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NIGHTLIFE
The Weil Party
Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times
Party like your grandparents did Saturday night at the Montauk Club in Park Slope. Dances of Vice, an outfit dedicated to early-20th-century costumed debauchery, takes over the mahogany-lined members-only club with an evening of Weimar-inspired music and performances. Daniel Isengart, a German-born cabaret diva who lives in a fifth-floor walkup turned conceptual museum, will do a tribute to “The Threepenny Opera,” alongside the jazz band Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators. Dress to impress your great aunt. “Life as a Runway: Hey Look Me Over,” by Ruth La Ferla “A House Museum That’s Part Serious And Part Sendup,” by Dan Shaw
FILM
Womb For Rent
Is it an antidote to the Apatow factory? A definitive answer to the ridonkulous debate about whether women can be funny? Maybe. At the very least, “Baby Mama,” starring Tina Fey as a mama wannabe and Amy Poehler as her womb-for-hire, “pulls you in with a provocative and, at least in current American movies, unusual mix of female intelligence, awkwardness and chilled-to-the-bone mean,” writes Manohla Dargis. (And yes, there’s a scene where they sing along to “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”) Catch it tonight, then catch up with Ms. Poehler tomorrow at the Apple Store in SoHo, where she’ll talk about why she doesn’t really do trashy. “Learning on the Job About Birthing Babies,” by Manohla Dargis MUSIC
For the Fungus Among Us
No, “Traversing The Mushroom Kingdom” is not some post-Mario Bros. tome, or even a Harold and Kumar drug reference. It’s an orchestral piece composed for toy piano and percussion by Phyllis Chen and Svet Stoyanov, known for his work on the marimba. On Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Museum, they’ll join members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic to perform this tribute to video game themes (whaddya know, it makes a nice companion piece to the Murakami exhibit). They’ll reprise it on Sunday night at Drom, with new music from Julia Wolfe of Bang on a Can and Darcy James Argue, the leader of a big band jazz group. “A Percussionist Puts Minimal Means to Eclectic Ends,” by Allan Kozinn “A Big Band for Today, With Hints of the Past,” by Ben Ratliff COMEDY
Lowbrow Fun, Bold-Face Bylines
The Lowbrow Reader is a slim irregularly done journal devoted to slightly off-kilter humor. It’s edited by Jay Ruttenberg, a cheapskate/practical joke skeptic and a writer for Time Out New York, and the latest issue features contributions from Justin Bond, Rob Huebel, Randy Newman, Patton Oswalt and John Waters. Tonight Mr. Ruttenberg and his crew host a release party at Sound Fix Records in Williamsburg, with readings, comedians, and a performance from family-band mainstay Jason Trachtenburg. Go be unsophisticated. “The April Fools’ Joke I Played On Myself,” by Jay Ruttenberg “Change Agent,” by Jay Ruttenberg D.I.Y. MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY
Hacker’s Delight
In this case, “get bent” is not a put-down: The fifth annual Bent Festival, devoted to the art of circuit bending, or re-programming things like Speak & Spell toys to make music and lights, hits town this weekend. Artists from as far away as Japan and Mexico will perform their twisted compositions, and you can take a workshop to learn how to make a keyboard into an “opto theremin.” Plus, free beer daily! “Circuit Benders Unlock the Long Riffs in Short-Circuits,” by Matthew Mirapaul SHOPPING
Purge and Binge
Is it time for spring cleaning, or simply spring wardrobe? Get both in on Sunday: trade in your old stuff at the Swap-A-Rama-Rama at the Kimmel Center at New York University, then stop by the Bust Craftacular at the Warsaw in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where more than 50 vendors will be offering their handmade and D.I.Y. goods. Between them, you won’t recognize your closet by Monday. |
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