Tips for Today January 25, 2012

To be perfectly honest, we didn't realize the famous novelist was still alive! The author of classics like Ragtime and Billy Bathgate reads from his latest, a collection of short, more inward-looking stories, All the Time in the World.

Kerthy Fix's documentary Who Took the Bomp? chronicles iconic (now disbanded) electro post-punk trio Le Tigre, as Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD Samson embarked on their final tour in 2004. The band will actually be reuniting for a post-screening Q&A, so the event is understandably sold out.

22-year-old electro-pop/dubstep phenom Katy B makes a rare appearance in New York City, taking over small-ish East Village club DROM, for the kind of concert that will surely turn into a sweaty dance party.