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ALERT: After their show at MSG with R.E.M. and The National, Modest Mouse will head to Brooklyn for a just-announced late show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets for "A Morning with Modest Mouse" are on sale now (but probably not for long)! If you miss out, there's a free (okay, $3 suggested donation) Medeski, Martin & Wood (pictured) performance in Prospect Park at 7p.m. -- you'll get to bed much earlier.

EVENT: CNN's Christiane Amanpour leads a discussion tonight with humanitarian experts about the rising cost of food worldwide. "Riots in Bangladesh, Haiti, Ivory Coast, and other countries have been the most violent and visible manifestations of food’s rising cost." Join Amanpour as she discusses the topic at hand with Dr. Bruce Cogill (Inter-Agency Standing Committee), Nicolas de Torrenté (Doctors Without Borders), and Dr. Susan Shepherd (nutritional expert).

7 p.m. // Tishman Auditorium [66 W 12th St] // Free

COMEDY: Gabe, Jenny and Max Silvestri will be back at Sound Fix tonight for their weekly "Big Terrific" comedy show. "Roger Hailes, Sean O'Connor, Gabriel Delahaye and probably other things/people" will all be on hand to entertain. Plus, it's free and PBR is, like, $1 there.

8 p.m. // Sound Fix [110 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg] // Free

THEATER: Using three actors and a keyboard accompanist, Dan Trujillo’s The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist is a post-modern vaudevillian reenactment of “the remarkable story of an atheist trying to disprove God's existence by stealing a baby Jesus from a nativity scene, unleashing a series of miracles that prove the existence of the Christian God he denies.” Know what else this dark comedy has going for it? “Mole people, black market Viagra salesmen, speaking in tongues, tasteless caricatures, and three maybe-miracles.” Martin Denton says it’s got “great style and wit.” Ends Saturday! – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Under St. Marks [94 St. Marks Place] // $18