As the school year comes to a close, free time, along with Bwog's Guide to the Weekend, makes a triumphant return. We'll continue keeping you updated every Thursday throughout the summer about concerts, movies, special events, and lectures.

All Weekend/Continuing:

The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi
IFC Center
Friday-Sunday; 11 AM
$11.50

Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan
International Center for Photography
May 16 th- Sep 7; Tuesdays-Thursdays (10am-6pm); Fridays (10am-8pm); Saturdays-Sundays (10am-6pm)
This Friday, several of the artists will appear in person to sign exhibition catalogs
$12

No Fun Fest
Three days of noise-rock featuring Religious Knives, Thurston Moore, Tony Conrad, and Hair Police.
The Knitting Factory
Friday May 16 (7pm); Saturday May 17 (7pm); Sunday May 18 (6:30pm)
$20 - 22 daily / $50 three-day pass

In lieu of a typical Guide to the Weekend, Bwog has decided to poll its listservs and aggregate a more helpful list of activities. The following are answers to the question "What do you do to procrastinate?" We hope you'll try out one or two (or nine) of our ideas and use the comment thread to suggest your own. Happy weekend!

• Change the font and wording of my resume

• Decide to take up short story writing

• Even though I live in a dorm, check Craigslist for apartments

• Make new Gmail labels

• Paint with nail polish on Post-It notes

• Change my desktop background

• Translating Spanish philosophers

• Taking four hour midday naps

• Fixing my bike
  
  
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Pardon the temporary hiatus -- but if finals and papers are killing you as much as they're killing us, perhaps it's time for a break anyway.


TONIGHT

Goddard's 60s begins at Film Forum! (209 W Houston St., 212-727-8110). With fashion designer Agnes B. introducing "Breathless" today. Film runs all weekend, event runs through June 5. ($11; see site for show times)

The Hold Steady at Webster Hall (125 E 11th St.) The Brooklyn-based band plays as the main act as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Breaking the Band showcase, with The Virgins, Republic Tigers, and Bad Veins. ($15, 6:30 PM)

Bobby McFerrin Young Artists Concert @ Carnegie Hall, Zankel stage (57th & 7th Ave., 212-247-7800). "After a five-day Professional Training Workshop, McFerrin and participants specializing in a variety of singing traditions will create Instant Opera—an improvised, a cappella work based on the story of the Tower of Babel. This work explores the origins of language while celebrating cultural differences." ($10 Students, 7:30 PM)

The 114th Annual Varsity Show @ Roone Arledge Auditorium (on-campus). Self-explanatory, but in case it isn't: a culmination of all the year's campus jokes rolled into one big musical shebang. ($5/$10/$20 CUID at CUArts TIC, 8PM)

The Kings Crown Shakespeare Troupe presents As You Like It @ Low Plaza (on-campus). See a traveling production by Columbia's own KCST only steps away from your building! Just be prepared in case of any strange weather patterns. (FREE, 11:59PM)

At long last, the Guide to the Weekend has arrived. Bwog apologizes for the delay... Better late than never, no?

SATURDAY

New York City Anarchist Book Fair
An exposition of books, magazines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Showtimes: 1 pm, 8:30 pm
Film Forum 212 727 8110
209 W. Houston

The Graduate
Showtimes: 9:15 pm
BAM Rose Cinemas 718 636 4100 545
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn

If these events are not enough for you, Bwog recommends you check out the listings linked for National Poetry Month. On a tangent from that, Bwog sincerely enjoys this charming photograph of New York poet Frank O'Hara (who will not be present at any of the events listed).

TONIGHT

Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY (365 5th Ave). "Acclaimed writers Junot Diaz and Francisco Goldman discuss writing lives, through history and fiction with Lynn Di Iorio, Assistant Professor of English at City College and The Graduate Center." (FREE, 6:30-7:30PM)

Irezumi Ichidai (Tattooed Life) -- part of Gamblers, Gangsters, and Other Anti-Heroes: The Japanese Yakuza Movie at the Asia Society and Museum. Before you become tired of anything upstanding in Japanese culture (see ongoing events), go see a movie about its intriguing underbelly. (7-9PM, $10 students)

11th Anniversary of Basement Bhangra at S.O.B.'s (200 Varick St, at W Houston St, Soho). Mumbai meets Mojitos: Multi-cultural match made in Heaven. Featuring DJ Rekha and Eddie Stats, with visuals by Fictive. Free mojitos from 7 to 8PM, and free dance lessons at 9PM. (7PM-? $12 w/flyer; $16 without; $5 before 8pm)

Jorie Graham at the New Museum (235 Bowery, SoHo). If you haven't had the chance to check out the New Museum yet, tonight's your chance. Your ticket gets you museum admission as well as Graham's reading from her new collection of poems, Sea Change, in celebration of National Poetry Month. Seating is first-come, first-served. Go! Now! ($5, 7PM)

Bwog once again guides you to the weekend with a slew of events to choose from, including some great ongoing events. Disclaimer: any events sold out were indeed not sold out at the time of compilation. Also, these will be up earlier next week -- we apologize in the meantime.

TONIGHT

The Secret Society with Sunset Rubdown at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Wolf Parade keyboardist Spencer Krug's side project performs tonight with guest bands -- tickets available at the door. Sounds like it could be enough indie to sustain you for the rest of the weekend if you can get there in time... (8PM, $10)

Pocket Concertos: Year Three at Miller Theatre. A premiere of new works by Laura Elise Schwendinger, Ichizo Okashiro, and John Zorn. (8PM, $7 Students w/ID)

The Bwog presents you with another recommended potpourri of goings-on to explore this weekend. Rustic smell/pinecone bits not included. (* indicates free, « indicates on-campus)

THURSDAY

New York Philharmonic with soprano Dawn Upshaw at Lincoln Center. See the NY Phil after their return from North Korea, with to-be Music Director Alan Gilbert conducting. Repertoire includes Berio's Folk Songs and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. Also playing Friday, Saturday. (7:30PM, $12 Student rush)

*« Persepolis screening at Maison Française, Buell Hall. The Oscar-nominated animated film about a young Iranian girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, based on Marjan Satrapi's graphic novels. The catch: it's in French...apparently with French subtitles? (7:30PM, FREE)

With an extra day in the year's calendar and hopefully some free time to spare, Bwog recommends the following for your Leap Day weekend satisfaction. (* indicates free, « indicates on-campus)

Thursday

Oscar-Nominated Short Films at IFC Center. Whether you prefer animated (at 7:10) or live-action (5:20 and 10:05) what better time to check them all out than now? ($11.50)

*« Special Screening of "Roman de gare" with Claude LeLouch at 511 Dodge Hall. On Set with French Cinema: an event sponsored by Maison Française. (FREE, 6:00-8:00)

Alarm Will Sound at Carnegie Hall (Zankel). The experimental classical music ensemble known for a repertoire varying from Aphex Twin to Ligeti plays several works by contemporary composers, including the New York premiere of John Adam's Son of Chamber Symphony. ($10 students, 7:30PM)

As if you needed a reason to get out of Morningside Heights and into one of the greatest cities in the world. Nevertheless, Bwog offers a few. ( * designates free)

Thursday

Bobby McFerrin, vocalist Alison Krauss and bassist Edgar Meyer at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. 8 PM

Friday

* 90s indie rap heroes Soul Summit with DJ Spinna and Strafe at BAMcafe.

* Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures. Portraits of teenagers from South Side of Chicago and a New England prep school. (Th, F, Sa, Sun)

Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The People vs. Larry Flynt) retrospective at MoMA. (Th, F, Sa, Sun)

Kronos Quartet is doing a slew of premieres at Carnegie Hall (call for advance tickets or try $10 student rush)