MUSIC: The Black Lips didn't have a street team promoting the show before their Bowery show tonight...so here's a heads up: the band will be dropping into Other Music for a free, after-work performance this evening. Get there early, it'll be intimate...to say the least.

6:30 p.m. // Other Music [15 E 14th St] // Free

The Oya Festival (straight out of Oslo) teams up with Oh My Rockness tonight to take over the Knitting Factory. Check out the following (and some amazingly named) Norway popsters: Videohippos, the Shining, Hanne Hukkelberg and Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

7 p.m. // Knitting Factory [74 Leonard St] // $10

EVENT: If you were a spelling bee regular in grade school, come get nostalgic and test your skills as an adult. Tonight hit up the Williamsburg Spelling Bee and compete for a bar tab -- which is way better than whatever the prize was all those years ago.

7:30 p.m. // Pete's Candy Store [709 Lorimer St, Williamsburg] // Free

THEATER: Don’t mess with Civil War re-enactors. This is the hard lesson learned by an acerbic newspaper critic in John Ahlin’s comedy Gray Area after he publicly ridicules their history buff subculture. A team of outraged Confederate re-enactors decide to kidnap the critic and hold him hostage in the woods in order to school him on the glory of their Southern heritage; comic hi-jinks ensue. The Times’s Neil Genzlinger writes that despite a faulty second act, Gray Area is “hilarious” and “something to see.” – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // The Barrow Group Theatre [312 West 36th St, 3rd Floor] // Tickets cost $40

KARAOKE: Step into the week singin'. Tonight at Pianos Shandi Sullivan (could-have-been America's Next Top Model) and Tim Sullivan (Whitest Kids You Know) host their weekly Karaoke Dokey event.

10 p.m. // Pianos [158 Ludlow St] // Free

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