Music
Art Brut
Start checking Craigslist for tickets: London’s wittiest band settles into Mercury Lounge for a five-night run.
Drink up
Flight Club
Get to the Bell House by 6pm, and $10 will get you four delicious craft beers paired with cheese from Murray’s. An additional $3 gets any Sixpoint pint throughout the night.
Comedy
Inside Joke
Carl Arnheiter’s wildly popular Inside the Actors Studio–inspired interview show features the other half of Al Franken’s former writing duo: longtime Saturday Night Live writer and recent author Tom Davis.
Film
Departures
Growing into a full-throated grief mop, Yojiro Takita’s melodrama didn’t win that surprise Oscar for nothing.
(Not sold out) Music
Gabriel Kahane
The impressive young singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane describes himself as “the bastard child of Alban Berg and Rufus Wainwright,” a hybrid he pulls off with his piano-bar poetry and adventurous compositions.









