FRIDAY 20

Hip Hop Karaoke NYC

Here’s your chance to rap like you’re from the hood! They provide the lyrics, mics and beatz. You bring your swagger (if you can fid it!). Choose from a song list that includes Beastie Boys, Ghostface Killah, Jay-Z and Kanye West for the B-boys; or for the single ladies, MC Lyte, Missy Elliot and Salt n Pepa.

Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave bet St John’s and Sterling Pls, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-230-0236, 9:30pm, $5, www.hiphopkaraokenyc.com

“Costume and the Movies”

Jane Gaines and Louise Wallenberg unpack the meaning of fashion and queer ideals in the movies in two talks about, consecutively, costume designer Gilbert Adrian and Swedish 1930s Cinema. Moderated by Eugenia Paulicelli, co-director of the Concentration in Fashion Studies, with Amy Herzog as respondent. Jane Gaines is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, and Louise Wallenberg is the Director of the Center for Fashion Studies at the University of Stockholm.

CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave bet 34th and 35th Sts, NYC, 212-817-2005, 3pm, free

Antony and the Johnsons

Antony Hegarty is back in NYC with entourage in tow. Tonight, The Johnsons play tracks from latest release The Crying Light. Hopefully they’ll also give us a bit of their much buzzed about Beyoncé cover Crazy In Love.

The Town Hall, 123 W 43rd St bet Sixth Ave and Broadway, NYC, 212-840-2824, 8pm, $36 & $46, www.myspace.com/antonyandthejohnsons