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Your 2026 Calander… January, 2026 Thursday, January 8 - From 12:15pm and 4:15pm at Film Forum — Last chance to see Peter Hujar’s Day - “The best film in Sundance is just two people talking.” - Vulture . | Tickets here - From 6pm - 8pm at Film Forum — Last chance to see It Was Just an Accident (2025) - the first film by the provocative Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi since liberation from imprisonment and a filmmaking ban

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Your 2026 Calander… January, 2026 Thursday, January 8 - From 12:15pm and 4:15pm at Film Forum — Last chance to see Peter Hujar’s Day - “The best film in Sundance is just two people talking.” - Vulture . | Tickets here - From 6pm - 8pm at Film Forum — Last chance to see It Was Just an Accident (2025) - the first film by the provocative Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi since liberation from imprisonment and a filmmaking ban. | Tickets here - From 6pm - 8pm a few good gallery openings tonight. At Blade Study ; Adrienne Greenblatt I Wept at the Tomb of my Mother’s Tongue . At Broadway ; Nightswimming is a group exhibition taking its title from R.E.M’s 1992 song “nightswimming” - hush, risk, and after dark clarity. At Half Gallery, Emily Ferguson In Paintings on Drawings opens. - From 8pm at Night Club 101 — An evening of performances by Volta , Kyle Scheurich, and Tanguay . DJ set to follow by shoy-li . Volta is only in New York for one week, and I’m very excited about this one. Not to miss!! | Tickets here - From 11pm at Paul’s Casablanca – Iris Simoe is hosting. DJ: Sofia D’Angelo + Rhett Bixler Friday, January 9 - From 7:30 - 10pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — It’s stand up night . Tommy Bayer and Joan Flaherty are headlining. Also performing: Auryn Rothwell, Johnny Yan, Sam York, Adrienne Hunter. Potentially funny. - From 10:10pm at Alamo Drafthouse — WWW.RACHELORMONT.COM screens - “Rachel doesn’t realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0, her favorite pop star in the whole entire world.” Additional screenings at additional locations here . - Los Angeles - From 7pm at Red Lion Tavern — Evan Laffer and Ruby Zuckerman present readings by Molly Crabapple, Robin Estrin, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Madeleine Kunkle, Joseph Moscow, and Sarah Wang. Saturday, January 10 - From 7pm at Night Club 101 — Epoxy plays, alongside My Transparent Eye , Cleo Walks Through Glass , and Addie (computerwife) (DJ). Everyone’s favorite band! - From 8:30 - 11:00pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — The 2 026 fundraising party ! Pay what you wish. Be generous! - From 10pm - 4am at Rash — Fantasia is back with a techno musical composition in free form.

  • Los Angeles — From 5pm - 8pm at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery — Jeans Generation opens. Curated by Ana Makharadze . - “Bringing together fifteen artists, the exhibition explores the psychology of daydreaming as a form of resistance and self-preservation, an interior space where imagination becomes both refuge and quiet defiance.” Sunday, January 11 - From 7pm at Seventh Heaven — DOE reading. Many readers; Conor Hultman, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Anika Jade Levy, Manuel Marrero, John Padula, Sean Thor Conroe, and more. Monday, January 12 Tuesday, January 11 Wednesday, January 12 Thursday, January 13 - From 7:30pm - 10:15pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — Another table read of The Last Days of Downtown - “Watch the playwriting process in motion and listen to a live reading of the NINTH draft of “The Last Days of Downtown” by Matthew Gasda. | tickets here - From 7pm at The York — Punisher returns with their second installment . A reading series by writers-and-divas-turned-visionaries: Sarah Velk and Kennedy Wright . Readings by Magdalene Taylor, Vivi Hayes, Erin Satterthwaite, Emma Newman-Holde, Revenge Wife, and Mikayla Bryant. Great lineup! Wednesday, January 14 - A few good downtown art openings tonight ( 6pm - 9pm ) — At 56 Henry ; works by Yifan Jiang and Sareh Imani . At Entrance; Seth Cameron’s first New York exhibition in six years. At Post Times ; Elberto Muller solo show. - From 7pm - 9pm at Beverly’s — D8 Time returns! Everyone meets everyone. - From 7pm (doors) at White Horse Tavern — The Drift hosts their Issue 16 Launch Party . Readings and a party. You know the drill. These are always fun. | Free for print subscribers, or $20 for admission + print issue - From 7pm at KGB Bar — Riley Mac & Montana Thomas James bring back Straight Girls , with readings from Anna Birch, Whitney Mallett, Bunny Rogers, Sam Anderson, and Tilghman Goldsborough. - From 7pm at Night Club 101 — It’s the first 99 Minutes of 2026; screening Suitcase of Love and Shame (2014) along with a bonus surprise super short film. This month, Nikoleta Vujnovic of Silver Hour NYC is guest programming. Opening remarks by filmmaker Heather Landsman . Afterparty to follow | Free! - From 7:30pm - 9pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — The Pilgrim opens; a new play written and directed by Luc d’Arcy . - “Naturalistic, funny, and painfully tender, The Pilgrim is about small talk that becomes big talk, & the strange ways we reach for love.” | tickets here . Additional performances Jan 15, 16, 17, and 18. Thursday, January 15 - From 6:30pm at P&T Knitwear — David Fishkind presents his debut novel Don’t Step Into My Office in conversation with Ross Barkan . - “security and HR have been told to stand down as readers breathlessly rush in.” After party to follow at Night Club 101. Cannot recommend this one enough. Very excited <3 | tickets here - From 7pm - 9pm at KGB Red Room — GirlPox presents Open Text Night. Like an open mic night but it’s your real unhinged text messages… Emceed by Marc Rebillet . | RSVP here Friday, January 16 - From 8pm - late at Lubov Gallery — Ada Donnelly presents OOMF: Boysturn. Readings on modern romance from Peter Vack, Billy Pedlow, Qingyuan Deng, Brett Fletcher Laur, Callum Murphy, Tyler Wolpert, Alex Barney, Drew Zeiba, Ryan D Petersen. - From 8:30 - 11pm in Bedstuy BK (RSVP for address) — Sophia Englesberg & Spokane Films present a fundraiser party for Thumper - a film by Cyprian Morona . I’ll be reading here, along with Sadie Parker, Bob Laine, Matthew Danger Lippman, and more! Saturday, January 17 - 169 Bar needs your help!! Get a pickle-tini. Get some questionable merch - From 6pm - 10pm at Studio 1609 — Bones Gilmore presents the opening of solo show RANDOM PRAYER GENERATOR - “a loosely medieval take on the casual brutality of modern life and spiritual living.” Flash tattoos and drinks. Works for sale. - From 10pm at Xanadu — Dirty Mag presents Jubilee and Donatella for a night of Latin-freestyle and cross-genre mix. - LOS ANGELES - From 7pm - 9pm — Club Chess presents an evening of chess, wine, and music. DJ sets by A.L. Bahta and friends. Sunday, January 18 - LOS ANGELES - From 7pm at The Earl — Matt Weinberger + Echoes + Le Keep present a night of DJ sets and performances: Chloe Cherry Blake The Man 1000 Drake Jazz Brown Emma Burney Le Keep Buff Pons Crooks etc. Monday, January 19 Tuesday, January 20 Wednesday, January 21 Thursday, January 22 Friday, January 30 Saturday, January 31 - From 10pm at The Bell House — Unmatched brings a night of passionate comedy followed by a one time screening of a secret project about a timeless topic: love! Ft Edy Modica, Jacqueline Blizzard, Rachel Coster, and more| tickets here Tuesday, January 27 - From 8pm at The River — Theme Trivia returns with Medieval Trivia. - From 8:10pm at Metrograph — Another screening of Calendar ( Atom Egoyan , 1993) - “It is as if Calendar has no beginning and no end. Structured like a hypnotic ellipse, it obsessively rotates, looping spectral memories that endlessly arrive and depart.” - From 8:30pm at Film Forum — Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) - “ an intimate rendering of an aging professor whose solitude is interrupted when a rich family forcibly moves into the upper floor of his Rome palazzo.” - From 9:30pm at Roxy Cinema — Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs, 2025) screens in 35mm. Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) - Image via Film Forum Wednesday, January 28 - From 6pm - 8pm at Vito Schnabel — Francesco Clemente Travel Diary opens - “reanimating Eastern and Western mystical traditions through personal experience.” - From 7pm at Night Club 101 — Ani Tatintsyan presents Notes on Redemption . A reading; featuring Ann Manov, Cam Fateh, Em Brill, Isabel Timerman, Liam Ryan, Isabella Willms Jones, Layla Halabian, and Viven Lee. Fab lineup! Excited for this <3 - From 8pm at Tawny — Club Chess returns. Live music selections, wine. Back to the classics. Thursday, January 29 - From 7pm at EARTH — Lisa Crystal Carver presents Rollerderby: an evening of readings, books, conversations, and re-enactments of interviews with Courtney Love, GG Allin, Yamatsuka Eye, Boyd Rice, and more. The evening marks the very first official 1-run reprint of 25-volume zine, ROLLERDERBY (1990-1998). (additional works here ) - From 8pm at Night Club 101 — Kathy Joyce and Chica Mob are throwing a Very Interesting Party (and book launch). Kathy will be reading from her debut book; 3 (Ristretto Books). It’s about Starbucks, baseball, and her dark past. DJ set by Maisy Swords . After party upstairs. - From 8:50pm - 11:59pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — It’s the Final Night of Huron Street Party . Pay what you wish tickets but you should definitely donate. End of an era. | RSVP here . Friday, January 30 - From 7pm - late at Mirror Bar — The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation celebrates the legacy and birthday of publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano and the upcoming publication of Vices —a collection of his essays and interviews. Readings by foundation alumni, live jazz sets, and DJs. | Tickets here ($20 for entrance only, $50 for entrance, an early pre-release copy of the book) - From 8pm - 12am at 243 Bowery — Offline Gallery presents New Media Expo, ft artists, theorists, and DJs Clay Devlin, Ocrnl, Wasegun Oyetunde, Ruby Justice Thelo, Muein, and more. - From 8pm - late at Beverley’s — P R O V ️ D E N C E opens, ft Anders Lindseth, Toussaint Rosefort, Michelle Rosenberg, Gregory Gangemi, and Alexander Perrelli. - “As beauty-seeking people, we scan the horizon for patterns of natural alignment, looking for what is right. These transcendental moments bring us to an understanding that our individual realities are part of a greater rhythmic whole.”

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