Events Roundup: Thursday, February 19, 2009

7:30 p.m. Bang On! N.Y.C. throws a (really early) Mardi Gras party featuring “burlesque, stilt walkers, a marching band, sexy chair dancers, and D.J. Curly’s mix of electro, rock and disco.” At 205 Chrystie Street and Stanton.

7:30 p.m. The “Chirpy Chirpy Cheap Cheap” concert series welcomes former Blue’s Clues host–turned–indie-pop front man Steve Burns Read More

Wild Man Blues Clues

Steve Burns wants to sing songs about superstrings and nanotechnology. Five million kids would rather he kept singing about the mail.

Mr. Burns, 28, is recently departed as Steve, the saucer-eyed, floppy-haired host of Blue’s Clues , the phenomenally successful Nickelodeon children’s television show. For six years, Mr. Burns donned a green-and-olive-striped rugby shirt, wiggled Read More