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FOOD: The 12th Annual Brooklyn Eats food orgy goes down tonight at a new venue in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with spectacular views of Manhattan. Of course, that island takes a back seat at tonight's celebration, where for $115 you can go on a feeding frenzy with tastings from some of Kings County’s finest restaurants, ranging from Park Slope’s homey Aunt Suzie's to Williamsburg’s Michelin-starred Dressler and the French/West African fusion restaurant Korhogo 126. Wash it all down with Sixpoint Craft Ales, wine from BOE Brooklyn......

SALE: The Cooper Union kids are hosting their first annual Yard Stimulus Package, or what the rest of us call a Yard Sale. Expect end-of-year, residence purging items -- from IKEA furniture to artwork to used books. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. // Cooper Union Great Hall [7 East 7th St] // Free READING: Augusten Burroughs reads from his latest, Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, tonight at Barnes & Noble. The humor from the author's book Running with Scissors is all but......

MUSIC: Tickets are still on sale to see The Verve (pictured) tonight. While "Bitter Sweet Symphony" may be the song you remember best, they had about three albums worth of tunes that received much adoration. Over the weekend they Brit-pop rocked Coachella, so they're all warmed up from the west coast. 7 p.m. // WaMu Theater [4 Pennsylvania Plaza] // $40 READING: Former President Jimmy Carter hits up Barnes & Noble tonight to read from his new book, A Remarkable Mother...

FESTIVAL: The Bent Festival is coming to town this weekend! The annual art and music festival celebrates DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. "Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture." Schedule here. All Weekend // Various times //......

IN-STORE PERFORMANCE: To celebrate Lord & Taylor's re-launch of using roses in its branding, cast members from the acclaimed current Broadway production of Gypsy are performing at the Fifth Avenue store tonight. Everything's coming up roses, you know! 6 p.m. // Lord & Taylor [424 Fifth Avenue at East 38th Street] // Free EVENT: When you hear "Dharma" does your mind turn to Lost? While the show returns to the air tonight, check out some real Dharma talk beforehand. "Talk Dharma" focuses on......

MOVIE: Following Earth Day, Screening Liberally is screening Everything's Cool, a film about "America finally 'getting' global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action. While industry funded nay-sayers sing what just might be their swan song of pseudo- scientific deception, a group of global warming messengers are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, the magic language, the points of leverage that will finally create the political will to move......

AUDITIONS: Calling all street performers, today is the Annual Street Performer Auditions at South Street Seaport. It promises to be better than reality television (but then again, what isn't?), so spectators are welcome too. The annual competition is a rite of Spring, of sorts, and will determine which 25 performers get to "become part of the street performer program at South Street Seaport. Those selected entertain and wow the thousands of visitors who stroll the cobblestone streets and historic pier of lower Manhattan each summer." Keep in......

EVENT: David Mamet will be on hand at a screening of his latest project, titled Redbelt, tonight. The story follows a a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who, through a series of events, lands himself a job in the film industry -- and later forces him into a prize fight. Expect lots of action, "Mametspeak," and...Tim Allen. 8 p.m. // Walter Reade Theater [165 W 65th St] // $30 READING:Former presidential candidate John Kerry, and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, have written a book that presents their own......

MUSIC: High Places, Ecstatic Sunshine (pictured), Cex and Evangelista raid and rock the Harket Motel tonight. The DIY venue is sure to be hot following such a sunny day, so leave the jacket at home and get ready to dance...or stand disaffectedly. Friday // 9:30 p.m. // Harket Motel [1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn] // $8 FAIR: Spring has sprung and Earth Day is just around the corner. To celebrate, "the 6th annual EarthFair will feature a stage with live music both days,......

EVENT: Tonight the Brooklyn Art Project and BAM present Connected Unconscious, "a collaborative exhibition celebrating the creative possibilities of our web 2.0 connected world." 15 original pieces of art will be on display from artists worldwide, as well as video and music remixes. Bonus: free cocktails courtesy of BAM. 6 to 8 p.m. // BAM Natman Room [30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn] // Free MUSIC: Dan Deacon and The Ed Schrader Show hold court at the Ridgewood Temple tonight. The venue is apparently......

MUSIC: Lead-Decemberist Colin Meloy is in Brooklyn tonight, ready to weave tales of the high seas and lost loves. Laura Gibson opens the show...and tickets are still on sale! Hopefully he'll find the venue, when we interviewed him back in 2005 he noted, "I've ridden on many of the world's metro systems and I have to say that the NYC subway makes the least amount of sense." 7 p.m. // Music Hall of Williamsburg [6 North Sixth St, Williamsburg] // $30 MOVIE: Anthology......

EVENT: Everyone's favorite members of the Top Chef judges table will be at Barnes & Noble tonight signing the series' new book. Get up close and personal with Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio (pictured); be sure to bring them a Waldorf Salad and get your cookbook signed. 7 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free PARTY: The weather is warming up so it's time to cool down, yes? Head over to the Hotel QT pool for some Love (the......

MUSIC: While you're in Park Slope checking out Jukebox the Ghost at Southpaw tonight, make a detour at nearby Union Hall for a bill fit for Marla Hansen (pictured). The Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter will be sharing the stage with Cat Martino and Sharon Van Etten for an early show. 6:30 p.m. // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $7 SHOW: It's time to channel your inner-elementary-schooler and join in on a Show and Tell. The O'Debra Twins host......

DISCUSSION: The New York Public Library invites Pico Iyer, Time correspondent, friend of the Dalai Lama and author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIV Dalai Lama, to sit amongst the books tonight. The conversation is to cover the latest news on Tibet and the Dalai Lama's complicated involvement in the struggle. Friday // 7 p.m. // Humanities and Social Sciences Library [5th Ave and 42nd St] // $15 MUSIC: AIDS Wolf is playing a show at the Knitting Factory tonight, but......

ART: Get up close and personal with the B&T; crowd tonight as Tom Birkner opens his Jersey Girls exhibit. The Garden Stater explores his Jersey landscape through paintings of tailgating, the Shore, cruising, etc. Pictured: Tina! 6 to 8 p.m. // DFN Gallery [210 11th Ave, 6th Floor] // Free EVENT: At tonight's "Upstairs in the Square'' you'll get a serving of Min Jin Lee and her debut novel, "Free Food for Millionaires,'' as well as yesterday's interviewee, Mike Doughty. The former......

TRIBUTE: "The Random House Publishing Group and the family of Norman Mailer (pictured) will present The Time of His Time: A Celebration of Life of Norman Mailer" today at Carnegie Hall. Charlie Rose will serve as the Master of Ceremonies, and the speakers will include Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, William Kennedy, Lonnie Ali, Tina Brown, and Sean Penn. His nine children, wife and sister will also be on hand. The event is open to the public, and tickets can be picked up right now......

READING: Tobias Wolff (pictured), Stanford professor and PEN/Faulkner Award recipient, will be at Barnes & Noble tonight to read...just for you. He'll be reading from his latest, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. 7 p.m. // Barnes & Noble [2289 Broadway] // Free MUSIC: Tapes n' Tapes, coming down from their Best New Music climax, have released their sophomore album and will be at the Virgin Megastore tonight performing some tunes from it. Wonder if ">Clell Tickle is still working......

FILM: The Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library is running a little free film series out of their basement. Expect to see some old 16mm prints of short films ranging from sci-fi to 1970's educational films. One librarian at the branch tells us, "we're kind of recreating that feeling of school back in the day, when the a/v dude would roll in the movie projector on a cart, and you'd get a chance to watch some movie instead of listening to your teacher drone on." More......

MUSIC: Word was spreading that the Red Hot Chili Peppers would be playing a free downtown show today as part of...Tartan Week. Clearly, the Red Hot Chili PIPERS would be a better fit for the event -- and so, the lesser known Pipers will actually be the ones entertaining the tartan-clad today. Friday // 5:30 p.m. // Hanover Square (directions) // Free THEATER: A dream team of hip theatrical innovators have joined forces, hopefully for ironic good, not sentimental evil, to present an “indie rock musical”......

ART: Last summer, photographer and friend of Dash Snow, Ryan McGinley shot 4,000 rolls of film all over the U.S. with a troupe photogenic friends (and presumably no one brought clothes on this roadtrip). Tonight, 50 of those images (one is pictured) will be revealed at the opening of his "I Know Where the Summer Goes" show. 6 p.m. // Team Gallery [83 Grand St] // Free EVENT: We've often recommended going to Nerd Nite, aka "the Discovery Channel with beer." Tonight,......

THEATER: Everything’s coming up roses for Patti LuPone, whose sensational turn in a short run of Gypsy at City Center last year drew enough accolades to fuel a Broadway production, which has now opened to rave reviews. You might think the 1959 musical, composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents, has been done to death by now – Bernadette Peters starred in the last Broadway rendition; before that there was Tyne Daly and, further back, Angela Lansbury. But big Ben Brantley......

EVENT: The Goethe-Institut New York discusses "What Is Green Architecture?" tonight as the part of a new series that is "exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on contemporary life as well as implications for the future. Tonight's event features a discussion between noted engineer Matthias Schuler and Andres Lepik." 7 p.m. // The Goethe-Institut New York [1014 Fifth Avenue at 83rd St] // Free MUSIC: Shut out of Stephen Malkmus again? According to Kim Deal, that dude is......

THEATER: Theatrical innovators The Civilians, who you may remember for Gone Missing, their funny reportage play about stuff people lost, is giving people a taste of their forthcoming production, Paris Commune. The cabaret-style show is inspired by the actual events that took place in Paris during the 1871 working class revolution in the wake of the Franco-Prussian war; the full production will be presented next month at the Public Theater. The one-night-only preview tonight will be followed by a discussion with Steven Cosson and......

MOVIE: Was there a West Coast Factory scene paralleling Warhol's? Morgan Neville's new documentary, The Cool School, argues that there was. In it, he explores those who transformed LA into more than just a celebrity-driven town, and taught its residents to love modern art. Various Times // Cinema Village [22 E 12th St] // $10 THEATER: Kevin Augustine’s astonishing new show at P.S. 122 is wowing critics and audiences alike, so act fast on tickets if you’re down. Called Bride,......

EVENT: Artist space is quickly diminishing in the city, and tonight a talk about the crisis is going down in Williamsburg -- home of the recently shuttered 475 Kent lofts. Panelists include John Jasperse and Jonah Bokaer (Founders for the Center for Performance Research, a new affordable space in Williamsburg for rehearsal and performance); Guy Buckles (Founder & President of the Art Building a new company dedicated to real estate solutions for artists); and Luis Garden Acosta (Founder and President of El Puente, A community human rights institution). After the......

EVENT: All you hipsters with money burning holes in your tight jean pockets, it's time for another lesson on how to buy a home. Home Buying For Hipsters will bring you together with Licensed Real Estate agents, Mortgage Brokers and Real Estate Attorneys -- all there to teach you how to stretch your dime. This lesson in money management takes place at a bar, so bring some extra cash for booze. 6 p.m. // Hugs [108 N 6th St, Williamsburg] // Free READING: John Sellers and......

EVENT: Some of the 33 1/3 writers will be gathered round at Housing Works tonight. The series of short books brings fans of music together with their favorite albums, through writing. This evening join in on a conversation with authors Kim Cooper (Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea), Andrew Hultkrans (Love's Forever Changes), Amanda Petrusich (Nick Drake's Pink Moon), and Kate Schatz (PJ Harvey's Rid of Me). With Q& A, signing and reception. 7 p.m. // Housing Works Used Book Cafe [126 Crosby St] //......

EVENT: Do you just wanna dance, dance, dance? Well find out why tonight, as Columbia University neuroscientist Dave Sulzer and the university's Motor Performance Laboratory co-director, John Krakauer, make some sense out of the urge to shake it. They'll discuss brain activity and conduct a live experiment of sound manipulation. 6:30 p.m. // CUNY Grad Center [365 5th Ave] // Free MUSIC: DC's Le Loup join New Zealand's The Ruby Sons (pictured) at Union Hall tonight for a night of top shelf tunes. ...

FASHION: Forget the Bryant Park tents, this weekend Brooklyn owns the fashion world. Brooklyn Underground Fashion Rocks! is a full weekend filled with looks from emerging Williamsburg fashion designers. The festivities kick off early tonight with a live performance by the Rozz Nash Band, a VIP cocktail open bar and, of course, a whole lotta fashion. By 8 p.m. you'll be at the VIP after-party at the Northside Pier, with a whole new outlook on high-waisted jeans. Friday - Sunday // 5 p.m. // Northside Piers......

ART: Honey Space, the unstaffed Chelsea gallery that recently opened, will be holding a closing party tonight for their inaugural exhibition. This is your last chance to see Adam Standforth's work on the walls, but hopefully there will be plenty more shows to see there in the future. The party will also feature musical performances by two nameless Cantonese fisherman discovered in the subway. 6 to 9 p.m. // Honey Space [148 11th Ave] // Free EVENT: The architect heading up the World Trade Center Memorial, Michael Arad,......