FILM: Annie at IFC Center
Annie, the belting, redhead orphan is having a moment. First, she's back on Broadway, and now she's getting her own place in the IFC Queer Art film series with a screening of the 1982 classic starring Carol Burnett, Albert Finney, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters. How exactly is Annie a queer-themed film? Let actress and cabaret superstar Erin Markey explain how Annie's "musical orphan life" inspires and embodies the life of an outsider and a queered sense of success when she introduces the film tonight!IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue, (212) 924-7771. 8 p.m. $13.50.
BOOKS: The Trouble Is the Banks at BookThugNation
This new volume consists of selected letters, addressed to banking executives, originally posted on the website Occupy the Boardroom. Reading tonight are editors from n+1 and local letter-writers.
BookThugNation, 100 North 3rd Street, Brooklyn. 7:30 p.m. Free
MUSIC: Gimme Tinnitus Sandy Benefit at Death By Audio
This Halloween-themed benefit for Occupy Sandy features tributes to the Ramones, Hole (by four men in drag), and George Michael. Sleepies reprise the set of Pixies covers they performed at Death By Audio on Halloween night.
Death By Audio, 49 South Second Street, Brooklyn. 9 p.m. $8