Tonight's events include: A New York Adorned tattoo art show, Fahrenheit 451 in Prospect Park, The Spinto Band, and CollegeHumor Live!...

EVENT: In conjunction with the exhibition Nessie Does New York, join Dr. Macnab (Cryptozoologist) tonight for Monetizing Myth, Legend & Culture. She'll explore and explain "the origins, symbolism and hoaxes that populate the field. Hear tales of sightings, notorious exploits, scandals and fantasy that surround these tales and the science that guides Cryptozoologists." 6:30, 7, 7:30, and 8 p.m. // apexart [291 Church St] // Free MOVIE: Socrates Sculpture Park's Outdoor Cinema series presents a......

EVENT: The American Museum of Natural History gets boozy tonight, as they "Discover the Mint Julep." The lecture is part of their series Adventures in the Global Kitchen, which highlights cultures around the world through their cuisine. "Attendees of Mint Julep: The Official Drink of the Kentucky Derby will taste a bit of history as master mixologist Chris McMillian, former beverage director of the Library Lounge in New Orleans, shares his famous mint julep recipe......

MOVIE: The original high school musical, Fame, screens tonight at the Directors Guild of America. The musical drama follows a group of young talents throughout their four years at a New York performing arts high school. There's even a post-screening discussion featuring costume designer Kristi Zea and composer Michael Gore, who took home an Oscar for his score. 7 p.m. // Directors Guild of America [110 W 57th St] // $5 COMEDY: John Mulaney and......

EVENT: The Duplass Brothers settle down in the Apple Store in SoHo tonight, competing with the new iPhone, no doubt. The two wrote 2005's The Puffy Chair and will be on hand to discuss the making of their latest film, Baghead (opening July 25th), with two of its stars, Greta Gerwig and Ross Partridge. Friday // 7 p.m. // Apple Store SoHo [103 Prince St] // Free MUSIC: Tonight the Wordless Music Series is at......

ART: Honey Space is holding a Summer Benefit tonight -- featuring A Yard Sale-Style Art & Junk Auction! "The event will feature a yard sale-style silent auction, where approximately 20 artists will offer art, junk and studio debris for sale. Each artist has been given a 3 x 5 foot blanket, and wall space, with the only requirement being that they submit both artwork, and items that would not generally be considered art." Half of......

MOVIE: Downtown Diversified presents Films in Tompkins; tonight the summer series screens Batman Begins. Revisit it before you pile into the theaters for The Dark Knight this weekend! Sundown // Tompkins Square Park // Free Not into Gotham City's superhero? Pier 54 is hosting a a screening of Almost Famous as a part of their River Flicks series. Get a glimpse of the 1970’s rock scene through the eyes of Cameron Crowe, and hear Billy......

READING: Lily Koppel reads from her Red Leather Diary tonight; the book is a result of the author finding an old diary of a teenage girl living in New York City in the 1930s. Florence Wolfson, the diary's author, will also be on hand this evening to talk about her past and how it's come back to life through Koppel's book. 6:30 p.m. // Tenement Museum Shop [108 Orchard St] // Free EVENT: Nerds unite,......

PHOTOGRAPHY: Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker. Plachy will be on hand tonight to discuss the images in her book, Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker. The book "brings together a collection of these delightful and enchanting photographs for the first time. Plachy explores the city’s dynamics from the inside out, revealing the vital and......

MUSIC: The Seaport Music Festival delivers another great lineup tonight. Abe Vigoda kicks of the eve with some "tropical punk," followed by Brooklynites Telepathe and headliners No Age (pictured). The night is free, as usual, and remember: it's legal to drink on the pier! Friday // 6 p.m. // South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // Free RIDE: Grab your bike and get ready for two rides tonight. First, you'll ride to Coney Island...second, you'll take......

MOVIE: There is really nowhere else to be tonight, as it's the kick off to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's Movies With A View series. To start it all off, the 1986 classic coming-of-age tale, Stand By Me. "Is there any change more universally terrifying than puberty? Throw a dead body into the mix and see if you cope as well as Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell in this '80s favorite.......

MOVIE: If it doesn't rain tonight, plan on heading over to Pier 54 where you'll likely create some of your own waterworks. Riverflicks presents a screening of the 1987 classic La Bamba. The movie follows the life of Ritchie Valens until the day the music died. You'll cry for him, for Donna, and for his brother Bob as well...bring tissues! 8 p.m. // Pier 54 [14th St at the Hudson River] // Free MUSIC: Tonight......

EVENT: Tonight's lineup at Union Hall is in celebration of the book Experimental Philosophy. Co-editors Shaun Nichols and Joshua Knobe will be joined by comedian Eugene Mirman and musician Alina Simone. 7:30 p.m. // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $8 HEALTH: Get some evening sun and soak up a pilates class tonight as "Summer on the Hudson" presents a Pilates Mat Class. "This total body workout is a great way to develop......

MOVIE: Tonight director Wayne Ewing premieres his 13-minute short "exploring the nature of Gonzo Journalism and the effect of drugs on the art of writing, this short documents P.J. O'Rourke's Rolling Stone interview with Hunter S. Thompson at his Owl Farm compound." Following the screening you'll have a chance to see another premiere, this one is 58-minutes and called Blasted !!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S Thompson. The fun-loving tribute to Thompson documents his......

COMEDY: Nothing says America like free cookies, condoms and lube -- all of which will be free tonight at Family Hour with Auntie Sara. The Patriotic Family Values edition of her comedy show will welcome Jamie Kilstein, Anne Neczypor, Diana Saez, Kambri Crews, Hilary Schwartz and Mike Drucker. The show is free, but like so many other things in America it's still gonna cost ya. Be prepared to buy one drink and one item off......

EVENT: We're told the Reverend Billy and Savitri are leaving for a while, and they'd like the chance to say goodbye to the Church. To start off there will be a petition gathering and 1st Amendment singing at the NW corner, which will be followed by the Push Back Picnic near the Abraham Lincoln. They say, "there are many ways to enjoy and help us resist the theft of our parks by vulture investors. So......

MUSIC: Make the journey over to Jersey for a night with The Feelies. In April we talked to the leader of that band, Glenn Mercer, and he told us they would be reuniting after having held some practices at his house. Tonight, it all goes down at Maxwell's. 9 p.m. // Maxwell's [1039 Washington St, Hoboken] // $25 YOGA: Kick your shoes off (don't worry about that silly bacteria) and sink your feet into some......

ART: It's the last night to check out the UNDERGROUND/OVERGROUND exhibit at Artbreak Gallery. The group show and collaborative exhibition features works by graffiti artist and photojournalists. "Individual works of underground art and photography will be displayed along with large-scale photographs by James and Karla Murray in which the photography has become giant environments for CERN, Billi Kid and Elisha Cook Jr. to install their work. From this unprecedented collaboration of various media and styles,......

REMINDER: Figment is on Governors Island today, Saturday and Sunday! Of course, the Gay Pride Parade is also this weekend...more on that later. MUSIC: Hopefully the weather will hold out for the two great outdoor shows tonight. Over in Brooklyn Elvis Perkins takes the stage along with Cold War Kids and Sam Champion. Head over there and Celebrate Brooklyn, whydon'tcha. Friday // 7 p.m. // Prospect Park Bandshell [9th St & Prospect Park West] //......

PARTY: The Chelsea Art Museum becomes West Egg tonight with their F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Great Gatsby Party! Channel the slightly insane couple, put on your best 20s garb and get ready to sip martinis into the night. Don't go too crazy though, lest you be seen by Dr. Eckleburg's judging eyes. The admission fee gets you three drink tickets, three floors of art, dance and party and maybe even an afterparty. More details......

EVENT: Tenement Talks presents…Lower East Side Stories: Subway Stories. Host H.R. Britton will bring together New Yorkers to tell their stories, including: Matt Bresler is a public school theatre teacher, storyteller with The Moth; Michele Carlo, online in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood; Brad Lawrence, Brooklyn writer/actor/storyteller; Regina Ress, award winning storyteller, actor, teacher, and writer. You can also share your own notes from the underground as the night turns open-mic. 6:30 p.m. // Tenement Museum Shop......

Photo by Eric Brown. MEETING: Yesterday we talked to Savitri D., director of the Church of Stop Shopping and temporary Mermaid. She's been on a hunger strike since Saturday night, all to urge everyone to attend tonight's Coney Island Community Scoping Meeting. Plans for Coney Island were recently changed, and according to the Department of City Planning, include reducing the amount of mapped parkland from 15 to 9 acres, and increasing the area of......

SKATE: Skaters have taken over McCarren Pool for the a few days (while it's still dry), for a game akin to basketball's HORSE. "Each skater must try to successfully complete a trick or gain a letter. SKATE was first played in the 1970's by vertical skateboarding legends Lance Mountain, Neil Blender and John Lucero, and was adopted by street skaters in the 1980's." Check out the action today, and the finals go down tomorrow. 1......

FARM: WORK Architecture Company's PF1 project plants an urban farm in Queens. Public Farm One will be on display at P.S.1 starting tonight; the concept "evokes the look of a flying carpet landing in the P.S.1 courtyard. Constructed from large cardboard tubes, its top surface will be a working farm, blooming with a variety of vegetables and plants. The structure will create a textured, colorful, and constantly changing surface in contrast with P.S.1’s angular concrete......

ALERT: After their show at MSG with R.E.M. and The National, Modest Mouse will head to Brooklyn for a just-announced late show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets for "A Morning with Modest Mouse" are on sale now (but probably not for long)! If you miss out, there's a free (okay, $3 suggested donation) Medeski, Martin & Wood (pictured) performance in Prospect Park at 7p.m. -- you'll get to bed much earlier. EVENT: CNN's......

EVENT: The spot of the future Poets House, at Two River Terrace in Battery Park City, hosts an outdoor evening extravaganza. Show up early for a walking tour of the area, featuring an introduction to some of its literary and artistic niches. After that, bunker down for readings from Cornelius Eady, Matthea Harvey, Hettie Jones, Li-Young Lee, and Kay Ryan, and a musical performances by Jill Sobule! 7 p.m. // Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City......

THEATER: Symphony Space presents the 27th annual Bloomsday on Broadway, a reading from the classic Ulysses. This year's event promises the first performance of the “Ithaca” episode’s complete, unedited text in an evening entitled “Mr. Bloom Comes Home.” The night will include readings by actors and avid Joyceans, including Stephen Colbert, Frank and Malachy McCourt, Fionnula Flanagan and Marian Seldes. Fun fact: June 16, 1904 is the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold......

MUSIC: The Wordless Music Series takes over the Whitney tonight with a performance by A Sunny Day in Glasgow and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. The Philly duo and ACME will be performing Ingram Marshall's Entrada and John Adams' Shaker Loops, for seven strings. Friday // 6 p.m. // Whitney Museum [945 Madison Ave] // Free BENEFIT: Perhaps the most important benefit of our time takes place this evening...Lola Staar's Dreamland Roller-Rink Benefit! Staar would......

COMEDY: Tonight begins the 4th annual Sketchfest NYC, "dedicated to promoting the art of sketch comedy," which, they explain, "is different from improv and stand-up, [it] consists of short written scenes, rehearsed beforehand usually presented by a group of people" (as if you didn't know). All shows will be taking place at the UCB Theater; get the full schedule here -- The Harvard Sailing Team (pictured) kicks it all off at 7 p.m. 7 p.m.......

MOVIE: Freshly out on DVD and screening tonight at Pianos is the Ian Curtis biopic Control. Cool off in the A.C., watch the flick for free and maybe even win some prizes. The film was co-written by Deborah Curtis, and follows the life of the Joy Division singer who committed suicide at 23. Watch the trailer here. 7 p.m. // Pianos [158 Ludlow St] // Free MUSIC: That line you'll see outside of the Apple......