You’ve come a long way, baby. You’ve been laborin’ hard all summer, workin’ on that tan, practicing those moves, moving those hips, loosening those lips, sinking those ships and dancing til dawn and making love and drinking rose all the hours in between. And now you can finally collect the fruits of your labor on this magical 4-day weekend filled with music and magic, backyard barbecues and rooftop ragers, long beach days with obnoxiously large inflatables, and all types of nudity.
Yep. It’s gonna be that kind of weekend. So strip down, turn on, tune in, drop out and explode.
(further instructions below…)
WHAT NOT TO MISS THIS WEEKEND
Atlas Obscura Presents See/Saw in Greenpoint
Do you believe in magic? Of course you do, why else would you have been drawn to this shining, shimmering city? Hone it all in this weekend at Atlas Obscura’s See/Saw event. It’s a magic show that immerses you in the mind, the mystery, and the mania of the magician. Where you won’t believe what you’re seeing or have seen or did saw. And such. Tickets are $75 and cocktail attire is required, so get fancy and forget your panties. Because everyone should have their secrets. Get your ticket here and plan to go to Brooklyn Safehouse afterwards, because it’s Greenpoint’s dodgiest bar and everyone loves a good juxtaposition. 122 Franklin St.
THURSDAY
Janeane Garofalo + friends at Rose Gold in Bushwick
Our beloved indoor/outdoor venues will soon shutter their doors for the season, so go embrace them this weekend. My favorite little clam shack in Bushwick hosts comedian Janeane Garofalo and four other amazing comedians downstairs at their disco-fabulous Rose Gold basement venue, so go early, get some skrimps and beers, then descend for laughs and mischief. Dance party to follow or rooftop makeouts at Our Wicked Lady. The show is free, the skrimps are at market price. Doors downstairs open at 7:30pm. Info here. 96 Morgan Ave.
Seasonal Spirits: Wild and Wood with the Brooklyn Brewery at MoFaD
We might not all be aging gracefully given our penchant for late nights, shots of whiskey and petty crimes but learn a bit about aging tastefully tonight at the Museum of Food and Drink. They welcome barrel-aging expert Eric Brown from Brooklyn Brewery to let you taste and learn about some of their rarest and most daring barrel-aging experiments. Tickets, $25 available here. 6:30-8:30pm, 62 Bayard St.
FRIDAY
Beer Dinner with KCBC at North Brooklyn Farms in Williamsburg
Stop bitching about the heat and start immersing yourself in the last of this summertime magic beneath a waning moon around a communal table within a garden Friday night in Brooklyn. North Brooklyn Farms will be hosting a farm-to-table dinner featuring locally-sourced (some grown just inches from your table) ingredients and paired with beers from Kings County Brewers Collective. It’s somewhere between a keg party and a farm dinner and that is an intersection that you want to be at. Tickets, $100 available here. Arrive at 6pm. 320 Kent Ave.
Sunset Fridays at the Bell House Outpost in Industry City
Stop going to shitty happy hours at soulless places near your office. Start ducking out early and taking the ferry to Industry City for the Bellhouse’s outdoor outpost and sunset happy hour. They take over the courtyard at Industry City and host DJs and a live sunset overlooking the skyline and Lady Liberty. RSVP and arrive before 7pm for 2-for-1 beers or frozen cocktails. DJ from 5-9pm. Start your weekend off right. RSVP here, 274 36th St.
House of Love presents: Red Hot at House of Yes in Bushwick
It’s August in the city and if you aren’t nursing a bit of a sunburn right now, you’re doing things wrong. Skip work now and go get yourself one. And then take that hot red skin to House of Yes where you can bare it all with no shame. Friday night’s House of Love party is Red Hot, so come read between the tan lines and find yourself a new lover and heat up the dance floor all night. This place will have everything: Aphrodisiac Edibles, Sacred Performances of Pleasure, Champagne & Candle Wax, Punishment & Pleasure, Sensual Sacrifice, Bondage and Blindfolds, Hot Tubs and Hotter Moments, and pretty much anything else your heart desires. Tickets, $20 available here. Costumes required. 10pm-4am at 2 Wyckoff Ave.
SATURDAY
Makossa Cookout on the rooftop at Our Wicked Lady in Bushwick
Remember in the beginning of summer when those friends who you know that own grills were like, “Oh yeah! We’re going to have cookouts alll summer! Like literally, the coals will always be hot and ready! Yes come over every single day!” And how many cookouts have you been to… yeah. People with grills fucking lie. Get one up on them finally this Saturday at the Makossa cookout. It’s a free cookout with lots of love and all the best djs on a rooftop in Bushwick. And they have a strict policy to not admit people with grills, or liars. Fuck off Pinnochio. And Bobby Flay. RSVP here now. 2-10pm. 153 Morgan Ave.
Misfit Burn at House of Yes in Bushwick
You’re so glad you stayed home from Burning Man but maybe you want a little taste of the adventure and to dress up in something completely ridiculous and get a little dusty and share magical gifts and free love with strangers and new lovers. Feel the burn this Saturday at the Misfit Burn at House of Yes. They’ll bring all of the magic of the playa to Bushwick so set up camp just for the night and have something to revisit in your head as soon as your friends come back from the desert and can’t shut up about it. Tickets, $30 available here. 10pm-4am, 2 Wyckoff Ave.
PS1 Summer Warm-Up in Long Island City
This is the LAST Summer Warm-Up of the season, so if you’ve been wasting your time keeping cool buy tickets now here and go dance all day at one of Summer’s best day parties that happens within a museum and outside in their massive courtyard and sculpture garden. DJs spinning all day. tickets here, get yours now. I’m already heatin’ up.
SUNDAY
You Had To Be There: Heat Wave at the Brooklyn Mirage in Bushwick
You Had To Be There, the party group that demands that you be present and fuck your phones and don’t feel the desperate need to post an Instagram story to confirm your participation in life descends upon that massive, glamorous party space of a courtyard in Bushwick for a Sunday night dance party. They welcome DJs Baauer, Eauxzown, Hewy and more to keep your hips moving and grooving from 10pm-4am. This stunning outdoor venue only exists in the summertime so swallow your excuses and get your ass there. Tickets, $30 available here. 140 Stewart Ave.
Dirty Dancing with a Watermelon Margarita at Videology in Williamsburg
I feel like we all figuratively arrived in this city like Baby in Dirty Dancing – wearing dorky clothes and carrying weird objects and stopping dead in our tracks when we discovered just how much life and mischief existed here. And then we all transitioned into world-class samba dancers and fucking the likes of Patrick Swayze and standing up to our parents, right? Well whatever part of this transition you are currently in, celebrate one of the greatest coming-of-age films ever this Sunday at Videology. Dirty Dancing will have two matinee showings with a watermelon margarita included with your ticket. Get yours here now. 308 Bedford Ave.
Dope BBQ at the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens
Summertime was made for barbecues and beers and friends and djs and dancing in the sunshine until it becomes the moonlight and all of our best intentions turn to mischief. TGP is back in NYC to throw the dopest barbecue of summertime. $20 tickets and all info here, 2-10pm. 52-19 flushing ave.
Glow Up Body Paint Party at Rockwall Studios in Bushwick
Paint the town red this Labor Day weekend and your body every color of the rainbow at the Glow Up Body Paint party. Ending Brooklyn Music Week in style, this body paint party will feature Brooklyn’s best DJs spinning all night at Rockwall Studios. Tickets are only $7, get yours here now. 9pm-3am at Rockwall Studios, 1080 Wyckoff Ave.
MONDAY
WERK Labor Day White Party at House of Yes in Bushwick
Reap the fruits of your labor this Monday at the 12-hour Werk white party at House of Yes. Get back to the grind, get the job done, get to WERK. Wear your whites, all day all night. Get them dirty and dance yrself clean, to resident DJ Eli Escobar all day long. 12 Hours straight of hot meat, dirty dancing and delicious chillness. Tickets are $8 and are available here. 2 Wyckoff Ave.
Beats and BBQ at LP ‘n Harmony in Bushwick
Do you see a theme here? Cookouts and music and dancing and booze and love. This is what Labor Day weekend and dreams are made of. So exacerbate your hot dog quota and let’s all get loose. This event, in it’s eleventh year which is way longer than most people make it in this town. Celebrate with them from 3pm to 10pm. Food is free with a drink purchase, dancing is free if you put your groove in it, love is free if you open your heart. (not sure i know what i’m saying anymore). all info here, 683 Grand St.
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