MOVIE: MoMA's Modern Mondays series explores innovation on the big screen, and tonight they dedicate an evening to Kevin Jerome Everson. "His films look for the art in everyday life, revealing people's relationship to their crafts and focusing on the conditions, tasks, gestures, and materials in communities. Much of Everson's recent work is inspired by found footage. He manipulates news and sports footage, old films, still photographs, and image files in various ways, subtly repositioning or restaging actions and movements to highlight or shift the original emphasis." Tonight several of his recent films will screen, including premieres of some new shorts.

7pm // MoMA, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater [11 West 53 St]

MUSIC: Whether you are on, off or have completely missed the Deerhunter bandwagon -- you may want to stop by Shangri La tonight, where the band plays with two other solid acts. For the low, low price of 9 dollars you'll get Deerhunter (pictured), No Age and Soft Circle. A steal! And who says CMJ has to end?

8pm // Shangri La [100 Sutton St, Greenpoint] // $9

TRIVIA: Every now and again we like to remind you of some weekly events. Rock trivia is one of those things! Tonight (and every Monday) head over to Pianos for three rounds of questions that'll make you glad you listened to your walkman and read Circus mag during math class.

8pm // Pianos [158 Ludlow St] // Free

THEATER: 1001, a new drama by Jason Grote, starts previews tonight, and it sounds deliriously ambitious: “Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, 1001 hyperlinks Scheherazade’s tales to contemporary Manhattan. With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century.” Read a juicy feature on Grote in the current Brooklyn Rail and check the apocalyptic news according to 1001. – John Del Signore

8pm // Nagelberg Theatre [55 Lexington Ave] // Call (646) 312-4085 for tickets to tonight’s performance, which cost $25 and are no longer available online.