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Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 8/20/08

Thursday: 8/21/08

Friday: 8/22/08

Saturday: 8/23/08

Sunday: 8/24/08

Monday: 8/25/08

Tuesday: 8/26/08

All of Today’s Picks All Thursday Picks All Friday Picks All Saturday Picks All Sunday Picks All Monday Picks All Tuesday Picks

movie

The Rocker
various locations

Rainn Wilson (a.k.a Dwight Schrute of 'The Office') makes his leading-man debut. More »

theater

imageThe First Breeze of Summer
Signature Theatre Company

Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs Leslie Lee's celebrated play about familial bonds and coming of age. More »

nightlife

The Bunker: Akufen
Public Assembly

The esteemed micro-house producer. More »

movie

Trouble the Water

This buzzy documentary chronicles the struggles faced by a young couple (Kimberly and Scott Roberts) to put their lives back together and launch new careers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. More »

movie

Hamlet 2
various locations

Steve Coogan, Amy Poehler, and Elisabeth Shue star in director Andrew Fleming's comedy about a high-school staging of politically incorrect Shakespeare. More »

sports

image2008 U.S. Open
USTA

The world's best tennis players descend on Flushing Meadows for the last of the year's four Grand Slam tournaments. More »

nightlife

imageZac Brown Band
Mercury Lounge

Good-time Georgians who've been compared to audience pleasers from Robert Earl Keen to Jimmy Buffett. More »

art

The Good Life
Yancey Richardson Gallery

Quite possibly the ultimate celebration of a long, lazy summer. More »

classical

Douglas Dunn & Dancers
Elevated Acre

The experimental downtown choreographer and his company present "In Formations." More »

nightlife

Grand Archives
South Street Seaport

Warm, complex, soul-soothing indie rock from Seattle. More »

nightlife

Highbrow BBQ
Solar One

Montreal indie breakouts Islands play a New York-sponsored outdoor show, with a feast prepared by Top Chef alum C.J. Jacobson. More »

movie

Momma's Man
BAM Rose Cinemas

Azazel Jacobs's minimalist tale about a Los Angeles man who finds himself unable and unwilling to leave his parents' Tribeca loft. More »

nightlife

Justin Bond
Joe's Pub

The queer-circuit mainstay puts on a new variety show with friends. More »

nightlife

Young Jeezy
Blender Theatre

The former drug dealer from Atlanta tours in support of his latest, "The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102." More »

classical

Yizkor: Music of Memory
Eldridge Street Synagogue

The Afro-Semitic Experience and Greek tenor Cantor Alberto Mizrahi celebrate the release of their CD. More »

nightlife

Jennifer O'Connor
Mercury Lounge

An easy-on-the-ears singer-songwriter with a crystalline voice and a wry sense of humor. More »

nightlife

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney
Comix

Beloved local comedian-of-all-trades Kroll shares an unmissable bill. More »

nightlife

Hot 8 Brass Band
Joe's Pub

The joyous horn-fueled marching band. More »

reading

John Milton Wesley
The Bowery Poetry Club

The poet and Mississippi native shares passages from his prose and poetry. More »

reading

Dominica Radulescu and Robin Desser
McNally Jackson

Radulescu, a Romance-languages professor at Washington and Lee, discusses her debut novel, about a Romanian love affair under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu. More »

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