MUSIC

–Saturday, February 27 starting at 7:15 with a reading of the Megillah followed by Purimpalouza at 8:45 PM at the  Jewish Music Cafe

–Saturday, February 27 at 8 PM Glenn Branca CD release party with slide show by Robert Longo at  La Poisson Rouge

–Sunday, February 28 at 9PM French virtuoso guitarist Stephane Wrembel channels the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt.

MOVIES

–Shutter Island, Avatar and Crazy Heart at the Pavilion in Park Slope.

DANCE

–February26 & 27 at 8PM, BAM presents Mark Morris Dance Group in the premiere of the humorous Looky, choreographed to Kyle Gann’s idiosyncratic score for Disklavier (digitally driven player piano); world premiere  of Socratesl; revival of  Behemoth— the sole Morris work performed in silence—reveals that Morris’ genius can be independent of his love of music.

–Through March 7 at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company presents the world premiere performance of Coltrane’s Favrite Things, set to an iconic recording of John Coltrane’s interpretation of the Richard Rodgers song “My Favorite Things” and incorporating Jackson Pollock’s “Autumn Rhythm.”

WRITERS

–Friday, February 26 7-9 PM at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo, Colum McCann will read from, sign, and discuss his 2009 National Book Award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin. Inspired by Phillipe Petit’s infamous real-life tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974, the novel weaves together a panoramic array of disparate stories and voices: an Irish monk, a prostitute in the Bronx, a group of grieving mothers who lost their sons at war, a city judge, an alcoholic, and the tightrope walker who obliquely binds them all together. This is McCann’s only FREE reading in NYC.

ART

–February 26-28 at the Dumbo Arts Center: The Great Pop-Up Art Sale, a benefit for the arts center.