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READING: Today NY Mag asks, "What does Tina Brown have to do to get some attention?" Well tonight she's signing copies of her new book (a tell-all on Princess Di) called The Diana Chronicles.
7pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free
MUSIC: That band in the bubble, Cartel, that you've undoubtedly already forgotten about, is playing a free show tonight. Go visit the bubble boys, help them re-enter the real world (today is their last day in the bubble) and see if they can actually play their instruments as the kick off to the Hudson River Park's free concert series. OR you can check out the much, much better Citizens Band, our interviewees for today, who play the Highline tonight (tix).
7pm // Hudson River Park, Pier 54 // Free
MOVIE: Soon you won't be able to enjoy the Reel Life Movie House events at Galapagos (or if you can, you'll have to go to Dumbo). Tonight, head over to see a screening of several local shorts and one very well known feature length. The latter is the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
8pm // Galapagos [60 N 6th St, Williamsburg] // Free
THEATER: The Axis Company – the theater group that’s developed a cult following for the episodic Hospital, about the interior life of a man in a coma – is now offering a free glimpse of their work-in-progress play Buffalo Bill Combination. The group asserts that “our concept and understanding of the Wild West and our recent pioneer history was largely created live, on stage, in William Cody's circus. His Wild West Show was an unprecedented conglomeration of exhibitions concerning legendary frontier life for which audiences as early as 1875 were already nostalgic. In Cody's live show, Indians and soldiers who had participated in real frontier battles performed in staged versions of the incidents.” – John Del Signore
8pm // The Axis Theatre www.AxisCompany.org [One Sheridan Square] // (Call 212) 807-9300 to reserve tickets, which are free.
ART REMINDERS: Take this week to check out the Monet exhibit that will be closing on June 15th at Wildenstein & Company [19 E 64th St]. And don't forget the Museum Mile Festival is today!
