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December 14, 2007

Pencil This In

SHOP: Still looking for that perfect gift? The Brooklyn Historical Society is holding the 4th Annual NY Creates Craft Fair, and they may have just what you're looking for. Check it out today and tomorrow, and it will be back the 22nd and 23rd for the real last-minute shoppers.

Friday and Saturday // Noon to 6pm // BHS [128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn]

ART: Too much is going on the First Friday of every month, so it's good that Williamsburg made their monthly art event the Every 2nd Friday. For Manhattanites who don't want to make the journey, it's a bit easier this month with the Art Bus, a moving video art exhibition, running a shuttle between the Chelsea Museum and the Williamsburg galleries. Pick up your guidebook at Oulu [170 N 4th], and get your art on.

Friday // 6pm // Various Locations, Williamsburg // Free, RSVP for shuttle at info (a) art-bus dot com

121007dice.JPGTHEATER: The Nature Theater of Oklahoma – named after a passage in Kafka’s Amerika – have taken over a former indoor playground in Tribeca and filled it with their must-see idiosyncratic epic No Dice. Staged as a sort of cheeky homage to dinner theater, with sandwiches before the show and wine and dessert during intermission, the hilarious and remarkably unique production tweaks dialogue transcribed from over 100 hours of tape recorded telephone conversations between the actors and their friends and family. Performed in outlandish costumes, with jerky, absurd gestures and melodramatic intensity, the effect is sort of like a podcast of Overheard in New York remixed by Danger Mouse – if such a thing was possible. (No Dice was recently extended for a few more performances; read our review.) – John Del Signore

Friday // 7pm // Sydney’s Playground [66 White St] // Tickets cost $25.

MUSIC: If you're in the mood for some mellow rock at the end of your week, head over to LIC on Friday night for the Antlers. Joining them are Spanish Prisoners and Beat Radio (who are a tad more upbeat). Give a listen:

Stairs to the Attic.mp3 - The Antlers

Treetops.mp3 - Beat Radio

Friday // The Creek and the Cave [10-93 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City] // $5

COMEDY: Sick of reruns? It may be quite some time before the writers leave the picket line, so get some live entertainment some from some small screen faves this weekend at UCB's Let's Have a Ball. "Writers and Performers from the Emmy-award winning '30 Rock', 'The Colbert Report', 'Late Night w/Conan O'Brien', and the UCB Theatre come together to play for your entertainment in this Star-Studded, Long-Form Improvised Show."

Saturday // 7:30pm // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St] // $8

THEATER: Just down the street from No Dice, The Flea Theater is hosting Adam Rapp’s new play and, in the upstairs space, a funny little gem of a play by Will Eno, whose Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a big hit in ’05 and starred friend-to-Gothamist James Urbaniak. Called Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations, the hourlong production features Marisa Tomei and Brian Hutchison in a series of five short plays. Superbly acted, the haunted characters stumble through hilarious little paroxysms of anxiety, with Eno’s distinctive poetry of self-evisceration shining brightly. The Times’s Eno-lover Charles Isherwood rhapsodizes: "Mr. Eno’s unmistakable voice – aggressively stylized, unendingly compassionate, flecked with weird, bleak humor – rings out with the same arresting originality in this hourlong evening of playfully profound theater." – John Del Signore

Saturday // 8pm // The Flea Theater [41 White St] // Tickets cost $55.

ART: Nothing will fit better in your snowy Sunday than a trip to the museum. "After critical and popular acclaim at Berlin's House of Cultures, the Queens Museum of Art presents New York State of Mind, an exhibition and film program that offers a fresh vision of New York City from an outsiders perspective while evoking nostalgia for the city's gritty past. The exhibition features a dynamic group of emerging and established artists whose work reflects New York City's shifting paradigms and demographic. The films in New York State of Mind range from early silent films documenting the rise of the world famous Manhattan skyline in the 1920's, to contemporary shorts, art films and feature documentaries."

Sunday // Noon to 5pm // Queens Museum of Art [Flushing Meadow Corona Park] // $5 donation

Of course, with the winter weather coming up, it's certainly a good movie weekend -- so if you don't mind opening weekend madness, head over to see I Am Legend. Or for fans of graffiti and its history, head over to Gallery 151 to see the "holy grail" of street art.

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