EVENT: Julian Schnabel will be screening clips from his latest flick, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tonight. Lou Reed, who Schnabel recently documented in Lou Reed’s Berlin, will also be on hand.

7pm // Apple Store [103 Prince St] // Free

READING: The Desk Set's "Drinks with an Author" series continues tonight at Greenpoint's WORD. This evening chat with Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer, authors of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time. Tap into your inner-teen and gush about the glossy. Also: free wine!

7:30pm // WORD [126 Franklin St, Greenpoint] // Free

TREE!: The annual tree lighting ceremony takes place at Rockefeller Center tonight. This is the 75th year of the tradition. Bundle up and head over there with some hot chocolate. 'Tis the season.

7pm // Rockefeller Center [1221 6th Ave] // Free

FOOD: Tonight is the Sustainable Winemaker Dinner at Counter. Join guest chef Myra Kornfeld and sustainable Long Island winemaker Roman Roth for a five course vegetarian dinner at Counter. $60 per person including signed copy of Kornfeld's book, The Healthy Hedonist Holidays: A Year of Multi-cultural, Vegetarian-Friendly, Holiday Meals, $35 additional for wine pairing. - Laren Spirer

6:30 and 8:45 seatings // Counter [105 First Ave] // Call 212-982-5870 for reservations

THEATER: Noah Haidle’s new play Rag and Bone is a surreal black comedy about two orphaned brothers who run a custom ladder store – you know, the kind of place that caters to the discriminating ladder connoisseur. But walk into the shop and ask the oldest brother George for “a very special ladder” and he’ll connect you with a stolen human heart. George’s little side business is sustained by his appropriation of hearts from kind and noble strangers; after stealing them from good folks he implants them into paying customers. The macabre fairy tale follows the changes wrought by the “good” hearts on the new owners and their subsequent frenzy to get the best heart on the market – that of a poet. Meanwhile, George’s kid brother is obsessed with building a ladder that will reach heaven and enable a sing-a-long of "Baby Mine" from Dumbo. Michael Criscuolo calls it “outstanding.” – John Del Signore

8pm // Rattlestick Theater [224 Waverly Place] // Tickets cost $40.

MUSIC: If you couldn't get tickets to Rick Moody, Sufjan Stevens and Wesley Stace at Southpaw for the music/lit extravaganza tonight...it was postponed anyway! But there are still some available for another great show -- tonight Celebration, Holy Fuck, and Effi Briest take the Bowery Ballroom stage. We're fans of that middle band -- they play a weird tape machine, have an electro-sensibility and bring a little hip-hop to each show.

8pm // Bowery Ballroom [6 Delancey St] // $14