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Final Sage Stand Up

Sage Theatre, the longest-running weekly stand-up comedy show in Times Square, iends there run tonight with a final free show (no cover and no drink minimum) featuring "comedy megastars from Comedy Central, HBO, and NBC-TV's Last Comic Standing. Reservations are strongly recommended; just leave a message on our reservation line (206-279-9860) your name, your phone number, and the number of people in your party to get VIP seating. For this final show, we will feature our favorite comics: Baratunde Thurston hosts (contributor for The Onion, host of the Science Channel's Popular Science's The Future of...) Nathan Min, Eliot Smith, David Ingber (Fantasy Football: The Musical?), Harrison Greenbaum (SPIKE TV, writer for MAD Magazine), Sam Morril (Friar's Club Roast of Omarosa), plus a few special guests!"

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Optimus Prime v Megatron

"Optimus Prime v Megatron is a live DJ set from two gents who are specialists in mixing. Formerly audio engineers, they have built beats, robots, and fembots, and now have moved on to rocking Pianos on Thursday nights. A supreme mix of old hip hop, new electronica, their own synthesizer effects, and maybe a little too much beat repeat, it
is fresh, always new, and a crazy dance party." 21+ (old flyer)

johnpaulgeorgeringo Final Show

"Revamped and expanded, this acclaimed one-man improvisational tribute show, johnpaulgeorgeringo, stars Dave Jay portraying each of the Beatles. During the show, the audience can ask any question of any Beatle as Dave Jay, armed with his vast knowledge of Beatle history, morphs into characterizations for each of the Fab Four. This is a more music-driven show, including many more Beatle hits!" This is the last NYC show and its free if you mention FreeNYC!

Lickwud

"Gunshot means forward Lickwud means rewind! You requested it so we rewiiiiind!"
Join Junglist Jess and Code-D tonight for a multi-genre, bass heavy, electronic dance party in the heart of Williamsburg. Celebrate local music with The American Dream Team, Rob Threezy, Crooked Disco, Human?, and Tommy D on the tables all night mixing breakbeats, jungle, electro, house, fidget, raverap, club, dubstep, garage & more. There's free Colt 45 at ten until it runs out and a promo video below. 21+

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Chelsea Brewery Tours

The Chelsea Brewery kicks off a new series of free tours this afternoon at Manhattan's only active brewery. Tours are on the hour (sign up at the host desk, max 40 people per tour) and be sure to bring your ID for some free samples. Tour participants also receive $4 discount beer tickets so you can sip suds while discussing the wonders of yeast afterwards. 21+

Play With Fire Opening Reception

"Celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. A plethora of live video editors, electronic and interactive artists, video and installation artists who use the moving image outside the "box". Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and Germany these artists showcase their work with the video community in New York City. For two weeks and in two different locations the festival hosts an array of projects. Projects include, Katja Loher's video planets, a 3⁄4 ton 'ice-stallation' by Raphael DiLuzio, a demonstration by Berlin based Modul8 software representative and performer, Ilan Katin and a night of performance featuring video artist and collaborator, Alison Childs, the Spanish AV (Audio/Video) perfomer, *Rafaël*." This weekend is the opening reception. Full schedule here.

Sara Ching-Yu Sun Opening Reception

In this project with Ethan Crenson, Sun’s video footage is the result of an intensive period of shooting concerts at the Williamsburg Waterfront and editing silent movements of everything except the actual music-making. Crenson’s sound is completely independent from the video. It is constructed from exquisite field recordings collected from South Slope/Greenwood Heights/Sunset Park neighborhoods. With no overt synchronicity, the relationship between video and sound creates a multi-layered place of contradictions, fleeting connections and uncertainty.

Floating Kabarette

Galapagos Art Space presents the next installment of its flagship series, Floating Kabarette! Part cabaret, part burlesque and part variety, the event is truly one of a kind onslaught of aerialists, clowns, mentalists and more. This month's line-up includes Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies, the Aerial Duo of Katie & Ben, Elie Venezky on trapeze, Peek-A-Boo Pointe and Julie Atlas Muz! Arrive late or stay late for a Dark & Sexy After Hours Party. 21+ (Old Flyer)

Light Up the Night

Light Up The Night returns to the gallery bar at Le Poisson Rouge with special guests Vietcong Disco. Residents Daniel Auster, Tackleberry & Mike McGill put on an evening of equal parts disco, boogie, and house reaching back to the halcyon years of New York night music. From the underground sounds of private press studio sessions to the limelight of disco proper and the hand-over to Chicago, all aimed at rush hour traffic on the dance floor. Expect a program of choice selections, deep digs, and top flight DJs stopping by to share the love of a generation's prolific dance floor production. Stop by for a genuine, intimate D.I.S.C.O. experience!

Beta Spaces

Now in its third year, BETA Spaces promotes and facilitates open dialogue among curators, artists and visitors. The free, one-day festival features hundreds of artists in over thirty curated shows. The festival takes place in approximately ten square blocks of industrial, post-industrial, commercial and residential buildings, permitting a wide range of alternative exhibition spaces including lofts, studios, galleries, street corners, restaurants, retail stores and radio stations. This dense yet varied geographic plan furnishes visitors with an easily accessible and highly informative trajectory through a neighborhood bustling with creative enthusiasm and collaborative pursuits. Get full details and an map here.

]]> BETA Spaces is a non-traditional art festival: its framework of presenting curated thematic group exhibitions is designed to encourage conceptual integrity and interdisciplinary elasticity. Artists and curators are challenged to recontextualize their efforts and envision art works outside the white box environment of the commercial art world, or the in-process setting of an open studio. Due to the shared parameters and collaborative underpinnings of participation, the festival itself functions as a "group show" of an energetic and vibrant neighborhood. From glimpses of Bushwick's varied histories to rooftop views, local politics to mixed-media performances, BETA Spaces offers visitors an array of options for engagement, immersion and entertainment.

Special events include a panel on public art production at Lumenhouse (47 Beaver Street) at 1pm, and the BETA Spaces After Party at Page Not Found (76 Jefferson Street), which will give visitors and artists a space to unwind and discuss the events of the day (7pm - midnight). Arts in Bushwick is also excited to partner with 3rd Ward's Moviehouse (95 Morgan Avenue), which will screen films from 7 - 9pm.

Meditate NYC Kick-Off

For 2500 years, Buddhism has taught meditation as a means of cultivating tranquility, kindness, and wisdom. Ongoing scientific research confirms meditation’s positive effects on body and mind. With instruction by teachers from myriad Buddhist schools, Meditate NYC, kicking off today, is an accessible way to find out what various approaches to meditation involve and what the benefits are with an afternoon of meditation instruction by speakers from a great variety of traditions. Schedule below.

]]> * 3:00 Opening, 108 strikes of the bell, MC's introduction
* 3:10 Pat Enkyo O'Hara Roshi – Village Zendo
* 3:30 Michele Laporte – Shambhala Meditation Center
* 3:50 Josh Korda – New York Insight / Dharmapunx
* 4:10 Rev. Dr. Chung Ok Lee – Won Buddhist Temple
* 4:30 Koshin Paley Ellison – New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
* 4:50 Brother Phap Tri – Order of Interbeing
* 5:10 Ellen Scordato – Interdependence Project
* 5:30 Janet Jiryu Abels Sensei – Still Mind Zendo
* 5:50 Myoji Sunim – New York Chogye Sa
* 6:10 Donna Walker-Kuhne – Soka Gakkai International
* 6:30 Venerable Yung Ku – Buddha's Light International Association
* 6:50 NY Buddhist Council President Sung-Hae Sunim closes with a chant

Chairs are provided, but bring a cushion if you'd like to sit on the floor.

Too Much Information

Stand-up comedy and current events collide in Too Much Information, the stand-up comedy and comedian panel show at Bar 13! In honor of the recent Election, four comedians with Washington, D.C. roots will perform stand-up sets and then discuss current issues of the day in a round table setting. Topics to discuss: Thorough Third Terms! Silly Swine Flu Emergencies! Goofy Gunpowder Plots! and more!

Sunday Night Stand-Up

Sunday Night Stand-Up showcases some of NYC's freshest comedians rising through the scene, including those featured on Comedy Central, MTV, The Onion, VH-1, Conan O'Brien, etc. 21+

]]> PETE HOLMES (upcoming Comedy Central Presents...)
http://comedians.comedycentral.com/pete-holmes/videos/pete-holmes---six-foot-six

ROGER HAILES (writer, Late Night w. Jimmy Fallon)
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=173794&title=roger-hailes-my-whiteness

JACKIE MONAHAN (NYC's Dykes on Mics)
http://www.jackiemonahan.com/

MORGAN VENTICINQUE (NYC's Un Poco Comedia Show)
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/MorganVenticinqueComixRegional

The Deep End at Union Pool

The Deep End at Union Pool is proud to announce it's biggest show yet! The free comedy variety show is hosted by Aaron Glaser and Phaea Crede of the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre and will feature Chris Wilkes (UCB), Anthony King (Artistic Director, UCB), Carolyn Castiglia (Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Brown Ambition), Murderfist (New York Comedy Festival)
and Leo Allen (Comedy Central).

David Ellis: Recollect Opening Party

Here is a good way to spend a Tuesday evening. Check out David Ellis: Recollect Opening Party with Prefuse 73 (live) and David Ellis w/ Jon Hopkins and Mixhell. More info on all the artists and event here.