Tonight is the grand opening of Singularity and Co., New York City's first and only scifi bookshop! 18 Bridge Street in Dumbo, 7 p.m.! (iTunes)

Gore Vidal is dead, why do anything. (iTunes)

Beware the ice cream trucks. (iTunes)

Unprintable at Le Poisson Rouge; Sites of Execution at 1:1. (iTunes)

You know we love some Mary Halvorson, and her new quartet is playing tonight at Barbes; but also! Bettye Lavette in Madison Square Park and M83 in Central Park??? Plus Awl pal Jenna Wortham and boys answer questions at Housing Works.

Perfume Genius is playing in Prospect Park tonight! (iTunes)

Some terrible people's podcasts run long when they haven't had enough coffee. (iTunes)

The world is closing in! (iTunes)

Skip work today! This is it! This is the day! (iTunes)

Poor trampire. :(

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A tabloid flagrant foul! And: NYU and the Destruction of New York is available at McNally Jackson. (iTunes)

Supplemental reading: Three Girls at a Duran Duran Sleepover in 1984; Canada gallery; the George Zimmerman info dump. (iTunes)