Drink Up
Connect Four
Round three of this monthlong championship promises to get pretty heated; winners move on to next week’s finale, with a chance to win $250.
Books
National Book Awards Reading
All 20 nominees of this year’s NBA—who include Rae Armantrout, Jayne Anne Phillips and Colum McCann—will read their work.
Eat Out
Pie Tasting and Talk
’Tis the season of pies—bulk up your knowledge, as well as your waistline, at this lecture and tasting.
Comedy
More than You Expected: A Night at Highline
Todd Barry, Jonathan Ames and others raise funds for two literary outlets.
Music
Das Racist
The duo behind “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” takes the stage.
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Art Brut
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.
