This week's Time Out condensed

- Michael Maniaci, male soprano: "I'm not a countertenor with an identity crisis."
- Ed Norton sings songs from The Nitpicker (new musical) on December 4 at Sin-e.
- from Essential New York - "things you gotta do before you can call yourself a real New Yorker" (ten of 118)

• Compulsively point out locations as you watch Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen movies
  
• Be able to cite a favorite Chinese restaurant on Mott Street
  
• Sit next to a celebrity at a bar/restaurant and not care
  
• Incorporate a lexicon of Yiddish terms into your vocabulary
  
• Carry on a conversation with a cabbie without understanding a word he says
  
• Have your coffee-cart guy ask where you've been when you miss work
  
• Indulge in a classic pastrami on rye
  
• Rotate your wardrobe out of storage each season
  
• Master the Sidewalk Shuffle
  
• Get flashed by a perv
  

- Sondre Lerche + Rachel Yamagata at Bowery Ballroom on Nov. 18, Tuesday
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers "Middle-Earth Express". Grand Central shuttle at 42nd, 11am-1pm, Nov. 18, Tuesday. "Lord of the Rings groupies and MTA workers invite you to see what a New York City subway car might look like in Middle Earth."
- Make a personalized map of Times Square on your PDA. PDPal.com.

At least my perv (my used to mean the perv who flashed me) was wearing something - really tight, really short shorts in the dead of winter in the middle of The Big K at 34th. Curtain shoppers, beware!

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