FRIDAY
8pm:

9pm: The Machine (honing their Pink Floyd skills for 20+ years) perform a mix of Floyd standards @ Brooklyn Bowl, $15

5pm-3am (thru Saturday): Puppets Jazz Bar (South Park Slope) is facing the possibility they may have to close their doors. help to keep them open at this two-day fundraiser. no cover, pay what you can.

SATURDAY
3pm: Support Greenpoint Open Studios with a good old-fashioned water balloon fight + have the chance to win cash money. Undia St. mural (West st. + the East River), $10.

9pm: Post-punk hero Thurston Moore joins experimental duo White Out for a show @ Knitting Factory, $10 adv/$12 dos

SUNDAY
10am-4pm: Jupiter’s Motorcycles hosts the first annual Gowanus block party/motorcycle, car + art show. Human foosball(?!), trike racing for the kids, grub from local vendors, plus a free after party @ Littlefield. 8th st btwn 2nd + 3rd aves.

12-5pm: Celebrate Michael Jackson’s birthday with Spike Lee, tunes spun by DJ Spinna, more. Prospect Park’s nethermead, free.

1-5pm: 2×2x2 bbq! NYC Daily Deals will be grillin’ up $2 franks and burgers and serving $2 well drinks and beer in honor of their second birthday. bonus: raffles! bell house, free admission (rsvp).

gates @ 2pm: ‘super special guests!’ close out this year’s Jelly Pool Parties with some help from Delorean and Dominique Young Unique. east river state park, free.

ALL WEEKEND
9am-6pm (+ 9/4-5): Borough Park’s Maple Lanes celebrates 50 years (!) with 50-cent games

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FRIDAY

8pm: The Playboys of the Western World and White Wedding play your fave yacht rock, classic rock, and ’80s tunes @ Brooklyn Bowl, $5.

8pm: Peek-a-boo! CUNY prof. Amy Herzog gives an illustrated lecture on peepshows and the evolution of Times Square 1965-1975. Observatory, $5.

SATURDAY
7pm: Play bingo against 30 Rock’s Kenneth, Sarah Vowell, John Oliver, more at 826nyc’s literacy fundraiser. 572 5th Ave. in Park Slope, $25.

7pm: Daptone Tecords Super-Soul Revue! Sharon Jones + The Dap-Kings (backed by The Bushwick Philharmonic), The Budos Band, and special guests put on one damn hot show. Prospect Park bandshell, $3 suggested donation.

doors @ 6:30pm: Tweaked Gameboys + Nintendos provide the soundtrack at the Reboot Chip Music concert series. Littlefield, $10 adv, $12 dos.

SUNDAY
gates @ 2pm: Get all sweaty and stuff as Cut Copy and Memory Tapes come to the Jelly Pool Party, East River State Park, free

5-7pm, 8-10pm: find a roommate that doesn’t suck at Roommates Wanted events in Astoria and Williamsburg. $5-10 sliding scale admission.

8pm: ‘Movie Mike’ host an evening of 1936’s Flash Gordon serials (shown in 16mm, not less!). Union Hall, free.

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FRIDAY
8pm:

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.

SATURDAY
12pm, 9pm: The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival closing performance day and after party with De La Soul, Jazzy Jay, more. Brooklyn Bridge Park/Tabacco Warehouse + Southpaw, $10-15.

12pm: Happy 4th birthday Union Hall! Free Reyka vodka lemonades 1-2pm ($5 after), $6 jerk chicken + $5 veggie burgers, good times.

3pm (thru Sun): the 4th annual Psychobilly Luau Weekender @ Bell House includes djs, vendors, a fashion show, bbq, contests + performances from Guana Batz, The Goddamn Gallows, The Neanderthals, more. $20-25/day, $40/weekend.

5-9pm: IFC’s “Dinner With The Band” takes over the Finger on The Pulse BBQ Blowout: chef Sam Mason (WD-50) feeds you while DWTB creators Darin + Greg Besnitz spin the tunes. Good Company, $10/plate.

8:30pm (weekends thru 7/25): The Piper Theater Company performs The Book of Liz, a play about an always-sweating nun and her cheese balls. Really. Written by The Talent Family (A.K.A. Amy and David Sedaris… of course!). Old Stone House, free.

SUNDAY
gates at 2pm: The Jelly Pool Parties kick off with Deerhoof + Xiu Xiu performing Joy Division’s classic LP ‘Unknown Pleasures’ + sets by Why?, Fang Island and Pictureplane. East River State Park, free.

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FRIDAY

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

2-8pm: 5 Greenpoint bars booze you up with drink specials, giveaways and raffles at the Fourth on Franklin Bar Crawl. Free PBR 2-3 for those wearing red, white and blue. Culminates with a ‘most patriotic costume’ competition @ t.b.d.

8pm: Sci-fi 4th of July: grill on the roof and watch the fireworks (a welcoming to alien friends?) at this three-storey party that moulds sci-fi with patriotism. Surreal Estate (Bushwick), $10.

ALL WEEKEND
Fretting about being grill-less for the holiday weekend? The city has you covered with designated grilling locations.

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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?

TO ENTER: Email liars@brokelyn.com by Friday, Jun. 25 at noon. We’ll randomly pick a lucky winner. And remember, you have to be an e-mail subscriber to win. Not a subscriber? Sign-up here: it’s a long and arduous process that will ask you personal questions we will send directly to the US Government’s Ministry of Internet Omnipotence (psyche! Now we’re being liars).

Don’t forget that Liars’ last three albums have gotten the illustrious “Best New Music” stamp from Pitchfork, including this year’s effort, Sisterworld, which is a creepy slice of rock that will likely show up on a lot of “Best Of” lists at the end of the year. They also have a political bent to their art, with one of their newest music videos shedding light on the evils of… rocks. Opening for Liars at Newton Barge Park on Saturday will be indie pop mavens High Places and everyone’s favorite hardcore band Fucked Up.

And if you don’t win (but we know you will), don’t cry the hardcore tears, because a four-day pass to Northside is just $40 (20 percent off) with this handy promo code, courtesy of our brokester-in-arms the skint. Northside just might be the best bang for your buck out of all the summer festivals, with four days of music from over one hundred bands, art installations and even a film festival all taking place in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. And unlike some other festivals that take resorting to creative income to afford, you won’t be paying for the privilege of getting groped by some hedge fund stooge who’s psyched to see the Dave Mathews Band, brah.

So… subscribe to Brokelyn here and email liars@brokelyn.com by Friday at noon to enter.

FRIDAY
Thru 9/12:

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!

7:30pm: Musicians celebrate the 40th anniversary Miles Davis’ seminal album, Bitches Brew. Prospect Park Bandshell, $3 suggested donation.

8pm: Brooklyn Salsa Company launch party! $2/3 Brooklyn brew, live music from The Rassle, Naam and Boomclique. Party Expo (929 Broadway), $2 cover.

SUNDAY
12-4pm: Jupiter’s Motorcycles (the only motorcycle rental company in NYC) hosts a BBQ with free Brooklyn brew and hot dogs (veggie and meat), tunes by Black and Gold record shop, plus 15% off any rental this month. Vrooom!

4:30, 8pm: The BAM CinemaFEST concludes with Dublin’s 3epkano performing an original live score to G.W. Pabst’s Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks. Closing party after 8pm screening. $19.

Sundown: Sing the body electric at Habana Outpost’s outdoor screening of Fame, free.

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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.

SUNDAY

Starts at 3pm: Zombie Crawl ! The undead drink booze, eat pizza and play games with the living. After party at Knitting Factory ($10) features The Undead (Bobby Steele, ex-Misfits), zombie movies with The Raspberry Brothers, ‘Thriller’ dancing and lots more.

MONDAY

2:30 pm: Lounge on your folding chair or blanket while you take in a concert of compositions by Green-Wood’s ‘permanent residents’ Ebb, Bernstein, Gottschalk and Jabara. Free.

ALL WEEKEND

BKLYN Yard’s opening weekend has your holiday covered: Score! clothing/book/music/housewares/bike swap (Sat, $3-5), ‘Sunday Best‘ dance party (Sun, $8-12), Parked! food trucks, co-sponsored by Brokelyn (Mon, 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.

Among our favorites: an animal dating and mating program at Prospect Zoo, including a live-animal demo (!!); and a short-movie festival at 3rd Ward with three-minute films all featuring three things: a reference to at least one of the three wise monkeys, a celebrity death and something uncontrollable. Then there’s the un-lovey-dovey stuff, like the Rejection Show at the Bell House and the free Wake for Love and Relationship Obituary open mic at the Knitting Factory.

Check the whole list here.

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.)

Our buddies over at Brooklyn Based and The Skint were included, and their tips are solid as ever for the enterprising budget-conscious holiday reveler.

BB rounds up an off-beat collection of holiday outings, including a collection of Sesame Street Christmas moments showing at BAMcinemaTek and the best neighborhoods for gawking at holiday lights, as well as other craft fairs and a philosophy lecture aiming to prove the existence of Santa.

The Skint gives you its 30 Days of Skintmas (a new holiday we can all get behind), with a month’s worth of cheap or free things to do. Some of our favorites include: donating lightly worn shoes to get 30 percent off a new pair at the Adidas holiday shoe-swap event (plus cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and giveaways!); drinking a fancy foreign beer at Rolf’s for under a tenner; viewing the original hand-edited manuscript for Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” They also tell you where to get your 2010 NYC firefighter calendar signed for free, if you’re in to that sort of thing, which according to every woman we’ve ever talked to, lots of people are.

Here’s the rest of the list:

Give and Get NYC ‘Tis The Season to Volunteer

the improvised life unwrapping the holidays

Manhattan User’s Guide The Gift Guide

Mommy Poppins Offbeat and Multicultural Family Holiday Events

NY Barfly It’s the Holidays, Time to Drink

NewYorkology Big-ticket holiday shows: Nutcracker, Rockettes, Wintuk

offManhattan Ten Holiday Getaways Near NYC

Patell & Waterman’s History of New York A little history with your holidays

The Strong Buzz Holiday Eats Old and New

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog Happy Freakin’ Holidays Playlist

Walking Off the Big Apple The Thin Man Walk: A New York Holiday Adventure with Nick and Nora Charles