PAPERMAG's Picks for the Week:

PAPERMAG's Picks for the Week:

THURSDAY, JAN. 26
This ain't your forefather's pre-deluvian garden. Dutch artist Ruud Van Empel manipulates painterly effects in digital media with his "Perfection / Imperfection" series. The colorful series balances humanism and mysticism through the confrontational, digitally altered eyes of African children and naked babies. Stefan Stux Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., (212) 352-1600. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Free. Through February 25.

FRIDAY, JAN 27
It all changed for us Sunday, January 22nd. The news was posted at 8:07 a.m. EST on cnn.com, the only safe time for us to download porn without our roommates seeing. The news was a shock: a whale had died on the Thames. Its obituary: "Official: 5-ton mammal was convulsing before death." The horror, the horror! Luckily, we have a convenient outlet for our new-found activism, before we get bored of these over-sized, graceful, probably pretty smelly creatures. Greenpeace is organizing house parties throughout the United States tonight in order to protest the vicious killing of whales (particularly that perpetrated by Gorton's, purveyor of delicious fish sticks). Learn about our sumptuous genetic neighbors and receive a free Greenpeace DVD and party kit. Find your local whale-watching house party by visiting http://partylaunch.com/greenpeace/.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28
Noisy-noise Brooklyn band Black Dice's 2005 album, "Broken Ear Record," had everybody wondering why their synthy, static-drenched, clatter-bang abrasiveness had melded into, gasp, something slightly more accessible and melodic? But then people remembered creative bands often "change" when they put out new albums and everything was okay. Crazy, right? The BD dudes play tonight with fellow New Yorkers Gang Gang Dance and Bill Cosby and His White Pudding Pops. The Syrup Room, 100 Ingraham St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 8 p.m. $10.
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Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" just might be the best 18th century, postmodern novel ever. But, really, it's the only 18th century postmodern novel we've ever read, so we don't really know what we're talking about. "A Cock and Bull Story," starring Steve Coogan and Gillian Anderson, takes the same digressive, self-referential route as the novel, making it a movie about making a movie of "Tristram Shandy" with Coogan playing himself, as well as Tristram and Tristram's father. We can't wait to loudly throw around the term "meta-comedy" as we're filing out of the Angelika. Call 777-FILM for showtimes and theaters.

MONDAY, JAN. 30
If anyone saw Deerhoof at Northsix in September, they might have heard some girl yell an uncomfortably infantilizing shrill, "she's so cute!" at lead singer Satomi Matsuzaki during their set. Idiot-face who yelled that: don't ever, ever, do that again, or, sit this show out. Otherwise there's going to be a rumble on Delancey tonight. Think we're joking? We're polishing our super-cute, Hello Kitty brass knuckles right now. Deerhoof play with the Starter Set, Le Ton Mite and L'ocelle. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., (212) 253-5111. 8 p.m. $13.

TUESDAY, JAN. 31
Because she's such a lovely singer, we're willing to overlook the fact that Judy Collins won a Grammy in 1975 for her rendition of Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns." Any levelheaded person knows that clowns should never be sent in, but it was the '70s, and Stephen King's "It" hadn't been made yet. Judy appears at the Strand tonight, sans cll, clllo, clowns, to read from her new book "Morning Noon and Night: Living the Creative Life." Do your hippie mother proud and stay for the Q&A and performance following the reading. The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, (212) 473-1452. 6:30 p.m. Free.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1
Opening tonight at the Bronx's Longwood Art Gallery, "Do You Think I'm Disco?" examines the influence of club culture on America in the post liberation movements of the '60s and '70s. The exhibit, which features artists like "Funky Cold Medina" sculptor Karlos Carcamo and collage artist Edwina White, combines photography, painting, mixed media, sculpture and performance to capture an artistic era bubbling over with urban, aerosol can-influence. Longwood Art Gallery, 450 Grand Concourse at 149th St., Bronx, (718) 401-7866. 5-9 p.m. Free. Through March 18.

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