September 4, 2008
Pencil This In
MOVIE: Sigh, it's the last night of the Movies with a View series. The final screening will be of Cabaret, starring Liza Minelli (check out the trailer, here). Prior to that there will be a short screening of Yuliya Lanina's Play With Me.
6 p.m. // Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO // Free
EVENT: Get loud with the Desk Set librarians in Greenpoint tonight for some library and literature trivia. Leave your indoor voices at home.
8 p.m. // Black Rabbit [91 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn] // Free
MUSIC: If you aren't a card carrying NYU student and can't make it into the Broken Social Scene/Pattern is Movement show tonight, head over to Housing Works. "Musician Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) and author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors; A Wolf at the Table) will co-headline SPIN.com's Liner Notes, an event at Housing Works Bookstore Café, to celebrate the cross-pollination of music and literature and raise funds for Housing Works." Get there early, sounds like it could get crowded!
7:30 p.m. // Housing Works Bookstore Café [126 Crosby St] // $20 and a new or gently used book
THEATER: Three days after the September 11th attacks, the theater company Another Urban Riff made the difficult decision to continue the run of their critically-acclaimed play MONO. That disorienting experience of making art in a shell-shocked city has inspired their latest work, called PRE. The title refers to the timeline of the piece, which takes place in the 90 minutes before the curtain rose on that first post-9/11 performance of MONO. It also evokes "the small pocket of time directly following the attacks when all New Yorkers acted as if they were part of an ensemble." Martin Denton calls it "fast, tight, funny, very raw and yet surprisingly sentimental. PRE captures the diffuse discombobulation that New Yorkers went through in those days right after 9/11; it also gets the specific energy of putting on a show exactly right. And it does so without ever becoming maudlin or serious, but also without indulging in too much gallows humor." – John Del Signore
8 p.m. // The Red Room [85 East 4th St] // $15



