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FUNDRAISER: It's the 3rd Annual Summer, Sex and Spirits cocktail and shopping extravaganza. Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC), in conjunction with Brooklyn Indie Market join forces for the fundraiser, "an evening of mixing and mingling with retail therapy!" There will be $4 drink specials, 1/2 price sangria pitchers, a deejay and a giveaway...we're also guessing everyone will walk away with at least one free condom.
5 to 8pm // Sugar [311 Church St] // $20
READING: The "Lester Bangs of Video Games," the authority on all things pop culture, the Spin writer...whatever you know him as, Chuck Klosterman will be at Barnes & Noble tonight spinning lexical webs of commentary on today's culture.
7pm // Barnes & Noble [675 6th Ave] // Free
EVENT: At the end of last year Roger Rapaport's biography on Michael Moore came out. If you want more Moore after seeing Sicko Rapaport will be discussing his book Citizen Moore tonight at McNally Robinson. The "exhaustively researched biography chronicles, for the first time, the thirty years of struggle and failure that led to Moore’s 'overnight' success, and sheds light on some of the contradictions and questions in Moore’s own career and ideology." The night will include a reading, slide show and conversation with the author.
7pm // McNally Robinson [52 Prince St] // Free
MUSIC: Fucoustic (pictured) and Juiceboxxx are at Don Pedro's tonight. The former is (brace yourself) an all-acoustic Fugazi cover band from Austria. Need we say more?
Listen: Cashout.mp3 - Fucoustic
8pm // Don Pedro's [90 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn] // $7
THEATER:The Living Theatre’s OBIE-winning, critically acclaimed and historic revival of The Brig is still running down in their new space on the Lower East Side. (Wednesdays are "Pay What You Can" nights.) The political avant-garde theater collective, founded in 1947 by Judith Malina and the late Julian Beck, is famous for a confrontational performance style intended to radicalize audiences. The Brig, a hyper-realistic demonstration of the brutality of military prisons, was written by a veteran who was incarcerated in a U.S. Marine Corps brig in the 50s. Michael Criscuolo says it’s “a one-of-a-kind experience”, Michael Feingold calls it “exhilarating.” - John Del Signore
8pm // 21 Clinton Street // Wednesdays are Pay What You Can nights, no reservations
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Chuck Klosterman isn't known as "the Lester Bangs of video games". That's only the title of an article he did for Esquire, which openly inquires WHY there were no great video-game critics.
Yeah, The Brig at The Living Theatre on Clinton St. is very cool. Catch it while you can.