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COMEDY: If you missed Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Aziz Ansari at Summerstage last night - you can catch them all together tonight as Human Giant takes over UCB tonight. What to expect?: "Each week they present a collection of sketches, short films, and presentations that have all been pre-approved by the other "human giant" - Michael Clarke Duncan. In addition, if anyone leaves the show unsatisfied, Mr. Duncan has agreed to go to the homes of Mr. Ansari, Mr. Huebel, and Mr. Scheer and personally beat the #!*$ out of their family."

9:30pm // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // $8

THEATER: A different play from Shakespeare, a different park; free tickets, no lining up with thousands of others all day. Hard to go wrong, then, with Hudson Warehouse's production of Love's Labour's Lost at Riverside Park's Soldiers and Sailors monument. The talented company directed by Nicholas Martin-Smith should make even the muggy nights we've been having lately seem a bit cooler as they bring to life this early comedy about commitment and the clashes of scholarship and sensuality. -Mallory Jensen

6:30pm // Through July 30, Thursday to Sunday // Riverside Drive at W 89th St

READING: Head over to midtown tonight for a Makor/92nd St. Y event, New Jewish Fiction, a reading with Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan), Dara Horn ( The World to Come), Elisa Albert'(How This Night is Different) and Edward Schwarzschild (Responsible Men), all young Jewish novelists reading from and discussing their latest works -Krissa Corbett Cavouras

Steinhardt Building [35 West 67th St.] // 7PM // $12 online or $15 at the door

ART: Mixed Greens presents There Goes the Neighborhood, opening tonight. "A live grass lawn extends from the fire escape into the gallery space. On the grass sit dozens of small, pink suburban homes and a bevy of garden gnomes." So kitsch.

6 to 8pm // Through August 19th // Mixed Greens [531 West 26th St] // Free

MUSIC: "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap song to hit the top 40 charts. Come check out the pioneers perform tonight as The Sugar Hill Gang take the Seaport Music Festival stage.

7 to 9pm // Pier 17 // Free

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