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READING: Olympia Dukakis, who you know from such films as Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, will be at Barnes & Noble tonight. She'll be reading from a brand spakin' new edition of Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children. She recently put down the Oscar and picked up a pen to write the forward to the antiwar classic.

- And playwright Wendy Wasserstein died over the weekend

For those stuck sucking on the big apple's pit, this fundraiser for Free Arts NYC might be worth checking out. It's a two part panel discussion about people who came to New York and succeeded in finding fame and fortune.