their second album, don’t beat around the bush, performing new hits and old favorites with their band, the blue ball boys. the slipper room (les), $10 adv, $12 dos. >>color>
3/17 7:30pm: best-selling authors read personal essays on subjects of their choice at the quarterly ‘spine out’ reading series. tonight: david levithan (boy meets boy), scott westerfield (ugly series), david arnold (mosquitoland), jessica brody (52 reasons to hate my father), v.c. chickering (nookietown) and emmy laybourne (monument 14 trilogy). dixon place (les), $15 general, $12 students/seniors adv, $20 door. >>color>
3/17 7:30pm (+ 3/22): the ‘stranger than fiction’ documentary series with filmmaker q+a continues the winter season with a 10-year anniversary screening of the cult hit darkon, which follows the lives of larpers. ifc center (west village), $16. >>color>
3/17 8pm: bring yourself and a depressed friend to comedian and author jacqueline novak’s immersive show-meets-art book launch soirée for her new book, how to weep in public: feeble offerings on depression from one who knows: henry zebrowski (heroes reborn), sasheer zamata (snl) and designer rachel antonoff make guest appearances. villain (williamsbug), free (rsvp). >>color>
3/17 8pm-4am: gggamesss: compete in an immersive tournament of the newly-released street fighter 5, where a video artist manipulates and projects visuals from the game while you play, accompanied by bands and djs. black bear bar (williamsburg), $8 adv, $10 door admission, $5 to play all night. >>color>
3/17 8:30pm (+ 3/18 7:30pm + 9:30pm): why see billy joel live in concert when you can see puppets and musicians interpreting billy joel live in concert? puppet playlist presents this mixed evening of live puppet theatre inspired by the piano man, along with performances by nyc singer-songwriters. the tank @ triskelion arts (greenpoint), $15. >>color>
3/17 9:30pm doors: mock hair metal band satanicide and 60’s-style french band les sans culottes play mercury lounge. $10. >>color>
3/17-20: the fifth annual greenpoint film festival presents documentary, narrative and experimental films and panel discussions on art and activism, inspired by the neighborhood-centric themes of renewal and reclamation. wythe hotel screening room (williamsburg), $10. >>color>
3/17-4/9: don’t be ‘a verse’ to the fifth annual poetic license festival presenting new works of poetic theater including multimedia plays, staged readings, dance and spoken word. the wild project, $15-18. >>color>
ticket deals
sponsored: carnegie hall for just $7 ($110 value)! the masterwork festival chorus and new york city chamber orchestra perform ralph vaughan williams’ triumphant five mystical songs and z. randall stroope’s arrangement of american rhapsody at carnegie hall 3/28. >>color>
rsvp to see a free outdoor concert by wolf parade at mccarren park during the northside festival 6/9. >>color>
get tickets to paul taylor’s american modern dance at lincoln center 3/19-4/3 for $20+ (plus ticket fees, reg. $33+). >>color>
get tickets to the architectural digest design show at pier 94 3/18-20, plus a one-year digital magazine subscription, for free-$15 (plus ticket fees, reg. $30). >>color>
get free tickets to the affordable art fair at the metropolitan pavilion 3/31-4/3 (plus ticket fees, reg. $18). >>color>
get tickets to matt + ben, a parody co-written by mindy kaling (the mindy project, the office), at corner office nyc theater 3/31-4/3 for $10 (plus ticket fees, reg $25). >>color>
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