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ART: Last night the works of ex-Guided By Voices frontman Robbert Pollard were unveiled at an invite-only opening, and today it's a free-for-all. Come by and check out his debut art exhibit, which "will consist of more than 50 collages that date from 1990 through 2007. Using elements from 1950's -70's era magazines, pamphlets and obscure pictoral paperbacks as his primary tools, he portrays allegorical personas and hallucinogenic-type environments to create small, almost random synapses of unmistakable compositions with sardonic titles, each serving as a story unto itself." That's one of his pieces pictured. Rock on.

Noon to 10pm // Studio Dante [257 West 29th St] // Free

DISCUSSION: Music historian Peter Cherches is on hand tonight to discuss the downtown music scene, and the social and historical impact it has made. From jazz to rock to whatever the heck happened in the '80s...take a listen down memory lane. Additional panelists for “Downtown Music and the Question of Genre” include Doc Christensen, Jon Gibson, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris and Elliot Sharp. More info here.

6:30pm // NYU Bobst Library [70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor] // Free

COMEDY: Tonight the Totatly J/K show with Joe and Noah is likely to be packed. Their guests for their last evening of comedy in '07 include Demetri Martin, Reggie Watts, and Ani Raya-Flores. Also expect "a cartoon from Scott Bateman, a new video from Joe and Noah, and a Hanukkah miracle or two!"

8pm // Rififi [332 11th St] // $5

THEATER: Nascent theater company The Elephant Brigade stampedes into HERE tonight with a production of Brecht’s Man Is Man. The bitterly funny play concerns the wartime transformation of a lowly porter into a lean, mean killing machine. The ensemble cast tells “the story of the play by employing theatrical devices they handle themselves: small objects, miniature set pieces, exposed on tables, which they manipulate and film with a video camera.” Directed by Paul Binnerts. – John Del Signore

8:30pm // HERE Arts Center [145 Sixth Ave] // Tickets cost $18