Pencil This In

EVENT: Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir have been unleashing their rowdy anti-corporate exorcisms at the Spiegeltent, “a wondrous 1920’s venue of billowing velvet, stained glass, teak, and a thousand mirrors.” But righteous consumers beware: The Spiegeltent is part of the South Street Seaport Mall, which is made unclean by wicked corporations like Victoria’s Secret – all the better for the Rev’s antics. He chastises the company for clear-cutting Canadian boreal forests to produce one million catalogs per day. (A Village Voice blog reports on Victoria’s Secret’s struggle to silence the Rev) On this day he rests from damning their unmentionables to observe the fifth anniversary of 9/11. - John Del Signore

6pm //Spiegeltent at South Street Seaport // $15

EXHIBIT: Photographer Joel Meyerowitz was one of the only photographers granted complete unimpeded access to the site where the Twin Towers fell five years ago - in the tradition of Evans and Lange's FSA pictures during the Depression, Meyerowitz has created a public record of the rescue and recovery, for nine solid months after 9/11/01. is the result, and Meyerowitz will be showing the work at the Main Branch of the NYPL tonight. Definitely worth a visit. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

READING: Today "Bush is marking the 5th anniversary of 9-11. We are supposed to hang our heads, act like we believe in what he’s done for the last five years. We don’t, after all, want to be UNpatriotic. But dissent is the highest form of patriotism. So as an alternative to the administration’s agendizing of 9-11 there will be PATRIOTIC at Mo Pitkins..." The literary reading will turn into a Town Hall open forum. Sara Valentine of the Hungry March band will MC.

Also taking part: Jason Flores-Williams {novelist-activist), John Mailer (son of Norman, novelist), Ted Hamm (editor of the Brooklyn Rail).

9pm // Mo Pitkins restaurant [34 Avenue A] // Free

MUSIC: According to BrooklynVegan.com, Joan Osborne is playing a free 9/11 memorial show at Metrotech Center in Brooklyn today.

12:30 to 2:15pm // The Commons at Metrotech Center // Free

Tonight, Band of Horses plays their 2nd consecutive NYC show -- this one at Bowery Ballroom (moved from the larger Webster Hall). Opening are Chad Van Gaalen and Fred Armisen. Yes, that Fred Armisen.

7:30pm // Bowery Ballroom // $18