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ART


BOWERY BOYS (AND GIRLS) Stephanie Chernikowski has been photographing – and living on – the Bowery since the 1970s. The exhibit “On the Bowery” features her pictures of Debbie Harry, the Talking Heads, Jim Jarmusch, and Allen Ginsberg, along with everyday residents on one of New York’s most storied streets. Through Sunday, December 12, BLVD, 199 Bowery at Spring Street, free.


CASSATT COLLECTION A collection of 48 counterproofs by Mary Cassatt are on view for the first time at Adelson Galleries. “Art in a Mirror” includes the subjects for which Cassatt is best known: women, mothers and children, and girls with their pets. Through January 14, Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. the Mark Hotel, Adelson Galleries, 25 E. 77th St. at Madison Avenue, third floor, 212-439-6800, free. Note: The gallery will be closed between December 25 and January 2, and from January 2 to January 14 will be closed on Saturdays.


BENEFITS


POSITIVE DIFFERENCE The Partnership for a Drug-Free America honors Tom Brokaw at its second annual “Making a Difference” gala. Monday, 6:30 p.m. cocktails, 7:30 p.m. dinner and dancing, Waldorf-Astoria, Park Avenue at 50th Street, 212-973-3533, $1,000.


BOOKS


JERSEY GUY Joshua Braff reads from his novel “The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green” (Algonquin), about a Jewish boy in New Jersey trying to please his distant father. Mr. Braff’s brother, Zach, wrote and directed the film “Garden State,” about…a Jewish boy in New Jersey trying to please his distant father.


Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Greenwich Village, 396 Sixth Ave. at 8th Street, 212-674-8780, free.


FAMILY


SHE’S ON THE CASE The new family musical “Cam Jansen” is based on David Adler’s popular book series about a young heroine of the same name. Cam has a photographic memory and a knack for solving mysteries. In Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin’s staged version of her adventures, she goes after the Case of the Emerald Elephant of Pajamastan.


Through Sunday, today-Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon, 3:30, and 7 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Lamb’s Theatre, 130 W. 44th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-239-6200, $25. Note: No performance on Thursday (Thanksgiving) and additional performance on Friday at 2 p.m.


FILM


SISTERS ON SCREEN The 1969 French film “Les Creatures” is screened as part of a series focusing on Catherine Deneuve and her older sister Francoise Dorleac, an actress who died in a car accident at age 25. The film, directed by Agnes Varda, is presented by the French Institute Alliance Francaise. Today, 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, and 9 p.m., Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-355-6160, $9 general, $7 students, free for members.


DIASPORA DAYS The African Diaspora Film Festival screens movies that explore the global black experience from Belgium to Brazil to Burkina Faso. The series opens with the American premiere of “Kabala,” Assane Kouyate’s 2002 film from Mali that tells the story of what happens in a Mande village when the sacred well dries up (Friday, 8:30 p.m., $30, in Bambara with English subtitles. Additional screening Monday, 7 p.m.). Other highlights include the French animated children’s film “Kirikou and the Sorceress” (Saturday, 1 p.m., Monday and Friday, December 3, noon); “The Other Final,” about a soccer game between the world’s lowest ranked national teams, Bhutan and Montserrat (Sunday, 3:15 p.m.), and the 1999 Egyptian drama “Fallen Angels Paradise,” based on a short story about a homeless man’s death by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado (Monday, December 6, 2 p.m., in Arabic with English subtitles). Festival: Friday through Sunday, December 12, days and times vary, most screenings held at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-864-1760, $9 general, $7 Monday-Friday general and seniors and students at all times, $110 pass includes admission to all regular screenings and discussions. See www.nyadff.org for full schedule.


MUSIC


BROOKLYN TUNES BAMcafe presents a holiday weekend pair of performances by MC Akim Funk Buddha with emerging hip-hop artists. Raised in Zimbabwe, the beat-boxing storyteller released his first African hip-hop album, “Zimbabwe Legit,” in the early 1990s. Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m., Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, free admission, $10 food and drink minimum.


SCHOENBERG ON SCREEN The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presents a three-part series on how music affected movie history. Each installment focuses on 20th-century chamber symphonies from the group’s 2004-05 Carnegie Hall season. The “Sound Off” series kicks off with “The Golden Age of Film,” with film clips and musical performances that focus on Arnold Schoenberg’s presence in Los Angeles from 1934 until his death in 1951. The host of WNYC’s “Soundcheck,” John Schaefer, moderates a discussion with musicologist Michael Beckerman, film and television composer Mark Snow, and the director of “Live from Lincoln Center,” John Goberman. The full chamber orchestra will perform Schoen berg’s 2nd Chamber Symphony at Carnegie Hall on December 4. Sunday, 3 p.m., Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, free.


READINGS


EXISTENTIAL LUNCH Jean Paul Sartre’s 1939 short story “The Wall” is read by a cast of four directed by Anthony Marsellis. The event is part of a National Arts Club program that presents lunch and readings of one-act plays. Monday, 12:30 p.m. lunch, 1:30 p.m. reading, the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, between Lexington Avenue and Gramercy Park West, 212-362-2560, $47 for lunch and reading, reservations requested. Note: Business attire required.


TALKS


CITY STORIES Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto talks about growing up in and reporting on Mexico City. The lecture is part of the “Necessary Translations” series focusing on the city and its writers. The evening also celebrates the publication of “The Mexico City Reader” (University of Wisconsin Press), edited by Ruben Gallo. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-255-5793 ext. 11, $10.


JEWISH MUSEUMS Art historian Grace Cohen Grossman gives an illustrated lecture based on her book “Jewish Museums of the World” (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates). The volume highlights more than 150 Jewish museums with a variety of collections. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 W. 4th St., between Broadway and Mercer Street, 212-824-2293, free, reservations and photo I.D. required for entrance.


THEATER


SVEJK AT WAR Jaroslav Hasek’s 1923 satiric novel “The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the Great War” is the inspiration for Irish playwright Colin Teevan’s “Svejk.” The story of a “village idiot” drafted into World War I features 13 actors playing 44 roles and making 78 costume changes. Through Sunday, December 5, Tuesday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 7 p.m., matinee days and times vary, the Duke, 229 W. 42nd St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-239-6200, $60.


TOURS


FESTIVE FEET New Yorkers can celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season with a walking tour that explores sites associated with historic holidays. “The Victorian Christmas” tour includes a stop at Pete’s Tavern, where O. Henry wrote “The Gift of the Magi” and Clement Clark Moore penned “The Night Before Christmas.” Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m., 212-465-3331 for meeting place and reservations, $13.



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