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PARTY: ABC No Rio is the 26 year old LES center for art and activism that has JUST received the title to their building. "Envisioned for the site is a multi-use community arts center with darkroom, silk-screen printing facility, small press resource center, computer center, expanded space for art, music, performance, educational and community activities, and meeting and office space."
Come cheers to their big win tonight as they celebrate with cheap drinks, free snacks, music, and more.
Friday // 8pm to 12am // 156 Rivington St // Free
EVENT: Jack the Pelican Presents X-Men Civil War Book Release. Since we're not that schooled on comics, from the site: "Artist Juan Doe follows up the [X-Men] series with an equally striking set of covers for X-Men: Civil War, one of the major tie-in titles to Marvels most seminal event of the year, Civil War." Original images will be on display for one night only!
Friday // 7pm // Jack the Pelican Presents [487 Driggs Ave, Williamsburg] // Free
THEATER: This weekend's gift from the theatre to the ADD-afflicted: the NY Collective for the Arts' Ten Minute Play Festival. Now in its third year, the fast-paced collection includes seven shows: Stephen Belber's Passive Belligerence, Ed Brownson's Denying Denny, Ian Grody's Lights Up Strangers, Jonathan Karp's Semi-Autobiographical, Brian Polak's Reverse Evolution, Cliff Swain's Invisible!, and the disturbingly titled Mutual Mastication by Justin Warner. It's the perfect way for the fidgety to ease into going to plays and such; perhaps the next stop will be a festival of one-acts, of which there always seems to be at least one in town. - Mallory Jensen
Friday & Saturday 8pm, Saturday also 2pm, Sunday 3pm // Urban Stages [259 W. 30th St] // Tickets via Smarttix
MUSIC: May or May Not has come over from Chicago to rock us this weekend. Catch them at Magnetic Field tonight with The Ballet and Baskervilles. A solid enough lineup that warrants the trip to Brooklyn Heights.
Work By Nine.mp3 - May or May Not
Friday // 8pm // Magnetic Field [97 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn]
Oliver Ignatius and Hysterics (pictured) perform this Saturday night. They've recently been on MTV's You Hear It First feature, after the network heard a song on Music For Robots. The best part, the leader, Oliver, is in 10th grade. The Music For Robots writer is his science teacher.
Saturday // 10pm // Arlene's Grocery [95 Stanton St]
Even though this heat is making us miserable, we'll still miss summer when it's gone because it's end wil mean the end of the Pool Parties! This Sunday JellyNYC brings Pretty Girls Make Graves and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy to McCarren Park Pool for another Sunday of free fun.
Sunday // 2 to 8pm // McCarren Park Pool // Free
