· New Yorker head honcho David Remnick discusses his magazine's past, present, and future at the General Society Building tonight. The description says, "Editor since 1998, David Remnick has firmly steered the course of the magazine into the 21st century." We thought it said "corpse" at first. [General Society]

· Slate film critic David Edelstein called Jonathan Caouette's homemade ifilm Tarnation a "masterpiece." That's a good thing, since Edelstein discusses the film with producer Stephen Winter following a screening at Makor. Tickets $9 (in other words, 22% of the film's budget). [92Y]

· Flavorpill entices us with this description of d lek, who are playing at Sin-é tonight at 10:30: "Inhabiting a fiercely anti-corporate headspace with their dissonant tracks, post hip-hop trio d lek travel a caustic and political orbit about as far outside the mainstream as possible." In other words, it will impress your roommate. [Flavorpill]