MUSIC: Tonight venture to the Dead Herring on Williamsburg's South Side and take in a set by Extra Life (pictured). Highly Recommended! And totally worth going into stabbing territory for. Listen to: Black Hoodie.

Friday // 7 p.m. // Dead Herring [141 S 5th St #1E, Brooklyn] // $tbd

EVENT: The New York TV Festival is kicking off its fourth year with the premiere of the new ABC drama Life on Mars. The festival is like upfronts for fans instead of ad reps with screenings of independently produced TV pilots and panel discussions along with its red carpet Premiere Week events for shows such as Fringe, Life and HBO's new comedy The Life and Times of Tim. The full schedule is available here. - Billy Parker

Friday (through 9/17) // 8 p.m. //New World Stages [340 West 50th Street]//Prices vary

THEATER: "Damnable scribbler" Mac Wellman unveils a hotly anticipated new play tonight. Called 1965UU, the piece is adapted from a short story in his collection A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, in which each chapter chronicles life on a different asteroid. Rendered theatrically, the solo show stars Paul Lazar of Wooster Group and Big Dance Theater fame. The Culturist swears it's entrancing and "has everything a girl could want: An underground society. 'Inevitable fisticuffs.' Flatulence. 'Clandestine polishing of a shameful sort.' And, at the quiet center of Wellman’s riotous rush of words, an obliquely beautiful attempt at understanding what it means to exist." – John Del Signore

Friday // 8 p.m. // The Chocolate Factory Theater [5-49 49th Ave, Long Island City] // $15

EVENT: The FreeMeet's in town this weekend. This "is your chance to unload unwanted but usable items and take home things you can put to good use. Items leftover after the FreeMeet will be donated to local charities or recycled to every extent possible." It's time to freecycle!

Saturday // 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. // JJ Byrne Park [5th Ave btwn 3rd and 4th] // Free

READING: Stop in at the reading/signing with Arthur Nersesian this Saturday afternoon. The author of The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx, will be joined by author Joe Meno. "Nersesian is a real New York writer. His novels are a celebration of marginal characters living in the East Village and trying to survive. His books include The Fuck-Up and The East Village Tetralogy." Meno is a former musician and current music journalist for Punk Planet.

Saturday // 3 p.m. // Word [126 Franklin St, Brooklyn] // Free

ART: Check out Street Art, Street Life this Sunday in an exhibit that goes back to the 1950s. "Organized by guest curator Lydia Yee, Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This far ranging exhibition, one of the largest to consider the subject, includes street photography; documentation of performance, events, and artworks presented in the street; works using material from the street; and examples of street culture by more than thirty artists." This Sunday is the opening, celebrated with a block party in from of the museum.

Sunday // Noon to 6 p.m. // Bronx Museum of the Arts [1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St] // Free

THEATER: If you saw, as we did, Irish playwright Enda Walsh's enthralling black comedy The Walworth Farce at St. Ann's Warehouse last April, you'll be interested to know, as we are, that one of his older plays is being revived at 59E59 Theatres. Called Disco Pigs, it concerns Pig and Runt, "two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview...and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever." The Times's Charles Isherwood raves, "the sheer energy of Mr. Walsh’s writing...quickly sweeps you into the careening locomotion of the story." Ends today! – John Del Signore

Sunday // 3:30 p.m. // 59E59 Theatres [59 E 59th St] // $18

Photo of Extra Life by Stephen Koslowski.