skint pick
8pm: the raspberry brothers riff on christmas classics ('it's a wonderful life,' 'star wars x-mas special'), followed by a dunken singalong to the holiday songs of george michael, michael jackson, more. the creek + cave (l.i.c.), $5 each
happy hanukkah!
around town today (friday)
thru 1/15, film forum's 'madcap manhattan' series of 2-4-1 comedy classics kicks off with cary grant in 'the awful truth' (1937) and 'holiday' (1938), $12 >>
2pm (also 12/12,13,18,19,21): prospect park's historic lefferts house is the stage for rebellious subjects theatre's presentation of checkov's 'three sisters.' $10 suggested donation >>
8pm (thru 1/2): dreamscape theatre's 'in fields where they lay' recounts world war i's christmas truce of 1914. hudson guild theatre, $15 (1/1 admission is pay-what-you-can) >>
8pm: catch skint fave emily easterly along with chris bubeta + the liars club @ mercury lounge, $10 >>
8pm: just you try to stand still during the infectious 70s-ish grooves of the phenomenahandclap band @ bowery ballroom, $15 >>
9:30pm (thru 12/13): ‘everybody cries @ christmas’: three short plays that celebrate and skewer the less-fun parts of the holiday season. $7 >>
midnight (+12/12): see stanley kubrick's '2001: a space odyssey' on a big screen already, ifc, $12.50 >>
