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• An art comedy show to kick off the weekend

  12-04-2018 17:43
  I always enjoy a comedy show with a slightly different hook, so this Friday, April 13 Modern Whitney show at Friends and Lovers jumped right out. The concept goes like this: A panel of comics analyze a well-known painting or sculpture and each provides his or her take on its meaning. Afterwards, someone who actually knows what they’re talking about (i.e. a legit art historian) gives the audience the real deal explanation and describes the work’s cultural impact. Hosts Matt Harki
  
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• Collectors’ Night at the Fire Museum

  12-04-2018 17:39
  If you’re the type of person who could spend hours at flea markets pawing through old political buttons or 80’s Disney figurines, you should definitely make a plan to attend the City Reliquary’s 13th annual Collectors’ Night on Saturday, April 14, 6-8pm at the New York City Fire Museum in Soho. Archivists, packrats, sentimentalists and hoarders from all over the city will display their prized collections of stuff, like Pez dispensers, clown portraits, polar bears, Apollo
  
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• Beer Mansion returns, this time at Weylin

  12-04-2018 17:13
  Outside last year’s edition of Brooklyn Brewery Beer Mansion in Brooklyn. This year, Weylin hosts the multi-room craft beer fest and party. Photo: Brooklyn Brewery
  The beer festival format of multiple breweries and tastings in one space is pretty predictable. Brooklyn Brewery’s Beer Mansion takes the same general idea, and blows it up into something much more creative and experiential. This is the second year the Brewery is bringing the concept to its hometown (each year it
  
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• A Malian music festival at Brooklyn Bowl

  12-04-2018 17:10
  You are likely tired of hearing that Nigerian pysch rock song Atomic Bomb by now, yes? Expand your appreciation of West African music, and explore the traditions of Mali this weekend at Brooklyn Bowl, during the three-day World Music Institute Festival of Mali. The Sunday, April 15 program is beautiful and mellow, with the xylophone-heavy Trio Da Kali, who recently recorded an album with Kronos Quartet, and South African classical guitarist, Derek Gripper, reinterpreting traditional kora mu
  
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• Memoir Monday featuring Tyler Wetherall

  12-04-2018 17:08
  One of our very own—contributor Tyler Wetherall—will be reading the monthly event series, Memoir Monday, a collaboration among some of the best sources of first-person writing, including Narratively, the online magazine that spearheaded the series. The Monday, April 19 edition brings together Melissa Febos, T Kira Madden, Jaya Saxena, and Tyler Wetherall, who’ll be reading from her debut memoir, No Way Home. The evening is free and begins at 7pm at Powerhouse Are
  
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• Opening night of the PEN World Voices Fest

  12-04-2018 17:00
  The international literary community comes together each year in NYC to celebrate the PEN World Voices Festival, and its premiere opening night event on Monday, April 16 will feature a diverse range of writers discussing the power of language to cast a clear light on the most frightening and disturbing aspects of our time. Colson Whitehead will talk about the imaginative leaps and historical facts that he wove together in The Underground Railroad; Leila Slimani will discuss her novel Lullaby, wh
  
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• Tropicália king Tom Zé performs at Pioneer Works

  12-04-2018 16:51
  Brazilian signer/songwriter Tom Zé last performed in NYC when he was 80, and his particular blend of Tropicália and wit seemed to go off without a hitch at BAM. Now, one year later, he’s performing at Pioneer Works Tuesday, April 17, and really, how much different could this show be? Together with a sharp backing band, expect a blend of styles, from bossa nova to funk, and more than a few sly asides in Portugeuese. Bone up on the albums that made him a legend, including
  
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• Ramp Dinner at Delaware & Hudson

  12-04-2018 16:47
  It is early Spring and that means that foodies all over town are rejoicing in the extremely short and delicious season of the ramp, that delicate onion-like vegetable that foments frenzy at the farmers market. Delaware & Hudson is taking advantage of the bounty on Wednesday, April 18, with a ramp-themed prix fixe dinner, with seatings from 7-10pm and a casual Q&A with Greenmarket legend Rick Bishop at 7pm. The four-course menu includes things like ramp, morel, and farmers cheese pie, bur
  
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• ‘Night Flight’ returns

  12-04-2018 16:43
  If you’re old enough to remember Night Flight, the weekend late-night USA show from the 80s that featured everything from Ozzy Osbourne to Andy Kaufman to Mr. Bill, you might be interested to know that it’s returning from its 30-year hiatus with new “capsule” episodes airing on Fridays on IFC starting April 20. On Thursday, April 19, you can catch the New York premiere of the new episodes at Alamo Drafthouse at 7pm, with a special Q&A with show creator and producer St
  
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