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BEST PICK
FREE Shop the Night Away [3/15]
Various locations in Soho, oo.com/vip; 5-9 p.m. Daily Candy Deals has partnered with 22 stores in Soho, including Michael Kors, Solstice and Lacoste, to offer shoppers 20 to 30 percent off merchandise for four hours. Need more than a good deal to motivate you? Each store will give customers the full VIP treatment, including gifts with purchase, cocktails and more. Plan ahead, because you’ll need to RSVP to each store individually to take part.
Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films 2012 IFC Center, 323 6th Ave. (at W. 3rd St.), ifccenter.com; 4:30 p.m., $13. This may be your last opportunity to see the entire lineup of 2012’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts. The set includes Sunday/Dimanche, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (which took home the statue), La Luna, A Morning Stroll, Wildlife, Nullarbor, Amazonia, Skylight and Hybrid Union. See how far the animated genre has come.
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FREE Fiction Magazine
Celebrates 40 Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby St. (betw. E. Houston & Prince Sts.), housingworks.org; 7 p.m. A staple for two generations, Fiction is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary and the release of its first issue of 2012 with contributing authors Sheila Kohler, Jerome Charyn, Brendan Kiely and Kesi Foster.
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Body Slam 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St. (betw. Vestry & Debrosses Sts.), 92Ytribeca. org; 7:30 p.m., $12. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see stunt legend and director Hal Needham in person. The film takes two of the biggest counterculture movements of the 1980s and fuses them together when a blacklisted wrestler is convinced to join a B-list band.
Grand Reopening: The Servant’s Quarters Merchant’s House Museum, 29 E. 4th St. (betw. Lafayette & Bowery Sts.), merchantshouse.org; 12 p.m., $10. Reopened just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the Merchant’s House Museum invites you to its fourth-floor living quarters, which once served as the home of the Tredwell family’s Irish servants. After you see the tight spaces and climb the miniature stairwell, you’ll understand why Time Out New York has said that the humble abode is “arguably the oldest intact site of Irish inhabitation in New York City.” Adding to the experience, the quarters have been completely restored to their authentic 1850s color scheme.
FREE Alice Levine: Cello &
Piano Recital Culture Fix, 9 Clinton St. (betw. E. Houston & Stanton Sts.), culturefixny.com; 7:30 p.m. After a festive St. Patrick’s Day, take Sunday night to unwind to the beautifully resonant chords of Alice Levine, who will take center stage at the intimate Culture Fix for a two-and-a-half-hour set.
Newsadoozies: A Man-Eating Musical UCB Theatre, 307 W. 26th St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), ucbtheatre.com; 8 p.m., $5. Director Lauren Adams presents this lighthearted musical that focuses on the city’s two halves (uptown robber barons and downtown pimps) and offers the perfect recipe for redemption and adventure right in the middle: the newsies.
TUESDAY
FREE Unconventional Tableaux
AFA, 54 Greene St. (at Broome St.), afanyc; 5 p.m. RSVP@afanyc.com. Lin Esser’s newest exhibition was born from his desire to reconstruct his childhood. As he focused on recreating the Dia de los Muertos box he lost as a kid, however, Esser infused his work with his adult influences of English symbolism, sinister figures of the Renaissance and Victorian tableaux. BOFFO: The Concept, The Projects Trespa Design Centre NY, 62 Green St. (betw. Spring & Broome Sts.), trespa-ny.com; 7 p.m., $5 suggested. You may not be familiar with BOFFO, the nonprofit New York-based arts and culture group, but you will be soon. Their art is the transformation of forgotten and unusual spaces into temporary installations. Their projects have been seen all around Manhattan, and they have an eye for fascinating architecture.
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 91 Orchard St. (betw. Allen & Ludlow Sts.), tenement.org; 6:30 p.m. The ugly underside of the Big City is impossible to contain, but that doesn’t mean one man didn’t try. Before he became president, Teddy Roosevelt was New York City’s police commissioner. During that time, he tried to quell the city’s corruption by shutting down brothels, gambling joints and saloons. Roosevelt literally took on the city’s passion for vice; he lost. Presented by author Richard Zacks and introduced by Kevin Baker.
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KJ Denhert BMCC Tribeca PAC, 199 Chambers St. (betw. West Side Highway & Greenwich St.), tribecapac.org; 8 p.m., $15. KJ Denhert has already met success to the tune of nine studio albums in her 15-year career. With her experience and ease, Denhert effortlessly strums the acoustic guitar with her urban folk tunes; vocally, she brings a soft and soulful voice to her music.
Transnationalism & Women Artists in the Diaspora BMCC Tribeca PAC, 199 Chambers St. (betw. West Side Highway & Greenwich St.). tribecapac.org; 7 p.m., $5. Ushering in the second portion of the Dialogues in the Visual Arts series, this panel discussion featuring moderators Judith K. Brodsky and Julie Lohnes will highlight the female artists living in New York who have together transcended borders to form an international feminist diaspora. Panelists Cui Fei, Ofri Cnaani, Negar Ahkami, Midori Yoshimoto and Tatiana Flores seek to uncover the roots behind the feminist perspective of New York City’s international artists, including the influences of oppression and culture.
OU R TOWN DOWNTOWN | MARCH 15, 2012
FREE An Evening with Paul A. Volcker
FREE NIGHT
Munch Gallery, 245 Broome St. (betw. Ludlow & Orchard Sts.), munchgallery.com; 12 p.m. A collaboration between five artists, NIGHT brings together the talents of Neke Carson, Erik Foss, David Hochbaum, Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Anton Perich, who together have spent their careers collaborating across various art media while cultivating their individual art careers. NIGHT began as “New York at Night,” and expanded when the artists explored the various images and emotions that the word evokes.
The Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St. (betw. 3rd & 4th Aves.), cooper.edu; 6:30 p.m. Some believe that the economy is the issue that could decide the 2012 election. And while you may think you know the economy, odds are that financial legend Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, can teach you a thing or two. He will be lecturing at the Great Hall in a night that will certainly help to illuminate the state of our union.
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