Party: Astrobiology Club Star Party
YES. THE PARTY WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.
Roof of Peyton Hall
April 16, 10 p.m.
Music: Caural and K-Kruz
Terrace is home tonight to the usual mix of eccentric rappers and electro wizards, this time represented by emcee K-Kruz and DJ Caural. K-Kruz has worked with hip-hop legends like Mos Def and De La Soul, Caural has been described as "Sonic Youth meets Herbie Hancock" - should be a great show.
Terrace Club
April 16, 11:45 p.m.
Theater: Theatre Intime Presents ‘Ultraman'
I'm just going to quote in full from the press release, because this sounds too totally wacky to paraphrase. "The citizens of Metropotown, USA, have slept soundly since the amazing Ultraman showed up. But when his arch-villain, the fiendish French Tickler, hatches a sinister scheme to expose his salacious secret, can everyone's favorite superman find the hero inside himself to stand up and save the world?" Like I said, you've got to let some things speak for themselves. "Ultraman," perhaps inspired by the recent success of the "Watchmen" movie, takes the Intime stage by storm this weekend and next. I've already bought my tickets - I have to get to the bottom of this mystery.
Theatre Intime
April 16 through April 18, 8 p.m.
Film: Slumdog Millionaire
I "Who wants to be ... a MILLENAIRE!" Yes, this week UFO's getting imaginative with its movie - as if three months at the Princeton Garden Theater wasn't enough, "Slumdog Millionaire" is back, so that students who still haven't seen the Oscar-winning phenomenon can get their fill. (Where were you?! On a semester abroad on MARS??). Word to those select few: Despite its day-glo soundtrack and euphoric trailer, "Slumdog Millionaire" is neither a comedy nor a kid's movie, and no, it's not a musical either. It's actually pretty harrowing stuff, with a lot of death and poverty and sadness. A friend of mine went to see it high, thinking it would make the movie even funnier. He was wrong.
Frist Performance Theatre
April 9 through April 18, 11:15 p.m.
Theater: PSAT Presents: Junior Slums-Dog Millionaire!
"Can't get enough of Jamal and Latika?" beckons the advert for the Princeton South Asian Theatrics show, awkwardly billed "Junior Slums-Dog Millionaire." Well, I for one have had more than enough of bloody Jamal and Latika, but in case three months at the Garden Theatre, every single movie award and this weekend's UFO showing can't convince you that "Slumdog Millionaire" is far too ubiquitous for its own good, then PSAT's show should be great fun - they usually are.
Forbes BlackBox
April 16 and April 17, 7 p.m.
April 18, 9 p.m.
Poetry: Zim! Spread the Word
Zimbabwean protest poets and rappers will be spittin' rhymes on the Frist Campus Center lawn this afternoon in what easily wins "most random campus event of the week." Standing out among other afternoon events like "Towards DNA barcoding for Rapid Pathoden Detection" and "A Catholic Village in North China, 1700-2000," this should be quite a powerful fusion of music and politics.
Frist South Lawn
April 16. 4:45 p.m
OUTSIDE THE ORANGE BUBBLE
•PHILADELPHIA•
Music: Lily Allen
In my humble opinion, Lily Allen is the most talented pop star working today. No one else is able to balance subversive lyrics with melodic pop perfection quite like this chirpy, diminutive Brit. With a smattering of impossible-to-dislike hits at her disposal, from the candy-coated spite of "Smile" to the effervescent paranoia of "The Fear," Allen should deliver a great set. Hopefully, she won't chicken out from performing her hilarious recent single "Fuck You (Very Much)," targeted at George W. Bush and filled with wonderfully blunt lines like "We hate what you do / and we hate your whole crew." Brilliant.
Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia
April 18, 9 p.m.
•NEW YORK•
Art: Dave Brubeck Quartet
Forget that Dave is the only surviving member of the legendary jazz quartet and that he's pushing 90. This is the man responsible for every jazz standard from "Take Five" to "Blue Rondo a la Turk," and seeing him live should be an extraordinary experience for any fan of 20th-century music. Plus, Brubeck's been designated a "living legend" by the Library of Congress, which is pretty cool.
Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York
April 16, 8 p.m.
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