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COMEDY: Join Patrick Borelli, Douglas Gorenstein and Simon & Schuster as they celebrate the release of their book Holy Headshot! (A Celebration of America's Undiscovered Talent ) tonight. There will be a cocktail hour followed by a talent show featuring performers taken straight from the book! More details at Comix.

6 p.m. // Comix [353 W 14th St] // $10

EVENT: The FilmArtFunction multi-media event tonight goes to benefit Under the Bridges, a non-profit documentary-series profiling environmentally-minded artists. The evening will be hosted by comedian Kendra Cunningham, and include live performances by DJ Shawn Shwartz, pop-pianist Derrick Wang and magician Matthew Haicken. In addition, a silent fine art auction will be held AND you'll be greeted by an 8-doorway-of-ice ice sculpture. The ticket price includes all of that as well as food and free wine (there will also be a cash bar).

8 p.m. // Galapagos [16 Main St, DUMBO] // $30

MUSIC: After you spend some time with us at Gothamist House, head over to a late night party with Friction. Their show features sets by Best Fwends, Crystal Antlers and Ninjasonik. It also features FREE PBR, which coincidentally tastes delicious between 1 and 4 a.m.

1 to 4 a.m. // Cake Shop [152 Ludlow St] // Free

THEATER: For a decade now, writer-performer Clay McLeod Chapman has been entertaining audiences with his dark and bizarre "bedtime stories for adults. Part monologue, part boxing match," every story told during The Pumpkin Pie Show is chosen at random each night by Chapman and his partner Hannah Cheek. Back in town after an international tour, Richard Hinojosa says it's "so full of energy from start to finish that if we could harness it we may be able to decrease our dependence of foreign oil. In the past the show has been described as dark and twisted but it is also filled with beauty and agony...often simultaneously." The Times also raves. – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Under St. Marks [94 St. Marks Place] // $18