Adele
Beacon Theatre
Thursday, May 19
Better than: Staying with that tosser.
It is a particular form of emotional suicide to pretend to the Upper West Side, under menace of impending thunderstorm, to see a tortured British soulstress mourn the release of a fan who sounds suspiciously like your last, knowing fully well you'll get so devastated that you'll helplessly expel all your innermost turmoil onto the waiting blank page.