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MUSIC: Tickets are still on sale to see The Verve (pictured) tonight. While "Bitter Sweet Symphony" may be the song you remember best, they had about three albums worth of tunes that received much adoration. Over the weekend they Brit-pop rocked Coachella, so they're all warmed up from the west coast.

7 p.m. // WaMu Theater [4 Pennsylvania Plaza] // $40

READING: Former President Jimmy Carter hits up Barnes & Noble tonight to read from his new book, A Remarkable Mother. In it he tells the story of the woman who brought him here, Lillian Carter.

7 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [555 Fifth Ave] // Free

THEATER: Once a month the East Village’s Theater for the New City presents their New City, New Blood series, which introduces a new play by a writer you may not have heard much about – yet. Tonight they’re doing a reading of Billy Finnegan’s play At the End, which takes place in a “darker, deadly, nearly decimated New York City, ten years hence.” With wine and cheese. – John Del Signore

7:30 p.m. // Theater for the New City [155 First Ave] // $5

PERFORMANCE Humorist Mo Rocca and his friends will pay tribute to the fifty states in "Mo Rocca 'Cross America" at the Birdland tonight. Not only will there be songs (He even asked Bebe Neuwirth for some help (Country Roads, Take Me Home To…California, Here I come, Right Back…Home Again in Indiana), there will also be fun, factoids and prize giveaways. see video here).

7 p.m. // Birdland [315 West 44th Street] // $30

COMEDY: Last week David Cross took the stage as the mystery guest at What's My Line?; who will be on hand tonight? Julie Alexandria, Jackie Hoffman, Andy Zax and Jarrod Emick; comedians, a music historian and a Broadway performer, all sharing a stage. Check out the eclectic group for yourself.

8 p.m. // Barrow Street Theatre [27 Barrow St] // $25

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