Brokelyn

FRIDAY
8pm: Opening night preview and party for The Brick Theater’s “Game Play: a Celebration of Video Game Performance Art”, running thru 7/25. Free.

8pm: Ren and Stimpy writer/director co-creator Bob Camp shares stories and shows some cartoons at Observatory, $5.

8pm (thru Sun): It started on Wednesday, but there are still 3 days and 39 singer/songwriters + bands to go at the 4th annual Local Correspondents Music Festival. Park Slope’s Bar4, Free. Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY
Thru 7/8: ‘Contraband Cinema’ series: BAM presents 27 political films that touch on everything from animal rights to political movements (and Rocky IV). Q+A sessions include former Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver. $12.

SATURDAY
Today only, Old Navy solid-colored flip flops are just $1 (coupon).

Liars, lying in wait for you Saturday

The only thing people love more than summer is complaining about summer. “Everyone’s making fun of me for wearing jorts,” “This show is sold out,” “Wahhh, it smells like hot garbage everywhere.” Well… quit the whining, because we’re giving you something good: two tickets to see art punk noisemakers Liars at the Northside Festival this Saturday, June 26. And we’ll throw in the band’s complete five-album discography (together, an $80+ value). Happy now? Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY
Thru 9/12: Exhibition of 50 of Andy Warhol’s late paintings includes artwork from his Last Supper series and his collaborations with Basquiat. Plus, curator Joseph Ketner lecture/q+a Sat 2pm. Brooklyn Museum, $10.

SATURDAY
2, 6pm: King Lou Reed and Queen Laurie Anderson join the procession down Coney’s Surf Ave for the 27th Annual Mermaid Parade (free). Stay ’til 6pm to get your minor league baseball fix for a fraction of the cost of the majors at the Brooklyn Cyclones first home game ($8-16). Bonus: fireworks! Read the rest of this entry »

SATURDAY

Coney Island’s new Luna Park is set to open with 19 new rides today. Check out the Coney Island History Project’s free exhibit about the original, and take a free walking tour of the area’s remaining historic buildings, several of which are in danger of demolition (including where Harpo Marx first performed with brothers Groucho and Gummo)

Thru Sun: 2 days + 2 rooftops + 21 bands (Ava Luna, Rescue Bird, Magic Man, Red Wire Black Wire, 18 more…) = The Bushwick Rooftop Festival . Free.

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Tonight, when you know it's time to stop.

You know about the big parade marching as we speak, and that classy green Guinness waiting for you later on, but how about free bowling all day and U2 in 3D? Those are Brooklyn Bowl’s offerings today, and our friends at the skint have much more in the way of special St. Paddy’s Day happenings. Brazen Head’s giving away free corned beef sandwiches at 5 p.m. (to be washed down with $5 Guinness pints & $6 Jameson); Rocky Sullivan’s is hosting Brooklyn’s Biggest St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Gary OG and Seanchai & the Unity Squad tonight at 8; and there’s a full evening’s line-up at Spike Hill with a special St. Paddy’s menu. If that’s not enough, see the rest of the skint’s listings, and the links to even more leprechaun-ish stuff going on around the city.

wishin you some 3-D love, via someecards

What are you doing to celebrate luuuurve day? Yes, we know some of you will be toasting to amore with some of the finest beers in the borough, thanks to the Brokelyn Beer Book. What if you don’t have an amore to share the love with? Our pals at the skint have put together an excellent and extensive roundup of great events across the city in the next few days, incuding a pajama-clad Meatup at the Bell House (dance floor makeout forecast: 100 percent), dinner deals, high-tech sex seminars and a bunch of places to go to commiserate with the fellow broken-hearted. Read the rest of this entry »

Even Santa has to be frugal this year

With the onset of December comes the full-face rush towards the holidays that even your perpetually sarcastic and snarky bloggers are powerless to resist. So let’s jump right in to the noggy pool and see what’s going on around town, shall we?

Today is the first annual NYC Bloggers Do the Holidays Roundup organized by Manhattan User’s Guide, wherein 13 of the city’s bloghounds across different fields give you a rundown of  holiday happenings, deals, outings, history and music. (But not 14 blogs? It’s fine, whatever, we’re not hurt, we’ll just sit quietly in the corner and keep knitting these dryer-lint mittens.) Read the rest of this entry »

Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey perform their acrobatics Friday at Galapagos.

For those of you who thought Halloween was just candy, costumes and jack-o-lanterns, holy Zombie Prom do we have some news for you. The Skint’s All Halloween Edition is one frighteningly long list of everything cheap, free and Halloween in the city all week long. There’s no shortage of Brooklyn goings-on, from tomorrow’s all-female accordion orchestra to Friday’s Cherylween dance party at the Bellhouse, to the Flavorpill Gods and Heroes party Saturday night with Shiva, Batman and Moses. Just check the ratings before you bring the kids, or your little princess could end up at “an ominous Edward Gorey themed Victorian Halloween fete with a murder mystery undertone.” See the whole skint-approved Halloween schedule here.

TONIGHT: The Met Opera summer recitals bring soprano Joyce El-Khoury + more to Coffey Park (Red Hook) Free, 7 p.m.

TOMORROW: Check out the floating ecohabitat/art installation the Waterpod, docked in Brooklyn Heights thru 8/17. Free, all day.

TOMORROW: Kayak the Cove off of Brooklyn Bridge Park, (also 8/22, 29). Free. 2 to 6 p.m.

SUNDAY: Go deep + prowl the world’s oldest subway tunnel at the Atlantic Avenue tunnel tour (rsvp quickly!). $10-15, 11 a.m. + 1:15 p.m.

TUESDAY: Iceland’s rootsy Mugison plays all 5 boros for amnesty international. Pete’s Candy Store. Free, 11 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Lynchian love story Wild at Heart, (Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern) @ McCarren Park. Free. Movie plays at dusk;  gates open at 6.

Listings brought to you by the skint.