THEATER: You’ve got just three more weekends to experience one of the wildest and most entertaining late-night theater extravaganzas to hit New York this century. The Curse of the Mystic Renaldo The defies description – what begins as a fake silent movie (ostensibly unearthed during the construction of 3 Legged Dog’s sleek new theater center) quickly dashes off in countless delirious directions at once: There’s live rock, hilarious vaudevillian slapstick, both high and low art, free popcorn, free regular and light beer, side-splitting ribaldry and, above all, the virtuoso performance of Aldo Perez, the show’s charismatic creator. (Not to take anything away from his equally brilliant co-stars Jenny Lee Mitchell and Richard Ginocchio.) See it now so you’ll have time to catch it again before it closes. - John Del Signore more ›

READING: Albert Einstein had a pretty crazy life, from his rebellious childhood to marrying his first cousin (happy couple pictured at right). Walter Isaacson's biography of the man (Einstein: His Life and Universe) will shed light on things you probably don't even want to know. Come meet the man behind the equation (well, at least the man behind the book about the man behind the equation). more ›