Pencil This In

MUSIC: The best lineup of the night is over in New Jersey, go figure. Head to Maxwell's for Love is All (pictured), Titus Andronicus and Abe Vigoda. Some say the first game of baseball was played over by this venue (there are even bases in the street today, marking the event), however this was allegedly found to be untrue.

8:30 p.m. // Maxwell's [1039 Washington St, Hoboken] // $12

READING: Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington read tonight from their new book Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever. "The first book to focus on Davis and Coltrane’s musical interaction and its historical context, on the ways they influenced each other and the tremendous impact they’ve had on culture since then. It chronicles the drama of their collaboration, from their initial historic partnership to the interlude of their breakup, during which each man made tremendous progress toward his personal artistic goals."

7:30 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [1972 Broadway] // Free

EVENT: Tonight MoMA presents Write-in Jerry Brown President, an artist’s book to be published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art. "Conceived by the artist Doug Aitken, this almost unclassifiable book-object presents...a complex portrait of an eccentric private and public figure, Jerry Brown, former governor and current attorney general of the State of California. Fusing biographical commentary by the writer John Bowe, Brown’s own words, vintage press pictures, and a series of abstracted photographs by Aitken." Live music provided by Pepi Ginsberg.

8 p.m. // MoMA [4 West 54th St]

THEATER: Les Freres Corbusier, the smarty-pants theater troupe that brought you Hell House and that production of Hedda Gabler performed by robots, is back on the scene. Tonight they hit Joe's Pub for a concert reading of their "newest historical massacre, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a fast-paced, irreverent Wild West spectacle celebrating the founding of the Democratic Party. It's got populism, emo anthems, and lots of dead Indians. Come celebrate Obama and McCain in ’08 with the story of America’s first populist maverick." — John Del Signore

9 p.m. // Joe's Pub [425 Lafayette St] // $12