EVENT: Fashion gets even more cutting edge at Santos Party House tonight, with their Fashion Wrestling event. What? It's "an open-mat forum for experimental interactive fashion. It provides a low-cost venue for emerging or established designers as well as a non-traditional stage for avant-garde and interactive fashion experimentation. Fashion-wrestlers are judged as much on style as moves, the final decision lying with the camera: who takes the best picture? Humor is a plus."
7 p.m. // Santos Party House [100 Lafayette] // $10
DISCUSSION: Tonight, visual/performance artist Karen Finley leads a group meeting, "featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space—physical, social, cultural and psychological—that it exposed. Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space."
6 p.m. // Studio-X [180 Varick St, Ste 1610] // Free
THEATER: Itamar Moses's drama Back Back Back follows the turbulent careers of three baseball players whose enhanced performances raise suspicions from the feds. Time Out NY says, "The play’s brief against steroids slow-cooks from the 1984 Olympics to the 2005 congressional hearings. Outrage eventually emerges—like every other telling emotion in Back Back Back—with the bewildering force of a curveball pitch. Daniel Aukin’s direction, clean as a line drive, accentuates what feels like a fresh insight from Moses: the razor’s edge between the confidence to keep quiet and the terrible loneliness of not knowing what to say." – John Del Signore
7:30 p.m. // MTC at New York City Center [131 W 55th St] // $52
MUSIC: With all the newer Brooklyn venues settling into the neighborhood, let's not forget about good 'ol Southpaw. Tonight they've got Mute City, Stoke Motive, In The Trees and Adam's Castle on the lineup--get there early for the opener!
9 p.m. // Southpaw [125 5th Ave, Park Slope] // $10