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We’re back with your daily reminder of cool events happening tonight across the Flavorpillaverse. If you’d rather have this information delivered straight to your inbox each Tuesday, sign up for our Flavorpill City Guides.

We’re back with your daily reminder of cool events happening tonight across the Flavorpillaverse. If you’d rather have this information delivered straight to your inbox each Tuesday, sign up for our Flavorpill City Guides.

• If you’re in New York: Don’t miss the premiere of Comix’s new show, “What’s So Funny?“  The show features comedians, who sit on a couch after their performance, and get “analyzed”  by comedian/psychologist Mark Bellace, PhD.

• If you’re in Los Angeles: Get a sneak preview of the new documentary about screenwriting, Tales from the Script, which features many prominent and successful screenwriters talking about their successes, failures, and the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written.

• If you’re in San Francisco: Check out Ratio3 Gallery’s new exhibition, Safe Word, which is hosting some of artists Danny Keith, Amanda Kirkhuff, Takeshi Murata, Francine Spiegel, and Anthony Viti’s responses to the production and representation of extreme kinkiness.  

• If you’re in Chicago: Go catch Wooden Wand, James Jackson Toth’s most lively work to date, in which he spikes each turn with a different folk-rock element, be it a moody, rumbling chorus or an unexpected burst.

1. If you’re in New York: Tonight’s Repulsion show is the Blackened Music Series’ inaugural event, set to bring seriously heavy music to the Brooklyn metal masses. Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth will also play.
2. If you’re in Los Angeles: The lavishly illustrated docu-novel from artist Zak Smith expands on certain extant themes in his paintings and drawings — specifically those relating to the alt-culture, or indie wing, of the porn business. He reads tonight at Skylight Books.
3. If you’re in San Francisco: Nosaj Thing is the alias of Jason Chung, a 24 year-old L.A. based glitch-hop artist and producer whose perfectionism inspires the of use nearly any object capable of making noise to create his eerie, elegant tracks. Catch him at Mighty tonight.
4. If you’re in Chicago: In Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, porn star Sasha Grey portrays Chelsea, a high-class escort who visits clients during the economic crisis before the 2008 presidential election.

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• If you’re in New York: Check out a screening of Je, Tu, Il, Elle, a 1974 film by Chantal Ackerman, who also stars as part of writer Sarah Schulman’s Queer/Art/Film series.

• If you’re in Los Angeles: Celebrate the release of NextAid’s charity CD, Funk Aid for Africa, compiled by DJ OBaH, by dancing the night away at Afro-Funke’s weekly Afro-boogie extravaganza.

• If you’re in San Francisco: Check out Pearls Over Shanghai, a revival of the first musical production of San Francisco’s gender-bending troupe, the Cockettes.

• If you’re in Chicago: Go see folk-rocker Josh Ritter perform with Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons. Ritter, who meteorically rose to fame with his 2002 album, Golden Age of Radio, has been compared to the greats Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.

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If you’re in New York: Five bucks buys a beer and a plate of high-end barbeque at Summer BBQ Blowout feat. Sam Mason and Harlem Shakes.
If you’re in Los Angeles: Zócalo Public Square presents an Evening with Justice Carlos R. Moreno — who was the sole dissenting vote against upholding Proposition 8.
If you’re in San Francisco: Craving melancholy roots rocks? Check out Magnolia Electric Co. w/ The Donkeys and Val Esway & El Mirage at Bottom of the Hill.
If you’re in Chicago: Never heard of Italianamerican (1974)? It’s Martin Scorsese’s sweet, carefree documentary about his parents.

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If you’re in New York: This compulsive 1982 documentary shuttles between footage of Fela Kuti’s infectious performances at his Afrika Shrine and interviews in which the “prophet” sounds off on multinationals, the “spiritual life” of music, and Nigeria’s militaristic regime.

If you’re in LA: The early buzz surrounding intercontinental duo Bass Science references an array of electronica offshoots, including dubstep, glitch-hop, IDM, and techno bass.

If you’re in San Francisco: Today, Dave Eggers reads from and discusses the people and places in Zeitoun, a piece of non-fiction set in post-Katrina New Orleans, with book sale proceeds benefiting 826 Valencia.

If you’re in Chicago: Like many other movies, Paper Heart is about true love, why it occurs, and if it exists at all. Unlike other movies, Flavorpill is screening it for you for free, tonight!

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If you’re in New York: Film Forum reminds New York cineastes why Nick Ray merited that famed bouquet from Godard (“le cinéma, c’est Nicholas Ray”) with 14 films over the next two weeks.

If you’re in LA: Head down to Pershing Square and check out Lights on LA, an exhibition of light bulbs decorated by various artists to help remind us all why we need art.  Bonus: the exhibit has been timed to coincide with the summer outdoor concert series.

If you’re in San Francisco: Take a gander at Fernando Eimbcke’s Lake Tahoe, playing this week at Sundance Kabuki Cinema. Anything that’s earned a comparison to Jarmush is definitely worth the price of admission.

If you’re in Chicago: Performed in tribute to Barbara Tiao, the late founder of the Chinese Fine Arts Society In Tribute: A Chinese Voyage features contributions from Chicago violinist (and member of thrash-metal band Earthen Grave) Rachel Barton Pine, longtime CSO clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, erhu artist Betti Xiang and percussion ensemble Cheng Da Drumming Team.

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• If you’re in New York: For its eighth Monthly Dinner, Monkey Town serves up one of the most chewed-over films in history — Last Year at Marienbad (1961) — alongside six chateau-worthy courses taken from Auguste Escoffier’s famous cookbook.

• If you’re in Los Angeles: La Luz de Jesus memorializes Gidget Gein with a major retrospective of his pop culture-infused surrealist exploitation, honoring the twisted yet provocative work of “the Brian Jones of our generation.”

• If you’re in San Francisco: Whether you’re an adherent of the Abiding Church of the Dude or just the average lover of bowling and White Russians, you mustn’t miss this year’s Lebowski Fest.

• If you’re in Chicago: William Friedkin’s fact-based classic The French Connection still trumps the modern-day, testosterone-drenched cop flick.

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• If you’re in New York: Celebrate everyone’s favorite activity at the Museum of Sex’s annual benefit for Planned Parenthood, with an open bar and DJ Donna D’Cruz spinning all night long. (Congrats to Craig, the winner of our contest.)

• If you’re in Los Angeles: Experimental composer Philip Glass and his Ensemble will be playing a selection tonight to flesh out several film works by Glass, accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

• If you’re in San Francisco: There will be a screening of Brett Gaylor’s newest documentary, RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which features Girl Talk, and examines the legal and creative implications of making remixes and mash-ups.

• If you’re in Chicago: Stellastarr* with Wild Light and the Postmarks will be performing a concert tonight during the tour for their new album, Civilized.