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THEATER: Survey: Do women actually, um, enjoy Playgirl magazine? It’s a timeless question, and one that - according to former editor Ronnie Koenig - even haunted the boss herself. Her multimedia play Dirty Girl, now in previews, is about her “quest to find a woman who actually likes the beefcakes in the magazine.” The cast has been blogging and a book deal is in the works. (Brace yourself for The Devil Wears Nothing.) - John Del Signore

Friday // 8pm // The Kraine Theater [85 E 4th St] // Tickets cost $18

PARTY: Dancing is going to be so hot in 2007. Just check out Brooklyn Vegan's latest column. So hop on the dance floor tonight at Slap You In Public's party: "People Don't Dance No More". Featuring DJs Druzzi (The Rapture, Throne of Blood, HUSHHUSH), James F!@#$%^ Friedman (Throne of Blood, Defend Music) with Guest DJ Johnny Love of GUNS'N'BOMBS (Kitsune) and Resident DJs Robot Blair (Music.for-Robots) and David Bruno (Slap You in Public).

Friday // Element [225 East Houston St] // $10, $15

MUSIC: Catch one of the last shows at Northsix before it turns in to The Music Hall of Williamsbug. Tonight The Fiery Furnaces (pictured), Emergency Party, Michael Mayham and the Mike will be rocking the house (do people say that anymore?).

Friday // 8pm // Northsix [66 N 6th, Williamsburg] // $15

EVENT: Mulchification! Yes, mulchification. Instructions: take your Christmas tree down to the park and they'll mulch it up for you. If you want to take a to go bag of the mulch for your yard (people have those here?) - they'll hook you up with that as well. But seriously, you haven't taken your Christmas tree down yet?

Saturday and Sunday // 10 am to 2pm // Prospect Park [3rd St and PPW] // Free

THEATER: The Stolen Chair Theatre Company seems to be getting away with "CineTheatre Tetralogy", in which four classic film styles are adapted for the stage over the course of four years. Their second production in the series, Kill Me Like You Mean It, opens tonight. It’s described as film noir meets Theatre of the Absurd, in which “a leggy redhead is shot dead in the middle of her nightclub act and Ben Farrell, American private detective, is on the case. The list of suspects includes a fatalistic femme fatale, an avaricious publisher, and a millionaire playboy who pens a serialized crime novel. Kill Me Like You Mean It poses the all-too-relevant question: How do we cope in a world that has stopped making sense?" - John Del Signore

Saturday // 8pm // The Red Room [85 East 4th Street] // Tickets cost $15

EVENT: It's time for another First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. Tonight there's a lot on the schedule, including a screening of "The Muppets Take Manhattan"! And cap off the night by waltzing at the dance party.

Saturday // 5 to 11pm // Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern Parkway] // Free

MUSIC: If Brooklyn had a yearbook, and there were superlatives: Matt and Kim would totally win cutest couple. Whether or not you find them annoying, they put on some fun shows. Tonight they play with kid rockers Tiny Masters of Today and Aa.

Listen: Yeah Yea.mp3 - Matt & Kim

See: Yea Yeah video (warning: it's adorable.)

Saturday // 8pm // Studio B [259 Banker St] // $6

THEATER: The Talking Band theater company, which was started in 1974 by former members of Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater, is reviving the brilliantly named Party Time, a music-theater work by Paul Zimet and Peter Gordon, with video by Kit Fitzgerald. The show originally premiered a decade ago at P.S. 122, when the action was set around the time of our first conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis. This time around the two main characters are soldiers in an armored combat vehicle stuck in a nameless desert war. “The information they receive about their allies, their enemies and the surrounding terrain, is transmitted to them by the electronic equipment of the tank - radio, radar, and video. They find themselves in increasingly bleak and brutal circumstances, in which their own actions are, at times, appalling, yet, paradoxically, they also sense with greater intensity their fragile and precious mortality.” (Sunday’s matinee features a free post-show musical performance by Ned Sublette.) - John Del Signore

Sunday // 2:30pm & 8pm // LaMaMa [74A East 4th St. ] // Tickets cost $18