EVENT: Berlin takes over New York this month with the Berlin in Lights Festival. Through the 18th you can soak up the German city through film, music, art, architecture and more. This evening you can check out a couple of Berlin-esque events. First up is the "Urban Design and Memorials" dialogue. A panel discussion which will touch on the "challenges of integrating memorials into the urban fabric, and how Berlin and New York address issues of politics of preservation and lessons of history. What are the differences and similarities in approaches to building memorials." Next up, at MoMA, there will be a screening of 2006's Valerie, followed up by a performance by Nomad SoundSystem at Zankel Hall.

Various Times and Places, Details here

READING: Iconic underground poet/actress/musician, Lydia Lunch, hits the mainstream tonight for a reading of her new book, Paradoxia, at Barnes & Noble. Lunch (a name she got from regularly stealing lunches from her starving artist pals) will read from this tell-all which touches on her her oft-tumultuous times in the city.

7pm // Barnes & Noble [4 Astor Place] // Free

THEATER: TIME magazine’s war correspondent James Wilde spent three decades following trails of the dead through Vietnam, the Congo, Turkey and other hotspots. Now retired and seventy-eight, the reporter, poet and storyteller has commissioned theater company blessed unrest to adapt his harrowing experiences for the stage. Called Burn, Crave, Hold: The James Wilde Project, this world premiere play by Matthew Opatrny “examines what motivated Wilde to obsessively pursue extreme human suffering as a reporter and offers a new perspective on the news of war and the people who bring it to us.” – John Del Signore

7pm // The Interart Theater [500 W 52nd St] // Tickets cost $15.

MUSIC: Lots of big shows going on tonight, with Sia at Highline and Dashboard Confessional at Webster Hall. But you don't want to hear "Screaming Infidelities," so if all else fails to entice you, head over to a Todd P show. Tonight at Death By Audio you can catch Stars Like Fleas, Charalambides, Alasdair Maclean and Heather Leigh Murray. Heads up!: Tomorrow you can catch The Muggabears at the same venue. We heart them.

8pm // Death By Audio [49 S 2nd St, Williamsburg] // $tba