The Weekend Guide | 26-29 July 2018

It’s the last weekend in July. How will you embrace it? What will you celebrate? With whom will you consummate and where will you inebriate?

I’ve made (almost) all of those decisions for you. Your weekend guide awaits.

THURSDAY

Movie with a View in Brooklyn Bridge Park

See an iconos New York story unfold on screen with the iconic New York City skyline as the backdrop as you sit on your iconic New York outdoor film blanket while munching on iconic New York popcorn and holding hands with your iconic New York lover. Or whatever man it’s your story, make it interesting. Seek inspiration Thursday night while watching Desperately Seeking Susan, a story about coming to New York to find yourself and losing yourself and more while doing it. Sound familiar now at least? It’s happening 6-11pm with a preshow DJ and preshow short film. BYOBaB. Info here.

Electric Diner, art opening and 20th Anniversary in Williamsburg

We are all made from the same fabric here in Brooklyn. As diverse as our communities seem, we’re cut from the same cloth and are people who are driven, who are mad to experience life; were creative, we’re nocturnal, we’re bursting at the seams. And we appreciate damn good food. Come celebrate all of those things at the opening of Electric Diner. To celebrate our beloved Diner’s 20th anniversary (say whaaaat??!) they’ve commissioned local artist Amanda Browder to drape their space in fabrics found and donated throughout Brooklyn, sewn together by local volunteers and Diner employees to show just how tight knit this community is, and how Diner will stay with us another 20 years, fighting off gentrification through the strength of the people who love it. Food. Drinks. Jubilance. Info here. 6-9pm. 85 Broadway.

FRIDAY

Full Moon Party at House of Yes in Bushwick

If you haven’t heard, Friday is the full blood moon. And it’s been proven that we are our most seductive, our most sensual, our most intuitive selves on full moons. And that our dance moves are way way better. So go and celebrate all that you are and all that we can be together at the best place to do it. House of yes’s Full Moon Party encourages you to dress as the spirit of your soul, come be cleansed together on the dance floor, and howl at the moon. Free entry before 11pm, then $30 available here. 10pm-4am. 2 Wyckoff Ave.

Madame Morbid Full Moon Tour in Williamsburg

A lot of us have felt good about rejecting Uber for Lyft, then rejecting all rude services for yellow cabs. Take a ride tonight and support a local artist whose dying to share her story with you. And a few other stories too. Madame Morbid’s full moon tour will take you around town in a trolley made to look like an antique funeral parlor while spooking you with haunted history tales about our community. Oh yeah, and you get to wear fangs and howl at the full BLOOD moon tonight. Rides leave from Driggs and N 9th. Tickets and info here.

Young Adult Friction Two Year Anniversary at Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint

There’s no doubt in my mind that heavy-hitting underground house music will keep you going all night and into the next afternoon at a good Brooklyn warehouse party, but some nights we want a change. We want to dance up on each other, create a little friction, dance ourselves clean, then dirty, then really fucking grimy and then clean again. It’s the Adult Friction dance party at Brooklyn Bazaar, celebrating TWO YEARS of indie dance music that will feel (almost!) like you’re at Brooklyn Steel for LCD’s last show of this 10-night holiday residency and that Daft Punk is playing at your house, your house. Entry is oh so free. all info here. 10pm to 2am, 150 Greenpoint ave.

SATURDAY

Makossa Cookout at Our Wicked Lady in Bushwick

Remember in the beginning of summer when those friends who you know that own grills were like, “Oh yeah! We’re going to have cookouts alll summer! Like literally, the coals will always be hot and ready! Yes come over every single day!” And how many cookouts have you been to… yeah. People with grills fucking lie. Get one up on them finally this Saturday at the Makossa cookout. It’s a free cookout with lots of love and all the best djs on a rooftop in Bushwick. And they have a strict policy to not admit people with grills, or liars. Fuck off Pinnochio. And Bobby Flay. RSVP here now. 2-10pm. 153 Morgan Ave.

Cheers to QNS! Beer Fest in Long Island City

Drinking beer is fun. Drinking beer from local breweries, most of which you haven’t tried, is especially fun. Doing it all outdoors, with unlimited tastings and unlimited sunshine, all for a good cause? That just might be the most fun you can have on a Saturday between 4:30 and 8pm in Queens. Go #revelwithacause this Saturday at the Cheers to QNS! Beer Fest. Tickets are only $32 because everytime you cross a river in this town, prices from $10. (that still doesn’t mean you should go to Staten Island.) Get yours here now. It’s happening at the LIC Landing, 52-10 Center Blvd.

PS1 Summer Warm-Up, Long Island City

This LIC summertime party institution also has a permanent residency on my weekend guide, from now through labor day. So I recommend checking the schedule and either choosing based on the tunes or your own availability (this is not a “oh I have a few hours, I’ll check it out” kind of affair. it will take all of your saturday and at least 3/4 of the mental space of your Sunday. And it will all be worth it.) tickets here. I’m already heatin’ up.

Oh and don’t forget to check out the tent of secrets, located in the back of the arboretum in the sculpture garden.

Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition’s Summer Member Show in Red Hook

It’s not hard to see why Red Hook attracts so many amazing artists and musicians, and so it’s no surprise that when they have a gallery show, it lasts a month and features over 300 artists and performers all taking place in a Civil War era warehouse on a pier overlooking the Statue of Liberty. Yep. BWAC kicks off this weekend and opens its doors to you with all-day performances Saturday and Sunday, completely free (but don’t be a dick, bring a donation). All info here.481 Van Brunt St.

Want to know more things to do in the area? Check them out here.

Pride 365 Can Release at Coney Island Brewery

Pride week may be over in New York but it’s far from gone from our hearts, our lips, or our livers for that matter. And there’s no sense in quelching it now. Our friends at Coney Island Brewery get it and want to keep giving it to us. They’ll be releasing there new Pride 365 can this Saturday, a partnership with the New York Gay Beer Lovers and to celebrate will be sharing the love and beer on Saturday with drag performances and colorful celebrations of joy. A portion of all cans sold

Coney Island brewery benefit SAGE, to go #revelwithacause baby. Info here. 1904 Surf Ave.

Afropunk Fest at Commodore Barry Park on Flushing Ave in Brooklyn.

OR

The Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island

Ah isn’t every weekend in Brooklyn kind of a choose-your-own-adventure experience? Well never it been more apparent than this Saturday and Sunday, where you can choose your own adventure, destination, experience and surroundings. Both Afropunk Fest and the Jazz Age Lawn Party at Commodore Barry Park and Governors Island, respectably. Get down with dope beats and a funky fresh Brooklyn music fest that has been called he most multicultural festival in the world, or a 1920s-inspired, costumes (basically) required, flashy and flappery lawn party complete with finger sandwiches and muted trumpets and trumpled mutants (that part was a joke. but paints a funny picture, doesn’t it?) and class class class. Choose your own adventure here for Afropunk Fest and here for jazzy agey and lawny things. both are happening Saturday and Sunday. See you, you funky fancy son of a bitch. at one place or the other.

SUNDAY

24-Hour Party with Mister Sunday at Nowadays in Bushwick

Come party with some zombies this Sunday at Nowadays and come to the last part of their 24-hour rager. Yeah. 24hours. It starts on Saturday and ends Sunday and I say, buy your ticket to the last 6-hour session where you’re guaranteed to be the best looking and the best dancer there. Put some bacon in your pocket and you’ll also be the most popular. Tickets, $20 available here.