KARAOKE: Tonight is the MCFGHT, a LVHRD event. Michelle Collins is the master of ceremonies, presiding over a roomful of people cheering on those who take part in the nights karaoke showdown. If you've never seen Brian Battjer do karaoke, and we're guessing most of you haven't, you do not want to miss this. He'll be one of the contestants tonight. Check out the flyer here, and buy tickets here. They're $20 ($11 if you're special), but include complimentary drinks from Sapporo Beer, Pravda Vodka, and Hi Ball Energy Drink. So if you're tonedeaf and like the juice, this may just be the event for you.

8pm // Grand Harmony Restaurant [98 Mott St] // Theme: Big Hair!

ART: Want to see some urgent, topically-engaged, politically-charged video art? Artist Coco Fusco will be hosting the New York premiere of her new video, Operation Atropos, tonight at the CUNY Graduate Center. The screening is part of the Whitney's Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict , a five-week-long program highlighting recent artistic practice that attempts to meaningfully consider media representations of war and conflict. - Jason Laning

7 - 9 pm // Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center [365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St] // Free

THEATER: The Brits off Broadway festival has been running for about a month already (!), and if you haven't made it to any of the shows so far, now would be a great time. Graeme Hawley is starring in Chris O'Connell's cloud:burst, which looks with a gimlet eye at the role of the media in personal tragedies that become public. A man's daughter is murdered, and he is quickly swept up by the maelstrom of the sensationalizing press, which just as quickly leaves him behind again, without noticing how emotionally vulnerable the father is, much less helping him come to terms with his loss. A devastating subject, and we hear Hawley's performance does it intense justice. - Mallory Jensen

Through June 11, Tues.-Fri. & Sat. 9pm, Sun. 2:30 and 7:30pm // 59E59 Theaters [59 E. 59th St] // Tickets via Ticket Central

MOVIE: Garrison Keillor brings his NPR variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, to celluloid this week. We're really looking forward to checking this movie out. Tonight at Makor, catch a sneak preview followed by a Q&A with the producer Joshua Astrachan. If you get there late and it's sold out, we're gonna bet there will be plenty of tickets left for Lohan's other movie, Just My Luck, over at a nearby multiplex. We're also betting it's not even a fraction as good as Prairie Home Companion - but they did film a lot of it at a fake bowling alley on Ludlow Street.

7:30pm // Makor [35 W 67th St] // $15

READING: William Powers reads from his new book, Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization, tonight. Powers gave up a cushy aid job in La Paz to work in the Bolivian Amazon, where locals often have to survive on coca crops which ruin their land and get them caught in America's war against drugs. Powers is a perfect fit for The Half King's style, and the book has been very well-received. -Krissa Corbett Cavouras

7pm // The Half King [W 23rd St and 10th Ave] // Free

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