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MUSIC: Patti Smith (pictured with Robert Mapplethorpe) is starting her three-night run at Bowery Ballroom this evening. Ticket prices may seem steep, but, you know...it's Patti Smith. As Barney Stinson would say: "Leg-en...dary."

8 p.m. // Bowery Ballroom [6 Delancey St] // $40

PARTY: The sold-out Gogol Bordello show will continue at Santos Party House tonight as, well, a party. The gypsy-rockers will "be tearing up the dance floor and impregnating your girlfriends." Bring protection!

10 p.m. // Santos Party House [96 Lafayette St] // $5

DOCUMENTARY: Since the '70s, restaurateur Sirio Maccioni has devoted his life to turning Le Cirque into an indispensable New York institution. The restaurant's reputation has gone through many phases, from top celebrity destination to overpriced relic to something of a critical comeback kid in recent years. As the elder Maccioni prepares himself for the back of house of the beyond, his three sons are vying for control, and the family's colorful past and present has been documented by a new HBO documentary that airs tonight. (Sirio's middle son Marco once plied us with truffles, so he's got our allegiance.) It's called Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven, and Josh Ozersky at The Feedbag says it reminds one of "the emotional commitment it takes to make a great restaurant." For companion reading, here's a sensational profile on the family from the folks at Page Six Mag.

8 p.m. // HBO // A Table In Heaven website