Italian Neorealism: A Feast of Film and Food Nov. 21, Walter Reade Theater, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212-875-5600; 4:30, $30 As polished a film festival as ShowPaper’s is rough, this oned Read more

The First Ever Miss G Train Pageant Nov. 19, The City Reliquary Museum, 370 Metropolitan Ave. (at Havemeyer St.), Brooklyn, 718-782-4842; 7, Free The G Train starts in Brooklyn and ends in Qu Read more

This week the olds make a comeback.Through the wrinkles of time they say unto us in performance, on stage and in film, We still exist and can fucking school you whippersnappers in everything from dance to writing to film festivals. Its a battle of the generations. Read more Read it in print

REMEMBER WHEN YOU went trick or treating last Halloween and everybody gave you weird looks? It wasn’t because of your totally ironic Sara Palin as the Joker costume.You’re in that weird and awkward phase where you’re not a kid, but you’re so sick of costume parties that if you see one more girl dressed up as a sexy [blank] you’ll scream.What is there left to do? If you still love the horrific side of Halloween, but don’t want to watch the same old scary movies or take in the scene that house parties can offer, why not try one of these gruesome haunted houses. Read more Read it in print

There’s always been something inexplicably fun about The Citizen’s Band. While we’re generally bored of burlesque, this musical theater troop has had enough chutzpah and crazy-ass ou Read more

Hey, do you want to be in a room full of scary guys with cauliflower ears? Me too! So let’s go to the Javits center where the MMA is hosting its big confab featuring appearances by Wanderlei Silva, Matt Hughes and an assortment of martial arts schools vying for the honor to teach you how to kick ass. Read more

In perhaps the most edifying development in nightlife, Chinese food restaurants are the new superclubs. Read more Read it in print

Oct. 11, Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave. (at Havemeyer St.), Brooklyn, 347-529-6696; 8:30, $15. Read more Read it in print

For those who think of us as effete intellectuals, and for those of us whose mothers wish us to settle down with a nice Jewish boy, this walking tour, put on by Kinky- Jews.com, serves as an effective antidote.The tour transports you back to the days of Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep. Read more Read it in print

Autumn leaves remind us of our own aged form, but this week allows that aging can be done gracefully.Ten years after the Dude was born, he lives on in a bowling alley in Brooklyn. And 100 years after a movement died, its resurrected in the basement of the Guggenheim. Read more Read it in print