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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: What’s Good This Week

Today: 5/21/08

Thursday: 5/22/08

Friday: 5/23/08

Saturday: 5/24/08

Sunday: 5/25/08

Monday: 5/26/08

Tuesday: 5/27/08

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imageIndie Rock Trivia
HighLine Ballroom

The New York by "New York" series continues with a night of indie rock trivia hosted by Zach Galifianakis and featuring a live set from Les Savy Fav. More »

reading

David Benioff
Barnes & Noble

The author and screenwriter ("The 25th Hour") presents his latest novel, "City of Thieves." More »

movie

imageIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
various locations

George Lucas's and Steven Spielberg's cloaked-in-mystery sequel to the blockbuster Harrison Ford franchise. More »

art

Moore in America
New York Botanical Garden

Now on monumental display at the New York Botanical Garden, twenty major statues by Henry Moore. More »

art

imageCai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Explosion artist, as seen when the smoke finally clears. More »

art

imageRobert Therrien
Gagosian Gallery

Hypertrophied folding chairs, some a looming eight-feet tall. More »

reading

imageNerve Reading Series
KGB Bar

Editors of and contributors to the popular sexed-up Website�Arianne Cohen, Rachel Shukert, and Will Doig�read from recent works. More »

movie

A Jihad for Love
IFC Center

Parvez Sharma's brave documentary about homosexuality in the Muslim world. More »

reading

Gil Adamson
McNally Robinson

The Toronto author presents her impressive debut novel, "The Outlander." More »

movie

The Edge of Heaven
Film Forum

The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. More »

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Islands
Webster Hall

Critically lauded, genre-bending Canadian art-pop. With the Magic and Street Carnage. More »

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Sunday Best!
The Yard

Chicago house mainstay Roy Davis Jr. kicks off a new weekly outdoor dance party. More »

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White Williams
Knitting Factory

Cleveland expat Joe Williams’s super-popular genre-bending one-man techno band. More »

art

Delia Brown
D'Amelio Terras Gallery

Delia Brown's sweet-as-pie but sharp-as-a-tack pictures of herself surrounded by her well-dressed, well-behaved babies. More »

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Progressive Nation
Terminal 5

Dream Theater headlines a lineup of prog and hard rock heavyweights, including Sweden's Opeth, New York's 3 and North Carolina's Between the Buried and Me. More »

art

Bill Wood's Business
ICP

In-depth photographic record of the transformative post-World War II era in Fort Worth, Texas. More »

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Bob Dylan's 66th Birthday Bash
Rehab

Adam Green, the Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture and Albert Hammond Jr., and others perform (no Dylan, alas). More »

theater

Saved
Playwrights Horizons

Michael Friedman's musical based on the movie about a pregnant girl in a Christian high school. More »

art

H2O: Water=Life
AMNH

An exhibit illuminating the pressing challenge of water's sustainable management and use. More »

art

Gabriel Orozco
Marian Goodman Gallery

Works in a variety of media by the influential Mexican artist include a new collage based on obituaries from the New York Times. More »

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The Jealous Girlfriends
Mercury Lounge

Dreamy, richly textured, female-fronted indie rock from Brooklyn. More »

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