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ART: On the Couch: Cartoons From the New Yorker is a collection of cartoons from the magazine which Bob Mankoff (the cartoon editor) says focuses on “the shrink and the shrunk, the practitioner and the practiced upon.” So we're sure you'll all be able to relate, somehow.
10am to 5pm // The Museum of New York [1220 5th Ave] // $9
YOGA: Just reading the words "sunset yoga" is relaxing. Tonight you can actually head over to Brooklyn for yoga at dusk in the park. Ahhhh.
7pm // Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO // Free
THEATER: With festivals going on year-round now, they tend to blur together, but the Ice Factory festival at the Ohio still sets itself apart both by the quality of the shows and for the way it focuses on one play a week for six weeks: a consistently original tasting menu of sorts, with Soho Think Tank artistic director Robert Lyons as head chef corralling the different theater companies' weird and wonderful dishes. The first show opens tonight, Concrete Temple Theatre's The WaunderLUSTers Present "ACHTUNG GRIMM!", a comic-operatic meta-presentation of two Grimm brothers fairytales. - Mallory Jensen
Ohio Theater // 66 Wooster St. // Ice Factory shows through Aug. 12, Wed.-Sat. 7pm // Tickets via Smarttix
DEBATE: The Jinx Athenaeum is back at Lolita tonight. This debate features Ken Silber (Scientific American Mind, Mental Floss) and Robert George (New York Post, NationalReview.com) discussing the very important question, "Should Superheroes Have to Register with the Government?"
8pm // Lolita [Broome St at Allen] // Free
MOVIE: RiverFlicks theme for their movie series this summer is "One Mean Summer", so of course they're showing the Lohan flick, "Mean Girls". We like this movie, and we rationalize it with the whole Tina Fey connection.
8:30pm // Hudson River Park at Pier 54 [11th Ave at W. 14th St] // Free
MUSICAL: Gabrille Lansner has written a musical celebrating Tina Turner's life. River Deep: A Tribute to Tina Turner, stars an all-female cast dancing, singing and reading from Turner's autobiography (which was co-written by none other than Kurt Loder).
8:30pm // The Peter Jay Sharp Theater [416 W. 42nd St] // $35
