This Weekend’s Hottness
Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday with Mast Brothers Chocolate and Rooftop Reds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
let me guess… you gave up wine and chocolate and childish games for lent and you have been just chomping at the BiT for the past 40 days now haven’t you? or you’re like me where you told everyone you gave up drinking and sweets while audaciously sipping rioja and not breaking eye contact. regardless of your approach to the past 40 days of sacrifice, i know that a little wine, sunshine, chocolate, and hammock hanging is in order this easter sunday. our good friends at rooftop reds (the world’s first urban rooftop vineyard, no bid deal) are teaming up with their navy yard neighbors and the sun to bring a nostalgic sunday of easter egg hunting and wine sipping for adults (or, like, whatever you call us) there will be a wine and chocolate tasting, sunny tunes spinning on the record player, yard games and … the tasting starts at 230, which means there will be plenty of time to tell your mom you went to church. tickets, $25 are available here. 63 flushing ave, bldg 275.
THURSDAY
Monogold and Salt Cathedral at Baby’s All Right, Williamsburg.
Any band that’s worth a damn is enhanced tremendously when the hit the stage and acoustics of that audibly perfect back room at baby’s all right. This one happens to be worth their weight in gold. Monogold’s progressive synth rock will shine against that charming wine bottle light show. They hit the stage with Salt Cathedral who if they are the closest thing you get to church this holy weekend, it is guaranteed to be a religious experience. This Colombian duo by way of Brooklyn has an electro-pop mood that puts you in another dimension where all movement is dancing and all love is painless. Tickets, $12 available here. Show is 8-midnight.
SAFEWORD Kinky Burlesque at C’mon Everybody, Bushwick.
Do you know why I include Thursday’s in my weekend guide? Because Thursday’s are dangerous, Thursday’s are dirty. Doing bad things on a Thursday doesn’t just mean you made a bad decision (eek!) it means you a bad bitch and ya friends bad too. So don’t play it safe. Head to c’mon everybody Thursday night for their safeword kinky burlesque. It’s a bdsm spectacle which means, in so many words- forget your fucking safe word. All info here, 9pm-midnight, 345 franklin ave at c’mon everybody, where you can come… ok listen don’t make me finish that.
Stephanie Danler Speaks at Greenelight in Forte Greene.
If you haven’t read sweetbitter, let me offer you a bit more incentive here, some words before her words. her description of new york is my new york and your new york, a city that lives and breathes, is better than it pretends to be and not quite what you wish it was. the sheer joy and earth-shattering defeat, the addictive high-low, push-pull; it’s the allure of the city of course. it’s what brought us here and keeps us here, somehow. this work as stunning, captivating, electrifying, honest. Hear her speak in Fort Greene tonight about the novel and what one does next after having her first book be a massive bestseller. well-curated wine social to follow. all info here, starts at 730pm. 686 fulton. at greenlight, which means go.™
Salsa Party at the Brooklyn Museum.
FRIDAY
Dance Party at the Bell House with DJ Bengey, Gowanus.
residency at union hall which tragically closed 2 weeks ago due to a fire. the good news? dj bengey is playing friday night at the bell house so you won’t see too much of an interruption in getting your funk on. the other good news? mike berbiglia is hosting a charity event to raise money to help union hall. the event is april 26th, tickets $20, all proceeds to to help our favorite neighborhood haunt. and some additional good news? union hall will reopen in two weeks. benjey’s event is free and starts at 10pm, goes all night. other info here we didn’t start the fire, but we will…. err, fix it. we’ll fix that shit.
Brooklyn Chocolate Bus Tour for Manhattanites
Get in this bus chocolate tour of Brooklyn that starts in Manhattan. Grab the mike. Break everyone’s hart with the potential truth of the ,sat brothers hypocrisy as yiu cross the Williamsburg bridge. Throw miniature snickers at them while snickering. Fill the gift bags with #2 when they make their first stop. Okay the drive $200 to take them back to Manhattan. I’ll pay you that $200.
Tinker Toy, Pinker Boy – One Man Show by GJ Dowding at Vital Joint, Bushwick.
We live in a destination for theater, although it is admittedly something we rarely partake in. But to experience this talent is awe inspiring, and if it’s in the form of a one man show, well… prepare to be moved, humbled, and left in complete disbelief of the talent and courage yiu witnessed.director, Actor and writer and overall modern theater Renaissance man Gj’s one man show tinker you, pinker boy is a raw, vulnerable, and powerful first journey through his calling as a queer solo performer. let’s strengthen our community and show our support because of course #lovetrumpshate. the showtimes are Thurs 8pm, Fri 7pm and Sat 8pm. tickets $10-15 available at the door. 109 meserole st at vital joint.
SATURDAY
It’s Smorgasburg Season! in Williamsburg.
Ok yeah sure, it’s a tourist destination. It’s every manhattan yuppy’s opportunity to say “I’ll just dip my foot into the Brooklyn thing enough to seem hip” before they get spooked by the tattoos and fast fixies and scamper back on to the ferry. but you know what else it is? It’s OUR weekly outdoor food fest showcasing the best of the best. It’s where New York establishments like Mighty Quinn’s first tested their big flavors on our little mouths. It’s where the rain cake tried to make fools of us all before we burst their bubble (wait we did, right? that shit isn’t going to be there this year, no?) and it’s where you can drink and eat food from 12 different places without (audible) judgement and gaze at the skyline and revel in the warmth of springtime. This is the third weekend but the first warm one, so get there. Check out the list of vendors here. Go hungry, leave less hungry and promising to get their earlier and a little tipsier next time. (feel free to consult my very unofficial listing of north Brooklyn haunts that won’t judge you for drinking before 11am… or just head to lake street.)
Spring Awakening at House of Yes, Bushwick.
A spring cleaning of the soul, a repositioning of the , a complete flushing out of the inhibitions. Truly dance yrself (spring!) clean and feel reborn as the sunrises. This is house of yes and this is why it exists. To bathe you and entrance you in an experience so rich and deep and personal that it isn’t a party, it’s a belief. Tickets, $25 and all other info right here for you.
Brunch at Whit’s End, Riis Park, the Rockaways.
oh no I know, trust me. I know. This weekend is reserved for a very important reason, and that is the freedom to mindlessly indulge in Reese’s eggs as if you actually gave them up for lent. Well. There’s another reason… Riis park is opening its doors to us preseason for a little brunch at the beach. Al fresco. so the beach might not be open until Memorial Day but you get 7-8 mimosas in and I guarantee your white wintertime ass is going to be racing me and all of our friends into the waves. (also pssst Fort Tilden is a state park. And that makes it seasonless. or some ish. so we just go get skinny there.) bring your brunch game to Whit’s end. Follow @whitsendrockaway for almost-daily menu postings! 11-3pm, 16702 Rockaway Beach Blvd
Cultural Crawl (it’s an enhanced bar crawl!) in Bushwick!
because we’re passed the whole bar crawl thing. if we’re hitting more than 5 bars back to back we just call it Sunday and we don’t require matching koozies to do it and we won’t be vomiting after… (in public). this bar crawl has evolved with us. leave it to lot 45 to bring us culture crawl, a swaggy stroll through some of bushwick’s best bars, restaurants, and street art. all with mad discounts just for revelers (I said we older but we still po’) and … ok this just in, there’s a souvenir cup involved. use it to hide vomit in lest you sully the sparkling sidewalks of bushwick and drink out of a big boi glass. all info and $25 tickets here . it all starts at Bushwick Public House, 1288 myrtle ave. the cultural crawl, the classiest way to get on your knees this weekend™
SUNDAY
Easter Egg Hunt with Mast Brothers Chocolate and Rooftop Reds in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
let me guess… you gave up wine and chocolate and childish games for lent and you have been just chomping at the BiT for the past 40 days now haven’t you? or you’re like me where you told everyone you gave up drinking and sweets while audaciously sipping rioja and not breaking eye contact. regardless of your approach to the past 40 days of sacrifice, i know that a little wine, sunshine, chocolate, and hammock hanging is in order this easter sunday. our good friends at rooftop reds (the world’s first urban rooftop vineyard, no bid deal) are teaming up with their navy yard neighbors and the sun to bring a nostalgic sunday of easter egg hunting and wine sipping for adults (or, like, whatever you call us) there will be a wine and chocolate tasting, sunny tunes spinning on the record player, yard games and … the tasting starts at 230, which means there will be plenty of time to tell your mom you went to church. tickets, $25 are available here. 63 flushing ave, bldg 275.
Save Sunny’s! the best bar in the world, in Red Hook.
it’s the reality of this city that businesses come and go. places like glasslands and spike hill and cameo all leave a gaping whole in our hearts for live music. neighborhoods we thought were safe put up fences with computer rendered images of Dubai-like condo skyscrapers. we weep for the New York of yesterday and every generation has… it pains me to imagine what the weepable New York of yesterday will be 25 years from now. so let’s precede and present the weeping for one oh so beloved neighborhood and the worlds best bar within it. red hook, among the seemingly least likely victims of kindles gentrification is being taken over. by a shitty tech campus with a cheesy old timey name and other mindless creatures who discover there’s more down there than Swedish meatballs and göhrn dressers. sunnys. after losing its caretaker and namesake who passed away just last year is st risk of closing lest sunny’s widow and current owner can raise $65k for the mortgage. so go drink there. Have the cocktail of the night, made from donated liquor. buy donated art. go on Monday’s, all proceeds go towards the goal. donate to the go fund me every day of the week.we can’t let this happen. not to sunnys.
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