Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

New Museum 235 Bowery, Lower East Side, New York

This exhibition is New York's first gallery-wide exhibition of artists from the Arab world, and is appropriately (and devastatingly) dedicated to exploring the ethics of representation and the…

$16

Williamsburg Spelling Bee

Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Spelling.Bee.Petes.Candy.9.09.FCB-12Bee all you can bee! The "original adult spelling bee" was founded in 2004 and is still going s-t-r-o-n-g the first Monday of every month. Show up at 7 p.m. to sign up for the 7:30 p.m. game. Winners get freebies and a chance to compete in the end-of-year finals.

Free

Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night with Barbara J. Taylor & Kaylie Jones

Bluestockings 172 Allen Street, New York City

Barbara J. Taylor’s debut novel Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night draws the reader into Scranton, Pennsylvania, which aside from being the setting ofThe Office is America’s least happy region…

Get Me a Guy at Under St Marks

Under St. Marks 94 St. Marks Pl., New York

New Yorkers are not only constantly dramatizing their own already rather dramatic love lives, but also adore consuming dramatizations of other such love lives: see Sex…

$18

Trivial Dispute at Alligator Lounge

Alligator Lounge 600 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg

Crocodile Lounge's Brooklyn brother hosts its weekly trivia night every Monday (free pizza included!)

Reverend Vince Anderson

Union Pool 484 Union Ave., Brooklyn

"In the 'Dirty Gospel Soul Revue,' Anderson and his Love Choir preach and sing, sometimes with fancy friends: the Roots’ ?uestlove and TV on the…