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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 16, 2012?

43 free events take place on Friday, November 16 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out November 16 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of November . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 16, 2012

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Other | Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus: Visit the Famous Statue Up Close and 70 Feet in the Air


This major new artwork has been created by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. The work places the 13-foot-tall statue of Columbus in the center of an American living room six stories above the city streets, recontextualizing the historical monument and temporarily transforming it into a contemporary artwork. The room will feature many of the trappings of a domestic living room—lamps, a couch, a coffee table, a television, and more—as well as custom wallpaper by the artist. Through large, loft-style windows, visitors will have dramatic views of Central Park and Midtown Manhattan that will be seen from Columbus’s perspective for the first time. Pass holders are asked to climb six flights of stairs to a height of 70 feet above street level and to descend by a second set of stairs. Flat, rubber-soled shoes are strongly recommended. This exhibition is ADA accessible. If a visitor requires the use of a mobility device (e.g. wheelchair, crutches, or a cane) or has a condition that prevents him or her from using the stairs, a hoist is available. Visitors under 13 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Those between the ages of 13 and 18 may visit without an adult, however a parent or guardian must obtain a pass for them. Given the physical demands of visiting the exhibition, it is not recommended for children under the age of 5. Strollers are not permitted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Bridge Club


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best plays. For Advanced beginners, and Intermediary players. Join the fun and meet new friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Yoga at the Library


Free Yoga Classes at the Library bought to you by Shape up NYC. Expert Instructors. Please bring your own mats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks” Tour


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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City Walk | Greenwich Village Food Tour


Greenwich Village is well-known for its shady, winding streets with 19th Century houses, for its bohemian roots and historic Washington Square Park. But the Village's tree-lined streets are also lined with some of the best restaurants and food specialty shops in all of the Big Apple. Just ask celebrity chefs of the Food Network, food critics from the New York Times and thousands of New Yorkers: Greenwich Village is THE place to find the best of every cuisine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Occupy Wall Street and the Right to Protest: What's Next?


Professor Jeremy Varon is a historian of ideas who explores the relationships between modernity, knowledge, representation, and power. He is an organizer of Witness Against Torture, which is campaigning to close the Guantánamo prison and end torture worldwide.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Film | Frank Capra's Oscar Winner Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936): Classic Screwball Comedy


With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft. Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers. 116 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | West African Music for the Marimba Soloist


With Valerie Naranjo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Uncovering Your Family History: Introduction to Genealogical Research, Part I


Discover genealogical resources at the Library. Uncovering your Family History, Part I explores vital records and the census in documenting your genealogy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Tour | The High Line Sunset Tour


The area around the HighLine Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Authors: Patrick Donnelly / Kevin Prufer / Eileen Pollack


Readings by Four Way Books poets Patrick Donnelly (“Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin,” 2012) and Kevin Prufer (pictured; “In a Beautiful Country,” 2011), and novelist Eileen Pollack (“Breaking and Entering,” 2012). Hosted by founding editor and director Martha Rhodes; co-sponsored with Four Way Books.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Video | Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 Video Re/trato Projected on the Side of a Building


Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s 2003 video Re/trato will be projected on a building to the east visible from the park’s Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk. One of Colombia’s most influential artists, Oscar Muñoz has created an impressive body of work that investigates memory and history, and the ways both intertwine with our contemporary society. Here, Muñoz presents a video in which you see the artist painting a self-portrait on a concrete sidewalk by using a brush and water. The hand continuously paints as the portrait evaporates, creating an endless drawing. Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of identity, the work highlights the liminal space between remembering and forgetting, between an image and its obliteration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Bad Intentions / Flesh & Blood / Subjective Courtesy


Stage Time is a new weekly show aimed at featuring independent improv troupes. This week’s Stage Time features: Bad Intentions is Elke Reid and Giovanni Vargas Flesh & Blood is Jen Bloodsworth & tba Subjective Courtesy is Shaina Stigler, Eitan Levine, Patrick Cucuta, David Frasure, Ron Hill and Christina Piniero.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Tour of Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan


A major exhibition that explores the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan, the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty (550-77 CE). Carved into the mountains of northern China, the temples were once home to a magnificent array of sculptures—monumental Buddhas, divine attendant figures, and crouching monsters framed by floral motifs. These statues are among the finest embodiments of Chinese Buddhist sculpture and are seminal to our understanding of the history of Chinese Buddhist style and iconography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Installation: Tirtzah Bassel's Airport in Security


A large-scale installation created in duct tape directly on the walls of the gallery. The installation explores the airport as a contemporary symbol of transience and transition where strangers are challenged to contextualize their private needs within a space that is at once public and exposing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Italian Vote Abroad


A discussion with Guido Tintori and Nadia Urbinati.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photographs: Peter C. Emerick's Koans: 2012


This is a body of work that Emerick has been pursuing for over 20 years. It is an ongoing series of photographs of traffic cones as they are found on the street and presented in groups, and individually as wall and floor installations mounted on Plexiglas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Free to Be Blasphemous? A Conversation on the Legal Principles of the Freedom of Expression


The recent release of an anti-Islam video on youtube has refueled the debate on the scope of the freedom of expression. On the one hand, the freedom to voice ones opinion is an important precondition for a functioning democracy. On the other hand, this freedom can’t be limitless. Defamation is, for example, penalized in virtually all countries. Nevertheless, the limits are drawn differently in the United States and in Europe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Ad Libitum: Improvisation, Spontaneity, Stream of Consciousness


With Michael Alan, artcodex, Bibi Calderaro, and Anthony Cerretani. With the premier presentation of artcodex's "Artist Statement Mad Libs."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Award-Winning Films from the 2011 Morelia International Film Festival


A screening of the award-winning short films from last year’s Morelia International Film Festival, in genres ranging from animation to documentary. Followed by a director Q&A; films are in Spanish with English subtitles. Moderated By Lucila Moctezuma.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Colm Tóibín reads from his book The Testament of Mary


The author of The Master and Brooklyn imagines the story of Mary after her son's crucifixion and as she comes to grips with his legacy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: SCORESBY Presents: JTS Brown


No sweeps, no tag outs, no* sex: This is Scoresby. Inspired by Chicago’s JTS Brown, Scoresby formlessly flows from moment to moment. Each entrance and exit starts a new scene while performers use devices ranging from monologues to in-scene questions in order to break into characters and relationships quicker and deeper. *lot’s of angry
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Festa Brasiliera: Celebrating Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists


Granta magazine presents an evening of Brazilian literature and music to mark the launch of Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | From Art to Text


New York-based curator and scholar Marek Bartelik will discuss what it means to write about art, artists and the art world with European writers Klemens Renoldner (AUT), Monika Zgustova (CZ), Luc Lang (FR), Marc Degens (GER), Agnieszka Taborska (PL), Dumitru Tsepeneag (ROM), and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (SP).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Instant Vaudeville: Breaking Bamboo


2g's 16th season launches with Instant Vaudeville: Breaking Bamboo which brings more than 35 overachieving, slightly shy, yet sensual Asian American artists together on one stage. Artistic Director Victor Maog states, “People have been asking where our artists are? The answer is HERE. Right now. 2g is the hub for the next generation of form-bending, ceiling-breaking, morbidly-gifted Asian American talent.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


Producer Eric Vetter brings comedian Carmen Lynch (Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend”) and a few surprises.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opera | Opera Ebony


Opera Ebony is considered one of the world's great cultural treasures. The company will perform from its expansive repertoire. Don’t miss “Sass’ N Class.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Chopin, Prokofiev and Scriabin


This concert will feature pianist Tatyana Sirota performing music by Chopin, Prokofiev, Scriabin, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Mercy Killers, a One-Man Show by Michael Milligan


Joe loves apple pie, Rush Limbaugh, the fourth of July and his wife Jane. He is blue-collar, corn-fed, made in the USA and proud, but when his uninsured wife is diagnosed with cancer his patriotic feelings and passion for the ethos of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are turned upside down. In Mercy Killers, a new one-man play, Joe struggles with the uniquely American experience of losing your health in the land of plenty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Linda Hoy reads from her book The Effect


Draw the battle lines, faith and reason are going at it again! Winner of the National Children's Book Award, Linda Hoy, has stepped out of the romper room and into the laboratory to write her funny and insightful new book on quantum physics and "The Great Beyond."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players


Called "a small army of musicians who demonstrate consistent accomplishment" by The New York Times, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, under the direction of Eduardo Leandro, will present the 25th Annual Premieres concert of works written especially for the occasion by guest composers. The series has produced over 90 works to date. This year's program will consist of works by Mark Gustavson, Alex Temple, Judith Shatin, and Du Yun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | MACE (Mannes American Composers Ensemble), Program 2


The season will see the introduction of MACE (The Mannes American Composers Ensemble) (MACE), a newly formed large ensemble that will focus on the music of living American composers, directed and conducted by newly appointed Manness most recent addition to its faculty member, composer Lowell Liebermann. MACE not only presents works by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Elliott Carter, but will also present cutting-edge works by up and coming composers. The ensemble aims to embrace as broad a view possible of the incredibly diverse and vital landscape of contemporary American Music. Other composers programmed include Mannes alumna Shulamit Ran, Michael Daugherty, David Del Tredici, Pierre Jalbert, Mason Bates, Andrew Norman, and Mannes 2012-2013 Composer-In-Residence Derek Bermel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin


PROGRAM: Chopin, Grand Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 42 Schumann, Papillons, Op. 2 Scriabin, Etudes, Op. 8 Nos. 6, 5 & 12 Bach, Prelude No. 9 in E Major, The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I Beethoven, Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 Chopin, Barcarolle in F Sharp Major, Op. 60 With: Dominic Meiman, Pianist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | The Juilliard Orchestra performs works by Beethoven, Britten and Barber


Program: Barber’s Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9 Britten’s Violin Concerto, with Juilliard violinist Stefani Collins as soloist Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 Conductor Jeffrey Kahane is currently music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and has guest conducted many of the major U.S. orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Dallas, and New World symphonies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Undefined


Come out to Undefined, a monthly variety show hosted by Jason Saenz. Come see some of the best stand-up comics, sketch and improv groups, musicians and other awesome weirdness come together right before your eyes every month. Previous performers have included W.Kamau Bell, Eric Andre, Seth Herzog, Myq Kaplan, Death By Roo Roo, Doppleganger, Kurt Braunohler, Neal Brennan, and Joe Mande. So you never know who will show up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Sex in the Late Night Air


Sex in the Air presents Sex in the Late Night Air, a late night talk show hosted by Paul Gutkowski, featuring the musical stylings of Hal McFall and The Haldane McFall 5. Don’t miss the show Susan Sarandon calls, “Sweeter than a plate of yams with extra syrup.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:59 pm
$5
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