The top seven events for the coming week

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Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m.

Paper Bag Players

Paper Bag Players in Hot feet 

Landmark On Main Street

232 Main Street, Suite 1, Port Washington

(516) 767-1384, ext. 101

www.landmarkonmainstreet.org

Perfect for children in grades Pre-K through 3, Hot Feet, is a fun-filled celebration of classic sketches from the delightful imagination of The Paper Bag Players. With their traditional blend of paper and cardboard costumes and sets, whimsical sing-along songs, and hilarious stories, you will join a world of dancing cookies, a runaway chicken, bustling subway car, a talking building who refuses to be torn down, a polar bear who springs to life in paint and song, and a very mixed up family of giant tubes. 

Friday, Feb. 6, 8 & 10:45 p.m.

Hannibal Buress

Hannibal Buress 

The Space at Westbury

250 Post Ave., Westbury

(516) 283.5566

www.thespaceatwestbury.com 

Hannibal Buress, the 2012 winner of Comedy Central’s award for Best Club Comic, also serves as a series regular on Comedy Central’s Broad City, helmed by executive producer Amy Poehler, and appeared in the film Neighbors, alongside Seth Rogen and Zac Efron. A former staff writer for both SNL and 30 Rock, Buress is the co-host of Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show, he has guest-starred on Fox’s The Mindy Project, and appears as a regular “expert” on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. 

Friday, Feb. 6 – Sunday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.

Monster Jam
Eric Stern

Monster Jam

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale

(516) 794-9300

https://www.nassaucoliseum.com

The monster truck spectacular, Monster Jam, returns to Uniondale this weekend, featuring some of the circuit’s best known drivers and trucks. Scheduled to be on hand are:  Grave Digger driven by Randy Brown; Carolina Crusher driven by Gary Porter; El Toro Loco driven by Marc McDonald, Mohawk Warrior driven by George Balhan; Bounty Hunter driven by Trent Montgomery; Iron Outlaw driven by Todd Morey; Aftershock driven by Bob Robbins; and Krazy Train driven by Lloyd Twitchelland!

Thursday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m.

Foreigner

Foreigner

NYCB Theatre At Westbury

960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury. 

(516) 247-5200

www.thetheatreatwestbury.com 

With 10 multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Cold as Ice,” “Hot Blooded”, and the worldwide No. 1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” Foreigner continues to rock the charts more than 30 years into the game. 

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m.

Sid the Science Kid

Jim Henson’s Sid the Science Kid Live!

Tilles Center For The Performing Arts | LIL Post

720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville

(516) 299-3100 • https://tillescenter.org

Perfect entertainment for children ages and up, Sid the Science Kid Live! brings to life the popular PBS Kids television series produced by The Jim Henson Company, the man responsible for such iconic programs as “Sesame Street” and “The Muppets.”  Sid the Science Kid Live! will show teacher Susie leading Sid, Gabriela, Gerald and May through a scientific and musical adventure. 

Sunday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.

Black Veil Brides

Black Veil Brides

The Paramount

370 New York Ave., Huntington

(631) 673-7300, ext. 303

www.paramountny.com

Fresh off the success of 2013’s concept epic, “Wretched and Divine: Story of the Wild Ones” and short film, “Legion Of The Black” and their hit single “In the End” – which garnered the Revolver Golden God Award for “Song of the Year” in 2013 -– Black Veil Brides, featuring Andy Biersack [lead vocals], Ashley Purdy [bass, backing vocals], Jake Pitts [lead guitar], Jinxx [rhythm guitar, violin] and Christian “CC” Coma [drums] are on the road promoting their latest offering, “LAVA,” a stripped down hard rock album produced by veteran Bob Rock. 

Friday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 7, 7 & 9:30 p.m. 

Mick Thomas

Mick Thomas

Governors’ Comedy Club

90 Division Ave. Levittown 

(516) 731-3358

https://tickets.govs.com/index.cfm

Born and raised in Wexford, Ireland, it wasn’t until moving to New York that Thomas’s stand-up comedy career was born. A natural performer and insightful writer, in a few short years Thomas has blown away one club owner after the next with his honest and genuinely original takes on American society and life as a young and dedicated family man. Thomas entertains audiences regularly all across Long Island and Manhattan, and is swiftly becoming one of the most sought after acts in Clubs and Casinos up and down the East Coast and across the country.

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