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GAME ON!: NY Games presents Capture the Flag! We love this game. If you love it too, come be a spectator - or join in! Team Caution plays Team Danger...which will you root for?

7:30pm // Washington Square Park (waterfoutain in the center) // Free

MUSIC: With ¡Forward, Russia! playing last night and Band of Horses playing tomorrow night, what does tonight - the meat in the blog buzz sandwich - bring us? How about The Red Romance (ex-Ambulance LTD) at Pianos? After that head to Stolen Transmission (the party) for a set by Young Love (the 2nd of 3 this month). That should fill you up til tomorrow.

8pm // Pianos [158 Ludlow St] // $8 AND 12am // The Annex [152 Orchard St] // Free

READINGS/EVENTS: Trying/dying to get that novel out from under your bed and into the publishers' laps? Head down to The Strand, where the authors of Putting Your Passion Into Print will tell you all about it. The first 25 attendees to arrive will receive a pass to pitch their book idea for 1 minute to a panel of publishing industry professionals. It's going to be a crazy scene - we're thinking of going just to hear the outlandish pitches, but there will certainly be some great advice and encouragement. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

7pm // Strand Bookstore [12th St. and Broadway] // Free

ART OPENING: Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev's Into the Future at Plus Ultra Gallery, in Chelsea, offers a "documentary-style video installation and photography exploring the ramifications of political upheaval and modernization... Filmed in Siberia, Into the Future offers a direct and thoughtful verification of the effects of change and transformation. Through the juxtaposition of slowly changing images of industrial wastelands and the matter-of-fact recording of people boarding a ferry, they offer a complex, non-ironic look into that ambiguous point at which the future becomes the present and how we cope with that." - Jason Laning

6 – 8pm // Plus Ultra Gallery [637 West 27th St, Ground Floor] // Free

THEATER: The final production in Galapagos Art Space's eclectic EVOLVE series is Richard Caliban's Teatro Slovak, a high-energy multimedia melange that has a troupe of "Slovakian" actors whose arrival in America raises all the questions about the American environment and lifestyle and relation to the rest of the world that are too easily overlooked on our side. The contrast between their largely bucolic, still sort of backward homeland and the go-go-go, often excessive world here is reverse-reflected in the difference between the rollicking east European physical theatre format and realism-driven American acting. The show only runs on Fridays until the end of June, so this is a heads up for tomorrow: Caliban's singular vision, intense yet zany, is not to be missed. - Mallory Jensen

Galapagos Art Space [70 North 6th St., Williamsburg] // Through June 30, Fridays at 8pm // Tickets via Smarttix