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What's going on: NYC's best emerging comics, a make-out party and Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Mon Mar 8
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Daniel St. Germain's Joke of the Week. St. Germain is one of the nominees for the Emerging Comic of New York award.
ComedyThe Sixth Annual ECNY Awards
Find out who will be named this year's Emerging Comic of New York (meet six ECNY nominees here), but it's not just an awards ceremony; it's also a show. See Snakes, Reggie Watts and Kumail Nanjiani, among others.
Talk"Pigeon Life: An Investigation Into a Filthy Bird Slum" Open City Dialogue curator Jamie Hook leads tonight's lecture on the gross pigeon colony that lives on Lorimer Street.
Sex & DatingThe Make Out Party
Kick it grade-school-style at Madame X's dance party, with old-school hip-hop and snacks and games from host Temple Spencer.
MusicHarvey Milk + Coalesce + The Atlas Moth
Take a risk on three heavy, forward-thinking bands that prove there's more to hipster metal than a trendy label.
FilmJohnny Cash at Folsom Prison
The director will attend...
Free things to do today
Mon Mar 8
BooksFranklin Park Reading Series
The bar welcomes TONY favorite Stephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries), Victor Lavalle, Matthue Roth (Yom Kippur a Go-Go), Maura Kelly (Marie Claire dating blogger) and others.
Own This CityHandmade Music
Your old garbage can counts as an instrument at Handmade Music's events, which encourage the use of nontraditional items to make beautiful (or just interesting) melodies. Bring whatever you feel like banging on to this event; there will be audience jamming.
SportsComplimentary Aikido Lesson
If you want to smack down a potential predator without actually harming him or her (ethical self-defense, if you will), then check out aikido, a Japanese martial art.
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Sam Mendes directs a magical version of Shakespeare's late romance The Tempest, through Saturday, March 13. Photograph: Joan Marcus
ONGOING
Stephen Dillane and Ron Cephas Jones are prime reasons to catch the Bridge Project in Brooklyn. Sam Mendes directs a magical version of Shakespeare's late romance The Tempest, through Saturday, March 13.
TUESDAY 9
Get a jump start on your spring cleaning by attending Nashville transplant Jennings's concert and Clothing Swap Show at Fat Baby.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto is a stunning exercise in multigenre writing laced with a bracing argument: that literature as we know it needs to evolve to meet the complexities of modern life. The author David Shields's reading at McNally Jackson is sure to inspire some creative minds—and to stoke some fiery debate.
THURSDAY 11
Tool frontman—and up-and-coming winemaker—Maynard James Keenan brings a perversely comic side project, Puscifer, to Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center, Thursday, March 11, and the Apollo Theater Saturday, March 13.
Meat Hook butcher Tom Mylan and Bombay Sapphire mixologist James Moreland team up...
Oscars live-blog
Sun Mar 7
Free things to do today
Sun Mar 7
GayAlphabet Sundays
A youthful energy prevails at this weekly get-together, which features drink specials (including two-for-one drinks, 9--10pm), go-go dancers, and guest DJs spinning '80s hits, pop and house.
MusicThe Sherry Vine Show!
The downtown mainstay clings to her musical-comedy roots.
Own This City"Sampling and Revisions: The L.E.S. Deframed"
Curator Zoe Lukov gathered prints from the Tenement Museum's gigantic collection for this exhibit, which looks at the history and evolution of the Lower East Side.
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