This week in New York Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood holds a reading series, Threepenny Review celebrates its thirtieth birthday, A Public Space throws a launch party for Issue 10, Paris Review holds a Fiction Salon, Meghan O’Rourke reads, Ryan McGinley shows some new photographs of more young naked people and the Guggenheim opens its “Haunted” show of mostly old but still good stuff.

MONDAY 3/29: A Celebration of The Threepenny Review. In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Threepenny, started by Wendy Lesser in 1980, writers, including among others Mary Gaitskill, James Lasdun, Richard Locke and C.K. Williams, will gather to read fiction, essay and poetry. Wendy Lesser will introduce. McNally Jackson. 52 Prince St. 7:00pm.

Ada Limon and Meghan O’Rourke read at KGB. 7:00pm.

She and Him, one part Zooey Deschanel one part M. Ward, performs at Bowery Ballroom. 6 Delancey St. 8:00pm.

TUESDAY 3/30: Experimental folk rock bands Dufus and Huggabroomstik perform at Sidewalk Cafe. 94 Ave. A. 10:00pm.

Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue), film. A bloody, perversely chaste interpretation of the classic fairy tale from the director of The Last Mistress, Fat Girl and Romance, Catherine Breillat’s latest is set in motion when two young sisters come across the folk story in a book in the attic. Fascinated, they begin to read the tale of a poor young woman who sets her cap for a frightening, wealthy recluse — despite rumors he’s killed his previous wives. IFC Center. 6:20pm, 8:20pm, 10:10pm.

The Hart of London. This week’s installment of Light Industry’s ongoing film series of hard-to-find films is the painter Jack Chambers’s film involving barbaric experiments of retinal analysis involving cats. Legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Chambers, “The fact is that four films of Jack Chambers have changed the whole history of film, despite their neglect, in a way that isn’t possible within the field of painting.” Light Industry. 177 Livingston St. $7. 7:30pm.

WEDNESDAY 3/31: Open City presents the March KGB Reading with nonfiction by Bryan Charles (reading from Wowee Zowee, about the Pavement album), nonfiction and poetry by Greg Purcell and poetry by Dan Sofaer. KGB Bar. 85 E. 4th St. 7:00pm.

A Public Space Issue 10 Launch Party. Book Court. 7:00pm.

Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading Series. Author and Open City Founding Editor Thomas Beller founded mrbellersneighborhood.com in 2000. The site publishes stories about New York City life that follow in the tradition of Joseph Mitchell and E.B. White—slices of life, portraits of memorable characters, scandalous encounters with public decadence and heartwarming displays of civil courage. Reading will be Abigail Frankfurt, Brent Shearer, Marilyn Horan, Patrick Sauer, Daniel Menaker. Happy Ending. 302 Broome St. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY 4/1: Paris Review Fiction Salon with André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun. Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. 58 W. 10th St. 7:00pm.

Anthology Film Archives presents musician John Zorn, who will provide a live score to a selection of short films by legendary experimental filmmakers Wallace Berman and Harry Smith. Among the films screened will be Berman’s Aleph, and Smith’s Film #23. Anthology Film Archives. $20. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY 4/2: Ryan McGinley: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere. Photographer Ryan McGinley’s show focuses on portraits rather than his usual subject of spontaneous-seeming images of young people doing free and “youthful” things like climbing trees naked or jumping off cliffs naked. Team Gallery. 83 Grand Street.

SATURDAY 4/3: Coney Island Circus Sideshow opening day. SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE is the last place in the USA where you can experience the thrill of a traditional ten-in-one circus sideshow. Watch people eat glass and lit cigarettes, hammer nails into their noses, charm snakes and contort. Sideshows By The Seashore
1208 Surf Ave. $7.50. 1:00pm – 8:00pm.

Joseph Keckler at Joe’s Pub. In his solo debut at Joe’s Pub, performance artist and singer Joseph Keckler performs a special Midnight Mass, a performance in recognition of Easter weekend, centering on the themes of sex and death. Accompanied by violinist Dan Bartfield and a live band, Keckler performs a set of original songs from his forthcoming EP, interspersing blues dirges, operatic arias, and unusual covers of Siouxsie Sioux, David Bowie, and other chameleonic icons. Joe’s Pub. 425 Lafayette St. 11:59pm.

SUNDAY 4/4: Decalogue: Films You Can Count on Two Hands. This “exhibition as film festival” organized by Eve Sussman features works by 10 international artists and contemporary filmmakers whose work is recognized for its innovative approaches to narrative. Converting the gallery space into a cinema, with vintage theater seating and a state-of-the-art screening system, “Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands” will operate on a regular cinema house schedule with a new double featuring running continuously each week. Today, it’s Marcus Coates’s Radio Shaman and The Plover’s Wing (shown together at 2:20pm, and 4:10pm), and Jim Finn’s Interkosmos (2:55pm, 4:45pm). Winkleman Gallery. 621 W. 27th St. (bet. 11th & W. Side Highway).

ART: Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. This new exhibition examines the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Guggenheim Museum. Fifth Avenue @89th St.

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Original Notable New York Illustration © André da Loba

Other images in order of appearance. Film still from The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970);  Matt K. (Ryan McGinley, 2010); Orange Disaster #5 (Andy Warhol, 1963).

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This week in New York, lit mags The Faster Times, The Rumpus, Gigantic and Open City throw holiday parties, James Gallery holds Pornography in the City panel, Nick Flynn and Joseph Fasano read at Projection, LDM holds Holiday Episode, Stephen Elliott discusses the making of memoir, the Bloodsugars perform, Quentin Tarantino talks, Gabriel Orozco gets retrospectivized at MOMA, and the Madcap Manhattan series screens at Film Forum.

MONDAY 12/14: Wall Street Jolly: The Faster Times, The Rumpus and Gigantic Holiday Party–Whether you prefer pinstripes or a silk-twill shift, put on your Wall Street inspired holiday best and come out and party like you just got a $3 mil. bonus. The Faster Times, The Rumpus and Gigantic invite you to celebrate another fun fiscally irresponsible year with champagne, music and random acts of talent (like Anthony Swofford juggling disco balls). Glasslands Gallery. 289 Kent Ave (between 1st and Grand), Brooklyn. Free. 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

Film Forum’s Madcap Manhattan series (all on 35mm prints) continues with Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take it With You classic Oscar-winning comedy starring Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore and Spring Byington. 9:55pm.

TUESDAY 12/15: Pornography in the City. In an afternoon of discussion, the Graduate Center’s James Gallery takes up the question posed by “Peeps” the Spring 2009 James Gallery exhibit on New York peep shows of the 60s and 70s and what they can tell us about now. Scholars, critics and artists will revisit the modes of spectatorship and social networks the peep arcades inadvertently spawned. James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center. 365 Fifth Avenue. Free and open to the public. 2:00pm – 6:00pm.

Open City Holiday Party: Join editor Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas in celebrating the launch of Open City #28 with readings by Jonathan Dee and Sam Lipsyte. The Hi-Fi Bar. 169 Avenue A (between 10th & 11th). 7:00pm – 9:00pm.

WEDNESDAY 12/16: Projection: A Reading Series–Nick Flynn (author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City), Joseph Fasano and Jason Schneiderman. This series features text projected next to the reader to produce “a unique sonic and visual experience of the literary arts.” Center for Performance Research. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. $5. 8:00pm.

Les Contes d’Hoffmann (the Stories of Hoffmann)–Inspired by Kafka, director Bart Sher describes his production of Offenbach’s psychological fantasy as “a magical journey in which the character works out different manifestations of his psyche.” Joseph Calleja sings the tour-de-force title role, opposite Anna Netrebko, one of opera’s biggest stars, as the tragic Antonia and Alan Held as the demonic four villains. James Levine conducts. Tix (very few) still available. Metrpolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. 8:00pm – 11:35pm.

Rumble–Brooklyn featuring Marianne, the Bloodsugars, She Keeps Bees, and Violent Soho. (Courtesy of Moffie Sez). Southpaw. 125 Fifth Avenue. Brooklyn.  8:30 – 12:00am.

Film Forum’s Madcap Manhattan series continues with Little Murders (1971, Alan Arkin) starring Eliott Gould. Screenwriter Jules Feiffer will appear with castmembers Elizabeth Wilson and John Korkes. 7:00pm.

THURSDAY 12/17: Literary Death Match Ep. #21. As a gift to the literary faithful, LDM’s holiday episode will be free (a gift to LDM fans), plus there will be a lightning round version of the event with a holiday-themed finale. Terese Svoboda and James Yeh compete. Ben Greenman judges. Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery. 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

Screening of Inglorious Basterds followed by discussion with Quentin Tarantino. MOMA. 11 W. 53rd St. 8:00pm.

The Paris Review Salon: Colum McCann and Timothy Donnelly read. Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th St. (bet. 5&6 Ave.). 7:00pm – 9:00pm.

Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls with Nico and Brigid Berlin. Anthology Film Archives. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY 12/18: On Creating the Adderall Diaries with Stephen Elliott. The Rumpus’s own Stephen Elliott uses his true crime memoir to open a discussion on memoir-writing. Word. 126 Franklin St. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. $23 (Admission includes a copy of the book). 6:30pm. Tickets.

SATURDAY 12/19: Gabriel Orozco. The artist once called “the leading conceptual and installation artist of his generation” by The New Yorker, and has dozens of works in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Whitney, Mr. Orozco is having a mid-career retrospective.

Shorts Program, a program of short film which includes Beware of the Hot Dog People (2002), The Bearding of the President and Cargo of Lure (1974). Anthology Film Archives. 6:30pm.

SUNDAY 12/20: Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, & Rent Boys: Writers David Henry Sterry, Audacia Ray, Hawk Kinkaid, and Zoe Hansen read from stories of their experiences as sex workers in this collection, which has been called “an eye-opening, astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe.” KGB Bar. 85 E. 4th. 7:00pm.

ART: Janaina Tschäpe is known for her multimedia works depicting female figures lavishly costumed with appendages of inflatable balloons, latex tubing, and organic matter. Tschäpe’s work is part of the exhibition “Dress Codes” – International Center of Photography’s Third Triennial of Photography and Video–among that of many great photographers including Cindy Sherman, Stan Douglas and Laurie Simmons.

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Original Notable New York Illustration © André da Loba

Other images in order of appearance: Photo by Albert Steg; Gabriel Orozco’s Horses Running Endlessly (1995); and Janaina Tschäpe’s Lacrimacorpus (Zeitschneide) (2004).

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