Pencil This In

MOVIE ART: Young artists with wtf?-attitudes come together to bring us "Risky Business" - a showcase of mixed media, including video, sculpture, collage, painting, and photography. A parents-out-of-town themed art party will follow the opening.

6 to 8pm // Tonight through August 18th // PPOW [555 W. 25th St] // Free

THEATER: It wasn't just the Fringe Festival opening this weekend. Waterwell's Marco Millions (based on lies), which is actually based on a not-very-famous play by Eugene O'Neill and includes live music, opened Saturday. This 21st century take on a 1920's-inflected look back at Marco Polo's 13th century quest to China for fortune and renown has plenty for denizens of our hyper-globalized, American capitalism-saturated world to take note of, if anyone will slow down a moment to listen. - Mallory Jensen

Through Aug. 26, Mon. & Wed.-Sat. 8pm // Lion Theatre [410 W. 42nd St] // Tickets via Ticket Central

READING: Gay Talese will be reading at the Strand tonight - the inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art in his latest book, A Writer's Life. C-SPAN/BOOKTV will be filming the reading, too. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

7 PM // Strand Bookstore [828 Broadway at 12th St] // Free

MUSIC: The Culture Project is having one of their "unfinished works" projects tonight. With poet Li Yun Alvarado, sextet Jerome Covington, monologist Mike Daisey, and a troupe of eight Wisconisin musicians called The Huntingtans.

The Huntingtans (photo above) are a family that Brooklyn musician Joel Bravo met in Wisconsin two years ago. Mr. Bravo will be playing violin with them tonight (It sounds like this is their one and only show, so look for their set around 8pm).

6:30pm // 45 Below [45 Bleecker Street @ Lafayette] // Free, suggested donation $5