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MUSIC: Stellastarr* kicks off their 5-night run at Pianos tonight, but if you want to hear "My Coco" then you had to buy tickets a while ago--as they're all sold out. What isn't sold out is the Dr. Dog show at Webster Hall; the Philly band (pictured) will lull you into the week with their sweet psychedelipop.

7 p.m. // Webster Hall [125 E 11th St] // $20

READING: Authors Joseph O'Neill and Hari Kunzru will be on hand at Pacific Standard tonight for a reading. O'Neill will be delivering his words from Netherland, a post-9/11 story that has the protagonist moving from his Tribeca loft to the Hotel Chelsea. While Kunzru will be reading from My Revolutions, about a '60s radical-turned-terrorist, living amongst those who don't know his history.

7 p.m. // Pacific Standard [82 Fourth Ave, Park Slope] // Free

THEATER: Eric Overmyer's largely forgotten 1983 play Native Speech has been revived by Boomerang Theater Company in a production that Heather J. Violanti calls "startlingly prescient." Set in a dark, futuristic city, the loose narrative concerns an underground DJ who makes up news stories to entertain himself, and is shocked when they start coming true. Violanti writes: "Though written 25 years ago, its themes remain current—the boundary between news and entertainment, the blur between fiction and reality, the fears of environmental collapse. Overmyer wrote Native Speech before the words "reality TV," "shock jock," "global warming," and "infotainment" existed, and yet this play, so eerily predictive, could have been written today." – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Center Stage [48 West 21st Street] // $20

FILM: Actors, directors, producers, alumni and students will come together tonight for The New York Film Academy's short film screening. Their best shorts will be shown on a screen at Union Bar for film geeks to soak up along with their beer. If you mention Going.com you receive happy hour deals all night long.

8 p.m. // Union Bar [204 Park Ave South] // Free