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EVENT: Former rocker Richard Barone (pictured) will entertain and read from his new book titled Frontman: Surviving Rock Star Myth, tonight at Carnegie Hall. He'll be joined by a handful of famous friends, including Moby, and he'll be reuniting with his former band, The Bongos.

7:30 p.m. // Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall [881 Seventh Ave] // $28.50 to 48.50

MUSIC: Jazz in New York can be expensive, but tonight it'll be expensive and for a cause. Jazz for Obama is one of the many, many fundraising events happening before November, and it's going down tonight. Musicwise, you'll get a whole slew of musicians (including the great Charlie Hunter), and some promised special guests.

7:30 p.m. // 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall [1395 Lexington Ave] // $50-100

SCIENCE: Listen up nerds, the Secret Science Club moves over to the Bell House tonight, so make a note of it. This evening they welcome cosmologist Tony Rothman of Princeton University who lectures on sangaka, "clever math puzzles that decorated Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in 17th-century Japan." He's even written the book about it, called Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. Soak it all up while you sip on the night's special cocktail, the Bamboozler ("it’s a conundrum . . . try saying that 3 times fast after you’ve had a few").

8 p.m. // the Bell House [149 7th St, Brooklyn] // Free

THEATER: Though we had mixed feelings about Tarell Alvin McCraney's play The Brothers Size when it played the Public Theater last year, it was clearly the work of a young playwright (still at Yale when he wrote it) with impressive talent and vision. So we're definitely interested in seeing McCraney's latest; called Wig Out!, the play with music concerns competing "houses" of drag queens and the men who love them. Ben Brantley at the Times calls it "astonishing...a thorough and original anatomy of an alternative universe. The backdrop of James Schuette’s set establishes the tone: it depicts a galaxy exploding out of a mirrored disco ball." – John Del Signore

9 p.m. // Vineyard Theater [108 E 15th St] // Ticket prices vary