Media Events: 02.26.07

WHAT: This American Life Live
WHO: Host Ira Glass plus, Sarah Vowell, Dan Savage, Jonathan Goldstein and musical guest Mates of State
WHEN: 8:00PM
WHERE: Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Tonight’s recording of the NPR story-telling series in NYC will be the premiere of the show’s adaption for Showtime.

WHAT: Daniel Mendelsohn: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
WHEN: 7:00PM
WHERE: McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince St
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Mendelsohn’s big, plus we’d never pass up a chance encounter with Salon book critic Laura Miller.

WHAT: In Conversation with Charles Grodin
WHEN: 8:15PM
WHERE: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Grodin’s had a career spanning film, television and theater and recently 60 Minutes II — not just Beethoven.