"It's a Wonderful Life" isn't so "wonderful" when you watch it on TV. It airs Sunday night on NBC and watching the two-hour-plus movie in the comfort of your own home means subjecting yourself to almost an hour of excruciating commercials.
Tonight, though, the Frank Capra Christmas classic begins screening at the IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave.
, NYC.
Gone are the commercials and in their place are, well, nothing. Audiences get the chance to watch the film the way Capra intended, with an audience and on the big screen.
Jimmy Stewart is George Bailey, a down-on-his-luck resident of Bedford Falls, and he has some serious money problems this holiday season. Just before George attempts to end his life, his guardian angel Clarence shows up and reveals what life would've been like had George never been born. In doing so, the true meaning of Christmas is revealed.
As crazy as it seems now, "It's a Wonderful Life" didn't win any Oscars, although it was nominated for five. But time has told a different story. Read any articles about 1946 Best Picture winner "The Best Years of Our Lives" this holiday season?
Tickets are $10.75. Call 212-924-7771.
Join the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy on its third annual "December 25th Nosh Tour Extravaganza."
Visit and eat at three historic sites, beginning with Congregation Chasam Sofer, NYC's oldest continuously operating active synagogue. Next you'll stop at Angel Orensanz Cultural Center (formerly Congregation Anshe Chesed), now a performing arts and event space.
Last is Congregation B'nai Jacob Anshei Brzezan, where you'll explore "tenement style" architecture.
The tour will meet in front of Chasam Sopher Synagogue, 10 Clinton St. (near the corner of Houston), in NYC.
Tickets are $25, $22 for seniors and children. If you preregister, there's $2 off. Call 212-374-4100 or visit www.
nycjewishtours.org.
You know it's the Christmas season when the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is on the road.
It will play Pepsi Arena, 51 S. Pearl St. in Albany, at 4 and 8 tonight.
Tickets are $40 and $50 at www.pepsiarena.com.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players sing about things that happened on their family vacations while a slide show projects images from those vacations. The mom/dad/daughter trio will be hitting the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St. in NYC, at 6:30 tonight.
Tickets are $10 at TicketWeb.
Rapper Ne-Yo will sing his hit "Sexy Love" and Omarion will sing "Ice Box" when BET presents "The Scream Tour 5" at 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow at Madison Square Garden, West 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. Also performing are 2 Much, Jibbs, Mario, One Chance, Pretty Ricky, Sammie and Young Joc. Tickets are $39.
75-$54.75 at Ticketmaster.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform at Jazz Standard, 116 E.
27th St. in NYC, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets are $30 at TicketWeb.
Ska/punk band Catch 22 will rock the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St.
in NYC, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Comrades Bomb the Music Industry!, Patent Pending and Whole Wheat Bread will open. Tickets are $12 at TicketWeb.
Soul/groove outfit Soulive will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at Nokia Theatre Times Square, 1515 Broadway in NYC.
Rapper Talib Kweli, Toussaint and Ryan Shaw will also appear. Tickets are $30 at Ticketmaster
"Stillborn Fest," with headliners Hatebreed, will roar into the Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St.
in NYC, at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Metal/hard-core bands Sick of It All, Suffocation, Full Blown Chaos and Subzero will open. Tickets are $23 in advance at Ticketmaster and $25 at the door.
Rockers the Bouncing Souls, with World Inferno Friendship Society and Paul Green's School of Rock, will play Webster Hall, 125 E.
11th St. in NYC, at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday. Tickets are $16 at TicketWeb.
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