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MUSIC: Doug Martsch of Built to Spill performs a stripped down acoustic set tonight before heading over to Irving to play with the band. This will be pretty amazing, so even if you missed out on tickets to the show at Irving, try to catch him solo.

5pm // Sound Fix [110 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg] // Free

READINGS: At Strand tonight, Joseph Steiglitz with his new book
Making Globalization Work, the sequel to Globalization and Its Discontents - Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz provides a detailed analysis of the failures and concrete reforms that can enable globalization to reach its full potential and benefit people around the world. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

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

THEATER: Barbara Ehrenreich’s wrenching best-seller Nickel and Dimed has been adapted for the stage and opens in New York tonight. Like the non-fiction book, the play follows a journalist's struggle to survive on minimum wage jobs for one month. In keeping with Ehrenreich’s immersive approach, each cast member spent a week trying to get by on a minimum-wage income. After determining a standard wage (with deductions for housing and transportation in New York City), they were allotted $11.16 a day to throw around on food, medicine, Backstage and other extravagances. - John Del Signore

8pm // The Bank Street Theater, 155 Bank Street // Tickets $20

COMEDY: Multi talented comedy-type guy Dave Hill presents "The Dave Hill Explosion," with talking, reading, singing, dancing and some short films. This evening Sandra Bernhard will join him! We haven't seen her since she made a cameo on Will & Grace, so go check it out.

9:30pm // UCB [307 W 26th St] // $5