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EVENT: The Sci-Fi Screening Room showcases offbeat videos, and tonight hosts Batman Night, featuring the rare 1978 Challenge of the Superfriends cartoon "Lord of Middle Earth". There will also be Adam West screen tests, TV commercials, a live interview with Batman Strikes writer Matthew K. Manning, and an installment of the 1943 serial The Batman.

7 p.m. // Theater Under St. Mark’s [94 St. Mark’s Place] // $7

READING: David Sedaris serves up more quirky childhood anecdotes with his deadpan delivery in a new book of essays: When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Tonight catch the best-selling author at a free reading.

7 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free

MUSIC: Sarah Bettens and Vanessa Torres & Touching Ground are playing an early show at Mercury Lounge tonight. You should remember Bettens from 90s band K's Choice. Here she is singing the band's 1996 song "I'm Not an Addict".

7 p.m. // Mercury Lounge [217 E Houston St] // $10

THEATER: 27-year-old playwright Annie Baker, who grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, takes an informed look at the New England academic scene in her new play Body Awareness, which opens tonight at the Atlantic. The action takes place during a fictional Vermont college’s “Body Awareness Week,” and focuses on a visiting “radical photographer” whose photos of naked women disturb a psychology professor’s lesbian partner and her socially challenged son. Or something – read more about Baker and her play in this deluxe Times profile. – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Atlantic Theatre Company, Stage 2 [330 West 16th Street] // $35

PROM: Hipster ladies, consider this your answer to Sex and the City: "Kiss and Tell is a girly after work cocktail party" which, each month, has its a theme, guest DJs and performers. "The party attracts a laid back crowd of techno hipsters, witchy ladies, and creative professionals who want to have a few drinks, hear amazing music, and meet like minded folks. Whoever tells the hostesses the sauciest kiss and tell secret of the night wins a fabulous prize." There's also a photobooth and tarot card readings, but the best part is that they'll be screening Pretty in Pink...after all, it's their Pretty in Pink Prom.

8 p.m. // Rose Live Music [345 Grand St] // Free