around town today
6:30pm: learn how natural disasters deepen social inequalities at an illustrated lecture with disaster profiteerscolor>: how natural disasters make the rich richer and the poor even poorer author and columbia professor john c. mutter. nypl mid-manhattan, free. >>color>
6:30pm (monthly): adam wade, jim o’grady, gwen lawson, anna roisman, and more share stories about the nights that stand out at the nights of our lives storytelling show. hosted by david martin. ucb (chelsea), $5. >>color>
7pm: take in the corniness at the launch of the satirical dad magazine book, based on a recurring feature on the toast, with with dad jokes, readings, a book signing, and more fatherly fun. housing works bookstore cafe (soho), free. >>color>
7pm (monthly): philosophers based in and around brooklyn discuss their work at the brooklyn public philosophers speaker series. tonight, cuny assistant professor of philosophy dr. michael brownstein discusses implicit bias and its relation to moral responsibility and self-trust. brooklyn public library’s info commons lab (prospect heights), free. >>color>
7pm (weekly): the sensible show at the annoyance theatre (williamsburg) features standup from myq kaplan (conan, america’s got talent), matteo lane (girlcode), alison leiby (mcsweeney’s), and nat towsen (nat towsen’s downtown variety hour). hosted by emma willmann (time out’s ‘top 10 funniest women in nyc’). $5. >>color>
7pm: classic album sunday hosts a special tuesday listening presentation on prince and the revolution’s around the world in a day followed by a dance party. good room (greenpoint), free (rsvp). >>color>
7pm doors, 7:30pm show: the irl club hosts talks about the internet at the bell house (gowanus). $5 adv, $10 door. >>color>
7:30pm: singer-songwriter morley holds a performance-based round table on empathy and healing through art and action with artists and human rights activists including leslie salmon jones, kyoung h. park, elio villafranca, and toshi reagon. david rubenstein atrium at lincoln center (uws), free. >>color>
7:30pm (thru 4/29): wilco guitarist nels cline and bassist chris lightcap kick off the spring music festival at happylucky no. 1 gallery (crown heights). $10. >>color>
7:30pm doors, 8pm show (monthly): take in others’ valuable life lessons at the ‘how i learned’ storytelling show. this month’s theme, ‘how i learned the struggle is real’, features jacqueline novak (james corden), shelly oria (the paris review, mcsweeney’s), janelle james (vice), joel kim booster (comedy central), jenny rubin (new york walk), and mindy raf (girlcode, collegehumor). hosted by blaise allysen kearsley. union hall (park slope), $6 adv, $10 dos. >>color>
8pm (monthly): tonight at the ‘dear god, that’s stone cold’s music!’ comedy show: naomi ekperigin (broad city writer), dan chamberlain (above average, funny or die), liza treyger (comedy central), and ed larson (murderfist). hosted by eric silver and joe stanton. bonus: beer samples from magic hat. bunga’s den (chelsea), free. >>color>
8pm-2am (monthly): greenpoint’s tender trap hosts the warper party, with 15 electronic musicians and visuals playing in two rooms. free admission. >>color>
8:45pm: how to travel the world on $50 a daycolor> author, blogger, and travel expert ’nomadic matt’ kepnes discusses his career and how to travel on the cheaply. nyu kimmel center for university life (greenwich village), free. >>color>
10:45pm (weekly): the special without brett davis live variety show revels in cable access weirdness and lives up to its name with music from the thermals, plus guests dj sarah lewitinn (ultragrrrl) and comic jo firestone. mnn studios (hell’s kitchen), free (email rsvp). >>color>
11pm: at the night late show, a team of late night writers builds a talk show pilot around the personality of a performer. tonight, goosebumps author r.l. stine takes over. ucb (chelsea), $5. >>color>
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coming up
4/28: be an office hero: buy a dozen krispy kreme original glazed doughnuts, get a second dozen free in honor of superhero day. >>color>
4/28 6pm: get tips on acing your job interview and how to follow up from veteran career counselor renee rosenberg. nypl science and business library, free. >>color>
4/28 6pm: booze, hot dudes and books are promised at the launch party for new photo book, hot dudes reading. rizzoli bookstore (flatiron), free. >>color>
4/28 6pm ’til late: the annual food book fair kicks off with a party at achilles heel (greenpoint) with food, drinks, and magazine specials available for purchase. free admission. >>color>
4/28 6pm doors, 6:30pm show: watch a movie, then swap clothes with strangers: brooklyn fashion + design accelerator hosts a clothing swap and screens andrew morgan’s the true cost to raise awareness about the ethical and environmental challenges of the fashion industry. free (rsvp). >>color>
4/28 6:30pm: get underneath the ancients’ togas and chitons at ‘a game of thongs: the dirty truth of the ancient world’, a class which explores the dirty, sexy secrets behind figures in antiquity. brooklyn brainery (prospect heights), $10. >>color>
4/28 7pm: put your brain to work at tonight’s ‘know science’ talk, where rutgers neurology professor dr. barry levin discusses the nature of obesity, and what we can do about it (most of the time). genspace (downtown brooklyn), free (rsvp). >>color>
4/28 7pm (monthly): storytellers share true, bizarre tales about their lives at leslie goshko’s ‘sideshow goshko.’ tonight’s guests: cyndi freedman (the colbert report), drew prochaska (moth storyslam winner), anna zagerson (the story collider) and rory scholl. kgb bar (east village), free. >>color>
4/28 7pm (thru 4/30): to thine own shakespeare-loving self be true at the the twelfth annual will-a-thon, a two-day festival of scenes, sonnets, speeches, soliloquies, and king lear, featuring actors richard easton and austin pendleton at select performances. the workshop theater (midtown west), free (rsvp required). >>color>
4/28 7pm: neo-soul singer-songwriter martha redbone sings ‘bone hill,’ an interdisciplinary musical theater concert inspired by her family lineage in the appalachian mountains. the david rubenstein atrium at lincoln center (uws), free. >>color>
4/28 7pm, 9pm (thru 5/1): so bad, it’s good? cloud city’s fourth annual bad film festival showcases the work of misfit filmmakers rejected by the industry to show just how subjective ‘good’ and ‘bad’ really is. cloud city (williamsburg), $8. >>color>
4/28 7pm-2am: have some flapjacks with your art party: the annual pancakes + booze art show includes work by over 150 artists, body painting, dj sets and of course, a free pancake bar. space ibiza (hell’s kitchen), $10 (cash only). >>color>
4/28 7:30pm doors, 8pm-2am show (ends today): harry potter marathon: yes, this is the third potter screening series we’ve listed in as many months, but this is the only one that’s been broken up into
two 12-hour
three viewing marathons. feel free to bring blankets, pillows and such to settle in. gemini + scorpio loft (gowanus), $10 suggested donation. >>color>
4/28 7:45pm doors, 8pm show: josh zepps (huffpost live) hosts #wethepeople live, a town-hall style panel show for journalists and comics where guests take shots at world headlines, then each other. tonight’s guests include john opdycke (open primaries president), jena friedman (the daily show), dave hill (this american life, wfmu), and chemda (keith and the girl). over the eight (williamsburg), free. >>color>
4/28 8pm (thru 5/8): six playwrights riff on the theme ‘crush’ for theatre/film collective f*it club’s sixth annual spring fling fest. irt theater (west village), $18 (pay-what-you-can admission on 5/4). >>color>
4/28 8pm (thru 4/30): three nights of new choreography at danspace project’s artist-as-curator series, ‘food for thought’. admission is $5 + two cans of food to benefit the st. mark’s church food program, or $10 with no cans. >>color>
4/28 8pm (thursdays thru 5/12): greenwich house music school’s uncharted concert series continues with a multi-instrument electroacoustic set by korean-american composer/sound artist bora yoon and french composer/bassist/electronic artist florent ghys. bonus: free beer and wine will be served before and during the concert. $20. >>color>
4/28 8pm doors: new myths, surf rock is dead, gingerlys and fruit x flowers play berlin (alphabet city). $8-9. >>color>
4/28 9pm: strings attached: midnight radio show presents a night of shadow puppet theater and live music at pete’s candy store (williamsburg). free. >>color>
4/28 9pm: pjs and stuffed animals are encouraged at the slumber party film society’s screening of the princess diaries. videology (williamsburg), $10. >>color>
4/28 9:30pm (monthly): writers from the late show with stephen colbert perform improv at ucb (chelsea). $5. >>color>
4/28 10pm: french house producer and dj fred falke comes to good room (grenpoint). $10-15 adv, $20 door. >>color>
4/28 10pm (monthly): turn back time for the tainted love 80s dance party, featuring post-punk, new wave, funk, hits, misses and more. the bell house (gowanus), free. >>color>
ticket deals
take free core fusion fitness classes at exhale spa 5/19. rsvp required. >>color>
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