It’s Thursday night and the weekend is starting to heat up. Here’s a list of some fun stuff to do. Tonight you can catch author Keith Greenberg at the Community Bookstore reading from his book, The Day John Lennon Died. It’s also a night for late night shopping at the Snowflake Festival on 7th Avenue. Click on read more to see the whole list with all the details you really need like time and links and more.
4th Annual Snowflake Celebration
Thursday, December 9 and 16, 2010: The 4th Annual Snowflake Celebration on 7th Avenue is a “No Sales Tax Xmas” event.” Shop Local for two evenings of merriment, late night shopping & community spirit!
The Day John Lennon Died
Thursday, December 9 at 7PM at the Community Bookstore: Keith Greenberg reads from his book The Day John Lennon Died.
Art
Through December 30: Serious Whimsey: A Collection of Inevitable Objects opens at Littlefield, a music club located at 622 Degraw Street between Fourth and Third Avenues in the Park Slope/Gowanus neighborhood. The artists in the show are: Gail Rothschild, Justin Gignac, Kit Warren, Lisanne McTernan, Mark DiBattista, Stephanie Homa, and Sztuka Fabryka at
Movies
Tonight at 7PM BAM: Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, sees his father’s ghost. Tormented with loathing and consumed by grief, he must avenge his father’s murder. What he cannot foresee is the destruction that ensues. Following his celebrated performances at the National in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Philistines, and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet.
This weekend at BAM: Social Network, 127 Hours, Tiny Furniture, Love and Other Drugs
This weekend at the Pavilion: Unstoppable, Burlesque, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Love and Other Drugs, The Tourist, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas.
Music
Thursday, December 9 at 8PM: The Weal and the Woe performs vintage country, gospel classics and close harmony from a faraway time. Drawing from the deep well of country “brother” duets from the middle third of the twentieth century, they sing songs of love and loss, drinkin’ and cheatin’, Old Time Religion and life back home in the Gowanus Valley.
Thursday, December 9 at 10 PM: Greg Garing embodies the best of American music genres including bluegrass, honky tonk, rockabilly and jump blues music. Inspired first-hand by legendary artists such as Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Wilma Lee Cooper and Roy Duke, in the mid 1990s he was a central figure in the downtown Nashville music scene that included Lucinda Williams and BR-549, and he was also a founding member of the NYC’s “Alphabet City Opry.”
Friday, December 10 (doors open at 7:30 PM) at the Bell House: Danya Kurtz and Keren Ann Zeidel. I heard Kurtz perform at the All Things Must Pass tribute at the Bell House a couple of weeks ago and she’s wonderful. Keren Ann is a singer-songwriter-composer- producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel-Aviv and New York. She has lived and recorded in France and New York for many years though she retains her Dutch and Israeli citizenship.
The Hard Nut at BAM
December 10-19 at BAM: To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Mark Morris Dance Group reprises its irreverent and much loved The Hard Nut, a retro-modern take on the holiday favorite The Nutcracker. Morris’ rendition—which has won Ovation TV’s Battle of the Nutcrackers contest for three years running—transplants the story from the decorous 1890s to the swinging 1970s, a freewheeling era realized with panache and wit. Inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffmann story, Tchaikovsky’s gorgeous score, and the comic book art of Charles Burns, Morris captures the beauty and tenderness of this classic while infusing it with supreme musicality and raucous humor.
Theater
Through December 12 at St. Ann’s Warehouse: Knee High Theater’s Red Shoes: “No little girl who sees the Kneehigh Theater’s adaptation of “The Red Shoes” (not that any little girl should) will leave with sweet dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. This imaginative, so-ugly-it’s-beautiful production, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn through Dec. 12, is more likely to inspire nightmares involving severed body parts, public humiliation and concentration camps.” Ben Brantley in the NY Times.
Through December 19 at the Gallery Players in Park Slope: Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel’s haunting and beautiful Irish masterpiece opens December 4 under the direction of Heather Siobhan Curran.