What's Happening in New York on February 8th, 2007

Bad Egg Collective

8pm — Tuesday February 13

WHERE:Stain, 766 Grand St at Humboldt St, Brooklyn
COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”People who challenge the world. Explore history, revolt, politics, science, philosophy, art, and share unorthodox or revolutionary ideas, movements and people.”
THIS WEEK: Cults and Weird Sects

7:30pm — Thursday February 8

WHERE:The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd St, 3rd Floor, between 2nd and 3rd Ave
COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”This roundtable will look at utopia in the light of the Lincoln Center Theater’s current production of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, which provides one of the most cogent dramatizations of the paradoxes of the utopian sensibility in the canon of dramatic literature.”

7:30pm and 9:30pm — Thursday February 8

WHERE:The Allen Room at Lincoln Center, 6th Floor, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St
COST:$30-$65
SUMMARY:”Calexico draws on influences as diverse as country, 50’s jazz, blues, rock, and even gypsy music, and Portuguese Fado, but you can also hear echoes of the indigenous music found around their home base in the American southwest. All of this lends an eclectic sound to their driving indie rock recordings. With special guests Rob Burger, Johnny Contreras, and members of Beirut: Jason Proanski, Jon Natchez, Kelly Pratt, Kristin Ferebee.”

7pm — Thursday February 8 (also February 9)

WHERE:Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace and 162nd st
COST:FREE, but reservation required. (212-923-8008)
SUMMARY:”365 Days/365 Plays started in November 2002 when Suzan-Lori Parks committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. From Nov 13, 2006– Nov 12, 2007 the 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival will present the work simultaneously across the country, creating the largest collaboration in the history of American theater.” Today’s performance takes place in Manhattan’s Oldest House.

7pm — Thursday Febraury 8

WHERE:The Magician Bar (the back room), 118 Rivington at Essex
COST:FREE but RSVP to mml@metrometroland.com
SUMMARY:”How big and juicy is your brain? Are you willing to stake it against the undead? This game will solve once and for all the answer to the heretofore eternal question, “Who has better knowledge, people who use their brains or marauding ghouls who eat those brains?”

The basic idea is that people will engage in battles of wit(s). The losing person “dies” and matches up with other dead to become a unified force of undead zombies. Then they re-enter the fray in the hopes of eating brains and making more zombies. There is little to no setting fire to things, chopping off heads, or holing up in shacks, but it should still be a lot of fun.”

Noon — Thursday February 8

WHERE:Makor, Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th St, between CPW and Columbus Ave
COST:$16
SUMMARY:”A former American diplomat describes how a handful of Ivy League gentlemen became America’s first World War II spies. Hal Vaughan tells the behind-the-scenes story of the plan to invade North Africa with the help of an ex-jewel salesman and wine merchant, an anthropologist, a Parisian playboy and a number of World War I heroes.”