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Enter To Win Tix to Sundays All Points West Festival w/ Jack Johnson, Cat Power + Much Much More! @ Liberty State Park

For all you loyal WUNY readers out there, we here at Whats Up NYC have acquired a pair of tickets to Sundays All Point West Festival featuring Jack Johnson, Ben Harper plus more and want to give them to you! It is going to be an amazing show, so be sure to enter for your chance at the free tixs! All we need is your name and home address. Good Luck!

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@ Liberty State Park
Location: 200 Morris Pesin Dr (map)
Starts: 12
Cost: 3-Day passes: $258.00 , Single Day Tickets: $89.00

David Belisle Book Event

6:00 PM

David Belisle, photographer of R.E.M: Hello (Chronicle) with Michael Stipe of R.E.M.

52 Prince St.
(b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012
212.274.1160

note: this event is a signing only, not a reading. Only copies of the book purchased at McNally Robinson will be signed. Call (212) 274-1160 or click here to pre-order your copy of R.E.M: Hello from McNally Robinson.

My New Addiction

Pop Cultures Addicts One Stop Website: getTRIO.com

Being an absolute avid reader of anything having to do with pop culture. I stumbled upon this amazing website which has everything from your television round ups and celebrity gossip to the hottest events in NYC(* which is perfect for me!). getTRIO.com is your one stop website for gossip, the latest in technology and anything you feel you need to keep up with current trends!

getTRIO.com brought to my attention two excellent movies, one newly released on DVD,called King of Kong. Which is a documentary that follows two characters as they strive to break the Guinness Book of World Records top King Kong Score. Sounds pretty entertaining!

Also a cross genre comedy/ horror flick that has kind of haunted my dreams since watching the trailer called Teeth. "It's not a straight-up teen comedy, not quite horror, and not really a drama -- though when a chaste high school student becomes the target of male violence and discovers herself to have an anatomical quirk that makes her a living example of the vagina dentata myth, things get uncomfortably funny, horrifying, and very dramatic, indeed." The film was the talk of Sundance, with its dark take on sexual power and payback. Sounds off the wall! Be sure to check out more about it on the website!

@getTRIO.com
Location: Internet
Starts: RIGHT NOW!!

TASCHEN Warehouse SALE

TASCHEN Warehouse SALE

Thousands of slightly damaged and display copies on sale at bargain basement prices, 50-75% off for 3 days only.

TASCHEN Store New York
January 18 - 20, 2008
Friday, Saturday 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
Sunday 12:00 to 7:00 pm

Sad Red at Crash Mansion

Local Brooklyn band, Sad Red and label Çöñàr Records are joining forces and celebrating with an introduction show tonight! An up and coming rock band, Sad Red takes influences from Italo Calvino, The Mars Volta, John Adams, Jorge Luis Borges and a zillion others - this band breeds outside the mainstream.

Tuesday, August 7
@ Crash Mansion
199 Bowery (at Spring)
Show @ 8:30pm

For a taste of what you can hear tonight, listen HERE!

Killer Sheeps tell me more...

Black Sheep

Here it is the movie everyone has been waiting for. A movie about gutmunching sheep, never has a deadly animal been so damn cute! The basic storyline of this movie is an experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm. The movie came out on Friday, but to me it sounds like a glorious movie to view on a lazy sunday. Don't worry it's a comedy, think Shawn of the Dead except with sheep instead of Zombies!

Check Local listing for times!

Girlfight. ON WHEELS!

Gotham Girls Roller Derby is back!
Season Opener Grudge Match!
Queens of Pain vs. Bronx Gridlock

7:00pm
Hunter College Sportsplex
Check above website for ticket info!

Fleet Week

9:30AM - 11AM

Fleet Week Parade of Ships and aircraft fly-over; Hudson River from Verrazano Bridge to George Washington Bridge, with narrators at Stapleton Pier, Staten Island, and Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn.

Zombies at the Square

Zombie NYC

When: May 11th. 6:30 PM

Where: Union Square, NYC

Gathering: Union Square, across the street from virgin. 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Movie: AMC Loews 19th Street East 6 - 9:15 Show

Drinks: Black Bear Lodge. (274 3rd Ave) 11:45 till dawn. Or last call.

Pole Dancing Rights Now

11:30 AM

Demonstration of fully clothed stripper pole dancing
@ Plumm Night Club, (246 W. 14th St.)

You can not make this stuff up -ed

Impressionist and Modern Art

7 p.m.

Impressionist and Modern Art at Auction

The Spring auction season if full effect having kicked off last night.
Tonight

Christie's auction of Impressionist and Modern Art;
Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza.

Weekend shows to follow

Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks

6-8

Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street

also stop by...

James Casebere, The Levant at Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street,

GC Sessions

6-9:30PM
GC Sessions
@ Guitar Center
25 West 14th Street
Free

The first in New York, GC Sessions is a new music based initiative featuring informative, provocative and fun discussions and tutorials geared to aid musicians. In addition, there will be performances from the top participants throughout the evening.

Tribecca Global Warming

7PM

Al Gore hosts Tribeca Film Festival opening night gala; BMCC/Tribeca PAC 2, 199 Chambers St.

Food Bank Can-Do Awards Dinner

April 23rd
Food Bank NYC Can-Do Awards Dinner

The Food Bank For NYC is having their annual fundraising dinner (Can-Do Awards Dinner) on April 23 at Abigail Kirsch’s Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on 23rd and plans to honor the folks who have helped champion their cause to end hunger. With guest MC Stanley Tucci, this year’s honorees are: The Edge, Jimmy Fallon, Credit Suisse, Southern Wine & Spirits of America and Time Out New York. Celebs scheduled to attend include Mario Batali, Michael Stipe, Helena Christensen, Christy Turlington, Ed Burns, Steve Shirripa and John Ventimiglia. President Bill Clinton will be the Honorary Dinner Chair.

For more info on all the live music, auctions, raffles and entertainment scheduled, visit http://www.foodbanknyc.org/candosite2007/index.html.
If you’d like to know more about the organization, check out
http://www.foodbanknyc.org/.

Get interested, get involved.”

Food Bank helps distribute 250,000 free meals a day in New York every
year, and is always on the look for those wishing to help accomplish
their mission. They have produced two call-to-action promo spots, “The Widening Divide” featuring Charlize Theron, Mike Myers, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and The Edge along with “What’s Your
Excuse?” featuring Stanley Tucci, Jimmy Fallon, Helena Christensen, Thom Filicia and Fab 5 Freddy.

March Radness II

7:30PM
Oh My Rockness' March Radness II
@ Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St
212-219-3132
$10

Oh My Rockness says it best themselves: "Last year was insane. This year will be insaner. Walter Meego! Oxford Collapse! Dragons of Zynth! Del Rey! March 31st! Knitting Factory! This will sell out!"

And it's true.

Star Lounge

10PM
Karaoke Tuesday
@ The Hotel Chelsea
222 West 23rd St
212-243-3700

Nestled beneath the fabled Chelsea Hotel, the Star Lounge is an intimate haven for late-night revelry. Its discreet 23rd Street location and basement-level entrance offer an escape from the circus-like atmosphere of West 27th Street.
The venue is comprised of three distinctive areas subtly suggestive of a 1920s speakeasy, a swank cabaret club, and a posh gentlemen's lounge.

Nerd Nite

7PM
Nerd Nite
@ Orchid Lounge
500 East 11th St between Avenues A and B
Free (two-drink minimum)

In 20 minutes, you will be taken through 20 years of Tetris development, including (but not limited to!!!) the creation and ensuing lawsuits, the evolution, the competition and the strategy. Whoa! Now, that's mind blowing.

The Host Closing Screening

8:30PM
The Host
@ IFC Center
323 6th Ave @ W 3rd St
218-924-7771
$11

Director Bong Joon-Ho appears in person for the closing screening of the smash-hit thriller at Cannes this year, The Host.

Radical Vaudeville

10PM
Surf Reality presents Radical Vaudeville
@ Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction
34 Avenue A between 2nd and 3rd St
212-777-5660
$5

Join Surf Reality and Mo Pitkin’s to celebrate the downtown Art Stars and their depraved counterculture lifestyles. While our beautiful cosmopolitan city’s last two mayors have been relentlessly transforming Manhattan into a corporate strip mall, these intrepid entertainers have been the cultural vanguard that leads by example. We welcome you to come enjoy the nights of sex, comedy and rock ’n’ roll that are Radical Vaudeville.

LV HRD

8PM
LV HRD
@ Location TBA
$22, $11 for members
Complimentary beverages from Brooklyn Brewery and Absolut

It's time for a fresh approach to dating - the LVHRD way. As with all LVHRD events, you buy tickets in advance, and will be text messaged the location prior to the event. Tonight you have to bring your own light source (?) and to wear white if you are available, and black if you are taken.

Last Monday

9PM
Last Monday
@ Floyd
131 Atlantic Ave b/w Clinton and Henry
Free
11PM a free beer!

Last Monday celebrates two years of throwing bitchin' parties by buying everyone in the house a free beer! Special guest DJ Melissa Maerz proves she knows a good song when she hears it by keeping you on your feet all night. Whether a fag or a fog (friend of gay), you'll have fun at Last Monday because it is fun.

The Armory Show

12-8PM
The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art
@ Pier 94
12th Ave at 55th St
$20, $10 for students

Art fair season is upon us! In its ninth annual exhibition, The Armory Show 2007 presents 148 international galleries - including many of the most important contemporary dealers showcasing new art from around the world. [February 23 - 26th.]

OPTIMO TONIGHT!

9PM doors
Fixed featuring Optimo
@ Studio B
259 Banker St
Greenpoint/Williamsburg, BK
$8 advance, $10 door

Hell-LO! I can't believe I am just posting this party at 3:55PM. This show is going to be rad. Go to this show. Studio B + me forever.

Culture on the Verge

9PM
Culture on the Verge
@ Element
225 East Houston St & Essex
$5

Dear all,

This party is going to own. Oxy Cottontail + The Syrup Girls of Trouble and Bass + DJ Synapse + Drop The Lime = hot sweaty rowdy dance party. Plus it's a party in celebration of the Scope International Art Fair. Cultural!

Love,
Annie

PS I hope there are no smoke machines.

The Rape of the Sabine Women

2PM, 6PM, 9:45PM
The Rape of the Sabine Women
@ IFC Center
323 6th Ave
212-924-7771
Sold Out

Developed through improvisation, The Rape of the Sabine Women is a re-interpretation of the Roman myth, updated and set in the idealistic 1960’s. Filmed with a cast of hundreds, and shot on location in Athens and Hydra, Greece, and in Berlin, Germany, the eighty-minute musical draws inspiration from Jacques-Louis David’s 1799 painting on the same subject.

All screenings this weekend are sold out, but standby tickets may be available at the door!

Dragons of Zynth, Kyp Malone

8PM
Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), Dragons of Zynth, Awesome Color
@ Tonic
107 Norfolk b/w Delancey & Rivington
212-358-7501
$8

Dragons of Zynth Dragons of Zynth are fuckin' hardcore fun, Kyp Malone is from TV on the Radio and Awesome Color are ... awesome.

Brooklyn Next Festival

8PM doors
Charles Bissell (The Wrens), Takka Takka, The Forms, Other Passengers
@ Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave b/w Sterling and St John's Pl
Park Slope, BK
718-230-0236
$10

The Brooklyn Next Festival's indie leg presents performances by Takka Takka, The Forms, Other Passengers and, of course, every Jersey emo kid's hero Charles Bissell of The Wrens. Come check out a new band and support some of Brooklyn's finest blog buzzers tonight for less than a show at Bowery!

5 Years of Lit

Lit's 5 Year Anniversary
@ Lit
93 2nd Ave b/w 5th & 6th St
10-11PM well vodka open bar upstairs
12-12:30PM $1 dollar budwiser and well vodka drinks

Tons of bands downstairs, hot DJs upstairs including rock&roll DJ Paul Sevigney, Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance and Paul Banks of Interpol. There will be a list, apparently, so know someone. You're so connected.

In The Heights

7PM
In the Heights
@ 37th Street Arts
450 W 37th St b/w Ninth & Tenth Ave
$25-75

In The Heights, a new musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights, is winning praise from the Times and New York Magazine. Check out this exuberant and refreshing New York tale that "owes more to Big Pun than to Bernstein" before the tourists descend upon it en masse.

Push Play 1

8PM doors
Baeble Music Presents: Push Play 1
@ Canal Room
W Broadway @ Canal St
Free, must RSVP

If you haven't heard, or heard enough about, Ra Ra Riot, hop down to the Canal Room tonight to Ro Ro Rock around (sorry) along with special guests Mixel Pixel, James Fu%$ing Friedman, and Melody Nelson. This means dance party, ya'll.

Asobi Seksu, The Ataris

7PM doors
The Ataris, Asobi Seksu, Wax on Radio
@ The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St
212-533-2111
Sold Out

Shoegazing blog sweethearts Asobi Seksu upstage the main act tonight at a sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom.

Live From the NYPL Spring 2007

7PM
Aline Kominsky Crumb in conversation with R Crumb
Need More Love
Live From the NYPL Spring 2007 Season
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Fifth Ave at 42nd St
212-930-0855 / 212-930-9213
Sold Out, wait outside for rush tickets

Celebrate Valentine's Day in the gorgeous Humanities branch of the New York Public Library with comic artists Aline and R Crumb! Didn't get tickets? Last-minute rush seats are still available, if you're willing to wait around outside the 'forum'.

Nublu & Kudu & Brazilian Girls &

7PM
Nublu Orchestra, Kudu, Brazilian Girls, Love Trio
@ Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St
212-533-2111
$17a/$20d

Butch Morris conducts the awesome, genre-defying Nublu Orchestra' super-special Valentine's show along with the sexxlectric Kudu, the Brazilian Girls and Love Trio at Bowery Ballroom tonight. This is the live music show of the evening, for sure. It's gonna be La Bomb.

Arcade Fire Bullshit

7:30PM
The Arcade Fire
@ Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Sold Out

Hey, guess what? There's this band called ARCADE FIRE that's playing five entirely sold-out shows at Judson Memorial Church.

I bet you assholes with tickets feel reeeeally smug. Need a date? Email me. I am very charming.

Dog Show!

8:30AM-6PM
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
@ Madison Square Garden
Seventh Ave at 32nd St
212-307-7171
$40

If you're one of those people who have to stop on the street to make baby sounds at every dog you pass by, then I probably don't need to tell you that the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is going down at Madison Square Garden through February 13th. For the rest of you - it is.

Plug Indepdendent Music Awards

2007 Plug Independent Music Awards
@ Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place
212-777-6800
7PM 50 tickets go on sale for $10

David Cross (Arrested Development) hosts tonight's sold out Plug Music Awards. Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Silversun Pickups, El-P, Deerhoof & Tokyo Police Club each perform 20-40 minute mini-sets on stage. This amazing show is SOLD OUT - but stop by at 7PM and see if you can't cop tickets for the original price of $10 at the door!

Girl Talk and Parts and Labor

8PM
Girl Talk w/ Parts and Labor
@ Studio B
259 Banker St
718-389-1880
SOLD OUT

If you see some bitch in hot pants rocking out hardcore in the sweaty happy dancing mosh pit that is tonight's Girl Talk show, say hi.

USAISAMONSTER et al.

10PM
USAISAMONSTER, Dragons of Zynth, Kid Millions (of Oneida)
@ Tonic
107 Norfolk St
212-358-7501
$8

If you're looking for an absolutely & awesomely insane live show tonight, this is definitely where you're headed. It's loud time, babies.

New York at Night

6:30PM
Thurston Moore & Jim Jarmusch
Transforming New York: Music and Film at Night
@ The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53 St
$10

In conjunction with Doug Aitken's sleepwalkers, Aitken, filmaker Jim Jarmusch and Sonic Youth-er Thurston Moore discuss nighttime.

Euripides Is Awesome

7:30PM
As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash
@ The Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster St, b/w Spring & Broome
212-352-3101
$10 - $20

The New York Times is raving over this performance of Euripides' The Suppliants - get there this weekend before it closes! Can't make it? Target Margin Theatre's entire season looks sweet, so pony up for some Plato, Aristotle or Sophocles repackaged to go down modern.

Hello, Nurse!

10PM-8AM
The Egyptian Lover and Jamie Jupiter, In Flagranti, Codek, Max Pask and on
@ Studio B
259 Banker Street
Greenpoint, BK
$5 advance; $8 at the door
RSVP for guaranteed entry

The buzz on this party is honestly deafening. Legendary West Coast DJ Egyptian Lover takes the decks along with a mind-blowing collection of DJs to keep you on your feet. No matter what time your other plans get out, you can head over to Studio B, this party's on until 8AM. But what other plans could you possibly have? Everyone will be here!

Not a Play Area

Not a Play Area
@ The Gallery at the Soho Grand Hotel
310 West Broadway
Free

Not a Play Area is a collection of Polaroids by photographer Jeremy Kost - a fixture in the New York nightlife take-polaroids-of-crazy-trashed-people world.

Langston Hughes House

7PM
Remember Me To Harlem
Langston Hughes House
20 E 127th St - Langston Hughes Place
212-927-3413

Celebrate the 105th birthday of the late Langston Hughes, the start of Black History Month and the opening of the Langston Hughes House all at one time tonight in Harlem. Poets present Langston Hughes pieces and original pieces inspired by Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance accompanied by Marc Cary and the XR Project.

Must Don't Whip 'Um

8PM
Must Don't Whip 'Um
@ St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water St
Dumbo, BK
718-254-8779.
$25

Cynthia Hopkins' critical smash performance Must Don't Whip 'Um, a Last Waltz-style farewell concert of failed 70s pop star Cameron Seymour, begins its last run tonight through February 4th at St. Ann's Warehouse.

Northsix Final Show!

8PM
Radio 4, The Big Sleep, Free Blood
@ Northsix
66 N 6th St
718-599-5103
$15

Gang of Four-inspired and DFA-produced New York rockers Radio 4 close out indie rock space Northsix's Williamsburg run tonight with The Big Sleep and Free Blood.

Peter Bjorn and John

10PM
Peter Bjorn and John, Born Ruffians, White Rabbits
@ Mercury Lounge
217 E. Houston Street
212-260-4700

Feel-good indie-pop darlings Peter Bjorn and John play the first of their two sold-out New York gigs tonight, at the Mercury Room.

Idiotarod

1:30PM
Idiotarod
@ McCarren Park, SouthWest corner
Nassau Ave, Bayard, Leonard and N12th St
Bedford runs into it
Williamsburg, BK
Free

Idiotarod. People dressed up in ridiculous outfits racing ridiculous shopping carts. Thousands of people watching them. Then there's a big party.

Idiotarod Awards & Afterparty

6PM-4AM
Idiotarod Award Ceremony & Afterparty
@ 21-03 44th Ave @ 21st St
Long Island City, Queens
$10

Celebrate Idiotarod with bands, DJs and burlesque and thousands of your fellow decorated-shopping-cart-racing fans!

Point Break LIVE!

8PM
Point Break LIVE!
@ La Tea Theatre - Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk St between Delancey and Rivington St, Suite 200
$20

Point Break LIVE!, a stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster, tells the story of former college football star Johnny Utah as he pursues the surfing, bankrobbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting, adrenaline-junkie Zen Master, Bodhi Sattva.

Grant Stoddard: Working Stiff

7-9PM
Dewar's Presents A Publication Celebration For Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert By Grant Stoddard
@ McNally Robinson
52 Prince St between Lafayette and Mulberry St
RSVP 212-274-1160

A humble yet shocking and good-hearted memoir from a popular Nerve.com columnist, Working Stiff is at once a coming-of-age story, a fish-into-water tale, and a look at a different side of New York from a witty, irreverent and hilarious writer. If you don't make the RSVP cut-off, don't worry - you can always console yourself with a shot of Dewar's and the online backlogues of I Did It For Science.

Architect Duel III

LVHRD: MASTER-DISASTER ARCHITECT DUEL III
@ Location TBA to Ticketholders DOE
$22, includes cocktails

LVHRD hosts ARCHDL Series No. 3, featuring two architectural firms, Balmori Associates (Killian O’Brien and Sarah Wayland-Smith) and Field Operations (Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle). Focusing on ecological and sustainable approaches to urban planning, the two firms will be battling it out in a timed model-building competition at a location to be announced to ticketholders on the day of the event.

Shakey's Record Fair

Shakey's Record Fair
@ APT
419 West 13th St b/w 9th Ave and Washington
Free, email Shakey to sell or call 201-679-9736

Um. This is a record fair held at night at one of the sweetest joints in New York. All kinds of music are represented, and
the fair program includes drink specials, contests, and DJ sets from notable record collectors. I can't imagine there's going to be a sweeter party than this one tonight.

GlobalFEST

6PM
GlobalFEST
@ Webster Hall
125 E 11th St
212-353-1600
$40

GlobalFEST features an awesome line-up of the best in global fusion. We aren't talking cheesy coffee-table-lounge shit, here. This party blew up Joe's Pub last year, and had to relocate to Webster Hall. Cop tickets asap - they'll sell out, and you don't want to miss it.

Sold Out Pillow Fight League

6PM
Pillow Fight League
@ Galapagos
70 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Sold Out

Girls getting sweaty and pillow fighting, probably half-naked. Can't imagine a better way to segue from ass-crazy comics convention to Jazzfest. Sold out, though. Sucks.

Winter Jazzfest 2007

6PM
Winter Jazzfest 2007
@ The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St
212-219-3132
$25

The first installation of Winter Jazzfest this year at The Knitting Factory absolutely owned. Grab your tickets now and check out Gary Lucas with Gods and Monsters, Robert Glasper trio, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra and more and more and more on the 20th. Hours of music, and you'll still have time to get your dance on later on. Don't miss this one!

EVERYONE SMOKES WEED

8PM & 10:30PM Friday, 8PM Saturday
Marijuana-Logues
@ Comix
353 West 14th St
$20, Promo Code for $5 off: MLWUNY

Win tickets for the hit off-Broadway play the Marijuana-Logues at Comix! Check out this hilarious show at a discount through What's Up NYC! Use the promo code above for $5 off tickets all weekend.

Carl Craig at Studio B

8PM
Demon Days
@ Studio B
259 Banker Street, btwn Meserole & Calyer
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$8 in advance/$10 at door

Demon Days is the traveling residency of Detroit techno legend Carl Craig. He joins Gamall and DFA's Tim Sweeney for another amazingly sweaty night that hopefully doesn't smell like cheese this time at Studio B. This venue is getting 'so hot right now' - be there!

Michael T Turns 40

10PM
Michael T's Birthday Bash
@ Sol
609 W 29th St
$10, $5 with flyer
Open bar 10-11PM, 2-for-1 drinks 3-4AM

Legendary New York DJ/superstar Michael T defies his age and rages out tonight at Sol. This is the party tonight. Go drunk and stay drunk with an opening open bar and a closing two-for-one drinks special, and make sure to splash it way way way up for the doorman: they wanna see you dressed up like what.

The Recovery

The Recovery, Little Grey Girlfriend
@ Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston
212.529.8463

The Recovery & Little Grey Girlfriend play Parkside Lounge. Catch these two before they get any bigger tonight at Parkside Parkside Parkside Lounge.

Cold War Kids Play Union Hall

8PM doors
Cold War Kids, Frank Smith
@ Union Hall
702 Union Street @ 5th Ave
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-638-4400
Sold Out!

The Cold War Kids say Fuck You to Pitchfork and play their second of three sold out shows this month at the bocce/bar fusion joint Union Hall in Park Slope. Get ready for a big-big-sound-small-room experience tonight!

Athanasius Kircher Society

7PM
The Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society
@ CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Sold Out

Tickets for The Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society's first meeting are all sold out. For those of you left wondering what sorts of "wonders, curiosities and esoterica" you're missing, videos of the event will be made available online at their website.

Win: MTV Live in NYC Concert

7PM
Tuesday, January 16
Gym Class Heroes
MTV Live NYC Concert, Filmed for TV
@ Hard Rock New York Times Square

Gym Class Heroes pull off their mega-catchy hip-hop/indie fusion sound at a special exclusive performance Tuesday, January 16th for MTV Live in NYC. This show will be filmed and is taking place at the Hard Rock Cafe. Tickets are on sale now and we'd love to see you there. This group is about to blow right up, so buy tickets now or win one of two pairs through What's Up NYC by shooting us an email now!

Win: MTV Live in NYC Contest!

7PM
Tuesday, January 16
Gym Class Heroes
MTV Live NYC Concert, Filmed for TV
@ Hard Rock New York Times Square

Gym Class Heroes pull off their mega-catchy hip-hop/indie fusion sound at a special exclusive performance Tuesday, January 16th for MTV Live in NYC. This show will be filmed and is taking place at the Hard Rock Cafe. Tickets are on sale now and we'd love to see you there. This group is about to blow right up, so buy tickets now or win one of two pairs through What's Up NYC by shooting us an email now!

Williamsburg Spelling Bee

7:30PM
Williamsburg Spelling Bee
@ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St between Frost and Richardson,Brooklyn
$20 donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Winners of the spelling bee will receive Broadway tickets to Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and A Chorus Line. Anyone who donates -- regardless of spelling prowess -- will be eligible for raffle prizes including a membership to New York Sports Club, gift baskets and gift certificates from local stores, and a bar tab from Pete's Candy Store.

Graffiti Writers

12-6PM
A Mobile Exhibition
@ Lincoln Center
1972 Broadway
Free

It’s been 39 years since graffiti culture first began appearing on the streets and subways of the city of New York, ushering in a new brand of art that would change the urban landscape – and also inciting a slew of negative associations. Those poised against graffiti’s survival, invoking alleged threats such as urban decay, instituted legal sanctions to prevent graff’s proliferation. Four decades later, however, the work is still here. Martinez Gallery is proud to bring together the new and the old in ROAD SHOW, a new exhibition featuring the work of the leading practitioners of graffiti in a unique, mobile context.

Memorial Ride

9AM
Memorial Ride
@ Meet at Pelham Bay stop on the 6 train

Ride in honor of the bicyclists who died on the streets in 2006. These victims will not be forgotten.

Fortune

9AM-6PM
Fortune Open Call
@ Park Central New York
870 7th Ave 56th St

Five of America’s wealthiest people will give away millions of dollars on national television and you’ll have 1 MINUTE to prove that YOUR request is worthy! Do you need money to start your own business? Improve your looks? Fund an invention? Buy an engagement ring? This is your once-in-a-lifetime chance!

Speakeasy

8:30PM
Speakeasy
@ Cornelia St. Café
29 Cornelia St between Bleecker and West 4th St
$8

A new twist on the ancient tradition of oral history. SpeakEasy is people telling stories-- true stories. Period. No scripts. No crib notes. No rehearsals.

Coney Island Polar Bear Club

1PM
Coney Island Polar Bear Club
@ Coney Island
Coney Island Boardwalk and Stillwell Ave, Brooklyn
Free

New Year's Day Swim. Everyone is invited to start 2007 with a swim in the Atlantic Ocean. This year the Polar Bears are partnering with Camp Sunshine a retreat center for children with life-threatening diseases and their families. Donors are invited to enjoy a big breakfast at the nearby New York Aquarium.

New Years Day Get Together

4-10PM
Balkan Music Social Club New Years Day Get Together
@ Ukrainian National Home
140 2nd Ave
Free

Celebrate the New Year with Friends and Musicians. Everybody is invited to come eat Eastern European food and toast the New Year. All Balkan and non Balkan bands welcome.

Night Before New Year's Eve

8PM
Wasabassco Burlesque and Hot Sauce Presents Night Before New Year's Eve
@ Union Hall
702 Union St near 5th Ave, Brooklyn
718-638-4400
$7

Starring Gigi la Femme, Nasty Canasta, Peekaboo Pointe, Scarlet Sinclair, and Jonny Porkpie, Burlesque Mayor of NYC.

Soutine and Singer

7PM
Grand Fallon Presents Soutine and Singer
@ Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St
$10

Vaudellians, actors, musicians, and puppeteers bring these shtetl folktales to life in an intimate and iconic production.

Patti Smith Turns 60

10PM
Birthday Celebration for Patti Smith
@ Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleecker
Free, but 2 drink minimum

Some of the band members, and perhaps even Patti, will make an appearance.

Night of a Shitload of Stars

8PM
Night of a Shitload of Stars
@ Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery St
Donation of $5

"NYC's most frenetic and intelligent variety show, featuring all kinds of creative and funny acts."