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MOVIE: By now you've all seen, memorized and lived your own version of neurotic New York love story Annie Hall, the classic Woody Allen film that's stood the test of time. But have you seen it under the open night sky? Didn't think so. Get there early for a seat. Get there even earlier for knitting lessons!

READINGS: Another double-bill this week at the 92nd Street Y - Janet Fitch () are reading from new work tonight, introduced respectively to the stage by Will Allison and Ben Marcus. Plus, the under-35 gets a limited number of tickets for just ten dollars. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

Plenty of people go through painful break-ups, but it takes a special talent to turn the experience into a career. Brooklyn-bred Anita Liberty, whose boyfriend Mitchell left her for another woman shortly after he and Anita moved in together, has that talent: rather than sitting around moping, she wrote a book, called "How to Heal the Hurt by Hating," filled with poems, diary entries, and diatribes against Mitchell and the new girlfriend, and developed a live show, short film, and TV projects based on it and her bitter self in general. The dumped everywhere roared their approval, and now she’s back, but what’s this? Success, happiness, and a new man? In "How to Stay Bitter Through the Happiest Times of Your Life," which opens today at HERE and just came out in book form, she describes in her characteristically caustic yet hilarious way how she has tried not to lose touch with the anger that was her raison d’être. We asked her some questions about the show, her art, and her life in New York.

READING: Head down to the awesome 192 Books to catch New Yorker A.M. Homes read from her latest, hyperbolically-titled novel - This Book Will Save Your Life. A.M. Homes, whose dead-pan morbidity brought us , brings her eye to the world of Richard Novak, a day-trader determined to change his life. Some of the reviews have been less than celebratory, but Homes is a fascinating character on the literary scene and certainly worth seeing live. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

; we loved it so much we were ready to move on to the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, but then it was fall, and everything was busy, and we no longer had lazy long hours to devote to Proust.

From the musical stylings of the composer who brought us Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde, New York City now has a theme song. The city's tourism arm, NYC & Company, commissioned Frank Wildhorn to write a song about how wonderful New York City is, and now we have "New York: For the Time of Your Life." The NY Post says the song is a "splashy, big-band-style number belted out in a brassy, Sinatra-esque voice," and the song is supposed to be sung at a presentation to European tour operators and to promote various parts of New York City that are lesser promoted, like Shea Stadium and the Bronx Zoo.

Stefanie Iris Weiss, astrologer, co-author, Surviving Saturn's Return