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Private Lives, Public Lives
Reading: Public Lives/Private Lives
Join PEN for the opening night of the 2008 World Voices Festival. This rare gathering of literary luminaries will feature Coral Bracho, Peter Esterhazy, Rian Malan, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, Evelyn Schlag, A.B. Yehoshua, with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. Some of the world’s best-regarded novelists, journalists, poets, and essayists will contribute to this discussion and reading on the subject of private life and public roles.
*Wednesday, April 30 from 8–9:30 PM
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street
Tickets: $15/$10 PEN members
PEN.org/viewmedia

Madonna LIVE
Madge is all about making it public, and she’s giving the public a free show to kick off the release of her new album, Hard Candy. Tickets for this one-off show will not be pre-sold; you can win tickets if you’re a Verizon customer, or wait outside the Roseland for admission on a first-come basis. (Some advice: get online now) For the rest of us, the show will be broadcast live to American viewers on MSN.com.
*Wednesday, April 30; 7:30 PM
Madonna LIVE
Roseland Ballroom
Roseland Ballroom 239 West 52nd Street
Cost: FREE
VZMobileStudio.com/Madonna

Catch it before it’s gone: The Panorama of the City of New York
Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, this 9,335 square foot architectural model includes every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs—a total of 895,000 individual structures. The Panorama is unforgettable; as fast as the city’s face is changing, it might be worth committing to memory.
*Ongoing
Queens Museum of Art
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Cost: Included in admission
QueensMuseum.org/Panorama