What makes us take something commonplace and turn it into something collected, coveted, remembered? Plastered on a wall in some bar in Red Hook perhaps? It’s a steady prescription of intention and seduction and experimentation oh and a little help from someone you trust to make plans for you. Your weekend guide awaits.
THURSDAY
House of the Hatter in BedStuy
Get into this mind-bending, not made-for-Instagram immersive experience in BedStuy. The House of the Hatter opens its doors one day a year and invites you into their laboratory, into this ultimate showcase of the intersection of art and technology. The Hatter welcomes guests into their house to discover an “alternative now” where all experiences are reinvented and delivered anew. Don’t read into this too much, there isn’t anything to understand. There is only experience and disruptions and innovations and art and also two cocktails included with your $29 ticket, available right here.
Great Ryes of America: Walk Around Tasting at NY Distillery in Greenpoint
Hey baby, what do I have to do to get a little ryes out of you? Hm? How about invite you to an event in a distillery where you can walk around and taste … American whiskeys before choosing one (or a few) to indulge in while sitting at the vintage wooden bar in one of Greenpoint’s coolest and most hidden bars? Yep, I thought that would work. Check out this rye whiskey tasting at the New York Distilling Company and it’s awesome attached bar, the Shanty. Drink enough to sing a sea shanty, or drink enough not to. You do you. Tickets, $25 available here. 6:30-8:30. 79 Richardson St.
The MTA Presents the 1st Annual Haunted Subway Ride, Underground
Is anything scarier than standing before a chasm in front of a group of irritable strangers as a nearly uncontrollable steel machine comes hurdling towards you? Or maybe the threat of being cutoff from all of your friends and ex-lovers across the east river and anyone you know who doesn’t live near the water for an entire year? Or getting onto a subway car feeling relieved that you seem to have it all to yourself and realizing exactly WHY only ONE person is on it, over in the corner, smelling almost dead just as the doors shut? Well, the MTA thinks so. Come to their first ever (???) haunted subway ride this Thursday and Friday. A festive event that we really hope cost $0 to create will take you from Union Square to … (I guess unless the ghosts of train traffic’s past somehow get ahead of you) All it costs is a subway swipe and submitting to not actually getting where you need to go. Which we’re all used to by now. Info here. This is happening Thursday and Friday starting at 4pm, enter from the 15th st side of the Union Square station.
FRIDAY
Ghost Tour at the Merchant’s House Museum in NoHo
Your reason to cross the river this weekend and then fucking turn around and come right back and hope no spooks are stuck to your back. Come to this ghost tour at the Merchant House Museum, the most haunted place in the city. Yeah. The most haunted. And you thought the 21st Van Alst stop on the G at night was spooky. Come to their candlelight tour and hear stories of the seven family members who died in the house, whose funerals were held in the double parlor hung with black crepe. You’ll hear (and feel) the chilling tales of restless phantoms, voices calling into the night, and unsettling occurrences, all from the people who actually experienced them. For the VERY brave, buy tickets to the midnight ghost tour with expert paranormal investigator Dan Sturges. All tickets available here. I will not be going. Have fun. Don’t call me when you can’t sleep. 29 East Fourth Street.
What We Do in the Shadows Drinking Game at Videology in Williamsburg
Videology is closing after 15 years of bringing us amazing cinema and performances and reasons to be more entertained while we’re drinking. They’ll close their doors for good on the 27th so head there this weekend/everyday until then to celebrate, commiserate, inebriate. Friday night they’ll let you drink along with “What We Do In The Shadows”, a hilarious and bloody modern vampire film. Rules provided, film starts at 11:59pm. Tickets, $12 available here. Beer and shot deals from midnight on. 308 Bedford Ave.
A Night at the Baths | A Disco Party at C’Mon Everybody in Bushwick
If you haven’t ever been to the baths, it’s the best hangover cure I’ve found yet. And also one of most genuine time travel experiences you can have in the city drug-free. Read about it here, then think about going after this awesome disco party at C’Mon Everybody. DJ Manchildblack will be spinning all the funkiest beats all night long. Clothing is required, but encouraged to be “your bath house best”. Tickets, $5-8 available here. 11pm-4am, 325 Franklin Ave.
A Really Dumb Event at a Bar with a Bad Name
This is just to say hahahaha Schimanski’s finally realized that that was a HORRIBLE name for a bar/venue/club. However, Bar Schimmi’s is no better. A rose by any other name does not apply here. Go to this event, or whatever. Just don’t be surprised if the response you get from texting your friends “Come, I’m at Bar Schimmi’s!” They say, “Ah, something has just come up I can’t make it.” Also… who would ever want to be at an event where singing along to Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Biggie is encouraged?? Sheesh.
SATURDAY
Dead Distillers Trolley Tour through Green-Wood Cemetery, plus a whiskey tasting
Get into the spirit by taking a trolley tour through a graveyard and learning about dead spirit makers. In collaboration with Kings County Distillery, Green-Wood CEmetery will take you on a haunted trolley tour based on Kings Co. Head Distiller Colin Spoelman’s book “Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws who Made American Spirits”. The trolley will then drop you off at Kings Co Distillery for a tour and tasting. Tickets, $40 available here. Let’s get spooky, baby. Check in at the Gothic Arches at 2pm.
Final Weekend LIC Food and Flea in Long Island City
Fall is here and that means so many of our beloved outdoor activities must go into hiatus. Catch this one before it does. The LIC Food and Flea brings us international cuisine, local beers and wines, music, games, and this Saturday, a pumpkin patch too. Go pick out a winner then carve it up and drink beers out of it. GO this weekend because you’re never going to go upstate to pick your own pumpkin and go through the corn maze and eat apple donuts. Ok? You’re not. Info here, 5-25 46th Ave.
Blood Night at House of Yes in Bushwick
This is the closest you’ll come to living out your vampire fantasies. Head to Blood Night at House of Yes this Saturday night. Wear red, in lace or leather or latex or velvet or anything that will make someone want to rip it off of you with their teeth. Dance all night, give into lust, don’t worry about your impending walk of shame. CElebrate life, love, blood. This is your Halloween warm-up, dress and act accordingly. 10pm-4am. Tickets and info here. 2 Wyckoff Ave.
No Return Post Punk Society presents The Night October Built, at the Pyramid Club in Alphabet City
Being adult kind of sucks sometimes. Until you hear about events like this where you don’t have to put on a lousy costume or say “trick or treat” to get candy. And it’s unlimited. All night. The No Return Post Punk Society hosts The Night October Built, a goth, synth, post punk and new wave dance party with djs all night, tarot readings, fortune tellers, bottomless candy and salty snacks, and drinks (some free if you sign up for their newsletter!). No costumes required. Tickets are $8 available here. 101 Avenue A. http://bit.ly/oct19noreturn
SUNDAY
Crab Pickin’ at Greenpoint Beer and Ale in Greenpoint
We use our fingers a lot for things that don’t bring us much satisfaction. Scrolling and double tapping, sending poop emojis to our exes, flicking people off behind their backs. Use those aptly trained digits for something satisfying this Sunday at the 3rd Annual Crab Pickin’ at Greenpoint Beer and Ale. $65 gets you 75 minutes of all you can eat crab legs with a plate of corn, skrimps, potatoes, and beers (a la carte!) too. The ticket link was broken at press time but I’m sure you can find some info here. Don’t shoot the messenger. See you there. 7 N. 15th St.
The Ridgewood Asylum
Get rid of your Sunday scaries by scaring the shit out of your house at this interactive haunted house in Ridgewood. I can already tell I’ll have nightmares about this event simply by reading the description. It’s a haunted house in a former insane asylum where they used to do creepy human experiments and a lot of them went wrong and I can only imagine that there are still brains smeared all over the floor. But if you still want to go to this, please don’t tell me about it. I’ll just be here with all the lights on not sleeping. Tickets, $10-30 (I think the $30 one guarantees you don’t leave with dry pants. Choose your own adventure folks) available here. This goes until Nov. 1st, so yeah. 1080 Wyckoff Ave.
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