The Weekend Guide | 18-21 April 2019

Hey Brooklyn. It’s springtime in your favorite city and I’ve found all the ways to make you feel young and wild and free, this weekend. Your weekend guide awaits.

I think you’re getting warmer.

Things to Do in Brooklyn on Thursday

Pink Moon Farmraiser at the Greenpoint Palace

This city is known for skyscrapers and massive private neighborhood developments, hot new restaurant openings and painful local bar closings… but there are still those hidden, natural oases that seem to be untouched by developers. And those we must embrace, protect and support. North Brooklyn Farms has pledged to be open to the public all season, rejecting weekly weddings and corporate buyouts that leave this waterfront refuge closed off to us. Show your support Thursday night to help them maintain funding for the farm all year at the Greenpoint Palace. The evening before the pink full moon, they’ll be celebrating a season of beauty and nature with DJs and door prizes, a silent auction and some loud exclamations. Come show your love and bask naked in the Pink Moonlight and celebrate another season of love for this urban farm. Tickets are $20. Get yours here now.  206 Nassau Ave.

Bangladeshi Dinner at Archestratus in Greenpoint

What is Brick Lane? Imagine Smorgasburg without the influencers, without the novelty foods (I don’t know about you, but I’m really ok never knowing what a spaghetti donut tastes like…) and every booth replaced with bright, spicy, savory curries, bold spices, and not one water cake in sight. Brick Lane cookbook author Dina Begum will bring all of the magic of the London Brick Lane market to Greenpoint Thursday night. Come for a brilliant culinary demonstration and 3-course dinner and all the local flavor you always expect at Archestratus. Tickets, $50 are going fast. Get yours here now. It’s happening at 7pm, 160 Huron St.

Brooklyn Beer Leagues Hockey Championship at City Ice Pavilion in Long Island City

Come see hot guys on ice. For free. And half of them will be winners at the end of the night, and you can celebrate with that half, which will inevitably be crowd-favorite Williamsburg Jets. Come have some wine from my bota, get rowdy, see who goes top cheds and who doesn’t, find out where mama keeps the peanut butter, gaze longingly at the zamboni wondering if you will ever have a chance to drive one, pretend to be lost conveniently just before and just after the game to sneak some peeks in the locker room. Bring your own beer, take home a winner. Just come, I’ll show you what to do and also explain off-sides to you. Kind of. Game starts at 8:30pm. 47-32 42nd Place.

Madame Morbid Oddities Trolley Tour of Brooklyn

It’s Thursday night. And that means you’re probably looking for mischief and mayhem and mezcal in dangerously unbalanced proportions, and you’re ready to send your work week to hell in a handbasket and yourself through Brooklyn in an antique trolley decorated like a funeral parlor with an especially spooky set of tour guides, surrounded by their special “collection” of curated oddities from over the years. Um… right? That’s like, kind of how you’re feeling? Great. Then get on board with Madame Morbid’s oddities tour and do just that. She’s teaming up with Oddities curator Ryan Matthew Cohn so come, get spooky with them. Tickets, $49 available here. 7-8:30pm.

Mocking Sex Offenders for a Good Cause at Union Hall in Gowanus

So we all feel better now that we’ve gotten our #metoo experiences out there in the open, right? We feel empowered and justified and healed? Maybe a little, but you know what will make all of us feel better? To go to this event where the worst of them will be brutally mocked all night by some of the best comedians in the city. Because they fucking deserve it. Tickets, $8 all go to RAINN (the nations largest anti-sex violence organization) so you’ll can #revelwithacause. Get yours here now then be there from 9:30 to 11:30pm at Union Hall, 702 Union Street.

Things to Do in Brooklyn on Friday

Greenpoint Gallery Night, all over the neighborhood

We all are attracted to this place like moths to a flame of creativity, of artistic promise, of unbridled opportunity. Then we all get here and we hustle to live and work and what happens, when you take the time to see it, is pure magic. Take time to see it this Friday in Greenpoint, when some of North Brooklyn’s best artists open their galleries to all of us. This is why we came here. Now see and celebrate what we’ve all been doing. Maps, events, and info here.  After-party at the Diamond, the best creation that has come out of Greenpoint, alcoholically.

Wildlife Earth Night at House of Yes in Bushwick

This weekend we celebrate the Pink Moon, 4/20, and Earth Day which should give you every reason to get into celebrating the beauty and gifts this planet (and moon!) give to us. Celebrate it the way your mother earth would want you to at House of Yes. They’ll have live painting, earth cleansings, performance rituals, earthy & air aerial art, and all of the other surprises you usually find at this wild, wonderful venue. Come dressed up, it’s more fun that way. And also, come #revelwithacause as ticket sales benefit CO2 Logic, Little Sun, and DJs for Climate Action. Get yours here now. 10pm-4am, 2 Wyckoff Ave.

Bodega Night at Estevez Deli in Bushwick

So what if Airbnb was reserved for parties and events instead of instagrammable homes, it was just cool, local spaces that you maybe never thought you could party within? That’s Venn, the Airbnb for happenings. And they’re having their first ever Bodega Night Friday night which is exactly how it sounds. Instead of buying your beer from the bodega, grab one from the fridge. Crack it open. Hang with people who also usually get their beer there, then leave. They’ll have DJs, pool, sneaky punch (just like college!) and cool community vibes you won’t get at a bar. Because it’s a bodega. Entry is $5, info here. It’s happening from 9-midnight at Estevez Deli, 804 Knickerbocker Ave. 

Bonobo at Elsewhere in Bushwick

There is no reason you be anywhere other than elsewhere Friday night, dancing and partying while Bonobo is spinning tunes and keeping you feeling young and wild and free. Seriously, if you’ve never seen him live, get your tickets here now. Wear your Bonobos pants to the show, or wear other pants, or wear no pants, no one will notice as they are entransed in the magic that is being produced on stage. Go on a Szechuan mission beforehand if you want – Mission Chinese is under the same roof. Tickets here. Show starts at 11pm. 599 Johnson Ave.

Toro Y Moi at Good Room in Greenpoint

Will someone just tell me how to pronounce these guy’s band name? Please? And then also go to what will be the best local dance scene this weekend. Toro y Moi y you y me y yo at Good Room, my favorite place to do bad things. Tickets going fast, get yours here now. It’s happening at 10pm and within 98 Meserole St. 

Things to Do in Brooklyn on Saturday

Rubulad Enter the Bunnyverse, somewhere in Bushwick

I know it’s hard to navigate the party scene in this city. Trust me, I know. But don’t feel bad for yourself. We are swimming among some of the best nightlife in the world, and within these uncharted waters, every so often, the King Triton of party groups emerges. And to that I recommend you swim really fucking fast and hang on tight, and then party all night. Rubulad is that group, and Saturday night they’ll bring you into the Bunnyverse, which, trust me, is a place you want to be, all night, and part of the next day too. Tickets and info here. RSVP for address.

James Murphy and Nina Kraviz at the Knockdown Center

Dance yrself clean and then dirty and then into a frenzied state where hygiene is relative and resistance is futile and Daft Punk is playing at your house, or at least you’re going to confidently tell people that they are. Do all of this at the Knockdown Center this Saturday night. James Murphy and Nina Kraviz will be DJing all night at this creative party space where I once went to a rave inside a maze which wasn’t as cool as it sounds. This party, I’m confident, will be. Tickets available here. 10pm-4am, at 52-19 Flushing Ave.

Oregon Trail Live at Caveat in SoHo

Why have diarrhea at home or in the bathroom of your favorite bar after ingesting your favorite substances when you can do it live and onstage, competitively? Get dysentery, make the wrong decision about caulking the wagon and floating across, and mindlessly still shoot at every rabbit. It’s Oregon Trail Live at Caveat. It’s a drinking game, a history lesson, an adventure, and a competition hosted by Kylie Holloway and Michael Salgarolo. Tickets are $15 available here. It’s happening from 9 to 11:30 at 21A Clinton Street in the city, so it’s your best #reasontocrosstheriverthisweekend and just trust me, pay for the ferry. Your wagon will not make it. 

Opening Day at Bronx Brewery!

Most of us living in this city aren’t lucky enough to have yards. Or closets. Or bathrooms that we can fully blow dry our long hair within. (I hope that’s not just me…) The Bronx Brewery wants to make at least one of those things a little better for you, all season. They’re celebrating the first day of “backyard season” with DJs all day, a new beer release, yard games, T-shirts, and a mural for you to get your picture taken in front of. Go. Get outside. Drink beer. Have a backyard. Party starts at noon, info here. 856 East 136th St. 

Flying High at House of Yes in Bushwick

Sometimes, I just let House of Yes say it best: Lift your spirits, elevate your life. Take off, blast off and get high in the friendly skies with Yes Air on Flight 420! Aerial aviation of the highest altitudes, soaring spectacles beyond the stratosphere and beautiful beats to keep you flying and floating through the solar system & dance floor all night long. Come dressed as a flight attendant. Renew your membership to the Mile High Club. Do bad things with good intentions. Your plane is boarding. Tickets, here. 10pm-4am, 2 Wyckoff Ave.

NYC’s Rose Mansion, or Why We Don’t Live in Manhattan

I have a severe allergy against these made-for-instagram installations. Shouldn’t our photographs be a reflection of our lifestyle rather than a life experience imagined to create photographs? Case in point, the new Rose Mansion in Manhattan. Made for Instagram and people who can’t decide what they want to drink, it’s your reason not to cross the river this weekend. Stay in Brooklyn. After all, I’ve already made plans for you. (do take the time to read this hilarious piece about the Mansion in Gothamist and let’s all appreciate being bad influencers.)

Things to Do in Brooklyn on Sunday

Cabaret Latin Drag Brunch at Bizarre Bushwick

Brunch fucking sucks. If you know anyone in the service industry then you probably know that all of us share this sentiment. It’s a necessary evil, a shift everyone dreads. The same guest you had at dinner will be nearly unrecognizable at brunch. They require 4 different beverages at the same time (“ummm, could I get an iced coffee, sparkling water, orange juice only if it’s fresh squeezed, and a Bloody Mary with…mezcal?” [she’ll say that last part after a slight pause and mischevious grin so you and everyone else knows she’s a little dangerous]). We have to stand there and smile and get our asses kicked for a bunch of people who apparently aren’t capable of making two eggs, any style, in the comfort of their own homes. 

PHEW, sorry. I’m ok guys. I’m ok. Anyway, the weird and wonderful people at Bizarre Bushwick are making brunch less AND more of a drag this Sunday. The Cabaret Latin Drag Brunch is the only one I approve of, mostly because I can watch you get slapped around by some big fake boobies just after you feel good about being the only person at the table to come up with “poached” as your egg style. Cabaret Latin Drag Brunch is happening 11am-4pm. Info here. 12 Jefferson St.

Earth Love Fest in Bushwick

House of Yes will be taking the party out of the box and into the open air at their outdoor venue, 99 Scott. To celebrate Mother Earth and all she hath given us, go be a part of this day party with a porpoise purpose and immerse yourself within some interactive earth art, an eco-sustainable market, some biodegradable glitter, workshops such as living a plastic-free life, and renewable DJs, all day. Info here. 99 Scott Ave.