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MUSIC: We highly recommend checking out the New York band Twi and Humble Feather immediately--and luckily they'll be playing Mercury Lounge tonight. Japanese multi-instrumentalist Shugo Tokumaru is also on the bill, and definitely worth checking out.
9 p.m. // Mercury Lounge [217 E Houston St] // $10
FOOD: Kenny Shopsin, the potty-mouthed, borderline-hostile owner of the now defunct Shopsin's in the West Village, and Shopsin's in the Essex Market will be at the Strand tonight to discuss his new cookbook, EAT ME: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
7 p.m. // The Strand [828 Broadway at 12th St] // Free
READING: Recently Alec Baldwin bitched to The New Yorker, and tonight he'll be bitching to everyone at Barnes & Noble, where he'll be reading from his new book, A Promise To Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce.
7:30 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [1972 Broadway] // Free
THEATER: Tennessee Williams's 1971 play Small Craft Warnings is full of colorful characters who huddle like shipwreck survivors in a Southern California bar in the early '70s. On the anniversary of her “angelic” brother’s death, Leona, a depressed beautician, lashes out at her motley drinking companions: a homeless hooker, a short order cook, a washed-up homosexual screenwriter and his new found flame, and a drunken ex-doctor who still practices illegally. Williams himself played the doctor in the original Off Broadway run, directed by Robert Altman in 1972; it's been seldom produced since but is regarded by Williams scholars as a triumph for the playwright after many years of personal and professional disappointments. – John Del Signore
8 p.m. // WorkShop Theatre [312 West 36th St, 4th Fl] // $18
Photo of Twi and Humble Feather by Julianna Barwick.
