Events

New York:

Thursday 8/24
Circus Contraption's Grand American Traveling Dime Museum
8 PM
$15-$30

Seattle's fave traveling circus lands in NYC. With daring acrobatics, visual wonderments and live circus tunes described as "a cross between Tom Waits and Wings of Desire".

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets
(212)352-3101
New York NY
http://www.circuscontraption.com

TnT: Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins
7 PM
$12

MTV Business Development's Simon Bell and his crew The Jakons lend opening band support for these two Australian rock icons. Also performing are NYC based bands The Black Hollies and Low Water.

Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston @ Essex
New York, NY
(212) 260-4700
http://www.vandiemensland.com/

Friday 8/25
Bleep! Bleep!
6 PM
$15

Sexy burlesque superstars, The Wau Wau Sisters (who aren't really sisters), take their bawdy, brilliant trapeze-swinging hilarity to the Spiegeltent.

Spiegel
South Street Seaport
Northern Side of Pier 17 behind the Fulton Fish Market.
Manhattan, NY
http://www.spiegelworld.com/
http://www.wauwausisters.com/

She Makes Me Move
10 PM
$7; $5 with RSVP to white@whitedovenyc.com

Get your dance on as VH1 Classic's Julie Stein rocks the turntable to launch this monthly gig dedicated to female musicians. Pop artist Princess Superstar takes the stage at midnight. This party happens the last Friday of every month.

Studio B
259 Banker Street at Meserole Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.whitedovenyc.com/

Saturday 8/26
Summertime Snowmen
9 PM - 12 PM
Free

The freaky clowns from the off-Broadway show Slava's Snowshow -- now playing at the Union Square Theatre -- are celebrating their 2nd year in New York City by bringing corncob pipe and button nose-less snowmen for you to design and dress as you'd like. They will provide the snowman staples, but feel free to bring your own goods.

Spiegel
South Street Seaport
Northern Side of Pier 17 behind the Fulton Fish Market.
Manhattan, NY
http://www.spiegelworld.com/

An Aquatic Multimedia Happening
5 PM
$10+

Mermaid/performance artist Julie Atlas Muz MCs this interactive art party set in a decaying abandoned pool. Check out the screening of the 1983 graffiti-flick Style Wars, a bathing suit competition, and a sneak preview of choreographer Noemie Lafrance's Agora II (coming in September) as DJ Spooky and Worange Drexler work the turntables and sax respectively. If the spectacle itself doesn't move you, take your bod to the giant Twister or Slip 'n Slide for a ride of a different kind.

McCarren Park Pool
Lorimer St between Bayard St & Driggs Ave,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
http://www.summerscreen.org/

Monday 8/28
Zenith Five
10 PM
$12

Choreographer and Philip Glass protege John Moran is known for his wild, experimental operas. His latest fusion of music, theater and dance features a cast of real people as well as animatrons.

Spiegel
South Street Seaport
Northern Side of Pier 17 behind the Fulton Fish Market.
Manhattan, NY
http://www.ps122.org/performances/zenith_five.html

BODOG Battle of the Bands
6:30 PM
$10

MTV Networks IP Litigation's Anthony Ortiz and his guitar-driven metal band Dead Letter Box advance to round two to compete for a honkin' one million dollar music contract.

CODA
34 East 34th Street
Manhattan, NY
http://www.deadletterboxband.com
http://www.coda34.com
http://www.bodogbattleofthebands.com/home/

Los Angeles:

Thursday 8/24
Gabriel Iglesias Stand-up Comedy
8:30 PM
$20

Sound effect generator and Hawaiian shirt wearing comic Gabriel Iglesias brings the funny to the Improv.

Irvine Improv
71 Fortune Drive # 841
Irvine, CA
(949) 854-5455
http://www.symfonee.com/Improv/irvine/home/index.aspx

Friday 8/25
Pageant Of Masters
8:30 PM

This amazing live show features human models who transform themselves into stunning reproductions of artistic masterpieces.

Irvine Bowl
650 Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach, CA
http://tickets.lagunabeach.com

Saturday 8/26
MoCA Night Vision feat. the Crystal Method
6 PM-Midnight
$8

Beat-pumping techno fiends the Crystal Method step out from their Indie 103.1 radio show, Community Service, with a live DJ set at this music and art series. The galleries, meanwhile, hold their own delights: the dark, mysterious pieces in Eva Hesse Drawing illuminate the renowned 20th-century American artist's battles between abstraction and representation. MoCA Focus: Lecia Dole-Recio, on the other hand, offers a series of large-scale mixed media collages. Its architectural structures find harmony in organic spaces — kind of like what's happening in the plaza below.

Museum of Contemporary Art
250 S. Grand Ave
California Plaza
(213)626-6222
http://www.moca.org/nightvision/

Monday 8/28
George Sarah and His String Trio w/ Loop!Station and Peter Daily
8:30 PM
$5

Never one to color inside the lines, LA-based musician George Sarah has spent two decades blurring the boundaries between electronica, rock 'n roll, and modern orchestral music. Tonight's concert marks his first live appearance of 2006, and the faithful are sure to be rewarded with a slew of surprises. Moody atmospheric emo from Loop!Station and edgy pop songs from Peter Daily fill out the eclectic evening.

Temple Bar
1026 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA
(310)393-6611
http://www.templebarlive.com/

Tuesday 8/29
Romeo and Juliet
8 PM
$6- $43

NY Philharmonic Associate Conductor Xian Zhang takes on Prokoflev's and Brahm's musical interpretations of the tragic love story. As part of the Bowl's Classical Tuesdays series.

Hollywood Bowl
2301 N. Highland Avenue
Hollywood, CA
(323) 850-2000
http://www.hollywoodbowl.org/tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=2644

Wednesday 8/30
Trev and the Rev
8 PM
$5

The acclaimed two man show follows dysfunctional childhood friends Trev, a washed up 80s pop star, and the Rev, a recovering drug addict ,on their bumbling, comic quest to save the world from eternal burning in the afterlife.

UCB Theatre
5919 Franklin Ave
Hollywood, CA
(323)908-8702
http://www.ucbtheatre.com/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=1033

Enjoy the ride.

Barbara
With West Coast correspondent Monika Zielinska

Labs
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email: mtvlabs@mtvstaff.com