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  • Critics' Pick

Agenda: New York's culture editors plan the week.

Today: 11/28/10

Monday: 11/29/10

Tuesday: 11/30/10

Wednesday: 12/1/10

Thursday: 12/2/10

Friday: 12/3/10

Saturday: 12/4/10

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Kids

Kidrockers
The Rock Shop

Rhett Miller (of the Old 97's) and Spirit Family Reunion play a special kid-friendly rock show hosted by local stand-up standouts Seth Herzog and Craig Baldo. More »

Nightlife

"A Night of Round Robin Improvised Duets"
(Le) Poisson Rouge

The jazz presenter Search and Restore has rounded up nearly twenty musicians for a collaborative cutting contest that features wily veterans like trombonist Roswell Rudd and well-known stars like the Bad Plus's Reid Anderson. More »

Foodwine

Piglet Party
92YTribeca

A food party celebrating the culmination of a tournament of cookbooks hosted by Charlotte Druckman and food52 co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. More »

Nightlife

Lykke Li
(Le) Poisson Rouge

The Swedish pop star is simultaneously sweet, infectious, and dirty (her latest single features the lyric &amp;#147;I&amp;rsquo;m your prostitute, you gonna get some&amp;#148;). More »

Nightlife

Citizen Cope&rsquo;s Holiday Party
Brooklyn Bowl

The music mixologist hosts a holiday party featuring Gary Clark, Jr., Frozen Files, and a DJ set by Questlove. Bonus: Bowling! More »

Nightlife

Yo La Tengo
Maxwell's

The indie stalwarts are back for their annual Hanukkah residency. More »

Theater

The Coward
The Duke on 42nd Street

Wunderkind director Sam Gold stages this new comedy, set in eighteenth-century England, about a gentleman who initiates a duel and then hires someone to take his place. More »

Art

Factory of Dreams

A selection of photographs by Stefan Ruiz, spanning 7 years of his trips to photograph portraits and sets at the Televisa studios in Mexico City, the largest producer of Telenovelas in the world. More »

nightlife

Matisyahu
Webster Hall

His fifth annual Hanukkah-centric NYC residency, the dub-reggae artist will play five dates here before taking it on tour for the first time. More »

Nightlife

The Radio Dept
Knitting Factory

The Swedish indie-pop trio--whose dreamy songs were heavily leaned upon in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette--usually tend toward the melancholic but switch it up when they go dub on their latest EP, Never Follow Suit . With Braids and High Highs. More »

Nightlife

Andrea Marcovicci
The Algonquin

In her show &amp;#147;Blue Champagne: The History of the Torch Song,&amp;#148; the &amp;#147;heartbreaker&amp;#148; celebrates the genre, complete with signature drink; 11/16&amp;#150;12/30, times vary. More »

Art

Andy Graydon

Graydon&amp;rsquo;s latest 36-minute Super 8 filmmaking endeavor, Vostok, Faretheewell, follows a Japanese desiger in Berlin who&amp;rsquo;s selected to create a 3-D computer model for a spaceship. More »

Art

Sex Life of Robots
Museum of Sex

An exhibit demonstrating the process behind Mike Sullivan&#39;s erotic stop-animation films. More »

Art

On Becoming an Artist
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

The lovely little Long Island City museum examines its namesake's social and professional orbit, pairing Noguchi's art, letters, and photographs with those of his mentor Constantin Brancusi and such friends as Frida Kahlo and Arshile Gorky. More »

Art

In Our Own Words
Brooklyn Historical Society

Oral histories by and personal effects of eight local veterans. More »

community

Winter's Eve

For one night at least, Upper West Side merchants turn a pocket of Manhattan into Small Town, USA, with music and (for a nominal fee) food tastings. More »

Art

Hans Hartung
Cheim & Read

The first showing of Hartung&amp;rsquo;s works in New York since his highly controversial 1975 Met exhibition focuses on his late-eighties abstract paintings, such as &amp;quot;T1989-L14,&amp;quot; a menacing, thorny tangle of black acrylic paint layered over an explosive and fiery background. More »

Theater

The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays by Harold Pinter
Classic Stage Company

The first major New York production of the playwright's work since his death in 2008 offers a pair of one-acts written twenty years apart. More »

Theater

The Fantasticks
The Snapple Theater Center

The sweetly romantic standby about a young boy and girl who fall madly in love at the hands of their meddling fathers. More »

Foodwine

Saturday Wine Tastings
Chambers Street Wines

Co-owners Jamie Wolff and David Lillie are out to make converts to their largely unaltered wines which possess lower alcohol content and a lighter body. More »

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