11am: ray harryhausen's stop-motion animation landmark jason and the argonauts (1963) screens at fslc, $6 >>
1pm: portlandia's fred armisten and carrie brownstein discuss their work on the show at the paley center, $15 >>
2-4pm: build your own wheeled jalopy to race at the ice box derby in central park. 105th @ 5th ave, free >>
4pm: sample pimento cheese and watch a screening of short doc. pimento cheese, please with director nicole lang at brooklyn kitchen. $5. >>
5:30pm: tappy hour = tap dance class in a bar! jimmy's no. 43. $20 admission ($3 off if you menton the skint) includes a drink. >>
7:30pm: brooklyn alt-country band o'death play lpr, $12 >>
7:30pm-12am: five very different female singing cellists sahre the bill at vaudeville park. bonus: drinks by donation courtesy of brooklyn brew and vegan cupcakes. $5-15 sliding scale admission. >>
8pm: comedienne lisa delarios is joined by guest co-host bobby tisdale at this month's ‘party machine’ at union hall, featuring kara klenk, dan st. germain, kate berlant, jordan carlos and adira amram + the experience. $5. >>
8pm (last chance): award winning play samuel + alasdair: a personal history of the robot war presents an alternate reality in which the cold war was decided by a massive robot invasion. new ohio theatre, $15-18. >>
8pm (+ 1/26-28): airborne mutant serpents attack earth in everywhere theatre group's flying snakes in 3d. what did you think it was about? the brick, $18. >>
8:30pm: tonight's 'if you build it' comedy show with hosts kara klenk and nick turner features kurt metzger, stuckey + murray, brooke van poppelen, more. ucbeast, $10. >>
8:30pm: ooooo, white ring, and sibian + faun play glasslands, $10 >>
8:30-11:30pm: get your dance on at moma's poprally with music provided by dfa's juan maclean and brooklyn-based electronic duo blondes. $18 adv, $23 door admission includes exhibition viewing and cocktails. >>
9pm (last chance): six instrumentalists play all the characters in miranda, a steampunk murder mystery opera which takes you, the jury, through the taping of a live court tv show. here, $20. >>
9pm-12am: the strictly business decentralized dance party: lots and lots of partygoers in business arrire carry boomboxes picking up an fm signal from the dj, roaming wherever the party takes them. location tba, free. >>
9:30pm: a person tells a story about their life which is then illustrated by a comic book artist and set to an original piece of music at 'drawn out storytelling'. the tank, $10 ($5 for facebook fans). >>
9:30, 11:30pm: d20 burlesque pays tribute to their favorite zombie games, movies and comics at parkside lounge, $10-15 >>
10pm: all hail the godfather of soul at the 4th annual james brown 8th wonder tribute party at lpr, free w. rsvp, $10 w. out >>
10pm: dfa's juan mclean djs at yotel. $3 vodka drinks 10-11pm. free before midnight w. rsvp. >>
midnight: ifc kicks off a late-night series dedicated to filmmaker john carpenter with his 1982 horror classic the thing, $13 >>
sunday
4pm: the talea ensemble perform works by takemitsu, nakatani and hosokawa in the roger smith hotel's penthouse, $15 >>
6pm: taste chili from 10 contestants and enter raffles at the habitat's (greenpoint) fourth chili cook-off, $10 >>
7:30pm: todd barry hosts tonight's 'pretty good friends' comedy show at union hall with guests dan st. germain, kevin barnett, and the found footage festival. $7. >>
8pm: cellist matt haimovitz and pianist christopher o'riley play arrangements of radiohead and arcade fire alongside stravinsky and piazzolla at highline ballroom, $15 adv, $20 dos >>
8pm: brandon wetherbee hosts a live podcast taping of talk show 'you, me, them, everybody!' with guests mike edison, brooke van poppelen and allison weiss. way station (prospect heights), free. >>
9:30pm: helicopter string quartet (1996) documents karlheinz stockhausen's groundbreaking work of a string quartet playing in four separate flying helicopters. specatcle, $5. >>
11pm: watch a staged reading of aaron glaser's animated pilot dr. princess lawyer at ucbeast, free >>
+ all weekend
mommypoppins shares several no-car skiing day trips from nyc >>
self-guided graffiti tours from offmetro (formerly offmanhattan) >>
mug picks 21 red wines under $21 >>
200 dealers convene for the americana + antiques show at pier 92 (12th ave @ 55th st.). $15, $20 combo ticket includes the antiques at the armory show at the 69th regiment armory and free shuttle bus. >>
save up to 75% at the abc carpet and home annual winter sale >>
ends sun: parsons dance premieres new routines set to music by zoe keating and kenji bunch at the joyce, $10+ >>
thru 1/26: the j.p. morgan tournament of champions brings the world’s best squash players to compete in grand central's vanderbilt hall, $5+ >>
thru 1/26: experience a diverse range features, documentaries, and shorts at the 21st annual new york jewish film festival. flsc, $13. >>
thru 2/10: 300+ restaurants offer $24.07 lunches and $35 dinners during restaurant week >>
score 2-for-1 show tickets during broadway week thru 2/4 (anything goes, chinglish, porgy and bess, the lion king, mama mia, memphis, relatively speaking, wicked, more) and off-broadway week 1/30-2/12 (avenue q, fuerza bruta, rent, silence! the musical, more, more)
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