The Weekend Guide | 21-24 March 2019

Well, this is a rather ominous start to Spring. But you know what they say… this is New York and we’re going to party anyway. The equinox will shed its bright, bold, full moonlight upon us as we paint the town red. It will shower us with admiration as we dance until dawn. It will say, I believe in you, young revelers. It will rain upon us so that we may bear the fruits of our labor. It will be grateful that we are celebrating its arrival despite the dismal weather.

And if you’re looking for all the best ways to celebrate it anyway, well baby, I think you’re getting warmer.

Things to do in Brooklyn on THURSDAY

Dinner and Disco at Pony Boy in Greenpoint

My heart still breaks thinking about the massive loss we all experienced when the magical, intimate bar and venue Manhattan Inn shuddered its doors. The only thing that’s helped it mend is seeing what friends and owners James Dorje and Michael Stember have done to revive the place. A restaurant that somehow flawlessly fuses Japanese, American, and Mexican flavors and brightens it all with an amazing cocktail program, plus a disco dancehall in the back bringing together some of the most original and raucous parties in the borough. Go for dinner, stay for disco. Read what the NY Times had to say about them here and make a reservation now. 632 Manhattan Ave.

Tedele’s Vegan Pop-Up and Tarot Card Reading at the Diamond in Greenpoint

The vernal equinox means a cosmic shift in the air, the sun, the body, the mind, the way we drink beer. Come contain all of it at the Diamond and feed that Springy little body of yours the right way with Tadale’s Caribbean-infused vegan food (it’s a pop-up!) and all of Diamond Dave’s favorite beers on tap, plus see what’s in the cards for you this season with a special tarot card reading and look out back into the great beyond, towards a patio where you certainly will find yourself drinking oh-so-soon. Dinner starts at 7, tarot at 8, patio open for drinking as soon as you decide it’s warm enough. Info here. 43 Franklin St.

Golden Girls Bingo at DSK in Fort Greene

Looking for a nostalgic way to spend time with friends and eat sweets and maintain that invigorating feeling that you’re about to win something? BINGO. Look no further, baby. It’s Golden Girls bingo at DSK, which means you’ll be laughing along with the ladies on the big screen while competing for a chance to win Dorothy’s cupcakes. Oh yeah, and they have beers too. It’s a win-win-(potential)win! Tickets are $12, available here. Party starts at 7pm. 710 Fulton St.

Things to do in Brooklyn on FRIDAY

Little Cinema: Secret Throwback at House of Yes in Bushwick

If you haven’t yet immersed yourself into an experience with Little Cinema, get your ticket right now to this event Friday at House of Yes. Created by BiT’s favorite hustler Jay Rinsky, Little Cinema is part film, part performance, part concert, and wholly immersive experience that forces you to experience familiar (or not so familiar) films like you never have before. Say, maybe naked from a bathtub on a stage with your lover. Friday they’re having a secret throwback performance, meaning you don’t know what you’re going to get… kind of like those weird brown paper grab bags they used to have at discount stores, except less shitty. Way less shitty. It’s all happening at 6:30pm. Get your ticket here NOW. 2 Wyckoff Ave.

Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher Want To Give You Love Advice at the Bell House in Gowanus

If you are in a relationship or feeling pretty positive about that maybe-not-just-one-night-stand and are seeking advice. The hilarious Natasha Leggero and her husband want to give it to you, tonight. They’ll be hosting a hilarious live relationship counseling session in the form of standup and you want to be there. Who knows, maybe you’ll finally find that sense of emotional clarity you’re seeking and leave with your soul mate. Trust me, this is where you want to be laughing this weekend. Tickets are going fast, get yours here now. It’s happening at 149 7th Street at the Bell House, I’ll be there with bells on.

It’s Enid’s Last Weekend, Go Dance.

A note on their closing parties, from Enid’s (likely written by the barback): “We hope that you’ll celebrate this weekend, “Dance” all night on Friday, have some mimosas (and so many glasses of orange juice that we can’t even believe it) at brunch on Saturday, do something illegal with the barback in the bathroom that night, drink too many frozen Harrisons, the next day (Sunday) while eating pancakes, bacon and bloody marys marvel at how different enids brunch is from club enid, have a kid (better change the laws of biology quick) & bring them in for their first lemon slice, teach them how to talk and saw “I lover those enids pickles” or “I’ll have two beers” (actually happened, make an apple pie (great again), cut some snowflakes for the dining room shaped snow globe. You don’t have to remember how you got home…but we hope you’ll remember that you were here.” Just go. Dance. 560 Manhattan Ave.

Dance All Night at Rose Gold in Bushwick

After watching the Studio 54 documentary (which I highly recommend) I’ve had an insatiable desire to seek out the best, the wildest, the most drug-infused disco dance parties in this town, or beyond… I’m just following my nose. And I have to say the closest I’ve sniffed out is below a charming little clam shack in Bushwick. Rose Gold is the disco dance party you thought was long gone. Get back to the days of your, the days of ours. Paint the town red beneath the rosy neon glow. Get a little dirty in the dark, hidden corners. Dance yrself clean upon their seductive dance floor. Bask in that studio-54 vibe that will have you making for the bathroom. All night. (choose whichever way you want that pun to go. I won’t tell anyone.) Check out their schedule here and head there Friday night. Don’t find me, I’ll find you. 96 Morgan Ave. 

Silent Disco at The Well in Bushwick

What’s the best way to fight against the city’s ridiculous noise complaint lucidity on the weekends? Ah well, it’s happening this Friday night at the Well. It’s silent disco night baby, and you know what that means – I’m here to make fun of it. Disco is for music, for loudness, for laughing and talking over each other and then making out under each other. It’s about living and breathing and screaming and dancing. It will not be silenced. It will not go quietly. It will not die. So, yeah. There’s a silent disco happening at the Well. There are tickets available, but there will be no link here for you. There’s a time this event starts, but you won’t find that here either. The Well has an address. You have a smartphone. 

Wondering when I’ll stop making fun of silent discos? Never. I’ll never stop making fun of them. On my tombstone, just put, “She just wanted to be heard at parties.” I’m fine with that. I’M FINE WITH THAT.

Things to do in Brooklyn on SATURDAY

SuperSymmetry at Avant Gardner in Bushwick

Do you ever sit around and wonder if Ibiza is all it’s cracked up to be? Let me settle that for you- it is. It fucking is. The only bad part about Ibiza is that after partying there, nothing else compares. Instead of letting that get you down, let it get you to Bushwick this Saturday night. The amazing people at Avant Gardner will be bringing a piece of that island magic mayhem to their massive party space in Bushwick and all that’s missing is you, and I guess probably a sun tan and a bit of sand in your shorts but regardless, this is the party you cannot miss this weekend. Kicking off their SuperSymmetry series, a party series that will bridge this massive space into a cohesive experience, you’ll be dancing and moving and grooving all night with Loco Dice, Ibiza’s own Steve Lawler, Nic Fanciulli, Andrea Oliva and Josh Butler. Tickets are a fucking steal at $35. get yours here now then get there, 10-4:30am, 140 Stewart Ave.

Smolder: A Romance Novel Party at Magick City

Sex parties are cool. Maybe too cool. Maybe just don’t own any fucking dominatrix gear, ok? Jesus. Show up instead dressed as someone else’s fantasy simply by taking a page (or a cover) of inspiration from the romance section of your local bookstore. In their words, “Are you a bodice baring brute from Breckenridge or a stamp collector with a sticky tongue, or an alien wandering the stars hoping to find the interspecies interaction of your technicolor dreams?” be any of those things, Brooklyn. And then come to this sexy little party by Treetops at Magick City. Make some Magick happen. Tickets and info here, don’t be lame, wear a costume, be a character. Come see me for a drink first at Le Fanfare and if you strike my fancy enough, I just might leave with you. It’s all happening from 10pm-6am at 37 Box St.

NYC Desert Fest at Sound River Studios in Long Island City

Let’s be honest- the desert is so hott right now. Joshua Tree, influencers and their hats and carefully-selected bohemian outfits, sunsets, marmosets, Burning Man, sunburnt men, cacti. Fucking cacti. Is anyone having more of a moment right now than the cacti? Anyway, come to this festival where the best of the desert awaits you. Fill you ‘gram with interesting looking, sand-colored imagery that people will love you for. Take home a cactus. Be cool, feel the heat. 

…Oh. shit. It’s a dessert fest? Oh. My bad man. 

Things to do in Brooklyn on SUNDAY

Hot Box Mobile Sauna at North Brooklyn Farms in Williamsburg

It’s Spring or whatever, but still not warm enough or nice enough yet for us to enjoy all the amazing outdoor spaces in this city. The parks! The rooftops (except for you, Loopy Doopy. Go to hell.)! The waterfront farms! If only there was a tiny little ecosystem that could transport us to warmer times right NOW. Oh, wait… this is New York and anything is possible and there’s a mobile sauna waiting to make you sweat at North Brooklyn Farms. Stop bitching about the cold. Start sitting and shvitzing with strangers, looking out onto Manhattan, that wondrous land of promise that we never really go to anymore. Thank you, Hot Box, for making all of our warm dreams come true. Info here.  320 Kent Ave.

Rollerland Disco For a Cause in Industry City

If you think rollerskating is for the dogs, it is. It is for the dogs this Sunday. In Industry City. At an indoor rollerskating rink that is disco-fabulous and also the best place for you to #revelwithacause this weekend. They’re hosting a Saturday Night Fever disco party, which is basically what I refer to my Sunday hangovers as… and it all benefits Sean Casey’s Animal Rescue. There’ll be a Stayin’ Alive disco dance competition, a Saturday Night Fever costume contest, and opportunities for you to spend time with pups without having one, or to say fuck it and adopt and stop being that creepy person at the dog park. It’s happening from 6-9pm, $20 to get in and get your roll on baby. Info here. 233 37th St.