A One-Act Play Marathon; the Dead Kennedys sans Jello; Interior Design-a-thon; the Unbearables Arts Festival; "Kiki of Montparnasse" in Film; a Conspiracy Theory Opera; T. K. Webb Record Release Party

When it comes to the rock, especially the punk rock, we usually avoid Brooklyn like, well, the subway. Who wants to take a long train ride and risk being mugged, only to hang out with a bunch of guys who worship a disco-dancing scientologist? But since it's the Dead Kennedys we'll make the trip. They're playing at L'Amour! That's right, the same L'Amour that hosted all those great 80s metal bands with all that poofy hair. The DKs are playing sans Jello Biafra, who we assume is hanging out at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco bitching about how his old crew is "the world's greediest karaoke band." But we don't care. We wanna hear "Kill the Poor" and "California Uber Alles," even if the new singer is Eddie from The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Also playing: the Generators, a kick-ass punk band who could give the Strokes strokes, and our pal George Tabb's Furious George, a washed-up never-has-been band that's quickly descending the stairs to the depths of CBGB's bathroom. It's Friday, May 17. 1545 63rd St., (betw. 15th &16th Aves.), Bklyn, 718-837-9506; www.lamourrocks.com.

Like you, we tend to furnish our apartment with a mix of anonymous dorm-room Door Store utility items and crap people have thrown out on the street. We like to think of it as "eclectic" rather than "cheap." But that doesn't mean we don't love looking at and fantasizing about the very best, most contempo and most expensive home furnishings. You never know, a drunk driver might snap our spine plowing through an intersection, and we want to be prepared to spend the windfall. So you may see us lurking somewhere in the back by the canapes at this week's Manhattan-wide extravaganza Prospects: Interior Design in New York. Over two dozen design stores spread from Tribeca through Soho to midtown are throwing open their doors to show off the very latest trends in super-Moderne couches, chairs, lighting, dining sets and the like. Designers from Milan and Cologne?and bunches from New York?will present and discuss their latest brainstorms. Even if you can't afford any of it, you should come away full of ideas. (Sample line from the press release: "Victor Herrera shows how he turned a 1940's modern classic home into a New England old style brothel." Yeah!) Besides, Ikea and other downmarket shops will be offering affordable knockoffs in a year. It's Fri.-Tues., May 17-21; the full list of sites and times is at www.voggenreiter.com.

The Unbearables, that happily chaotic (un)collective of distaff and dissident poets, writers, artists and whatevers, is all over the Lower East Side all this month with its Unbearables Arts Festival. This week's events include an evening with the Surrealist poet and Exquisite Corpse founder turned media darling Andrei Codrescu at Fusion Arts, Sat., May 18 at 8 p.m. (57 Stanton St., betw. Forsyth & Ludlow Sts., 995-5290.) While he's probably the festival's biggest-named guest star, we're just as inclined to attend what promises to be a more representative and we hope shambollicking affair: the 1st annual Unbearables Art Festival Lower East Side Street Fair, which takes over Stanton St. between Forsyth and Essex Sts. on Sun., May 19, noon-7 p.m. On Mon., May 20, 9:30-midnight, the polymath artist Shalom (dis)organizes a multimedia evening that includes writer Jim Feast, Survivor Theatre, Jimbo's Fantabulous All Stars and others, at the Bowery Poetry Club. (308 Bowery, betw. Houston & Bleecker Sts.) Meanwhile, at Tribes Gallery, the funny art show "Face to Faith," with religious leaders tricked out in baseball card fashion, includes works by Shalom, Ron English, David Sandlin, Maggie Ens, Mark Kostabi and others, through May 31. 285 E. 3rd St. (betw. Aves. C & D), 674-3778.

Man Ray photoed her. Léger filmed her. Cabaret crowds adored her. Hemingway and Cocteau were friends. "Kiki of Montparnasse" is one of the great iconic figures of the 20th Century, a face synonymous with the Surrealist movement and bohemian Paris at the peak of its "années follés." On Sat., May 18, at 5 p.m., Anthology Film Archives screens an hour's worth of short films featuring the legendary beauty in her mid-1920s glory?three by Man Ray, one by Jacque Catelain and Léger's Ballet Mecanique. (32 2nd Ave. at 2nd St., 505-5181.) These special screenings coincide with Abrams' reissuing of Billy Kluver and Julie Martin's equally legendary book, Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930; photos from that book, including some of Man Ray's most famous Kiki portraits, are on display at the small midtown Zabriskie Gallery, in the grand Fuller Bldg., through May 24. 41 E. 57th St. (Madison Ave.), 752-1223.

Conspiracy theory operas don't grow on trees, so when we got word that Nightingale: The Last Days of James Forrestal, was coming to town, we thought you'd want to know about it. This second piece in a trilogy by Evan Hause explores the mysterious death in office of the first ever U.S. Secretary of Defense. It's actually the second of Mr. Hause's "Defenestration Operas," which "take as their subject matter certain dark corners of 20th century American political or technological history, where human struggles for money and power end in the death of modern heroes." What more do you need to know? At Present Company Theatorium, Sun.-Tues., May 19-21, and again May 26-28 and June 2-4. 198 Stanton St. (betw. Attorney &Ridge Sts.), 420-8877.

It's not a record release party?it's a "Celebration in Honor of The Ungodly Hours," the first album from T.K. Webb, that strong, silent young musician's musician who's slowly making a name for himself in New York City performing blues out of a suitcase (it's also his percussion section). Live sets by Webb and Sam Jayne of Love as Laughter will mark the occasion, along with free barbecue out back (weather permitting), Sun., May 19 around 9 p.m., at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. 709 Lorimer St. (betw. Frost & Richardson Sts.), 718-302-3770.