Performance Picks: Murder Mystery, Spaghetti Puppetry, and Poetry Marathons for the New Year

December 28, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

(image via Future Forms / Facebook)

Future Forms
Wednesday, December 28 at Throne Watches, 8 pm: FREE

Mary Houlihan, Joe Rumrill, Sam Taggart, and Julio Torres’s recurring comedy show Future Forms is a tasty treat, and probably one of the only shows you can say you’ve seen in a watch showroom. I mean, with the impending closure of spaces like Cake Shop, and DIY spaces getting all hush-hush for fear of getting shut down, perhaps we’ll all soon be watching shows in the aisles of grocery stores or something like that. Which could be fun, but the lighting leaves something to be desired.

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Tags: Beyond, chelsea, comedy, deathbird, evan kaufman, greenwich village, judson memorial church, Lower East Side, poetry, Poetry Project, Rebecca Vigil, stand-up, The Alternative, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Throne Watches, UCB, union hall, Williamsburg

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Talks + Readings: Drunken Careening Lesbian Erotica and a Lit Rag Holiday Party

December 15, 2015 By Kavitha Surana

The Rumpus & Electric Literature Present It’s Too Cold for This: A Holiday Reading
Tuesday December 15, 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Café. 126 Crosby Street

Is it really too cold for this? Really? To be fair, our two favorite online lit rags could not have predicted the unseasonably high temperatures (is it really in the 60s?) so we’ll give them a pass. Anyway, we bet their gathering of minds will top your awkward office holiday party.

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Tags: Authors, East Village, erotica, Housing Works, KGB Bar, lesbian, mcnally jackson, Nuyorican, poetry, poetry slam, readings, slam poetry, The Nuyorican Poets Café

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Talks + Readings: The Dogist, Sarah Vowell, and Chip Kidd Meets Charlie Brown

October 20, 2015 By Jaime Cone

TUESDAY

The Dogist
Tuesday, October 20 at 7 p.m. Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway (NoLIta).
The Dogist himself, Elias Weiss Friedman, will be talking with Stacie Grissom of the BarkPost newsletter about the release of The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs. The event is being held in celebration of the book’s release and in recognition of October being Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, so the ASPCA will be there, too, with a few furry friends in need of a home. Strand asks that you please keep your own pooch at home, but BarkBox will be on hand with all the materials you need to make a pup-friendly doggie bag to take home, so you don’t have to feel too bad about Fido missing out. Brews will be on hand from Radiant Pig Craft Beers, so buy a copy of The Dogist or a $15 gift card for admission and stop by Strand for a doggone good time.

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Tags: BarkBox, BookCourt, Charles Schulz, Chip Kidd, Elias Weiss Friedman, Molasses Books, Sarah Vowell, strand book store, The Faux-Real Theatre Company, The Nuyorican Poets Café