Pencil This In

MUSIC: If you haven't heard of the band Little Joy (pictured) yet, you probably know at least one band member already: The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. But watch out ladies, Moretti's girlfriend Binky Shapiro is also in the band--so try to restrain yourself at their free show tonight.

7 p.m. // Virgin Megastore [52 E 14th St] // Free

EVENT: The NYPL wants to remind you of "When the City Celebrated Itself" with an event on The New York City Golden Jubilee of 1948, with Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione. "Most New Yorkers are familiar with the legendary world’s fairs of 1939 and 1964, but who remembers the New York City Golden Jubilee of 1948? How the city celebrated itself during this summer-long citywide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the consolidation of the five boroughs will be recounted and presented with rarely seen photographs, newsreel footage, sound recordings, and memorabilia from the celebration." Ah, glory days.

6:30 p.m. // Mid-Manhattan Library [455 Fifth Ave] // Free

FILM: The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series is hosting an evening of award-winning short films from the Red Hook Film Festival. More details on the five shorts at their website, one of which is called Twilight Becomes Night...sure, it's not the ultra-anticipated-vampire-YA-novel-turned-movie everyone is so excited about...but it does take a look at "the lively culture of New York's endangered mom & pop stores."

7 p.m. //Barbés [376 9th St, Park Slope] // Free

THEATER: Theater for the New City's "New City, New Blood" reading series continues tonight with the intriguingly titled new play Wonder Woman Wears Raggedy Ann Pajamas by Karina Arroyave. The story concerns Sophie Andrades, a neurotic 30-year-old recovering-alcoholic actress who tries to escape following in her mother’s self-destructive footsteps by confronting the pain of her past. Her mother, Chula, is an outspoken, intelligent, Republican-hating, agoraphobic, somewhat-functioning alcoholic and we are taken into her journey during this critical time." Wine and cheese are promised. – John Del Signore

7 p.m. // Theater for the New City [155 First Ave btwn 9th and 10th Streets] // $5; RSVP

Photo by Autumn de Wilde.