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ROB RIGGLE

DAILY SHOW vet Rob Riggle left for the West Coast but is back for four shows at Comix

Comix
353 West 14th St.
Friday, December 4, and Saturday, December 5, $29-$34, 8:00 & 10:30
212-524-2500
www.comixny.com
www.robriggle.com

Born in Kentucky, raised in Kansas, and currently based in Los Angeles, Rob Riggle is perhaps best known as the tough-talking correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW who reported from Iraq, but in addition he is a trained Method actor, was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marines, has a master’s degree in public administration, and cites Harvey Keitel and Tony Robbins as two of his heroes. Riggle is also a stand-up comedian who was a longtime member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and was on SNL during the 2004-5 season, and he will be bringing his routine to Comix for four shows over two nights, December 4-5. Expect lots of military-related jokes from Riggle, who has appeared in such films as THE HANGOVER and such TV shows as THE OFFICE and GARY UNMARRIED.

JUDY GOLD IN JEWDY, JEWDY, JEWDY!!!

Judy Gold will be riffing on her crazy family and more at Joe’s Pub

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St. between East Fourth St. & Astor Pl.
November 27-29, $18
212-967-7555
www.judygold.com
www.joespub.com

A self-described “mom, comedian, actress, writer, author, and oh — my mother’s favorite—a lesbian,” Judy Gold is, understandably, the author of the book 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER and has been on the road with her one-woman show “Judy Gold Is Mommie Queerest.” Born in Newark and based in New York City, the Emmy-winning Gold, who has been appearing on TruTV’s THE SMOKING GUN PRESENTS: WORLD’S DUMBEST, will be performing “Jewdy, Jewdy, Jewdy!!!” at Joe’s Pub for what should be three hysterical nights, November 27-29.

BIG BALLOON BLOW-UP

Central Park West to Columbus Ave. between 77th & 81st Sts.
Wednesday, November 25, free, 3:00 — 10:00 (time approximate)
212-494-4495
www.macys.com

Watching the annual inflation-eve blow-up of Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons is a growing tradition, with crowds getting bigger and bigger every year, but it’s still a thrill to see the giant characters raised from the ground, reborn every Thanksgiving to march in a parade watched by millions and millions of people around the world.

BROOKLYN PIE BAKE-OFF

Spacecraft
355 Bedford Ave.
Sunday, November 22, $10, 1:30 – 4:30
718-599-2718
www.brooklynpiebake.tumblr.com

Spacecraft is hosting the first annual Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off, inviting everyone to present their finest pies in what should be a mighty tasty competition. Admission is $10 for two slices of pie, ice cream, and drinks, but it’s free if you come with a homemade pie to enter into the contest. All pies must include homemade crust, and at least one ingredient must have been grown within a two-hundred-mile radius of Brooklyn. Good luck!

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

GREAT EVENINGS IN THE GREAT HALL
The Great Hall at the Cooper Union
7 East Seventh St. at Astor Pl.
Thursday, November 19, free, 6:30
212-353-4195
www.cooper.edu/month.html

As part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a special evening will commemorate the role the institution has played in advancing social justice for women in the United States. The free multimedia program features music, photographs, discussion, and re-creations of the defiance of such suffragists as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, and Anne Dickinson, with guests Karen Finley, Karen DeCrow, André De Shields, Brenda Wehle, and Lauren Keating.

SIT DOWN, RISE UP

Members of the Interdependence Project are in the midst of a meditation marathon in the windows of ABC Home & Carpet (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

ABC Home & Carpet
888 Broadway at 19th St.
Admission: free
www.theidproject.org
flickr slideshow
We admit it: Running around the city nonstop occasionally wears us down just a teeny little bit, so one of us will be taking a rather different kind of break on Saturday, November 7. We’ll be sitting in one of the window displays of ABC Home & Carpet on Broadway at 19th St., participating in Sit Down, Rise Up, a twenty-four-hour meditation marathon to raise funds for the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization that works with meditation as a center for developing programs in eco-activism, the arts, and the community at large.

Twenty-four-hour meditation marathon gets under way Nov. 6

Twenty-four-hour meditation marathon looks to raise funds and change the world

Various members of the IDP began sitting on comfy cushions at 7:00 pm on Friday and the sit will continue through 7:00 pm on Saturday. Things got under way at 6:00 with a kick-off party at ABC hosted by IDP founder Ethan Nichtern (who will be sitting the entire twenty-four hours) and State Sen. Eric Schneiderman. Be sure to stop by; as fun as it is to watch the meditators in the windows, it’s even more fun watching the passersby trying to figure out just what is going on — and sometimes getting right up in the sitters’ faces.

MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

The pilgrims arrive for another Turkey Day in NYC (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

77th St. & Central Park West to 34th St. & Seventh Ave.
Thursday, November 26, free, 9:00 am – 12 noon
212-494-4495
www.social.macys.com/parade2009

In 1924, a bunch of Macy’s employees joined forces and held the first Macy’s Christmas Parade, as it was then known. This year Macy’s celebrates the eighty-third year of this beloved American event. (For those of you going crazy trying to figure out how 1924 to 2009 makes 83, the parade was canceled from 1942 through 1944 because of World War II.) And for the first time in its history, the parade will go down Central Park South instead of Broadway before turning onto Seventh Ave. This year’s lineup features such floats as Dickens Christmas, Jolly Pirate Ship, 123 Sesame Street, Local Heroes Helping Every Day, Bountiful Harvest Cornucopia, and Yo Gabba Gabba and such giant balloons as Buzz Lightyear, the Energizer Bunny, Horton the Elephant, Pikachu with Pokeball, Shrek, Smurf, Snoopy as Flying Ace, Spider-Man, and Super Cute Hello Kitty. Among the lip-synching celebrities on hand will be Alan Cumming, Andrea Bocelli, Carly Simon, Gloria Gaynor, Jane Krakowski, Jimmy Fallon and the Roots, the Pizzarelli Quarter, and Ziggy and Judah Marley.