DISCUSSION: Is New York losing it's New York charm? Tonight contributors to the new tome "The Suburbanization of New York" will talk about just that (and is conveniently located down the street from H&M and Pottery Barn). The panel includes Marshall Berman, Eric Darton, Francis Morrone, Matthew Schuerman, Neil Smith, Michael Sorkin, and Suzanne Wasserman.

6:30pm // The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center [Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave] // Free

EVENT: This week the Bad Egg Collective talks Evolution. More specifically, "what’s in store for humans in the future? Are we going to be bigger or smaller? Genetic modification and cyborgs? Androids?" Who is this Bad Egg Collective, you ask - they are "people who challenge the world. Explore history, revolt, politics, science, philosophy, art, and share unorthodox or revolutionary ideas, movements and people.” [via UnCoolKids]

7pm // Stain [766 Grand St at Humboldt St, Brooklyn] // Free

MUSIC: Not everyone is in Austin yet, so fear not - there's plenty of music for New York tonight. Over at the new Gramercy Theater Mute Math, The Cinematics, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (pictured) take the stage. Has anyone been to the Gramercy yet (it just opened as a venue earlier this year)?

Listen: Oregon Girl.mp3 - Someone Still Loves Your Boris Yeltsin

7pm // Gramercy Theater [127 East 23rd St] // $17

THEATER: Bill W. and Dr. Bob is a new play about the unlikely genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous. During a trip to Akron in 1935, a failed stockbroker named Bill Wilson was overwhelmed by a burning desire to drink. Instead of buying a bottle, he picked out the name of a clergyman at random and asked if he could give him the name of a local alcoholic to talk to. He was directed to Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon who frequently got his drink on before operating. Their subsequent six-hour encounter is remembered as the first A.A. meeting and generated untold revenue for the cigarette and ashtray industry. - John Del Signore

8pm // New World Stages / Stage 2 [340 W 50th St] // Tickets cost $66