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MUSIC: If you aren't at your local hometown bar this Thanksgiving-eve, drinking with old high school buddies -- we suggest a sonic alternative. Tonight The Hold Steady and Art Brut do their best at making Terminal 5 feel a little bit cozier this holiday season. Buy tickets here.

7:30pm // Terminal 5 [610 W 56th St] // $30

MUSIC MOVIES: If you're sick and tired of the bands playing around town, go check out two legendary ones tonight on the big screen. Get nostalgic with a screening of Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" and U2's "Live in Paris" concerts. Live, on celluloid...and with surround sound! Check out Nirvana rehearsing Pennyroyal Tea and The Man Who Sold the World here.

8pm // Tribeca Cinemas [54 Varick St] // Free

MOVIES: Been wanting to check out deviant dinner theater Monkeytown? Tonight the venue pits David Bowie and Vincent Gallo against each other, in a dual, simultaneous screening of their films The Hunger and Trouble Everyday.

8:30pm // Monkeytown [58 N 3rd, Williamsburg] // $10 food minimum

THEATER: Adam Rapp, prolific playwright, novelist and former screenwriter on The L Word, has self-directed his newest opus, Bingo With the Indians, down in Tribeca at The Flea Theater. With his usual flair for black comedy, Rapp’s play concerns three high-maintenance members of a fledgling New York City theater company holed up in a dive upstate hotel room, where they argue about their scheme to finance a new production by stealing the cash box from a local Church bingo. When the winsome, stage-struck son of the hotel’s owners comes knocking for a taste of the New York theater scene, drama ensues. The Times notes the play’s “fascinating edge” despite its “rough form.” (Gothamist interviewed Rapp in April.) – John Del Signore

9pm // The Flea Theater [41 White St] // Tickets cost $20.

BENEFIT: BrooklynVegan has the details on a benefit going down tonight for the owner of Brooklyn's Goodbye Blue Monday, Steve Trimboli. He's living with cancer, and sadly not a whole lot of money -- so come support him. More details here.

8pm // Glasslands [289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg] // Donation