The schedule is at their website.

Bowery Poetry Club, Sep 7 2008

As part of the 2008 Howl Festival in NYC's East Village, a panel discussion on the topic 'Unrest in the 70s - US vs UK' at Bowery Poetry Club, directly opposite the old CBGB premises, brought together a number of punk veterans from both sides of the pond.

Panelists:
Richard Lloyd (Television)
Ari Up (Slits)
Cynthia Sley (Bush Tetras)
Judy Nylon (Snatch)
Walter Lure (Heartbreakers)
Arturo Vega (Ramones)
Steve Garvey (Buzzcocks)
Moderator: Mary Harron

Punkcast taped the entertaining (especially Ari Up) panel - all 60 minutes of it, and uploaded it to YouTube. Check it out below....

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the 2008 Howl! Festival, Tompkins Square Park Saturday (CRED)

today in NYC
* HOWL
* DANCE
* The Citizens Band @ Spiegelworld
* Emily Haines (Metric) @ Union Pool
* Tokyo Police Club @ Mercury Lounge
* Arbouretum & Pontiak @ Glasslands Gallery
* Silver Jews & Monotonix @ Bowery Ballroom
* Reggie & The Full Effect @ Highline Ballroom
* Magic Christian & The A-Bones @ Bowery Ballroom
* East Village Radio Festival @ South Street Seaport
* Flying Lotus, So Percussion & Daedelus @ (le) poisson rouge

What else?

the EVR Fest latest set times below....

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Titus Andronicus @ McCarren Pool (more by Jason Bergman)

Fiasco have a bunch of interesting shows coming up including one tonight (Sep 5) at Death By Audio and one tomorrow (Sept 6) at the LES Howl Festival in Tompkins Square Park (on the North Stage):

SHOWPAPER Presents (Saturday)
4.00pm The Crayons
4.20pm The Sediment Club
4.40pm No One and the Somebodies
5.00pm FIASCO

Howl! Presents (the last band)
5.30 Left Over Crack

Fiasco hits the stage the same time as The Cockettes. The rest of Fiasco's tour dates are below.

Titus Andronicus are also playing a show tonight (Sep 5). Sup Mag presents this one at Lit Lounge. Chairlift and a "special guest girl band" are also on the bill. Titus's next area show is at Maxwell's in October (for now anyway). That's the show with Love is All & Abe Vigoda. All dates below...

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The Cockettes

Though free shows are becoming scarcer and scarcer in NYC as September approaches, September 6th now offers three all-day possibilities. This one is part of the annual LES Howl! Festival, takes place in Tompkins Square Park, and looks sort of like this:

Tompkins Square Park, Sept 6, 2008
1.00 p.m. Middle Collegiate Choir
1.30 p.m. Blonde Boy Wilson with On Davis
1.40 p.m. "Bang the Drum for the Brothers,"J. Fitzgerald creates a dazzling spectacle of rhythm and rhyme.
2.05 p.m. TIMBILA
2.25 p.m Baby Soda
2.45 p.m. Tin Pan
3.05 p.m Reverend Billy
3.25 p.m. Trachtenburg Family
4.05 p.m. Becky Wreck
4.20 p.m. Ari Up's Slits
5 p.m. THE COCKETTES and the Thrill Peddlers
6 p.m. The House of HOWL PRESENTS THE HOUSE OF BON VIVANT'S BALLHOUSE TRIBUTE

That's just the schedule of one stage on one of the three days though. The rest of the Tompkins Square Park part of the schedule can be found on Howl's very confusing website.

The other free shows on Septmeber 6th are the East Village Radio Fest at South Street Seaport and the Monser Island Block Party in Brooklyn.

The entire Howl! Festival runs from September 5-11 and involves approximately 30 different venues including the Living Room, Element, Bowery Poetry Club, Niagara, Rehab, St Marks Church and Vaishnava Academy For the Performing Arts.

The Cockettes...

a psychedelic drag queen troupe founded by Hibiscus in the late 1960s in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. The troupe performed outrageous parodies of show tunes (or original tunes in the same vein) and gained an underground cult following that led to mainstream exposure.

In 1971, over differences in philosophy, the group split into two separate groups, the Cockettes and The Angels of Light. The Cockettes continued to work as paid performers while the Angels of Light chose to do free theatre without admission charge.

The Cockettes were the subject of a 2002 documentary, The Cockettes... [Wikipedia]

... (...how many original members there still are I'm not sure...) are also playing a few shows at The Theaters at 45 Bleeker Street (in addition the one in the park listed above).