CONCERTS Wednesday 12/22 MESSIAH SING-IN National Choral Council pres. "Holiday Season …

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MESSIAH SING-IN National Choral Council pres. "Holiday Season Handel’s Messiah Sing-In." Bring your own score and sing along, or buy at concessions before show; Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, B’way (64th St.), 721-6500; 8, $21-$70.   nyc gay men’s chorus "Comfort and Joy: Songs for a Midwinter’s Eve" feat. soprano Indira Mahajan; Carnegie
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READINGS Wednesday 12/22 WILD WEDNESDAYS Viviana Grell & Irene Mallinger host …

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WILD WEDNESDAYS Viviana Grell & Irene Mallinger host open mic with featured readers each week, this week, Dennis Gray & Ken Thompson; New World Coffee, 107-24 Continental Ave. (Queens Blvd.), 718-271-2696; 6:30-9:30, $3 min.   Friday 12/24 OPEN MIC AT THE PINK PONY Weekly reading series. Tonight, all "Jew York Poetz" needed for an unchristian
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Mae West’s Sex

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Nearly everyone who has looked into the matter now agrees that the real reason for this raid wasn’t Sex, whose greatest provocation was that its prostitute-protagonist didn’t apologize, shrink away or die in the end, but rather West’s other play, The Drag, a raucous and equally unapologetic transvestite spectacle that homophobic officials were determined to
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DANCE FLAMENCO EXTRAVAGANZA Flamenco performances in tapas bar; El …

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Flamenco performances in tapas bar; El Patio Del East Side, 211 E. 60th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), 838-9090; Fri. & Sat. 8:30, $25.   NOTCRACKER Second annual holiday performance celebrates youth theater with "Papillion," "Simon Sez," "Tarantella," "Apple Pie" & "Medium: Rare" works incorporating bugs, Irish music, solo performances & a mini-trampoline; Joyce
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SKITS & IMPROV ANTISLAM Rev. Jen hosts a scorn free open …

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Rev. Jen hosts a scorn free open mic; Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 539-7570; Weds. at 8, $3.   BRAIN CANCER CAUSES CELL PHONES Sketch play bashes media, earthquakes & NYU; Gene Frankel Theater, 24 Bond St. (betw. Lafayette St. & Bowery), 560-7492; Fri.-Sun. at 8, $10.   BURN MANHATTAN Improv
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EXHIBITIONS AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM 40 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & …

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40 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 956-3535. Weds. & Tues. 10-8; Fri.-Sun. 10-7; closed Mon. & Thurs. $5, $2.50 st./sc. "The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture" focuses on "the world’s most ancient & portable art form–beads" [through 1/30].   AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Central Park W. (79th St.), 769-5200. Weds., Thurs.
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STAND-UP COMEDY BLUESTOCKING 172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton & …

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172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 330-8611. SAT: TV Head, 12 a.m., $5.   CAROLINE’S COMEDY CLUB 1626 B’way (49th St.), 757-4100. Call for prices & times. WED-THURS: Greer Barnes. THURS-FRI: Kevin Meany   CIRCA TABAC 32 Watts St. (betw. Thompson St. & 6th Ave.) 501-2346. TUES: Beth & Neil’s Comedy Brothel, 8:30,
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FAMILY brooklyn botanic garden Brooklyn’s lovely Botanic Garden offers free …

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Brooklyn’s lovely Botanic Garden offers free admission to visitors entering before noon on Saturdays, always free for those 16 & under & Tuesdays are free all day. "Blooming Lights" light up the Garden with holiday displays, entertainment & refreshments [Weds.-Sun. 5:30-9, through 1/2, $5, $2 child./s.c.]; Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Ave. (Eastern Pkwy.), 718-623-7200;
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THEATER In Previews LOBSTER ALICE What happens when an uninspired artist …

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LOBSTER ALICE What happens when an uninspired artist meets Salvador Deli; Playwrights Horizons at the Wilder Theater, 416 W. 42nd St. (betw. 9th & 10th Aves.), 279-4200; call for times, $37.50 [opens 1/9, through 1/23].   Just Opened THE AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE Renaissance man, Mike Raphone’s solo journey at Surf Reality, 172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton
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