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THEATER: You’ve got just three more weekends to experience one of the wildest and most entertaining late-night theater extravaganzas to hit New York this century. The Curse of the Mystic Renaldo The defies description – what begins as a fake silent movie (ostensibly unearthed during the construction of 3 Legged Dog’s sleek new theater center) quickly dashes off in countless delirious directions at once: There’s live rock, hilarious vaudevillian slapstick, both high and low art, free popcorn, free regular and light beer, side-splitting ribaldry and, above all, the virtuoso performance of Aldo Perez, the show’s charismatic creator. (Not to take anything away from his equally brilliant co-stars Jenny Lee Mitchell and Richard Ginocchio.) See it now so you’ll have time to catch it again before it closes. - John Del Signore

Friday // 10pm // 3LD Art & Technology Center [80 Greenwich St] // Tickets cost $20

EVENT: It's the 1st Annual Congress of Curious Peoples Opening Night Party! Come to Coney Island, drink free beer and don't shoot the freaks...instead, celebrate them at “Freak Show Hall of Fame”. The gang will all be there: PT Barnum's John Merrick- The Elephant Man, General Tom Thumb, Samuel Gumpertz, and Melvin Burkhardt.

Friday // 8pm // Sideshows by the Seashore [Surf Avenue and W 12th St, Coney Island] // $1

MUSIC: Headlights, Page France and...Cheyenne are at Pianos tonight. No, not the MTV reality starlet Cheyenne...this one (turns out there's a lot of Cheyenne's).

TV.mp3 - Headlights

Friday // 9pm // Pianos [158 Ludlow St} // $10

EVENT: Join the scientists that are looking for intelligent life on other planets for a discussion. Have they found some real life ET's? Only one way to find out...

Saturday // 2:30pm // The Philoctetes Center [247 East 82nd St, 3rd Floor] // Free

BOOK FAIR: Saturday brings the first ever Anarchist Book Fair (to NYC, at least). Find books, zines, pamphlets, art and many other political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide. There will be an art gallery, panels, presentations and workshops.

Saturday // 11am to 7pm // Judson Memorial Church [55 Washington Square South] // Free

THEATER: Michael Fiengold at the Village Voice is loving the current revival of William Inge’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, calling it “stunning… elegantly spare… with a gorgeously sculpted emotionality.” Set in a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920’s, Inge’s first play is about a middle class family torn apart by “economic forces, social upheaval, violence, and sexual trauma”. The intense tale revolves around Rubin Flood, who, after losing his job as a traveling salesman for a harness manufacturer, has no escape from domestic discord. - John Del Signore

Saturday // 2pm & 8pm // Connelly Theatre [220 E 4th St] // Tickets cost $20

MUSIC: Of Montreal are having a karaoke party Saturday night at Studio B! What does that mean? It means you can sings songs with Of Montreal as your back up band. What's more? Flosstradamus and Michael Showalter will also be on hand. The latter will be hosting as his character from "Wet Hot American Summer".

Saturday // 10pm // Studio B [259 Banker St, Brooklyn]

DISCUSSION: Albert Einstein know-it-all, Walter Isaacson, will be talking with Charlie Rose this Sunday about the man, the myth, the legend. From his public to private life and everything in between (in other words: all that Isaacson gets in to in his new book) will be discussed.

Sunday // 7:30pm // 92nd St Y [Kaufmann Concert Hall, Lexington Ave at 92nd St] // Tickets from $25