For the Reader
Fri, Oct 16 · 7:30 PM
Ben Katchor + David Yazbek: Hotel and Farm is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
- Venue
- Strand Book Store
- Quarter of town
- Union Square, Manhattan
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- Strand Book Store / Eventbrite
The Daily Dispatch
What’s stirring in the territories this week: bookshop rooms, comedy rooms, lecture halls, and late-night curiosities · Manhattan & Brooklyn
291 telegrams read, the lanterns lit along the rail.
Fri, Oct 16 · 7:30 PM
Ben Katchor + David Yazbek: Hotel and Farm is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Wed, Oct 14 · 7:00 PM
Experts give fun talks, then Comedians improv/e them, sight unseen
Where the terraces are filling as the heat breaks
Comedy / presentation
Experts give fun talks, then Comedians improv/e them, sight unseen
Film / screening
Watching a scary movie at a sleepover in your friend's basement, but your friends are professional stand-up comics with a horror obsession.
Comedy
Comedian Lea’h Sampson Back At Union Hall ( ONE NIGHT ONLY ) - Wednesday, October 14 - 9:30pm Doors / 10:00pm Show
Where the harbor lights come on tomorrow
Library talk
Join us for a special program in celebration of Filipino American History Month.How do we tell the stories of communities erased from the physical landscape of a city? And what role can historians, artists, and community members play in recovering and reimagining their past?
Comedy / presentation
A show for people who are curious about everything–but especially the things that make them laugh!
Further up the river, deeper into the week
Storytelling
A storytelling game show where 3 comedians tell their funniest personal anecdotes to win dumb prizes and the Three-Day Champion crown.
Author talk
Ben Katchor + David Yazbek: Hotel and Farm is a author talk at Strand Book Store.
Live podcast / talk
Blank Check Live is a live podcast / talk at The Bell House.
Live podcast / talk
Join Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo for a live podcast taping & Homecoming Dance to celebrate 10 years of Buffering the Vampire Slayer!
Caveat performance
Experience jaw-dropping professional magic and mentalism live!
Arts open studios
The postponed final Open Studios of LMCC's 2026 season opens resident artists' workspaces for climate-focused installations, performances, workshops, and conversation. The previously announced Anh Vo showing was cancelled and is not on this program.
Public history / open house
Step aboard a surviving covered wooden cargo barge for exhibits on New York harbor transport, family storytelling, and a look at the restored floating museum. Open House New York lists this as a no-ticket drop-in.
Comedy performance
Spend your afternoon in the world of three exciting new short plays.
Comedy performance
A SOCIETY Theatre fundraiser
Lecture / presentation
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in NYC bars.
Caveat performance
A science-themed drag show offers a campy introduction to the bats of New York City, featuring 3 drag acts and 1 bat scientist
Comedy performance
Spend your afternoon in the world of three exciting new short plays.
Comedy / variety
A solo comedy show exploring gender, sexuality, and faith through standup, mime, music, poetry, and gay math
Live podcast / talk
One of your favorite comedians interviews an expert on a topic they've always wanted to know more about.
Library talk
For decades, UFOs belonged to the fringes: conspiracy theories, late-night radio, blurry photographs, and tales of alien abduction. Then something changed. The Pentagon released videos of objects it could not explain. Navy pilots testified before Congress about mysterious encounters. Intelligence agencies began speaki...
Comedy performance
Actors are given a scene & learn their lines, improvisers are given nothing & must make it work.
Caveat performance
The History of Weed chronicles the planet’s most celebrated and demonized plant.
Social game show
Got Chutzpah? Blind date live for the chance to win dinner dates all over the city, or just come watch people fall in love!
Caveat performance
Welcome to the bracket where YOU decide the winner - join our host, Ben Langhorst, on a gay fantasia of mentally ill proportions.
Library talk
The Trivia Masters—Chris Kelley and Stuart Post—have emerged from their subterranean lair where for 8 years they hosted the wildly popular Transit Trivia event at the New York Transit Museum. After a several-year hiatus, they are stepping into daylight to concoct a brand-new trivia evening for their friends at the Cen...
Comedy / presentation
EconLoL is the world’s first, best, and only economics-themed comedy variety show.
Comedy / variety
Sorry We're Here presents an original sketch comedy show
The ceiling fan turns on a still evening
Nothing answers to that exactly… ask on looser terms, or clear the evening’s card.
