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BBQ: The BBQ season has officially begun. Luckily, there's always an option for the non-carnivores in town. Today that option is the Annual Summer Vegan BBQ Extravaganza run by Books Through Bars. This organization is a volunteer group that donates reading material to prisoners all over the country. Not an organization geared towards drinking and reading in bars.
4pm // ABC No Rio [156 Rivington St between Clinton and Suffolk] // $5
MUSIC: German death metal band, Necrophagist will team up with Cattle Decapitation, an all-vegetarian death metal band, tonight at BB King's. The perfect music for transitioning you back into the work week after the long weekend, or for giving you nightmares.
Listen to Necrophagist: Stabwound.mp3
6:30pm // BB King's [237 W 42nd St] // $25
MORE MUSIC: What's the exact opposite of the death metal show listed above? We're guessing any concert in a church. Tonight, The NY Philharmonic orchestra, with conductor Xian Zhang, will perform for free at a Memorial Day concert. The concert will feature Verdi's La Forza del Destino Overture and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Get there early for a seat, and for those in back - a 15' x 20' screen with live audio and video feed will be erected, so all can see.
8pm // Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine [Amsterdam Ave at 112th St] // Free
THEATER: Almost all theaters are dark today, it being both a Monday and a holiday, but you can see Emily Mann's play Annulla, which is certainly not typical all-American Memorial Day fare, but is a memorial in another way: it tells the story of Annulla Allen, a Polish Jew who passed as Aryan during WWII. Allen later wrote her own play (a six-hour behemoth) about her life, but Mann's approach is to have Allen "interviewed" as she cares for her bedridden sister, revealing all the amazing things that have happened to her over the course of her life. The format and era both call to mind the 2002 movie Hitler's Secretary ( http://imdb.com/title/tt0311320/), but of course the moral force here is a tad different. Eileen De Felitta stars as restless title character, who is 74 by the time this "interview" takes place. - Mallory Jensen
Through June 11, Mon. & Thurs.-Sat. 8pm, Sat. & Sun. 3pm // Theatre at St. Luke's [308 W. 46th St] // Tickets via Telecharge
And don't forget about the BBQ Battle at UCB tonight! If you know of anything going on today, post it in the comments section.
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