This month’s 20th Next Wave Festival performances are appropriately dominated by innovative 20th-century music, often paired with video imagery. Comment.

In a wonderfully weird melding of traditions, DUMBO will celebrate Oktoberfest (with Guinness beer) and those bivalve mollusks (oysters) at the Water Street Bar’s Guinness Oyster Fest on Oct. 5. Comment.

With a nod to the commotion caused at the Brooklyn Museum of Art by the "Sensation" exhibit two years ago, the museum has recently unveiled "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," rewinding British art history and its attendant controversies back to the Victorian era. Comment.

The Last Supper" is not over. Ed Schmidt’s successful dinner-theater show, which includes a modern retelling of the Biblical story and is staged in his own kitchen, reopened on Sept. 13. Comment.

Three 20-something Pratt Institute grads have decided that although there are a lot of film festivals out there, there are a lot more young, talented filmmakers who aren’t getting exposure. Comment.

BAM’s 20th Next Wave Festival will present singer-songwriter-pianist Ben Folds as part of its "Next Wave of Song" on Oct. 11 and Oct. 12 at 7:30 pm at the Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place). Comment.