Chick named Wick on high Boyle since 9/11! Tribeca based writer-director Wickham Boyle opens Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness, an autobiographical account of her family’s trauma in 2001. “After the night of 9/11, when I got my kids out of school, it’s three in the morning and there are tanks in the street, I sat down and I started writing,” Ms. Boyle said, adding: “I have lived on North Moore Street since 1977. Here I am a million years later living on the epicenter of chic and cool.” Ellen Stewart, La MaMa’s director, “gave us this time slot not even knowing what it was about. She gave us an opening of Sept. 12. She was like, ‘Baby, this is the only time I’ve got open, take it or leave it.’” And, Dear Reader, she took it! Later, amid an onslaught of “green” luxury condo openings, some good news for Williamsburg: The long-awaited Lovin’ Cup cafe throws open its doors on North Sixth Street, so-named for the Rolling Stones song (for any residents who missed those decades) and serving spinach artichoke mac ’n’ cheese until 4 a.m., for those weeks you’re not on the cigarettes and Twizzlers diet. Of course, when the Stones recorded that song—on the album Exile on Main Street—they cooked most of their meals in a spoon.

[Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness, La MaMa, 74 East Fourth Street, 8 p.m., www.lamama.org; the Lovin’ Cup Cafe, 93 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg]

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