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THEATRE: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre hosts the kick-off bash for the 30th Rhubarb Festival, following tonight's launch performances. An evening pass will get you in to see the shows plus admission to the party. Performances for the festival’s first week cover (or uncover, as it were) everything from voyeurism to ventriloquism. Party performers include Sasha Van Bon Bon, Daddy K and the Rhythm Method, Ina Unt Ina, and more. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street), 8 p.m. (performances) and 10 p.m. (party), $17.

At right is the cover of The New Yorker's July 21 edition. It depicts, as Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar summarized, Barack and Michelle Obama enacting "every smeary right-wing stereotype imaginable: ...[Barack] Obama in a turban and robes fist-bumping his be-afro'd wife, dressed in the military fatigues of a revolutionary and packing a machine gun and some serious ammo. Oh yes, this quaint little scene takes place in the Oval Office, under a picture of Osama bin Laden above a roaring fireplace, in which burns an American flag." The image has caused considerable uproar in the States—to take one example of many, CNN's Wolf Blitzer today suggested that it was something a neo-Nazi or Ku Klux Klan publication would create—and Obama's campaign immediately called it "tasteless and offensive."