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WHERE TO
SATURDAY
Feb. 15
String theory
Get juggy with it at
the second night of
Mid-Winter Jug and
String Band Rendezvous,
a festival of
Americana music
from the 1920s and
’30s. The evening
starts off with a short
film featuring the
Ever Lovin’ Jug Band
(pictured), followed
by Bill Carney’s Jug
Addicts and four
more acts.
8 pm at Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia St.
between Hamilton
Avenue and Woodhull
Street in Red Hook, (718)
395–3214, jalopytheatre.
org. $15.
EDITORS’ PICKS
SUNDAY
Feb. 16
Swan song
This afternoon is the
final Brooklyn performance
of “Swan
Lake” by the St.
Petersburg Ballet
Theatre, featuring
Legendary Russian
prima ballerina Irina
Kolesnikova in the
lead role of Odette-
Odile. Catch this
stunning production
of classic Tchaikovsky
classic while you can!
3 pm at Brooklyn
Academy of Music
Howard Gilman Opera
House 30 Lafayette Ave.
at Ashland Place in Fort
Greene, (718) 636–4100,
bam.org. $35–$135.
TUESDAY
Feb. 18
Write stuff
You too can learn the
ancient, eldritch script
used by our ancestors
— a bizarre joined
writing that baffles
millennials! Tonight is
the first session of a
free, seven-week cursive
writing course.
Each class will make
your penmanship
cleaner, faster, and
more accurate!
7 pm at Brooklyn Public
Library’s Central branch
10 Grand Army Plaza,
between Eastern Parkway
and Flatbush Avenue in
Prospect Heights, (718)
230–2100, www.brooklynpubliclibrary.
org. Free.
WEDNESDAY
Feb. 19
Lock ‘em up
Catch the inspiring
talk “Putting the Klan
Behind Bars” tonight.
Investigative journalist
Jerry Mitchell will
discuss his experience
reviving and
closing long-unsolved
murders from the
Civil Rights Era,
including the assassination
of Medgar
Evers and the 1963
bombing of the Birmingham
Sixteenth
Street Baptist
Church.
6:30 pm at Brooklyn
Historical Society 128
Pierrepont St. at Clinton
Street in Brooklyn
Heights, (718) 222–4111,
brooklynhistory.org. $15.
THURSDAY
Feb. 20
Comic talk
A pack of acclaimed
comics creators, illustrators,
and graphic
novelists will show off
their work at the
“Escape Panel” reading
series tonight,
hosted by “All the
Answers” creator
Michael Kupperman
(pictured). Also
appearing will be
Gabrielle Bell, Erin
Williams, Tom Tomorrow,
and more!
7:30 pm at Greenlight
Bookstore 632 Flatbush
Ave. at Fenimore Street in
Prospect Lefferts
Gardens, (718) 246–0200,
www.greenlightbookstore.
com. Free.
NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN
FRI, FEB. 14
ART, “MAKING THE CUT” OPENING
RECEPTION: A group exhibition
focused on abstracted representations
of the human body. 6 pm. Free.
Transmitter, 1329 Willoughby Ave.
between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas
Avenues, Bushwick. transmitter.nyc.
FILM, HUSTLERS: A crew of former
strip club employees rob their Wall
Street clients. Part of the Industry
City Pop-Up Cinema Series. 7 pm.
Free with RSVP. Industry City Factory
Floor, 268 36th St. between Second
and Third avenues, Sunset Park. industrycity.
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Photo by Imagination + Muscle
Take a bite: Company XIV debuts “Seven Sins,” its burlesque take
on the Garden of Eden tale, on Feb. 15 in Bushwick.
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THEATER, THE GOOD SOUL OF SETZUAN:
Bertolt Brecht’s fable about
a trying to remain a good person in a
corrupt world. 7:30 pm. $35 ($25 seniors
and students). Irondale Center,
85 S. Oxford St. at Lafayette Avenue,
Fort Greene. (718) 488–9233. irondale.
org.
DANCE, REVISIONIST HISTORY 2:
Brooklyn Ballet performs the 19th
century ballet “Pas de Quatre,” and
more. 7:30 pm. $25 ($12 student
and senior; $10 for kids under 12).
The Mark O’Donnell Theater at
The Actors Fund Arts Center, 160
Schermerhorn St. between Hoyt
and Smith streets, Downtown. (718)
246–0146. brooklynballet.org.
COMEDY, AN EVENING OF ROMANTIC
COMEDY: Author Lana
Schwartz launches her book “Build
Your Own Romantic Comedy” and
invites stand-up comics to discuss all
that they love about the genre. 7:30
pm. $10 ($8 in advance). Union Hall,
702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue. (646)
331–4816. lanalikebanana.com.
MUSIC, STELLA EMMET: Vinyl release
party for Stella Emmett’s acclaimed
new album “Admirer.” 8 pm. $5.
Wonderville, 1186 Broadway between
Lafayette Avenue and Van
Buren Street, Bushwick. shiptoshoremedia.
com.
MUSIC, BROOKLYN CHAMBER
MUSIC SOCIETY: Classical music for
a string quartet. 8 pm. $35 ($20 students).
First Unitarian Church Chapel,
119 Pierrepont St. at Monroe
Place, Brooklyn Heights. fuub.org.
MUSIC, JUG AND STRING BAND
RENDEZVOUS: A two-day festival
celebrating blues, folk, country,
jazz, ragtime and jug music from
8 pm. $85–$195. Company XIV, 383
Troutman St. between Wyckoff and
Irving avenues. (866) 811–4111. companyxiv.
com.
COMEDY, GOOFY: An immersive digital
vaudevillian variety show with a
Valentine’s Day love story. 9 pm. $10.
Brooklyn Comedy Collective, 58 N.
Third St. between Kent and Wythe
avenues, Williamsburg. brooklyncc.
com.
FUND-RAISER, AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES
BENEFIT CONCERT: With
Kate Bird, Doctor Delia, ant the
Greystone Singers. 9 pm. $5 suggested
donation. The Way Station,
683 Washington Ave. between St.
Marks Avenue and Prospect Place,
Prospect Heights. (718) 627–4949.
waystationbk.com.
SUN, FEB. 16
FAMILY, THE MUSIC OF PRINCE FOR
KIDS: Purple Party plays for kids.
11 am. $12–$14. Brooklyn Bowl, 61
Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and
N. 12th streets, Williamsburg. (646)
560–0065. therockandrollplayhouse.
com.
DANCE, NEW YORK SWORD DANCE
FESTIVAL FINALE: A festival of
stately longsword and vigorous rapper
sword dancing, accompanied by
live music. 2:30 pm. Free. Brooklyn
Waldorf School, 126 Saint Felix St.
between Lafayette Avenue and
Hanson Place. (917) 689–4372. halfmoonsword.
org.
DANCE, REVISIONIST HISTORY 2: 3
pm. See Feb. 14.
MUSIC, SXIP SHIRLEY’S HOUR OF
CHARM: A night of haunted songs
and surprising sounds. 7 pm. $25.
National Sawdust, 80 N. Sixth St. at
Wythe Avenue. (646) 779–8455. nationalsawdust.
org.
MUSIC, POP SMOKE: with Polo G,
Fivio Foreign, Melii, Sheff G, and
See 9 DAYS on page 6
the beginning of the 20th century.
8 pm. $15 ($20 both nights). Jalopy
Theatre, 315 Columbia St. between
Hamilton Avenue and Woodhull
Street, Red Hook. (718) 395–3214.
jalopy.biz.
COMEDY, TINDER LIVE! VALENTINE’S
DAY SHOW: Lane Moore’s special
Valentines Day show with guests
Dylan Marron, Jamilah Lemieux and
Ada Calhoun. 8:30 pm. $18. Littlefi
eld, 635 Sackett St. between Third
and Fourth avenues, Gowanus. littlefi
eldnyc.com.
NIGHTLIFE, VOULEZ VOUZ? ENCORE!:
This sexy, queer, and theatrical
dance party is a tribute to
the Moulin Rouge in Belle Époque
Paris. 9:30 pm. $45. 3 Dollar Bill, 260
Meserole St. near Bushwick Pl. (718)
366–3031. 3dollarbillbk.com.
NIGHTLIFE, “IT’S FRIDAY, I’M (NOT)
IN LOVE” ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY
PARTY: Dance to songs of heartbreak
and liberation and strike a
pose at our dark photo booth. Dress
code: All black. Only black. 10:30
pm. $10 ($7 in advance). Littlefi eld,
635 Sackett St. between Third and
Fourth avenues, Gowanus. theskint.
com.
SAT, FEB. 15
DANCE, REVISIONIST HISTORY 2: 3
pm and 7:30 pm. See Feb. 14.
MUSIC, “DISSIPATE, YOU TROUBLESOME
SHADOWS”: The International
Street Cannibals perform a
medley of cantatas celebrating the
end of winter. 6:15 pm. Free. St.
Francis of Paola, 219 Conselyea St.
at Humboldt Street, Williamsburg.
(347) 628–2892. facebook.com/dmpconcertseries.
COMEDY, PICTURE THIS!: Cartoonists
draw the routines of comedians live,
while they perform. 7 pm. $10 ($8
in advance). Union Hall, 702 Union
St. at Fifth Avenue, Park Slope. (718)
638–4400. nakedcomedy.org.
THEATER, THE GOOD SOUL OF SETZUAN:
7:30 pm. See Feb. 14.
THEATER, MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING
SYRUP: A new chamber opera
about a young woman’s world torn
apart by abuse, neglect, addiction,
and apathy. 7:30 pm. $25. National
Sawdust, 80 N. Sixth St. at Wythe
Avenue, Williamsburg. (646) 779–
8455. nationalsawdust.org.
NIGHTLIFE, COMPANY XIV’S “SEVEN
SINS”: A baroque, burlesque reimagining
of the creation myth of
Adam, Eve, and the fall of man, with
dance, music, magic, and circus acts.
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