The Weekend Guide | 13-16 September 2018

If you think about it, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion was basically what all of us are currently doing digitally on every dating app. Wearing what we think are sexy/trendy clothes, making up lies about our professional lives, pretending to have done something really awesome since high school in hopes to get laid by a hottie. And let’s just say the way they did it was way, way more entertaining than when you’re annoying friend bitches that it’s just not working for her. Go look at this film through new eyes and also, with drinking rules at Videology this Friday night. Tickets $12, here. Film starts at 11:59pm. 308 Bedford Ave.

I wish that airlines were as sexy as they seemed to be in the 60s and that the mile high club had more planned activities outside of planes and that the hot towels were served by hot nudes and that the goddamn bag of peanuts wasn’t so small. Come to the House of Yes this Friday night to experience Yes Air, the airline of your dreams and the best way to get really high this weekend. They welcome By Your Side and 4 other amazing DJs to keep your plane circling all night. Dress code and all info here. Free before 11pm, party goes until 4am. 2 Wyckoff Ave.

Been thinking of doing a digital detox but afraid you’ll end up literally lost without use of Google Maps? The first step to admitting you have a problem is to stop making weak-ass excuses no one will believe. Get off the grid and stop looking down at that little blue dot to find your way. Look to the stars and learn to navigate the way people did for thousands of years at this event in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They kick off their Fall discussion with Frank Reed, one of the world’s leading experts in celestial navigation. The event is $8 and after you can drink whiskey until you see stars at the Gatehouses. Info here, 4:30-6:30pm. 63 Flushing Ave.

When all of this hurricane finally blows over, luckily we’ll be left with a slightly annoying memory of dramatic 24-hour news reporters… but so many other neighborhoods, homes and lives will be destroyed. Come to Mad Tropical this Saturday night and laugh at and for a good cause with this all-female stand-up show. Proceeds go to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico (get this – they JUST got power back. Like just a couple of weeks ago.) and help these women use their talent to help others in the wake of future natural disasters. Suggested donation of $10 at the door. Info here. 236 Troutman St.

Summer is gone and that sucks. But Fall can be cool in a LOT of fucking better ways than Starbucks and all of the brands within CVS stuffing pumpkin spice flavouring down our throats. Come to the 39th Annual Harvest Fair and feel, taste, and see all of the beautiful ways this beautiful season falls upon our community. There will be a Harvest Fair Contest, bike smoothies, pumpkin ring toss, scarecrow making (they work for neighborhood sex offenders too!) and live entertainment. Go, do something wholesome this weekend before you get schwasted. Info here. Noon-4pm, free, at the Brooklyn Bears Pacific Garden, 590 Pacific St.

Ah yes, social events. The chance for us to stumble upon a new lover, a forever best friend, an opportune business venture, a better drug dealer. Which is completely impossible when you have headphones in. Go to this event where you’ll be so disconnected from the very core of what it is to not drink alone on the weekends that you won’t even have the wherewithal to say “bless you” when someone sneezes. Put on obnoxious headphones. Dance like a fool. Scream in your friends’ ears, “YOURS IS THE SAME AS MINE RIGHT!!” Tickets and info here.

If you haven’t seen this stunning romantic drama by Richard Linklater then hurry up and buy tickets to this event and get lost in that experience you thought you would have when you studied abroad. It’s the first of a 3-part series that follows the actors as they age in real life. This one finds them wandering Vienna, trying to deny the imminent sunrise that will tear the two apart indefinitely. Tickets include a glass of Austrian wine. Get yours here. Showings at 7 and 9:30. 308 Bedford Ave.

Remember when tequila felt dangerous? Meet mezcal, tequila’s reckless cousin. You know the one. The one who you hear started smoking at the age of 7. The one who has been tempting you to drink on school nights. A night out with him feels like the best drug trip you’ve ever been on; it comes on slow and smooth and eases you into a state of pure, ecstatic celebration, leaving you with nothing more in the morning but a slight sense of disbelief. If tequila makes her clothes fall off, mezcal undresses her with his eyes, stripping away her inhibitions and making her beg for more, harder, faster, longer, now. So why should you get to know mezcal? Because it feels good being bad. Come immerse yourself in smokey mischief and get into the spirit at House of Yes’s Mexico In A Bottle celebration this Sunday. Over 100 different mezcals plus mexican bites from all of your favorite local haunts. Tickets $75 available here. 3:30-7pm. 2 Wyckoff Ave.

Greenpoint’s best vintage shop has moved across McGuinness and dusted off a new-old space in the Greenpoint loft and to celebrate, they’re having an end-of-summer AND fall preview sale, just for you. Go and peruse their perfectly-curated collection plus handcrafted home decor and paper products by 20+ local artisans. It’s happening Saturday and Sunday, noon-5pm, 67 West St, Suite 216. More info here if you need it.

It’s nearly impossible to sample all of the amazing bites and plates in this town even in a year. But how about in a day? How about in a day on the waterfront? How about with hot bartenders making drinks for you too? Totally possible. Taste of Greenpoint and Williamsburg is one fusion-food event that I won’t make fun of. Because it is delicious. Get a$55 ticket here, it’s worth it. Noon-5pm, East River State Park.