In New York City This Week

Mick Foley Reads

He is one badass, gap-toothed dude, but readers and critics alike devoured his two memoirs of life in prowrestling?Foley is Good and Have a Nice Day!?without a single threat. Mick Foley's writing is hilarious and hard-hitting, not at all what one might expect from looking at the book jackets. Now Foley has turned his hand to fiction with the novel Tietam Brown. Andy Brown is a high-school kid who was locked away at age 10 for murder, and now that he's been released he's trying to figure out how to live a normal life. Thwarting that effort is his alcoholic bodybuilder dad, who has a mysterious past and does the exact opposite of everything written in parenting manuals. You can expect Foley's reading style to be animated?which is a good thing, because dozers would get a smackdown to remember. Astor Place Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Pl. (betw. B'way & Lafayette St.), 212-420-1322, 7:30, free.

Thurs. 7/10

Satoshi Tomiie

De La Guarda, the off-Broadway theatrical flight show, is running all summer in a special DJ-enhanced format. DJ Connection pairs each week's performance with a soundtrack from a high-profile turntablist?this week's guest is Satoshi Tomiie, who got Japanese kids into club music in the late 80s. Tomiie formed the Def Mix productions team with David Morales and Frankie Knuckles; lately he's been touring the world in support of his most recent progressive house album, Nubreed. It's the best time to catch De La Guarda this summer. Daryl Roth Theatre, 20 Union Square E. (15th St.), 212-239-6200, 8, $20-$55.

Hubert Sumlin

One of the last major delta blues legends still strumming, Hubert Sumlin comes to Jazz Standard tonight for the first of two shows. Along with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, this Mississippi native all but gave birth to electric guitar icons Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page. Dylan, Zappa and Santana also claimed Sumlin as a major influence. Tonight Sumlin is joined by David Johansen and Levon Helm. A portion of the proceeds from the show will help fund the construction of an inpatient hospice unit at North General Hospital in Harlem, set to open in fall 2003. 116 E. 27th St. (betw. Park & Lex. Aves.), 212-576-2232, 7:30 & 9:30, $25.

Calla and the Boggs

These guys play mean folk and bluegrass, and if you don't spend too much time focusing on how the Boggs' frontman, Jason Friedman, is the skinniest (and maybe even the most forlorn) guy you've ever seen, you might notice that pretty-boy drummer Brad Conroy is supernatural and that Zeke Healy's slide-guitar solos are even better. The headliner tonight, though, is Calla, who will have you simultaneously thinking of My Bloody Valentine and what it would feel like to make out in the desert. South Street Seaport, Pier 17, South St. (Fulton St.), 6, 212-SEAPORT, free.

Pretty Girls Make Graves & Broken Social Scene

Like Murder City Devils and Death Cab for Cutie, Pretty Girls Make Graves are a Seattle band with a name that sounds much more ominous than they really are. But the band's soon-to-be-on-Matador female-fronted punk sort of resembles Kim Gordon digesting Sleater-Kinney. Plus, their high-energy stage show involves lots of screeching and bouncing, and their bassist was actually in the Murder City Devils, which may or may not still count for something. Broken Social Scene, meanwhile, absolutely killed when they played the Mercury Lounge a few weeks ago, sounding at times like Dinosaur Jr. and Spiritualized, and telling the crowd: "Don't believe the hype. Just enjoy the music." But fuck it, do both if you want. Hudson River Park, Pier 54, 13th St. (West St.), 212-533-PARK, 6, free.

Fri. 7/11

The Weather Underground: Discussion and Movie

Former Weather Underground members Laura Whitehorn and Naomi Jaffe will join SLAM activist Kai Lumumba Barrow and historian Jeremy Varon to discuss and take questions on the Weather Underground, both the film and the organization. Proceeds from the first and second screenings of The Weather Underground next door at Film Forum will go to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Gilda's Club, 195 W. Houston St. (betw. 6th Ave. & Varick St.), 917-374-7087, 6, 8:30, 10, free.

Citigrass

Don't let that overrated and overplayed O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack burn you out on good bluegrass. Any band that can take a bloated, annoying, bong-hit classic like "Wish You Were Here" and revitalize it into a dobro-banjo spirited frenzy is worth witnessing. Elvis, Madonna, Johnny Cash?nothing is out of range for Citigrass, a five-piece band of sonic mayhem that always tops it off with some inspired originals as well. See for yourself at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar, 74 Leonard St. (betw. B'way & Church St.), 212-219-3006, 11, free.

Sat. 7/12

Supple

You may know the mainstays of Supple, singer-songwriter Rob McCulloch and his loyal bassist, Adam Lippman, as two-thirds of a Tim-style three-piece or as two-sixths of an ensemble that included a cellist and percussionist or as just two guys forever looking for the right bar. McCulloch and his revolving company have been hacking away for many years, in various incarnations, with bursts of breakthrough here and there?from a well-received album on Futurist several years ago, to their cover of "Stayin' Alive" that appeared on the Hurricane Streets soundtrack. Tonight they're back with a set of newly written but old-school Westerbergian heartbreakers. Word is that copies of a new demo will be available, most likely for the price of a beer. Arlene Grocery, 95 Stanton St. (betw. Ludlow & Orchard Sts.), 212-358-1633, 10, $7.

Sun. 7/13

How to Meditate

People are assholes. The subways are crowded. Unemployment is rising and your job still sucks. It's either four million degrees or it's raining. You can't have a shot and a cigarette in the local bar anymore. And let's not even get started on CNN every night. You need serenity. Get your heartbeat into neutral by dropping a fiver to learn how to meditate and chant?Buddha style. You may not immediately get all serene like Caine on Kung Fu, but it's worth a shot. Now breathe. Manhattan Won Buddhist Temple, 431 E. 57th St. (betw. 1st Ave. & Sutton Pl.), 212-750-2773, 12:30-1:30, $5.

Mon. 7/14

The Locust

This Biblical plague won't just kick your ass, they'll tear your soul apart. The Locust's songs are short?under a minute, mostly, full of scattershot screams, siren-sounding keyboards and buzzsaw guitar. Onstage, they look like the swarm they're named for?green mesh outfits and bulging green eyes. These insect men are hungry for blood, and their quick chaotic bursts transform their listeners into desperate, chaotic primitives. The Knitting Factory's usual upscale urbane avant rock appreciation museum will be turned into a moshpit from Mars for 45 seconds at a stretch. They appear at Northsix the next day?but it's important to be in the most contained environment as possible to understand the Locust's full power. With Numbers, Les Georges Leningrad and Kill Me Tomorrow. 74 Leonard St. (betw. B'way & Church St.), 212-219-3006, 7, $10.

Tues. 7/15

Better Than Prozac?

This is a lecture about the little pills that are keeping millions of moderns chirpy and productive. Dr. Samuel H. Barondes is a serious medical doctor, so this will be a serious discussion. We've long been looking for legit facts to knock some of that obnoxious, self-medicated good cheer down a peg, and this seems like the right place. The good doctor will discuss the hows and whys of the happy pills and if they do and don't work, as well as their future in science and society. Gallery of Arts & Sciences at New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St. (5th Ave.), 212-838-0230, 6, free.

Contributors: Adam Bulger, Katharine Crane, Mallory Jensen, Jeff Koyen, Ned Vizzini, Andy Wang.