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MOVIES: DUMBO's weekly evening film event, Movies with a View, begins tonight with The Wizard of Oz. Bring your iPod and play "Dark Side of the Moon" while the movie plays, it'll, like, totally synch up if you press play during the 3rd lion roar.

Halcyon DJs provide music before the film and there is free valet bike parking. And there will be snacks, there will.

6pm, Film at sundown // Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO // Free

If that's not your thing, and you'd rather be watching soccer...then head to BAM for the soccer documentary Goal Dreams. It will further you in to World Cup mania and probably get you a little more pumped for the finals. The film follows the Palestinian national footballers as they attempt to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. The directors and a few members of the team will be in attendance for a Q & A.

6:50pm // BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave, Fort Greene] // $10

ART: Hiromi Yoshii brings his latest exhibit to Deitch gallery tonight. After the Reality features new work by Yoshitaka Azuma, Enlightenment, Koichi Enomoto, Taro Izumi, Soichiro Matsubara and Aya Ohki - and runs through August 12th.

6 to 9pm Opening Reception // Deitch Gallery [76 Grand Street] // Free

THEATER: With recent weather making Shakespeare in the Park less of a picnic, the Public Theater has an indoor, climate-controlled alternative to its outdoor Macbeth, in the form of José Rivera's School of the Americas, co-produced with LAByrinth Theater Co. ( http://www.labtheater.org/). Rivera wrote The Motorcycle Diaries screenplay (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/ ) and here he takes up Che Guevara's story anew, or at least 2 days of it, when Guevara was captured in Bolivia and held in a one-room schoolhouse. His conversations with a young teacher there are the basis of this play, which may not have Gael Garcia Bernal but should be just as inspiring a demonstration of Guevara's magnetic personality. - Mallory Jensen

Public Theater [425 Lafayette] // Through July 23, Wed.-Sat. 8pm, Tues. & Sun. 7pm, Sat. & Sun. 2pm // Tickets via Telecharge

MUSIC: Tonight you can head over to Prospect Park to celebrate Brooklyn, or just your love for awesome Canadian bands. Broken Social Scene and Hidden Cameras will help you do both. And tickets are still available!

6:30pm // Prospect Park bandshell // $30

Equally pleasing to your ears, and a little easier on the wallet, is Mates of State over at Castle Clinton as part of the River to River Festival. No Starbucks ticket fiasco for this show, the site says:

Free; tickets will be distributed, two per person, outside Castle Clinton on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 5pm on the day of the show.

7pm // Castle Clinton in Battery Park // Free

PERFORMANCE: Ensemble Pamplemousse's Rama Gottfried will be performing his 40 minute piece "Transparencies" tonight. Joining him will be:

Natacha Diels - flute, music boxes
Ben Gerstein - trombone, music boxes
Amanda Grimm - violin
Jessie Marino - cello
Rich Bennett - e. guitar
Andrew Greenwald - drum set, music boxes
Rama Gottfried - white & brown noise, short-wave radio, loose 1/8" stereo cable, music boxes

The piece will be "it's 80% spatially notated, 88% sound, and 100% lovely."

8pm // The Stone [Corner of Ave C and 2nd St] // $10

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