MUSIC
THURSDAY, MAY 17*
8:00 PM

Pussy Riot
Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$25 advance; $30 door
https://www.elsewherebrooklyn.com/events/2018-05-17-pussy-riot/

We all know Pussy Riot, the Russian punk arts collective whose members were thrown in jail after staging an anti-Putin and anti-religion piece in a church.  Over the last couple of years, its members have participated in a number of different theatrical presentations regarding the band's storied history.  But this appears to be an actual concert presentation (the band's music has moved from punk to electro), featuring two of the band's three original principals, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.  And while some of us were concerned about Alyokhina's recently commenced romantic involvement with an extreme-right activist who had had actually campaigned for Pussy Riot's imprisonment, the band was back earlier this year with asingle protesting Vladimir Putin's "reelection".  This show should be one for the history books.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Enticing new place just as ridiculously close to Elsewhere as Bunker: Chica, with Nuevo Nicaraguan food and cocktails.  Open very late, too!