PRESSED FOR TIME

| 13 Aug 2014 | 07:20

    Fall has arrived and it’s making us a bit nostalgic. This week, we’re drinking like it’s the 1800s, being scared like it’s the turn of last century, watching weird gay dance like it’s the 1980s and listening to music like it’s the ’90s. Won’t you come along for the ride?

    Corin Tucker.

    Corin Tucker Band Oct. 26, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. (betw. Bowery & Chrystie St.), 212-533-2111; 8, $16. Tonight, former Heavens To Betsy, Sleater-Kinney and Heartless Martin mastermind Corin Tucker lands on Delancey Street with her eponymous band, playing songs from the recently released album 1,000 Years and dusting off her famous vibrato. Bottom Line: Check out our interview with Tucker at nypress.com. She says that the band won’t play any old songs, but we’ve got our fingers crossed for “Axemen” anyway.

    What Dickens Drank Oct. 20, apexart, 291 Church St. (betw. White & Walker Sts.), 212-431-5270; 6-8, Free. Join host Sarah Lohman in mixing the cocktails Charles Dickens drank during his 1842 visit to America, like Mint Juleps and Timberdoodles. You’ll learn a little something about history and literature, then wash it down with free booze. Bottom Line: Forget everything you know about Dickens. Literally. Charles Dickens

    The Horror Show Oct. 21-29, Dansbro Brewery, 260 Meserole St. (betw. Bushwick Ave. & Waterbury St.), Brooklyn, 585-507-1770; 8, $20-$35. A mish-mosh of ballet, ill-advised acrobatics and near-pornography set to the sounds of the Stumblebum Brass Band, The Horror Show tells the story of a 1900s New Orleans love triangle, inside an actual 1900s New York Brewery. Bottom Line: What could be better than a bunch of drunk ballerinas swinging from the rafters?

    Strange Powers Opens Oct. 27 at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St. (betw. 6th Ave. & Varick), 212-727-8110; $12. Magnetic Fields honcho Stephin Merritt is famous for his attitude. So it’ll be interesting to see how much of his life is exposed in the documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, opening today at Film Forum. Bottom Line: The documentary will look at “the famously grumpy Merritt… It paints a portrait of an artist whose music brilliantly holds up a mirror to the fears, joys, and insecurities of his time.” And hopefully a meltdown or two.

    THEM Opens Oct. 21, P.S. 122, 150 1st Ave. (at E. 9th St.), 212-477-5829; 8, $20. When Them premiered in 1986 at the same venue, this inflammatory avant-garde dance and performance art piece—with text by Dennis Cooper—about men, other men and AIDS almost forced P.S.122 to close its doors. Now it’s back, thanks to a partnership with the New Museum. Bottom Line: In the original version, one of the cast members was an actual goat carcass. You have been adequately warned.

    Them.