Buffy mania!
Reunion special
Party like it’s 1999 (again) with Buffy fanatics. Galapagos Art Space is hosting a Sunnydale High School reunion and casting you as the characters.
Drink up
Drink N Draw
Head to 3rd Ward, where a model and all the PBR you can drink will tease out your creativity onto paper.
Music
Mandy Moore
The actor-musician makes a solid case for her musical identity at Joe’s Pub.
Readings
Happy Ending Series
Novelist Samantha Hunt and brainy pop-science author Steven Johnson are an ideal fit for tonight’s theme: invention.
Dance
American Ballet Theatre
This week Alexei Ratmansky’s On the Dnieper celebrates its world premiere.
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Editor’s note: The John Hodgman event previously touted in this post has been rescheduled to June 7. Find more details here.
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What's going on
All right, people, nobody panic. We’ve dealt with virulent strains of deadly viruses before, and damn it, we can do it again. All we have to do is hunker down, tape up the windows and periodically send out interns to see if it’s safe. While you’re holed up in your office or home trying to avoid God’s rind-flavored plague, you might as well catch up on some reading. Here’s a list of upbeat books to help keep your mind off this year’s plague (bird flu is so 2008):
Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson Johnson, a far-ranging thinker who once sought to prove that video games are good for you, explored the unhappy marriage of cholera and London in his book Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. Cholera is a bitch, apparently.
See some other book suggestions after the break!
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Soul Samurai
Here’s what we’re doing tonight:
THEATER
Soul Samurai
The fight-crazy troupe Vampire Cowboys rocks ‘em and socks ‘em with its twist on blaxploitation.
EAT OUT CHEAP
L’Absinthe
A three-course $30.09 prix fixe of solid French fare gets a four-star TONY recession rating.
MUSIC
Brooklyn Philharmonic with Clogs and Bell Orchestre at BAM Howard
An especially bold collaborative event finds the B. Phil joining forces with two mesmerizing post-rock chamber ensembles. Special guests are promised as well, at least one of whom sold out several shows at BAM in 2007.
LECTURE
“Remix: Making Art & Commerce in the Hybrid Economy”
Mixing it up are Wired contributor and copyright theorist Lawrence Lessig, street artist Shepard Fairey (you know his posters) and Steven Johnson (dude responsible for Everything Bad Is Good for You).
CLUBS
Libation: Ron Trent
The deep-house visionary joins resident Ian Friday at Sullivan Room.
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